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>In my view, there should be no commons.

I'm not sure how that could work without declaring someone god-emperor. Who would own the air, or the seas, or the sun?
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Definitely within the reasonable bounds of what local government can demand with the threat of violence. How progressive of them.
It can also be both economic & cultural... Like a lot of things, it's much more subtle and complicated. If it wasn't, we'd have solved it by now.
I am not sure why those who essentially believe in utopia through an organized "war of all against all" wouldn't expect that anyone in position of trust wouldn't try to rip them off as much as possible.

"Damn you, you've betrayed our trust and prevented us from building a world where we didn't have to trust people..."
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Is anyone aware of a source for this type of news that isn't quite so one-sided? It seems all we have is hyper-lefty "sky is falling" stuff and hard-charging right-wing "shut up kids, the government knows what's best for you."

I want reporting, not advocacy. The better of the mainstream press outlets are balanced to a fault but get the interesting details wrong or leave them out altogether. The fringe outlets target their core audience with lots of spun details and a lack of opposing viewpoint.

EDIT: If anyone can get past "lefty vs righty" and answer my core question I'd really appreciate it. This is a genuine query for information, not a clever way to troll.
For most American companies in China, this is true.
For Apple it is not.

From Ben Thompson at Stratechery:

This is a very big deal. Feel free to ignore anyone making snarky comments about China’s average monthly wage being the same as the price of an iPhone 5C. The two pertinent facts about China are that:

There is tremendous income disparity
There are a TON of people

So while many Western markets may have a greater percentage of the population that can afford an iPhone, the absolute number of Chinese who are potential customers is very high as well.
This is very true, he's still an idiot though.
No, if anything the shared experience makes the judge more able to be empathetic. Most people would only be able to sympathize.
My tax dollars paid for 94% test coverage??
It's the difference between heroic responsibility and actual causality.

"Of course it's my fault. There's no-one else here who could possibly be responsible for anything".

The whole subtext of this was "Here's how I fucked up in leading this company", but then the actual text is causality. It is his responsibility to make sure employees are trustworth? Yes. Is he the cause of employees abusing trust? No.

He then also determined that his responsibility was to let people know what had happened, so that's what he did. He told us the things they used to figure out what happened in order to attempt (and fail, and then attempt again...) to prevent it from recurring.
I've seen this a lot in the software industry. A few of my smartest friends, hardest working and most dedicated friends who came from poor / low class families had an extremely poor time getting into the software industry. One was turned down five times in a row for "culture fit".

It's hard to fit in with rich whites / asians who have a boat from their parents and wear designer clothes when you spent your whole childhood playing with cards and worrying about money.
I did feel the cold boot of the Government on my neck as I forked over that nickel. If I don't pay, they will send men with guns to ensure I do. Men with guns!
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Yes, agreed completely. Most people have this mental image of the second/third world (or occupied nations) that doesn't match reality. For example, when we bombed the shit out of Iraq and destroyed most of their infrastructure and then occupied the country, there were still flights going in and out of the airport from Lebanon, the banks were still operating normal banking hours, the power was still on (for a few hours a day), people still went to the market, and poor farmers could still get gasoline to drive their crops to those markets. The university in Baghdad still conducted research and most of the country still had internet and cellphone access. I think popular culture has presented this picture of "not first world" places as basically one giant explosion, and that image is what most people see.
I would argue that automatically adding methods to a user-created object isn't optimal either.
It only applies to buildings with 10 or fewer floors. Do you think this will just encourage new ~10 story buildings to instead be >= 11 stories?
would it be valid to say G put more than $1B (657+280+145) in its R&D? that would be way ahead than most fed agencies including darpa for just 1 Q.
"there should be no commons."

Heh, I fully get that that's just one person's opinion on some internet site, but....when I was struck when I read that last line at how dismal a world it would be to live in, if we had to view literally all our engagement with the world through the lens of the transaction.

Going for a walk? (Are there sidewalks anymore?) Have you negotiated with each individual sidewalk owner for right of passage? No? Well, then, use the street instead. Oh, forgot to renew your street use card? Guess you're stuck, unless your buddy lends you something to get to the private park nearby. Lucky thing you saved some extra breathable air coupons for the exertion you'll expend on the pickup basketball game. No commons, after all.

I get it, the dude's handle is "ancap". Still, I'm pretty grateful that this is a pretty fringe view, especially when he lays it out so bare, "no commons."
You might be more inclined to stick around and finish if you didn't have familial support to fall back on if your entrepreneurial plans failed and you didn't have the credentials to secure traditional employment. Dropping out lets you get started on entrepreneurial plans sooner, but could leave you in a risky spot later if they aren't a success.
> Does the nickel per bag have an appreciable impact on the environment? It's being floated as an anti-littering thing, so keep in mind the goalposts have already moved once.

In my county, the nickle is a reminder. The program costs the stores a penny to run, and it costs like two or three pennies/bag to run the regulations (I guess the agents who go around store-to-store to make sure that everyone is in compliance). So the county is only getting like a penny/bag in profit out of this. With 10-million bags used per year, that's like $100,000 in taxes, which is barely a rounding error on the budget.

The primary purpose is to remind people of the effects of pollution, not actually to create revenue. But its an effective means at curbing plastic-bag pollution at the source (people using fewer bags)
After running a local version, I thought I would add some notes about my experience:

- This seemed really cool since we have various processes and this would let us both document and operationalize the processes. Things like: add/change user permissions or create a new vm/container, etc. We could make it easy to show where documentation is and what should be updated.

- Installation is simple, but it is hardcoded to authenticate against Github and look and see if you are a member of the 18F group. If not, you are refused access. Changing the group is just a simple edit to the app.js file, but changing authentication from Github to another source would require adding another passport config file into api/ (as far as I can tell), and possibly additional dev.

- The checklists are all json files, there's no UI for creating the checklist. In fact, there's no CRUD for checklists at all, they are flatfile managed with a text editor. This is not ideal, but building an editor might not be too rough. The main thing is that checklist creation is a developer operation.

- There is no UI for associating checklists with role/users or grouping the checklists. Everyone sees all of the checklists and then self-selects which checklist they want to add to their plate. It looks like the tasks are all user-specific, so you couldn't have a checklist that was divided up amongst a team, it is all single-user focused. I suppose you could create a dummy team user that multiple people had access to, but that seems icky. Similarly, while you can see other user's tasks, you can't take one of their tasks and help them out by doing it.

- There's no context for the tasks. If you had two new employees or two VMs to provision, you would have to do them one at a time. Adding a second checklist while you have a first in progress just gives you a pile of duplicated tasks that have no context as to which initial action they are related to. You can add a note to the initial checklist assignment like "SE3: Jane Doe" which will give some context for that assignment, but I don't see where that is related to the tasks. If the tasklist showed "Checklist Name - Checklist Note" in the table, then at least you could keep them separate.

Otherwise, I would love for this to work. I am in academia where we have two problems that this impacts: 1) we have lots of bureaucracy 2) we have lots of turnover in IT staff because we pay poorly. For both of these reasons, having a checklist tool would be fantastic.

Devs: please comment!
Even the attempt rate in Foxconn during their worst year was less bad than the suicide rate in the general population.

And the suicide rate was lower not only than the suicide rate in the China as a whole, as it was lower than in all 50 states of the United States.
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When you walk around in your daily life, do you write your password down on everything you touch? Why not?
This is a very powerful point. The proliferation and ease of access to media has made it orders of magnitude easier to compare oneself against others. And it's not the "average" that make it into the media (usually) but the rich and successful as you mention.

This is something I struggle with because a big reason why I've managed to do somewhat well in school and in my early career is because of being competitive and using comparison to fuel my work ethic.

As an entrepreneur, I've come to realize I can't persist that mindset. There's always going to be people raising money and getting acquired. I have to filter that noise out and focus on building something that people want.
ha, I did try it with ~1.2e6 lines of unminified JS and it kept its cool, very smooth scrolling and multiline editing.
I consider it part of implementing a cultural status quo (recycling is good) as opposed to being overly useful. Plastic bags are really in-your-face pollution.
There's an article entitled "Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It".

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-is...
We don't need a scandal for that.

If you look there are plenty of articles about Steve Jobs clothing, and about Mark Zuckerberg hoodies.
This seems a little redundant - why not just

<script src="jQuery-1.12.2.min.js" sha-256="31be012d5df7152ae6495decff603040b3cfb949f1d5cf0bf5498e9fc117d546"></script>

? If you wanted to explicitly fetch from google if the client doesn't have a cached copy, then instead do

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.2/jquery.min.js" sha-256="31be012d5df7152ae6495decff603040b3cfb949f1d5cf0bf5498e9fc117d546"></script>

The first would seem preferable though, as loading from an external source would expose the user to cross-site tracking.
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never mind that "fish" includes rodents in some regions
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Yes, in fact.

This statement as such is still just about correlation, not causation (compare ice cream sales and drowning deaths).

But it has been studied.

* CONCLUSIONS: Religious affiliation is associated with less suicidal behavior in depressed inpatients. After other factors were controlled, it was found that greater moral objections to suicide and lower aggression level in religiously affiliated subjects may function as protective factors against suicide attempts. Further study about the influence of religious affiliation on aggressive behavior and how moral objections can reduce the probability of acting on suicidal thoughts may offer new therapeutic strategies in suicide prevention.*

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ajp.161...
I'm curious how China is able to do this and belong to the WTO?
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After re-reading this, it might be cool to just use this to drive creation of redmine issues (or trello cards, or whatever). This tool could just be a checklist selector / issue builder, and then you could get all of the "collaborative work" benefits of the other tool.
I...hmmm...I don't know if my personal bias is influencing my perspective, but I usually find the EFF as a reasonable reporting source. They tend to fall on the left, but I struggle to see them as "hyper-lefty".

The key for me about the EFF is they are usually good at providing sources. I am going to take the time to read the linked Memorandum and Order document and form my own opinion:

> https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/20151106-702Mem_Opinion_...

Although, I do tend to agree with the EFF on a fair amount of issues (not always though).
Yes, but they aren't mutually exclusive.
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It's not being charged for bags. In the states, we just have too many dubious laws. People can't bring in even a small backpack into most stores, without leaving it with the guy would could care less at the front of the store? Most stores are located vechicle distances away from most Americans.

It's not the bag, it's a cornucopia of bigger problems, poor planning, stifling regulation only enacted to generate revenue, etc. we are projecting on a bag.
More religious countries may have lower incidents of suicide but they don't seem to be enjoying the life they do have as much as the less religious countries. None of the top 10 countries according to the World Happiness Report[1] are religious. On the other hand, of the top 10 religious countries, according to your link, the highest ranked for happiness is Thailand at 34. This shouldn't be terribly surprising since it is a deadly sin to commit suicide in most of the Abrahamic religions and the more devout you are the more likely you are to adhere to this particular tenet.

[1] http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2015/
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Kids, stealing is ok...
Background checks definitely do not cost a lot of money. I think it's in the $15 range.
I don't think there's much of an economic component. If you look at the numbers, people aren't doing badly by historical standards.
So the FBI is now the equivalent of Gestapo, secret Police.
They are two different worlds. There's no comparison. In the west, with cases like these, and people like Snowden, we're trying to defend our free speech and privacy by our standards. We're doing alright, but there are some big problems to solve. And yes, the media needs to cover this more.

But comparing this to censorship and related problems in China and Russia (single-party states with control of speech at the policy level) is just silly, for lack of a better word.
What constitutes "way too much complexity" ?
What if browsers are evolving with whatever resources are available to them at just the right pace. Why would you want the browser to be hindered by an arbitrary speed/resource limit. Let it soar to the sound of fans going full speed!
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I think the Catholic church is back to the old "no meat on Fridays" rule again now. Don't ask me why.
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if you carry lots of cash, carry a large gun too.
In my example, there are two competing moral claims, those that bear the externality (and pay higher taxes and other costs) and those that pay the bag tax.
Is that BFF also a veteran? Just curious.
And Instagram.
A hashmap inside of a hashmap is just as much of a tree as an array inside of an array (which for a 2 element array describes a binary tree).
That sounds ambitious, interesting, and like a lot more work than keeping a webpage running. My first thought is "cross-platform nightmare". My second thought is that they'd have to rethink their expectations of continuous deployment/release and a/b testing.

We're either looking at making individual pages maintain binaries for the platforms they support (implying support of only those platforms that make sense to the site) or some kind of compilation framework running on the local machine.
Just having extra outlets though would not help with that much if more than 1 or 2 appliances were drawing that much load and did not have their own breaker. The standard 15-20 amp breaker powering all or most of the copious outlets can still be overdrawn if the occupant plugs in too much kitchen stuff. It is my understanding that usually the refrigerator has its own breaker, but the rest of the appliances are on a common circuit.

Edit to add - just checked my breaker box. It looks like the disposal and the dish washer each have a 20 amp breaker and the rest of the kitchen is on a 3rd 20 amp breaker, presumably along with the refrigerator. It's an old house though, CA code is probably pretty strict on the breakers.
Computers are also broken, and the Internet makes it more obvious.
>In the great scheme of things, yes. Although the definition kinda gets silly and I see your point. At the end of the day, you cannot trust the "free market" to solve vandalism or shoplifting.

See my above response. Markets do deal with vandalism and shoplifting, probably better than the police.

>You need to create a justice system, hire cops, and then use these cops to persecute vandals or other criminals. Under a free market devoid of crimefighting units, vandals and shoplifters will cause prices to rise (as stores increase prices to offset losses). IE: market failure. Otherwise innocent people are forced to pay for the crimes of others.

>The creation of a police force requires innocent citizens to pay taxes for the police force as well. And the state will require the use of force to extort the money from these innocent citizens. So in the great scheme of things, the whole setup is extremely anti-market and demonstrates how much of a market failure the whole crime system is.

Private police forces do exist. There are currently examples of this in Detroit where the public police is defunct. As for the court system, the closest thing I can think of in the private sector would be arbitration. There are theories out there of how the market might operate an entire court system. Just because these private systems are not more prevalent due to government monopolies does not denote a market failure.

>Here's the primary difference: plastic bag pollution occurs even if you are 100% compliant with the law.

>Plastic bags get thrown away into a dump, or otherwise discarded by some means. Then they degrade into micro-particles (since there's very few bacteria that can actually break down the bag), and then you start running into long-term pollution problems.

If the dump is incurring a cost by putting plastic bags into its landfill, than it behooves the dump to recuperate those costs from those consuming and throwing away those bags. If the dump's consumption of plastic bags is causing pollution to neighboring properties than the dump is liable.

This can all be handled with the market. No bans, and no taxes necessary.
as if Tencent needs the help!
Haha good catch on the yields. Yeah, they probably suck and are strongly encouraging Design for Manufacturing flows to keep losses lower. That's always true for new fabs.

Contrary to popular beliefs, though, most design starts are still in 110-350nm range with a good chunk on 45/65nm and now interest in 28nm. China has all that covered. So, they're only missing a small chunk of market. That said, the cost of 28nm fab investments means they really need more projects on 28nm.

Personally, I thought they were doing all the semiconductor stuff as anti-subversion and economic imperialism. So, they'll probably keep it and work on lower nodes going even at a loss. Just a hunch. ;)
Ryan is still working on it. Expect it up on the Trail of Bits GitHub alongside a blog post soon.

If anyone has any questions, there are a few people from the company reading the comments. Feel free to ask and we'll do our best to reply.
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I ran the numbers based on the public data and it came out that the Foxconn factory had a suicide rate similar to a Caribbean island country such as the Bahamas.
The things you do make the world you live in. In order to preserve the communal culture of a group they continue doing things that have no apparent function other than reinforcing the culture itself. Who can say which parts of what we do are the ones that make us into ourselves and which parts are useless. It is not your way, but it definitely has an obvious utility for the people engaging in it. Passing broad judgement against that utility because it's outcomes are behavioral and mind-state rather than material is a reflection of your culture, not the senselessness of theirs.
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Those who care about the Fourth Amendment are probably more libertarian than anything, so left/right doesn't make sense for this particular issue.
Well, don't do that. It's like having links to PACs -

there was a political campaign sending tweets to a shell account about which wards it needs targeting (can't find the reference) - jail time was needed.

Same here. If people with no connection to a campaign are responding online - fine. If there is a connection. Gosh, jail time
This is going to sound really dumb, but it's how culture works so bear with me.

I'm nonreligious, I don't care to discuss it or think about religion as a part of my life, but it's okay if others want to be religious themselves.

Why don't I want to be labeled atheist? It's looked down upon and many hardcore atheists are exclusionary.

You know how when someone insists on it being GNU/Linux, but most people don't care? That's why I'm nonreligious (but technically atheist).
>"Arbitrary and wacky dietary restriction slightly less wacky"

the kernel of those dietary restrictions naturally evolved in a desert climate with no refrigerators available (i.e basic difference between food (and combinations of) which naturally dries out vs. one which naturally rot/perish. Like beef vs. pork or cod vs. sturgeon. Or imagine rich bacteria population of unpasteurized dairy coming into contact with fresh meat on a hot day...). Those people who didn't follow the restrictions had naturally selected themselves out back then.
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This is a great list. (I work at 18F.) Everything we do is available for anyone to fork, adapt, copy, use, etc. Someone could fork our code as a starting point and add the features you mention. I really like the idea of adding context for the tasks.

As the person who converted the tasks to JSON, I can say IT TOOK A LONG TIME. If there was a front end or an easier way to do this, it would be much easier to use. An editor would be my #1 feature request.

- We wanted everyone to see every checklist, but the idea of having checklists shared by a team would be REALLY USEFUL for us too. Think about a team who shares onboarding tasks for a user. I would love to add that functionality.

- If you feel comfortable, you could create these as issues in the repo so that we could share them and see if folks want to tackle them. We saw this as a first step to meet a need, and would love to see it improve.

- Mel
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