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Why in god's name would they just lower their prices? To be nicer to people? Do you understand how capitalism works?

They already dominate their market at the current prices. They have no need to lower the prices - doing so would only create a backlash if they ever needed to raise the prices again. Keeping them artificially high is part of how you have sales anyway, which drive consumer interest.

Yes, it would be nice if they didn't have theft, and had extra money (were you looking for that as a kind of admission of compassion?). But the ability to lower prices does not at all imply that they would.
To be fair even Creed was made manager for a while, but I don't think he ever showed any signs of being upwardly mobile.
UBI would only cause inflation if 1) it is not covered by taxes, 2) production does not increase in proportion, and 3) debt does not decrease in proportion. It is extremely likely that a combination of 1, 2, and 3 will keep inflation in check. Ideally, 3 would dominate, because that would greatly dampen the business cycle (i.e. the boom and bust cycle).

The potential for number 3 is the reason I think UBI is a macroeconomic necessity. Currently, our monetary system is based almost entirely on debt; only if that debt (private+public) grows is there an incentive to invest and further grow the economy. When the country and its citizens reduce their debt load, the currency deflates, which distinctivises investment and growth---a depression. With UBI, we could potentially replace this system with a much more stable and robust one, while simultaneously eliminating poverty and poor working conditions.
Similarly, under Italian law, beating the shit out of a bum isn't a crime if they're trying to steal your panino.
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RE WedWell: Thanks for the comment. Funny enough we're moving slightly from "WedWell: Vendors bid for your wedding" more towards "WedWell: A more efficient way to plan your wedding".
(Dang- Depending on how long the voting is going, we'd love to change our title!)

It's really less about cost savings (which may happen anyway with scale/competition among vendors), but more about efficiencies in the process. Less face to face meetings, less paper checks, more collaboration among vendors before the day of the event. So, as a potential client, I think you're hitting it on the head. It is more like vendor dating than anything else. Love for you to give the platform a go, and give us some feedback.
>Catholic religion has been the founding religion of the medieval Europe

Yes. And then the reformation happened -- and the power has since long been gone from the catholic europe.
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It seems unlikely that any of this will change, because control is in the hands of a relatively few powerful organizations who honestly have no interest in making life easier for software engineers working on graphics programming; and those engineers who do have to put up with it have long since given up or chalk it up to experience; and those developers would probably resist any changes now simply because change requires more work and learning how to do things all over again.

The hardware developers (AMD/nVidia/Intel) have an interest in not changing their device drivers, the software vendors (OpenGL and DirectX) have little interest in redeveloping technology, and the software developers with the most capital, game engine developers, have already found workarounds and hire enough engineers to plug leaks in their lifeboats. The state of tools for game developers is so shoddy as well that trying to retrofit language compilers and shader compilers to work together seems like a drawn out task.

It's sort of a David and Goliath situation if you think you can change the graphics programming landscape on your own. Plus, we all know how poorly these standards are developed over time.
If you create a show with the set design of Roseanne or even the Cosby Show in 2016, you're missing out on opportunities for product placement:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2012/04/brett-ratner-...

The logic is, "Well, I need to have a car in this movie anyway. Why not get a free car instead of paying for one, and in fact, the manufacturer will pay me to place their brand new car?"

The good news is more art is created at a lower cost. Great.

But the bad news is you perpetuate the idea that everyone has a new car (or new kitchen or new 3000 square foot house or whatever) all the time, no matter what their financial situation would be like in reality. This is especially insidious when there is easy consumer credit.

Here's a scene of a doctor buying a car from 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMlx5p6n8k#t=1m58s

The premise, if you don't bother to watch, is he doesn't want the car salesman to know his job, because then he won't get a good deal.

The quaint part is that 30 years ago, a doctor and lawyer raising a family in New York City were considered almost unimaginably rich by TV standards. Now they would be "middle class."

The sad part is it would be hard to justify a scene like this on a modern prime time TV show. "So, we're going to have a car in this scene? Great! I'll call up Ford. Wait, but what do you mean the car salesman would overprice the car? Don't you know they're running 0% APR or $2000 cash back for President's Day?"

Sure, there are shows that try hard to be more authentic. But for every Breaking Bad, there are 10 spinoffs of lawyer / doctor / detective shows where the characters live in a bubble of perpetual newness the article describes.

And even Breaking Bad did its share of product placements: http://www.bustle.com/articles/5963-how-breaking-bad-product...
Just curious - what do you do for a living that means you have to write C?

I'm interested in really learning C or C++ more indepthly. I feel like I am very proficient in high level programming knowledge (other than design patterns).

Basically, when or if the web dev industry falls out, I want to have a good back up of knowing low-level languages.
Reminded me of this photo-essay: http://www.reuters.com/news/picture/journalists-in-the-line-...
I think that's part of the reason the bids are so cheap, though. They're probably counting on some cost reductions over time so that even if they lose some money up front, the long-term profitability will be there. I doubt that anyone can actually deliver solar power at a profit today for the bid prices listed.
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>What? Italy is not "Western"? Well, your definition of Western Europe is very weird. Italy is one of the foundations of Western Europe.

Being a foundation in 17th century doesn't mean it hasn't floundered since. But that's not the point either.

To quote WIkipedia:

"Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of the European continent. There may be differences between the geopolitical and purely geographic definitions of the term."
> Europeans (DHH for example) constantly brag about what great social safety nets the European countries provide for their people

> Italy has just admitted that it can't take care of its citizens' basic needs.

Maybe you don't, but you are implying that this somehow is a failure of social safety nets.

As someone else in this thread mentioned, the italian justice system is based on civil law, not on precedent (common law) so this ruling doesn't have the repercussions many seem to think. I'm not a lawyer however, so don't quote me on this.
But what I was really getting at is that there is a certain level of judgement/wisdom that is obtained by working hard and living on your own/supporting yourself.

This can be learned at any age (as pointed out by my comment about my Dad working at the age of 16). However, many people today are not exposed to these types of desicions until after they get done school, which is usually at the age of 23.
I wouldn't call it premature. I think it's overdue. Coming home to roost.
History has a lot to say on this topic. I don't think it supports the thesis that people should just be allowed to steal because Privilege. Society is much better off with some people helping the poor and law and order being maintained. It's rather a black-and-white view to think we must choose only one or the other.

If you want to feel moral, go feed a poor person today. You'll feel much better. Don't assault the basic pillars of the civil society that is what has left you rich enough to be able to afford that without a second thought for a quick hit on the virtue pipe.

(Preempting one of the lines of attack I can forsee coming here, the crime is also minor and the penalty should be minor correspondingly. I would happily support some sort of very compassionate enforcement; perhaps a sentence of a few days' service at a soup kitchen which will also feed him or something. But there is still an important difference between enforcing the law even in this minor way, and declaring that certain people lack Privilege and therefore, ironically, have the privilege of being above the law, which is the sort of caustic poison that can dissolve civil society entirely.)
Reminds me of the scene in Falling Down

"Give me some money man, I haven't eaten in days"

"You're holding a sandwich"
And also, of those two, only the U2 is still in service. All SR-71s have been sent to museums now, sadly. This includes NASA's which were the last in service, operated until the mid nineties.

Interestingly, NASA _does_ operate a variant of the U2 currently, as the ER-2 [1] high-altitude earth-resources observatory.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-046...
The Norwegian News agency NTB, think Reuters on shrinker-pills, has deployed it. Not bad.
It also doesn't interoperate with any widely deployed crypto standards.

Yes, NaCL is a better design for cryptographic primitives, being much more limited in scope and reducing the number of primitives supported. It's great, if you can control both sides of the protocol so you can use something like this, and if you can also write your own safe, secure protocol code on top of it that doesn't introduce any errors of its own.

The problem being solved by OpenSSL is much harder; for interoperability, you need to support a much wider range of standards, and they are always changing. It also supplies the full protocol stack to implement TLS, including multiple versions of TLS, rather than just the crypto primitives.

It's when you have code that is trying to do all of this, and evolve over time, with contributions from multiple people, that it's easy for such mistakes to creep in. Writing a single piece of code in C with no vulnerabilities is hard, but not impossible; maintaining such a piece of code, implementing complex and changing standards, over time, over a variety of platforms, and so on, without introducing vulnerabilities, does seem to be impossible in C.
>And remember, the U.S. median only gets about $54k in gross individual income

Actually that number is median -household- income, not individual income.
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Just to reiterate what Chin said: Really sorry about that experience and I believe we've done quite a bit to remedy it. Thanks for the comment.
I agree. People mindlessly celebrate when a companies raises $20M. It's completely wrong. If you are such hot stuff, you actually dont need to raise money and keep control of the company.
As America is an automobile culture, you could break down the class boundaries like this:

destitute - checks discarded transit cards for remaining balances
poor - buys monthly transit passes
lower - buys used car with predatory/dealer "pay here" financing
lower-middle - buys used car with bank/CU financing
upper-middle - buys used car with cash, or new car with bank/CU financing
upper - buys new car with cash
rich - drives company car leased by an owned business, but uses taxis and Ubers in the city
ultra-rich - never drives; has on-call professional driver/pilot employees
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Saw a tweet from one of the OpenBSD folks saying LibreSSL was also affected by these issues and fixes would be available today. Sorry, not on my laptop at the moment so I can't post a link.

ETA: Source code [0] and binary [1] patches (via M-Tier) are available for OpenBSD.

[0]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=146228598730414&w=2

[1]: https://stable.mtier.org/
sounds like the obama phone program

http://www.obamaphone.com/
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>I despise social security, mainly because it's a wealth transfer tool

Wealth transfer is not necessarily a bad thing.
There are multiple definitions. Western is not merely a geographic term. DDR wasn't a part of Western Europe either, and it was located pretty west.

Already we were discussing here the original article, which used a more restrictive definition -- and explained that.
In my youth I would have starved unless we did not have a bag of potatos from our friends who lived on the countryside for our help during the harvest. We did not have a car.

Am I not privileged enough to have an opinion that theft, as such, should not be tolerated?

I still think that we should collectively help people who are in risk of starvation.
Yes, especially if he's been accused of being Satoshi previously and doesn't want the world to know that. What better way for the real Satoshi to throw people off his trail than to claim to be Satoshi and offer up proof that you know will eventually be debunked?

If your goal is to eventually start spending the large quantity of initially-mined Bitcoins, it seems like the first step would be to ensure that they're never traced back to you, especially if you don't want to pay taxes on the proceeds. And getting crossed off the list of potential Satoshis is a good first step.
OpenSSL announced several issues today that also affect LibreSSL.

- Memory corruption in the ASN.1 encoder (CVE-2016-2108)
- Padding oracle in AES-NI CBC MAC check (CVE-2016-2107)
- EVP_EncodeUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2105)
- EVP_EncryptUpdate overflow (CVE-2016-2106)
- ASN.1 BIO excessive memory allocation (CVE-2016-2109)

Thanks to OpenSSL for providing information and patches.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=146228598930416&w=2

https://twitter.com/bob_beck/status/727478594591543296
The article explicitly states that the author is not the same Craig Wright claiming to be Satoshi.
OK. So now you're banning a company for operating in your country, because they choose not to become criminals in their own jurisdiction. So why ban them for a day or two? What's that supposed to accomplish? Logically if this was the justification they would ban it permanently. Banning it temporarily is just playing spiteful games that isn't going to accomplish anything.
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Mildly related, but for a while I've felt we should change the age of majority / self responsibility to age 25. It would improve a lot of things about society...
>“I’ve always pursued my interests without much regard for final value or value to the world,” he said cheerfully. “I’ve spent lots of time on totally useless things.”

>“A lot of practical people around the labs thought it was an interesting theory but not very useful,”
It's staggering! The above is immediate-mode code which is what's gone and that's how a lot of people learned OpenGL 1-3.

Anton Gerdelans's tutorials are the best I've found and just look at how much typing there is:

Code:

https://github.com/capnramses/antons_opengl_tutorials_book/b...

Explanation:

http://antongerdelan.net/opengl/hellotriangle.html

Once you can get through that mess, the effort/reward ration seems to be a bit more incremental, but the triangle program a pretty good illustration of that first cliff, and how much it's grown.
> It requires discipline and care, but it's not impossible or even that hard if you're a skilled C programmer.

I have been reading about this mythical "skilled C programmer" since I got to learn C in 1993 and eventually joined C++ ranks instead, leaving my favorite Turbo Pascal behind.

Never met one to this day, but fixed lots of memory corruption issues left behind by not so skilled ones, during the days I used to work daily with C and C++ codebases.
This sounds like a witch hunt. Java has horrible security bugs even today.

Bugs can be found in code written in all languages.
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citation needed. let me know when you find an example of a run-of-the-mill practicing MD getting a private audience with all of the leading presidential candidates.
Love it. But I don't understand this bit:

https://larder.io/account/

Bookmark limit
Trial: 1/day
Paid: Unlimited

So far that's not true, unless I'm reading it wrong. I've started a trial account and have bookmarked at least 20 sites. Is there a restriction I'm missing here?
It looks like the Stripe competitor PAYMILL is now bankrupt. We have just received this email from them:

PAYMILL announces preliminary insolvency in self-administration –
M&A process on the home stretch

As you might have already read from the news, the Munich-based Payment Service Provider PAYMILL has submitted a request for self-administered insolvency to the insolvency court Munich on 26.04.2016. Supported by lawyers Dr. Christian Gerloff, Gerloff Liebler Rechtsanwälte München, (trustee) and Vincenz von Braun, anchor Rechtsanwälte München (restructuring expert and now managing director of PAYMILL), PAYMILL founders Mark Fabian Henkel and Jörg Sutara will now continue merger and acquisition (M&A) negotiations.

The operational business is continued to its full extent and the payout of registered merchants is ensured because of the settlement by the participating banks. We will provide solutions for any potential scenario and inform you in time about the next steps. The staff stands behind their company and continues business operations as usual.

Thanks for your trust in PAYMILL. If you have any questions, we are happy to answer them! Please mail to support@paymill.de.

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Conversation-killing words: Great. Fine. Fantastic. Perfect.

- How are you doing?

- Doin' great! Everything is fine. Sally and the kids are doing great

- So how was your vacation? I heard you went to <insert-desirable-location>

- It was great. We had a fantastic time.

- So...did you have good weather?

- The weather was just perfect, could not have asked for more.

- [Resigned by now] All right, gotta run - stay in touch, man!

- So great! to see you!!!
Which of course is bonkers. But that doesn't mean it's OK for a Brazilian judge to be similarly bonkers.
I'm from an excluded from this definition country too.

It's not about wanting your home country to be part of "Western Europe", or whether it was its cradle, or whether it is "worth" it to be.

It's about whether it fits certain modern socio-economic criteria for a SPECIFIC definition of western europe.

To quote Wikipedia:

"Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of the European continent. There may be differences between the geopolitical and purely geographic definitions of the term."

Check: United Nations Statistics Division geoscheme for Western Europe (hint: no Italy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe#Modern_division...

Or others...
Is there a solution yet in Rust to this problem of, monadic-ish constructs like Result and Option, but no nice way to chain them together without hideous nesting, like Haskell's "do" or Scala's "for"?
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It's some factor of both things are cheaper now and things will be cheaper in the future. I'm betting these companies know what they are bidding for and it's likely technology will continue to make incremental improvements in this area. Compound interest works well here too and even modest decreases in costs compounded over 20 years will be very worthwhile.
I don't mind some wealth transfer from the rich to the poor. It's generational wealth transfer (including from poor youth to wealthy elderly) that I oppose.
I don't believe there is much of a distinction between the two. Engines and motors both convert energy to mechanical energy. I don't see this as any different from supplying fuel to a car engine.
I think you get fined if you do that.
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On a related note, an agricultural high school near me has a field dedicated to solar panels, that powers most of the school buildings. The students are learning how to farm photons alongside corn.

http://solarbuildermag.com/news/church-farm-school-in-pennsy...
I think it probably serves his interests pretty well to have his name plastered all over the Google results for "Satoshi Nakamoto" and vice versa.

Hell, right now he's the only person in any of the page title results for q=bitcoin.

He presumably doesn't care about scamming the inner circle of Bitcoin, but does care about building up the façade of a reputation in order to scam other people.
International captial cities like Berlin are major destinations for travellers of all stripe, and will be for the forseeable future.

Indeed, the boundary between tourists and residents is
porous. Capital cities attract a transient population from week end
visitors to interns or workers who stay a few weeks, to summer
visitors who stay a season, to students who stay for a few years, to
proper residents who stay a decade or more. All of them are a source
of ideas as well as a source of income for Berlin's industry. "Das ist
auch gut so." Hence Berlin needs to cater for all. That includes
providing substantial, centrally located living space (whether hotels
or apartments) for short-term visitors.
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As though 10 euros is enough to satisfy his hunger in perpetuity? Do you quit your job and stop working when you have 10 euros in the bank, or do you put it away and try to accumulate more? This "anecdote" is pretty short-sighted.
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I think the economics of food production will probably trounce that of power production. In any event, it's more efficient to stick solar panels in the desert and wire electricity to places that are less sunny.
you know, most people in the US are capitalist. if you want to push the idea of a basic income, it's probably not a good idea to get all communist-y and stuff.
A quick Google pulls up tons of recent papers and GitHub projects.

But more to the point of this discussion: the celebrated online class that builds the first principles that the creator of this article flubbed uses Matlab (and Octave).
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