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Terrible comparison. Best to look at other publishers. To start with, let's look at one with free labor for contributions and review. It costs $45.9 million a year. You might have heard of it:

https://annual.wikimedia.org/2014/#s-6

The next comparison would be finding a firm that does all of Elsevier's services. You start by knowing what they are. They're a part of Relx Group which describes its activities here:

http://www.relx.com/OurBusiness/Pages/Home.aspx

That's a lot. Elsevier itself mainly buys, accepts for free, and hosts research. They might pay reviewers. They also do commercial work for businesses. They also try to make money for shareholders. That always adds up. ;) Here's their annual report.

http://www.relx.com/investorcentre/reports%202007/Documents/...

It has a lot of data but can't directly answer your question. For Elsevier, three things stand out as possibly high-cost items:

1. 17,000 editors reviewing the articles for 2,500 journals. Whoever manages journals plus editors already constitutes large cost.

2. 23% of the revenue is by print sales. A physical print adds real cost to things esp when we're talking big, technical reports and books.

3. There's in-person sales and sale agents for subscription models. Probably lots of sales agents. They'll likely take a commission.

4. The amount of money involved with publicly traded means there's going to be plenty of compliance, management, and executive overhead. On top of nice, executive compensation.

These together would easily make it cost in $100-500mil a year range. Probably more.

EDIT: As gleb said, the Consolidated Income Statement on PDF reader p 98 will tell you in detail what they spend it on. The above activities are common among these types of organizations, though.
> I don't see those security features or anything like them in any other platform

... except the ones that were built exactly for the purpose of being sandboxed VMs: java applets, flash, mobile apps etc. The browser might have more prompts now simply because Microsoft showed everyone how not to do it with ActiveX, but it was not designed that way.

> just about all desktop platforms don't even have the concept of "access to webcam"

That's staggering ignorance, sorry. Why do you think you have groups like "cdrom" in Linux?

No, sorry, you can try with other arguments (standards, design in the open, whatever), but security really has nothing to do with why JS got where it got or why we use it today.

> That's not web development

No, that's exactly "web development" as you understand it (i.e. building "apps"), just on previous iterations. What you do today in JS was done yesterday with plugins; but nobody could agree on a single architecture (too many salespeople influencing the process), so the community took it upon itself to standardise on the minimum common denominator (JS) no matter how bad it was -- it was the only thing browser vendors could agree on (and even then, barely). JS managed to jump on the "standard" bandwagon that HTML+CSS spearheaded, and found itself as The Blessed VM. And here we are.

> That wonderful document-oriented system still works just fine.

No, it goddamn does not, hence the rant. loads of mainstream websites simply do not work without JS anymore, even when they are simply supposed to show me some text. I have to trust umpteen third-party spynalytics websites just to read a couple of football scores.

The document-oriented system is dead and buried. We are left with the JS frankenvm.

> I get that you don't like the web

Read my top comment again -- I love the web, and that's why this involution is hurting me.

> these evolutions aren't mistakes

No, in most cases they are simply accidents of history like XMLHttpRequest.

> the web is designed to be an application platform

No, the web has mutated in an application platform. Big difference.

In a way, it's another wonderful metaphor for human nature: the evolution of web technology has been as messy, inconsistent and accidental as most human history. There is no rising sun, there is no grand plan: evolution is random and all political or religious systems are equally broken... we simply agree on the minimum set of norms necessary to avoid stabbing each other in the face, and then we call it a masterpiece of divine design that we obviously wanted all along.

Screw this, it's 2AM and tomorrow I have to work to pay a mortgage. Have fun, you silly kids.
Well, let me disagree. Lifting 90 Kg for someone with probably a decade of a lack of serious exercise due to sitting in front of the computer for 16 hours a day building a couple of businesses is a LOT. I used to swim and do martial arts. I got to a point where I couldn't recognize myself because of how out of shape I got. Not grossly overweight but just weak and with a serious lack of mobility.

Weight in the vicinity of 100 Kg, is dangerous to put on your shoulders or lift off the ground. It could put you in the hospital. Age is a factor, of course, I'm over 50. Yet, even for younger people, it's a dangerous amount of weight.

I purposely took it very easy. I devoted four months to very slow and careful general strength (machines), flexibility and mobility exercises. Also added cardio. The idea was to get a little injury-proof before starting down the path of more serious lifting.

Having said that, now that I am on a roll I see making significant gains over the months ahead. Carefully and safely.
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This is an interesting line of thought. It doesn't actually take much experience on a backhoe before the controls become second nature and an operator just thinks about how the arm and bucket should move rather than how the controls should move. Apparently leg movement controls are not like that...

It reminds me of the two different movement control schemes I've seen for Bobcat-style machines. On older machines I've seen a single-axis lever on each side, to directly control the track on that side, much like some zero-turn riding lawnmowers. On newer machines there is a single two-axis stick that translates fore-aft-turn to the movements of the tracks. Perhaps a similar abstraction would be more suitable for operators of legged vehicles?
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> So if you were not referring to the slide with Al-Qaeda related operational details (referenced in your John Oliver link), what did he neglect to redact?

The thousands of documents that he didn't even read (or even try to redact) before he handed them off.

> We aren't going to agree though, as I believe that he should have dumped it all - unrestricted public access.

You're right. We'll have to agree to disagree.
Religion just like everything else is a tool for survival, nothing more. Many religions revolve around disciplinary structures; if you don't do what is "right", it's typically viewed as not optimal for survival in this world or what they may view as an afterworld. You seem to put these emotive features of love, beauty and whatever tickles your fancy as above all when there'd be none of those observed without the survival of an observer; the Machiavellian means of survival does have moral validity whether you see it or not.

You generalize atheists and atheism so much as to dilute your target, a common and cheap practice in debate. Atheism is already diluted enough because it's a non-belief, nothing else, so there's little target for generalization there even though you love to employ it in a desperate attempt to find something to latch on to and debate. And the atheists I know, most are relative moralists. That doesn't mean they don't think humanity doesn't have a moral compass, in general, but they tend to mean that there's no facts to demonstrate moral code, as you just said in your link. There's so much wrong with your arguments there, I don't know where to start.
Does anyone have tips for re-gaining focused attention? Willing to try anything at this point.
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I don't think it's awkward at all, especially since I know some trans people who didn't change their names after coming out, but requested that people refer to them by different pronouns.

Having heard and said things like "Brian has updated her status" enough times, the "their" is hardly awkward at all :)
I understand that linking this plays into the thesis of this article, but I just wrote a piece about how this exact phenomenon plays into the 2016 election: https://medium.com/@2016GOPImplosion/the-new-new-normal-d45f...
From what I've seen of it, LINQ to SQL (or other ORMs hooking up to LINQ on the .NET ecosystem, like Entity Framework) can avoid the feel of what Jacques is talking about. LINQ lets you express queries in C# (or what have you) syntax but still exposes the "feel" of an SQL database, not just using the database as a persistent object store.
- the 17.000 editors are almost all unpaid. The paid editors who coordinate the free work of others are typically very few per journal (e.g. Cell: 8 editors, Neuron: 6 editors)

- The print sales, (along with most of their sales) come from bundling everything in large subscriptions that the universities are then forced to accept. 99% of the paper they make is not used. Most people download the papers and re-print them actually. (Not saying paper doesn't cost, but that people would not normally pay for such a useless thing)
I've told a variation of this story to a ton of people, to specifically address the confinement of success.

They had the choice of sticking with the same colleagues they'd worked with (and increasingly hated) for 20 years, or being record store employees. Imagine if your livelihood was tied to working only with a few other people, and one of them had a tendency to beat you up, one was a heroin addict, and the other was an OCD acid-casualty. Imagine you had to live in a bus with them for years on end.
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It will happen within 10 years somewhere, and it will probably not be a flat rate, but most rides will be less than $2.75. The per-mile cost for self driving electric vehicles is very low.
Land creates an economic rent every year---most visible when you actually rent out the land, but also occurring as opportunity costs for owner occupiers. That rent is produced basically by people bidding up for the right to use the land, but not by anything the landowner does.

(Things the landowner does, like putting a nice house on top of the land are explicitly excluded from a land tax.)

The idea is that you can tax that (imputed) rent without any economic loss---since the landowner doesn't do anything for it, there's nothing to discourage with a high tax.

In principle, one could try to tax 100% of the rent. In practice figuring out the exact rent that accrues due to the land is hard---especially for owner occupied places.

But, we have a good proxy: the value of the land is (the market's best guess of) the net present value of all future income from the land.

So as a proxy, you tax x% of the value of the land every year.

If land appreciates in value over time, the tax rises proportionally. But unlike a capital gains tax, one pays the tax on the entire value of the land, not just the gains since the time you bought.

Of course, a tax on the land changes the sum of the future income streams. And thus changes the value of the land, which changes the absolute value of the tax payment. Fortunately, solving that equation isn't too hard.

In the case of constant interest rates, constant tax rates, constant annual rent:

a: annual rent
V: value of the property
i: interest rate (per year)
r: land tax rate (per year)

a = i * V + r * V

Reordering gives us the impact of land tax rates on price:

V = a / (r + i)

effective tax rate on the annual rent:

(r*V) / a = r / (r + i)

That's an increasing function of r, but it never reaches 100% (unless mortgage interest rates drop to 0%)

So for your example, people buying a house and later just flipping it, would accrue land tax while holding the property, and would be able to pocket any difference in price tax free. (Ie if one could buy and sell on the same day, there would be almost no tax to pay on any gain.) Of course, the land tax itself would blunt a sharp appreciation of the property somewhat.

Not a lot of the above description of the impact of taxes on land prices was specific to a land tax.

A property tax has similar effects. A land tax just excludes houses and other things on top of the property from taxation.

This in nothing even specific to a tax directly on the property. If for some reason you had a property where any shop on top of it would be excluded from VAT, the value of the property would go up. And if for some reason VAT would be doubled on retail in that area, the value of the property would drop.

Because any drop in taxation on other economic activity will lead to higher land prices, people have high hopes that if the government can tap into land prices as a source of revenue, they will be able to reduce these other taxes without loss of revenue (but gains in economic efficiency).
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I'm going to give it a try for a while, thanks.
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"...the existence of the self, a subject that’s still scientifically unsettled."

Shit like this, philosophers, is why scientists don't (and can't, and shouldn't) engage. The words to use are "scientifically undefined", not "scientifically unsettled" - you can't just argue over definitions for centuries and then blame science for that fact that none of you can agree on what you're talking about, if anything.

You enter the realm of science when you have a testable hypothesis, not just some vague idea that reeks of dualism that you can't conceive of not being a "real thing", like consciousness or self.
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Alas, there's no ham on them burgers.
Agreed, but people are creative making slack as their community group where people are already used to Slack. For growth hackers planning to cold email these members can be spammy and it has already been happening in some groups but in a smaller scale.
Assigning value to yourself where there may be none for the purpose of having value is a possible symptom of "self-important". Your jump from "morals cannot exist without a higher power" to "the christian god is that higher power" is a huge leap.

"We make nothing of religion if we do not make heart-work of it. The only thing that you cannot be in Christianity is self-righteous/self-justified and self-important/self-reliant."

Morals can be created and defined to help humans run effective societies and decide the way we interact with and expand the definition of life.
Atheism is not about morality or lack there-of.
> Instead, he suggests pushing knowledge of your data into your database as this has proven to be more time resilient and takes advantage of the power of these databases.

Indeed, moving logic into a relational language is a great idea. If only SQL weren't such a poor pseudo-relational language.
This is a presentation by Ahmon Dancy, a software engineer with Franz. The talk was originally prepared for the 8th European Lisp Symposium, April 20-21, 2015; this recording was a presentation to the Bay Area Lisp and Scheme Meetup.

He discusses the implementation of a variety of data structures outside the Common Lisp heap in the storage engine for AllegroGraph, a RDF triple-store entirely implemented in Common Lisp.
Yes, though it's probably dramatized somewhat in the article. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombin... for a description of the incident.

KCRA News also has archival video of the explosion is at: https://youtu.be/73S2qDzJr6g?t=71
Very true re: IBM, they had standardized SQL long before Oracle was "the name" in Db tech.
Exactly. If these publishers weren't offering anything of value, then why would authors continue to use them when open source alternatives are available?

No one is holding a gun to their head saying "you must publish your paper in Science!"
On Windows/CLR, that whole bit is auto-magic (IJW - "It Just Works") interop. It's no harder than just having the DLL around.

For Mono there's a bit of work involved to load it up but apart from that it's smooth enough. As far as the end-user is concerned, they should just need to install mono and they're good.

Source: I wrote a similar module for FreeSWITCH which has lots of users both on Windows/CLR and on Mono.
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I also remember it but couldn't find the original discussion
Wikipedia has some other links in the references

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey%27s_Resort_Hotel_bombin...
They have:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/2...
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The Hindenburg had some other problems, too. The paint on the outside was extremely flammable.

(And still, casualties came mostly from people jumping off the ship. The people that stayed on mostly survived.)
Turn off internet and focus for a set amount of time before going back.

If you must read something online, save it using Pocket or a similar service, then read it offline.
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Reposting this terrific (long) article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-davi...

Hume, along with the Ancient Roman Stoics and some Taoism, have a good deal in common (and complement each other where answers may be lacking). They are very rewarding, read together.
>"Morals can be created and defined to help humans [X]"

No one is foolish enough to deny that human societies can employ ethical codes and that doing so can help a society survive or thrive. But what is debated is if there exists Objective standards (or not) and from that, what that means for us. Drawing from an earlier comment addressing this, while both humans and animals may practice empathy, cooperation, or other behaviors that help them as individuals or groups to survive or thrive, this falls short of 'morality'.

Morality is positions about what one should do: eg "one should not murder humans for sport". Hume's observation of the Is-Ought problem shows us that we cannot reason "humans practice X therefore humans should practice X" as we similarly cannot reason "humans believe X therefore X is objectively the case".

Saying that animals or humans practice empathy is merely observing something they do, the "Is". We can't say "humans sometimes practice empathy therefore humans should practice empathy" like we can't say "humans sometimes practice violence therefore humans should practice violence".

You could add a condition, such as "If humans do not want to be put in jail by society, then they should not murder (or at least get caught having murdered)". But this is known as Hypothetical Morality, and with dependence on the conditions it becomes merely advice about cause and effect and is to be ignored by those who don't find the conditions compelling.
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> I remember doing J2EE in the early oughts everyone spoke about being able to swap out one RDBMS for another, and I eventually decided that kind of lowest-common-denominator approach was not worth the cost in preset-day productivity.

Remember who was putting the money behind those ideas.

IBM, for example had a vested interest in folks swapping out Oracle for another database... DB2 for Mainframe for DB2 UDB for AIX/x86. Enterprise is a zero sum game, and zeroing out the competition is a way to grow the business.
Ah cool! I never got the reference.

I like:

CML Compute Meaning of Life

What's the bet its opcode is 0x2A ? :P
>Poitras is enemy of U.S. military

Poitras is pretty clearly not a fan of the US military, but I don't think she's been declared an "enemy combatant". Calling her an "enemy" of the military is disingenuous. The US military does plenty of horrific and inexcusable things, and criticizing those who commit clear war crimes does not make someone an "enemy".
Here's one that's not super well-known: writes to a pipe are atomic as long as the write size is <= PIPE_BUF, which is at least 512 bytes (on Linux it's a full 4k). So pipes can be used as a naïve message queue: ensure each message is under the limit in size, and they will not be split.

Anyone know if there's a similar guarantee for files?
I have read that self-discipline is like a muscle that you can work out, and I believe it. Start off by making a real effort at truly working this muscle for a few minutes. Exercising self-discipline completely for 10 minutes is worth much more than only half exercising it for 60.

I have found a lot of use in timers. It's gimmicky, but putting a timer on my phone, and telling myself I will do only one thing until it goes off really works for me.
This is a great point. I think the way forward is to unite these properties in an append-only schema that can be efficiently queried for a consistent state without requiring expensive transactions. Something like [1] works well enough for RDMSs, but still isn't ideal.

[1] http://higherlogics.blogspot.ca/2015/10/versioning-domain-en...
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I believe GP meant anyone who uses andl in their own separate project, not andl itself
What's the compelling argument for why we all need this? I'm unable to distill this from the article.
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0) Pick something you want to focus on. It could be your breath, a picture, an article you want to read, the sounds in your environment...

1) Set a timer for the period you want to focus on it for. In the beginning, I'd pick short times, like 2 minutes, or 5 minutes.

2) Try to remain focused on whatever you picked. You will inevitably fail.

3) Do not get angry at yourself! Your mind is like a puppy. It will want to wander, and you're simply going to notice it has wandered, and then pull your attention back. Be gentle with yourself, because just like a puppy, your mind will internalize abuse and snap back at you in the future in unexpected ways.

4) Repeat 3) until the timer rings.

5) Hurray! Repeat this exercise as many times as you want, for the rest of your life. Experiment with how long you like setting the timer.

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This is "mindfulness" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness), in my own words.