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To be fair, the VP is only very slightly more powerful than a typical senator, and less powerful than at least one of them. Do you know all the senators?

The VP is also less powerful than a supreme court justice.

The VP is also less powerful than the house majority leader.

Things are less clear with governors, but I think the argument can be made that the VP is less powerful than the governors of California, Texas, Florida, New York, etc. Do you know those?

Also, remember what Feynman said his dad taught him about knowing the names of birds. Memorizing names gives a false sense of knowledge.
I work in the NYC office where this is. The button wall is interactive and cycles through various modes that are mostly pretty abstract and colorful, but clicking the button will make a propagating disturbance depending on the mode. One of them was Conway's Game of Life, which I thought was really clever.
Are you sure the project is still active? The README talks about first releases happening "soonish", but it's been over a year since the repo saw any activity.

https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed
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Yeah, but chewing up that bandwidth, surely it took forever and it must have slowed down some critical network functions!
That's actually an incredibly short-sighted risk calculation that intentionally weighs some unknowns as higher value than others.

For example, I can make the same kind of argument in the opposite direction: if UBI creates a disincentive within inner cities for fewer kids to become drug dealers, which creates less opportunities for violence, leading to significantly less deaths in the inner city, I think that you are making "an incredibly unfair and callous assessment" as well.

Saying that any plan that transfers risk from the current state to a different state that is potentially net better for all is to miss the point that we've already chosen a system that disadvantages SOMEONE... and to change it will probably disadvantage someone different.
Those buttons looks cool. Anyone know where to get them? (https://googlecreativelab.github.io/anypixel/img/carousel_02...)
Well, Ubuntu doesn't do those paid searches any more by default.
Things other than you will more likely outlive you.
According to the source code, this works using a few things. The main thing powering this is Pixi.js, a 2D HTML 5 Canvas/WebGL renderer: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/

It tracks your mouse, or touch event. Whenever you move, it accumulates a number (search "mouseForce") to the nearby pixels. This number is then used as an index into a sprite sheet[1][2]. It uses Pixi's MovieClip object for the heavy lifting, but they create their own Tile object to hook the mouse force to the sprite sheet.

So to sum up, they create a grid of Tile objects, each of which accumulates a number based on nearby mouse/touch movement, then uses that number to index into a sprite sheet rendered by Pixi.js.

[1] http://googlecreativelab.github.io/anypixel/img/x_03.png

[2] The sprite sheet is white-on-transparent, so it's invisible in Chrome. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/rKDrSoP.png
I've Javascript developer who has recently joined a project using scala.

I've never been a massive fan of static types, it always felt so verbose, and I didn't really see the benefit.

I don't love it, but I will say that when I change a signature, and the compiler tells me all the places the program now fails because the signature does not match expectations, I find that pretty impressive.

I do think it helps catch certain types of bugs (particularly helpful in finding all the interconnected pieces in a large project).
Right now he is still on https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en
I guess different people speak different languages and have different tools of thought.
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It seems to me the simple calculation is to see that, currently, the US spends ~$9,500 per capita annually for healthcare (that number seems so crazy to me, but therein lies the problem). The WSJ article didn't go into more detail, but I don't understand how $3k per year goes to cover that $9500 amount without huge deductibles and copays, which disabled people won't be able to pay because they will have no other assistance beyond their UBI.

I don't see how UBI works without some other form of guaranteed health insurance for the poor.
I would expect the SSA to be the ones administering the UBI plan.
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I strongly suspect that most fast acceleration, fast cruising, fast cornering, etc. is undertaken 1) in cars that are designed to handle it, 2) by drivers who are 100% in the moment focused on enjoying the act of driving.

I expect these behaviors to be at least an order of magnitude less dangerous than

- having slept less than 8 hours

- texting

- eating fast food

- having a conversation with passengers or on the phone

- interacting with small children in any way

- driving a car which is not up to the fun you're trying to have with it

- driving a car with serious damage

And yet of these, only texting is frowned upon.

I'm thinking of all the times my mother turned her head away from the road at 60mph to mediate a fight in the backseat and feeling significantly less bad about my cornering habits.
It's placing blame for a general problem on the decisions and values of certain people and societies.

In terms of logical structure, taking an anecdote and universalizing it without a falsifiable explanatory mechanism is indistinguishable from blaming faraway natural disasters on other people sinning against the gods.

In both cases, people and society are held to be at least partially culpable for something bad that happened to them without presenting any evidence other than that they don't do all the same things that you do, and you're doing fine.
I uninstalled the Facebook Messenger app about 3 months ago when I saw a news article about how it devoured battery on Android, because I was having battery life problems at the time.
Frankly, I find hard-coding #!/bin/bash sensible in a large corporate setting such as Google. It prevents PATH manipulation and they obviously have a uniform and controlled environment.

Bash arrays can be convenient, but at that level of complexity Python or Ruby are much easier to read and understand (and necessarily maintain).
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The wild conjecture is out there that as one of the final acts of his presidency, Obama will pardon Snowden. Mostly to get this messy matter off the table of the next president. I really don't know where to place the likelihood of this actually happening.
They're standard white arcade coin-op buttons. I get mine here in Australia from ozstick [ http://www.ozstick.com.au/product/classic-dimpletop-pushbutt... ].

In the states checkout Happ Controls (now seem to be called Suzohapp) [ https://na.suzohapp.com/products/pushbuttons/58-9111-L ] or Amusement Distributors. [ http://www.amusementdistributors.com/index.php?main_page=pro... ]

Just note that they're not illuminated, they just take a standard size microswitch. Looks like they rigged up the illumination separately.
This is awesome. I've been using Electron for browser tests which has been a big improvement over Phantom, but setting up xvfb can be a pain.
/Completely OT; Nice Username!
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That's an interesting change. It wasn't too many years ago that my employer-provided health insurance was through a doctor-owned provider.
Why would that version be any better than the one that is generally available?

The only difference that I imagine exists is being able to search from the pool of "everyone" rather than "your friends", but that would make it less confident. In the law enforcement version, there would probably be a way to anchor the search to another individual just to improve accuracy to an acceptable level.
I think if you read the original, the choices discussed were personal happiness vs money and status. Choosing happiness in that context is wise, not selfish.

Also, I think you're confusing happiness with the pursuit of pleasure. Most of the science suggest that happiness requires both enjoyment and a greater purpose.

Apparently you're unselfish and deep; maybe you could be less judgmental, too.
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See also: The Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit shows the ISP based on the AS number from which the IP address is announced: http://bgp.he.net/

Example: http://bgp.he.net/ip/104.196.27.39
> There won't be enough work for everyone in the future? Well then cut down working hours instead of having half the population work full time and pay for the other half.

Which doesn't work when jobs require uncommon abilities or highly specialized training and thus either can't be done by the other people or would be highly inefficient to train them to do and then not have them working full time.

> Some jobs don't provide enough income to make a living? Then have sufficient minimum wages, there is no point in doing any work that does not pay well enough to make a living.

And then any jobs whose economic value is below that minimum wage disappear, leading back to the first problem.

> Also universality, what is the point? Above some income you are essentially just paying yourself.

You are. Which means it has a built in phase out -- you effectively stop getting it once you've paid more taxes than you receive in basic income. Adding another phase out causes the marginal tax rate on middle income people to be unreasonably high and takes money away from them that would otherwise have come from higher income people.

A universal basic income has rich people paying poor people and middle income people paying themselves. A basic income with a phase out instead has middle income people paying poor people so the rich can have a tax cut.
They have full documentation on the hardware they used as well, look at the bom.pdf for "bill of materials" which specs EVERY item. You're looking for https://na.suzohapp.com/products/arcade_game_parts/58-0091-S...
Other links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11807450 , http://fortune.com/2016/05/31/y-combinator-basic-income-oakl... , and http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/business/economy/why-a-uni...
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By the way, I just looked at this a little, it appears like it would be POSSIBLE. Meaning you can pardon someone, like Snowden, before they've even been charged:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...

But that being said, I don't think Obama of all people would. He has been more pro surveillance than Bush Jr, was more damaged by Snowden, and had tons of political friends damaged by Snowden.

I think people confused the person they wanted Obama to be, and the president Obama has actually been. He is more similar to Bush Jr in these matters than different, and has prosecuted more whistleblowers.
Don't know why, but the CatChurn game jumped out at me as being written by Yahoo Software in 1982 (the year I was born). There does not seem to be a Wikipedia entry for this company, but the address appears to be a residential condo as per Google Maps - https://www.google.com/maps/place/10970+Ashton+Ave,+Los+Ange....

Interesting to see a little bit of history and how game writers really were working from home on an idea even in the early days.
Their second fund had Nicra ($1.26B), Instagram ($1B) and others. Not sure if the GroupOn and Zynga IPOs were first or second fund. Either way, that fund was a big success.
The reason is that psychologically, humans already account for the fact that women have it easier in life.
Related links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839490 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839510
the popular claim is 10X better than average. Not 10X better then suck. And definitely not 10X better than a total newbie at the one thing you've worked on your entire career.
I like how they try to sell on you on the fact that 75%+ of their users are outside the U.S. as if that's a good thing.
Side comment, but what are they using to randomize the CSS selectors and class names? Interesting approach to further minification.
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We do not live in some Vulcan dystopia. The idea of essentially telling people, who are currently alive, "Yes, we can keep you alive, but by letting you die, there is some probability (which we don't really know and are just guessing at) that we can use the saved money to prevent 1.2 deaths" strikes me as the plot of a horror science fiction movie.

I am all for UBI, but like another poster said I don't think it works without universal health care if you get rid of all the other current transfer payments. It seems the author of the article agrees, but I don't see how the 3K for insurance makes the numbers add up.
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> "workers who already earn more than SFr2,500 Swiss francs would not get any additional money."

Does it mean I make around 2,600 per month and work full time - I better of quitting my job?
I wouldn't mind actually.
That toaster thing was interesting.
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They are working within constraints. The federal government has all kinds of rules about salary and benefits.

When I applied, they had a table of salaries, adjusted for location, so at least they were transparent about it.
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Wow, this is a great idea.
I'm assuming we're talking about output measured in the real world. At the forth standard deviation you might be 1 in a million, but you're still not outperforming an average person by 10X.
What ignorant public opinion has to do with the ability to implement it without ruining the whole economy and antagonizing people?
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Good point. But if you come to a team where the environment is already set up for you, then at least you avoid the headache of choosing/debugging every nut and bolt of the system just to begin writing code.

If you're in a position to define the stack, you have to weigh the benefits vs churn very carefully.
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Thanks for your reply. (Yeah, it's not clear to me why some of my comments get downvoted. Maybe in this case it's because I seemed insincere, as if I were promoting someone's pre-existing business or something? Or maybe they figured I should just research this for myself. Or maybe they thought I was trying to just put a low-information comment, cheap-shot, for more karma points. Or something. Not sure.)

Anyway, it's interesting to hear about the hookworms and your direct experience with them. I'd be curious to hear more about your experience with that therapy, if you are willing/interested to share it.

Basically, I wonder in what circumstances would you recommend that therapy to others who have an autoimmune condition? (e.g. for all cases, just some cases, cases that did not respond to drugs, diet, etc.) Is it a first resort, or a last resort or something in the middle, etc. ?

Again, thanks.
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To a degree I think I did stand up for my colleagues. I brought in the Helpdesk guy, who was my old colleague from Epson days and in a strange twist of fate was actually my boss early in my career. I never needed to manage him, just protect him from some of the crap that fell his way because he was new. And the other guy was fully self managing and whilst I was technically his manager for about a week till the new boss came in, he got in with what was needed and showed such astute vision and planning that frankly I found all I would have done was get in his way if I'd "supervised" him. So I just asked him periodically how things were going, listened to his ideas over lunch, encouraged him and asked only a few questions; he just got everything done and even had a vision for where IT should be that I was pleased largely synced up with where I wanted things to go.

The new boss they brought in didn't listen to anyone, insisted on us doing useless things, broke all the critical Qlikview dashboards, prevented us from automating anything, took copious notes about things that I already knew about and that were largely unimportant, undermined the three of us to the CEO and caused me to burn out so badly that it took me over 6 months to get a new job.

So I defended my team partially by allowing them to come to me for advise, which was largely to ride it out and let the guy make his mistakes. All three of us tried to advise the fool that the things he was doing was literally destroying the business, but when I did 21 days straight with no break, leading to the start of a solution I could have implemented in 3 days max that would have not only fixed the massive breakages he caused in reporting but also automated them and reduced total manual handling, but was then told that a technical change I had done (add a synthetic foreign key to a table!) was completely out of order and something he and the project manager were going to discuss with the CEO about, I took a deep breath, excused myself from their meeting and then wrote my letter of resignation.

The CEO accepted my resignation and told me to leave immediately on full pay, then 6 weeks later my old manager stuffed the entire system so badly there was no way of fixing the mess (he deleted all my reports, I assume because they made him look bad...) and he resigned.

Last week that same CEO was fired for gross incompetence. They are apparently looking at the books very closely, but it rather looks like the accounts sent to ASIC are quite possible wrong. That's a big no-no and if bad enough ASIC may decide to prosecute.

Sometimes bad bosses screw over good people and even worse bosses back them. Eventually though, if you screw over every good person them as a manager they fail, and fail hard. And they normally have the hide yo look surprised when nobody is upset for them when they have left!
Interesting you say that. I was just having a long conversation recently about how grocery is one area I wish could be... innovated in(I do not like the term 'disrupted'). From a store's perspective, items are rather low margin. From a producer's, they are not (as purchased in retail).

Outside of the multitude of 'walmart' farmers' stories, I remember rather recently reading of a lady who made salsa, who made cents per jar sold on an item that cost a few dollars to the consumer.

This means there is heavy markup at someplace, which I suspect is at the distribution and delivery. It was evident to me when, to make a pizza of high quality with many toppings, it ended up costing me more than even the local chains charged (greatly reducing the 'economy of scale'). There are billionaires in this particular realm, Walton's excluded, see Richard Cohen.

This also makes me wonder if then, distributors like C&S, Sysco, or Gordon Food Service would get into the personal delivery game. In the end, it seems rather silly to deliver goods twice.
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Yes,that seems to be correct. I do wish the business talk would die a little so other stuff would blossom. This forum makes people money so its actively gamed. Though that might be in sync with its origins. Dunno, just an old fart speaking.
Google had to wait for the tech to catch up.
Apple didn't have to.

Apple is the world's richest company - ´ if they really wanted to make maps work everywhere they could have.

Its simply not a priority for them (which is fine).
> The title of the article is definitely misleading and sensationalist.

I had forgotten what the title was in the process of reading the article. You're right, it's a near perfect example of spun journalism.

Consider the following:

> Because none of the people interviewed by the NSA in the wake of the leaks said that "Snowden mentioned a specific NSA program," and "many" of the people interviewed "affirmed that he never complained about any NSA program," the NSA's counterintelligence chief concluded that these conversations about the Constitution and privacy did not amount to raising concerns about the NSA's spying activities.

> That was the basis for the agency's public assertions — including those made by Ledgett during a TED talk later that month — that Snowden never attempted to voice his concerns about the scope of NSA surveillance while at the agency.

Note the infrequent 'Because ... Than ...' type of construct -- but that a particular fact is selected for the 'Because ...' clause it inclines the reader to believe that something is being omitted or hidden from public view (one spuriously continues reading the article hoping to find what it was) - but all the reader gets is:

> Snowden declined to answer a number of very specific questions for this story.

The whole article is written as if something is hidden, omitted and about to come into view! How else to justify the headline title!? But there's really nothing at all.
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Those who have worked with Jake won't be surprised at all by this. These are accusations coming from multiple people in the tech/privacy/infosec crowd, not from the government.

For those thinking these are government-sponsored lies, do you think [Meredith Patterson](https://twitter.com/maradydd) of [Status 451 Blog](https://status451.com/) is working with the government?

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738801590333624320

> [blog.torproject.org/blog/jacob-appelbaum-leaves-tor-project …](https://blog.torproject.org/blog/jacob-appelbaum-leaves-tor-...) is a gross disservice to the Tor community. People deserve to know why Tor evicted its resident sociopath.

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738802325565755392

> Tor had the chance to nip this in the bud back when Jake was just a plagiarist. They ignored it, and he graduated to sexual assault.

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/738802983173922817

> .@mmeijeri Jake finally raped enough people that Tor as an organisation couldn't ignore it anymore.

I worked around Jake around 2009ish in the early years of the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco. I've seen his charismatic pushiness routine that he uses to get what he wants. I joked that if you ever wanted to find him in a group photo, just look front and center. As time went on, I did hear more uneasy things about him. His name came up with a person I met at PyCon last year in Montreal, who then relayed a story that didn't go as far as sexual assault, but was very troubling. He's one of those people that you step aside and warn your friends about. Keep an eye on your intoxicated friends when he's around.

The stories I read on http://jacobappelbaum.net/ fit exactly with the Jake that I knew. He is focused on his own wants and laughs off people's boundaries. Reading the stories on that site doesn't make me think of an elaborate conspiracy to discredit him but of how Cosby was able to get away with his crimes for years.

Before people start saying I'm a shill: I don't have any connection to the http://jacobappelbaum.net/ nor do I know the people who made it (or, at least, I don't know if any people I know made it). [I wrote a book on cryptography, and 100% of the proceeds go to the Tor Project, the EFF and Creative Commons.](http://inventwithpython.com/hacking/proceeds)
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Agreed. It works surprisingly well.