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>It's very easy to forget how free we are by comparison to those persecuted in occupied territories.

Pretty insulated thinking there.. Try traveling to Indian reservations or gentrified urban areas.. Or perhaps research Japanese internment camps in WW2. Or hell even look up Guantanamo Bay today. Superpowers flexing their muscle on a "threatening few" is extremely common.
Do I worry about climate change on "Earth where I live"? Definitely.

Does it enter the short-list of problems important for me? Definitely not.

Do I think that sticking with pre-industrial climate is the only option? Frankly I don't. Stanislav Lem with his promised palm trees in Greenland is still vivid.

Just saying that because my point of view got to be represented.
To the DAO and the Ethereum community: Fuck you
I would call it a comeback story with a happy ending, as I got to semi-retire at 31 in a beautiful place. The thing is I know I was able to do this because of the wealth effect, and not because I am personally better or more deserving. That's a point that many well off people miss.

The experience gave me insight and empathy. I really learned how the other half live. I will never be a poverty scold because of it.

I posted the story because I think your spreading incorrect information. It's not easy to be public about money troubles, something I think hurts workers and benefits the capitalist class.

I read your blog post for the second time (saw it on HN before) just now and I still don't see the mechanism by which people can choose to receive 22,000 per year by not working.

Has UBI been instituted without my knowledge?

For what must one apply to make the rational decision to not work.

Update to reply:

Ok so I read the paper, it says exactly what I state in other comments.

If your not going to work you better be in a protected group.

The paper lists 5 means tested transfer programs

Temporary assistance for needy families - this is only for people with kids and mostly single mothers

SNAP or food stamps - which isn't enough to survive off of unless your pancreas handles carbs really well

Section 8 housing - you can get on a wait list or maybe find a landlord willing to deal with you

Other than that it lists

Ss disability : you have to be disabled or severely mentally ill

Ss. You have to be over 65

Pell grants - students only

So that's it. So tell me how does a 35 year old non disabled man or woman with no kids make the rational choice to not work?

Even with subsidized housing and food and Healthcare they would still need spending money.

I'm telling you that there's a lot of people that get by with work in the informal economy and that isn't accounted for in those BLS stats.

You are right about western poverty if we tall about germany, but not us, unless you are in a protected group.
Automation also caused the e-discovery field to explode In the first place. There was a brief period after explosion of email where e-discovery got huge. Before email people would mostly talk in person or on the phone. People had to review documents but it was hundreds or documents or thousands. But after email, word processing, etc, now there were tens of thousands or maybe even millions of files to search. Digital offices great many many many more files than pre digital offices.

OCR also just made the industry bigger. Because you could just ask for any email the company had that had specific key words. Sounds more efficient right? Wrong. The number of false positives is insane. Before OCR, judges would never make you read through every email in a company.

Machine learning (called predictive coding in the legal industry) is taking some jobs. But I've heard you need half a million documents to train the program. But you still need someone to do a second level review. It's incredibly useful but only on huge projects.

The bigger reason for job losses is that contractors now operate overseas. Indian document reviewers are cheap.

I bet the discovery industry is still probably 5x bigger than it was in 1980.
Actually we're now on a 13 consecutive months record-setting streak. (that is, the last 13 months all broke the previous global temperature record)
I can't see why the parent has been down voted:

"Meat production is a major contributor to climate change. It is estimated that livestock production accounts for 70 per cent of all agricultural land use and occupies 30 per cent of the land surface of the planet. Because of their sheer numbers, livestock produce a considerable volume of greenhouse gases (such as methane and nitrous oxide) that contribute to climate change. In fact, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that livestock production is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases."

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/food-and-our-plan...

(David Suzuki is a biologist and climate change activist here in Canada)
> Interestingly, installing ad blocking is harder in the mobile though (requires a separate browser)

I think this will change soon - at least on iOS if Apple takes ad-blocking to it's natural end. The not-so-subtle Apple v Google (and Google v. MS) strategic corporate warfare has been enlightening and entertaining to me. I had no idea corps would shake hands for the cameras whilst stabbing each other in the back concurrently.
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I've read that you should break up large tasks into their most atomic parts which are psychologically less overwhelming. So rather than write article, you might have, research subject (2 hours), brains storm bullet points of questions, write outline, ... At our company I constantly worry about us being over ambitious because when we are we don't get things done. Better to start with a small milestone where everyone can be on the same page, see and enjoy the result, and move on to the next thing when it's complete.
I read once about a really fascinating way to transfer carbon back into the oceans by seeding it with iron, which promotes algae growth. Might transform some local ecosystems, but it gets the carbon out of the air at a shockingly cheap price. (iron and ships)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
Personally, listening to "tech visionaries" and their vision for the future is about as interesting as hearing about some random dude's hunger.
An idea I've been tossing around: What if domains cost $100 if more than one person wants it? The idea here is to squeeze the squatters with 000s of domains.

Whenever I want a domain, most of the ones I want are taken. Not by people who are making use of it, but by people who are squatting in hopes of extorting anyone who would actually use the domain to produce value.

I'd actually be happy if Verisign or any other private company or any government extracted such an unfair price for useful domains because it would free up so many more useful domains for use.

Edit: I'd love to hear good arguments against this, I'm partly throwing this out there to see others thoughts.
Not quite.

How easily would it be to find the linked to stackoverflow answer on the archive if ever stackoverflow were to vanish from the net one day?

There was also a wikipedia article linked on HN recently about a certain mainframe terminal, and a spreadsheet program that make use of a special capability of that terminal. Said article was at risk of being deleted from wikipedia because they deemed it "original research".

Again, how easily could one find such an article within the archive?
> Anyone (barring mental disability, and even then) can learn, and can be taught.... the vast teeming masses of "dumb people" are a lot smarter than most would believe.

I'm generally in agreement with the potential, but people need to desire to learn (or be smarter, or whatever you want to call it). There seems to have been a backlash against 'intelligence' which glorifies 'stupidity'. Not specifically with that word, but the notion of 'book learnin' being something to look down on, people getting 'too smart for their own good', etc.

There are many folks who have far less 'raw intelligence' - whatever biological component we're born with - than I do, but are far more capable because they've applied themselves far more rigorously than I have over the years. So yes, of course, almost anyone can really learn more, but they have to want to do it in the first place, and get out of whatever cultural norms bind them to their notions of looking down on intelligence (and accomplishment in general).
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Exactly.

I think the greatest engineering feats, computational or otherwise, tend to be created by insight into what the actual requirements of a system are and whether they enable the use of previously-ruled-out classes of solutions.
The spec mandates that type class instances can only be defined together with the type class or with the corresponding data type.

While it's a very poor idea as no person except the author of the type class or the author of the data type can define a type class instance, it at least guarantees the global uniqueness and coherence of type class instances. ("There can only ever be a single typeclass instance for typeclass A and data type B.")

GHC (the only implementation that kind of matters today) takes a YOLO approach, allows as many typeclass instances as you want, doesn't bother enforcing the rules laid out in the spec.
Additionally, as type class instances are not first-class values of the language a developer doesn't even have the option to make sure he is getting the instance he expects.

There exists a GHC warning for "orphan type class instances"–but as the warning triggers on everything, not only the relevant cases where multiple instances clash and break the program–it's as useful as saying "we made sure that C's goto-fail bug can never happen again by emitting a warning for every suspicions indentation – you only have to sift through 1732 warnings until you find the dangerous one!".
> It's not "some cash" - it's free lifetime income, healthcare, housing, guaranteed additional income for family members, proper schooling for children etc.

None of those (aside healthcare) are the rights of someone given asylum, while you are waiting for support you 'may' be given housing and financial support. There is no "free lifetime income"
Easier: Add /amp before /articles. (This has been posted on HN before.)

In fact, "amphtml" is the first link on the page. Follow this link to see the full article.

However the /amp URL does not retrieve comments like the URL you posted.
Yes. This is one of the reasons I was considering going back to Europe (I have a European Passport). Yes, the pay is less, but I do not have to worry about all the immigration craziness in the US and do not have to be worried about being laid off and having to leave everything behind. Well worth that pay cut.
I imagine there could be an interesting means of moving the playhead along with your skimming, so when you highlight a block of text (as I do, habitually), the video would play through the selection and pause at the end. I'd love to use text as a video controller.
All of the behaviors you cite could be caused by extreme stress, poverty, or threats to safety/well-being (rather than being a cause of poverty). I've felt it, and I've done it.
That should worry you.
> Our brains evolved to what they are today long before reading was a thing.

You could be on a poster for "evolution stops at the neck".

Obviously, our brains did not evolve to what they are today long before reading was a thing, because that happened before today. There was no point at which brains stopped evolving.
Could your free version still be sold for a price but with limited or no support? For example, two licences

1. Commercial license, no support: pay $/£/€ amount

2. Commercial license with support: pay $/£/€ amount

By commerical use, I mean companies or academic insitutions. Option 1 is cheaper, but presumably more than affordable for companies who want to use the software.

I guess what I'm saying is that even when the software is open source, can you stipulate that payment is required if used by a commerical company or academic institution? Some companies may not pay, but I'm guessing many other companies will be happy to pay for option 1. Or am I being hopelessly naive?
I used to busk, playing guitar and singing in Bradford (UK) city centre in the early 1990s. I wasn't very good, but it was funny. £30 on a good day? Not bad for a couple of hours.
Why call out the west? A quick google search shows China as the top contributor to global warming, with Russia and India in the top 5.

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/sci...

Seems to me this is a world wide issue, that calls for a world wide solution.
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> to beat procrastination, a simple trick is to imagine starting the task as opposed to finishing it

You could also just start the task, basically accomplishing the same thing. Skip the imagining part if it is a distraction.
Not that relevant to the argument, but you're right that the numbers are way off. For a 26-year-old, $200k is in the top 1%, but probably not in the top 0.1% (and definitely not top 0.01%). I don't know anything about tech salaries, but there are lots of 26-year-olds making that much in finance (total comp, not salary).

[1] http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf (roughly 4M 26-year-olds in the US; 0.01% is 400 people)

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/the-top-... (for 27-31, 1% = $135k, 0.1% = $300k)

[3] https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-by-age-calculator/ ($200k is within the top 1% for 26-year-olds)
I don't think fully automated cars will have as drastic an impact on mechanics as 3D printed cars. A better question to ask is this:

What happens to all the mechanics when getting an entirely new vehicle is cheaper than paying to have it fixed?

The maintenance required of a 3D printed car will also probably be automated. There's no reason why we can't have robots replace tires, brake pads, and align wheels. Heck, they could even replace the parts that break or wear down by printing new ones on-demand.

The only parts that will still need to be stocked after 3D printed auto parts take hold is glass windows, tires, and similar components that require special manufacturing.
Sadly, if Verisign is not earning $7.85 per domain, I guess every possible combinations of meaningful dot com domains were already exhausted.
First step is to stop so heavily subsidizing it. On an individual scale I can advocate for eating less meat but when its cheaper per caloric pound, especially for protein, in many places because of tremendous subsidies, economics is fundamentally working against you where it would in a natural market be working for you.
Because, as meat consumption produced less than a fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions, the claim that "it won't improve until the world population starts limiting its meat intake" is simply false.

Reducing meat production would help, certainly. But it ain't a blocking requirement to getting global warming under control.

As an aside, while I'm choosing to accept that 18% number, counting methane in that list is a bit misleading as, while it is a far more powerful greenhouse gas, it has a far shorter lifetime in the atmosphere than CO2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex#Climate_change

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/polar-vortex-to-v...

Changes in weather patterns brought about by melting arctic ice has brough cold arctic winds south over much of the US.
I take it then, that your username is ironic?
>In fact, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that livestock production is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases.

It seems like fixing 82% of the problem is more important and likely than eliminating an essential protein source from the human diet. But that's just my opinion.
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It is poverty itself that creates short term thinking that leads to those choices.

This is why poverty is expensive for society, and investment by society to eliminate it would be paid back and much more.
I hope you forgot the pronoun in your second sentence. Otherwise you have no place telling others what they should feel concerned about just because the weather was pretty nice in your backyard. Not to mention it is incredibly short-sighted to think the fate of the rest of the world will have no impact on your life.
The actual issue is the fact that sending money to someone can result in untrusted code running in the middle of your code execution and even reentering it seems absurd.

Sending should always succeed immediately and if anything needs to be automatically triggered in response, the trigger should be executed asynchronously.

A great way to immediately see the problem is, for anyone with Rust experience, to think of this as a function taking an &mut self being somehow reentered without that &mut self being passed out by the function itself.
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A philosophy degree seems to only be useful with regards to getting a law degree...since we're in the comments on an article about how a law degree isn't as useful as it used to be, I think you could probably toss "not useful" on it.
I think you'll find that science fiction authors are the only ones suggesting that the new climate will be better. Or at least that the period as we move towards a new equilibrium will be anything less than catastrophic.
> Buterin is now more busy with sharding and scaling issues.

Those are currently not the issues that require attention.

You can make it as fast and as large as you want, if it is broken at the root that's all pointless. First walk, then run. I'd be more impressed with a much smaller system without sharding and massive scaling properties if it was bullet proof.
Yes, and there are a lot of people in the world who have less freedom due to US interventions / support.
In fact, I'd say the unspoken premise of the article is that economic success equals human wealth. From there, it argues mainly that economic success is increasingly determined by intelligence.

Strangely, the article ignores the strong anti-intellectual undercurrent in American culture, which may be a byproduct of these economic changes, and which seems to be the focus of many comments here.
I think pretty much everything in your body is specialized and is "meant" for something. No matter how hard you try, you're not going to get your heart to replace your pancreas or kidneys. And you can't replace your lungs with brain tissue. Sure, doctors can transplant a toe to replace a thumb or a heart blood vessel with a vein from a leg with great success, but it's doing pretty much the same function, just in a different place.

As a whole, humans are quite adaptable to their environment, but specific body parts tend to be specialized.
What about Germany and the Nazis concentration camps?

Russia is a big country with a history of immigration from the soviet days, when people from the different republics where made to move to different areas of the country
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Ask HN: Can you help me learn about climate change?
Hey HN friends,

I'm pretty concerned about the ramifications of climate change but I find myself woefully under-informed.

The difficulty I have is finding unbiased sources. To be clear - I believe in the phenomenon, and I believe in the consensus about our species causing it. But I find any searches I do through Google (for example) to be so muddled by catastrophizing and political strife that I find it hard to learn anything of value. So, I turn to this community.

Specifically, I'm looking for resources, or ways to find resources, that help me with the following:

1. I want to learn the technical causes of climate change (for example, I get that CO2 is bad, but I don't know much about the phrase "400 PPM.") and the "current state of global warming."

2. I want to understand grounded, realistic consequences due to happen in the next 10, 20 and 30 years.

3. I want to know what can and cannot be changed at this point, and I want to know what I can do to help as a non-scientist.

I am not averse to reading technical papers on this if it means I can learn about this in as "pure" a way possible. I also don't mean this to come across as lazy, I just really don't know what I don't know and I've seen enough convincingly educated comments here to ask.
Like several others (who got downvoted, I don't know why) who have pointed out - this article provides no citations and confusing reasoning. The definition of "eventual consistency" is that all systems converge to the same state after enough time. Yet the author seems to be saying Bitcoin is strongly consistent because (if we ignore things in their variable state) it will converge to an agreed upon state.

Apparently it is up to you how you want to interpret the use of "strong" or "eventual" here.
This is a world problem for sure. However, has the Chinese government or corporations spent billions on efforts to convince the population that climate change is a hoax? Anyone who runs a country that agrees it's a problem is doing better than a country (USA) where so many prominent people in power deny that the earth is changing because of us. That problem in particular seems unique to the west.
Every one of the last 13 months has broken the record for the hottest month on record.

In other words, May 2015 was the warmest May on record, June 2015 was the warmest June on record, same for July 2015, August 2015, September 2015, October 2015, November 2015, December 2015, January 2016, February 2016, March 2016, April 2016, and now May 2016.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201604
China's obsession with the destruction of Tibet and its culture is truly troubling.

If China has its way, hundreds of years from now, Tibet will be gone, no record of it will exist, etc.
>Perhaps when I was freshly graduated I might have tolerated it, but as someone with a family and lots of very good opportunities already here in Europe (and being able to re-locate with minimal fuss to another EU country (unless we vote ourselves out)), its a nobrainer to stay here. Add to that the whole potential deportation if you were to lose your job, and an average family home in the valley costing well above $1 million, nah, I think I will leave it thanks.

This is my train of thought as well. I am here in the US on a student visa about to graduate in spring. Originally, I was thinking about going the H1B route, but the more and more I learn about it, the less I want to bother with it. I have a EU passport, so I guess I am less doomed than maybe an Indian or so. The problem with H1B is that you can't build yourself a life here. How can you create a family and buy a house if you have to worry constantly about deportation? No thanks. Europe might have a lower pay, but I am willing to pay that price for a peace of mind. Plus all my family is in Europe.
You're talking about game theory as it relates to pricing / auction games. This is a really well-studied topic, and indeed there are much more efficient ways to match value to demand.

F.ex. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction
No it isn't. Again, please read the RCTs I linked to. One of them addresses this exact question.
Any one who agree with the narrative outlined in Flash Boys (which I do), thinks that HFT is basically a drain on the economy. It doesn't help allocate capital more efficiently or provide any liquidity when it's actually needed. It uses speed and deliberately rigged market rules to take returns fro people that are trying to put capital to work (either as investors or as businesses).
Not these (at least):

Idris – implicit arguments

Agda – instance arguments

OCaml – Modular implicits

:-)
Maybe you meant Edward Bernays?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays