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> I can't afford to live in Carmel, Los Altos, etc, but I live where I can afford.

Have you ever considered that maybe you should be able to afford to live in those places? That the wealthiest nation in the history of humanity ought to cultivate a society that encourages freedom of movement? That cordoning off sections exclusively for the rich leads to a decrease in empathy for the less fortunate? That safe housing and access to the amenities of a city ought not to be exclusively for those who happened to have the lucky combination of skills and money?

Have you considered that the people you hope to exclude are people no different from you?
Most of the time of building is not spent shaping the parts, but in assembly, integration, and qualification.
I see no improvement in those areas, so the article doesn't really being any real light.
Thanks, I was going to mention the context of use but needed to go back to confirm what the usage was.

I am aware that his one use of "free market" was in a passage describing protectionist trade practices favouring the woolens manufacture industry in England: keeping raw wool import costs low and preventing import of finished goods, thereby maximising the revenue-cost differential, which is to say, profits.
What is an API?
> It's a shame that actual facts are removed and rebutted with hyperbolic metaphor.

If you keep posting comments like this and insincere questions that you know the answers to, I'm going to call your account a troll and ban it.

You've inundated HN with far too much of this low-quality noise, and it's time to stop.
This is one of the most elitist comments I've read on HN.

What are your special qualifications that allow you to say who is and who is not qualified to comment on a topical issue?

I'm guessing by your comment stating that he is a skilled musician that you aren't actually familiar with Brian Eno at all. He's an unskilled musician, that's by his own admission. He's not technically proficient on any instrument. He's quite the technologist though.
The product Tesla has built is a perfectly fine assistance mechanism. The problem is that it's not an autopilot and nowhere near autonomous driving, nevertheless Tesla is naming it and marketing it as such.

The problem is that Tesla's marketing here is (borderline) fraudulent. There should be and need to be legal consequences for that.
I would do so, but the site prevents access to non-subscribers.

Would you kindly tell me the method they used to independently prove fraud in some of the analysed data.
The article calls this abusive loan-sharking at the behest of the state's evil Goldman Sachs overlords. But the woman co-signed her son's loan. What did she think that meant?
>"BILL GATES, aged thirty-eight, is one of the richest men in the country—the richest in 1992, and the second richest, after the investor Warren Buffett, in 1993, with a fortune of six billion one hundred and sixty million dollars, according to Forbes. "

Very strange that only just 20-25 years ago, the richest people in the world were "only" worth <7,000,000,000
The anti-password sentiment I've seen sometimes is annoying. They serve their purpose just fine. The worst you get is that password leaks and such happen sometimes and people forget and have to reset them sometimes.
Yes. Though, Scotland would have plenty of reasons to plead for a unique treatment.
Families breed with other families similar to themselves.
I'd be interested in knowing more about Argentina, and Spain. How does one go about getting a permanent visa? Should I be well versed with Spanish?
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This 'ambiguous cylinders’ illusion is blowing my tiny mind
Nope, sorry on my part for not wording things better.
I’m Jewish, and I want people to boycott Israel
>Muslims have their own penal code!

No.

All Indians follow the same Criminal, Contract, Labor, Company, Tort, Property and Tax laws.

The only exception is Personal law (marriage, inheritance, adoption etc) where for historical reasons there were separate laws for Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists etc. These laws were codified in British India when the British came to control directly or by proxy a diverse population with diverse religions, languages and culture.

When India became an independent country, the framers of the constitution had many issues decide on in a short time and decided to punt on some contentious issues for later generations to resolve. One of them was personal law where they agreed that a uniform personal code would be desirable but left it to future generations to resolve. The other was a common national language.

Both have not been resolved. There is no uniform personal law and Hindi is not the national language.
I had a hunch that was the case, which is why I added the parenthetical bit. It's a weakness of the title-submitting rules here that when the OP changes their title it leaves the law-abiding HN submitter high and dry. Sorry!
Professionally? No. I studied Mandarin for ~2 years although not very seriously. I ended up with supermarket level of speaking (although I understand a lot more). It has never been useful professionally even when I worked in China. I cannot see it being useful unless you plan on working in China for a long period of time and even then your greatest value is that you speak English natively.

That said learning a language is always a worthwhile thing to do in which case you might want to pick something more directly applicable to your situation or one that you would like to learn.
Same. The nice thing about older Lego sets was that they were more-or-less generic; while I did have a few Star Wars and Indiana Jones themed sets while I was growing up, having access to things like deep sea and generic space sets seemed to discourage faithfulness to the source material.

Nowadays, though, I feel like the kids I see playing with Legos are discouraged from mixing and matching among kits, which is unfortunate; mixing and matching to create something better than the sum of the parts was always a big part of the fun of Legos.
A friend of mine has set up a simple company in Hong Kong to invoice his remote working for an American employer. He is living in Japan and has a Polish passport.

It seems the Japanese authorities don't really seem to care. But I don't know how kosher the whole arrangement is.

In any case, Singapore and Hong Kong are worth a look. They are very business-friendly, and you can probably make something work there even legally so. (And even if you had to leave Singapore every three months, that wouldn't be too much of a problem.)
The wealthiest nation in the history of humanity had the guts to build things they couldn't afford to give everyone. Some day everyone gets those things, and somebody like you will say: have you ever considered that maybe you should have a private aircraft?

Inequalities like this only apply in the current frame of reference.

Also, from the basic market perspective, it is entirely impossible for everyone to live in Carmel; and if everyone lived there, you'd want to live somewhere else.
School is for suckers anymore. Who in their right mind would put themselves through what amounts to institutional training for a life of future labor, middle class if you're lucky, working for a corporation as an at-will employee?

You've paid thousands and given up four years of your youth, and for what? To go to work (if you're lucky for many) for a big corporation making a select few wealthier? Meanwhile your salary is barely enough to make only but marginal dents in the debt you now owe.

You struggle to find meaning in your life, as you battle politics, desperately try to stay relevant in an environment of anxiety and fear; your peers are just as worried as you.

There needs to be an awakening where we stop telling our kids the "one way" to happiness and the dream is through an expensive undergraduate education. Sure, if you want to go to school to learn something, go...but something tells me, that to the architects of this system, education is the least of the priorities.
I don't think you are allowed to work if it's a tourist visa. It might be not enforced, but teleworking is still working.
Time Cube: http://timecube.2enp.com/
> Arabs living in Israel are first class citizens, they are not forced to live on reservations, and they participate in elections and are elected to the Knesset, Israel's parliament.

Yes, but families are split along the borders and checkpoints that have been drawn up by Israel. As long as the territories are occupied, Israel, as the occupier, is responsible for basic human rights and needs in the occupied area. Especially when they stop trade going in, like the attack on ships headed for Gaza.

> 1) anti Arab racism motivates the belief that "we can't expect Palestinians to behave any better" (hey, maybe we can't, but if you don't want me to accuse you of anti-Semitism, come out and say it)

Look, the jews were right to use terrorist tactics in the Warsaw ghettoes, and I can understand why Palestinians (also Semites, by the way) resort to such tactics in the current conflict. ANC wasn't peaceful in South-Africa, and it can be argued that non-violence wouldn't have been able to, on its own, create the civil rights reforms we've seen in the US.

> 2) anti Jewish racism motivates the belief that "still, that doesn't justify the way those people are reacting", even though we see plenty of other "peoples" around the world defending themselves.

This is a little bit like saying the Nazis were worse, so why should we criticise how the British behaved in the Boer wars.

Israel is arguably a functioning, rich state with a strong military. It has the power to approach the situation differently than putting minors in indefinite detention for throwing rocks, for example.

Israel is no failed state - the main reason we think of the holocaust as terrible, isn't (in my mind) just the death toll and suffering, but the systematic nature of it. This isn't millions killed in ravaging civil war, but calculated atrocities.

Just because I want a peaceful resolution to the situation concerning Israel, doesn't mean I won't (or haven't) spoken out against Turkey or Iraq on the situation with the Kurds - to give another example. Or that I don't condemn the US for their many dirty wars.

> Only in the case of Israel is there so much bitterness by outsiders toward one side, the less violent side, the side that is actually a civilized democracy and obeys rule of law.

"The less violent side"?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/15/world/middleea...

30 (mostly civilan) deaths to each Israeli? Yes, this is what you expect when you attack a mostly civilian population with trained soldiers armed with modern weapons.

I can accept that some people will argue that this is a "necessary" or "justified" response. But "less violent"? That is harder to accept. If this is "less violent" what would a "stronger" response look like?
There’re good laptops that come with Linux or FreeDos preinstalled.

This is an excellent and underrated point: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/the-xps-13-de-dell-co....
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My inlaws are from a part of Germany where I could buy a 60 square meter apartment for cash without really thinking about it (low 5 figures), my truck cost more. A similar sized apartment in Munich would be probably be at least 20x the cost.

Should I expect the city of Munich to provide such a unit at a similar cost to the country side 3 hours away? No.

No, I do not think every municipality has the requirement to provide affordable housing to everyone that has a desire to be there.

Do I think regions need to do better at providing a balance of housing to accommodate the spectrum of people working jobs in the area? Yes. But should a single municipality be expected to accept everyone wanting to be there at a price that individual can afford? No.

In the case of individuals (there are many in Santa Cruz) that don't want to work, want to live the way they want, and have done nothing for the community, the community has every right to say "no".
Cloud-connected keyboard + security vulnerability could mean remote key logger + remote typing capability (yes, if this has the right bug in its remote protocol handling, this could sniff your password and, possibly, log in to your bank from your IP address and transfer money, buy something on eBay, etc.)

Of course, they don't plan on delivering that security vulnerability, but I would hope the electronics for scanning the keys and sending data to the PC are 100% separate from those for controlling those lights, so that accidental vulnerabilities cannot have such consequences.
I believe there should be enforced confinement of people who break laws repeatedly. However, it's crazy to put homeless people into jails.

If someone is clearly mentally ill, drug addicted, or otherwise incapable of taking care of themselves, and they violate minor laws repeatedly, something below a prison camp seems like the most appropriate option -- and I don't see why it needs to be in expensive real estate in the city.

A live/work camp wouldn't be break-even, but probably could support people for $10-15k/yr, which is much cheaper than prison or other services. Barring any other system to re-integrate people into society locally, I'd rather they be sent to camp rather than left in parks and permitted to violate laws indefinitely, or sent to jail/prison.

Since the crimes would be very minor, it wouldn't be "punishment" so much as just housing, so there's a lot of opportunity to make it both better for the participants and less expensive than any kind of prison incarceration.

That's the baseline; if private organizations want to provide them with something better, that's an option too, but there's a limit to what city/county/state government can do.
If you're a citizen of a Svalbard Treaty signatory (including the US), the answer is... Svalbard!

http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/45092/where-can-i-...
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We ran a test for one of the problem sets in a course I was TAing. Raw vote counts did follow Benford's law in 2000 US presidential elections. We did not portray it as a tool to detect or disprove fraud, however.
Yeah it's pretty straightforward to pair a loan like this with life insurance (which is not only cheap for someone of college age but also generally requires no medical exam).
Personally I think "emergent" != "emergent". Most of the systems we build are pretty dumb - except our socioeconomic ones, which gain complexity by being formed by aggregating over billions of sentient beings.

Now I'm having some trouble sorting out the categories in my head. On the one hand, the "emergence" you described in your comment is garden variety feedback loops. Something very simple in principle - and being a part of a feedback system literally means 'being beholden and impacting it'.

On the other hand, it really feels like search for intelligence is in a big part just tweaking one's abstractions. You can see the market as "just" a complex set of feedback loops between individuals and groups, or hop one abstraction level above and realize that we're all components of a feedback system that's optimizing for something we as individuals have close to zero control over. A system that's bossing us all around. We try to understand it, so that we can say that e.g. prices of product X dropped because people in company Y invented some innovative process. But if one digs deeper one can sometimes notice that if it wasn't company Y then it would be a company Z; if it wasn't an innovative process then it would be an innovative business model (or a scam), or a substitute product X1. All because the "market pressures" made it happen. If you step another abstraction layer up, you can just treat the market as a being and it's not a big of a stretch.

So at what point one should stop playing with abstractions? Or, maybe, what do we mean by "intelligence"? If we're looking for a different-but-mostly-similar being to talk to, then searching for it by doing abstraction dance is not a good way. But if by "intelligence" one means a sufficiently smart optimizer, one that can make decisions to reach its own goals, and that in principle could coerce us to do its bidding - if one means that, then one may realize this has already happened.
I think it is actually. It might not enforced, but if you are working in a country - even fully remotely - you have to abide by local laws and probably have a work visa.
Teleworking is a bit of a gray area, but Belize allows you to stay indefinitely on a tourist visa. I've been living here for just under 4 years now. My email is in my profile if you have any questions.
Economists and policy makers don't work in a competitive environment the way that software developers do.

The arena is also extremely political, unscientific, and uncompetitive--no matter how much effort the field of econ has put forth in arguing that they are scientific, primarily through quantifying the study of economics, if you can't experiment, test, observe and reproduce you're not doing science. And no one ever was untrustworthy or incorrect using math and statistics, right?

Nobody gets to make a hypothesis and conduct an experiment on 32 Seattles. Without the scientific method, I've come to learn not to expect much from the human race, what there is to see here is mostly just politics. Add to that a lack of competition (very high barriers to entry, little incentive structures to get involved seriously) in the market space for creating affordable housing... What we're left with is programs that are highly political and even often run counter to what most economists themselves would argue for: market-based solutions, lump-sum transfer payments(or at least in the form of housing vouchers), or no intervention at all.
That's kind of the point - English imported them from German (or, rather, just uses German words). English does that all the time. Same with French - rendezvous, cachet (don't confuse with cache :), passé, etc. So French speakers shouldn't feel bad for taking words from English - that happens all the time, just this time English is more popular so other languages take from it. Before that it was German and French, and in 100 years maybe it will be Mandarin, who knows.
There has been incredibly strong selection pressure for babies being able to get down the birth canal - the death rate in child birth pre-modern times was something like 10%. The human brain is about as big as you can make it and still reproduce. What we would expect when you have strong selection for two competing forces (smaller head size and greater intelligence) is for the brain to shrink in size and become more asymmetrical - basically you get rid of system redundancy by having each side of the brain specialise in one thing. This is exactly what we have seen in humans.

One of the more interesting aspects of recent human evolution is how much has occurred in the the last 10,000 years. Evolutionary speed is basically proportional to the population size and the massive expansion that agriculture allowed has caused the rate of evolution in humans to increase around 1000 fold over the neolithic rate.

One other factor looking at eurasian brain size is gene competition resulting from the neanderthal / ancient african hybridisation event that occurred around 50,000 years ago. When you have a hybridisation event the genes from the two populations often don’t get along too well and it takes a while for selection to remove the incompatibilities. I would not be surprised if the genes controlling brains size in neanderthals and ancient africans were not very compatible (there is no reason that they should be given selection for brain size increase took place in parallel in both species) and that hybridisation resulted in an brain size excessively large given the birth constraints. It would be really great to know the change in childbirth death rate over the last 50,000 years.
Here's the beginning of that section, which generally inveighs against protectionist retraints on trade, most especially the "Corn Laws" -- limitations on grain imports to England:

By restraining, either by high duties or by absolute prohibitions, the importation of such goods from foreign countries as can be produced at home, the monopoly of the home market is more or less secured to the domestic industry employed in producing them. Thus the prohibition of importing either live cattle or salt provisions from foreign countries secures to the graziers of Great Britain the monopoly of the home market for butcher's meat. The high duties upon the importation of corn, which in times of moderate plenty amount to a prohibition, give a like advantage to the growers of that commodity. The prohibition of the importation of foreign woollens is equally favourable to the woollen manufacturers. The silk manufacture, though altogether employed upon foreign materials, has lately obtained the same advantage. The linen manufacture has not yet obtained it, but is making great strides towards it. Many other sorts of manufacturers have, in the same manner, obtained in Great Britain, either altogether or very nearly, a monopoly against their countrymen. The variety of goods of which the importation into Great Britain is prohibited, either absolutely, or under certain circumstances, greatly exceeds what can easily be suspected by those who are not well acquainted with the laws of the customs.

That this monopoly of the home market frequently gives great encouragement to that particular species of industry which enjoys it, and frequently turns towards that employment a greater share of both the labour and stock of the society than would otherwise have gone to it, cannot be doubted. But whether it tends either to increase the general industry of the society, or to give it the most advantageous direction, is not, perhaps, altogether so evident.

The restraint of government intervention (here as so often elsewhere noted in Wealth) is by government, yes, but quite clearly on behalf of specific powerful commercial interests. It's that* power Smith is hoping to curb -- directly then a restraint on excessive power accumulation by means of commerce, trade, and manufacture.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...
What is your alternative?
The decision to set a 7% limit per country regardless of the country's population was intentionally meant by the drafters of the 1965 legislation to limit immigration from India and China (the most populous countries then and now).
The original word 'subjugate' is directly linked to absence of representation - i.e. voting rights.
To the second point on oppression, find this interesting reading - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-glasser/legacy-of-racial-s....
Feel free to compare incarceration rates.
Well to be fair the police in Seattle are a lot more hands off with the homeless than in NYC. You probably didn't perceive the problem because it was out of sight, out of mind as police routinely will move the homeless to less desirable areas.

Contrast that to Seattle where, for example, there is a homeless camp about 2 blocks from the Ballard farmers market.
You mean, "Don't co-sign any loan"? You might as well get a loan yourself, then sub-loan to the person you wanted to co-sign with...
But nobody will know. Just don't blab.

The annoying thing is having to move to keep authorities happy.

You might try applying for the Spanish non lucrative visa. (Not sure if that one is still offered.)

And BTW, Americans who live outside the US can deduct nearly 100,000 from their earnings. It doesn't matter if you actually pay taxes to another country. Just make sure you aren't in the US for > 30 days in a year.

I live & roam in a camper in Europe. Pretty nice, except I miss the buzz of SF & SV.
It's awesome that cool things from OpenBSD are being ported over to FreeBSD, but why not just use OpenBSD from the get-go? It's already a struggle having to deal with FreeBSD's outdated version of pf.

iTWire - Crypto: FreeBSD playing catch-up, says De Raadt: http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62641-cry...
Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (2012)
ive used Yii and it was ight. Php sucks dick tho