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It is a good summary. I'd disagree slightly on your "what it means" paragraph. I'd phrase it a bit more actively.

It means people are buying treasury notes instead of using that capital somewhere else. And that means they are afraid that investing it any other way will likely result in it being lost (fear driven). That can indicate a couple of things, one that there is so much money out there that these people don't care what return it generates, as long as its available 10 years from now. Or it can indicates how little people think of the current entrepreneur ecosystem such that there is nothing they are willing to bet on that would earn them more than the few dollars per year they would get from treasury bills.

Either way that represents a remarkable amount of capital "sitting on the sidelines" with nothing better to do. So what that implies for this audience, is that if you can figure out a way to generate even a slightly better return than treasury notes, and you can do it with modest risk. You will have access to all the capital you need and more. But it is also important to realize that this capital is no longer believing that a startup with an "exit" of any type has that sort of appeal. You need to come up with a startup that pays dividends or something on preferred shares. Basically if you figure out how to pay 3% annual dividends on your preferred shares, combined with a way to exchange shares in a slightly more liquid way than heavy weight funding rounds, you will be able to raise millions.
I feel like it's disingenuous to tack the "Linux" label on this when this particular Windows subsystem isn't using any Linux code (last I checked; maybe Windows is suddenly subject to the GPL and I just haven't noticed yet?). It's really the GNU userland - albeit compiled against Linux's API/ABI (IIRC) - running on Windows using a special compatibility layer, kind of like an inverse Wine (Water?). Since Linux itself isn't involved (again: unless Windows is now subject to the GPL), the more apt title here would be "Blurring the Lines Between GNU and Windows".

I tend to disagree with the hard-and-fast insistence on the use of "GNU/Linux" v. "Linux" (since not every "Linux" is a "GNU/Linux"), but this is one of the few cases where the "GNU" qualifier is undoubtedly warranted.
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That's funny, I just replied to you arguing the opposite. People in tech are the only ones I ever hear complaining about rich web apps. YMMV I suppose!
This is wrong. RSUs are not taxable at the time of vesting.
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I just read this about 1.5 months ago. I enjoyed it very much.
I think the difficulty the author is pointing out is that it seems odd we would could obtain similar modifications to brain state by chemicals and speech. The issue is highlighted if you consider a hypothetical analogous situation that we never observe: imagine if we could become literally drunk just by hearing a certain sequence of words.
Language and speech are metaphor. They occur within a social context. That social context is, well, contextual to the society you're in.

Societies, customs, habits, practices, mores, morals, are relative. They change with place and time. Practices accepted now, or here, are discouraged, or taboo, previously or elsewhere. Those rejected now, or here, were accepted or required previously or elsewhere.

Language and social interactions have meanings at multiple levels. Ford Prefect's observation about human chatter in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ultimately concluding it doesn't have a specific reason, it just is.

Small-talk is social lubricant. It can be a source of pleasure (or frustration) for service workers (I've been one, it was mostly pleasure), and if well-intended, definitely helps make the day go by better. It's not always appropriate, and reading the response helps a lot. I've made my own misjudgements as both customer and staff.

But done well, it's quite welcomed.
I am actually very excited about this direction for Gtk. If Qt is the stable and serious cross-platform UI library for corporate stuff, why not let GTK be the awesome experimental UI library that breaks everything every 6 months, and keeps pushing the limits on what a free software UI can be? I'm a very happy Gnome 3 user, and I hope they keep pushing to build a usable, simple and pretty user experience, despite the endless stream of this kind of grumpy know-it-all attacks.

Hey, if it was so easy to design an API that is "thought through properly", show us the spec already - there are plenty of hackers around to build it. If it actually worked like that.
Look up recent funds and cold email them.
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It's not that there would be no work or that there would be no jobs or companies staffed with people.

The point is that the average median person might not be good enough to get a job. If automation makes it so that only 20% of people are employed in any traditional sense that we recognize today; that world would be drastically different than the one we have.

In that world, we have a path where we don't get rid of money but, just use taxes on large mega companies and redistibute that money as a basic income to people without a job. This keeps capitalism and the efficiencies it brings.

With basic income, you still have advertising, you still have companies and you still have consumers buying things. There is still competition to push quality up and prices down. There is still the invisible hand of the market.

It's elegant in that it achieves the goals of eliminating both poverty and forced labor to survive without eliminating the competition that makes the world so damned efficient and effective.
>When was the last serious naval battle?

Probably WWII. But that's not a good metric: the purpose of the modern American Navy is to project force, and also to act as a deterrent. When the US can sit a carrier battle group a few dozen miles off the shore of your country, carrying a rather enormous amount of firepower and the ability to deliver it anywhere within 1000km of that, not many are going to want to challenge that.

>When an aircraft carrier can project force out thousands of km you really don't need a lot of them.

F/A-18s can't fly that far. I just looked up the Super Hornet on Wikipedia and it says the combat radius is just over 700km. (The straight-line range is 2346km, but that's not helpful if you want to get back to the ship and doesn't include actual combat maneuvers and a decent reserve.)

So if you want to be able to project force in multiple areas of the world, you'll need that many carrier groups. It's not like a carrier in the Persian Gulf can fly some planes over to India if they need to. Also, Navy ships (just like military aircraft) need a LOT of maintenance, so there's always a bunch of ships in port.

We don't have the technology to have solar-powered drones that can carry ordnance.
Those are some vague claims that I don't see any evidence for. I have not seen any part of music theory that requires anything more than basic fractions, and the vast majority of music that people write doesn't even require much of that.
I guess I could have provided context in that comment. :o)

Here's the story I was referring to:

https://globalvoices.org/2016/06/16/in-defense-of-free-softw...

And the HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12027574
So they say "Female Lives Matter" and you say "All Lives Matter".

If I learned anything from "Black Lives Matter", it is that this type of response is not acceptable and does a lot to diminish the original message.
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Well, in order to store the state of the simulation, it would need to store the amount of information needed to describe the state of the simulation. But the information needed to describe the state of the machine doing the simulation, by being enough to describe the state of the machine storing the information about the simulation (including the part of the state which stores the information describing the simulation) , is therefore enough to store the information describing the state of the simulation.

So, therefore, the smallest possible complete description of the state of the simulation is not larger than a complete description of the machine doing the simulating.

So if that is what you mean by more complex / what you mean by more information, then, no, the less-information thing cannot completely simulate the more-information thing.
It's entirely possible that a scammer would exploit a real large-scale cancellation by sending zillions of fake cancellation messages. In fact, that would make the scam work better. If the intended victim a) has an AdSense account and b) has heard of the (real) cancellations, he's probably going to be much more likely to click on the fake cancellation message.
Only Americans would accuse them of racism, because we Americans like to manufacture controversy. Regardless, you either give each market what it wants, or you will fail. If they were really that worried about such accusations, Snapchat could have created an Asian subsidiary company and had that company create and release an Asian version of it. Given that Snapchat is blocked in China, they should have done this anyway and created a version that was palatable to the Chinese government.
If such a game was made by a Hungarian team, why would that be distasteful? It's pretty common for people to be primarily concerned by what happened with their own nation in history.

Look in the past week or two - the French have been commemorating Verdun, which was their WWI low point, but barely know about the Somme, which not only was the UK's low point, but also had half as many French casualties as at Verdun. Is it distasteful for the French to not commemorate the Somme? After all, the UK was France's major ally in that war, sending hundreds of thousands of it's youth to die for French soil.

Of course it isn't distasteful - the French national story is of Verdun, and they're not being distasteful by not ensuring all other major players get the same billing as they do in their own story.
Righty-o. More power to you and I look forward to your post. :)
It would be beautiful if you could post this on github. Such a piece of history deserves to remain available for posterity.
What the heck? Are there no antitrust laws or do they just not apply to Samsung?

One family-owned conglomerate controlling 20% of a nation's GDP and basically all industries belongs in some dystopian TV show, not real life….
This is quite cool - far beyond termcolor, for instance.
Learning Meditation is related to this, not because it brings new Schemas or modify existing ones but rather, because it trains to be more detached from them. After all, the very goal of the practice is to identify those schemas forming and letting them go.
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Well, I doubt either of us have statistics for what really drove its success (and if you do, I'll gladly cede the point), but anecdotally, I and a lot of my friends at the time switched to Gmail not because we needed more storage (I don't remember even thinking about that as a problem with Hotmail at all) but because the interface was way better. If anything, I think it had more to do with the "cool" factor of getting an invite and the cachet of Google at the time than with the storage. But I freely admit this just personal experience talking.
Knock-offs abound on not only Amazon, but also on eBay. There was an article on HN recently about the difference between a knock-off Macbook charger and a real Apple one.

I'm one of those who unknowingly bought a knock-off charger off of eBay (the price was low so I bought it). I can't believe that they could make such an exact copy (externally). From the outside it's indistinguishable from my original Apple charger.
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I think the original is easier to understand and is written in plainer speech. But the 1920s version still has a lot of poetry to it, which surprises me since I always assumed that what made the original beautiful was the exact words and phrases used.
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Eh, I'm not so sure he's endangering anything. He's only staking his personal reputation, that's what "I only speak for myself" means. If it comes out that the company does what he says he doesn't see them do, then hes only burning himself; not the company. Worst case scenario he gets fired and someone else will hire him. It isn't like he works for the NSA. Good software developers are hard to find and bleeding information serves a purpose.
You're still taking a risk, only you're betting with your time and not money.
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For me, the basic view has always felt neglected and kind of halfassed. The full experience has fully styled UI elements where as the basic view just defaults to the browser defaults. Outlook does this too.

To me it just feels like basic view is just v1.0 from 2004.
The top 10% also have more than 75% of the money, so this makes a lot of sense. They have more than 75% of the money, so I imagine it's a good bit higher than you imagine.

How do the freeloaders pay taxes like the rich if they can't afford life circumstances that allow them to get educations similar to the rich?

Healthy countries need taxes to boost their populace up to an optimal level of health and education. Maximize the people that could potentially become high-value.
I made is as far as "grease chalice"... Ick.
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>No. For every increase in the minimum wage, some incremental amount of jobs get pushed overseas.

^^^ What gets threatened by lobbyists fighting minimum wage increases.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9602ba0-3c91-11e6-8716-a4a71e8140... (Push for higher wages squeezes US corporate profits)

^^^ What actually happens in reality

>That's probably true. It probably hurts the middle class, though. Hurting the middle class to help the bottom isn't really the trade-off we want

^^^ What politicians say when Bernie Sanders proposes raising taxes on people earning over 200k / year.

There isn't much of a middle class left in America these days. The people who would be helped are in the majority.
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So a handful of professors at a single university lead you to make a statement about "any time someone" does something?

I think you probably need to take a few more courses that will help your critical thinking ;)
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Where is it bad? It's pretty good in Japan
... I can't tell if that's a pun or not. Well played!
Every other industry. (Including and especially tech.)

A good portion of the business people you meet outside of finance are people who wanted to work in finance but couldn't hack it.
That seems very cool and modern. I don't want to sound like nit-picking, but choosing Clara as a company name seems a bit misogynist.
It only takes a few one-percenters moving away from a state to drain tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars from the state's tax revenue. I think this was mentioned in the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer-...
The letter that the group of developers wrote a few months ago must have scared them, because they have been adding quite a few features compared to what they did the previous couple of years.
A lot of places have unemployment or sickness benefits and housing allowances (like where I live). It isn't called the same thing but this ticks many of the same boxes. Couldn't this be used as a comparison?
Let me tell you the different between use bare metal and use AWS, as current my position in a startup, I am the only developer, our system includes more than three services for two different type of users and admin. I coded all these services and put them online within 2.5 months, and all these possible is because I use AWS. There is no way if I use bare metal. (I have been there before)

If you truly understand how to design your system in cloud infrastructure fashion rather than try to manage the way to use a cloud infrastructure as a bare metal, then, you can have a really long term benefits.
Seeing you took one psychology 101 class that makes you more of an expert than me :p

I'm more of a consciousness enthousiast..

I'm less interested in the question of "can computers be conscious?", and more interested in "what is consciousness". I believe taking the direction of the first question leads to a dead end, because even /if/ you build a consciousness computer, you still wouldn't have a way to prove it.

Experiment with your own consciousness, it's the only one that's provably observable to you. Based on this assumed truth, you can ask others to do the same.

Following the alternative path of experimenting with our own consciousness, I come up with questions like these, very fun to think about.. but I don't know what I can do with it. I'm no neuroscientist, or even a scientist at all. Are any of them actionable?

What would it take to add another qualia space to our every-day experience (and with qualia spaces I mean the range of qualia experienced that are linked to any sensory experience, all possible observed images fall into one qualia space.)
Would it take another sensor attached to our body? Adaptations to our brain? Are the ones we have (vision, sound, smell, touch, internal feelings, emotions, heat, thought) all the qualia spaces there are?

Imagine a volume slider for your hearing. You know that louder sounds in the outside world means a louder experience of sound in your mind.
What is the mind's volume limit? Is there even a volume limit? Can we reach it with by producing sound waves? Assuming the limit is far higher than whatever we have ever experienced in our every-day lives, what would it do to a person to hear a sound that is so much louder?

So much to think about!
I love a lot of the changes github has been making. One sorely needed thing they've recently added is ability to assign issues to more than one person.

The one thing I am dying for is the ability to mark notifications unread. Notifications are a wonderful interface to catch up on things where you're mentioned or needed, but there is no way to mark them as unread, so you have to deal with them right that second.
Interesting data point. Thanks for sharing. I'm no longer in SF so may be out of touch with current salary gaps.

That said, this is makes sense to me. Google's stock options aren't making employees wealthy these days. Yet it's still a fantastic company and obviously compensates with salary. On the other hand, no startup that I know of can pay 3-400K salaries for 3-4 years exp.

Also it should be said that the type of work you likely do and the culture at a large public company will likely be very different from a small startup. Culture, ability to influence direction, large potential upside (though unlikely) are reasons people continue to pick startups despite lower salaries.
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> Self-directed learning can take you really far, but it isn't right for everyone

I'd like to have this hypothesis tested. The popular school system is a formula for destroying children's interests (by turning learning into mandated work), corrupting intrinsic motivation (by rewarding obedience) and replacing learning (as in discovering and understanding) with memorizing facts, procedures and rules.

It's a bit unfair to blame someone who's been force fed against their will, at times when they weren't hungry, food they didn't like, in a humiliating manner ... It's unfair to blame such a person for lack of appetite.
I agree with that, but the process of /learning/ meditation specifically (which is largely done by practicing) works at least partially through schema modification.

For instance, you probably have schemas relating to the importance of addressing thoughts as they come up. If you believe your thoughts are super important, you are very attached to them; if you take a view that they are these wispy non-essential things that one may delve into or not, you are more detached.
> What I don't understand is how you get around the fact that you would still have to "pick winners".

If you didn't lead investments and instead diversified substantially amongst late-stage companies, you could probably get sufficient overall exposure to the class so as to not be driven by the performance of individual companies.

In reply to your other comment, VC investors tend to have a "thesis" about a particular market but PE firms can and do have a much broader thesis. "Changing conditions have led to late-stage equity being undervalued as an asset class" would definitely qualify.
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Interesting choice of words.
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No, I couldn't. It's terribly difficult to define, and the more you try, the harder it becomes. I think it's a bit easier if you try to generally define it in terms of what we think it isn't: the average layperson would consider any intelligence created by humans to be artificial, such as "artificial cells" or other "AI" like Watson. That's what I meant by "generally accepted" but I realize that my comment reflected very little of the thoughts I had when I made it.

Using that definition, Global Civilization, regardless of how complex it has become, is nearly entirely created by humans. Ignoring the "human" part of Oxford's definition for civilization[1], you could say that certain groups of animals do have a form of civilization: some dolphins and killer whales, for example, teach their children very specialized hunting and recreational methods that others within their species do not know. But no other animal engages in anything at the scale of Global Civilization. In that sense, Global Civilization is an artificial construct (intelligence, if you like).

I'm not arguing that it isn't intelligence. It's almost like a virus, really, in that it can't do anything by itself (it requires humans), but it certainly has life-like characteristics when powered by a "host."

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
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This comment is extremely interesting to me as my first instinct would be numbering the cards w marker. But it makes far more sense to draw a line on the edge for visual sorting.
I'm sure the downvotes are due to this thread being a rephrasing of supply-side economics (aka Reaganomics), which has (shown to be|considered to be) (unworkable|undesirable) or otherwise fallen out of favor (at the very least as a political platform).
This is one case of the larger issue of the limits of human knowledge. According to some versions of mysticism, it is possible to unify completely with the universe so nothing in it is beyond our knowledge.

However, if you stick with the methods of the natural sciences, it seems there must be limits. For instance, if you explain an observed phenomena in terms of an underlying law, then you have the question of why that law is so. If you explain the law as due to a deeper law, then you in turn must ask why that law is so. It seems pretty clear that, going down in levels like this, eventually you would have to reach a point where you would say "That's just the way it is, we don't know why"

Now with respect to consciousness, the question is whether we can explain it through some more fundamental, knowable features of reality. Many think you can, and are striving to do so.

Others, like the noted philosopher Colin McGinn, say no, this is a question we will never be able to answer. In particular, he argues the human mind was designed to understand many sorts of things, but this is beyond its abilities. I tend to think he is right.