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I found it didn't require will power to quit at all after I changed how I viewed it. I just didn't want to anymore. I didn't have to try to not anymore.

I think what he discusses resonated with me because the times I tried to quit using will power there was cognitive dissonance. I was trying so hard to give something up which created this idea in my mind that I was giving something up that provided me something positive otherwise why did I have to try so hard to give it up. If it actually was so bad and had no benefit it should be easy to just stop, right? So it must be giving me something good! So it was easy to fall back into it and justify it etc.

I don't know if that makes sense, but I feel like it summarizes what I went through - although it was a while back now :p
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It runs the 2-factor app that secures my online accounts, which may or may not include banking.
"It might also shift the norm whether to work. Work = being part of society " - Markus Brunnermeier(1)

I love how simply Markus arrived at the fundamental political issue with Basic Income in the USA: American culture and society is a "work culture".

If you're not working you're not part of society.

That's a very plain and powerful statement that is central to many of the gut-reaction trump-esque disparaging arguments vs. UBI.

(1) http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/partici...
"Someone made a statement that doesn't coincide with my worldview? Quick, move those goalposts!"
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Why are economists being polled? Is it because economics is such a dismal science it requires populism to claim the moral high ground? Does this mean I can officially be smug to those pesky UBI supporters?
I am DO customer, yesterday when I heard this story it felt scary step by DO with no regard for customers as original tweet said, "Nothing but radio silence from @digitalocean while 38k sites remain down. Demoralizing."

So It was not Radio Silence but 5 full days notice in advance with multiple notices. Thank you for updating us about the other side of the story.
> They can't really be blamed for a DOS attack.

That doesn't really hold when their competitors have teams of engineers working on DDoS mitigations and successfully handle most of these attacks. Falling to a DoS is a technical failure just like other causes of outages.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/3/4691040/android-kitkat-the-...

"There's no exchange of money involved"
Society is a group of people whose collaborative efforts are able to accomplish more than any one individual and more than simply a sum of individuals. That means 'work', which is another word for 'doing something for someone else'. It is selfish to believe that one can belong to a group of people and obtain the benefits without contributing to it.
Of course there is. I think there is a strong economic consensus that government subsidies can be bad. Your argument essentially invalidates that and supports a world where legal corruption is moral.
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> Trump inherited lots of money, some people argue that he barely made more than he would investing his inheritance in an index fund.

True, but like all businesses in the economy his company has the distinction of actually participating in economic ventures to create wealth. Owning shares in the S&P500 isn't creating anything.

To me that's a clear difference that isn't considered enough. And let's not forget that most mutual funds themselves don't beat the S&P500, so a lot of investors don't even capture those returns.
> In the future, we'll become more strongly aware of the
> limitations semantics places on articulation. People tend
> to get too hung up on what words mean, and discussions
> will often digress to the moors of semantic posturing.

I'm curious why you think this will be so in the future? Mo matter how much we learn about cognition, the basic process of how people think hasn't changed as far back as we've paid attention. Awareness of the process of thought isn't something that most people ever give attention to beyond idle internal philosophical debates.

Related to this: Anyone else ever focus on their language-based thoughts while thinking them and notice how every mentally verbalized thought seems to have almost a pre-echo of that thought that seems like words but isn't?

Alternatively, my brain is playing a trick on me and I'm filling this sense of echo in after the fact of the language-thought. I've never been able to be discern the sequence with absolute certainty, so figured it was worth putting out there to see if I'm alone in it.
Sorry for an extremely nooby question, but your comment makes me wonder:

Are Snapdragon and Exynos architectures that alike? I mean, do you have any preliminary idea how easy it would be to apply your Snapdragon method to an Exynos SoC?
Much like the luggable Osborne Z-80 computer. It had a very tiny screen and was not a full 80 columns.
> Even if they did, it had zero impact on the future of the continent.

What does that have to do with anything?
Unless it serves as a replacement for almost all handouts, it wouldn't even be UBI.
Obviously? I'm not doing longitudinal sentiment analysis here; I'm pointing out the absence of "they deserve it" comments (or comments referring to same) that were present in the same timeframe for AM.

This isn't an indictment on HN. This is musing on a similar dating site leak.
He doesn't have kids. Before I had kids I had no idea what kids liked. Watched Batman, Lord of The Rings, but I still couldn't tell you who cool teenagers looked up to.
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Urbit has continuously failed to explain what it is here where people are way above average IQ. It's doomed.
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Give citizens a financial incentive to support immigration reform
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Did the NRA have a court order to take down the website? If not, then their takedown notice was just a letter saying 'please take this company offline because we believe it is infringing', which isn't enough.
I feel the same way. I always think in language and can't conceive of thinking productively another way. Sure, I can imagine a shape, but that's not something that I'd consider really thinking.

Additionally, for me to really understand some concept, I often have to concretely put it into language so I end up talking to myself. I got a cat so I feel like less of a crazy person - I talk to him and not myself.
The corporations haven't really left us with good impressions in the last 15 years though, did they?

If I learned anything from those last 15 years is that they'll sue you if you don't agree the Moon is made of cheese if it suits their agenda.

So I remain cynical towards them. If they can hijack a good technology for their own profit, they will do it. I think we all knew that much at this point?
When people move and sell furniture, they often times need a cleaning to satisfy a condition of selling a home or getting their full security deposit back. Only synergy I really see and anything old is stale. Probably very cheap list.
Oof? Every other day on HackerNews I see a new post about the dearth of women in tech and how dire the "shortage" is.

If there are substantially fewer women in tech, why is it unreasonable to think there are practically no skilled female hackers?

(And note that when I use the term 'hacker' I'm referring to the illegal, blackhat variety, not the 'I turned my oven into a WiFi hotspot!' kind)
Not so. At L'anse Aux Meadows they found samples of plant matter that only grows on the mainland.
Hear, hear! We mustn't allow others to buy things that we don't approve of from markets not easily bent to our will by force! Who would want a baby that has been in dirty bathwater?
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> I'd rather just type than fuss with getting a QR code to scan in possibly-bad lighting.

Nothing says you can't do either, or even both[1]. The idea of using a QR Code is so that mom/dad/grandpa/grandma can use a long password to unlock their phone without having to type it in.

Bonus points if the QR Code itself is in the shape of a key!

[1]: Which would be "something you have" + "something you know".
while it has pretty much all my life been for me the same as you describe, i still remember that before and during the first 1 or 2 years of elementary i wasn't thinking in language. And reading - i was reading whole paragraphs as an image instead of sequential word-by-word "reading aloud inside my head" as i've been doing since then. I guess it is about left hemisphere taking control. It is like classical CPU in the left and very powerful GPU in the right.
The presenter does a great job making CLI applications with a few python packages. Pretty entertaining!
I understand your position.

The real question is how much you should weigh a single experiment vs. the abstract idea of conservation of momentum. It's tempting to trust the experiment all the way, and imagine that science demands such open-mindedness. But the more physics you study, the more likely you are to trust the abstract idea instead, because you realize just how incredibly well-supported it is. It's a kind of certainty that has almost no analogue in other sciences. Even in a very careful experiment, measurement error is many times more likely than overturning conservation of momentum. (Also measurement error is much more devious than people imagine, but that's another story.)

I'm very confident ($100 to $1 at least) that the EmDrive is a story of measurement error, compounded by ignorance and optimism.
What's with the attitude?
Looking forward to seeing this reposted on new age forums, as "Hubble Captures Jupiters Aura".
As I pointed out, I am not a lawyer. I have however read news vaguely similar to what I described, many times through the years. It really makes me fearful that in the end you're vulnerable just for publishing your work...

I do hope I am very naively wrong. But history hasn't given us much comfort in this area so far.
Google infamously has an ethical clause in their mission statement, so we expect them to make a moral choice. Or is it a trick question?
Great tip about uBlock Origin. I am using ABP and it didn't do that, but now both are running together, actually. What's strange is that the number of ads they claim to block is different with each.
A ring or bracelet with an NFC tag in it. Well, a ring is probably too small for a proper NFC tag, but either way: NFC jewellery.
I'm imagining that you're balking and asking why it matters that you don't name the person... And I'm with you there. I think it's silly.

And you were doing so well up to this point. :-) I don't think it's silly, because naming the person is unnecessary. If you say "I'm blocked by Joe" but then Janet comes along and implements the piece you need, then you weren't really blocked by Joe, were you? You were blocked by the FooBar component not being implemented. It's a fine distinction, but naming names has only potentially negative outcomes (hurt feelings and the like) with no potential positive outcomes (if we want to lean on someone, everyone knows Joe is responsible for FooBar w/o saying it). In short, you risk hurt feelings without the possibility of a positive outcome that outweighs the hurt.

But if by "silly" you mean trying to preserve fragile egos, I wholeheartedly agree. But fragile egos will always be with us, and if there's an easy way to avoid some of that mess, I'll take it.
UBI, is one of those things I just cannot logically compute. I am completely in support of the end goals of UBI. Just cannot fathom how UBI can even theoretically works.

It seems to ignore Economics, Game Theory, and Human Nature. I just dont understand how it could rationally be viewed as a workable solution.
We don't really have to imagine it. Peter Thiel anonymously used Hulk Hogan as a proxy for his revenge, which makes one wonder exactly how often it happens without us ever knowing.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/05/24/this-silicon-...
> To effectively use financial terrorism to intimidate and steal

While it might be unethical business practice I wouldn't call it terrorism, for one it's missing the violence. "In its broadest sense, [terrorism] is defined as the use of violence or threatened use of violence (terror) in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism)

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For what it is worth, there is a support ship. http://www.drakenexpeditionamerica.com/2016/06/16/the-beauty...:

"Along this voyage we have the opportunity to have a media team documenting the adventure. There is one photographer on the ship and 2 photographers and producers on our support vessel. That allows us to have stunning pictures of our beautiful ship and of the crew trying to tame the Dragon in the seas."

They also seem to carry modern life vests all the time. That, at least, gives them some chance of survival in case of a man overboard situation. In Viking times in those waters, I guess going overboard was a death sentence, even if you could swim.
A ~1 hour response time from identifying to mitigating the DDoS isn't exactly bad. I'd say their engineers did a pretty good job.
Isn't Social Security just age restricted basic income? It seems strange to have UBI and then give citizens another check after they hit retirement age.
That is basically what Freenet does.

Freenet is also infamous for being mostly child porn, because it is the one place where you can't find the person who uploads it and you can't censor it either.
Religion is the ideology that breeds and justifies those attitudes. We need to stop treating religion differently than any other beliefs people hold.
One positive thing to out of Brexit is the prospect of Britain turning into Hong Kong 2.0.

The EU is highly protectionist, very similar to china.

Why should an EU farmer get an higher wage than an African farmer ?

the EU is most likely to start treating the UK just like it treats african countries. It will increase tariffs for financial services to prop up its own domestic one.

This is not a bad thing for the UK, the UK could learn to start trading with a much more potentially lucrative group of african countries. Africa has a lot more primary resources then Europe and the UK could potentially help open up the block just it it did for the EU.
I thought the U stood for universal. If you take it back in new taxes, it's just a transfer program from productive to non-productive.
> It's a huge industry, and it's not going down without a fight.

It's not just that it's 'not going down without a fight' - these services are essential for people in need.

These services provide them with more than just financial assistance. Given them money (and doing away with the services) only solves the problem if you assume that lack of money is the only problem. Which it's not - it's one aspect of the problem, but not the only issue for people in need.
How does that thinking apply when you consider that companies actively lobby and work to affect the laws?

Are you arguing that companies have a responsibility to change laws to maximize their profits? If a company could get a law passed that let them, say, remove all environmental restrictions, are you arguing that they should do that?

Do their fiduciary responsibilities trump their social ones?
With either system you can scale in the following ways:
-Add more shelving units to store more SKUs or to store more of faster moving SKUs.
-Add more robots to process more order lines simultaneously.
-Add more pack stations/labor

Adding more shelving units is limited by floor space. The equivalent scaling for shuttles is adding more aisles. Adding more aisles scales farther than adding more shelving units because it uses the entire vertical height of the building. Even taking mezzanines into account aisles are going to scale farther.

Adding more robots or shuttles will scale until the travel paths are congested. Whichever technology moves faster is going to scale better here. I don't know enough about the speed of the Kiva robots vs shuttles to say who is better here but I suspect shuttles can move faster.

Adding more pack stations is something either type of system can do and I can't see any advantage either system has over the other there. Kiva is probably more flexible here because you don't need expensive conveyor reconfiguration/addition if you want to add more pack stations. Shuttles, with the proper supporting conveyor can probably get higher throughput.

I think where Kiva really shines is in its flexibility. It can store a lot of different types of items and it is flexible in its ability to move stuff around. It is definitely not the most labor efficient goods-to-person automation technology and it is also not a great use of space. It runs into problems if you need to scale up in SKUs per order or overall order lines per day because you don't have enough travel space available to get all that stuff to the pack stations. Based on my ordering habits and what I have seen of friends Amazon is dealing with a very low number of SKUs per order so it works for them.
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I agree. If I'm unemployed I'm not part of society? What if I still get out of the house? Volunteer? Attend social gatherings? What if I'm retired? Am I not part of society? Who defines what is "work" in the future anyway?

> Lots of conflicting incentives that can discourage work in the existing rules.

Its sad to see this sentiment echoed. Especially considering how some jobs are just useless/white collar welfare (some middle management at large organizations I've been a part of in the past come to mind) or how some jobs will continue to be automated in the future. Work shouldn't be the most important thing that defines ones worth as an adult in our society!
There are many ways a tax can be unethical. It may finance torture, invasion, and fomenting coups in undeveloped nations that lead to widespread suffering. For example.
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This is about a leak from a dating app for Muslims. So it doesn't make sense for me to write about the risks that someone in Hawaii or Germany might face after a similar leak.

And sorry, but there are many types of sexual acts that are criminalised in Muslim countries.

Not just adultery which is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Jemen, Qatar (and I'm sure there are many more) but also homosexuality where also the death penalty is applied in 11 Muslim countries.

You can't brush that away by pointing to discrimination. Compared to the West these societies have in some areas truly horrific laws. Yes this is not true for all Muslim countries (Turkey, Bosnia and Indonesia comes to mind), but it is most of them. And where there is no death penalty, we often see honor killings which are not persecuted by their governments. (Pakistan)

If no one speaks up about this then these societies will continue like this forever. I don't mean to hurt normal people in Muslim countries that just go about a normal life, but I also wont say everything is fine when it clearly isn't. And who could I hurt with this except for radicals or people unknowingly following or being played by radicals?

There's also many things that are wrong in our societies, but one thing is for sure: You wont see US or EU citizens burn embassies to the ground or declaring Fatwas because someone criticised our society or culture.
I have a 22.5 GB data plan and I burn through the whole thing every month on LTE, without really watching movies or anything over wireless data (I don't turn on WiFi at any time, because my LTE latency and bandwidth is better than my home and work WiFi). The speed of the network isn't my constraint.
Worse, there is no formal spec or particular commitment to either the jets or the means by which the VM communicates with its host environment or nodes communicate with each other; this makes it impossible, not just impractical, to replace the environment with an alternative rather than merely wrap what exists - Nock on its own is simply not enough to build on.

Instead of the stated intent of giving you control of your own environment, the actual goal appears to be the opposite.
The difference might be that outage is down for all, disruption might be down for 50%.
>Taxes are theft at the end of a gun and we have little choice in how they are used

That's a big reason why democracies became popular (see for example the french revolution, or the boston tea party). A democracy is a system in which the residents of a country (directly or indirectly) decide on matters of government, like which taxes should be collected and how they should be spent.
Why would profits be unethical?
Excellent article; I thought the section copy-pasted below to be a rather non-trivial, unintuitive, and meaningful lesson:

> Craig : How was it to ride that wave, especially when the bottom fell out in 2000?

> Tim : When things are going well and you’re in a growth industry, you don’t have to deal with many difficult issues. It’s the old cliche, winning solves everything.

> Craig : For sure.

> Tim : It’s really true. It solves everything… or maybe better said, it masks all your mistakes. A lot of the mistakes you make get masked because you receive almost no negative feedback.

> But then the bottom fell out and the board let Tim Koogle go. The upper ranks of management emptied out pretty quick, except for me and the CTO who stuck around. We got a new CEO and set of peers in upper management. Let me just say, I learned a whole lot more about business on the way down than I did on the way up.
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But they literally just needed to run in for a second! They couldn't have spent more than five minutes inside!
Don't do #1 if you want to reliably accept or send mail. Fun for experimenting/learning, though.

Also, you can buy your own domain, and have Google merely act as the SMTP relay and temporary storage. They can also forward your mail to another server for you.
You're right, full nodes sitting on the network don't do a whole lot. It's important that many economically active users (e.g. wallets) are fully verifying though. Wallets based on a fully verifying node are less susceptible to attacks from miners.

>It is just duplicating work that is being done elsewhere.

This is the whole point of Bitcoin. If you only want the transaction to be centrally verified, you can use a federated model instead.
Names can be seen as connection to the real world, since software is not material thing.
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You're effectively describing a negative income tax, not UBI.