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Immigration policy isn't for your convenience as a foreigner. It's made solely for the benefit of the people who already live there, as it should be.
Lots of people say this same thing about bonds, stocks, gold. Maybe it's true, but it's rare for anyone to have consistently high returns.
"My own people".

Clearly you use that phrase to mean people who share a nationality with you. Historically, this phrase has been used more often to refer to people with the same skin color, or religion, as you.

You could use the exact words you used to justify systematic exclusion of people of another race or religion from jobs and markets controlled by "your people". I like to think that we’d all consider that appalling.

Like race or religion, nationality is largely determined by an accident of birth. It is inconsistent to hold that racial or religious discrimination is unethical, but discriminating on the basis of nationality is somehow okay.
I'm the son of Cuban immigrants and I think that immigration levels are much too high right now, of populations that are a mismatch for our economic needs (lots of low-skill workers, but we have a tragic surplus of low-skill labor), into a system that doesn't encourage integration (welfare state and identity politics), and sometimes from cultures that don't share our values.
> if you actually tried to abuse this to a substantial level I am 100% confident that it would be detected and blocked.

Yes, Facebook sounded quite confident that such attempts would be detected and blocked. It seemed like they gave him bounty just to get him out of their hair.
> does Haskell even have a stack?

Yes
Is there an explanation for how the modern usage you're describing of treppenwitz relates to staircases?
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The problem that I was referring to above, is that a good leader might be able to rule for 40 years, if there were no term limits. Leaders who are worthy of that privilege / burden are so rare though, that if you eliminate on just because of an arbitrary limit, then they will likely be replaced by some worse than them. Bad rulers are unlikely to win a third term in the first place, assuming that the electoral system is working.
Big ships are slow to turn. One systemic cause based on my experience in old-big companies is that if profit margins on some products are high, mid and some high level managers maximize that product (e.g. roll-to-roll manufactured films in Kodak). With such optimization, you end up at "local-maxima". This continues until you have an "iceberg right ahead" moment when profits start to spiral downward. Depending on the pace of growth of the technology/sales of your competitor(s), this descent is rapid and irreversible.
I mean different types of regulations many of which do not even exist in the US/UK but only in the EU.

Regulations that allow only persons with certain college degrees to create a business in some fields.

What would you say if in 10 years from now you can't create a small web business that provides you passive income if you don't have some certificate from your government that is only provided to those with a Master or PHD? (or whatever additional barriers they come up with)

For many this is a way to rise on the social ladder and I know that in the EU country I live in there are right now talks within the government of creating barriers for creating new businesses in the IT sector. (but I just know it because I know people that are directly involved in politics)

If this happens it would be especially sad because in the IT sector you generally don't need a lot of money to buy production factors. You only need to be smart and own a laptop. And this is especially great for poor people that nonetheless have the energy to go out and build something.

Who would profit from this? Big corporations like Siemens because then everyone that is interested in IT must go and work there as an employee and people who can afford to go to college for 4-6 years. Of course the people that could afford to get the degree would then be the bosses of all the others by default.
Just 0 kilometers from West Germany, there used to be a country with "strict exit visas", too. You can't get closer than that.
I'm confused, I just read the report in the article and everything you're saying seems to be wrong. Are you referring to a different report than this one? http://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing-size-and-i...

>The study appears to define "middle" as 90% of respondents

Where do they do this? I think they just defined the lower boundary as the federal poverty level of 30k and the upper bound as where "rich" starts. Seems totally reasonable to me.

> In the latter case, the study literally uses "people who identify as rich".... The obvious definition would be percentiles of income

The study did use a percentile, it did not define rich people as "people who identify as rich". It looked at the approximate percentile of people who self-identify as rich (1-2%) and then found a round number (350k) that was in the range of that percentile (1.8%). This seems perfectly reasonable to me. And arguing about 1% vs 1.5% vs 2% is pointless because as I always say, arbitrary-in arbitrary-out; neither is more or less "correct" than the other.

Apologies if we're referring to different reports.
There are quite a few articles online that go into some detail about it. Just search for "Kodak Clay Christensen", or something similar. Here's one: http://www.economist.com/node/21542796

Another reason why Kodak was slow to change was that its
executives “suffered from a mentality of perfect products,
rather than the high-tech mindset of make it, launch it,
fix it...”

Bad luck played a role, too. Kodak thought that the thousands
of chemicals its researchers had created for use in film
might instead be turned into drugs. But its pharmaceutical
operations fizzled, and were sold in the 1990s.

On a related note, I just purchased a 10 pack of Kodak Portra 400 4x5" sheet film last night. I normally shoot Kodak's Tri-X and 5222 cine film, or Fuji's Acros 100, but thought it'd be fun to get into large format color photography on occasion.
Rent is 100% lost in all cases, which is I believe what your parent was referring to. That calculator just demonstrates that there situations where you actually spend more (directly or through opportunity costs) in situations were you are recouping some of the money put in to your housing.
Halide, not haloid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_halide
Thanks for the 30 minute link hole. :)

It was the BBC Horizon from a few years back I got my understanding from, I'd have expected better from them. They have dumbed down quite a bit in recent years though.
> You can talk about investments returns etc,

But only in the abstract. Saying "I bought some IBM shares which then went up 7%, which was nice" is fine. Saying how much your capital gains were in the last fiscal year is absolutely faux pas.

I suspect talking about wealth in concrete numbers is deemed unacceptable because it confronts people with the moral consequences of hoarding wealth and inequality, and they really don't want those uncomfortable conversations.

> They don’t really think in terms of class these days.

Because their social networks are ruthlessly narrow. They don't think in terms of class because they never interact with people who aren't at least at the social level of an educated professional.
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I think language is very important. Of course you can figure out some way to express just about any word in a foreign language in your native language.

However, a limited vocabulary limits one's thinking in the same way that writing everything in assembly will limit how and what you write despite the fact that everything can be written in assembly.

I'm always delighted to discover words (whether or not they're in my native language) that describe really useful concepts that I would have had to describe in much clunkier ways before. It allows me to reason about things involving those concepts much more clearly.

It's not really important that sometimes these useful words are discovered by studying other languages. I get the same benefit when I discover a useful word in my native language that I hadn't heard of before. I'm just more likely to find such words in other languages, because I've known English all my life and therefore am much more likely to already know what I would consider the most useful English words.

Eventually foreign words become useful enough that they get grandfathered into most English-speakers' vocabularies (zeitgeist, faux pas, deja vu, etc.). This happens with all languages of course, but English seems like more of an omnivorous mutt language than the others that I've tried to learn.
"As it should be" kind of rubs me the wrong way. The world is the way it is, not because it's the best of all possible worlds, but through a bunch of historical accidents.
Don't blame the people, aged or not. This is being driven from the top down.
which is both racist

Is it more racist than demanding the right for the non-French people to change the ethnic composition of their host country?

and probably impossible.

Japan does it quite successfully. Try getting Saudi / Qatari citizenship ...

it would certainly greatly improve their
lives, and living conditions in Africa

You state this pretty confidently. Have you got any evidence to back this up? Historically, successful countries have been the exception rather than the norm. The norm is failed states.

The fear of the anti-immigration crowd (whether right or wrong) is that mass migration will bring the target country down, rather than lift the immigrants up.
Honduras and Guatemala have the worst passport covers in the world. They're both the same political map of central america with with their respective countries shaded in. It looks like they they both farmed this out to some 10 year old that had never seen a passport before. Both countries have perfectly good coat of arms. Why not use that? Instead it's like a geography lesson. ("I've been working in passport control for years, and I don't know where your country is." "Well, sir, it's this one right here." "Oh nice. Thanks. Learn something everyday!")
You get to bypass the regular folk and use the diplomatic lane for processing. Holders don't require Visas in many countries and some versions of the passport carry diplomatic privileges (including immunity).

I'm sure there are other perks akin to having a diplomatic passport from whereveristan, but with the added weight that it's issued by the UN.
Digital cameras in the 70s and 80s were impractical, low quality devices that were mostly useless without a computer, which is not something that the majority of people had in their homes.

Kodak did follow up with digital though. They had a digital SLR by 1994 (before Canon or Nikon) and digital cameras for $299 by 1996.

The advantage that companies like Nikon and Canon had are their lenses, and the huge investments photographers made in their lenses is what locked them in to a particular brand.

This is why a lot of traditional camera companies (Konica, Minolta, Fuji, Polaroid) were unable to keep up.
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agree. home ownership is about creating wealth for yourself instead of making the landlord rich. There are many millennials who are living with their parents instead of pissing away money every month for rent, and then using the saved money from their job to buy a home, achieving financial independence. With renting, you're never are able to achieve independence, since you're constantly draining money, and the rate of rent, especially since 2011, has far, far exceed inflation.
If you have 2–4 people, a 3000 sq. ft. house is in my opinion worse quality of life than a 1500 sq. ft. flat, because you have double the rooms to clean, for little tangible advantage. If you feel you need the space for a bowling alley / film screening theater / wood shop / large library / child’s playground / art gallery / industrial kitchen / space to host an 80-person party / rooms for 10 guests / ..., in the city you can find all those within walking or easy transit ride distance.
Especially since there isn't really a policy-routing component to this, isn't BGP pretty _extremely_ complicated for the problem Calico is trying to solve?

Stipulating that you need a routing protocol here (you don't, right? You can do proxy ARP, or some more modern equivalent of proxy ARP.), there's a whole family of routing protocols optimized for this scenario, of which OSPF is the best-known.
Alright, well against current commonly supported TIFF compression algorithms such as LZW, Packbits, and ZIP.
The guide you posted is a bit dated – Czech Republic recognizes dual citizenship since 2014 and the guide doesn't say so (I know this because I'm hopefully getting a second citizenship in a year or so).
Commonly direct debit, which works overnight inside the EU. Also there is PayPal and other prepaid wallets, and a bunch of scattered other payment systems that amount to faster direct debit, which all have the benefit of being fast enough for digital goods.

And more and more, especially younger, people have credit cards for digital purchases (and travelling).
What? If housing prices go down to 0 the money you've paid for your house is gone. But the money you paid in rent is gone either way.
>Entry load of 6% (real estate commissions)
1% penalty every year (property tax)
Exit load of 6% (commissions again)

Whoa whoa whoa, you can't call the commission a cost on both the purchase and sale.

Either call it a cost on the sale (seller picks up the tab since seller pays the agent), or call it on the purchase (sellers aren't dumb, and price in the commission). Don't call it a cost on both sides of the transaction, that doesn't make any sense.
Err, no. If you browse around Europe (and elsewhere) you'll see a lot things along the lines of no more than two consecutive terms.
I don't think it's at all hyperbolic once you take taxes into account. Between state and federal the difference is something like $60k, depending on your situation. That's over a third of the difference and we haven't actually taken actual cost of living into account yet.
> A frightening number of keys used to sign software are not signed by anyone, so they're effectively the equivalent of a self signed certificate.

I wonder how hard would it be to socially engineer yourself into trust chain. I haven't read GPG manuals, but I'd be surprised if there were strict protocols followed by everyone when signing others' keys. Most people probably don't or can't insure that there is no mitm when signing keys and can't reliably verify that government id papers aren't forgeries so likely reliable chains of trusts exists only between people that spend large quantities of time together and exchange fingerprints over secure channel.
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By snoop, you mean exploit, and violate the draconian CFAA law right? Snoop might be too weak a word?
All patent appeals go to a special Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that is stuffed with IP lawyers and is extremely pro-patents. Their caselaw is filled with numerous nonsensical decisions. Only in the past 10 years has SCOTUS been giving them the equivalent of a spanking, repeatedly taking up patent cases to dismantle the CAFC's decisions.

The Oracle v Google trial ended up there thanks to the patent claims Oracle raised. If you've read their decision in that case it doesn't matter if you believe APIs should be copyrighted... the decision is incompetently written on its face.
Please go read the tutorial I linked to. It explains exactly how this analysis works. Here's the code:

In [1]: from scipy.stats import beta
In [2]: from numpy import percentile
In [3]: data = beta(1, 100e6+1).rvs(1e7)
In [4]: percentile(data, 0.5), percentile(data, 50), percentile(data, 99.5)
Out[4]: (5.0460240722165642e-11, 6.9295652915902601e-09, 5.3005747758871231e-08)
The link you provided doesn't say that though.

> Most countries do not accept a UNLP as a travel document, unless a visa has been added.

and most people with the blue passport don't get diplomatic immunity - that's limited to a few people with the right visas and the red version.

> Most officials hold a blue UNLP (up to D-1 level), which is similar in legal status to a service passport (however, diplomatic status may be conferred on the holder if the visa issued in the UNLP is a diplomatic visa). A red UNLP is issued to particularly high officials (D-2 and above), and depending on their rank, this may confer diplomatic privileges and the red UNLP may therefore be similar to a diplomatic passport.
Sounds like you react to bad LEDs. Good ones have stable power supplies that don't ripple, and phosphor coatings that produce fairly even frequency distributions. LEDs for room lighting are still relatively immature, but they're getting there quite quickly.
Tax decreases linearly with the price of the property. At any rate, rents and taxes are sufficiently linked that tax can be ignored for the comparison.

As for interest and PMI (assuming you need to pay it), I'd say housing prices falling far enough where rents start looking attractive compared to these qualifies as "something deeply wrong".
prices did go down in 2006-08, before rocketing higher in 2011-2015. There are many factors that bode well for Silicon Valley real estate - scarcity, floods of capital - both cognitive and financial -in the region.
I'm sorry, but that doesn't work. Membership of the EU (or at least the common market) needs common laws to work, and these only work at the national level, not at the personal level...
I don't know about en-gb, but classy in en-us seems to me mostly focused on the person's outward appearance and mannerisms.
I've seen you post this at least five times now. Next time you're on your comments page to copy it again, read what people said about it all of the other times you posted it.
The way it invalidates the above statement is that there's no code that decides whether the fork happens beside what flags the nodes are launched with.
At the specific block number the nodes that accept the fork will only validate the hardfork blocks as correct while the nodes that don't support the fork will reject these blocks. Thus two chains will co-exist for an unknown amount of time, not just one or the other.

To some extend what you're saying is true though as it's very unlikely that both chains will remain active/retain it's value and therefore miners on the losing chain will likely move to the winning chain very fast to avoid losses incurred from the cost of power.
What I've always been curious about was whether Apple's engineers reached out to Kodak when designing the iphone's camera?

It would seem logical that Kodak could have potentially been a possible supplier.
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You are implying that meritocracy or better pay would go towards better results for the FOIA requester.

An equally likely interpretation is that the meritocracy is delivering the desired results from the government's perspective of interests.
I like how the replacement system costed $425,000,000

The tech company told them on site deploys would be $424,550,000 more expensive
The difference between a 2700k and 3000k bulb can be quite large, too. I prefer the ones I've gotten labelled 2700k, 40w equivalent.

Better LED bulbs also have better power supplies, and therefore less ripple.
This is a really good piece. Thanks!
I think this is why humans fail. I think we'd be much further along if the kind of short term mindset driven by short term business goals outlined in this article were the exception instead of the rule. Patents in software and hardware design should not exist at all given the mathematical and physical underpinning of both disciplines.

There is creativity involved and the original inventors should get due credit but not to the point of being able to sue an equally good competitor with equally good inventors into oblivion. Everyone is worse off because of what happened here.
"The problem with you libertarians is that everything you say works with spherical objects in a frictionless vacuum, so to speak. But the real world isn't such a place. Outside your idealistic worldview everything collapses."

Remind me again how big the death-toll from government wars is?

Or perhaps simply how badly it is failing at taking care of the sick, the poor, and the needy in almost every single 1st world country?

You are right, outside of our idealistic view of the world, everything does collapse. I am watching it collapse right now, on the state's watch.

>"It doesn't work for impoverished, illiterate, uneducated people with the weight of poverty"

Luckily, those people have noble individuals such as yourself to tell them what to do, and fix their problems for them. Because you deem them unfit to do so for themselves.
The article is kind of dumb in that it ignores rental income. If the title was "investments where you get no income tend to be disappointing" then he'd have a point.

Real estate actually tends to be the best investment for most normal people. It's fairly easy to understand and doesn't go bust like tech stocks. It keeps up with inflation unlike bonds or bank accounts. You can borrow and leverage up without margin calls unlike almost all other investments.

I've got a friend in London with a normal job who just bought a few flats for like £90k mortgage, £10k down and the equity in them is now well over £1m. No other regular investment performs like that with little risk.
What should an account manager be tracking, when using email tracking software?
if you asked those same old white and rural people a century ago.. well wait - they would have largely been freshly immigrated from Scandenavia or Germany.

This divide has existed as long as the united states has existed - and it will exist as long as there is immigration - this pressure exists to ensure that too much immigration doesnt happen, and that the melting pot can keep up.

That said, we're the only country in the world where being an 'real member of the country' largely means some legal gobbily-gook and deciding that you wish to ascribe to some somewhat nebulous american ideals.
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I'm not sure he's factoring in the savings for a home buyer vs a renter.

To me it's not so much about building wealth in real estate, as saving money on living accommodations in order to build wealth elsewhere.
That's not how it works.

If you expose yourself on a live fire range for 1 second and travel 100m/s, it's far less dangerous than exposing yourself on a live fire range for 100 seconds travelling at 1m/s.

It's the same thing with cars, the longer you are physically on the road timewise, the longer you are exposing yourself to the chance of an accident, regardless of distance travelled.

Not sure why you think it's "absolute", you haven't listed a single reason or argument, just a tautology.
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As someone who grew up 100km from Italy.

US pizza sucks. Easily one of the things I miss most about home.

Also good sausages.
> It's not because you have you money that you shouldn't have respect for society.

That's because old-money knows very well that society as it is underpins their status. Disrespecting it, you disseminate an attitude that will ultimately dismantle it, bringing about your own demise.

European old-money dynasties have seen quite a few upheavals, some of them prompted by their own carelessness, and have learnt what is necessary to survive and prosper: anonymity, peace, and making sure nobody will rock the boat.