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Not an economist but my thoughts on the topic are that society can make changes to accommodate this. This isn't a catastrophe, we just need to prepare. I think this needs to/will happen:

* labour will change from people having only one main skill to having multiple skills ("jack of all trades, master of none" will become "jack of all trades, master of fewer")

* this will be made possible by the fact that technology makes is easier to (re)educate yourself and also to tailor education exactly for your needs (c.f. university course unbundling, what if you could take different courses at different school based on which fits your needs (kinda like, mooc, yeah, I know mooc aren't the runaway success we'd hope for but give it time))

* we probably will not get rid of the issue that you have to pick a skill(s) when you are fairly young and you don't know if those skill will still be useful when you have to leave the workforce

* basically, people will have to learn a couple of skills pretty well and hope that the future jobs will require a particular combination of your skills (and if you are lacking some skills, you should be able to pick up new skills easily)

* it will become standard for people to keep learning

* i also think that the "default" unemployment rate might rise but unemployment will be more temporary for the single unemployed people

My view as someone who strongly believes in technological progress, I would guess I would summarize my advice as "you have to know how to leverage technology not to be outpaced by technology" but this isn't exactly anything novel.
I wonder if the safer approach at this point is to assume that Microsoft can collect anything, including keystrokes, audio/video input, screen captures, etc. until proven otherwise.

Further, and something I don't see discussed as much, is their apparent ability to force through whatever "improvements" they want to this tracking via their now-impossible-to-fully-disable Windows Updates system.

Is it entirely unreasonable to expect them to use that for targeted delivery of payloads on "terror suspects" or what not? I realize that might be a bit in the tin-foil hat territory, but until proven otherwise, I feel like we need to assume that capability now exists.
Side note: If college education was "free," it might encourage faster re-skilling and more "profitable" to society.
A quick scan for "lambda" results in but a whisper.

"Sigh"... Marvin.
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If I've ever heard it before, then I've forgotten it. I don't know if most people know about it, but "phytophotodermatitis" (plant+light+skin+inflammation) is a pretty cool word.
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> there isn't enough people today to dedicate their time to art.

The vast majority of art usually isn't profitable. There are only so many people, families, businesses and organizations that will commission portraits, sculptures, lavish architecture etc. Look at how many graphic designers there are who have to essentially do free work just to get considered for hire so they can do a campaign to sell laundry detergent.

> With all these menial jobs taken up, maybe even more people will turn to custom crafts and trades. Where what I'm paying for is the creativity and uniqueness of the objects I'm buying.

There's etsy where artists and stay at home moms try to tap in the craft and 'artisanal' product market. There are many people trying to do just that.
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I first saw this word in the roguelike game "Dungeons of Dredmor". I didn't know it was a real English word until now. In the game it's a a magic power buff, stackable up to three castings, which makes sense given the real meaning. Doesn't raise the stat to the 8th power though, which would be very overpowered.
I disagree. The English ones have no issue with completely change character personas. The way someone talks is as important as what they are actually saying.
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The first few sentences of this article sold me. Because it describes to me exactly why I hate Rails, and Ember, and any other framework with a similar model. I hate Rails because Rails is Magic. And not the good (well, as good as magic can be), 0x5f3759df kind of magic either.

The kind of magic where you're given some functions to call, and some places to put your code, and if you ask why, you are told that you don't want to know, so shut up. In a non-CoC system, a lot of this magic would be exposed to the developer, so even of we didn't exactly know what was going on behind the scenes, we could at least kind of reason about it.

I hate rails because I like to be able to reason about the code that I write, the libraries I use, and what's going on behind the scenes, even if I don't know ALL the details.

Why? Because I assume that at some point, my code will break. And if I can't reason about what my app's doing, I can't fix it. And after running Ubuntu for a few years, I have long run out of patience for problems I can't fix.
I think about this a lot. John Adams said "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
"Method and apparatus for synthesizing patterns"

https://www.google.com/patents/EP1177529B1?cl=en
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I haven't used Sequel by myself, but definitely, need to add a mention about it. Thanks!
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Also, tweening between superformula shapes in d3.js:
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1020902
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There can be hidden variables that the PID system failed to account for. Workload distribution over time, temperature at the time of day, heat leaking into the datacenter, etc. I'm not sure if a PID based controller would account for such things.

What remains to be seen, however, is whether these manipulations keep the machines working at similar efficiencies and if they fail at similar rates as before turning on the control system.
I'm all for critiques of software and how to improve work, but do we need to rag on the guy who made GoChat? Looking at the project, it was clear it was a single guy or a couple people, working to put out a project for experience.

It's poor form to self-aggrandize and say "move fast, make MVPs, etc", and then write a post pointing out over and over how people messed up, when they were trying to move fast and make an MVP.
Well, technically allocating them based on whether stock owners can profit in the long term is the most successful strategy civilization has used so far.

It's just that to survive to the long term you have to get through the short and medium term, where a lot of froth and misallocation happens.

(This is not unique to this point in history, BTW - during the Rennaissance-era Age of Exploration and Second Industrial Revolution, there were also massive speculative bubbles, ventures that didn't work out, misallocation of capital, and outright fraudulent schemes. Most of them were swept away in the periodic financial panics. One way of looking at the situation today is that you have governments who are determined to avoid a panic at all costs, but the process of panics & financial crises is what sweeps short-term-oriented people out of the market, so without them they can offload the costs of short-term thinking onto the taxpayers.)
I am not saying that Computer Engineering (not science) can magically overcome the challenges of drug development - that would indeed be fallacy. I am saying that one of the challenges in software development is to maintain progress in an ever changing world of modifications done to the product. I see similar challenges in the drug development field - And so I try to find the link between what has worked in software development to what exists in the drug development area. You say that due to the complexity of drug development and the huge difference between the two fields all I can say is that in both worlds we conduct experiments and in the drug development area you have a far better understanding of how to conduct these experiments effectively.

You know better than me. You're right, I can offer no new insights, only the knowledge gained from experience (not necessarily theory). And from my experience what makes a product work is not the algorithms used, or the number of people working on it, or the technology used - it is how its progress is maintained via automated/constant testing.

If you think that the resources spent on maintaining progress in the drug development world are suitable - that's good to know.
Who pays for those people to remain unemployed? They still have food, shelter, utilities...
As an insider (resident), that's the "solution" if you only look at 1 variable in this huge equation.

I think we should ask why people still want to live here when it costs so much. Yes jobs are part of it. But the other fact is that 30 story apartment complexes have negative externalities. Unique, historical victorians are part of what makes this city special (and parks), and if we let them be replaced with apartment complexes it'd destroy a piece of this city's appeal.
Anecdote: My brother-in-law has worked at the same factory for 20 years now. Their efficiency has probably increased 10x in that time. They are producing more than they used to, with a lot less workers.
Everything you say is true. I fully acknowledge that. I hope it's not implied otherwise.
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Sweet. I put together something similar for NodeJS which is now called 'turtle' (because it's turtles all the way down...). There's a bit of a focus on AWS Lambda & other FaaS solutions as a means of building Lambda architectures, but it can be used by itself.

https://github.com/iopipe/turtle
Or, we simply wait out the next few centuries. Reproduction rates in many developed countries have dipped below replacement. Maybe the total world population will decrease in our time.
Maybe they have some safety altitude so they can drop to lower altitudes with other winds and come home when much wind is expected.

Clouds often move in another direction than the wind near the ground. (is that some eddy current?)
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Just the Chinese and Indian cases seem more than enough data to make this case. Both economies stagnate behind the world trend until they open up free markets, at which point their economies explode and a billion people are lifted out of abject poverty nearly overnight. There is an arguable case for strong welfare states, but true socialism has literal mountains of evidence against it.
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What's the EFF stance on this particular lawsuit?
> Turkey needs to know if NATO will be there for them or not. He can call for larger contributions of course and tell them upfront that NATO won't help them until conditions are met.

Question, have you heard or read Trump's foreign policy speech?

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-...

He lays out many criticism of our current foreign policy, including that we don't negotiate our deals properly, and this results in us not being reliable among our friends, and respected among our enemies. I recommend reading it.
>"if the US complied in the other direction as the UK does, the UK courts would grant more of the extradition requests." //

You seem to have put a lot of weight on the numbers here. Do you know the total number of requests on both sides? Without that we can't really ascribe meaning to the refusal of 7 requests by the UK.

Even then we don't know if, for example, the UK seek tacit agreement before entering a request, which would account for no official refusals by the USA.

All I really know that's pertinent is there was an extradition of a young website operator who hadn't broken UK law (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer) and had never left the UK, not even was hosting content in the USA - any cases like that happen in the USA?
It can be to the benefit of both. The employer doesn't have to do all the onboarding until they figure out whether it's going to work. If they employee doesn't like it they have an easy out at 6 months that doesn't harm your reputation as much as bailing out shortly after taking the job. That easy out also prevents you from staying longer for fear of establishing a job-hopper reputation. At your next interview when asked why you left -'It was a 6 month contract at the end of which they offered me a full-time position but I didn't feel it was a good fit'. That's a much better story.
There's tradeoffs everywhere. Sure, if your car is out giving someone else a ride, it can't give you one either. But most of the time when you get in your car, you know ahead of time that you're going to do that, so it's pretty easy to tell your car to become available when you need it. And the benefits to owning it include having it available exactly when you need it (instead of having to call a car and stand around waiting for it to come pick you up), having it be able to sit around on standby for if you don't know if you're going to need it or not, or personalization of your car, etc. Similarly, if you're regularly driving longer distances than just hopping around San Francisco, it's probably more cost-effective to own a car than to use Uber. And once you go outside of major metropolitan areas there's a lot less coverage by ridesharing services, and it's reasonable to expect there to still be low coverage by Uber-owned autonomous vehicles.
For anyone who has a theory that involves making new jobs and retraining people, consider these cases:

A) 50 something factory worker whos job along with the other 100 folks he works with, have been eliminated by automation or some other sort of efficiency.

B) 30 something software engineer who's field (except for research) has been eliminated by AI.

"A" is something most of us have the luxury of had waving away with "retrain them to be surgeons and leave their homes behind and move to someplace else for work".

"B" hasn't happened (yet) but what would you do if it does? It's not so easy easy to dismiss is it?

Lack of work is a structural problem. The landed gentry of our time don't even need the surfs anymore so it's even worse in some ways.
For anyone who has a theory that involves making new jobs and retraining people, consider these cases:

A) 50 something factory worker whos job along with the other 100 folks he works with, have been eliminated by automation or some other sort of efficiency.

B) 30 something software engineer who's field (except for research) has been eliminated by AI.
> The kind of magic where you're given some functions to call, and some places to put your code, and if you ask why, you are told that you don't want to know, so shut up.

Rails is open-source and extensively documented. I honestly cannot understand this take at all.
I didn't mean to come across as unduly harsh. But, yeah, I think a misleadingly symmetric looking notation for an asymmetric operation can be a source of confusion (this is also a potential problem with the misleadingly symmetric looking triangle of the linked video, and standard notation for subtraction, etc., for that matter [though in this last case, it's been beaten into us with enough familiarity that we all know the deal]).

Actually, I don't like infix notation in general: it leads to unnecessary, distracting questions about operator precedence and so on. I'd rather we all switched to some other notation for writing out even additions and multiplications and such; drawing out the actual tree structure of nested operations, say. (I often feel notation should simply follow the structure of what's being notated, nothing more or less. But, alas, inertia; I can only use the notation I like in the privacy of my own home...)
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I don't think anyone claimed that the new jobs would be replaced one to one with jobs maintaining the new technology, just that some of the new jobs would be in maintaining the new technology and some would be in new industries that we haven't even thought of. For a big historical example of this, look at the decrease in labor usage for farming over the last couple centuries. Where did all the people who used to work in agriculture go to? Like 1% of them now remain on the farms, maintaining the technology that displaced the other 99%, who are now dispersed across whatever other modern industry that we didn't used to have (and, we'll note, the pundits at the time highly doubted that most of the 99% being displaced on farms would find be able to find alternative positions).
I don't understand how the DMCA, whether you see it as good or bad, can be Constitutionally sound. I somehow doubt the interstate commerce clause can justify it, especially since it affects transactions that only occur in one state.
This argument was true for every civilizational strategy until it was not successful. “Why build pyramids? Because it is the most successful civilizational strategy used so far.”
Thiel's explanation is that it was better to sift through the data torrent more judiciously than collecting every particle of data on every man, women and child forever. That is relevant surveillance on a limited pool vs mass surveillance. Supposing a state to be malevolent, then an efficient malevolent state ought to be still less evil than an inefficient malevolent one.

This was in the context of the sentiment after 9/11.

Unfortunately it later turns out the government with its god-like power of 'infinite money' decided to do both at the same time, which explains his disgust at the NSA post-Snowden.

Surely a giant database in the sky could never fall into enemy hands with data transfer and data medium densities growing exponentially.

In the future, wars shall be lost because some dork left a usb drive on a train somewhere.
I guess what I was trying to say is that treating that as a ternary relation is already overcomplicating the matter. Really, there's no need for nth root notation at all, because we already have fractional exponentiation. Why have a third place on the triangle putting any n there is the same as putting 1/n on the top?

Part of the argument for the triangle is that the relationships you'd have to learn are suggested by simple geometric manipulations.

But why learn whole new geometric manipulations when you've already learned the algebraic manipulations behind multiplication and division? By converting exponentiation and logarithms into infix notation, you do away with one side of the triangle and you can learn the relationships by just thinking "it's exactly like multiplication and division, except [etc]"
You seem to be talking about usual C++ programming, not bare metal case. Bare metal means no OS, no runtime, no nothing.
The Bay Area already has sprawled north, south, and east. I have coworkers who commute from all those directions. It's hit the limit of the current transit infrastructure, and adding more is cost and time prohibitive.
Exactly.

Both your responses have the person taking on the role of a --short term-- mentee: they show some sort of of connection + naïveté that prompts the authority figure into rooting for them ie caring enough to indicate next steps. '
True. You aren't going to be talking about deep politics with a Beijing taxi driver without a good command of Chinese, but you'll totally be able to order a mocha frapiccino in English at Starbucks.
If the superformula itself is patented, what protection does that give to a generalization of it, like replacing m with y & z as presented in the article?
Yeah, absurd that people are glossing over the fact that he outed (with photos for chrissakes) a rape victim.
No, we would need to retrain them to do something that is valued. For which services/products do you think you're missing and would be ready to pay for if we were to retrain the unemployed?
> Honestly, I find the culture of Silicon Valley's tech industry to be utterly degenerate.

I'm not sure what that means. I was mostly referring to the fact that there are a ton of techies there. If you want to strike up a conversation about microservices with a stranger on the street, SF is probably the easiest place to do so.

> I honestly don't get why the Bay Area doesn't just expand outward.

Traffic, probably. It takes about 30 minutes to commute from Oakland to SF, and those two are pretty close geographically. Your commute could be far longer depending on where you live and work in the existing Bay Area. I doubt most people want to commute an hour from San Ramon to SF.

Plus there are mountains not far east of the Bay. I'm not sure how much of that land is easily developed.
I don't think you understood what his product does, it's a FPGA to defeat HDCP in realtime and then adds various overlays to the picture, e.g. a live twitter feed in the right corner.
>Then the government should either directly employ people or else provide them with an income, or some combination of these.

It is interesting to see that, in the early 21st century, communism is becoming palatable again.

Could this be due to all of the old communist states either ceasing to exist or (for instance, the case of China) changing into something quite unlike their former sleves? In short, did we forget about those states?
That's so right, if you look at income numbers for SAG its scary, starving artists is right!
I don't think anybody pays them "to remain unemployed". But in most countries they receive social welfare while out of work.

You could have them go break large rocks into smaller rocks if you have an ideological bent against people being unemployed but unless those rocks can be sold to somebody for more than what unemployment benefit is there's no incentive.

Edit: Agree with the comments below. Rather than being idle there's many ways society could harness the skills and manpower of the unemployed for socially value adding, but perhaps not financially profitable, ventures.
Id agree with that. Sometimes people use it in ways even they don't agree with, but would agree that it's more accurate than just straight "closed source". Is source available "more open" than something completely closed?

The latest Unreal for instance. It's not closed source, because you can in fact see the source, and it wouldnt be fair to compare it to other engines/games that are just a pure black box. But yet, the licensing is restrictive. So its not truly "open source" but Ive heard some people call it open source meaning "not closed" when in reality it is somewhere in between - "source available".

In those cases, the definition is not really as important as people seem to make it out to be. I'm speaking casually and colloquially here.

And I would say that Gitlab CE is open source. And consequently, Gitlab EE is MOSTLY open source. From my understanding, its essentially gitlab CE with some closed source plugins. I dont really care where they make their money. I interact with Gitlab CE primarily, and it is the core product. Calling them an open source company is not like calling Microsoft an open source company "because microsoft has some random open source products".

My entire point being that getting bent out of shape over minor semantics is weird. Not 100% of gitlab is open source, and they make most of their money off that closed source bit, but I would venture to say that most of their users (by volume, not by revenue) deal with the open source part only.
It is not false on its face. The goods produced by the now robot welder reduce their cost; freeing up capital to flow to some other industry either as profits or lower prices. That factory isn't a closed system.