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My guess (I didn't downvote) is you would have fewer downvotes if you a) addressed the comment readers in general rather than the poster of the article in specific, and b) explained "what we're doing at Kumu" that is relevant to either the article or the audience.

Your linked manifesto shows that you care about similar issues to Donella Meadows and the OP, but doesn't shed any light on what Kumu is or why the audience would be interested in it.

I had to browse to your front page to discover that you appear to make a diagramming tool for causal loop diagrams along other things, which is relevant and potentially useful to people interested in systems thinking. I've bookmarked it and will try it out sometime!

Your follow-up comment protesting the downvotes was a lot more informative than the comment being downvoted :)
Mr. Taleb is an outlier - a black swan if you will ;)

And he is a bit of a babbling madman - with his share of controversial ideas and vocal rejection of establishment.
> You can still fall back to normal buses in that case

This is only a possibility if those buses meet the height restrictions imposed by the elevated bus.
...and yet still reasonable for many applications...
From some initial reading, I learned the following (correct me if any of these conclusions are wrong):

1) The executive action you mentioned would take "more than a year" to plan, so there was never a promise for a timeline.

2) Obama's executive actions related to immigration are working their way through the courts and will be ruled legal or illegal by the Supreme Court soon.

3) The President doesn't actually have the power to change anything substantially. For example, only Congress can increase the number of immigration judges.

Also, just my own thought: I don't support this petition, nor do I support Obama's executive action in any situation that increases the President's power. Sure, Obama is suggesting things we generally like. What if the next President is someone terrible or dangerous? What if the President after that is terrible or dangerous?

I'm strongly opposed to anything that gives any branch of government enough power to eliminate the checks and balances that prevent tyranny.
I've never flossed, I don't have gaps in my teeth to get the floss in. My first trip to the dentist in 25 years was a few weeks ago and my teeth were perfect except for a wisdom tooth and the damage it caused.

So i'm kind of skeptical of the effect.

Edit - I always wonder what kind of toothbrush other people use. I've always used electric ones so I wonder if that helps.
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Check out for swish in Sweden: "According to Arvidsson, the Swedes love Swish so much, it’s already revolutionising the local banking system, with several major banks refusing to accept cash at all, and as of late last year, four out of every five purchases in the country were being made electronically."

Payment by phone is already a big thing here.
Except IRC bots did not succeed and took over the world. I doubt if there is any non-technical people still using IRCs. And in terms of the features, you cannot make payments using IRC bots.

Even if IRC bots could theoretically be feature-complete, you can't judge a product by saying "oh we had this feature as well earlier, just that we didn't succeed." Having a feature and having a feature that is successful can be quite different.

Microsoft might had the concept of tablet way earlier than Apple but it was Apple that made the success around iPad.
They've been talking about this since...2010. I'm nit sure even the Chinese are crazy enough to try this, and it doesn't really solve a problem Beijing has.
Benchling could use this.
This project is maintained by the german tech publisher heise. There is a demo on https://heiseonline.github.io/shariff/. It is possible to run a shariff-backend to let the buttons show share counts (normally that is self-hosted, but I'm running one for all serendipity blogs). And there are several plugins to easily integrate that into engines like Drupal, Serendipity and Wordpress.

In my experience it works very well. This is a re-submit after it was not shown here for a long time, and I got asked in the sharebutton.io comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209595) to provide an alternative discussion thread.
The "sloppiness" as you call it is inherent to patents. There is no objective test for obviousness or novelty. Heck, the very idea that something could be "non-obvious" is absurd. Every idea is obvious once all of the other ideas pointing to it are known. This is how knowledge works. Patents attempt to codify this by cataloguing the entire structure of all human invention into an enormous database of "prior art", all for the purpose of determining whether or not somebody has the exclusive right to collect economic rents for a few years. This is ludicrous!
Why women pay less for car insurance
When it comes to scoring the best car insurance rates, the battle of the sexes plays a role. We'll explain why auto insurance needed in ma, all else being equal, can expect to pay less than the average guy for car insurance. Gender is one of many factors your insurer takes into account when calculating your premium.
Why auto insurance needed in ma is it a factor?
In addition to the fact that auto insurance needed in ma to drive less than men, accident and DUI statistics consistently reflect that male drivers, on the whole, take more driving risks than their female counterparts. And insurance companies price policies, in part, by predicting risk. Women are less likely than men to get into a car accident, which means insurers are less likely to have to pay claims for their female customers. And because men are about 10 percent less likely to wear a seat belt, they arguably face a greater risk of serious injury that results in higher medical expenses. Since driving records are a major pricing factor, a safe driving history typically translates into lower rates (for both genders). Speeding tickets indicate risky driving and a higher possibility of causing accidents, so having several on your driving record can lead to higher premiums. The type of car you drive also affects your car insurance rate, and men may be more likely to choose models that are pricier to insure. Insurers consider the safety ratings and claim history of the makes and models you drive, so the safer the car has been historically, the less you can expect to pay to insure it.

If you're a guy, all this really means is that a female clone of yourself would likely to pay Car for less Minnesota insurance. Your personal driving record and claims history play a much bigger role, which means a safe-driving gentleman can expect to pay less than an accident-prone gentlewoman. http://www.carinsurancerates.com/massachusetts-car-insurance.html
Comedy gold indeed.

> This is supposed to be impossible because it is incentivize-incompatible

Enter the wonderful world of coco values and side payments in game theory. Incentive compatibility and strategyproofness arguments break down when parties are compensated (implicitly or explicitly) out-of-band. That's not always a bad thing - it can lead to more efficient, utility maximizing equilibria. That said, under the status quo, we're trading one flavor of centralization (monetary policy) for another (core committers and mining pools).
That's awesome. Where was it?
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TabMixPlus to the rescue :) I set all tabs to have fixed width (so around 8 tabs per row) and to show 3 rows of tabs. Also unread tabs have title in red italic, current tab in blue bold and read tabs in black regular. Works for me :)
Always, always view (and save to disk) tf's plan. And if it looks good, apply the saved plan output.
Uploading previously written scripts?
At a recent interview, I was asked if I have any code at github - which I never have put online. Looking through a few old folders, I see a hundred or more scripts that I've written for previous roles in many languages. None of these scripts would be in use (so old or once-off's), and don't have anything in them that would be considered confidential.

What do you think about putting these scripts online (i.e.:github)? Good idea? Bad idea?

What about - when would you not do this?

Thanks, let me know your thoughts.
I tried learning Java on several occasions. I'm glad I threw in the towel. Living in Asia, pay is so much lower than .NET.
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> I humbly suggest that the wildly varying values you get on Sand Hill is from varying beliefs, not a conspiracy or a scam.

I wasn't suggesting conspiracy, my point is there is no "one true valuation" so answering the original question "valuation according to whom?" doesn't provide useful information.
Yeah, I suppose it would be interesting to look at the value multipliers throughout the supply chain to see if they are even or uneven. There is a difference between value of input goods and a value of output products, and workers capture some percentage of that difference as pay.. For instance, if someone who takes raw metals at $1/unit and processes them into component-ready materials at $2 per unit and are paid $0.50/unit, they're capturing 50% of the value they have created. A programmer takes software and hardware components that have some intrinsic value (perhaps not, difficult to reason about here) and processes them into software and hardware or services that have a greater intrinsic value. At large tech companies, the programmer might get a salary of $1XX,XXX, but the company might making a profit on the services that programmer created of $5XX,XXX, which only capturing 20% of the value added. I guess what I wonder is: should everyone in the pipeline for goods creation capture the same percentage of what the inherent value they've created? Or is it the nature of markets to differentiate based on scarcity of labor at each stage?
This is anecdotal, but when I don't floss my teeth hurt.
I can train someone in less than a month to be a world class customer support agent. Assuming they have the temperament, the job requires no scarce skills. I can train a person to work on a crew pouring concrete in a day. Comparing road crews to software engineering is a false equivalence. Mining in Africa is certainly hard work, but I could staff a mine with eager workers in an hour.

If one feels that income inequality among the professions is a problem, one should change professions. There's nothing stopping anyone right? However if we do acknowledge that there are barriers to entry, then we have just proven the point as to why a guy pouring asphalt is paid less than a person writing APIs. Marxist theory has every profession being equal. Yet, why, in the Soviet Union were nuclear scientists rewarded differently than the shop clerk at Moscow's GUM department store? Why were Soviet ballerinas treated like relative royalty while the people running electricity to the Bolshoi treated far worse?

Because of scarcity. Gold is worth more than sand. Though without sand, you wouldn't have concrete. I can't believe we're still having economic discussions where scarcity seems to be a novel (and controversial) concept. Marxism fails every time it has been tried because it fails to recognize scarcity.
The employee version of this is "I won't work for a company run by assholes." Good luck with the fallout from this article, Mr. Wiens.
> One of my buddies here in China (who's been here for ever) told me that the China always say that we in the West talk too much.

The main reason why "the West" talk too much is because they talk about safety concerns, and actually tackle potential problems.

China doesn't, and when the proverbial shit hits the fan they simply try to cover up the result of their incompetence, too often even at the expense of human lives.

Case in point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision

Another reason why "the West" talk too much is because in "the West" projects need to have a sound business model, as there isn't a dictatorship that is able to throw piles of cash at problems just to save face and resorts to industrial levels of censorship to stop these problems from being discussed.

It's easy to have successes if you use force to silence anyone who dares point out any failure.
Yeah, I implemented a small feedback dialogue a few months back. About 79% where positive about the entire app, but they just never got around to purchasing anything through the app, or did so through a browser. They would like to see some changes to the wardrobe section of the app.

The remaining 20% didn't like the slow speed the app used to operate on. And it felt that when they used their own clothes, instead of the stores, they never got results. Both of those issues have been fixed.

One of the bigger lessons I got, is that users used the app mostly for their own clothes, and not to shop. And it seems to be used much more as an inspirational source, instead of a shop. The problem is, that if the app would provide the same value as a social media influencer, I can't afford to scale it to a point where it could be profitable by working with brands. And I'm also unsure if the current metrics are scaleable, and if growth is actually a possibility at this point.
But you can already debug inside lambda expressions. E.g. for

new string[] { "1", null }.Select(s => s.Length).ToList();

VS has no trouble at all telling me the statement that caused the NRE and I can inspect variables local to the lambda as well.
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The shithole Google has dug itself and its developers is pretty deep, yet they keep digging instead of partnering with either MS (for C#) or Oracle (for real Java) to get a sane modern language.

But we'll end up with one of the following suboptimal solutions:
- half-assedly backported Java 8 features (with buggy bytecode transformers for libraries that are included in binary form)
- either Dart, Go or (why not go full retard) JS
From what I see that happens with patents in practice and from economics papers that try to model how patents affect the society the patents in general brings only harm.

It does not imply that narrow niches where patents can work do not exists, but it requires that any statement about benefits of patents must be backed up with credible data. And so far I am not aware of those.
> Basically this is to commuter rail as commuter rail is to high speed rail.

In other words, this is a beefier trolley car. Same concept, larger capacity.
Anyone (with $3,000) can now buy Microsoft HoloLens
I use TreeStyleTab [1] and usually have more than 150 tabs at the same time on my PC and around 60-100 on my professional computers (at home and at work). I sort them by category, then when I have a spare day I read dozens of news one by one, or when I'm in a mood, I read by categories what I like. In the last 3 years I tried to switch to Opera and Chome a few times, but they... they just suck for my requirements. Firefox lets you search by bookmark, history and open tabs, which is really useful in my cases (I also have hundreds of bookmarks).

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
You're refuting points that I didn't actually make!

On (a), I said cars obey traffic lights. I didn't say they don't do other crazy things.

On (d), I said people look when they're crossing the road. I wasn't talking about cyclists going through an intersection. That's not what 'crossing the road' means in every day speech.

On (c), I was talking about creating an additional lane. I wasn't talking about illegally blocking an existing lane.
A "long press" on a link in an app can often assist in separating the native "wheat" from the webview "chaff".
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Second on the sane P/Invoke and interop in general... main reason why I jumped to .Net very early on. By comparison, every time I touch Java it feels like an exercise in frustration, though seems better since Maven.

I'd also say that MVC/Razor, etc is much nicer than the Java counterparts I've seen... though I tend to not be too idiomatic with it when I've used it, very nice. Razor is probably my all time favorite view engine, though harder to use outside a web context (emails).

The much less terse syntax for generics is another big one over Java... with Java, it feels like all you save by having generics is lost with the extra syntax and typing you have to do... for example the LINQ functions (I actually don't care for the syntax) in C# are great, and the lamda expression syntax is awesome too.

I haven't used F#, but every time I see an article, I think about how awesome it looks, and seems to be more approachable than some other FP languages. Although I took a diagonal step and do a lot of mostly functional JS these days (I like and work a lot in node's good use cases).

Oh, another one, the .Net docker containers are MUCH smaller than Java...
So more space for less money? Lack of large apartment blocks or density isn't what I'd call a downside.
Thanks for sharing this.

In terms of mass adoption of cashless transaction, the timeline in two countries seem to be parallel:

http://www.businessinsider.sg/wechat-why-it-dominates-china-... - AUG. 11, 2015

http://www.sciencealert.com/sweden-is-on-track-to-become-the... - 16 OCT 2015
> Also: this thing being wider gives it about three times the floor area relative to a train, so it would require about thrice the number of doors to get passengers in and out efficiently. How do you do that while keeping it structurally safe? I guess the answer is that that spacious room inside would see a few walls added.

That thing has already twice more doors than a train since the doors of both sides can be used, so it partially solves that problem already.
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The thing with the greater fool is: they get the fuck out when the investment goes cold. They're not interested in calm, orderly profit, they're interested in action. By definition, they're irrational.

Leaving aside the fact that (what I call) the semi-intrinsic value of BTC is designed to increase over time, when the end is in sight either because of security snafus or actual source exhaustion, the greater fool will go elsewhere, leaving the lesser fools holding the bag.

Nobody seems to be handling BTC correctly, and nobody seems to agree on the correct way to handle it. That leads me to my own thesis: if a currency is so convoluted to handle that consensus can't be reached on proper handling of escrow funds or deposit balances, it's not a currency, it's just a long-running argument.
Here in the US they seem to be about on par... though I find the Java devs I've dealt with have tended more arrogant and closed minded, ironically enough.
"A while ago"? That was at least back in NT 3.5
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I have lived in China for some time and I am kind of tired of refuting nytimes, washingtonpost propaganda about China.

Everything you read on those newspapers is about propaganda, propaganda to influence most small investors(what they call dumb money)on one of the financial centers of the world New York, or propaganda to influence politicians on the US political center of US, Washington.

The elite financial industry that rules USA really admires China authoritarianism.

China is an enormous country with lots of great things, but innovation is not one of their "fortes". There is a big bubble there that is going to do bang and is not going to be pretty.

Not so good important things about China( that of course the propaganda omits):

-Their internet is shit, capped by Government and closed to the outside world.

-There is an army of spies(more than a million) working for the State, everything you do is controlled.

- There is way less women than men because the Government let people basically kill girls with selective abortion or after being born.

-They are communist, the interest of the individual is always subordinated to the community. If you have a girl with a Chinese woman outside China when you visit China they can refuse to let the girl go out. China needs girls.
At least, I think we have hit the point where a 5 year life cycle for a $1000 computer is reasonable.

On the other hand there's still a lot of teaching where a single person sits in front and tries to broadcast knowledge to a group of students, which to me seems absurd. The fact that the most obvious difference between schools now and 30 years ago is that whiteboards, powerpoint, and flatscreens have replaced blackboards, overhead projectors, and film projectors was perhaps predictable, but seems wasteful.
I've been using Unix for years and years on a variety of systems, including various sysadminy roles, and I still cannot keep the octal permission numbers in my head. My current job involves using one tool which only supports the octal and I always go to an online site which calculates them for me because otherwise I will just get them wrong.

I'd vastly prefer the symbolic forms (and am slightly surprised that the kernel source has raw octal in it at all). Although I wouldn't have tried to implement the change as a thousand separate patches...
This world rewards people for the value they bring (supply vs. demand). The world you propose seems to reward people for the value they think they are bringing.

Let me clarify.

The world does not reward those who work the hardest. More pain /= more value. The people working might feel like they are bringing more value; a construction worker probably does more "work" than a white-collar executive. The worker may even be more stressed, physically and mentally.

But does that mean he is bringing more value? Unlikely. This is because how effective you are has no correlation with how hard you work.

I could dig holes all day, and I would be "working hard," but at the end of the day, I haven't done shit.

Saying "I am getting underpaid" is admitting "I made a wrong strategic choice." Don't complain about the state of the world, but instead compose the right strategy moving forward according to the state of the world.

The Dough of Idealism must go through the Sieve of Reality to create a product that realizes the idealism for as many individuals as possible. Have just the former, you are a lone idealist. Have just the latter, you are a lame realist. Idealism and Reality are both necessary to bring the most value to the world.
Isn't the market telling that couple that they should move? I'm not being sarcastic at all.

If you can't afford to live in a city because you're priced out, and you want a different lifestyle as well (signalled by the stated desire for children), why wouldn't you move?
MS 2FA fails, you can still use IMAP to fetch email and stuff, without 2FA. So it's only partial implementation. Of course it prevents "completely taking over the account", but even if it's enabled you can still do a lot without providing 2FA code.
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Remote: Yes.

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Email: erujcverp@gmail.com

Current position: CTO @ local startup (Tech: Python/Django, PostgreSQL) - email me for more info.
And server side rendering :)
But that's where almost all the people live. BC is a huge place and it's almost all uninhabited.
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Even if they don't catch bad developers at the time of submission, once users start complaining, that will trigger an investigation and the developer will eventually be caught.
..so begins the massive data breach write off of 2H 2016..
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You're assuming people have a "target profit", and will keep driving only until they reach it. That's not the way people make decisions.
In Vancouver, $500k is more plausible. The minimum downpayment for >$1M properties is 20%, and the average selling price for a detached house in Metro Vancouver last month was $1.8M; in the City of Vancouver proper, it was well over $2M.
Here in Singapore we have POPStations everywhere:

https://www.mypopstation.com/

Best thing ever.