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I agree about revenue tax - it's problematic.
My issues with VAT are:

1)It's very easy to go around - VAT cheating in EU is rampant, for example in my country it's estimated to be about 10% of total yearly budget (not only VAT, total)

2)It's impossible to collect from businesses operating abroad which don't ship physical goods. There is no way EU is going to go after a guy in Thailand for selling software unless he becomes a big fish. Until then he is unfairly competing with all EU developers who pay-up ~20% on every license sold to EU countries.

The idea of consumption tax appeals to me in general (if land/real estate taxes aren't enough) but it would need to be somehow collected from the buyer (for example for using a currency) and that's not going to happen.
> On the desktop, Brave provides a 40% to 60% speed increase, and a 2x to 4x speed increase on mobile devices. Mobile users see a direct reduction in both battery and data plan consumption. Brave also protects users with privacy and security features such as HTTPS Everywhere to encrypt data traffic, fingerprinting shields, phishing protection, malware filtering, and script blocking.

Maybe this is a good enough argument to get people to install it. But I seriously doubt you will get people to voluntarily pay money, which is slowly paid out as they surf the web, when the alternative is a free browsing experience with a standard ad blocker.

Also, all of their listed benefits to users is accessible on all other major browsers now with existing extensions.
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You forgot "entertainment"
pgsql is exclusive to postgresql, and from the context, it should very easy to know if you talking about the programming language or postgresql
> The PostststgreSQL project never fails to impress me.

Let's see how many iterations we'll need for people to actually notice what was pointed out here ;)
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Hmm, your right. Sorry about the mis information. I was confusing it with the knowledge worker status but that would only work if a company hires you and sponsors your application. So nothing to do with DAFT. Even as 'zzp' you still get a lot of tax benefits though. Especially the first few years. But if that does indeed invalidate your claim for the 30% ruling your method seems like the way to go.
>> it's amazing they can do language at all. But research on that is just starting. Give it time.

Not so. Academic work in natural language processing has been very active for decades. Check out NL SOAR, which is an awesome attempt from the early 90s by top CS/AI scholars: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/soar/utc/nl/doc/nl-soar...

In general, language processing has been an important motivator and funding source for AI work. Remember that US Navy Signals Intelligence funded Noam Chomsky's early work on syntax. When early advances in basic linguistic research alongside early advances in computer hardware made machine translation seem plausible, money poured in. And it's pouring in again (now from private industry too).
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You're not wrong. But mostly we haven't collectively agreed that relational databases aren't great for highly-indexed rapid-update join tables.

I think we will at some point. That's the primary original use case for a lot of NoSQL, and the reason Twitter had so much trouble with relational databases.

But these are cultural understandings, and those move slowly. Also, we're poorly (collectively) equipped to handle subtlety in these discussions, so mostly we're trying to move from "relational databases are perfect for all use cases" to "NoSQL databases are perfect for all use cases" -- which is even less true, not more true.

Culturally, this is a hard thing to keep in our collective brain.
> This isn't the case in every electoral system; for example, in a Parliamentary system such as Canada's, you vote for your local MP, who runs on the basis of a riding, for which there are usually several within a city. The party that wins the most MP seats gets to form a government (PM, etc.) So the election becomes a much more local affair, rather than being a winner-take-all battle among the entire province, and results in practice in a multi-party system.

Parliamentary systems with FPTP also tend toward two-party systems locally, though there is somewhat more variation nationally sometimes. (The US also had some variation nationally, especially before the Missouri Farmer-Labor Party joined the national Democratic Party.)

IF you want multiparty elections locally as well as nationally -- if you want more than two meaningful choices when you go into the ballot box -- you need something better than FPTP as a voting system (IRV with single-seat constituencies is like the smallest and least meaningful step in a positive direction, but STV with multiseat constituencies does better.)
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> Asian Americans as a whole are doing better than any other single racial group, earning more on average than whites, and more likely to graduate from college

http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/asian-american...
Sadly this set of tutorials seem to follow the disturbing trend that "Computer Programming is Math." I think this is wrong.

Computer Programming is field of turning informal and vague declarations of a process into an infinity accurate declaration of a process. It is also the field of doing that in a simple and maintainable way.

It is as much related to spelling and literature as it is mathematics. What I think it more closely relates to is philosophy and logical analysis. I think it is also a disservice to people to wrongly inform them of what will be expected of them by saying "this field is math."
"My" of MySQL is Monty's daughter.

"He lives in Helsinki with his second wife Anna and daughter Maria (after whom MariaDB was named), and has a daughter My (after whom MySQL was named)[14] and a son Max (giving the name for MaxDB) from his first marriage"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
Good points. A 7-day duration would be hopefully flexible enough with everyone and would be the most easy to implement.
Sometimes this is very hard to do. This is in effect Twitter's core use case as well, with the list of accounts you follow.

And it's a hard problem. Twitter spawned a huge wave of NoSQL to deal with this, and it's still not really dealt with.
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Yeah it feels like the kind of thing where regardless of the database system they use they're going to eventually hit some performance issues, but undoing that DB mess is likely no easy task and they're betting that they can keep kicking the can there.
Some screens http://archive.is/xKzo9
Not the paper, but a wikipedia article on the effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
It's scary in that any ICBM is scary--there's nothing the Sarma can do that 2-3 Minuteman IIIs or DF-31s can't do, except maybe better missile defense evasion, and it's not like there's any missile defense available that can handle a full blown ICBM strike.
On the other hand it makes for more relevant search results!

Edit: did not see the typo at first though the word seemed longer than usual...
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Do I? Why? What can I do with all that cash that I got from liquidating my assets? I can't spend it on consumption all at once.
I believe that was the subtext that the writer was trying to convey. Despite it being a bad pattern, it's one that their users still encounter and people are asking a solution for.
It is awful that this article invokes the George Carlin routine, which argues that "There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words."
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I probably should have presented more than one example in my post. A lot of people are focusing on the example I presented and not the general utility. Live and learn I guess. :/
Because thats the only way of appealing to "both" demographics enough to make it work. Right now voters are just siding with whoever they can stomach easiest.
CSS seems the smoothest on my phone
For the athletes, the Olympics isn't about money. It about the glory of being an Olympian. And they are willing to sacrifice everything to get there.

Most are already making more than enough before the Olympics comes around, so whatever they make at the Olympics is just a bonus.

By the way, what the USA pays medal winners is not bad for a few days of work.
I'm serious. I despise the olympics, but they are the only reason that a lot of these sports have any visibility at all.

I'm a big fan of an obscure sport: wrestling. I have attended events, bought t-shirts and otherwise supported US wrestlers directly or indirectly.

And yet, the Olympics is still the biggest stage for these guys because having that gold is a level of prestige that can't be earned anywhere else. It's an all or nothing gambit for the athletes, but the Olympics is the only group offering up even that much.

If people really want the javelin guy and the trampoline dude to make a living, they should attend/watch events other than the olympics.

tl;dnr -- There is virtually no value in a swimming event. There is a large value in an olympic swimming event. The athletes are the same in both. The venue brings the value.
If you like NumPy, it might be worth taking a look at Dask[1]. Very similar API, but designed to support arrays larger than memory, as well as operations across a network cluster.

[1] http://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/
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The Go victory is definitely impressive, for what it was, but I think this is a pretty unfair comparison; it's an entirely different class of problem, and a strictly less difficult one at that (at least given current knowledge of the mind).

It seems likely to me that strategy games are accepted as an intelligence gauge partly because they're so hard for humans to do; thinking so many plys ahead by exploring and pruning across the game tree seems really hard for humans. For some reason, Natural Language and its semantic binding (I think the notion that these two things are often treated separately is part of a lot of the bigger deltas between expectation and reality when it comes to 'AI'. Honestly, they're probably the same thing anyway) doesn't seem really hard for us.

That doesn't strictly imply that 'strategy games' are strictly harder than 'natural language understanding'; in fact, as far as research goes, strategy games are easy to tackle, because we know all the rules; we designed them! And often, perfect information is available to all agents involved. It's about as black and white as problems get. Sure you can't brute-force Go before the heat death of the universe, but it still theoretically -can- be brute forced. The rules of the game (known and accepted by all parties) encode the algorithm, and it's just a matter of reverse engineering it step-by-step for a given situation. What a brain is doing when it speaks or listens or thinks is currently a much bigger, much more primitive mystery. As far as we know right now, you can't just brute force sentence permutations until you hit a correct answer to a question like the one posed by the parent.

So I don't call this goal-post moving (though acknowledge that the Vanishing Problem is systemic in AI Research and Pop Science); instead, I think this is more akin to the work in say, separating problems into classes of computational complexity. Finding the upper limits of things can be very helpful when we're dealing with such an old, deep, controversial problem.
Generally, the notion that people should accept less pay because they live their work is bullshit, and the lines of work that engage in and encourage this kind of reasoning are exploitative. Period.

We see this same dynamic in many lines of graduate education as well, a huge oversupply of students competing over a very long period of time for a tiny number of academic and research positions, and occasionally partying through the nose for the opportunity. And like the Olympics, the biggest payouts are for the management class, whose main tasks seem to be further commercializing the whole edifice. This commercialization happens to be synonymous with expanding exploitation of those lowest on the ladder (Mo labor Mo profits) and expanding the ranks of the managing class for their business school bros from the ivies.

(Pretty similar dynamics also appear in the non profit sector, fwiw.)
Leaving Earth does not really help that much - the number of stars and planets you can reach only increases with the third power - assuming an homogeneous distribution - and after some time more like with the second power due to the flat shape of the Milky Way and is in consequence quickly overwhelmed by exponential growth. You would not really get that far from Earth before you would already have to consume all the resources of the galaxy assuming some constant rate of growth on the order of 1 % per year.
But houses are already there. Especially when populations are shrinking.
The fact is: roaches get baited, mouses get trapped. Try not to be a cockroach is what jerf is saying. Follow your dreams are fine but dont be a cockroach for someone else's Olympic bug park. Unfortunately these kids are their own worst enemies. Like you mentioned, no union, no bargaining. Just a lot of expendable roaches that are unfortunately ruining it for eachother and competing in sports games with eachother, ironic.
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What, you think that won't/hasn't informed their policies?
That is a very limited solution. I started using VIM exactly because I should log in to a remote server AND use the libraries in that server and have some intelligent auto-completion and code checking going on in my editor.

Mounting a remote filesystem does nothing of that.
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