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Your comment is spot on. You're correct that traditional economics has focused on growth and consumption, and that this puts economic prosperity in direct conflict with sustainability and the health of the economy.

I tend to think that the answer isn't so much about specific laws (though the laws do need to change) as it is about holistic system change that stops focusing on working as much as possible and starts focusing on ways to optimize for human well being. This was supposed to be the goal of optimizing for growth, but we're seeing the limits to that thinking.

In response, new branches of economics have started that attempt to capture the frustrations many people have with the old ways, and find more holistic, sustainable solutions to economic issues.

One movement I have been following lately is just called "New Economics", and that search term will lead to a load of resources covering the issues being discussed by the New Economics Movement.

I've been tuned in to videos by the New Economics Coalition[1] now, who recently hosted a conference called commonbound. A central theme of New Economics is the idea that we should hold more value in commons, at a local level. Doing so leads to business decisions that are more likely to consider the people they impact. This doesn't work for everything (massive industry like aircraft production, etc), but it can improve life in a lot of areas. It is also stressed that people who work more use more resources (fast food vs cooking at home, etc) which is bad for the environment, and that working less allows us more time to spend with family and friends which leads to more happiness than just having more stuff.

A few people to follow are Juliet Schor [2] and Gar Alperovitz [3]. I also discovered the Institute for Local Self Reliance [4] yesterday, which is worth checking out.

What I've been working to do is reconcile progressive ideas for how I feel the world ought to be with anarchist/libertarian ideas that we shouldn't force anyone to behave a certain way. I think the classical liberal way of choosing how things should be and forcing everyone to comply is a recipe for inequality, concentration of power, and disenfranchisement of the people. To me, New Economics seems like a way to respect individual autonomy while creating an economic system that works for everyone.

This is a lot of links. If you want a short intro, something like this video with Juliet Schor may be a good start [5].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/Efssociety/videos
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD9L96GA_OY
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ZTRa4yP-Q
[4] https://ilsr.org/
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrIhloNEwT8
I think more and more people are not working at the same desk everyday (people working at coffeeshops or traveling) or don't have space for a desktop/don't want the extra stuff that is required for a desktop if they are living in a small apartment
Interesting. How do you handle dependencies? That's one issue I've had with Steam, libraries on my machine do not match the ones the app presumes. Shipping binaries in different packages does not really solve that part of "assume debianish distro" problem.
This is certainly relevant for Lisp programmers:

"Contrarily, major schisms or breakdowns in the relationships and development of a language and its community are big warning signs that should make you think twice about the future of a language."

Related reading includes "The Lisp Curse":

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

And note that "Why Lisp Did Not and Never Will Gain Enough Traction" offers this alternative explanation:

"Since there is so little pre choice, the glue that is supposed to hold a community together is too weak to draw enough people that would build up a momentum."

http://kresimirbojcic.com/2012/08/14/why-lisp-did-not-and-ne...
The US has been buying bad debt with borrowed money (QE). There is so much cash in circulation that the banks don't know what to do with it.

"So no, the Fed is not printing money. In fact, the Fed is doing much worse than that. In allocating $4 trillion borrowed from banks, it’s supporting the very government spending and housing consumption that got us into trouble to begin with. More to the point, the Fed is financing ongoing economic hardship through its expanded borrowing of bank reserves."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2014/03/09/the-fed-is-...
What is a real-life example of someone being paid by the government to break, then fix a window (metaphorical or otherwise)?
IMHO, It's more like your cousin decides to buy a $200 textbook on Organic Chemistry.

Space Program is more of an investment than luxury.
> there was another constructed language which once claimed nearly a million followers, making it the most popular constructed language of all time

Maybe a nitpick, but Esperanto (which essentially replaced Volapuk) is estimated to have around 2 to 10 million speakers and is generally considered to be the most common constructed language now [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
The problem is that the media almost always use this implicit syllogism:

"70% of GDP is consumer spending. Therefore, the economy depends on consumer spending. Therefore, we need to goose consumer spending if we want to help the economy."
People complaining that UBI wouldn't help are missing an important point. In the US, and most of the world, we have a demand problem not a supply problem. The UBI "plan" then is to bump up the wealth of those that would essentially immediately consume it, which generates demand. It's not controversial to argue that an extra $1000 a year to a millionaire will just end up being reinvested, while most Americans (the bottom 50%+1) would easily spend it all sloshing it back into the economy.
Projects release new versions of software not just for new features, but (one would hope) constant improvements to the underlying architecture.

Firefox in particular has been evolving quickly, with many of under-the-hood improvements that may not fix "high-risk" security issues, but constantly improve security directly or indirectly (e10s?). You can't expect maintainers of an ESR to backport all those things.

There's always a risk in adopting the latest version of a program, but there's also a risk with keeping the old, less actively maintained version. I get burned all the time with Debian Stable, running into bugs fixed in the latest version but not backported. (nonetheless, I do prefer Debian Stable to most other solutions)

A project I'm involved in even has an automatic "toxic code" warning for PRs on known functions/classes that need to be refactored, and where monkey-patching will likely cause other security issues one way or another.
Having humans inbetween the automated steps reduces potential errors introduced by bugs or compromised software. If the last step in Cryptolocker was "Now have the user manually enter in terminal commands to encrypt each individual file", the virus wouldn't work at all. Requiring two human beings to agree with each other that an alert is legitimate and for them to both need to confirm coded messages, target the missiles and to simultaneously turn four keys at the same time - it's a pretty big meat-based firewall for malicious or buggy code.

Not that what runs the silos is really that easy to mess with. They still do software updates with eight inch floppy disks.
But this remix from Metroid 2 works pretty well

Eh, to each their own I suppose. I was really excited about this remake when I saw the graphics. Watching the video you linked dampened my enthusiasm.

I grew up on Metroid 2. I remember playing it outside the principal's office in school! The music is dark and haunting and unlike anything I've heard since.
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Absolutely agree. Check out videos on youtube under the search "New Economics" for more info about this. There's some great channels (like the New Economy Coalition) with full lectures, but check out this short primer video on the concept:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrIhloNEwT8

See my comment about this in another thread for more links:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12243080
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Apple’s stagnant product lines mostly reflect the state of the computer industry
My main machine is a 10 year old IBM thinkpad, and it's still doing fine. Likewise for my 8 year old 'phone.

Tech enthusiasts are the ones who can see through the marketing and upgrade-treadmill BS; the "average person" can end up buying a new machine when they fill up their hard drive.
> The emulator and game took a long time to start with no feedback as to what is happening (e.g. it would be nice to see 'Booting the emulator' , 'Loading the game', 'Optimising for running' or what have you).

This would be an interesting area of research. Once we fire up the emulator, it starts drawing to its screen buffer (which is an HTML5 canvas). What you see is presumably exactly what you would see on the original machine (sadly, I never had an Amiga myself). You see the workbench, possibly some messages in it from the software, then the software takes over the screen and starts drawing pretty pictures. In between, a lot of these things seem to blank the screen, turning it black or grey, or filling it with noise.

Providing meaningful and accurate feedback on top of that would be a fun application of computer vision, but it could turn out to be a difficult problem in the general case.

Thanks for mentioning the fullscreen button, I hadn't noticed that it was broken; I'll see if I can fix it. Muting is a horror show, because MAME and DosBox don't yet support it. SAE does though, so we'll work on it next.
You can get almost the same thing self hosted with a tiny amount of work

http://ryancompton.net/2015/02/28/mpg/
It would seem to me that UBI would increase consumption, and reinforce our perceptions of success.
They wouldn't have had to prop up a single company. Just let any company provide whatever data services and let the users decide what they want to use.

If the Indian government want to help their people they could focus more on stopping slavery rather than free internet access http://qz.com/695565/india-has-18-million-modern-slaves-at-l...
Also check out Hyper Metroid, the Super Metroid romhack, a completely new and much bigger game, with new graphics and many new mechanics. It's superb.

http://www.hyper.metroidconstruction.com/
I think it may depend on a few factors.

I don't think I can even manage a 40 hour week productively now, as my other obligations have grown.

Whereas, in the early years I could work much longer without reurcussion. This is fairly measurable, as I was writing educational materials and people say the quality was good then.

One month I went to Cuba to write, and didn't have to cook, clean or do errands. I also didn't socialize much, but had daily contact with people in my house. I worked much longer weeks, but felt less stress. I also had daily sun, exercise, and healthy food.

The second situation wasn't sustainable for more than 1.5 years, but did work well enough. The 3rd situation also isn't sustainable long run, and can be difficult to setup in most circumstances.

Just pointing that out to say that the 40 hour limit can be affected by other factors. Right now I want to rearrange my non-work commitments to allow more work time, and also reduce the most mundane work tasks.

Critically, when I was working longer, I was just writing. Almost no administrative work.
> open up OS X to all hardware makers < we tried this, it was terrible. As a lifelong Mac user I have never had a better time with them. Sure, the product line needs refreshing, but the prices are low, software is compatible and mostly works and people don't look at you blankly when you say "Mac". Now I just need to get the IT department to stop calling them "MACS" and I'll be happy.
I'm shocked to see no one here has even discussed over-regulation as an issue. The more things you tell people they can't do, and instead mandate they do things they may not want to or need to do, the less opportunity they have to do things they want to do, which is what people generally are willing to pay for (an thus increases economic growth).
I still use my 2008 white Macbook, running Snow Leopard. The battery is crap, but it stills runs many (older, non-supported) softwares great. I use mostly a couple of Linux machines now. The only thing that keeps me popping the thing open now and again is Ableton Live, but I've been meaning to give Bitwig a shot. So, it might get retired for good soon.
Why 3 years? My MacBook Air 2012 runs Linux better than some brand new machines. As a browser and a ssh machine it's good enough.

My dad ran Ubuntu for a decade on my 13 year old workstation. He couldn't do anything I could do on my laptop. A Pentium IV with HT was good enough for his LaTeX and his MCMC simulations.
Gaming on a laptop? Why
> Uber delivery will be confined to very time-sensitive packages (food delivery and maybe competing in the bike courier space).

Yes, it seems like the most obvious pricing advantage would be same-day deliveries.

To send a 5 pound package from my address to another address in the adjacent zipcode (~10 miles), the transit time is 1 day and costs $9.85. For that price, I also have to get in the car myself and drive my package to a retail store and drop it off.

If I arrange for UPS driver to come to my house to pick it up, the price shoots up to $19.55!

Let's say my house is point "C" and my ship address is point "D". If the Uber servers can determine that point "C" is a very minor detour for an Uber driver going from point "A" to point "B" ... then he can cheaply pick up my package and drop it off at point "D" with minimal increase in gas costs. Uber could charge way less than $19 while the driver gets a revenue boost. The UPS "hub" model doesn't make that type of dynamic rerouting cost effective.
That discounts that some people think of themselves a certain way and could never think otherwise.

The author has a level of self doubt that is significantly more than people I interact with on a day to day. Saying "don't feel that way" or "don't say those things about yourself" doesn't help a person see themselves differently. It just distances them more.
People do all these extra checks that computers don't do though. Like, if it's a sunny Tuesday afternoon and all is well, when suddenly launch codes arrive, the humans are probably going to say "ummm... I don't remember nuclear war being on the agenda today. Lets get the commander to call the president." That may be in complete violation of the protocol, but it could be the right thing to do.

Humans are more apt to see that something is amiss than computers are.
Agreed, something has to be done at a cultural level as well and I think this starts with parenting and schools.
Desktops are energy hogs compared to notebooks/laptops. That's my reason, at least.
You brought your friend, ie she was escorted. In the tesla case we're assuming you are in a condition to open the car door and walk in the ER and then explain your medical emergency...
Mine has been relegated to the bin of forgotten hardware at my house. The plastic where your wrists rest keep breaking off and stabbing me. Battery doesn't hold a charge even after being replaced. Slow as a dog and can't get the latest OS updates.
Can Apple at least just put a Retina screen and 16GB RAM option on the 13' MacBook Air. That's all I'm waiting for. They don't even have to bump the CPU or ports or anything else.

It's not a hardware problem. My MacBook Pro's HD 4000 drives a Retina screen, the Air's current HD 6000 certainly could too. Microsoft and Dell have been shipping Retina screens and 16GB ram ultrabooks for 2 years now -- but we're forbidden from using it for iOS development.

I totally get that it's more fun to go "Scrooge McDuck" swimming through their iPhone money. But if Apple could kick out just a basic spec bump from 1-2 years ago for the Air, I'd be thrilled.
You can have a computer last far more than 3 years. If you buy a desktop PC, and you upgrade it, and do maintenance on it over the course of its life, it can last 7-10 years (I have seen some of these beasts in offices), but you usually spend as much as a new computer.
Thanks! Do you have a recommendation for learning more?
If they are going to have a "new not similar to old" policy, it should probably be done on the server rather than the client, because the client is less trustworthy.

A password change dialog needs to be asking for the old password anyway and then verifying that it is correct to protect against people who step away from logged in sessions having their passwords changed by pranksters or worse.

I doubt "new not similar to old" policies actually accomplish much. If they are implemented securely using standard technology they will only be able to check the proposed new password against the current password. That just means that instead of having a sequence of similar passwords, P1, P2, P3, ..., users will have two such sequences interleaved: P1, Q1, P2, Q2, ..., where all the P's are similar and all the Q's are similar but the P's are not similar to the Q's.

There's probably a way to do a similarity check between two passwords given just hashes of the passwords (for instance, using homomorphic encryption), but that kind of thing is more research level than deploy live level, I believe. If/when that becomes practical, then a no similarity policy could go back as far as you are willing to keep old password hashes around without being any less secure than a no reuse policy going back as far.
I'm not really sure you can really put odds down on something like this. For the Youtube things, you are right that Nintendo has had a very unusual track record with videos. For example, while Let's Plays have been removed, things such as Angry Video Game Nerd and Pat the NES Punk continue to operate without issue. To the best of my knowledge, neither has an agreement with Nintendo, and they utilize Nintendo IP very heavily.

Additionally, with something like the Mother 3 translation project, Nintendo was apparently "aware" but took no action. [1] I would assume there were similar conditions for other translation projects for Nintendo products. I think in the case of Mother 3, it helped that it had been officially decided there would be no official translation at the time and the translation team plastered commands about "don't pirate" and links to purchase the original game via import all over the site.

This fan game really isn't quite either situation - it uses Nintendo IP, but it's also 100% from the ground up original content and code, so it's just the Metroid IP that Nintendo could issue a cease and desist over. AM2R has been in production for years though, and I don't think it's been any secret to Nintendo. My guess is if they haven't issued a c/d yet, they probably are giving a silent approval.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_3_fan_translation

edit: forgot my link >.<
Did you find anything interesting about Chromebooks?

I was also checking on them, but the management of them always ended up on needing Google Apps for Work and getting licenses for their management. It looks like it is impossible to have them plugged into on-site software, independent of Google...
"saved his life" kind of implies that there was no other viable option to get to the hospital, like calling an ambulance.

And what a tragic story it would have been if he had become unconscious along the way, the car stopping somewhere on the side of the road and it takes too long to find and help him.
Laptops are still getting a little faster, because TDP issues are less pronounced on newer, less power-thirsty models. And of course, battery life expectancy may get better.

But the real upgrade would be to models that either already had integrated graphics (and now will have much faster integrated graphics), or that had GPUs (and with the new pascal/polaris generations, will likely have much faster and less power hungry GPUs).

You might also notice improvements in SSDs, though I'm skeptical that despite large relative improvements most workloads really benefit much - after all, any semi decent SSD will have largely moved most bottlenecks out of the I/O subsystem, and then it really won't matter much if you reduce those last few milliseconds of latency even further. Some people will notice, however, and what you will notice is that you don't need to choose between fast or large as much anymore - a 1TB ssd is pretty affordable, and smaller SSDs might even be classified as "cheap" by macbook standards.

Still, I last updated (my non-mac laptop) just after haswell was released, and discounting SSD size and GPU, modern laptops seem very unattractive. Due to the glass screen fetish nowadays; most are heavier and more fragile to boot - my 13-inch, more than 3-year old laptop weighs 929g, and the battery still lasts many hours. It's fallen a few times and has a few nasty scratches and one nicked corner, but... upgrades still seem kind of pointless. Are you really going to upgrade for a crappy-but-less crappy iGFX or a larger SSD?
> Earth is really flat.

In a perverse way I like the flat earth thing. It is nice quick proxy for what a particular person believes and a testament to their background and intelligence level. In other words it quickly tells something about them.

Sometimes I wonder if flat earth is a ploy by a group of con men to spread the idea and see who believes them which, then quickly identifies those as good potential "marks" for scamming.

One can extend this to other beliefs -- Earth is only 4000 years old. There are lot of those in this country. And with Mitt Romney we almost had a President with power to launch nuclear weapons who belies some pretty wacky stuff.

It doesn't have to be religious -- anti-vax people in the same category.
it's not just the hardware. El Capitan, the latest and greatest, still ships with a stone age Vim 7.3 from August 2010. And we're told not to touch it because /usr/bin is sacrosanct. Bunch of add ins doesn't even work properly. Seriously Apple just doesn't seem to care. This isn't hard to fix, and it's an embarrassment compared with Linux.
It's still a bit fuzzy for me, but according to the README at https://github.com/sourcegraph/checkup, this is how I understand how it works:

* You launch the checkup command manually or every X minutes

* Each run stores a report inside a file

* The caddy server serves the same resource to the browser...

* ... that fetches the last Y reports and computes a dashboard to be displayed

The 2 last steps seem not static to me. Is it how checkup works, or is the dashboard display part a bit different ?

Regardless of that, this is something that is going to be extremely useful to me. Thanks a lot for for it !
This. One other thing I might suggest is some sort of variable cost model where every person gets 1 unit of water per day for free and then consumption above that scales up. Most people will consume more than the bare minimum to survive (lets say the unit is 2 liters). Doing this raises the base for everyone to be able to contribute to society yet still collects money needed for infrastructure costs, etc. ) One we have some of the utilities under this system, things like health care would be nice follow-ons.
I just DJ'd a wedding on a refurbished Acer Chromebook that I got for about $130 and is several years old. Uses Google Play Music for it's activity playlists and the bride's playlist and I was good to go. Would be nice if I could cross-fade but I'm an amateur and don't have the right equipment.

I'm continually impressed how good Chromebooks are in terms of battery life, portability, and utility. Just wish it was easier to run desktop apps on it.
If you are an "Adobe institution" why are Chromebooks even an option?
> Not that what runs the silos is really that easy to mess with.

I dunno. This seems pretty hinky to me:

"wireless Nintendo Wii controllers could cause the system to detect a false electromagnetic pulse attack and shut down."