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I'd say it's very improbable to starve trolls by not giving them attention. So long as the community is receiving new members and the new members aren't acquainted with it all works, there will always be someone there to feed the troll. Think of it as a corollary to the Eternal September.

That being said, I think there are people post garbage regardless whether they're given attention or not. Kinda like the people who carve dicks and swastikas at bathroom stalls.
Having these documents add to the story in a meaningful way through. It very much gives context to the Cuban crisis as the USSRs only decent tools appear to have been shorter range than what the US had. The US could be just as threatening to the USSR without leaving home when it took the USSR setting up in Cuba to counter the threat. This certainly gives context to me and make the USSR look less the aggressor and actually weak, forced into a corner.
When a lawyer bills hundreds of dollars per hour, doesn't that actually include the assistance of paralegals and everything else that goes into supporting a lawyer? It's not like that's the lawyer's take-home pay.
I think a lot of it is fairly obvious: diet and exercise. My evidence is pretty simple: look at cultures (including local cultures) where everyone drives everywhere, versus cultures where everyone walks everywhere. You just don't see morbidly obese people in cultures where they're forced to walk a lot; it's mainly an American and Western phenomenon (it's worst in America and Mexico). Diet is probably another big factor: in obese cultures, calories are cheap, but the food quality is generally very poor.
> Most militaries are funded within 2%-6% of GDP.

The global share of GDP spent on military (as of 2015) is 2.29%, and most countries are below that (the US having a huge GDP and spending significantly above that drags up the global share); the US's 3.3% is quite high.
Bandwidth is cheap. It's the last mile you are paying for.

If you have access to a datacenter you're basically hooked into the firehose.
I guess we have what, 10 years until they carve a "trolling" or "hate speech" exception out of the first amendment? Such already exists everywhere else except for U.S.

It's interesting. It used to be that the average American's 5-6 hours of daily media consumption was produced entirely by what 4-5 corporations? Thats literally ~400 million people's media coming from maybe a couple thousand people. How is that good? If "trolling" [which I think is really just a code word for "exposure to interpretations of reality with which I disagree"] is the price of more diverse, more informative media, then so what?
The same is true for almost any government position, unfortunately.
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> An ex army ranger once told me that the 'missing' money in the military budget goes to operations like the ones he was part of, which of course he could not tell me about.

Sounds like he fed you some bullshit. I see no reason why it wouldn't be placed under a generic category with zero information regarding it possibly even lumped into something else. This is how it worked with classified projects when I worked in DoD contracting; not sure why this would be any different.
A military that does not plan to eliminate everyone else in the "room", no mater who they are, is remiss in it's duties. It doesn't take much for a former "friend" to turn into a countries worst nightmare.
>> exactly because they serve to influence who wins and loses.

I would accept this fact but the sad truth is the media are in bed with both parties. Unless you watch Fox News, you probably are only seeing the unmitigated influence from the Democratic side for Hilary Clinton.

FYI I haven't seen a non-biased, objective news cast in probably 15 years.
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2-e. Global stability & peace for 3.3% of GDP, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Edit: The middle east is a mess, sure, but all the superpowers seem mostly on amicable terms, which is a big deal if you look at the last few centuries.
They almost certainly aren't the same series of shares, but that in and of itself isn't a reason to expect them to be worth less. Usually preferred shares have additional rights (e.g., preferred share holders will get returned their original cost or some guaranteed return before common shareholders get any returns).

Some have features that get them some incremental value over time (e.g., a 10% return paid through additional ownership over time), but this would differ wildly depending on funding round, investor, etc.

If the business keeps growing and the whole equity cap table is "in the money," his shares could probably be close to this estimated value.

Caveat: you can go totally nuts with complicated share structures, so this could not at all be the case for Domo.
Your link calls fizzbuzz "a word game for children"... so probably not a useful criteria by itself.
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I'd recommend watching the video that is linked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTno8D-b2E

It talks about the mechanics, largely it looks like someone in Miami is consistently collecting stuff until they get close to 1TB or a week has passed, then that 1TB is flown out to Havana and it's copied and passed around after that.
It sucks to find out too much about people sometimes.

I got friended on FB by a guy I did some volunteering with this summer (and will do so again next summer). Turns out he's a racist, transphobic bigot. So my question is, do I just start laying into him until he learns something (and damage relationship with someone I have to work with), or do I just unfollow and hold my nose later on?
Are you suggesting "Trillions of dollars goes into black ops"? And I think complex accounting internals is the furthest of the concerns any field-operative army ranger would have.
The rule of thumb is "don't feed the troll", many communities have tools to block a problematic person.
This actually works reasonably well in Perl, where you can, for example, stick "use 5.22.2;" in a script and thus enable all the features of that version (and the versions before it) while keeping the features of newer versions disabled, thus ensuring backward compatibility.
I've actually found that you can get list prices from hospitals. The problem is that they're distorted and sky-high and not necessarily very reflective of what you will have to pay if you have insurance, because the insurers have negotiated their own rates. Those rates are treated as top secret by everyone involved (that is, until you get a bill).
I'm not really blaming anyone (or intending to). All i am saying is that there should be a logical disconnect between someone calling someone an asshole on a forum, and someone Doxxing a 14 year old girl because she made the mistake of showing her boobs on the internet.

"Trolling" means different things to different people(just as what people find offensive), and legislating that is dangerous IMO.
When you get the admins to clamp down, they're probably going to clamp down on some people or behavior that was tolerated or used by even the 'good' people because of some positive thing, and then those people start another group and take a bunch of those people with them, and it effectively becomes the same thing as before. I think it only works if you always had the rules in place, and even then, there will be some well liked people that will see how much they get away with, get removed, post a fit "I was ONLY doing blah and blah" and everyone else in the group gets mad and demands you let them back in, and blah, and blech.

The meetup thing started innocently enough a couple times (with a couple people I was told explicitly they didn't want certain people to come), it's like 'we found some people we like hanging out with now thanks to meetup and now we're just inviting them over to our place', but eventually they stop posting their normal stuff on meetup and it gets harder and harder to keep the group going.

I was a forum admin for way too long. Kinda glad I'm out of that now. Although now I'm an organizer for a meetup group, and it's not much different.
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I can think of one. The SSA spends just a fraction of a percentage point of its disbursements on administrative costs. There's probably others.

Like private industry, government is huge, contains many agencies at many levels, and some of them are well run and some of them are poorly run and some of them are somewhere in between.
I've never tried actually !
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I'm glad that isn't the actual title, as that is truely bad.
Yeah.... not so much for me. I'm going to give an alternate point of view.

To become world class at something, you need to be obsessed. You need to put in as many hours as possible and just love what you're doing.

"Oh but you won't be as effective after 8 hours of work!"

So what. Let's say I'm only 20% as effective after 8 hours. I'll take it -- 20% of the last 5-6 hours of the day towards my craft over 0% doing 'normal' things (drinks on the patio? Pointless travelling? Whatever my fellow annoying millenials like to do).

This is the kind of mindset you need to reach the top of a field. And it should develop naturally, you should really want it. Whether it means outdoing everyone at your company, getting that prototype done two months earlier, closing more leads, getting that tricky piano passage, whatever.

If you love what you're doing, more is more. Because you probably can't help yourself. If you feel like working more, just do it. Don't let normal social expectations hold you back, especially if you're young, because you only get so long to become great at something.

I'll finish with one final caveat. Figure out what level of sleep, exercise, and nutrition your body needs to sustain your desired work habits. Get those right ASAP, keep trying modifications, and realize it's different for everyone's unique biology. I like 8 hours of sleep a night, weightlifting 3x/week at 45-60mins each, and a certain amount of protein and certain vitamins (and coffee of course, ha). You'd be surprised how these 3 lifestyle factors can make such a huge difference in your energy levels and hormones -- one can literally become a different person!
Although the field of futurology often shows up in broader media as basically sci-fi worldbuilding presented as prediction, actual scenario and technological forecasting is a pretty well developed field with a long(ish) history of serious consideration and attempts.

For instance, Theodore von Karman headed up a group that predicted drones, ICMBs, supersonic aircraft, and a good bit more. In 1945. When the most advanced planes in field were piston powered and prop driven.

Since then, developments like the Delphi technique and prediction markets have helped to make forecasts even more refined. A more on the point question might be whether forecasts are simply become self-fulfilling prophecies since they're relied on so heavily by strategic planners in government and industry.
That's in absolute dollars though. A percentage of GDP is a much more fair comparison.
Some of this money is going to secret operations, but also a lot of it is getting embezzled. If even the inspector general can't get a truthful accounting, then there's no way the army is able to prevent that.
i actually ported this over to POSIX shell a few years back: https://github.com/joh6nn/shrepl

afaik, it will work just about anywhere you can invoke a shell (i haven't tested it all that extensively)
He is basically challenging the idea US being a maritime power projecting its power across the globe. I am more interested your answer to that line of questioning rather than institutional quid pro quo to get favors and support from senators.
Which is still ridiculous. That spending can at least be a single top level item that the public has a chance to consider directly.
To be manager you have to be specific personality. You have to be able to treat with different personalities, solve non technical issues, be prepared for work in multitasking mode - lot of issues at same time, with different severities, from different sources and requirements.

Management problems are hard defined, so you can hardly Identify correct procedure, verify correctnes of your choice and the most of time it's running for the long haul.

Probably in most cases you will not see any results (like working code or system). Happy people just will not complain but they will not thank you for that, but on the other hand unhappy people will complain and swear. And you will see and hear it.

You are also inbetween two stones...upper management or customer and your team.

This is not for everyone. few years ago I had same intentions but after few discussions, observations and experiences i regreted my decision.

Own business is little bit different story. I am doing what i want...i wanna design something ...go for it, but still have business decision making rights.
Even as a percentage of GDP, US military spending is maybe 20th-highest in the world[0]. The countries spending more tend to be some combination of:

- at war, or civil war (ukraine, south sudan, iraq)

- with historical conflict with larger neighbours, and reaso to worry about it breaking out again (Pakistan, Israel)

- sitting on enough oil that GDP gets distorted anyway (saudi arabia, Azerbaijan

So yes, US military spending is way out of proportion to the rest of the world.

[0] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_h...
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It's not though; it's still a poor way to spend taxpayer dollars with entitlement liabilities accumulating, that are unfunded, while we continue to poor money into military waste, regardless of the percentage of GDP.

EDIT: I believe using percent of GDP is a poor measure.

Give me a percentage of your take home pay. Let me burn it in front of you in a dumpster. No worries! Its a small part of your take home pay!
>Well, the problem here is that we keep expecting "real intelligence" to have magical properties: we expect intelligence to be a way of creating new and interesting thoughts

I think we might have to step into borderline philosophical subjects like epistemology and sentience depending on who you talk to to define intelligence and whether you're the free will group or determinism group and so on.

I think you might agree with the statement that we can't yet come to a strict definition of what intelligence is, and once we have it, if we are going for intelligence or something more akin to stuff independent of intelligence like sentience and creative thought.

I'm personally in the determinist group and agree that there is nothing inherently magical about intelligence, just us being simpletons who cannot comprehend how a microprocessor works when you just give the latest intel chip. It is so complex that we need a lot of time and energy to comprehend it, but like the intel chip, I believe there is a design aspect to the human brain rather than it being a magical black box.

The problem is, the majority of us are the simpletons and have a long way to go before we have the knowledge that the intel chip makers have.

I apologize for the bad intel chip analogy, I probably could've come up with something better :)
Holy cow, i thought something like %40 of the US economy went towards military? I have obviously never researched that, if anything i'm saying this because i believe my belief is somewhat common. Why do so many believe military/defense is so highly spent?

Also, where the hell is all of our money going haha. I'm googling, some random images/sources/etc are saying that Military is ~19%, with social health/security/aid/etc being around ~60% percent. But the numbers in so many of these sources differ greatly. That, combined with your 3.3%, everything seems so drastically different.

What were you basing your 3.3% off of?
> nationstates and their banks [...] Deutsche Bank / Germany

Note that Deutsche Bank is a private, non-state-owned company. You might be thinking of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
I think the issue might be people requiring better and better products. Cost vs. utility is decreasing, but the absolute cost rises.

Graphics cards are a great example. The new gtx1080 is faster, and half(?) the cost, of the previous generation Titan, but costs a lot more than the gtx980 (previous gen card it replaced).

So you could say Nvidia cards are getting more expensive, but not really. Price vs. performance is falling.
> 2-a. The Unites States spend 3.3% of it's GDP on the military. This is in line with other countries. Japan and EU are spending less only because they are under NATO (US) defense umbrella. France, for example, is at 2.1%, so 3.3% is hardly disproportionate.

That's not true - majority of countries don't come close to speding 3.3% of their GDP on military (world's average is ~2.3%?). For example highest EU spenders are Poland with 2.2%, France with 2.1% and UK with 1.9%. Everyone else spends significantly less than 1.5%. And that's just looking at the % and ignoring the fact that USA has largest GDP in the world.

US is nowhere near "in line with other countries." Unless you count "other countries" only the handful of Middle East countries like Oman, Israel, Jordan and Iraq.

(Source: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_h... )
I wonder if mesh networking could take off in Cuba, there is obviously a desire strong enough that a strong sneakernet has evolved.

It'd also be interesting to try and create a better UI for distribution of Internet content with latencies of up to 1 week.
> [citation needed]

http://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/infographic-what-...

At least according to them, 15% of your credit score is based on the length of your credit history. And your credit score can impact lots of things.

I'd disagree with the word "immense," but it does seem somewhat useful to have a score >800 or thereabouts, and having a credit history longer than a few years is needed to have a score like that.
I'm not 100% sure, but https://crates.io/crates/itertools might have what you're looking for.
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I started work at 9. I'm responding to your comment while eating lunch at a restaurant. I plan to leave around 5 today. This is my normal schedule. I'm salaried and live in the US as well. My last two jobs were the same way as well.
What a load of crap this was.
I can't imagine a US strike on Russia that would not become nuclear very quickly.

If nothing else, the Russians can't assume that the US strike is not nuclear, so the Russian response would be. And the US can't assume that the Russian response is not nuclear, so the next US strike would be. And there we go...
Just Say No (to mass media fearmongers). give your tv set to somebody you really dislike.
A lot of weird self-hating stuff specific to college students. Plenty of Millennials are late 20s with steady jobs, the author doesn't really address that at all.
> 2-a. The Unites States spend 3.3% of it's GDP on the military. This is in line with other countries.

No, its not "in line with other countries", generally speaking. 2.29% of world GDP is spent on military; the US's 3.3% is quite high.

(I mean, its not Russia or Saudi Arabia high, but its nearly a time-and-a-half the global average, even after the distorting effect it has on the global average, given the US's huge share of world GDP.)
...that's better than previous generations who didn't have the money but overextended themselves anyway.

On the other hand... This could mean they would overextend themselves financially if they had the confidence in the economy to take the risk and they simply don't have confidence in the future economic climate.
> not a "no first use"

Well, at least for a few more months:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-08-16/say-no-to-...
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_h...
> Holy cow, i thought something like %40 of the US economy went towards military

No, you're thinking of welfare/social security

Edit: anyone care to explain the downvotes? My data comes from here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/interactive-budget

Add together social security, income security, and other welfares, and you get ~40% of the budget.
It's indicative of the paradoxical nature of the times, that taking on loads of debt is kind of a dumb personal decision, but the health of the economy depends on people doing it.
We always take users' concerns about astroturfing or possible manipulation of HN's front page very seriously, and I'll look at the data on this post as soon as I have time. I've addressed your concerns thoroughly in the past, though, and we've seen no evidence since to change our minds:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844253
In my experience, this will cause anger and outrage, someone high up will be sacrificed--but that's it.

The military is an absolute money burning machine. In my seven years of experience the following were in-the-open examples:

* End of year spending binges on equipment no one wanted or needed to max out budgets, to justify the next budget year's sum

* Pre-inspection trashing of inventory to mitigate write ups for discrepancies between on-hand and on-book items.

* I met a team of inspectors in Iraq who were tasked with finding some number of billions worth of equipment that was paid for, but no one was able to locate.

* Getting rank often involves pushing through big expensive projects, no matter the need, in exchange for bullet points on personnel review files.

* My favorite: an enormous dining facility was built on a base in Iraq, but it was too close to the exterior fence, which presented a situation where there would potentially be slow-moving line of hundreds of military, closely grouped together, within "throwing distance" of the perimeter fence. Thus, the contractors were required to complete the building, to make-good on the contract, to force the military to pay them in full, for a facility that was unusable due to above.
It does NOT pay off to reduce emissions, in the short term or the long term.

A single factory will not suffer the consequences of global warming, and has an incentive to produce as many bad emmisions as possible, and make OTHER people pay for the consequences.

That's why it is a prisoners dilemma.
US revenue (Primarily taxes) for FY2014 was $3.02 Trillion, while defense spending was ~$640 Billion, so you could guesstimate roughly 20% of tax dollars for defense. That ~$640 Billion is out of a ~$1.1 Trillion discretionary spending by the US, while non discretionary (mandatory, things like social security and medicare) spending is over $2.4 Trillion.

If you add it all up, military spending makes up about 16% of total government spending.
> Equivocating DRM with murder is ludicrous to me, it just is from a rhetorical standpoint.

Except I didn't say anything of that sort? I mean, I didn't even compare DRM to murder. So what the heck have you been reading?
Not to mention the nice side effect of having a much better idea of how the other side might proceed if they wanted to do a first strike (which is a rather strong "if", but America back in the day surely felt different about that).

But what gives the Unz interpretation a bit of weight is the element of "if you ever want to first strike, it's now or never" that was clearly present. This can easily turn a purely theoretical game-plan into a purely theoretical game-plan with a zealous PR department.
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Which other countries? Denmark?

US's spending is 3,3% of GDP. That is ~40% less than Russia and ~60% more than China. That sounds proportionate. Considering that the US has the most to gain from preserving the status quo, it's perfectly reasonable to make a large effort in that direction.
Depends on the country but in the US credit rating is king. I knownpeople who moved to US who are taking a loan for a car and immediately pay it off just to build a score.