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I find that relatively quiet and less complex music works better for me – such genres as downtempo, nu jazz, trip hop.

While I enjoy a very broad spectrum of music in general (from classical music to death metal, and from avant-garde jazz to hardcore gabba), fast, complex, loud or noisy music seems to get pretty distracting in many cases.

But that might depend on your job, actually. If you are a football player and you spend most of the time working out or outdoors, energetic music may work much better. Or, if you are a factory worker, where you have to deal with 120dB noise over your shift. I don't think ambient would be a good choice there, rather thrash metal or hardcore. :)

If you need some specific examples of "calm" music that works for me, please let me know, I probably could recommend something in particular.
If you want to read here's the archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160910123651/http://www.adenda...
The biggest dietary change involved for Paleo is eliminating heavily-processed high-carb foods: bread, pasta, donuts, pizza, candy.
This is a major nutritional improvement for everybody.

The high-fat aspect just helps people stick with it by making them feel full and also allowing them to indulge.
The part about the Coursera course's steep learning curve feels so familiar. I'm doing the course as well, but it's pretty tough for me. I suck at maths and I don't know Octave or Python. It's a very good course though, I still try to watch some lessons every week, but I'm way behind schedule.

I'm impressed by the author's ability to recognize his own failure in completing a course, because for me it often just keeps dragging on while I still think "some day I will finish it". I can't accept the fact that I just failed it. Sometimes I wish I was still in university, being able to dedicate 40 hours per week to just learning this kind of stuff and having teachers around.
Blaug is a history of economic though and is far from "practical way". Moreover what concerns me is that Blaug wrote the book way before I was born i.e. over 30 years ago[1]. There are things we simply know better today, a lot of things happened even since 1997 when the book was published in a new edition, there is a lot of new data concerning the recent crisis and measures applied by governments to mitigate the problem.

But nevertheless a great read!

[1] - no startups, no long-tail, no hi-tech hype, no big data, no Zuckerberg... the list is long...
Another things I noticed is how it pointed out how France's system of basic income gave people less incentive to work and thus contributed to 10% unemployment. Isn't that also another reason many people advocate for basic income since with all our technological advancement it shouldn't actually be a requirement for everyone to work? Isn't that proof that basic income is having it's desired effect despite what appears to be a very mediocre implementation?

I only read through about half of the article, but I didn't really see any real reasons why basic income would be bad. Most of the arguments boiled down to "That's not how we do things now". I ended up coming away from this article with more faith in the potential for basic income than I did going into it as none of these arguments were very compelling.
Low carb is like magic for my health, fitness, and mental acuity. Reasons it's hard for me to stay on the bandwagon (1) it's more expensive to eat only meat, vegetables, eggs and fats v.s. eating stuff together with bread, rice etc. (2) Eating lots of vegetables means more fussy cooking of them (3) Carbs are nice 'comfort food' for when you're stressed.
Yes. The amount of money locum staff get is incredible. I know a doctor who exclusively does locum work - he works 3 months a year and has more than enough money to spend the rest of the time travelling. If you eliminate private health care you eliminate that cost and you are the only employer.

Edit: To clarify this as it seems like a very unpopular opinion around these parts: a public system isn't going to work in a free/competitive market. I think we need to either go all in on a public system or all in on a private system. When you land somewhere in the middle it just doesn't work.
Some may argue we are already in a post-scarcity economy.

Unfortunately virtual scarcity will persist for some time. This is because the economic system isn't organized enough to distribute all resources fairly and efficiently. As jobs decline (due to increased automation and export), the old way of distributing resources fairly fails, and virtual scarcity will increase.

UBI seems like it can fill that gap but I worry that it's an overly simplistic solution. It seems like it can cause runaway inflation without a counter-balance. What prevents rent/food/gas prices from simply going up?
Why is cutting out processed foods not sustainable? I've been doing it for more than four years by now.
Some Amish and Mennonites can drive (sometimes they'll have community cars they share), but even those who don't can use public transportation and will take busses, Amtrak trains, etc. to travel.
> It's not that I don't know all you say, it's that I know more. Allow for that possibility.

I do, but I don't believe it to be the case here. Random anonymous dudes full of hypocrisy and drama but low on facts don't score well on my credible witness scale, especially when the topic is the experience of women.
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And Boston while you're at it.
Interesting article, and a good mind-expanding summary of various options and history.

TL/DR:

> Basic income is to the social state what the flat tax is to the tax system. It flatters the engineering mind with its apparent simplicity. But in fact it is impossible to implement; it’s also politically suicidal; nobody’s ready to die for it; and even if it existed, it would probably trigger extraordinary political tension and the highest level of inequality in modern Western history.
That's good, but don't make it sound like 3 months of Ketosis is "easier" than a full and strict exercise routine. That's an extraordinarily hard diet to follow.
This is exactly the point he was making.

People have a desire to use the 'big' tools instead of trying to solve the real problem.

People both underestimate the power of their desktop machine and the 'old' tools and overestimate the size of their task.
Natural Language and Computer Vision Intersection
Self is the language that invented prototypical inheritance and the Morphic UI framework, one of which (morphic) is now used in pretty much all modern Smalltalks, and the other of which (prototypical inheritance) got picked up by a little language called Javascript, which you may have heard of. In addition, Self provides provisions for multiuser networked UI, kind of like Google Docs does.

Given, it's not exactly usable for modern projects, but it's worth studying.
Hello, I was comparing, and opening in USA would be almost the same that having the "Simples".

In Brazil you don't pay tax on dividends because you pay higher taxes before. Otherwise you would paying double times. There are hidden taxes till you have the "dividends". And are you aware of the "Imposto de Renda" for companies and people?

I am very curious what formula you used to compare and reach the conclusion that in Brazil it's lower. This is also against some studies http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
Regardless of XML-ness, you still have to check that the values are valid. With XML, you also have to check whether they're of the right type, because the format is so much more flexible.
Why are PHP questions on Stack Overflow in decline?
Pretty much this. Incredibly hard to design from scratch; cheaper to buy an existing design and start from there.
My understanding as to why Word Perfect continues to have a major portion of the legal market is the huge installed base of template documents.

Want your lawyer to prepare a trademark infringement letter? He's going to charge you several hundred dollars for basically filling in the fields on a template he created a dozen years ago. And they aren't going to do anything that threatens that goldmine, like switch word processors.
I wrote a VB dungeon generator from Appendix C: Random Dungeon Generation Tables in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide back in the day. It made some totally awesome dungeons and output them in a bmp that had a light-blue grid, black dungeon walls and floodfill areas in the rooms and halls. It compiled a complete legend of room contents, door information, trap information, etc., and output that as a text file. I will have to search and see if I can find it.
No.

Show that you need scalability first. Chances are you don't.

When you do, scale the smallest possible part of your system that is the bottleneck, not the whole thing.
Fascinating that he picks Blair's Fabian speech as an example of the NHS being a thorn in government's side.

I didn't vote for Blair, or support many of his policies, but his governance utterly transformed the NHS for the better. It was adequately funded for the first time in a couple of decades, at the time of this speech, and they were now searching for ways to measurably improve care, especially in comparatively neglected areas such as mental health.

Quality goes down when governments start bringing political ideology to the fore - eg "we must bring the efficiency of the market to the NHS" neatly ignores the fact the NHS is actually pretty damn efficient, and is one of the strongest buyers on the planet getting significantly better pricing from all the drug companies. Adding managers and market aspects actually worsened this.

The French example of basic income isn't. It's a means tested benefit which is utterly incomparable to UBI.

I'm starting to doubt everything he's written by this point.
The human powered helicopter now runs on solar energy
Byebye phonebook
HUGE POP UP when trying to read it. Gave up.
This is just plain click bait.

Obviously if a dataset is small enough to possibly fit in memory, it will be much faster to run on a single computer.
It looks like just a cross between Go, DLang and maybe something else. Maybe I'll use it to troll my programming teacher.
Chase bank updated their ATMs recently. Pretty sure it's just a matter of timing at this point before most ATMs are chip-enabled.
you would just be adding management-overhead.

More software != more efficient software.
I'm actually not so sure about this, as people have sex all the time while aboard ship; a fan room usually ends up becoming the Love Shack. They're working 12-hour shifts and doing extra duty on top of that, and they're still banging. Careers get ruined when the woman shows up pregnant to sick call.

I don't know about submarines, mostly because they've been male-only until very recent, and attitudes on homosexuality have not been and still aren't very tolerant[1]. From the fact that Marines fuck in Porta-shitters in Afghanistan, I'm sure that life, er, finds a way.

[1] <insert ribald Navy joke here>
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There may not be post scarcity as there will always people the desire more and thus commerce will exist. However that doesn't necessarily means that everyone needs to contribute to that economy. If we have developed the technology to allow for basic food, shelter, and healthcare then people who don't strive for anything more should be able to acquire these things without additional work and become a basic right. In my mind the idea of basic work isn't to stop people from working, it's to stop requiring it for basic livelihood.
> "People like to trade stuff. This means there will always be things people want to trade. This means money, commerce, and scarcity aren't going anywhere."

Sure, there will continue to be trade, but the need/desire to trade will be reduced.

To look at how/why, you need to look at decentralised production. Technologies like 3D printers promise to be able to produce many of the products we currently trade for, and this goes beyond the plastic trinkets people currently associate with 3D printers (there are already 3D printer devices in the fields of clothing, food, medicine, heavy machinery, etc...). So whilst there will be trade for the raw materials, why would you pay someone else to make something for you when you have access to a machine to do it for you (note that I said access, not ownership, I don't expect everyone will own a device that can create a car, for example)? It makes sense for people to cut out the middle man when the end result is just as good as they could've gotten by paying a premium.

There will still be people wishing to trade for things they can't get for low cost locally, but there will be a lot of industries disrupted by the ability of people to produce their own consumer goods.
Everyone was just gobsmacked and the usual bullshit storymaking aspect of TV coverage didn't happen. I remember all of the volunteers, doctors, nurses, etc heading to one of the hospitals to help triage a flood of injuries -- but nobody came.

I was 150 miles away in Albany. When the state government and banks dismissed employees, people were literally running in a daze to go home. I stood on the corner of the busiest street downtown waiting for my wife to pick me up -- everyone scurried off and the streets were utterly empty and silent at lunchtime. It was literally just me and an art installation statue of a guy reading a newspaper. The silence was eerie and bizarre.
The sugar free/carb free Atkins diet of the 90s and its modern versions isn't any better.

Pretty much any diet which is free of anything should be avoided.
As much as I disagree with the author, the reason why RMI is brought up is to highlight the next point of "Silicon Valley Hates / Ignores Politics". I think the difference in applicability is understood, otherwise this would be a really naively written article...

> So you could argue that the “RMI/RSA” is basic income, except maybe for the paperware frictions that it inflicts on those who are eligible and that could be removed thanks to technology. Accordingly, those in favor of basic income should pay attention to the “RMI/RSA” and draw appropriate lessons: it’s not simple (at all); it has adverse economic effects; and it is widely denounced, notably on the right, as “assistance” (assistanat) that deprives those who claim the benefit from any incentive to look for a job, thus making them live off the middle class taxpayers. If you know politics, you can guess where this is going. Unfortunately, politics is not Silicon Valley’s strong suit.
Adding to this, also check out the work of Steve Keen, of Debunking Economics fame. He has been expanding on Minsky for years, and posted quite a few great lectures on his Youtube channel:

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/research/

https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfSteveKeen
I can't vote in Germany. I'm not a "second class of citizen", I'm literally not a citizen.
I've been on a low carb diet since June. I've lost 30 pounds and my high blood pressure is now gone (I read 97/63 last week).

My glucose went from 134 mg/do to 96 in 2 months. A1C from 6.5% to 5.5%. Now normal again.

If you've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes you should try a very low carb diet before anything else. It really seems to work.
We can just send couples with a contract to have sex regularly. I am sure many people are willing to subscribe to that and professional attitude should guarantee to fulfill the contract even if negative sentiments start to set in at some point. Afterall such contracts were common throughout the history and people did just fine.
Why these Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software
Agreed. Lord Baden-Powell would be very disappointed at the Boy Scouts as it exists today.

But I do seem to meet a large number of young adults that could benefit from a similar experience to Scouting, in terms of learning valuable life skills, building self-confidence, and as a way of broadening their experience outside of urban life.
What they forget to mention is none of the countries mentioned adulterate their foods with Iron and B Vitamins[0]. They eat real food, not something cooked up in a lab. When you take that into account, the "french paradox" isn't all that paradoxical. Unenriched wheat and rice have a suppressing effect on appetite, whereas enriched wheat and rice has the opposite effect.

[0]: an excess of B vitamins makes it easier to overeat. More information here: http://freetheanimal.com/2016/05/supplementation-livestock-o...
It is very hard to complete a course without having the prerequisites. If you took some courses in math and Python you would probably be able to pass it with much more ease.
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There are tens of millions of people [1] who work on Sundays - something that has occurred as we moved into a 'modern urban economy'. I'm not convinced that moving it to a weekend would make any noticeable difference in the numbers. The weekend is no longer 'special' except mostly for white collar professionals.

[1] I couldn't find any actual numbers so I was just looking up retail and restaurant industry jobs on the BLS website, but WiseGeek claims (without a reference) that the BLS says 35% of Americans work weekends.
Basic Income (aka universal welfare) is bullshit because it is authoritarian. It depends on throwing people who refuse to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade in prison, where they are confined like captive animals, so that the rest of the population is cowed into handing over the demanded amount.

Likewise, the author's arguments for social welfare are bullshit:

>There are two reasons why those four risks call for social state intervention. The first is their high criticality. A risk is critical if it is highly probable: for instance, most of us are bound to get old (dying young, fortunately, remains a small probability). A risk is also critical if, however improbable, it can have a devastating impact on your life: having cancer can ruin you if you don’t have health insurance; losing your job can plunge you into a devastating spiral towards poverty, etc. By definition, criticality is probability times impact.

That does not explain why we have to resort to state intervention.

>The other reason why these risks are not well-covered on the insurance market is that they are all affected by what economists call market imperfections. Moral hazard, a well-known imperfection, “occurs when one person takes more risks because someone else bears the cost of those risks”: it plays a key role when it comes to covering the unemployment risk.

This does not explain why we need state intervention. It sounds like market insurance doesn't want to cover these things for sound economic reasons, so he wants the government to cover it instead (even though it faces all of the same micro-economic problems, like moral hazard).

>Another frequent imperfection on insurance markets is adverse selection: if given the choice, an insurer will refuse to cover those who present signs of a high level of risk, thus providing insurance only to those who eventually don’t need it.

False. An insurer will cover a person who pays a premium that accounts for the risk.

This has the economically necessary effect of encouraging people to get insurance before they get sick and need it.
What kind of data do you have? Is this mostly text, or more like compressed time series?
And what happens in the very long term? What happens when kids are raised with the attitude that they are guaranteed to survive on basic income? What happens when their number grows? What happens when that large group feels that bare survival doesn't cut it any more and want more? What happens if the numbers actually don't pan out but scared politicians doon't want to give up power and cook the books for decades? Remember that after similar initiatives short and mid-term gains were huge, but in the long-term they lead to apathy, corruption and very uncompetitive economy.

There are two states in nature. You either grow or you shrink. You remove the incentive to grow and guess what happens next.

Or if you want to really start thinking hard, maybe you should ask yourself what happens when everybody has X in money and businesses raise their prices accordingly?
The French program as quoted is nothing like basic income. I've seen quite a few people just need a few bucks. The longterm risk of that and the likelihood that if they didn't get the few bucks they would need permanent safety net was sometimes pretty high.

For example, I knew a vet in college who came very close to dropping out, where a few hundred bucks the safety net never knew he needed made all the difference. I can only imagine what percent of their lifetime writeoffs come from having these condescending "shutup, we know what you need" safety net systems.
This being China...what are the chances they can buy existing designs and reverse engineer them and improve then so they don't start from scratch. They've done it before...
>> It is not like we can't afford it.

Have you looked at the US Economy lately?

(Jan 2016) Why 2016 keeps getting uglier for US economy - http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/29/why-2016-keeps-getting-uglier...

(April 2016) Americans' confidence in economy at 2016 low - http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/news/economy/us-economic-con...

(June 2016) The next recession is already here—and there isn't much the Fed can do - http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/21/the-next-recession-is-already...

I'm all for a basic income for lower income families, but I'm not sure how routinely volatile our economy is, we really afford this long term. What happens when you put something like this in place, and then can't afford it? There's a long list of government programs already awash in waste and mismanagement. I'm not sure another program (which would have to take the place of other programs - WIC, TEFAP, HUD, etc) is really going to solve the problem.
shrugs I don't know. It happens.

Anyways, there is an issue with FBM's multi-way: It's designed as an invite only system: you have a list of people you want to talk to multi-way, and you talk to them. This is fine in certain contexts, but in other contexts, the "room" abstraction used by IRC is more effective, as it allows you to have conversations with a strictly defined topic, but not strictly defined participants, the opposite of FBM. FBM's system is fine for small-scale multi-way communication between known parties, but that's not what people use IRC for.
Probably the same reason you need to do a full iOS upgrade just to update Apple Music app.
There is nothing preventing distributed systems to be faster than one box for this kind of thing. But they don't always bother to pursue efficiency on that level, because things are very different once you have a lot of boxes and something that used to look important for a couple of boxes doesn't anymore.
Mesa Verde is pretty grandiose though, the buildings themselves are a little pedestrian but very well conserved and the overall site (including the mesas) makes it pretty awesome, standing in Cliff Palace is an interesting experience.

It's a bit isolated though, unless you really want to see Four Corners (which is completely uninteresting) it's a serious détour from the Yellowstone — Salt Lake — Canyons axis from which you'd likely turn west rather than east (or turn east south of Grand Canyon to Petrified Forest then go back west immediately). And sadly I don't remember anything of interest in the Navajo reservation (back when we went through anyway) which stands right between Grand Canyon and Mesa Verde.