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> You know the Rothschild? Rockefeller? In what period they made most of their money?. In those with the higher "rich taxes".

No, that's not true. The highest marginal tax rates were between 1940 and 1963. Source: http://webarchive.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/Content/PDF/t...
The conclusion isn't that everything is hunky dory. What he does conclude is that labor's share of income hasn't much changed. What has changed is the distribution of income between laborers. As has been noted in about a million places, gains have increasingly been going to those at the top.

Your chart implies some sort of breakdown between productivity and income but does not demonstrate that productivity gains have been equally distributed. In fact, there are a lot of reasons to think that most productivity gains are going towards the top end of the labor pool as well. Due to the lever of technology, we see increasingly small (in terms of # of employees) firms serve increasingly large markets.
The Game Genie is actually a fascinating piece of hardware/software, and there are many great tales like this one associated with it. Also of significance is its cousin, the Game Shark, which came a bit later.

I never really got the hang of asm myself, though... I should probably give writing some GB software a crack at some point. I might actually learn it if there's a use.
Demos are down (from here: http://objsheets-demo.csail.mit.edu/?examplesNamePrefix=fvQ6...)
Often times, experience suggests people are not saints and will do or not do things unless compelled by laws and rules.
Fair point. My personal answer, that I do not try to push on others, is that we all should try to be agents of change. To be fair to the publisher they made it clear that they have quality content next to the cheap content.
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You think nobody would be interested in a personal trainer robot, but there'd be a substantiative jump in the number of people demanding new personal trainers?
This is either weird propaganda or very funny.
Maybe he or she meant backwardation?
If i remember correctly "The big short" is about something that happened in 2007 though, so check your futures, and do not taunt happy fun negative interest rates!
Not only does the website still exist, so does RISC OS. And it's free.

That's right, if you've got a Raspberry Pi or other RISC computer on your hands, you can re-live the 90's once again, and emulate the 80's from within it.

Have fun.
Agreed, "it's their job" is a poor excuse - that's only because someone chose to make it their job. We could instead have a resource where you can search for what you want and use that resource to request things, oh wait we have that, so we don't need cold callers in society. They seem only useful to the capitalist owners who employ them.
Thanks, and I agree on your quick analysis: no decisions yet. The NHTSB's policy will almost undoubtedly also need to be tested in court, as it appears on the surface that it over-simplifies some critical things.
I haven't studied this deeply at all, but the nature of capitalism posits that there could be checks and balances to incentivize against this?
I've been working on/with an environment that gives me feedback on every keystroke. The effect has been amazing, and it's always painful to go back to regular environments. Even traditional Smalltalks or REPLs where I have to do something to execute the current command are jarring. Regular compile/link/debug is painful. Xcode is excruciating.
Agreed. Although I'm not optimistic about Basic-Income itself, I think something similar to that will take over. The longer we wait to experiment and see the pro's and con's of each system, the harder it is going to be to implement a working one once we need it.
The answer really depends on what you mean by "multi-master" - particularly whether you're looking for synchronous or asynchronous solution, what consistency model you need (strongly consistent cluster or nodes consistent independently), and what are your goals (write scalability, read scalability, disaster recovery, ...).

BDR is meant to be asynchronous multi-master, i.e. a collection of nodes that are strongly consistent on their own, but the changes between the nodes are replicated asynchronously. Great for geographically distributed databases (users access their local node), for example.
Mike Pall may not be maintaining Luajit any longer, but he still plays some sort of role preserving his legacy - shutting down genuine problems as wontfix. Here's one example:

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/203

This is not helpful.

I stand by my assessment that luajit is unsupported software. If it works for you - all the best.
The one cartridge I want to know more about (that I never owned myself, but was a huge influence on me) is ISEPIC for the C64 (I always pronounced it "I-Sep-Ick" which obviously is wrong). From what I can put together myself after the fact, it dumped the loaded game from memory to disk and included a fastloader to read that dump back into RAM. I had hundreds of games on floppies that my cousins mailed to me monthly. In particular, I remember Beach Head II - the dumped game ran fine, but when I tried to duplicate the floppy it was on, I ended up with a long message about how pirating games was wrong, and then my computer crashed.

I never had the cartridge myself, but the cartridge wasn't necessary to play the dumped games.
do you guys have a blog post or anything talking about why you settled on Azure? I've used both azure and aws a decent amount now, and GitLab falls outside the "right place for the right tool" mentality I've been operating with. Most of our infrastructure is in Azure, but it's also mainly windows (azure has the best windows VM pricing with a moderate was agreement, which isn't surprising). There are some regulatory considerations for us too, buts that's anither conversation.
I'll push this one step further and say The Economy is not the ecology.
Super Noah's Arc 3D on the SNES did this.

It actually recently showed up on Steam for $5 for some reason. It runs on all platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, and by extension most of the UNIXes that can emulate one of the three), and has generally good reviews, if you're interested.
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It's not surprising that interest income has been reclassified from rent to natural profit. One only needs to consider who is doing the classification to understand it.
Never feel afraid to take people to task for stupid comments, if only to point out that their comment only managed to waste both your time.

I completely agree with you though. I find I have to be very defensive with my question asking these days. I spend time explaining what I've searched for. You still get people telling you it's so obvious a monkey could have found it, but there's generally less talk of me being lazy. Just stupid.

FWIW I'm a moderator on another big SE site and I try to put those sorts of people in their place. It's completely counter productive to be so combative with question-askers... But some people just want to moan.
We can't control what we don't measure. For better or worse it is a time honored tradition to optimize for that measurement. It generally leads to fast improvements until the system is gamed to a degree that measurement and reality decouple.
The reason we have sayings like "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything" is partly because execution often contains or reveals a great deal more information and unstated assumptions than your nutshell explanation.

There is a great scene in The Hudsucker Proxy where he shows a circle and then a line as his diagram of his idea. This turns out to be the hula hoop and is wildly successful. The scene basically repeats -- drawing of a circle for top view, line for side view -- but the idea is now the frisbee.

Effectively communicating ideas in any kind of meaningful, meaty way is incredibly hard. This is part of why demos are so useful.

To sell an idea you must effectively communicate it. People sell ideas all the time, though perhaps not in the sense you mean. For example, people trying to get funding for a movie routinely have to sell the idea. This is where you get expressions like "it's Uber for X." This is an attempt at getting across a density of information succinctly.

Effectively conveying a dense amount of information in a small package is an art form in its own right. People often pay to have that done or to get help with it. It's a very separate skill from seeing a solution in context because of having done work that exposed you to certain experiences.
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You don't have to go that far even. Many people don't realize the economy is not the whole of society.

The idea that economy is embedded in society rather than the other way around is a radical thought.
> Is everyone going to buy a personal trainer robot?

Why would you need a robot? Millions of people today already use video-guided workouts off YouTube or follow semi-customised apps that tell them what workout to do, etc.
Now it's making sence, and the reason the website is currently for sale is because it will have an expiration date, but I could be completely wrong.

I went through his comment history, and the guy seems like a straight shooter. He did say he likes to buy domain names directly from the current owner.

I do question the faster program he coded, but then again in his comment history, he is very interested in Amazon servers.
So, I should take him at his word, and look into this domain catching software.

There's a part of me that thinks he is buying up .io domains directly from owners, and putting them into a auction buying API? Actually, in one interview he claimed to own 700 .io domains. Maybe he was just one of the first to buy .io domains, and then set up a website to auction them off?

(personally I don't get the allure of .io domain names. Registration is $100yr., then drops to--I believe $50. And there's no ICANN protection.)
I'm an incredibly lazy programmer, I remember nothing, it's simply not worth it imho. I hate man pages and specs and generally reading boring tech docs. I hate memorising stuff.

I Google incredibly basic stuff like how to read files, how to read a web page (something that changes every 5 months in .Net), hell, even basic jQuery functionality.

The difference is that I have the knowledge deep down, I just use SO and Google as a prompt. I know the correct answer as soon as I see it. I get exposed to a lot of basic answers on SO, and generally they're right.

SO is generally good and is not suffering the problem you or the OP claim.
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Good point. Had you made it more general I could have criticized you the other way. Your original observation is sound.
At the risk of being simplistic, because so did the "stuff" supply. Inflation is when the money supply increases without the stuff supply increasing, so each dollar is worth less stuff.
No one censored your comment. It is right here on the page for anyone to read. Dan merely moved it down on the page, and it's far from the bottom.

He even took the time to write two very polite and friendly explanations of the action, even in the face of your hostile attitude toward him.
>Most peoples understanding is about as deep as the most popular news magazines headline

exactly!which is why, however you put it, with parliaments or with referendums, or with any other kind of "democratic" tool, the basis of democracy is information. When people/media have advantages in something, they will be biased, making democracy actually an oligarchy. If I was Swiss, I would try to understand who is selling me this information. Who is behind this wanted "misinformation"? Most of the time it boils down to people having interests in certain companies. Can it be that, let's say, that most newspapers are "getting convinced" by authorities? Just saying, of course.
“A Possible Future of Software Development” by  Sean Parent [video] (2007)
If you buy a domain from a squatter, you encourage domain squatting. Domains are not that important as most browsers send the url to a search engine. So just register brand-name.com instead of brandname.com. Or pick another TLD.
Things get bad even before extractors enter the picture [0]; just a disadvantage in strategy update rate will result in the formation of cartel structures.

The economy will function as long as there are sufficient physical resources and human will. Finance cannot kill it.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3798
Babel is temporary solution and we should all remember this. Babel should ideally be obsolete in 2-3 years when IE11 will get eradicated by MS. Babel imo is pretty bad idea, I think its name imply this as well.
I've answered 21 questions, got upvotes on 15 answers, 3 answers accepted by owners, asked 2 questions by myself and both were upvoted. I have no idea what these people in the article are talking about. SO is super friendly and super helpful.
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Most real (good) biographies are not written by the successful person itself(autobiographies).

In most real biographies you learn a lot about the sacrifices the person had to do in order to be successful(success meaning getting the outcome they wanted to get). Most people won't make the sacrifices because they want the output, but not the way to get there.

You see the Ads? Get slim and strong without effort. That is what people want.

For example, Mother Teresa was successful in helping hundreds of thousands of people, that was what she wanted, but did tremendous sacrifices for getting there.

I personally met Vicente Ferrer and talked with him(I was very young and was shocked for what he told me) when Indian usurers wanted to kill him or at least exile him from India. He had to renounce Spanish citizenship to continue his work and was very successful in the end.

My father met Almodovar when other people called him a failure, shouted and insulted him on the street for making the films he did.

It is only thanks to early aviation pioneers, most of them died in accidents, that planes fly.

Explorers like Christopher Colombus or Livingstone changed history. But Livingstone wife died in one of his travels, Colombus became bankrupted following his dream. He had to give his child in adoption.

Gutenberg spent his entire life perfecting a machine, the printing press, that only worked well after he had died.

Elon Musk personal life is a drama. But he is hell bent on getting to Mars and he will get there. Period.
C actually makes it really hard to trap on overflow. It's one of the biggest reasons C kinda sucks.

The way a lot of HLLs do it is to detect a potential overflow, and convert to bignum if needed.
Well, the interest part of the mortgage payment is tax deductible, so that offsets things somewhat. Not 100%, but somewhat.

Basically the amount you're paying in interest is tax-deductible, but you're not building equity.
Not exactly. The question is whether a capitalist society has a stable equilibrium growth path. Mainstream economics assumes a stable equilibrium, because that makes the math work nicely.

Physicists have known for a long time that many systems have unstable equilibria, where a random deviation knocking the system from equilibrium can result in catastrophe. This is the general field of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. The economists, the most famous ones at least, reject the idea without discussion, that the economy could be a chaotic system or even have manifolds where it might enter a chaotic regime.
Yes, it means it was tested with up to 48 nodes.

There's no hard limit on the number of nodes, but at the moment BDR uses full mesh topology (each node has connections to all other nodes), which becomes an issue as the number of nodes increases.
So, servants for the aristocrats, basically. Nice utopian future, if you're rich.
Is it common for the hosting company to know which client is being targetted by the DDoS?
It's really the operating system - and the network.
Yes, but Manhattan isn't suburbia like Sunnyvale is.
Sega v. Accolade[0] is an interesting take on the same issue.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
I have tried this for Windows and could not find the right magic to bring my yubico and ssh keys together (keepass otp stinks). What am I missing?
"Audience member: So how do you deprecate something from an open ISA?

[...]
Patterson: we can add things to it and we can take things out, but it’s going to be like the US Congress; it’s a slow-changing system, and that’s on purpose. [...] That is why I think it’s not going to add two instructions per month for 40 years like the x86."

Interesting argument: open source hardware will evolve slower than proprietary hardware and thus accumulate less/no 'junk DNA'?

If we get an open instruction set that works like that, I can see the forking happening when important players think standardization is going to slowly or instructions get retired too soon.
What do you mean by kill? To me it's likely that finance represents a depressingly large drain on growth in output/welfare compared to a better regulated alternative but I can't see it making things bad enough to cause anarchy/ rebellion.
Phasing out Proposition 13 is not the same as immediately repealing it and going back to pre proposition 13 taxes.

If you read the OP's detailed comment, he proposes limiting the yearly tax payments. Consequently it would be no worse than now if someone wants to stay in their home. What would change, however, is that the person would pay more of the gains to the city when the house is sold. In your senior citizen example, the elderly will most likely stay in their home until they pass so this will affect only the inheritance.

This would also discourage property owners from just sitting on their property. There are empty lots in Palo Alto because the owner only needs to pay $1000 year in property taxes. This would encourage them to sell the land to people who could use it more productively.
Not exactly. It means that enough infrastructure was moved into PostgreSQL 9.6, making it possible to run BDR on unmodified PostgreSQL. Before 9.6 it was necessary to use patched PostgreSQL packages.
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I've often wondered how much money is spent on the money system itself. There are people whose entire days are spent devoted to the goal of keeping the money system flowing. They could be off somewhere else, tending gardens, nurturing children, cooking, educating, repairing, cleaning, healing from stress and trauma, etc. But no, they are at some office working for the all mighty dollar. Keeping tabs on society at large.

I'm not saying that it is overall evil to count supply and demand of resources. I'm merely wondering if the current state of money systems is really well suited to do this without devastating collateral damage on its host, the "human resources."
This is an enormous deal to me, although I'm only messing about with Node and Meteor.

Productivity plumets if a change takes long enough to be visible for me to justify looking at Twitter.
I get the premise behind your answer I believe. What I am asking is, what's to stop the markets (especially in the US where greed reigns) from increasing the cost of things such as food and shelter artificially b/c of this free money, making this "basic income" all but useless? Meaning at some point it wont even cover the most basic and modest of necessities.
> lmao, man i liked when the term "hacker" was directed toward blackhats.

Well, that usage was incorrect, but I agree that nowadays everyone's calling themselves a hacker of some sort.
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Why is there no mentioning of SPARC or other open source RISC architectures.
What about phage therapy(1)? Why does it seem to be completely ignored in the west?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage#Phage_therapy
A torrent with one million public keys of the most prominent journalists wouldn't be big (32 MB if we use Ed25519), and would allow them to host their content from torrents with few seeders, without fear of being over-crowded by malicious nodes with wrong data. Of course, we'd have to make sure that this particular public key-torrent is not taken over either, but it's a lot easier to secure a single torrent than to secure the torrents containing all articles of all journalists.

krebsonsecurity.com basically works as Brian Krebs' public key: any information you get from that domain via HTTPS is considered signed by Brian Krebs. But it constitutes a fairly crude PKI system, where the public key is tied to a domain that simultaneously has the job of distributing the signed information. The solution requires a separation of public key and information distribution: information must not be tied to a location, and the location of the public key should differ from that of the signed information.

All in all, I would say that (D)DoS is a problem of the transport protocol, not of the internet. Distributing information of high negative value to certain parties requires a different protocol than serving cat pictures does, which is why the BitTorrent protocol appeared in the first place: to counter the takedown of information (copyrighted content) whose publication is deemed of negative value to certain parties (copyright holders).
You have no idea how deep what you're saying resonates with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2owZXPyeilc
> "Investment (in an aggregate economy) must equal savings; this is an identity, not an equation. Any money that is invested (whether loaned to private individuals to buy a house or car, or whether invested by the state into public infrastructure) - all that requires others' savings in order to happen."

Sorry to say but whilst what you say makes logical sense, it is in fact wrong.

When a bank makes someone a loan for a house, for example, it isn't based on anyone's savings. It's based on nothing. Creating the loan creates brand new money, backed by the value of the same loan. In other words, when the bank gives you the money for the loan, it is the contract to pay that loan back which is the asset the bank gets in exchange.

As for hoarding fiat money, it absolutely is a real thing, but it comes in many forms. When it comes to uses of money, not all uses are equal. For example, increasing house prices rob an economy of its productivity, as money becomes locked away in a non-productive form. Money can only 'do work' and help an economy grow as a medium of exchange. It is, in a sense, lubricant for the economic engine. One of the reasons we have economic inflation as standard is to ensure there's always enough money in the system to function as a medium of exchange, counteracting the money that is lost from active use by saving and other non-productive uses.

That's not to say saving is all bad, it still makes sense at a certain level, but it's not universally good.
In theory you're right. But it's dense terse code with very little documentation. Some people can fix obvious problems around the edges, but no one would tackle a serious refactoring, porting to more recent version of Lua or adding a new feature.
I'm only saying that's their argument.
A thousand times yes. Stack Overflow has such a high page rank, that closed questions are often at the top of Google Search results. Keeping closed questions available for Google to find is a massive waste of time. On the Google result page it looks like this is exactly the right question -- but just like Experts Exchange, the page doesn't tell you the solution.

If Stack Overflow really wanted to make life easier for people, they would delete closed questions, or move them to a directory that is excluded from search engines. Closed questions are basically bait-and-switch for searchers; they show the question, but don't have an answer.
That's awesome, not sure if this was around last time I tried but it is still hard to find, thanks! :)
I know why the C++ codebase was written, but MC:W10 doesn't make sense, and neither does MCED moving off MCJE.