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An interesting read but I think it's just the same old "pushing on a rope" situation that people who have been following economic news are already familiar with.

The problem is that central banks are tasked with trying to solve something they are fundamentally incapable of solving on their own. They can QE or reduce rates until the end of time to try and stimulate growth but it has a limited effect on the real economy. Note that it does have some effect on the real economy so it's not completely useless but on its own it isn't good enough.

The players in the market, including both the finance system and individuals, take note of the low interest rates and just increase their leverage into bubbles. As the central banks keep pumping, so do those bubbles inflate. Why would anyone invest in productivity or infrastructure when the governments are signalling you will make a lot more money speculating on bubbles and we will keep backing you up in doing that. Cheap money is a double edged sword.

The real solution IMO is two-fold. First we must accept that at least right now we will not grow our economy as fast as we used to. Second is that rather than trying to stimulate the economy by QE and lower rates the governments should be investing in infrastructure and start normalizing rates (with respect to new realistic growth targets).

The crazy thing about all of this is that at a time governments should be borrowing like crazy (like everyone is doing) to finance their investments because it's so cheap to borrow they are trying to reduce their debt and expenses (with the extreme being "austerity"). Everyone else is acting fairly rationally except the governments.

EDIT: As some of you already know, there is a direct connection between interest rate expectations and asset pricing. So in a sense it is inevitable that the expectation of long term low interest rates will result in asset bubbles. If the long term rate expectation is zero then assets with any non-zero return should be valued at infinity, i.e. dividend stocks, houses etc. Central bankers are absolutely aware of this as they are aware that raising rates will cause asset prices to go down with all the implications. That's why they are stuck at the token 0.25% raise. If the US ever goes negative rates then you'll know we're in real trouble.
TravisCI supports Squeak/Smalltalk builds: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/smalltalk
This article seems to be much ado about nothing. Amazon's buy box algorithm is weighted towards sold or fulfilled by Amazon because Amazon's metrics show that Amazon's customers prefer sold or fulfilled by Amazon.

Many Amazon customers prefer sold or fulfilled by Amazon even if the final price paid is higher than the best price. Sometimes the best deal is not the best price - one has to factor in the hassle of deciding whether a given 3rd party is worth dealing with.

Lastly, I'm also not sure how many customers use Amazon in a way where this supposed hiding of the best prices would be detrimental to them. Speaking as a non-Prime customer of over 15 years, I have never once paid for shipping for an Amazon.com/FBA item. I tend to accumulate items that I'll order eventually in my cart's "Saved for later" and use them to pad out orders I want shipped now up to the free shipping threshold.
A huge part of the musician's work is repeating the same performance over and over. This part is already mostly automatised: you don't need to look for an actual musician to listen to music, more often you turn on your radio / turntable / tape player / CD player / mp3 player / etc.

As far as the creative part is concerned, the offer is already huge and probably exceeds the demand depending how you consider it. So there is not much to expect in that domain either, as far as jobs (or even activities) are concerned.

It is a bit the same for painting. There are people who are willing to buy and can afford to do so, but their problem is then "where am I going to put this?. I already have many that I cannot display...". That's one of the limits the few painters I know hit. Then do have fans, known buyers but if one of these guys buy another painting, it is more to sponsor the painter than because they have a 'use' for the painting.
"Not rational enough"? What are you talking about?

I don't want to think about what time it is when I go on Facebook or whatever, because I have more important things to think about. There is nothing irrational about that (though the premise that increased rationality is something to be desired in this context is deeply questionable to begin with and maybe slightly creepy.)

When an ISP can offer a plan that requires me to think as little about it as possible, that simplicity is a valuable service.
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Having a good mix of other factors.
Slightlyy OT and probably naïve: what is the attractiveness of the .io TLD? If the .com isn't available, why is .io more desirable than any other? Is there a hard reason or is .io just fashionable?
My SO experience is similar to yours.
I don't think that's accurate. In our fractional reserve banking system, banks loan out 90% of their reserves. The net effect of that repeating itself is that you end up with 10 times the amount of money in the system, which is maybe what you're referring to? That's just a side effect of our banking system though. Kind of wonder if there's a stat on how much banking has expanded the money supply at any given moment or if it hovers pretty close to the theoretical limit?
Then why don't they just make it just a little bit harder to ask the first question?

Today this is one of the default privileges, and IMO that is asking for work.
Userify is available as on-premise too. (btw I strongly agree with you... we're offering 5 server enterprise license model and we're looking at an unlimited stripped-down free version.)

Also, you're probably running servers at a third party hypervisor already.. ;) they could be scanning your RAM and reading your disk and you'd never know.
Is there some sort of consensus mechanism at work here, or is it closer to circular replication a la MySQL?
Yes, agreed about the third paragraph.

I think the question about diversity, though, often comes down to "why should you prioritize diversity over other factors", not "why should you not avoid hiring blacks/women etc". I think generally the debate now is about whether a "blind" hiring process would be better than a "diversity-aware" hiring process, where you are actively shooting for a culturally/ethnically/gender diverse team, and about how much "diversity" counts for vs. skill (i.e. person A is a better programmer than person B, but person A is white/straight/male and person B is black/gay/female - how much better than B does A have to be that his value outweighs the diversity value of hiring B).
Its all about marketing strategy.
> "what is that one deciding factor that makes a small business successful?"

Actually, there is an answer to that, and it's the answer to OPs question.

Customers.

It doesn't make a lick of difference how well (or how badly) you do anything else - you might have great customer service, a slick UI and ready to scale to millions of unsers instantly. Without customers, you have nothing.
My dev-loop currently takes ~10sec. But I worked with worse...

Yes I prefer faster loops, but nerver had a job where I could influence the build pipeline...
You can be pretty sure they collect everything that is technically possible at scale. And that there is a back-door to your system in case they need any details.
It feels good that they use encryption though. <sarcasm>
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They were not breaking copyright law at all. Interoperability is not a copyright violation. They were not breaking trademark either, showing a picture of a trademark is not illegal, unless it causes confusion in the mind of the corner. but that would be avoided by adding a simple disclaimer when shipping a cartridge or loading a game.
It does, however, allow those wealthy enough to hire a stream of expert witness to cast doubt on the technique in front of a jury and thereby win at trial while still convicting those who can't afford that.

The naive part of me still hopes this is just an unintended side effect.
Can I ask what library you use for your roguelikes? Last time I was working with ncurses, I found it doesn't support unicode, and wncurses isn't well support on the Mac.
Can you share some evidence for people not on a throne?
I've started to notice: If a company says that they are the "best at $x", they are usually terrible at it. Comcast says they are the best at customer service, health companies say they have the best websites, etc.

In my very limited experience: Advertising/PR groups are given the negative stereotypes for a company, and are told to combat that image. It's because that is cheaper/easier than fixing the actual problem.

The result for me has been: Advertisements like that generally tell me what everyone else hates about that company.
No, the gp was saying it's a perfect tool for squatters to use.
Costs could inflate in the way you say, it all depends on the health of the particular market (e.g. how resistant the market is to collusion/price fixing).

If you wanted a more reliable way to ensure UBI would remain effective, one way would be to treat it as a separate currency that could only be used for the necessities of life. Moves could then be taken to limit profits made on these goods without distorting prices in the rest of the economy. Could also couple this with government support to encourage automation and other savings in these industries. I'd argue both of these changes in combination can result in a UBI system that is protected against price hikes.
Link for the lazy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Some advice from me to ease your experience on SO:

1. Earn some reputation first in order to see how stuff works from the other side. When you join a new company, you don't come the first day and tell everyone how they're doing it wrong before learning about the project, about the tradeoffs etc. Same here.

Having rep above certain threshold gives you additional privileges (commenting, editing etc.).

Also, when you have a rep over few hundred, I'm more likely to even read your question.
Most questions from 0-rep users are very basic same-stuff-again / low-quality questions that are not challenging to answer.

Moreover, when you have some points, you can put a bounty on your question, which means you really want to have a good answer for that and can make a sacrifice, and makes the question stand out (on a separate bounty-enabled-questions page). This gives more incentive to others to look at your question. There's nothing more soul crushing on SO than taking time to write an elaborate answer and getting 0 upvotes, because the guy forgot to upvote or whatever because he doesn't care.

2. It's a misconception that you need to "respond very fast" to the questions to get the rep.
Everyone has a different strategy, and well I spent some time a few years ago using this strategy to get some initial reputation.
But I stopped some 5 years ago. I almost never play the "fastest gun in the west". I google things that I encounter during my normal
daily work, and keep the tab open. If the best answer is not satisfactory, and later I come up with something better, I write it down
as a new answer, and perhaps if I found similar problem in multiple SO questions, I put a comment with a cross-link to my answer in other thread.

You really need very little effort to get SO rep as a part of your normal daily work, yet everything I talk to seem amazed "wow how come you have so much rep on Stack!".
Just create a damn account, be always logged in, and don't keep your solutions for yourself.

3. Try to put up an exhaustive question, write down a SMALL, reproducible scenario, explore some options yourself (ask yourself
"what did I try?").
A lot of newcomers put very vague questions, very little information, it's not fun to ask someone a ten clarifying questions.

4. I felt really bad when I got my first downvote but it was indeed a bad answer, to a different question than the OP asked.
I learnt the lesson and I don't read in haste anymore. It's good to be humbled sometimes.

Regarding "closing as duplicate", it's true some mods are too eager, but if it makes sense, I believe dupe questions should be closed - duplication is not good (DRY) and best code is no code, if possible.
Actually, when the central banks are so scared of the implications of letting companies fail that they start propping them up through QE, it's probably safe to say that Finance is the Economy.
It's hard to say exactly what "protecting the internet itself" really means. And besides, if Cloudflare can offer this protection to both bad apples and to legitimate journalists, then they never even have to make that choice. It'd just be a false dichotomy.

I appreciate your concerns in the sense that the web is no longer decentralized. You might be interested in http://zeronet.io/, which is at least an interesting attempt in encouraging decentralization. But let's face it. Cloudflare is hardly forcing the rest of the web into centralization. They're just helping to protect people that sign up for it, regardless of who they are. They're not here to judge who stays up or not. I feel like that is more in the spirit of the internet than anything.

If Krebs worked with Cloudflare when they had made their offer, I don't think his website would have been down. He's using Project Shield now. And that's fine too.
Totally agree. I spent most of my twenties thinking I worked best at night and couldn't handle waking up early. Fast forward and now I'm up at 6:30 and in bed by 10:00, substantially more productive than before.
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Iceland may be a better bet.
Basic income probably isn't the answer, but instead basic needs being met through education and proper allocation of resources is a very viable answer. FDR had a vision during his time in office which was for every person to own land. Theoretically, if everyone had access to use some amount of land through entitlement - they would be able to use natural means to provide themselves and their family with certain basic needs like food and shelter. With the advent of technology and GMO crops - anyone should be able to understand growing their own food and building their own home when suddenly presented with more free time in the absence of traditional industrial work. I hate to go all Atlas Shrugged on y'all - but Galt's Gulch was effectively this. It was a commune that recognized an individual's power to provide for themselves when presented with the means to meet their basic human needs.
112 bit effective strength has been the required MINIMUM for FIPS/NIST since 2014. ->and that is just to protect you from NON nation state actors.

http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublic...

Plus, we KNOW they were routinely breaking 64bit effective strength since the 90s, 30 years on we need a lot lot more than twice the strength, even against half decent hackers - but changing the backbone is considered "too expensive".

So that isn't ME saying the US doesn't have anything valuable enough to protect. Its the US standards agencies.
Can you share in general how it improves over aiohttp (speed, architecture etc)
Thanks - I stand corrected. I've been to SF and much further south, I didn't quite realise/remember that the suburbs start so close to the bay.
Satisfying a need.
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In Warrant Buffet's biography "the snowball" (in which according to the author she had freedom in what to write and was directed to highlight the negative as well) he acknowledges that he won the genetic and country lottery, so there are biographies and biographies, and it's true that many are hagiographies or ghost-written and basically made up like "Trump's" The Art of the Deal.
Nope, I'm not referring to fractional reserve banking. I'm literally referring to banks creating loans out of nothing but the promise to pay them back.

I realise this is fairly uncommon knowledge, and doesn't seem to make sense. I'd recommend watching this video for a brief synopsis of how it works.

http://youtu.be/KvpbQlQwl0A
>a piece of kit they use once or twice and then discard

You're not thinking big enough. Microscopes aren't just a teaching tool, they're a powerful tool for observation of the world.

One example is soil microbiology identification, which can be learned in a couple days and used to guide rehabilitation of degraded agricultural soils.[1] A microscope can reveal pathogens in polluted water. And not to mention all the medical procedures that boil down to "prep it and look at it through a microscope."

The kids of today are the scientists and technologists of tomorrow.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2H60ritjag
transactional DDL => if your application often has schema update and you use a tool like Doctrine for PHP / Alembic for python, when a downgrade or upgrade fail on MySQL in the middle became the create index was already taken by someone who "hot-fixed" the database and that now you're in an inconsistent state and you have to clean stuff by hand you will regret to not be on PostgreSQL where it will have simply rollback the transaction, leaving you in a consistent state, you fix the migration, you hit again the command and you can go back home

hstore/jsonb/array/composite types https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/rowtypes.html : array is often a good option to implement tag system

partial index: imagine you have a lot of "soft deleted" rows (i.e with a flag deleted turned to true), you can create an index that ignore them

index on expression: you often do request like "where date = today" , but you store timestamp precise to the second ? and you don't want to run date_trunc(your_column, 'day') , which it also a function not present in mysql..., everytime, nor you want to create a dedicated column for that only for the sake of performance, index on expression permit you to do that.

integrated full text search: you have a smallteam, and you don't feel like maintaining one more service for indexing and keeping in sync your search engine, here you are (of course it's not perfect but better than the option provided by MySQL)

table inheritance for partionning: you create one table "orders" , and you can easily partion them into "orders_2016" "orders_2015" etc. while still simply selecting things out of "orders"

constraints: your column "event_start" must be before "event_end", you can enforce that at the table level in PostgreSQL

text columns: in PostgreSQL don't worry with varchar(XXX) with XXX being the subject to flamewars (256 ? 500 ? 1000), the type "text" in postgresql is up to 2Go and as efficient as varchar()

uuid support: postgresql support uuid natively as primary keys (without needing to resort to a varchar ofcourse...)

And I've only talking about the advantage of PostgreSQL, not the strange defect of MySQL: for example that you can only have 1 column with a default timestamp, that your autoicrements will overflow silently taking back previous ids , a lot of things are only "warnings" (value not in an enum, fine I will insert null) that you will not see in your application code except if you really look hard for it.

Edit: I've used MySQL extensively and only started for now 2 years to use PostgreSQL, and though I have more knowledge in MySQL optimization and internals, and I don't consider it "bad", it's just 'so so', you will definitely be able to do whatever you want with it and it will not betray you hard, but PostgreSQL is just from an other league and will actively help you.
If Luckey loses his job, it will be because society has said "we don't like what you said and here's the consequence of that."

"Society" can do that? Who holds "society" accountable for right and wrong? (I need not remind you of how some societies have done vicious things in the past.)
It depends on if you're CPU bound or IO bound. If you're CPU bound - switching to an async based web framework may not help that much. If you're IO bound, and you're using synchronous web workers that are sitting idle waiting from responses from databases, etc... an async approach might work better. I don't necessarily think asyncio is the answer though, when you can just (for the most part) drop in gevent or eventlet which provides coroutines that you can use as light-weight threads that can perform IO bound work concurrently with out much change to your codebase.

At work, we use Flask+Gevent for our HTTP API. It's worked pretty well so far!
Indians buying from India, or Indian-Americans?

Usually when people mention foreigners in real estate, they are talking about nonresident investors (often Chinese citizens). Calling out mere ethnicity of homebuyers is weird.
I don't, and for those who like me didn't know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#Design_and...

Apparently it was initially meant to help identify re-entering warheads so that they could be shot down before hitting their targets.
I actually agree with your general point, which is that Manhattan presents a much more single car friendly work environment but disagree with your characterization of Sunnyvale.

I chose to buy my house in Sunnyvale because it was near the "center" of things (and for a time that was a bit more literal than I expected). Within ~30 minutes of downtown Sunnyvale by bike you can work at Apple, Google, LinkedIn, HP, Yahoo!, NetApp, Intel, AMD, and Amazon. Not walkable but not particularly bad either.
But we don't yet even have a good model of the dynamics of the current system, let alone any good predictions for specific welfare measures of alternate systems.
People are discussing very different situations.

You're describing routine purchases in (perhaps) a market in West Africa, probably with few tourists around. The hawkers aren't making any money from dishonest sales to tourists, and sales are probably reasonably consistent. Repeat customers are common.

The others are describing very popular tourist areas in poorer parts of Europe. All their money comes from tourists, sales rise and fall frequently, there are no repeat customers, and there is strong competition between hawkers for the best places, and possibly efforts to keep newcomers out of the trade.
Well, before SO, you had sites like 'Expert Sex Change' (expertsexchange.com) which would purport to answer your question, but gray/blur out the actual text. They then required payment to expose the answers, which often turned out to be non-existent.

On the other hand, I've had a lot of success with SO, both asking and answering, and while there are occasions where I find questions closed as duplicates or off-topic, they are pretty rare. I frequent the Java, Docker, Kubernetes, jclouds and similar categories, and they are generally very good.

It may be down to the choice of topic? Perhaps PHP and .NET have more first-time users, and a lower quality of questions? I don't know; although since the SO data is all freely available [1] it might make a nice research project to discover [2] what causes these questions to be closed!

[1] https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
[2] https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/540597/ov...