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> all government functions that protect the poor from the wealthy

Like the police, who, due to smart phones, are finally being held accountable for the brutality they've been getting away with for decades?

Or maybe you mean civil asset forfeiture, which the police use to steal money from people accused of criminal activity, with no effective mechanism for non-rich people to get it back?

Or maybe the current public school system, which encourages mediocrity and is remarkably ineffective for poor students?

Or maybe you mean the current welfare system, which has the long-term effect of keeping entire populations in destitute poverty even across generational lines?

Or maybe you mean gun control legislation intended to target black populations?

Or maybe you mean the PATRIOT act, which I'm sure has been very helpful in "protecting the poor" (and the rich! Great!) from the apparently ever-present and very serious threat of terrorism?

Because the Koch brothers and the Cato institute have done a great deal of work to improve all of these things.

> re-create feudal Europe

Feudal Europe wasn't libertarian at all. Feudal lords had legal privileges that everyone else didn't. Libertarians believe in a legal system that doesn't afford special privileges to anyone, and they generally believe in government functions like a public police force (although typically a very reserved one compared to present day military-style police forces/SWAT/DEA/etc.).

Such a system wouldn't even be sustainable with current levels of technology. Guerrilla warfare is now too effective compared to the kind of military forces a feudal lord could muster up, and global food production is so high that feudal lords can no longer use food production as a metaphorical (or literal, I suppose) carrot.
It's not cold at all in the winter -- in a typical winter, it hardly ever gets below freezing during the day, and rarely snows "down low". The mountains nearby do get lots of snow. Be aware that we get lots of clouds in the winter; some people can't stand not seeing the sun.

There's tons of good hiking in the seattle area along with boating.

170K is pretty good.
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> At best drug use is suboptimal for a thriving philo-generative culture

The problem with that sentence is "drug use" shoves everything under one umbrella. Your typical sativa high is a sensitivity to music in the way that sounds are broken down spatially, rhythms and bass seem more appealing, an intensity of thoughts - as in the small things now take on more meaning, imagery seems more interesting, colors pop, and it provides a general sense of relaxation as long as you're in a fairly predictable environment, yet you're in total control. Depending on the inclinations of the user it can be used as a tool or abused like anything else. To compare it to hallucinogens, opiates or amphetamines would be quite silly, despite those substances sharing some of those characteristics.
A solar flare or a gamma ray burst might knock out satellites and electrical equipment and damage earth's atmosphere. In the worst case, they could kill a few billion people. But Earth will still be more hospitable than Mars.

>Same reason people crossed the Atlantic, to take part in something greater than themselves.

People crossed the Atlantic because they wanted gold, or slaves, or timber, or land, or because they wanted to escape from religious persecution, or because they were slaves or prisoners transported against their will (by someone who wanted gold, or timber, or land). They received resupply, not as charity, but from companies which expected to receive gold, tobacco, timber, or other goods in return from their investment.

Colonization is driven by economics. That's why thousands live permanently in Norilsk, Yellowknife, La Rinconada,and Kalgoorlie, but nobody lives permanently at Amundsen-Scott, under the sea, or in LEO. If history is any guide, "how will this turn a profit" is the question any Mars colony needs to address if it is to have any hope of prospering.
Typical use cases are:

* fraud and anomaly detection

* recommender systems

* predictive analytics (churn, forecasting)

* image recognition

With image recognition, we hit 98% accuracy on a recent project. Until a few years ago, that was unheard of, and it's simply not possible with other algorithms, so for many companies, deep neural nets can make a significant difference.

Here are two news stories about work we've done for clients:

Making deep learning accessible on Openstack
https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/25/making-deep-learning-...

For Canonical, we built a solution that predicts server breakdowns.

For France Telecom's mobile unit, Orange, we built a fraud detection solution using anomaly detection:

http://www.orangesv.com/blog/orange-deep-learning-work-featu...
Are you claiming that regulation exists to help the little guy, and all deregulation is the work of oppressors?

Consider the work of the Libertarian Party to, for example, free people to braid hair without requiring a year of training to get a license.

Or consider that big corporations love regulations as a way to put barriers in the way of competitors. That's the whole point of the economic idea of "rent seeking", and what public choice economists are talking about when they refer to "regulatory capture".

Or for another example, consider that the despite pandering by politicians, economists pretty consistently agree that the minimum wage causes unemployment - the only controversy is by how much. And the origins of the minimum wage came during Jim Crow, when it was first conceived as a way to price minorities out of the job market.

So it's silly to say that libertarian's opposition to government regulation is obfuscation to cover screwing the little guy.
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This post is pretty dense with misconceptions. The two main points that I would like to clarify:

1. In practice classical computers (as in "Intel CPUs") are better at solving the specific problem D-wave is trying to solve (timewise and pricewise).

2. In theory quantum computers can not solve NP problems exponentially faster than classical computers (a strongly believed conjecture).
Finally, while its use case is certainly minimal in today's home environment ( NAS and WAN faster then 1Gbps ). I am sure this will be very big in corporate environment where i could easily saturate a 1Gbps from my file server, and next hen Wireless router 802.11ax will have real world bandwidth well over 2Gbps.
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These aren't independent variables. The point is that a half an hour run only burns around 300-400 calories, a deficit which could more easily be accomplished by diet. Also, it's possible that the run would increase your appetite.

The point isn't that exercise _can't_ work, it's that aiming for dietary changes has a higher average ROI than exercise.
Theres a lot of reasons this isn't possible, let alone probable.

1. The "algorithms" are input by the users, not dwave. Moreover, you don't even have a way to input an NP-complete problem. You can only input the setup for a very specific type of optimization problem.

2. You're not comparing like with like. Even Dwave doesn't claim to have a general, gate based quantum computer like the sub-100 gate quantum computers you're talking about. The also don't claim coherent entanglement of all 2k qubits; they've still failed to convince anybody more than a handful get entangled together coherently during the operation of the device.

3. The dwave has yet to beat a laptop at any problem, let alone the NP-complete problems of their customers. The only people who buy D-Wave systems are those doing pure research.

4. The sales contracts aren't protected by NDAs. I've talked to people who work on Lockheed's D-Wave (at USC), and all their investigations are freely available on the Arxiv.
Hate to belabor a point but I think there's something I'm missing and want to get to the bottom of it.

I think chefs aren't going anywhere for a while. They're in charge of too many things, from sourcing food, preparing and coming up with new dishes, balancing the seasoning for every dish, etc etc. Appearances to the contrary, I really do like eating good food and I have fairly high standards when it comes to food, and I appreciate what chefs have to do to make the most out of nothing. ("Beef tongue is only 1.50 a pound! Guess what's on special tonight")

The benefit I'm not seeing is having a human being (be it a fast food worker, or a waiter) take your order. That's the part I don't get. I would love to order through a touch screen and just have the food come out. Unless you're a sommelier, you really don't add any value to the dining experience, unless the customer likes bossing people around.
That's a good example but a bit cherry picked. I could just as easily point out the opposite with accessing an account. If insecure, it still requires a certain amount of information and time upfront then some login just to identify the user. The server will compare that to its local data. The time due to network latency or server load means it usually happens in seconds.

Adding a password that gets quickly hashed by the application to be sent instead costs some extra time. Almost nothing given libraries are available and CPU cycles cheap. If remembering the password, the user has to just type it in once or rarely. The hashing happens so fast that the user can't tell it happened on top of already slow network. Most of the time the user of this properly-designed system will simply type the URL, the stuff will auto-fill, and exchange will take same time. No loss in usability except one time whose overall effect is forgotten by many interactions with identical, high usability.

Likewise, a user coding on a CPU like SAFE or CHERI tagged for memory safety in a language that's memory-safe will not be burdened more than someone coding in C on x86. They will be burdened less by less mental effort required in both prevention and debugging of problems. They could theoretically get performance benefits without the tagging but that's only if incorrect software + much extra work is acceptable. If premise is it's correct, which requires safety much of the time, then the more secure CPU and language are better plus improve productivity. Easier to read, too.

A final example is in web development. The initial languages are whatever crap survived and got extended to do things it wasn't meant to. So, people have to write multiple kinds of code with associated frameworks for incompatible browsers, server OS's, and databases. Many efforts to improve this failed to generate productivity/usability and security. Opa shows you can get both by designing a full-stack, ML-like language with strong types that makes many problems impossible by defaults. Easier to write and read plus more secure. Ur/Web does something similar but it's a prototype and functional programming rather than production.

Conclusion: usability and security aren't always at odds. They are also sometimes at odds in some technical, philosophical way that doesn't apply in real-world implementations. Sometimes getting one requires a small sacrifice of the other. Sometimes it requires a major sacrifice or several.

It's not consistently a trade-off in the real world.

Note: I cheat with one final example. An air-gapped Oberon System on Wirth's RISC CPU uses far less transistors, cycles, energy, and time than a full-featured, Internet-enabled desktop for editing documents + many terminal-style apps. Plus you can't get hacked or distracted by Hacker News! :P
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> sin taxes are stupid too

They do work for health benefits though. Tax on tabacco for example does limit the number of people who smoke, which does in turn limit the number of people with cancer and public spending on helping them.

Same for sugary drinks tax and obesity.
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This is not true. It can not test the superposition of the entire search space - this would require an actual quantum computer. (Or maybe I misunderstood your ELI5 explanation, in which case I am sorry)
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Nope, D-Wave is still sponsoring research to find problems where the D-Wave beats consumer PCs (I think the iPad Pro might actually be competitive with it now).
170k in salary sounds really good but since you say total comp, I'm guessing you have stock options or something. So depending on the percentage and what company it is for, 170k total comp could be good or bad.

My first software job was with a big tech company and the stock only went down after I joined. So my stock options were worthless even 10 years later.
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There are many cheap Android phones with keyboards EX: Samsung Stratosphere SCH-i405 for 35$.

Yes, BB may have had better keyboards, but I don't think it's really that huge of a market.
If the mass of a cheetah were kept constant, would its maximum velocity be diminished if more pairs of legs were added?
I don't think this is related to Amazon's SLA. I had this happen to me too, but the package was marked delivered 2 days before it's expected delivery date, and was actually delivered 1 day prior. So yes, strange it's happening, but might not be related to amazon's SLA.
Landsat 8 has 11 different imaging bands, and 2 of them (bands 10 and 11) are thermal infrared bands just for measuring heat.

For more info, see this Landsat 8 cheatsheet (written by my awesome coworker Charlie Loyd):
http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?page_id=5377
AGI and heating oil? There's a troubling gap in reasoning there. Narrow AI and automation replacing jobs has its own set of problems. But a machine intelligence explosion is a completely different thing, and a legitimate existential risk. It's really important to understand the difference and the specific arguments.
Based on Playbook performance, using QNX was one of best choices they ever made. Before that, OK Labs was already deploying user-mode version of popular operating systems on OKL4 microkernel. It's what Blackberry should've done so they get benefits of both ecosystems + rock-solid core. Actually, they should've tried to outbid General Dynamics for OK Labs to just get their people to do the project using their experience. I'd have bought them instead of QNX probably but looking back I'd consider grabbing both. Then dual-license both stacks for personal use to let the OSS improvements roll in. :)
I have to ask: have you ever looked at the Koch brothers' actual views?

Because I have a hard time reconciling your strawman description with http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/13/koch-bros-t... as just one example. Or http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/08/15/clemenc... or http://cjonline.com/news/2015-10-15/forfeiture-reform-aligns... for that matter. Those are not rich people problems they're trying to address there... In fact, I would argue that in the area of criminal justice they are _precisely_ trying to do more to protect the poor from the wealthy.

Now I agree that on some issues they do want to remove government functions that I would prefer remained in place. But that's not the sum total of what they're doing, and while I disagree with them rather strongly on a lot of their views and preferred policies I agree with them quite strongly on some others. As does the ACLU, and our current president, for that matter.
The fiction of markets is that costs and value can be reasonably determined. The truth is that in far too many instances, they cannot. Surface appearances or gross misbeliefs drive costing or valuation models and behavior, and as a consequence, goods are tremendously disvalued.

That's on top of the problems of externalities in which the costs or benefits aren't fully contained to the producer or consumer of a particular good or service.

A misprioritisation of values is what the drunk waking up with a hangover, the sweet-tooth spending 40 years dealing with systemic effects of diabetes, or the smoker suffering 20 years of emphysema and COPD comes to realise. The externalities are the drink-driving victim, the socialised medical costs (and privitised profits of the sugar firms), and the 2nd and tertiary smoke victims.

There are rather larger issues far more fundamental than these in the modern industrial economic system, but I'll spare you that lecture.

The point being that trusting on "the market" to offer corrections simply doesn't work.
Hope it helps, but I wouldn't worry about it. Give a trial so they can test it out. If people are disappointed, then they weren't likely to be your target market anyway (especially if they assume the apps are free!)

I'd also suggest charging more than $9 a month. I appreciate there's a currency difference between the US & Brazil, however that's really not a lot of money. Consider the human support side alone. One question from each customer would likely take months to recover the cost of (and that's after you paid to acquire them, and provide the service).

Just my 2c, but hope it helps!
You're suggesting putting a Ferrari chassis around a 6hp outboard motor. A quantum computer is not a fast computer, it is a different kind of computer.
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Because of thermal noise these things are very cold. At that point the wires are superconducting so you need not worry about that type of losses. None of the advantages of optical processing translate from the classical regime to the quantum.
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Out of curiosity, why did you choose Nexmo over Twilio?
I would express the same sentiment about illegal immigrants. This is to all the people who support Donald Trump's rhetoric about deporting all 11 million undocumented immigrants. These people fled the drug gangs and violence that our war on drugs helped create (think fleeing ISIS) and came to work jobs no one else would take and make a better life for their family. Yes technically they broke a law.

If you're going to argue that we as a country of laws should deport them all back, then I hope you and your family never smoked pot because you broke a law. And since we are a nation of laws - including minimum sentencing laws which the prison industrial complex loves - how would you like it if they looked for you and put you in jail for a victimless crime? Drop your double standard. The Mexican immigrant is better than the potsmoker because they fled violence, wanted to make a better life for their family AND helped do the jobs no one else would. The potsmoker chose to smoke and helped no one except the drug dealers.

Plus we did that already, and it was a disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation -- an estimated 1.2 million US citizens were deported. Plus until 1965, immigration was unrestricted from Mexico and Canada so many of the 11 million broke a law by staying, but not by coming.

You have heard all these myths. The fact is, immigrants have higher labor participation, lower crime rate than the native born population. Especially the illegal immigrants who are afraid of being caught by police and deported. Illegal immigrants do NOT get money from the federal government - if your city pays them take it up with your city. But they pay taxes like everyone else, including sales tax and property taxes. So they pay into the system and get nothing back. You want to deport them all and break up their families so you will end up picking crops, and think this is the way to bring jobs to USA?
Slate did a pretty decent overview of the implications:

"Under typical principles of fairness, JASTA is a just and necessary bill. Under basic norms of international law, however, it is a disaster. A primary justification for foreign sovereign immunity is comity: America doesn’t judge foreign countries’ internal decisions; in return, other countries don’t judge America’s. JASTA would jettison this principle for a different proposition: America doesn’t judge foreign countries’ internal decisions, unless they’re really, really bad. Yes, the bill specifically targets terrorist aid and enablement, but Obama and the State Department are nervous that other countries could retaliate by passing even broader waivers of sovereign immunity, allowing lawsuits against American service members, diplomats, and government officials in their own courts. (And it may go without saying that some of these courts—like, say, Saudi Arabia’s—do not comply with American standards of due process.)"

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/19/_9_11_vict...

Meanwhile 28 of the 97 senators that voted for the veto override have now signed a letter warning of the unintended consequences of JASTA. The mind boggles.

http://www.corker.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d8eee900-5f...
Well, it depends....

There are several variables involved here.

First, what's the possible payout. If the lawyer had a 10% chance to make 10 million, that would be fairly profitable. If he only had a 1% chance to make 10k, not so much.

Second, what else is the lawyer doing? There's a glut of lawyers in the United States right now. If he has his own practice and there's not much business, he might as well take the case. He wasn't getting paid for sure anyways, he might as well take a long shot.

Finally, and the part the makes the US a hotbed for frivolous lawsuits, is the question of whether or not large judgements will be enough of a deterrent for the defendant to settle, regardless of the merits of the case. Look at patent trolls suing amazon, and getting settlements of millions of dollars because they patented an online shopping cart.

Same thing like that, especially if you're a smaller business. The settlements are likely to be lower and the reward less, but they're more likely to pony up 5k to just make the problem go away without the courts getting involved.
This is why sales and marketing is so so important and yet overlooked/undervalued. You might have a great product that's perfect for your customer, but you also have to convince them to use it and pay for it.
Also, this article mentions Indigo can be traced back to India [1]. In fact the word itself means "from India". Another important invention credit wrongly is Arabic numerals.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2011/11/07/142094103/indigo-the-indelible...
WML queries over WMI do not give you the full generality of SQL, though.
Marissa is so completely incompetent. We all know how and why she got the position. It's a shame that she'll profit from her failures and continue unscathed.