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> If you remove the incentive to avoid, it'll be less worthwhile to avoid

Taxes are needed to pay for hospitals, teachers, firefighters... what happens if the amount that the 1% think is fine doesn't cover for that expenses? They have so much money that they can afford private version of that services. But what is in that model for the rest of citizens?

This is a problem between short term benefit for a few against long term losses for everyone. It is not possible to have a modern society with low rates of death by sickness and low levels of violence and crime if we can't afford to have in place none less improve all the current safeguards.
If I understood correctly then this was considered as a not necessary step.

Now given the Twitters nature then is there such a model that is even approximately accurate?

Or in other words, what relevant data Twitters collects and how accurate it is?
There needs to be a massive, institutional and cultural, dramatic shift in thinking.

Instead of seeing wealthy folks and thinking we should charge them more and more in taxes, because "they can afford it" - rather, we need to go after our government for run-away spending!

The US federal government collects more money in tax revenue alone, than ever before in the history of any country that has ever been.

It's ridiculous that so many citizens have this mindset that it's still "not enough", and worse, that people more successful than oneself should foot the bill so that you can enjoy more nice things.
>I've heard of Fossil before but never dug too deeply.

Pun not intended?
I'm not that familiar with trending hashtags on Twitter. It says the first hashtag was 6am Eastern Time. That's mid-day in Europe. I'd suggest this is planned. It was picked up by a few American cities (NY, Philly, DC) before it hit big in the UK. It was almost an hour later that it started picking up in other American cities around 7am for Boston, Charlotte, Chicago and Cleveland.
If Nature would be able to think ahead, it'd have already colonized the Solar System.
That's probably the only good thing about Twitter then. The people making the site should be better rewarded than those at the top, that have less to do with it.
Long but worth the read.

I'm working on a startup that has built a PaaS that helps people with beginner or intermediate tech skills build apps quickly, and I agree that building the platform is like a guiding a mountaineer to Camp IV on Everest. Using the same platform to build a bunch of ready-made apps (that can be easily customized if required) is like helping them reach the Summit.

There is still a ton of value in building the platform because it helps us create a whole bunch of these ready-made apps that address different use cases very quickly. The cherry on top is that customizations are very easy and where the non-technical user has the problem-solver mindset, they can make those changes without us.
It could be useful for solving the Urinal Problem:

http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~kranakis/Papers/urinal.pdf
What happens is that someone gets as angsty about it as you just displayed, but decides to do something about it, and starts a website generation service.

Y'know, that one your odd uncle is using.
I read it every day and comment once in a while.

I also post links sometimes, not often.

For Russians - m Russian - it's clear from my name that I'm a girl. not sure about non Russians.
Use what makes you happy/gets the job done. I'm bep and one of the Hugo core devs, so I'm biased.

But I'm also a heavy Hugo user.

For me speed is very important. And with Hugo's great live reload, the editing of content and styles while getting instant feedback in the browser, it doesn't get much better than that.

Hugo 0.17 was released two days ago with native multilingual support. Important for some bloggers, but a pretty huge thing for documentation sites.
You could also read it as a societal trouble that family didn't look after her.
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You could argue she has, and here we are on the cusp to do just that.
This remains a bit of a silly argument. It is like saying we can wipe out poverty if only more people were able to get rich: the way that people progress is through collective provision.

That means the state, or associations of people who value privacy (who may not all be technically savvy!) who can pool their resources and offer something normal people can use. This, unlike the decentralised web, could engender the same kind of network effect that whatsapp and facebook benefit from.

I've written about this and heard more people make the same argument lately: it isn't technology that will bring about privacy on the internet, but a democratic organisation, founded by concerned citizens, governed by anyone who has an interest in promoting privacy and run on behalf of anyone who wants to benefit from it.

There are a lot of benefits to this approach: you lose the engineering challenges of VC backed companies (no data mining operation) and of cyberpunks setting out to let everyone be their own little island (protocols and amateur operators). Jurisdictions can offer different advantages, like company forms with regulated purposes written into their founding documents, or more favourable privacy laws.

Off the shelf software can scale all the way that is required for this sort of thing (think apache kafka as the basis for a messaging system like WhatsApp) and the organisation would only have to be financially sustainable like Mozilla, rather than profitable like Facebook.

It also puts privacy into the hands of normal people, who can take part in governance and protect their data that way, rather than having to learn techie things they don't care about.

Talking about the decentralised web is great, but we often forget what motivates people to want to decentralise in the first place: the fact that their desires are not something the market can cater for, and that what they believe should be their right is simply not available any other way. If we want privacy, we should think about all the means by which we can provide it in the general case, including by collectively owning the means of communication.
Right. Not just building your own but MAINTAINING your old code.

Me in 2014: This seems like a good idea.

Me in 2016: What idiot wrote this crap!
They save money by not having you at the office while it costs you more; electricity, food, home office etc.

And you tend to work longer even if it's just the commute time.

This isn't about it being a perk or not, it's about who is making a financial gain and who is baring the costs.

In this case the company is transferring some of the expenses to you while eliminating others, adding a pay cut to this is not a wise decision.
Looks like it's time to go back to burning.
I cannot find any information regarding McCain from any source that I find credible. The sites that are covering this are ones like Breitbart and Infowars, which are so incredible that, yes, I assume they're reporting from an alternate dimension until something is corroborated by somebody. And I certainly suspect that he probably did something nasty, because--and I know this will shock you deeply--that's what neo-Confederate white-supremacist gay-haters do. And since my experience with Twitter is that I have never seen somebody banned whose banning did not make the service a better place to be, and the names you drop that I do know are abject cancerous people who get off on harming other people, yeah, I will certainly give Twitter the benefit of the doubt.

If they overstep those lines, yes, I'll certainly reevaluate. And given actual proof, I'd be willing to revise my weakly-held stance even on a neo-Confederate, white-supremacist gay-hater like McCain. There's a reason that elsewhere in this thread I've made a point of saying that people who, say, threaten Donald Trump should be treated the exact same way because I don't believe that that kind of abuse is acceptable from any quarter.

But that proof will never, ever be forthcoming.

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I'm getting kind of tired of this dance, though, so let's be really real here for a second. 'Cause I have this sneaking suspicion that this is about a very Southern flavor of "freedom", the freedom to do unto others. 'Cause I remember the hair-shirt conservative screams about BlockTogether when that rolled out, the idea that block lists were an attack on the right.

You won't go make Your Own Twitter not because you feel contrary, it's not because you're going to be a gadfly just because you Don't Respect The Left. It's because you will have nobody there who you can scream at. That's really the genesis of this complaint. It's the perceived right that other people have to listen to you.

And they don't. And that's why I'm done with you here. HAND.
Sad to hear that its bad, thanks for the feedback!

Wing is slowly transitioning into using Flexbox, I am well aware of it and the growing compatibility, but most people would like for it to work on IE 9+, which is why I use the normal grid.

I'm not sure about you, but the grid comes in pretty handy sometimes, I agree that there are simpler solutions, and I'm implementing those in Wing.

CSS is slowly evolving, Wing is meant to be there as a boilerplate, similar to Skeleton. As the features of CSS grow, such as Flexbox and the grid, Wing will slowly no longer be needed.

If you would like, you can help make Wing better by contributing at https://github.com/KingPixil/wing

It would be really helpful, and Wing can become better and better.
could you provide your code/instructions for mirroring to GitHub? I presume you mirror on every local commit?
Jekyll's workflow is horrible compared to Hugo. A single binary that explains mostly whats going wrong vs a crazy mix of ruby gems that need to be installed with a meta-package that is hard to find in the Github support docs.

I currently use it in place of Jekyll on github. I fought jekyll enough trying to get it to do what I wanted. Now I don't need to worry about it.

Another awesome feature: Since this is mostly used for personal sites and a lot of those are portfolio + blogs you have multiple "content type"s made by different folders. So you can show all your posts easily by iterating over the posts and then show all your projects by doing the same. They each can have separate default templates.
Well.. countries are allowed to set their own tax laws. That’s part of what makes a country. Fiscal sovereignty right there. Ireland (obviously) purposely created their tax framework so it would allow for this kind of behaviour. The world is battling for the tax dollars of wealthy people and their corporations. The EU ruling is just an initial opinion of the EU commission. It’ll have to go through the ECJ first.

Countries are starving for tax income and have very clear conflicts of interests: they want to 1) tax their normal residents as much as possible, but at the same time 2) hand out low tax “freebies” to non residents (or HNWIs) so they will book some of their taxable profits in their jurisdictions. This needs to stop (globally) before you can effectively combat avoidance. But I doubt it’s ever going to happen.
Minimal is referring to the variety of features in a relatively low file size.
> These are their cultural values!

There are horrible cultures in the world; I agree.

> That means borders

NOPE

This merely traps people where these bad cultures are, and this in my mind is the great immorality. You cannot tell a person "you live in a failed place, but you stuck there forever in poverty, and because of the luck of where I am born, I am entitled to greater things."

You allow for a free movement of people, you will perhaps see a transient spreading of some worse cultures, but in a free marketplace of ideas, they will not remain ascendent-- barbarities and oppression simply aren't very effective. Loss-aversion is no way to build a community.

> and if you don't allow borders on the outside of a country then they develop themselves on the inside of a country. Look at the USA, they have gated communities because there exist predominately minority group areas with high crime rates.

Very true, which is why Georgists pull for a Land Value Tax, which would do much to end this segregation.
Just because A is better than B doesn't mean that A is good.
I doubt it since the air pods are just Bluetooth headphones.
I make archives and put them in S3.

Use pg_dump and tar then just s3cp
Or an organisation people could freely join without being forced to learn system administration concepts and practices. Imagine WhatsApp, but owned and sustained by (a subset of) its users on a non-commercial basis.
I'm going to implement a plugin feature soon, and you will be able to run a custom build with any plugin.
>Philosophy of science is less about telling scientists how to behave than trying to understand what actually happens when scientists do what they do, what science accomplishes on a theoretical level, what the difference between science and non-science is, etc.

I think that may have been Feynman's point.

Whether, or to what extent, Popper's falsifiability criterion is a good description of science is not a problem for scientists.
> You're just arguing for the sake of arguing by taking the words out of context.

No... I specifically asked because I wanted to know why you thought it was condescending. That's a far cry from arguing for the sake of arguing. And it didn't come off at condescending to me.
Another way to keep US businesses competitive is to use tariffs and other economic sanctions against tax havens like Panama, preventing a global race to the bottom.
I agree with you about everything except the documentation being very nice. I was stuck on somewhat of an edge case, and the tutorial style documentation doesn't help for that. I ended up wading through the forum, which is cool to have, but not the same as authoritative docs.
New tech (including dev tools) will get simpler over time and adapt to the needs of the market.

Take web pages as an example. Circa 1995, only a relatively few technical people could weave the HTML magic to create them. Fast-forward 10 years, and 5 year old kids were creating them for fun. The demand for web pages continued to increase and eventually the tools to help the majority of people create them emerged naturally.

IMO, the same will apply to app development tools.
For sure. This is also why "block lists" don't actually, y'know--work. Oh, distributed block lists! Which require somebody to be abused by the new randos before they work!

At some point, and I'd personally argue that that point was a few years ago now, you take the gloves off and start eighty-sixing the bad actors.
Wing has options for <select>, and it looks the same on most browsers/operating systems.

What other things would you like implemented?
It is, but is updated more often and has more features.
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You realize logging IRC and distributing said logs can be completely automatic, right? Anyone can set that up. It's honestly kind of humorous that you find this to be such a mountain to climb.
If you first substract the amount needed just to get by from the income, then you'll find that the people with income below 50k$ actually pay tax off money they need, while people with high-income pay tax off discretionary money.

You can arrive at different conclusion when you start from different data. Starying from raw income and ignboring everything else serves a simple political purpose: to paint low-income people as priviledged and high-income as harassed.

Any discourse which yield outlook that any common-sense person would see doesn't match who is downtrodden and who is priviledged should be taken with a grain a salt and huge scrutiny.
On IRC, your "persistent identity" was your user@hostname (and your nick is ephemeral). That's why the user@hostname is shown when a client joins a channel, or in WHO or WHOIS - and why bans match on nick!user@host.

This worked great when people were typically using IRC from their login on a server at their university (and this is also originally why IRC servers used the 'ident' protocol when you connect - to stop you spoofing other users on the same shared system).

It stopped being a viable persistent identity for all users when the @hostname part stopped being persistent - when people started gettting dynamically assigned addresses on internet connections at home.
In my case, we have anywhere from 3 to 20+ types of employees, and "staff" is the word commonly used to refer to one of those classifications. Certain information requires different levels of protection for some of those classifications. While people can transition between classifications, it's not a very common occurrence, and it only makes handling their information more difficult (and the old classification may apply to the information for a specific period of time after the change, or indefinitely for some types of data).

I basically end up with a "people" table which holds a very small amount of common data and is used in a lot of relationships.

Honestly, the distinctions require a great deal of documentation to fully understand. However, making the data less normalized and a little harder to comprehend also protects new people from making honest mistakes which could lead to legal issues.
> What I do know is that historically large population movements of different peoples are a prelude to war. They always have been and I see no reason why they won't be once more.

I agree more with the concept that strong borders are the prelude to war. To quote H.G. Wells:

> It was just this dignity of government which the crude Darwinism and the Kiplingism of the later Victorian years were destroying. Competition and survival were accepted as the basal facts of life. “War is the natural state of nations,” said a popular London men’s weekly the other day, with an air of repeating something universally known. “Peace is only the interval of rest and preparation between wars.” In accordance with such ideas the growing boy was exhorted to be “loyal” to his school and contemptuous of other schools, “loyal” to his class against other classes, “loyal” to his nation and contemptuous and fierce towards other nations, “loyal” to the English-speaking peoples and contemptuous and hostile to the German or French-speaking. His instinct for brotherhood was narrowed and debased. The universal brotherhood of mankind was laughed to scorn. All life was bickering, he was taught; and yet the whole course of history has shown that the bickering nations perish, and that the alliances and coalescences of peoples and nations ensure the life they comprehend.
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SSRS is really good
SSIS is very acceptable (I mainly use to call SQL Tasks)
and SSAS is really second to none
> militaries never seem to have outfit their soldiers with watches

The UK issues these watches

http://www.cwcwatch.com/collections/general-service-watches/...

I only ever saw them when checking stores - Q would never actually let you take it out and use it!

Maybe you were 'issued' them as well, but like ours they're never let out of the stores?
You're severely discounting the very large margin those companies take. It is not hard to build a medium sized infrastructure, with quality, cheaply - if you have access to expertise. This usually means hiring a few infrastructure jockeys from the larger companies.

Your SLA will likely be better than with public cloud.
Let me ask you this, then: can the principle of falsifiability itself ever be falsified?

If it can't then by its own measure, it's not "scientific". Further, if one scorns anything "unscientific" as valueless, then the principle of falsifiability must also be valueless.
My guess is ubiquity. That is, its no better than most watches technically. But bomb making is also about supply chains and training.

When you make a detonator, you really, really want it to work.

If you show someone "the wires go here and here" on a specific model you don't need to teach them "real" electronics, and theres less uncertainty that the final product will function.

e.g. Arduino is rarely the best mcu for any given application, but it's popular because a) its easily to source and b) there are plenty of "recipes" to follow which don't require much expertise.
No, and because of that you don't pay next year since you are allowed to carry loss forward.

:)
Also, interoperaibilty. The major problem of all these major services is not just centralization, but the fact that they can't even communicate with each other. Their stupid walled garden nature and the fact that they on purpose avoid open standards prevents it. That's what disgusts me the most about Whatsapp, Hangouts, Skype and etc. They are stuck in the non interoperable stone age of computing, while e-mail, much older technology managed to break through years ago as federated and interoperable standard.
Where does the world wide web fit into your model of the world? (it didn't need "collective provision")

All the article proposes is that we don't have our data locked up, that it's not centralized, so that we have control.

This is a pretty simply concept I think you're the only one here who is confused. Your comparison to poverty doesn't make sense, privacy isn't constrained by resources.
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Or use tariffs and other economic sanctions against tax havens to prevent a a global race to the bottom. Lowering taxes is not the only option.
That's nice in theory, but it's better to not to have all your eggs in one basket.
No, it is not a vulnerability. Misunderstanding of this functionality can result in developer introducing a vulnerability, but this is a well described, well defined feature.

Calling this a vulnerability is akin to calling the existence of `rm` a vulnerability because it can delete files.
> I'm not sure if I'm being elitist but a good democracy requires good, educated people

You're not being elitist - good government requires good decisions, which require being educated about the topic. When the people are involved in government (democracy), they also need to understand the ramifications of what they do. The better politically-educated the demographic, the more effective the democracy will be, all other things being equal (which they're usually not...).
Interesting that both incidents took place in Kentucky:

> A man in Kentucky said he was "scared to death" when he woke to a bedroom full of smoke, local media say.

> On Wednesday a replacement Note 7 caught fire on a Southwest Airlines plane due to fly from Louisville, Kentucky, to Baltimore, Maryland.
There is already tax on wealth in every country it's called capital gains tax.

It's taxed at any time when the gain is actually realized e.g when you sell something that has increased in value.

There is no point of taxing wealth at an arbitrary time and this is actually destructive to the middle class and not the wealthiest ones.
nitpick [0] uses your git branches for bug tracking, and has a very easily customizable interface [1]

[0] https://github.com/tst2005/nitpick

[1] http://travisbrown.ca/projects/nitpick/docs/nitpick.html
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Which is literally the worst scenario. An attacker owns your box and now your backups.
These would affect lowest classes more than the rich and would kill social mobility.

Look at the old money problem in Europe.
Came here w/ the same thought.
> pretty damn minimal

Let's revisit which medications have harmful side effects a century from now. It's impractical to run studies with thousands of patients, and we haven't had more than half a century of data on most drugs. Not that there's much interest in replicating studies anyways.

I'm not keen to pop a bunch of pills unless there is significant (absolute, not relative) benefit. Drugs are overprescribed in my part of the world, partly because people assume "cuts risk by 50%" must mean "a lot." It might... it might not.
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