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> I know I'm ranting but to me, society looks like a giant treading mill. Happiness and the slow, intelligent life have been forgotten in favor of a society of endless work and jobs. Contributing to the labor force has become a religion. The simple idea of idleness and staying at home to paint or draw seems to drive people crazy. It should not.

I mean, to a degree i can understand what you mean. We are seeking happiness in the treadmill and that rarely seems to bring it. We hope that after the treadmill there will be happiness, but few are sure of that.

My problem though, with what i took from your words, was that it sounds like you believe work is becoming less and less required. I don't feel that's true, unfortunately.

I think that will become true, in time, but we don't have the technology to automate the work we need to. Sure, we have various factory line jobs replaces with robotics, and we're working on lots of general replacement (Taxis, for example), but most of the labor force, even "just" manual labor, requires specific intensive understanding that we are not even close to replicating with robotics. Hell, we're still struggling to walk easily and effectively. Sure, walking robots are becoming more natural and skilled, but it's definitely still a WIP.

My robotics leap may have seemed odd, but that's what i believe is required before your comment holds true. Work will always be required - there is no doubt about that. Someone, some thing, will be doing work. And humanity will only be able to ignore work once we've enslaved something else to do it for us.

So back to topic, i think part of the stress you feel from society is a bit of a "i have to do it, so you have to do it" thing. Why should you get to do what you like, when others so clearly cant? You could argue that we're all expecting too much, we don't need the gadgets/etc, and that living very frugal can be a means to happiness, but living frugal doesn't absolve yourself from work.

The frugal lives of the world still work. Some may not work as hard, some may have much more free time, but there's still work to be done. You still have to learn the trades to repair your stuff, or pay someone else to do it for you. To grow your food, or to pay someone else to. And etc.

I'm not trying to come off aggressive, so i hope it doesn't seem that way. Perhaps i'm missing your point, but the statement of:

> ... and it's fine, because work is less and less necessary.

Seems very very foreign to me.
> I don't know why they would put out a few hundred gigabytes of fake files.

The same reason a stick-up man might put their hand in their pocket to mimic the shape of a gun. If you have no weapon, it's still often useful to make people think you have one.
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How? Without immigrants, the social benefit system would reduce anyways because there aren't enough young people to pay into the system. In addition, both low and high skilled migrants increase productivity and per capita GDP in advanced economies (Source : IMF) [0].

[0] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2016/02/pdf/c4.pdf
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Statistics foR women for reference : https://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/Laborforce_par_rate_edu_att_sex...

Women labor force participation rate in india 24% http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/24/opinion/why-arent-india...
I think I resonate with you.

I think that the number one occupation we should have is to live our lives. The way we do this should be according to our values and not neccesarily to how others think we should.

Now, life has a mechanistic component driven by neccesities and an artistic one driven by ideals, self expression and pleasure.

The promised goal of modern technology was that a large part of the rutined work covering the neccesities of life would be outsourced to machines while humans could occupy themselves with the more pleasurable aspects of life..

I'm not sure if many realize, but in such a world very few would actually work. All the rest will play.

This is what AI will make a reality, and the job market needs a radical reform.

We should all prepare to transition from a work based paradigm to a play based paradigm. If you're doing it already good to you.

The subject is vast and has multiple implications but that's all I could distill in a HN post.
Seems dubious. 50% of American adults have had chronic pain for the last 20 years, but unemployment among men has gone up dramatically in that time.

That said, we should ban companies like Red Bull from sponsoring extreme sports. Every time you see one of those People Are Awesome videos in your Facebook feed there is an entire cohort of permanently disabled kids that went into the making. There is a great documentary called Crash Reel about this.
It's not very hard to find

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
> The point that new parties have not actually been elected is not a sign that democracy doesn't work, it is a sign that people in summary don't actually think any of them would be an improvement.

Whilst this is true, it also matters how the people's will is summarised, and (perhaps even more importantly) how that summing method affects the behaviour of the people.

The obvious example being that first-past-the-post systems have a tendency to get ~2 dominant parties (e.g. US and UK), whilst proportional systems tend to get more parties or coalitions (e.g. Germany and Scotland).

Hence, in a first-past-the-post system, the fact that new parties don't tend to get elected is a sign that people don't think those parties offer enough of an improvement to convince a majority of voters to sacrifice their influence on the race between the big 2. It's like a giant prisoner's dilemma, where it's possible for every individual to think that some new party is a big improvement, but for nobody to vote for that party as they don't trust others to cooperate.

Although there are second-order effects, e.g. it may be worth chasing a seat in parliament even if there's no hope of forming a government; or getting second-order effects from an issue/protest vote (e.g. voting UKIP to influence whichever majority party wins to focus on immigration)
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I'm traveling in West Africa right now, and it's fascinating me how different the reality here on the ground is to what thousands of people tried to warn me off. A huge percentage of people think "Africa" is a war-torn, disease infested hell hole and that I would be murdered on day one.

I have spent a massive amount of time wondering why people have such a distorted view of reality, and are so adamant about it - even though they have zero first, second or even third hand experience.

I honestly believe it's caused by the 24-hour "news" spin-cylce in America.

Those "news" stations discovered long ago they need sensationalist stories to continually hook people in. They need shock value, they need over-the-top. And so it goes that when they report on "Africa" they report about some war. Then a month later it's Ebola on the other side of the continent. Then a month later it's famine in some other distant part of the continent. Never mind that in the mean time hundreds of millions of warm, kind, generous people are happily living their lives, smiling, partying and loving life. The picture mass media paints simply does not include 99.9% of what actually happens here, because it's not sensationalist enough for their ratings. And so the average American sitting at home is told that "Africa" is war/disease/famine, which is only a tiny percentage of the whole picture. The "news" stations are not actually lying, they're just painting a fraction of the overall truth. And it's the fraction that gets them good ratings, not the fraction that everyday people need to know about to be well informed about the world.

Exactly the same thing is true of the reporting of Australia in America. Australia is actually a very stable place, nothing much really happens (no civil war, no prime ministers assassinated, little violence etc.) Of course, the media looks for something sensationalist, and now a massive number of people think Australia is "full of deadly animals waiting to kill you". The first time I saw a report of a shark attack in Australia on TV in America I was gob smacked and thought 50 people must have died by the way they were carrying on for 5 hours. In fact one person had a small bite on their leg that needed a few stitches. Having lived there for 23 years I can tell you the majority of Australians have never even seen a deadly animal, but that doesn't stop the American media painting that false picture and the false story continuing.

In the case of Australia it's mostly funny/harmless, and characters like Steve Irwin even played up to it really successfully. Obviously in the case of Africa it's extremely harmful.

I think it's terrifying when the outlet a society relies upon to receive information about the world is so utterly biased and wrong. When 330 million people don't know the truth, how can they make good decisions?
Check point 6 of the linked article.
The Brits had a gradual accumulation of rights. First more for the upper nobility, later for the common man, too. They also had pretty stable governance for quite a while now.

The Civil War interrupted that stability a bit (as
AlgorithmicTime in a dead comment points out), but that wasn't as much upheaval as eg the French revolution.

> Not that important for what?

Western Democracy. Sorry for the confusion, I was relying too much on context here.
>what your concerns are with Clintons' politics or potentially shady dealings, they pale in comparison to the alternative.

How about a side by side comparison?
SystemD eh? No hope for him then.
Ideally, something like Basic Income. In the UK the means testing for benefits if you find yourself out of work has resulted in numerous suicides:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-sm...
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> to really help the world is turning off it's platform for a one day each week

For this to work, there would have to be solidarity among the other platforms, all of them turning off on the same day (yes, even HN!)

But I can actually imagine the world's productivity boost on such a day.
"There's no evidence that Kamaev's death was unnatural, but the well-known poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service and KGB, and a laundry list of journalists who've died during Vladimir Putin’s regime, could leave an observer forgivably suspicious. It’s hard to avoid thinking about it, as the 2016 Rio Summer Games kick off under the cloud of Russia’s doping scandal, which in scope exceeds anything enacted during the Soviet era."

http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/russian-olympic-doping-sc...
I know there are tons of old lenses on the market. For me the main reason to go with Fuji was that they have a 100-400mm lens for which Sony doesn't have an equivalent. Obviously this may change but as of now I find the Sony APS-C lens selection a little uninspiring. I thought about the A7ii though but I didn't like the handling.
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> There is literally no goal set for me. Will I get a pension when I get older? WHO KNOWS? Will I ever get off working even when I reach a very old age? Who knows, most likely i'll be working for the rest of my life...

There is an universal retirement scheme in USA, isn't that money enough?
It depends on what the problem is. Sometimes you just need to take a day off and recuperate or work through your problems or spend time with loved ones or whatever will help you deal with the stuff that's going on in your life.

Other times, it's just time to move on, or working will distract you in a productive way from something you can't change, or it's not a problem that merits taking time off. So what then?

Here are some things that work for me:

- start the workday with a 10-15 minute free write (pen and paper, not keyboard) about what's on my mind and distracting me. Sometimes we just need to take some time to acknowledge what we're feeling and think it through in order to be able to set it aside for a few hours.

- take 5-20 minutes for a short meditation session. It gives you the mental space to be calm and focused and reminds your brain what that feels like.

- write down a list of 1-3 things that MUST get done that day. If it's not on an actual, meaningful hard deadline or blocking someone else, it's not a must.

- work out and write down the smallest action that can be taken to get started on each of those tasks: open a blank email and address it; open a specific file of code and add a breakpoint; etc.

- do a couple small, self-contained tasks to get a quick "win" - even if they're not important ones. Complete that low-priority ticket about changing a font color, or add an email filter to get that LinkedIn recruiter spam out of your inbox, or find a couple reams of paper to lift your external monitor to a better viewing angle.

- if all else fails, caffeine is excellent for enhancing focus, especially if you use it infrequently.
I don't see anything about concrete evidence, but "The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails" is a clear accusation.
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You probably want 'arguably' here instead of 'argumentably.'
There's this thing called Accelerated Returns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change
> Upstream can't be expected to release packages for every distro (if any).

This isn't provide distro specific packages this is provide the one extra file over macOS and Windows.

Also this is for the health of the Linux environment.

That is why we have RPM and Deb they work for MANY distros and if your outside that then the source is there for aa build. One day appimage, flatpak or Snap will make this easier.
Any research on association of joblessness with internet addiction? I know China has entire state-sponsored treatment programs for internet/video game addiction; they think it is a real problem. I think if a person is consuming 8-9 hours of electronic media per day (which is around average), particularly internet or video games, then their motivation/capacity to interface with the real world is severely damaged. In many ways reality is not as rewarding/stimulating as the internet, but is also more difficult and risky. Just take the case of mating: I can enjoy simulated physical intimacy with literally thousands of physically attractive women with 0 risk of rejection and 0 effort, or I can take on the risk of painful rejection and enormous effort of achieving "social status" and being "charismatic" in order to attract an "actual" woman with whom I get to have "actual" sex, which at the end of the day is just not as good as fake sex with 100s of different electronic women. And really, if I have no need to find a real woman, what need do I have to find a job? Electronic stimulation is severely fucking up the reward/motivation functioning of the human brain, at least for some people, in the same way alcohol is a huge problem for some people.

I think the other factor is simply technological productivity. A handful of software engineers can run e.g. Facebook, a social networking site for billions of people. A handful of farmers can produce food for billions of people. Every job opening receives 100s to 1000s of resumes because the world's productivity to consumption of human labor ratio increases every day. If you're not like a top .01% skill level person, you're really not needed. Your brain has been obsoleted.
Perpetual low interest rates are crushing the middle class and men are opting out. Check out Japan for a glimpse at that future. Mathmatically it cannot last forever, so it will correct itself. The question is if there is a slow controlled deflation or a rapid deflation (crash or war). Unfortunately given our politics and banking system a rapid deflation seems unavoidable.
>Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.

There are weasel words if you are led to believe they are referring to the DNC/Podesta hacks. Again read carefully. To which activity are they referring to in that sentence?
The updates drove me away from Windows 10 years ago.

I still have a windows machine for occasional games. What drives me nuts is "Install Updates and Shut Down" leads to a 15 minute boot time. WTF? I thought all that was supposed to finish before the computer turned off???
While I like this idea, it still runs into the same issue as patents with respect to enforcement. It would be very difficult to get all the copycats to actually fork over the 1-3% of sales on their knockoff product.
Do you have personal projects though? I know a few people who have used a long disability/unemployment period as an opportunity to work on one project while receiving enough money to survive without needing immediate profitability. Having a degree doesn't have anything to do with that, either.

I'm not in your place so I'm not saying you should do it, or even that I would actually do that if it were me. But I think I would try to consider this as an opportunity.

On the other hand, I have absolutely no problem with people being supported without doing productive work, because that's the way some of the greatest artists, inventors or scientists have been able to do their thing in the past.

I think universal basic income is the answer to this situation. The fact that you are (apparently) able to survive in our society without being a productive worker seems to be proof that society doesn't need everyone to be workers, contrary to what current politicians (at least in France) say about work, and how having a job seems to be the most important part of life and of citizenship. While the most important thing should just be taking part in society, and having a job clearly doesn't help with that unless you think society is just a large company, which is wrong.

Anyway, just don't forget that a lot of people don't have a problem with others staying at home to paint, draw, write or think. Society isn't blaming you for being lazy, only most of its rulers are, and those people who listen too much to them. It's not easy, but try not to get too influenced by the opinions you keep hearing in public medias, because they're all run by people who have an interest in having citizens think they have to work.
Each and every one of these cases is - assuming this is the whole truth - a total disgrace to whatever goes for justice.

The degree of petty vengefulness on display is revolting.
Dude, I can understand what you're saying here!

Those who haven't lived through a depression will never understand your plight and obviously not be able to "see" the challenges you face -- how oddly suppressed your voice is against this entire world -- but walk out of this ditch right now. It is going to kill you and even then the world will not understand your pain because it's designed that way.

You don't have to contribute or be a part of the machinery. Do not feed the for-profit machinery that you, like many of us, sorely dislike. Go into non-profit mode perhaps?: help a charity, give shelter to other underprivileged people or may be start an open source movement to make the machinery bleed.

Don't just sit and lose these moments explaining your situation to people who're blind and deaf and presumably dumb. They'll never see. They'll never see until this depression hits them for reasons of their own.
This exact url was posted earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12719095
Mass media fear-mongering has been around as long as I have been alive, and as easy to reach as the evening news.
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I'm actually not certain what you are getting at. This reads as unambiguously as any media coverage I've seen, to me at least. How could you phrase this any more unambiguously than "The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government..."

What's more interesting to me is that Wikileaks is mentioned specifically in that release. I'm surprised they did this. They'd surely score more points by not acknowledging that Wikileaks exists. The fact that they did, really clearly supports what the OP said, in my opinion.
> Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails

That is not an accusation that the Russians are behind the DNC/Podesta leaks. Read carefully. These statements are constructed with the utmost care.
well it's using a 555-based power supply (555 drivers a step-up transformer), bit ambiguous but I think it qualifies.

I'm really glad to see this kind of thing on HN, much nicer than the usual "framework for X".
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And there'd be no report on the Internet that cell coverage around the Ecuadorian embassy mysteriously failed? They'd have to compel every person in the area to keep quiet or to not leave the area.
Nuclear power has three big issues:

- Costs: In recent years it has become prohibitively expensive in the west to build nuclear reactors. Hinkley point C in the UK will have higher cost per MWh than wind or even photovoltaics.

- Nuclear waste: Many supposedly safe storage solutions such as in former salt mines have turned out to be unsafe. Gen IV reactors produce less, but not nothing at all.

- Security and safety: They're centralized infrastructure, attacking them has catastrophic consequences, unknown unknows like in Fukushima and human errors like in Chernobyl do happen and lead to catastrophes.
This kind of crap on HN? Srsly? The problem with desktop Linux is poor hardware support. I have Ubuntu on a desktop and on a relatively recent HP laptop. Here's a short list of problems I've experienced - incorrect Nvidia drivers installed by default, random crashes after screen lock, brightness controls don't work out-of-the-box, Wi-Fi dies after waking up, fingerprint scanner doesn't work and never will. I never had to deal with such crap on a Mac.
Do you have a source for this claim?
Whether or not this 'passes the smell test', it is provably what Amazon does, as confirmed by extensive reporting and several court cases. I think you just aren't in the same situation.

The difference, if I had to guess? You want "dependable, trustworthy employees who work diligently and productively." That's an excellent goal, and I realize that it's a hard thing to find. Employees who are known to have these traits make a significant premium over minimum wage, even at unskilled tasks.

Amazon... doesn't seek that. These are backend workers, so attitude and customer service aren't relevant. Their warehouse workers are run through metal detectors to prevent theft. They're forbidden from having phones on the job. They can't perform self-directed work; instead they're directed in every task in close detail by software. They can't schedule anything themselves; food and bathroom breaks are rigorously limited, and require checking out through metal detectors to access. Diligence is replaced by incredibly demanding standards for minimum performance.

In short, they've opted out of seeking workers with the desirable traits you mention. With decent wages in low-employment areas, people will suck up all of that, at least for a time.
"Do you think I wouldn't like to idle at home as I please, and paint and write and read and laze about?"

So why don't you? I get that if everyone did that, it wouldn't work, but you aren't everyone. You're just you.