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I think Varoufakis is profoundly misled in thinking that basic income can be a left-wing policy.

It is a well-known fact that there are two versions of basic income out there: the right-wing version, where welfare is removed and replaced with a single allocation that isn't high enough to live of it; and a left-wing version, where the distributed amount is sufficient to live a decent life and thus gives "real freedom" to people.

Here is why I think the left-wing version is a fantasy: I start from the assumption that capitalistic economies like ours mainly relies on coercion. In other words, critical parts of production depend on people who would rather do something else, if it wasn't their only way to eat. Under that assumption, any policy that gives people a real choice between being employed in a factory and doing the things they really want to do removes in fact the coercion — making the economy collapse.

The form collapsing would take could for example be the following: low-paid, exhausting and low-considered jobs are not taken anymore, and yet society depends on them. The only way to make the workers come back is to pay them much better. But this can only lead to a combination of dramatic price rises and cuts in shareholder profit (and I am not an advocate of capital income, but sadly it is currently one of the main incentives for investment).

For these reasons, I am convinced that any attempt to implement a left-wing basic income will inevitably result in the right-wing version taking over, meaning less rights for the workers and a destroyed welfare.
Is Ubuntu substantially lighter on system resources than macOS? I used a MBP for a few years during the OS X Lion/Mavericks era, and the system struggled on a 4GB/500HDD machine whereas a comparably specced Linux laptop would just fly.
Strange, that link redirects to http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j53/colgate12/weboo-co-img... when I follow it in my normal browser session. It works as expected from incognito mode.
What if you need it one day? You can remove tape from the web cam, but a needle is quite permanent.
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I'd be willing to spend a good 40 bucks on something like this (that may not seem like a lot but 40$ to a college student is a lot). Something that has a twinkle of a promise in teaching a programmer math is something I need in my life.

I just don't "get" what is being told to me when it's in the context of math-notation. As a result I do horrible in math classes in college. The only thing that was taught with a CS-Style notation was approximating using Newton's method. After I saw that it made sense, it was just a recursive method that zeroed in on that location.

Very little aside from that in my calc 1 class made sense. Probably limits, but that's it really. It didn't click as well.

I'd like to get to the point where I understand math concepts as well as I do most of the CS but I just think that's impossible at this point. It seems to be very "this is our garden, you stay in yours".
Judging by the pictures, the new models have pretty much the same keyboard as XPS. And the 15" models only come with numpad, which is a bit silly IMNSHO.
Is there anywhere that covers technology/scientific development well? (Non-software).

I'm always looking for those kinds of things (new sensor, scientific methods, medical advances). But have never found a good forum for this.
Serving everything from one hostname means (i) you don't get 20 DNS lookups to serve a page, one of which might hang up for 5 seconds; (ii) you can use a protocol like http/2 to avoid TCP and SSL renegotiations; (iii) you can stop people from loading up pages with 20MB of Javascript.

There is no doubt that AMP is fast.

The other angle is how it reinforces Google's position for advertising, analytics, search, video and such. On one hand you could say it is "evil" because they are a monopolist, but the status quo is so bad when ad networks are weighing you down with multiple tracking pixels, malware service, etc.
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Yes, it's also an overpriced IQ test, binge drinking retreat, and dating service.
Lucida is an open source end-to-end speech and vision based standalone intelligent personal assistant service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucida_(Intelligent_Assistant)
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Do you charge for a product? Why don't you run ads? Do you have affiliate links?

I'm not sure what can be suggested if you don't have some revenue generating conversion goals. Trying to get mailing list signups, social follows and social shares can't hurt though.
For me, it's been patience, a learning exercise in X11, and a relative approach to 'running well'. On the other hand, out of the box Ubuntu [Unity] is pretty good after adjusting Settings->Display->Scaling.

If not using <technology> is more important than other factors, then life is going to be closer to Arch than batteries included.
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> if you can solve the cosmic ray problem for the journey to Titan, you also just solved it for colonizing Mars.

Not necessarily, if the solution involves "go faster to reduce exposure". Going faster seems a lot more feasible than creating the appropriate protection.
In San Francisco there is a lot of progress that can be made without building up. For example, building more Accessory Dwelling Units [1] and subdividing oversized streets [2].

[1] http://sf-planning.org/ACCESSORY-DWELLING-UNITS

[2] http://narrowstreetssf.com/mcallister/
Can anyone compare the XPS developer editions with the Ubuntu Precision 5000 series laptops? (beyond the obvious hardward differences)

(http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/precision-m551...)
A word of warning: German magazine c't tests this laptop in its newest issue, using the pre-installed Ubuntu but also with Fedora 25 Workstation Edition (also with a Linux 4.9 development kernel), as well as Windows 10. The results regarding Linux compatibility are pretty bad:

- The battery lasts for 13h under Linux, which is not too shabby. However, it lasts a whooping 22,5h with Windows 10.

- The headphone port is very noisy with Linux. No noise whatsoever with Windows.

- WiFi performance is dismal in Linux. No problem with Windows.

- The HDMI port on the separately sold docking station does not work correctly with Linux.

For a laptop that comes with Linux pre-installed, that's pretty disappointing.
I think that, before colonizing other planets, we should start by realizing that Earth can easily sustain human kind for the foreseeable future, given some pretty modest tweaks to our way of life (compared to "going multi-planetary" that is). If we start valuing quality over novelty, stop eating animal-based foods and re-organize to live closer to where we work, we can stop the consumption and that is taxing our ecosystem and cut energy use to manageable levels. If we re-distribute our wealth, population growth will subside. If we put pressure on our rulers, they will work to eliminate the nuclear stockpiles. There are simple solutions to most of our issues. Once we have solved them, maybe we can start thinking about spreading our species to other places.
Would you mind satisfying my curiosity, what part of your development cycle is hindered by not having 10GbE links on your laptop?
I think AMP is the wrong solution, but it does support quite a few third party ad networks:

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/components/amp-ad
Then it becomes my job to keep said system, anti-spam settings, etc updated... I don't want to do that work... Frankly if I didn't have to work for a living, I'd start a new open-source mail system that didn't suck.

I typically don't send more than 40 emails a day. But have several domains I would like to have email for... paying $10/address is a bit steep to say the least for that use case.
Narendra Modi and his party are not alt-right. That's really sad conclusion to draw.
https://www.soundgym.co/

^ if you are a producer trying to train your ear.
Java apps don't scale up. I use ThinkOrSwim (TD Ameritrade) for investing and the scaling is non existent. There are other Java tools necessary for sysadmin work that showed the same behavior.

There was another thing that I can't remember now. Reserve the right to edit here. ;)
Really cool! What software do you use for this?
Goggles work remarkably well down to -100, so pushing that form of technology further doesn't seem too impossible, especially if you add active heating.

Look at how they protect people from the weather in Antarctica, and you'll see the prototypes which could be expanded upon to survive even colder weather.
>"It's very indecent because they are looking at poor people as a profitable market." --Camilla Croso

I don't understand this reasoning. When there is competition, which there is here, profit means the customers are getting value from the service. They aren't being coerced into buying anything. It's not like BIA has a monopoly and the poor have no choice in the matter.
Content blocker problem? They load fine on my iPhone, but if you're blocking the AMP JS library you may have problems.
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how do octals compare to bytes and today's machines ?
Osteoporosis can be easily solved, just exercise on the plane. That is one of the least pressing problems in my opinion.
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Yeah that was poorly phrased on my part. The main point being there exist cultural and governmental areas that are definitely Black like Jackson MI at 80% or whatever other "homeland" type definition you'd like (perhaps based on some counties, etc) yet on a very large federal scale in a country with extremely strong dominant federal government they are a powerless minority.

The Blacks political problem doesn't help the situation. They're extremely politically polarized. If 95%+ vote democrat that means there will never be any internal competition in running their homelands which results pragmatically and historically in ridiculously incompetent small governmental bodies which results in failure. Meanwhile on the larger stage minorities can be kingmakers if and only if they are not polarized, polarized equals marginalized. The D party knows they'll get 95%+ of the vote regardless what they do or promise so they have no motivation to do or promise anything for Blacks. Meanwhile the R party knows they'll get rounding down to 0% of the votes no matter what they do or promise so they also do nothing for Blacks. Net result is Blacks will never have any political influence on national politics until their voting records are closer to 50:50, or at least further from 100:0, until that happens they are disenfranchised above the local level.

That is a side cultural issue in that no one wants to live in a dysfunctional local government if they can avoid it, and disenfranchisement at a higher government level means their unique concerns are going to be eternally ignored if not actively worked against, and neither trend helps integration overall.

The situation in the USA is somewhat similar to the townships system in the bad old days of South Africa, just unofficially. That system wasn't really conducive to integration or positive race relations in general.
You get a dedicated IP only for you. Never had a problem in the past 2 years or so.
Another sci-fi novel about a manned mission to Titan is Stephen Baxter's Titan. It's somewhat depressing though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Baxter_novel)
My experience with ethernet dongles is terrible. The biggest problems I have are erratic behavior on wake up. Like 1Gbps switching to 100Mbps, the device taking forever to be recognised when it is not simply not recognised.
Mind pointing at some research on the intensity and impact of the lensing action? My googling is failing me.

Attempting to leave the earth at all is exceedingly silly. The only thing more silly is not taking any action to ensure that humanity continues beyond Earth.
Loading and transfering VMs
Unfortunately there is massive, systemic corruption within the government of Uganda, and many E. African governments. While they could be right about the poor quality of BIA education, it's equally likely that BIA simply hasn't paid the right people for freedom to operate.
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Dude, that's Charlie Stross. Google him, you might notice some awards being mentioned and stuff. :)
No (and yes). I think that if foreigners are motivated to integrate in the local society and culture, they will find a way to do fine. If that motivation isn't there, I doubt any of these cultural courses and workshops will help much. On the other hand, I do think many if not all people do know that integrating is hard, so a course/workshop/self-help book/whatever will be attractive. Therefore, yes, here lies a business opportunity.
That's sad. Back in my day, the last round was always C. After that you either went public or folded up. The track record of companies that raised a D was so bad that everyone feared a D out of stigma.

Things might have changed a little now, but probably not much. Companies with later than C rounds will prove to be poor investments.
And more stable mostly
Let me get this straight: I'm not a supporter of BJP. They are an alt-right Hindu organisation as the author says (however the notion that they're inspired by Nazis is laughable) and they're probably sexist too.

And the author does not 'expose' anything that is threatening to any 'communities' in India. He's just calling the citizens of India fascists in his high-on-vocabulary rant. He is also twisting and distorting Eco's points to suit what India is now.

I wasn't addressing the author's claims of a fascist India, I was merely pointing out how he falsely pictured Modi (who, in my opinion, is a great leader, atleast relative to the previous 5).
I guess my question then becomes "why does this require AMP?". I mean, I can build a site using standard technologies that doesn't perform 20 DNS lookups or require 20MB of javascript to display. I can do it with 0B Javascript if you really want. Is AMP really about encouraging best practises rather than introducing some new revolutionary technology?
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If you get this laptop don't make the same mistake I made (I have the Skylake version). Don't waste your money buying the Dell™ USB 3.0 Ultra HD Triple Video Docking Station D3100 (which is not even a real docking station cause it won't charge your laptop while connected). This thing uses a proprietary technology called Display Link and the support for Linux is just awful, there's a closed source driver but I wasn't able to connect more than one monitor and the Display Link process uses >30% CPU most of the time.
Over the years, my basic operational distinction between laptops and desktops comes down to Uninteruptable Power Supplies. It's not just working in the coffee shop [though that matters]. Thunderstorms matter too.

By the time I put a NUC on a UPS, and a monitor, keyboard, mouse, what advantage does it have over a regular desktop if I need computing power, or an rPi if I'm just noodling around in the terminal.
Light materials are physically impossible (absorption shield will be heavy anyway), but some energy shield that will deflect radiation could be a solution both for colonies and for spaceships.
Here's my anti spam solution. I created an entire domain for it with a catch all address. When I sign up for a service I use service-name@domain.com, if I get a lot of spam I reject mail for that address at the server.

You are paying for convenience here.
Agree. I use E7470 too. And it can run Windows 7. The only grief I have is the useless fingerprint reader.
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Common causes are things like software upgrades and database changes. There's probably always a way to avoid it but going down for maintenance might be less effort and cheaper overall depending on the site. For example, if you can do it during a known time of low traffic or when you know users will just come back later. I've noticed several UK bank websites go down for maintenance during the night.
Fantastic. I just set it up on a personal domain using AWS Route53. My first message was sent to Gmail and did not go to spam. It was my first time using "TXT" records and took a total of about 45seconds to sign up.
Sorry, but what changelog? Could you link here?
Your response is just so out of place in this discussion though. One single second of the Sun's total energy output is enough to fuel the United States' entire annual energy usage for nine million years. Lack of energy is not a problem, and even if it were, worrying about stockpiling energy on Earth right now in such low amounts to survive the heat death of the universe is like the equivalent of giving a few molecules of water to someone in the desert who's dying of dehydration. It's so many orders of magnitude below significance that it's laughable.

We are facing the very real existential crisis of potentially destroying our civilization through climate change before we can even get off this planet. The heat death of the universe untold billions of years in the future doesn't matter one whit if we don't survive to witness it, and anything we do nowadays won't matter at all towards that end anyway.
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I first came across an alternative view in Godel, Escher, Bach, where Hofstadter was writing about Euclid's parallel postulate and the development of non-euclidean geometry. The latter could have been accepted sooner, he suggests, if people were not hung up on the idea that geometry was about physical space, rather than a derivation from axioms. Ironically, it turned out later that physical space is not euclidean.
That is a naive idea. Profit means the investors are getting a value from their investment. If the customers are getting a value remains to be seen. Especially in education we are talking about years. Unlike a restaurant where you know after the first bite if you got a good service or not.
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External mic I guess.
First of all, I do agree there's much to improve about education.

I don't know if the focus of education should be on "solving problems". Part of it, yes. Parts of education aren't about solving anything. Bullying is a problem in some parts of the world, and not so much in others. I experienced some bullying at school, and it didn't traumatize me. I also made friends and interacted with people, played truant and learned some things. I talked and played with students who had a very different background from mine; I learned about parents and families who thought and acted nothing like mine.

VR & tech don't preclude a social element, that's true, but how it's presented often hints at it. "Replacing teachers with VR" hints at it, for example.
I've never really used the F-keys since my Visual Studio days (F5/F9/F10/F11) when I used to to .NET 2.0 on Windows. However with the touchbar, when you press Fn, the touchbar displays the F-keys instantly (you can choose for them to be displayed by default).

For Android Studio, I also remap the keys to Cmd+something out of consistency with XCode. For instance, I mapped build to Cmd+B etc...
I'm a junior dev with ~2 years experience. Currently I'm primarily doing back-end web work on a massive spaghetti codebase written in Node, Python, and PHP.

My current reading list:

* Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction - Steve McConnell

* Agile Software Development - Robert C. Martin

Upcoming reading list:

* Node.js Design Patterns - Mario Casciaro

* The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt

* Clean Code - Robert C. Martin

* Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler

And maybe Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers.

If anyone has any comments or other suggested readings I'd love to hear them!
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. None of those are simple changes.
Don't most browsers download to a temp folder if the user selects "open" instead of "download"?
> More importantly, my proposal does not affect those scenarios, should they exist.

Really, I am even less sure now what your proposal actually is. Could you explain?

> They're used for local area networks probably over 99.9% of the time.

If you count the global internal networks of companies as "local area networks", sure ...
My best guess is that the operators of the vehicles, and perhaps the vehicles themselves, need to get back to their real jobs come Monday.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ by a long way
Things are not that bad. The OP's post is kind of odd as many others have pointed out. Four adults sharing an apartment is something you would see broke college students doing. It is not the norm and has very little to do with Los Angeles which a huge place.
> Recently I managed to repair an old iPod Video

Wow, I just went down the iFixit rabbit hole of seeing what that entails. My hat is off to you on repairing yours.

Had I been you, I feel like I would have spent the $10 on parts, destroyed the iPod while trying to repair it, then still bought the replacement item--probably something new for $100+ that gets good marks for hackability, and then failed to make full use of it.
My primary email is not where I would start grabbing some pennies in front of the steamroller.
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Wouldn't the worst case for climate change or nuclear war entail humanity's extinction?
Lets not fork the future of space travel please.
I bought the previous version a few months ago, and it was particularly difficult to find on Dell website.
It's a nice piece of kit for sure. I have the smaller battery, and it lasts about 4-5 hours. Would recommend skipping the second SSD and getting the bigger battery if you're off-power alot.

On the negative, Windows 10 HiDPI scaling is still flaky, especially if you have a 1080p external monitor plugged in (then it's essentially broken), so I'd recommend skipping the 4K version.

Also, you might want to set aside a few hours for driver upgrades, unless they've updated the install image since April. Both the WiFi, graphics and USB drivers that shipped on my machine were really flaky.

I haven't tried dual booting it with Linux yet, but it runs a Linux VM just fine. The heaviest application I run on it is probably AutoCAD, which makes it struggle sometimes, especially on battery power.

You might want to also look at the HP EliteBook lineup, I've heard that they're good solid machines, perhaps with less fuss out of the box.
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The collective left are losing their minds, seeing fascism around every corner.
Used this book during an undergraduate introductory course. I am now revisiting some of the chapters again, this is a great book! I think those interested in "data science" should definitely be exposed to some of the concepts introduced in it.
You've got $1000 to spend on a new laptop to run linux, power + portability are equal requirements (this is not a gaming laptop but coding, writing, internet'ing, etc) ... what do you buy? I'm personally partial to thinkpads but which one? New? Used?
UGH REDDIT. You couldn't say forum? It has to be on reddit?

IRC is where it's at tbh.
Peer review and corrections are indeed important, but many have lost respect for traditional news media due to the selective reporting that they feel pushes a certain narrative.
MetaOCaml is about run-time meta-programming. There's your key difference.
I am not being sarcastic. Compared to terraforming, or even colonizing a planet to the point where it becomes a serious alternative to Earth, they are utterly trivial.
> AMP to me is an answer to that

With such statement, it would be appropriate you disclose up front that your employer is Google[1].

[1] http://www.thelowlyprogrammer.com/