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"the worth of the respectable working life".

There is nothing intrinsically respectable or valuable in a "working life". A "working life" is basically being a slave. Granted nowadays employees are not "owned" by their employers, but the have the big advantage over slaves that nowadays employers don't have to provide for their needs, they just have to pay them.

Nonetheless, the modern slave must find employment to get money and be able to house, clothe and feed himself and his family, and often he even has to find multiple employments. And 50 million of them don't!

What is respectable, is to inherit a rent situation established by the work of one's parents.

What is leftist is to think that living off one's rent is not respectable, only because in the 19th century, only a few of us could inherit of such a rent.

But nowadays, only one percent of the population needs to work in agriculture to feed a country. Currently less than 15% of the population needs to work in factories to provide the country with material goods. A little more are still needed to transport those goods, but it is obvious to every body that manufacturing and transporting material goods will soon be entirely automatic and performed with less than 1% of the population.

Everybody will just become rentiers, and our slaves will be robots.

Already, democrates, socialists, leftists, cannot find any support in a working class which is so minoritary in our economies. This is one of the reasons why they started to import so many immigrants to replace the vote of the workers.

And this is the crux of the problem here: the parents of people from third world countries didn't work hard to provide for their childrens, for the current third world population (apart obviously, and quite ironically, the descendents of African slaves exploited in America, who shall become rentiers as well as the rest of us). Without a bloated wellfare state, third world immigrants don't inherit any rent. But we don't need them to work in our roboticized economies.

So the question is whether our rent would be enough, and if we rentiers would be willing, to share with the world population?

And this is actually to THAT question the Swiss answered "no" 3 to 1! (The question of immigration was predominant when the UBI referendum occured).
Not only that, there are impossibility theorems that say you can't meet everyone's definition of "nondiscriminatory" except in a few trivial cases.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05807v1.pdf

I.e. every algorithm will be "discriminatory" unless you predictor is perfect (i.e. gets 100% of decisions right). It's just a question of which kind of discriminatory they are. The same is true of any human decision process.

Unfortunately this means that we will be subjected to a slew of innumerate reporters posting "XXX is discriminatory" articles, regardless of how decisions are made.
This isn't surprising given everything we're starting to discover about the connection between gut bacteria and mental health[1], and that sugar has been shown to promote the growth of unhealthy gut bacteria[2].

[1]http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/gut-bacter...

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448089/
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Funnily enough, trying to convince people that mainstream news are not trustworthy, that it's impossible to know who's telling the truth, those are well known tactics of the Russian propaganda machine.

Then you get people who lack critical thinking reading crap published by anonymously owned (read: Russian or Russian sympathizers) "news" websites, and they believe it because, "you need to decide for yourself what you believe" and "everyone lies anyway".

Maybe it's less noticeable in different countries, because Russia is not investing as much into distorting the public opinion there, but in Central and Eastern Europe you can see it quite easily.

>The city where the protesters went into war and was bombarded for years and nobody displayed it on the news. Now it is displayed every single day because the people the US is supporting is losing there. Now it is so important civilians in this city, when for years they simply did not exist.

Reusing old/different footage and claiming it's something else. What else is new?

>The city where the protesters went into war and was bombarded for years and nobody displayed it on the news. Now it is displayed every single day because the people the US is supporting is losing there. Now it is so important civilians in this city, when for years they simply did not exist.

You don't mention any specifics, so it's impossible to disagree.. "Now", what is now? Since when? Bombarded for years? Starting when?

What is this manifestation you speak of, where did it happen?
Have you ever considered the possibility that your storage medium or random access memory is corrupt?
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Targeted leaking can be justified. Indiscriminately stealing information can not be. I think that's a better summary of the article. Now, there are a lot of subtleties to this, especially in regards to what Snowden actually did. But I don't think it's fair to boil down the article's premise to "hating on hackers."

Your response actually agrees with the author. I don't think the author would deny that leaking can be and is a necessary part of a free society.
> Virwire exposes all sides of the 'story' and trusts readers to sort out the bs. We believe 'people' are smarter than we give them credit for.

Well HN isn't really a place for jokes and that sure is one if I've ever seen one. People don't care to sort out the BS, they share/read/click on things that reinforce their existing viewpoints and/or bias. It's like putting healthy food and candy on a table and letting lose kids into the room and saying "I'm sure they will pick the nutritionally sound and healthy options".
When there exist two sets of meanings for a word -- one vernacular, the other technical -- we shouldn't try to insist that the technical meaning over-ride the vernacular meaning. That's almost always a losing battle.

Insisting that a system isn't biased in the vernacular sense due to a particular technical notion of bias completely misses the point. And we almost never have enough understanding about the world to make a definitive case that the system isn't biased in the vernacular sense.
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£1m is the price of what would elsewhere be considered a normal sized 'house'. You can't get anything with two bedrooms for less than £500,000. £1m is a good metric for London property.
Well, I suppose if you believe that the news is all inherently false, biased, and generally uninformative, then it probably isn't going to be a good choice for you.

(Incidentally, the Brexit polls were somewhat wrong, but they were not conducted by the newspapers.)
There is a complex relationship between your diet, your gut microbiota (which pre-process your diet for you), and your immune system (which is sensitive to both gross and fine (signaling molecule) changes in the gut). The scope of this relationship was only recently realized, much of it due to new molecular biology techniques. For example there's the recent article about a boost in neuroinflammation observed from the presence of gut microbiota implicated in Parkison's progression in a mouse model, http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(16)31590-2.pdf ). Celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease are two well-known categories of disorders, but more generally your gut is the most permeable interface of your body, so the immune system is very buffed up and sensitive to all kinds of signals there, affecting the background state of the entire system. That has the potential to cause harmful unnecessary inflammation in other parts of the body.
No it's not, it's merely the quantity of it that is.
> So why the clear, blue skies, George Miller? Perhaps the once smoke-filled air in Max’s world has already cleared. But Robock predicts that process would take around 30 years. Why, then, does Max still look so young?

I think they accidentally a word. 30 years == young.
Dollar for dollar Denny's is as good as any Michelin Star restaurant.
> Women, however, seem to have much more pressure to consider fashion.

As an MtF trans person, the blandness and lack of choice available in male clothing, especially professional male clothing, always felt like a straightjacket to me. The lack of options drove me up a wall, and I was either unenthused about or actively repulsed by the few options that were available. I think I ended up wearing a polo shirt and cargo pants most days, just because I couldn't muster up the effort to give a shit.

Before I transitioned, I crossdressed in private just so I could wear something that I actually liked, even if it was just by myself in my house. Unfortunately, that actually delayed my accepting I was trans... for years, I told myself I was "just a crossdresser" because I thought "Well duh, who doesn't prefer women's clothes over men's? Of course every guy wants to be a girl because being a girl is just obviously better." Of course, that turned out to be a bunch of bupkiss, and cis guys just don't think that way, but it took me so many years to realize that.

I didn't start giving a shit about how I looked in public until I transitioned. Finally, I could wear things that I thought looked good, and I actually had meaningful options.
You seem to be confused with theoretical stack-based machines with their clear implementation, and their practical implementations. There's no reason why stack-based machine cannot have one instruction to add a constant, for example "addc 125" to add 125 to the top of the stack.

Similarly, there's no reason why register-based VMs wouldn't have push/pop instructions.
Well, the "nuclear" process in the sun is fusion, which does not (AFAIK) generate any wastes dangerous to life/environment.
My wife's laptop is on its 3rd Magsafe adapter in 7 years. As much as I liked the features it provided Apple couldn't make a charger that could actually handle some abuse and not have the cord fall apart after a year. I mean you just have to read all the reviews at Apple.com to see this a common issue. At least with USB C other companies can make super high quality versions of the cable that will last awhile.
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Interesting. Previous Hacker News discussion failed to turn up any pictures of the Sony uniforms:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101265
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Plenty of Uber drivers only drive customers when they're already heading from one place to another. Since you pick what fares you want to take, a professional leaving from Fairfax to, say, NW DC can exclusively accept a fare going from their relative location to their relative destination.

This wastes maybe a couple of minutes. But it does provide company and perhaps an added member to your network, all while earning you (perhaps negligible amounts of...) money. All this to say, maybe they can run a startup and drive Uber.
That graphic of the screen rolled around the person's wrist would be cool upgrade for football quarterbacks- would allow for more complex game plans since the coordinators could display whatever they want on the screen in real time during the game.

Of course there are probably more important applications of this technology too.
> I disagree. The drive to work and/or be productive is one of the reasons we're the apex predator, and not our prior evolutionary human-like variations. It's not "society" that says you have to work, but your DNA.

I disagree. The large amount of mooches, bums, alcoholics, and freeloaders around clearly points out that the evolutionary hypothesis you posit is wrong.

In general, any time you find yourself trying to justify something with evolutionary psychology, you are probably wrong. I really hate the abuse of the field and the trendy brainless use of "DNA-this" "in-our-DNA that" in popular jargon. Evolutionary psychology is just Social Darwinism for the 21st century with a new name. Unless there is a study that tested and confirmed an evolutionary psychology hypothesis, consider it wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psyc...
Ouch, didn't see that the formatting got lost before editing was frozen ... should be:

Processes:

A (ports out1, out2)

B (ports in1, out1)

C (ports in1, out1)

Connections:

A.out1 -> B.in1

A.out2 -> C.in1
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Yes, that's correct. 4 20" screens with no bezel in between.
The first time I heard about telomeres many years ago, it blew my mind. What everyone has thought of, but no scientist is willing to say out loud is that maybe if the telomere count is reset (like it is for babies!), then we'd have cellular immortality. You could still die from accidents, disease, homicide, but not from ageing.

One sentence background info: Telomeres set a count on how many times a cell can divide before it ceases to divide and becoming old and useless; in humans, the count is 40-60 divisions and then you (the cell anyway) dies. Simplified, but that's the essence.

Yes, this is all extreme speculation, but if telomeres are the basis of ageing, can you imagine the upside for discovering a "cure" for that?

If only someone like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg were willing to throw a billion or $10 billion to answer this question. Ideally it should be government funding it -- like an Apollo moon shot or Manhattan project effort. But any kind of research with words like "immortality" in it will never get off the ground. It has to be funded by an individual or maverick organization.
Have you looked into using a CDN? A good CDN configuration can pay for itself in cost savings, regardless of whether you go self hosted or remain in the cloud.
Maybe the focus on fake news about politics in the popular press will get people to wake up and realize that the problem has been worse, for longer, in the tech press?
Uber agrees:

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/ubers-self-driving-truck-makes...
Not at all. When it's a consistent pattern of leaks that are released and misrepresented (for whatever purpose) that benefit one party...

... well then they are either a tool or a fool.

This is Wikileaks now: either in the pocket, or foolish enabler, of Russian interests.

They could be either, but they are one of them.
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I concur with your overall points.

Rather than a firmware 'reset', a 'firmware safe mode' control.

This loads a super simple and infrequently updated image that lets the car just be a dumb car, and nothing else.
> But the equivalent MacBook is thinner than a lecture pad

Sure, but how much value do you get from that? Weight matters, diagonal matters, but thickness alone makes very little difference unless we're talking about something too thick to fit into a satchel.

> and more powerful at most price points.

I don't think that's true? The top and bottom end specs are pretty similar IIRC (same RAM, similar processor, similar resolution...), except for the Surface having a touchscreen, and the price points are mostly higher for the MacBook.
"Some people are property" was the law of the land and you could do whatever you wanted with your property. And that's just for starters. The notion that some fundamental break occurred at 'enhanced interrogation' is ahistorical.
Was that the hypothesis the author was trying to prove? Because I don't believe it was.
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I'm writing this on a Surface Pro 3, and I've commented on it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9300927

I've been compiling the kernel since I got it, later figured out how to compile only the drivers I needed (specially the keyboard/touchpad) which was reduced over time as more and more drivers were built in.

There was finally a guy that set up an Ubuntu PPA [1] repository from where you can install the whole package, and it was fine until last October when I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 16.10.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~tigerite/+archive/ubuntu/kernel

For that version there is no PPA, and the kernel patches I had been using for the type cover did not work any more (they compile, just do not work). Then I re-installed 16.04 from scratch, but now the tigerite kernel does not boot because of some BTRFS crash (divide by zero) and the standard one only supports the Type Cover 3 keyboard: I have both the v3 and v4, and the later is much better and was working with both my patches and the tigerite kernel.

There are ways to get the Type Cover v3 touchpad working by configuring xorg, but the patches are better because they work with the multitouch driver.

The result is that right now I'm typing on a Lenovo Thinkpad Compact USB keyboard. :-\

In general I like this computer a lot, and nowadays almost everything works out of the box (including volume keys and both cameras) except the most crucial part, the type cover.
The stylus and touchscreen worked fine from the first day.
Suspend never worked, although it kind of did for a few months and now it's broken again. Hybernate should work but I did not do it because I would need to work around the encrypted swap.

I had pledged for the Eve V tablet computer [2], a crowd-funded version which has a few interesting improvements, but I think I'll back down before the deadline because they said they can not support Linux, and I will not have time in the coming months to experiment with it.

[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/eve-v-the-first-ever-crow...

This is quite a disorganized answer but I hope it'll be of use to you. I like the Surface Pro, but I'm tired of this back-and-forth getting the basics to work with Linux. At this point the v3 is not a cutting-edge computer any more, and it should be effortless to use it with Linux.
Do you have a real world use case for this sort of thing? I'm digging the ability to do these kinds of satanic rites, but I'm not really sure that there's a practical use today other than pushing the bounds of what's possible..
Right after I switched from Mac to PC, I used something called MacType [1] to ease my transition.

On HiDPI monitors, though, it turned out to be unnecessary.

[1] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/make-windows-fonts-look-like-ma...
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It does happen after an upgrade (ex. the anniversary update).

Although it does not install Candy Crush, just a stub to install it, anyway, it is certainly unappealing.
After seventy years of 2% inflation, $5,000 per month would be the equivalent of $1,216 today, which isn't comfortable.
Love your wiki. I've been trying to come up with a way to save my links/notes, and I really like how you have done it.
If I'm staring at something for 10 hours a day smoother font rendering is a big benefit.
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Crazy enough, it was to my then home in Bella Vista, Arkansas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Vista,_Arkansas
By that argument Putin lends credibility to Russia Times.

Yet they have very little (outside of Russia).

So that's a very weak argument
This is really exciting. I think we treat the terminal like somewhat of an untouchable relic, but this seems like a really well thought out evolution.
The containment system will become radioactive. Not as bad as the spent fuel from fission but not zero waste either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power#Waste_management
Add it to https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page

They started by forking wikipedia and have expanded the notability guidelines.
This is an article about one person, Keith from Silicon Valley, whose personal story the author tries to extrapolate (through a few cherry-picked quotes) and apply to society as a whole, to fit a puritanical "employment gives you purpose" narrative: a narrative which mostly serves the interests of employers. I wouldn't read too much into it.
> We believe 'people' are smarter than we give them credit for.

We literally have a wealth of evidence to contest this. For example: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/fake-news-survey
One small addition: you can do all the work on your own if you have to.

But you also know how to delegate it to a team to get it finished more quickly. And how to keep the team on track so technical debt is minimised, while reliability and user usefulness are optimised.

Really, there are two definitions and two different skill sets.

One is "competent experienced professional developer". The other is "competent manager of other developers."
A lot of my friends have the same view but refuse to discuss about it (I have THE EXACT opposite view).

In my opinion, he didn't owe the world anything - yet he's donating quiet a bit (clean water, anti-malaria etc.) - Sure he's got luxuries that most of us would probably dream about - yatches, jets etc., but he's also done net positive to the world and that's great.

Usually people who share my view generally counter with "so what have you done?" and imo that's a wrong way to think about it - everyone's level of contribution will be different.

If I were in his position, I too would have spent on luxuries (maybe more so than him) but the end goal is never lost - he's still helping people all over the world.

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My political view on the topic: in a way, your comment reminds me of the previous election - moral policing of "oh, Trump's against X" and that's terrible and if you support him for Y, you are still a terrible person because he supports X lead to the result - people who supported him for Y were unable to ever get Y discussed and every time they did, X was always brought up, dismissing Y - so they never bothered discussing/learning etc and instead did the only thing in their power - look after their self interest of Y.
Seems just fine on my 1080p 22" monitor, or on this 26" 2560x1600 monitor beside it. Then again I'm a dirty Gnome user on Debian, so perhaps my vanilaness is saving me. But even a few years ago on my last A8 & 1080P 15.6" laptop it was fine, definitely much better than 1366 by potato.
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I must watch Threads given all the talk about it in this thread, but I guess I'll be the lone dissenter that will come out and say that The Road was an absolutely horrible movie. I found it so drawn-out, boring, interminably long. I realize it was presenting life in a post-apocalyptic future, but that's no excuse to have no plot to truly speak of in its 111 minutes of runtime.

Then again, I hated Mad Max and only sat down to watch it at the theater because of the ridiculously-good critical reviews it had amassed. I found it a pointless exercise in hedonism and a testosterone-fueled car chase filled with gore and nudity for their own sake.