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> In America, you have the draft which to me means you loose the right to your body.

The draft hasn't been used in America since 1973 - our military service is all volunteer.

What we do have, though, is called "Selective Service" - basically when you turn 18 years of age (and on thru 25 years of age), you have to register for "Selective Service" which is there to provide a list of "able and ready" (but maybe not willing) members of society which can be called up in a re-instated draft if and when it becomes necessary.

It has yet to be used.
If we're posting solutions...

Peanut butter + jelly = traditional snack

Jelly + cream cheese = common on pastries

Peanut butter + cream cheese = good cracker spread

Peanut butter + cream cheese + jelly = ???
These four theories don't seem to be the four most popular in management theory...in my opinion a rough list of those would be something like: Porter-style competitive advantage, Toyota-style operations (agile/just-in-time), everything in modern finance and disruptive vs incremental technology (in the strict Christensen sense).

The professionalisation of management surely has problems but it's important to at least characterise the prevailing orthodoxy accurately...and this article does not.
A self-driving car built by humans would convince me of its own consciousness if it started describing to me its own consciousness, the idea of qualia, etc. But, crucially, only if it could be demonstrated that it had never been exposed to these concepts. Which is probably impossible.

I'm not saying animals aren't conscious. I'm saying they can't prove it. Remember, if A implies B, then not-A does not imply not-B. I'm saying that if a creature can describe its own consciousness without having learned of the concept elsewhere, that's good evidence that it's conscious. If it can't, that doesn't mean it's not.
If its only going to jobless people, not UBI.

This is not a meaningless distinction -- one of the features of UBI is that it is universal. If this just goes to unemployed people we cannot see the change in behavior with people who are earning close to their reservation wage. Do they stop working?

This is streamlined rebranded welfare. Not a paradigm shift.
It might be some implicit bias that I have, but I read that as minus, or without, penalties for amassing extra income. As in there are no penalties for amassing extra income. There is a double negative in there. I'm trying to find a more authoritative source on whether this is the case

edit: i misunderstood your comment, seems like your interpretation lines up with mine.
It might be some implicit bias that I have, but I read that as minus, or without, penalties for amassing extra income. As in there are no penalties for amassing extra income. There is a double negative in there. I'm trying to find a more authoritative source on whether this is the case
That sounds more like Gen-X, who really are the kids of Baby Boomers. Millennials are the grandchildren of Baby Boomers.

Mandatory XKCD: [1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/973/
You could try running ClojureScript over React Native. Nice thing about that is you use React paradigms for UI which IMO makes ClojureScript really shine, and you can use Figwheel etc. and it can be cross-platform.
Galileo's actual value has always been murky.

Not even remotely. GNSS is far too important to be left up to one or two militaristic providers whose interests (to put it mildly) may not always coincide with your own.

If anything we need more systems up there.
If you only did not need to deal with people who are not developers or techies, then perhaps. But words like "Jekyll", "Hugo" and "Lektor" don't mean anything to a lot of people who own and run websites.

A lot of websites are powered by WordPress. Most of the users who run those sites don't even know the difference between Static and Dynamic (I explain this all the time to clients). They don't care. They just want their website to work.
Dev jobs in the U.K. tend to be very skills focused so a devops engineer with ansible, could easily get up to £90k.

There are also a lot of terrible devs and £30-£40 is about the right mark and lots of companies will hire people who are rubbish because they don't know better and don't really care.

Most people who are any good go contracting and earning £150k is no problem, if you choose to work at least 43 weeks. There are typically people who contract because they are good and also people who do lots of <=3 month contracts who are not so good and will earn less but still decent money.

IT has really given many many people the opportunity to earn significant amounts of money that they wouldn't have been able to otherwise - 150k for a couple of years experience and no schooling, what profession is better than that??
They're calling it Basic Income, not Universal Basic Income. The goal being to see what the differences are between the unemployed and the control group.

There may be other issues baked into the implementation, but it will be hard to say the result until it goes into action and we start getting data
I absolutely agree that larger apps are complicated, and that Om has thoughtful solutions to those problems, at the right level of abstraction. But I found it an absolute _pain_ to get going, and at every step it presented me with so many different primitives I felt lost.

If I had to compare it to any other tool, it'd be git. I love git. I use git every day. Do I understand the underlying mental model of git, or the 348 different git commands? Hell no.
Well, if the down-voters are unable to operate Google-search (as expected), here is one of the first links:

http://www.energieverbraucher.de/de/gruener-strom__377/
Since we don't have physics 'figured out', it's confusing even to the experts in places. It's just confusing to the non-experts in about every place.
Never mind that persistent internet connectivity was not the norm for most at that stage. This curtailed the power of drive by infections to a large degree.
I hate to point this out, but we (the americans) paid for it, why shouldn't we have control over it? If you don't like it, you're always welcome to build your own.
Personally I have seen more cheap labour from India rather than the EU, I have worked with entire teams of Indian contractors.
I mean, if I was offered half of my current salary (which is, admittedly high, as a software engineer) for free under the condition that I don't work, I'd totally take that deal.
> 1. Anyone I know that has received benefits for being unemployed desperately wants to be employed again.

My father makes so much money that when he's unemployed he actually doesn't really look for a job that urgently. This is because his unemployment benefits are enough for him to pay the bills. He'd like to make money to retire... but he does rest for a few months in between jobs.
There is a many thousands pages instructions manual for that, that is freely downloadable from Intel. It's re-posted on HN from time to time.
And you can, if you get fired.
To be honest, it's not as unusual to see the OS still being used because with the bunch of things Windows 10 runs in the background that can't be turned off it can get rather slow. Plus it hates 2 GB of RAM or less.
Would it be possible to do a modified system where they instead of losing the universal income unemployment benefits. There could be a system where the benefits are lowered in proportion to the income earned from jobs, that allows for those who are able to and want to work but are only able to find low paying jobs to have benefits that do not discourage them from doing work.
Well first off I'd say stereotypes are bullcrap. They exist for a reason, but those reasons are almost always such an oversimplification that they draw the wrong conclusions. But I'll play along...

There's always a certain amount of crap handed down from one generation to the next. It's cheap, and self rewarding. Boomers have been given crap continuously since the beginning, by the previous generation, their own ranks (it's a highly varied generation), and generation X. Now that their biggest critics are dying off, they're feeling encouraged to dole this criticism out themselves. They know better than to do it to generation X, because Xers (I'm an Xer) are nearly tone deaf due to the incessant whining by boomers. Plus, boomers are actually starting to go deaf so they yell a lot more than they used to. So they're skipping us over and going straight for the millenials.

My advice is to take it like simple teasing rather than taking it seriously. The boomers' bark is worse than the bite.

I like millenials. They've got a relatively decent balance of idealism and reality check. My only complaints are they spend way too goddamn much of their income, as a percentage, on housing and foo foo bar drinks.
Precedent for this is the attack on Epilepsy Foundation website:

https://archive.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epi...

I'd support criminal charges for attackers who do this. It's just a digital way of causing physical damage. The federal government is already all over this stuff in terms of things like SCADA attacks. The FBI would be sympathetic to the case given that plus hating hackers in general.
"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well most computers back then were bulky desktops, not shoulder bag friendly laptops.

Never mind that the first threat scenario contemplated is a physical attacker is way out there on the probability scale unless you already suspect you are on someone's hit list.
The irony of this article in claiming that management theory is outdated is that it selects ideas that were ascendent 10 years ago pre-financial crash.

The author should consider reading a book published after 2005.

Not that I'm a huge fan of the genre, to be honest. Way too often I basically see management books arguing that domain skill in the subject managed is immaterial and I could not disagree more with that.

Also, I'm curious what metrics he's assessing for "productivity growth is dismal in the west." It's precisely because of productivity growth that we can envision an economy where centralization and globalization are not inevitable forces.
Why would they do that?

I've considered it, but I don't think I can do that work.

I'm not actually retired, and may never be able to, because of a catastrophic health event around twelve years ago. I get paid very well when I'm working, and that plus learned frugality and a supportive family has enabled me to get by pretty comfortably, but the same health catastrophe created a situation in which it's quite difficult to find people who want to hire me. That difficulty is increased by a couple of other personal limitations that don't hamper my productivity (I can be outstandingly productive given the right tools, goals, and situation), but the right combination of things is just a little different from and more specific than the common default, and that's enough to have a strong negative effect on my chances of being hired. I'm a white crow, is what it comes down to--or a nail that sticks up.

My solution so far is to take work I'm likely to excel at when I can get it, and especially when people are comfortable paying me on par with what I've been usually been paid before (because it's good pay), but to be open to any steady work of any kind that I think I can do, because I also often have to weather extended periods of no work. The longest so far has been a little over two years.

Oh, and of course I'm always working on projects meant to become things that will generate residual income in the long run.

I would certainly work as a Wal-Mart greeter if I thought I could do it. There are a lot of other low-paying jobs that I would do if I thought I could do them. The main problem with low-paying jobs is that a lot of them require sustained physical exertion that I can't do, or rigid work schedules that I can't observe, or both.
Sounds like an excellent excuse to not study math now.
It's not usually that simple with profiler, as production queries can be highly contextual and aren't always 'replayable' unless they're interacting on the same data as the original. It can also be pretty high impact on a busy system.

Agent is nice because of the surrounding infrastructure -scheduling, notifications, etc - that said, it still often ends up being a hodgepodge that every admin reinvents, just using different underlying structures (cron=scheduling, system mail=notifications, etc).

And yeah, the HA stuff is good - with the setup becoming gradually easier with each new version, but those license costs are definitely reflecting that.

While SQL Server does have some great features - it's also missing a fair bit of functionality. I.e., there's no real 'overview' of how the system is performing. Look at SQLSentry for an idea of what I mean - I only manage one 'major' database, but without that tool I'd be hard pressed to keep up. There's also things that have been broken for years now which they've failed to address - i.e., one of the most popular add-ons for SQL Studio is SQL Prompt to get actual working intellisense. They can manage it for multiple extensible languages in visual studio, but flub it for years with the fairly static TSQL. I actually thought it must have been a fairly complex problem until I saw JetBrains implement it for multiple variations of SQL in DataGrip.
For those here who don't understand why a lot of the internet doesn't care about this kind of thing (or sometimes tries to shows disdain in an immature way by trolling), here are the nuances.

In America, usually freedom of speech is the basic law of what can be said. That means that I can say what I want to you, even if it's hurtful, even if I do it TO hurt you, no matter what. Message is message. The reason this works so well from a legal perspective is because trying to put law around what can be said becomes so murky and ripe for abuse.

However, the fact is, words often can hurt more than physical violence. So instead we have norms around what messages are appropriate. Certain words are "off limits" in most settings "Nigger, Cunt, Retard" and people will socially shun you if you use them with negative intent. However, again, this becomes murky and ripe for abuse, think of those who keep playing the "you're a racist" card as a political tactic. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%...)

So those people who have been the victim of politics (you used a gender-specific pronoun, now I will shun you, but I'm really doing it because I don't like you and want to hurt you but have a convenient social excuse to ostracize you and look like the good guy for doing it) often overreact and take out their anger anonymously online.

I bring this up because. I think once both groups understand each other, this entire quarrel will start to subside. Those who don't even try to understand the other side I can only assume want the quarrel to continue.
<sarcasm>As an MBA who discussed (but didn't have time to read) a case study on programming, I know it's not possible to expect you to do complete a task in less time than it will take. After all, maybe you've heard the expression "nine women can't make a baby in one month". I'm not an idiot.

Hoever, my research has revealed that one woman can develop 1-to-N babies in a single node. And one man can help instantiate 1-to-N babies in multiple nodes. This is why I'm a fan of diversity hiring. As you can see, I have a strong understanding of message passing, concurrency, parallelism, the actor model, and multiple inheritance.

Now, given that we've established that I understand what you do, allow me, and all of your other bosses, give you an immutable set of instructions for you to process in that finite state machine you call a job.

Now that we're on the same page, can you show me how to use BitTorrent? I want to download the last season of Game of Thrones. My 401K includes an S&P 500 index fund, which owns shares of Time Warner, which owns HBO. So it's like I already own that content. Also, how do I erase my browser history? I accidentally visited a website with pop up ads, and my browser is filled with porn. Don't worry about the downloads those ads were triggered though, as I can delete those files myself.</sarcasm>
Even amongst same species things might be different. Take humans for example. Women and men have no clue how each other think about certain things that are very closely related to gender because they don't experience what other gender go through and experiences everyday. Some ant species farm coffee trees. Many rear aphids. It is very good enough evidence that they are conscious. Similarly animals and birds. They all know enough about their environment to identify their family/tribe, find food, etc. We may never understand ways of a cat unless we become one and live as a cat. Human kernal is incompatible with cat kernal and so for many inputs native to a cat we may not even know those exists. Like we didn't knew about animals communicating in frequency outside our freq etc until we developed tech to detect such sound. Its so amazing.
I don't think prison is a best solution for such thing. He will get out and might become only worse. Maybe a psychology professional will make him understand what he did and prevent him from doing it again instead of sticking him into a jail and complain in couple years when he did something more serious. Prison only make it worse in most cases
Here's a video of the same process, but from a country where firms have an easier time accumulating capital: https://youtu.be/tEF2erBBVZ4
The choice does not have to be between "do a bad study" or "do no study at all".

A proper study would be permanent and self-contained. Participants would need to give a portion of outside income to the program to simulate higher taxes and/or inflation.
Why I'm  leaving my job at the  Illuminati and joining the Trump administration
This is awesome. Best timestamp converter tool I've come across, and I've been using other websites that we're confusing but we're the top-ranked tools. Bookmarked for future usage. Nice job OP!
I know a number of people in the military, and there's a lot to be said for asserting command presence. Where it doesn't matter what the orders are, just that someone is there giving clear orders.

I've rarely seen that in managers. The issue I was talking about above was that managers really can think of themselves as "better" or having "secret knowledge" that enables them to lord it over the peasant engineers.

I have ethical issues with such an attitude. People are people, no matter how small.
This article also specifically addresses that comparison.
I don't get the problem. Google suggests what people are looking for. If people wonders whether the holocaust happened, maybe the question should be answered?
How is this a test of UBI? It's just a welfare system.
The Microsoft JDBC driver is MIT licensed: https://github.com/Microsoft/mssql-jdbc
These programs depend at very least on the 'savings' government will incur by not having 'massive bureaucracies' to manage the program.

The problem is - Government Unions are the most powerful in every state, and they will never, ever allow any significant layoff of personnel.

So you get a 'new program' without the most important stated benefit.

The reality of government, is that it is systematically inefficient because of entrenched labour practices - no just because they 'may not be good and doing some thing'.

I love public transport.

In Toronto - we still have people at every station selling tickets and making change. 17 of them were on the 'sunshine' list last year as earning over $100K in the year. You read that right: the guys in the booth making over $100K. Granted, this is with 'overtime', but probably not more than many people in the private sector work.

So the government can't help put pay many of it's entities wages that are quite above normal, with massive add-ons and incentives.

Given that small tidbit - can you fathom why it's so gosh-darn expensive to add public transit services???

There are a few other fairly fundamental problems with the program as well, first being simply the cost (Ontario government that is 'pro' program said it would cost $175 Billion a year, basically our whole budget) - and then the moral/incentive issue: where I live in Montreal everybody is an 'artist' 'photographer' 'cinematographer' 'choreographer' 'dancer' 'writer'. But they all work in coffee shops and restaurants. Montreal would go bankrupt instantly because the 'cinematographer' that makes my latte in the morning will quit instantly. In my community - there is absolutely no sense of 'industriousness' in the Anglo sense - they see no problem with fussing about making quite bad films that nobody wants to watch. Were there some latent amazing output I might think it's a good tradeoff, but no, they're seasoned amateurs.

In a rational and sensible society ... this program would be amazing. But then, in a rational and sensible society, there would be very low unemployment, and streamlined government so that the 'means testing' issue would be moot.

It might work in some specific places.
What will be interesting is when it becomes clear to china banks that the 'social score' is a poor metric for credit worthiness. My bet is that they will quickly and quietly go back to weighting FICO-style metrics (i.e history of repayment).
equals yum!!!
> Observe the insanity in health care, where patients are not people but raw materials to be put through the medical factory and turned into a finished, aka healed, product at the other end.

Quite the contrary, doctors prefer a personal approach and researchers have been trying to reign them in because the science is very clear: playing "by the book" and not over-personalizing diagnosis or care leads to better medical outcomes for everything but long term pain management and mental health care.

This is not MBAs run amok, that's people starting to listen to the science and act on it.

Now, if you want to see where things go wrong we'd look to how hospitals bill and suppliers set prices.
Are you aware of a human ever describing their own consciousness or qualia without having been exposed to the idea first?

I understand your "can't prove it" regarding animals, but if your only way of "proving it" doesn't work for most examples, I would continue to say the concept is one that is not defined in a meaningful way, at least not meaningful when it comes to any sort of scientific analysis or even being able to say whether an entity other than yourself has it.
It is doomed because Venezuela's budget is unbalanced. In the past, the budget only worked because there were large oil-export revenues from PDVSA, the state's oil company. Once that source of revenue collapsed they didn't have money anymore to spend as they did before. They should have cut the budget and fixed the many systemic imbalances in the Venezuelan government and economy but instead of that they insisted on keeping the status quo by printing money to cover the deficit and blaming the crisis on american imperialism.
Having eaten at a few Michelin three star restaurants, I have come to realize that flavor incompatibilities are all in your head. Seafood flavored ice cream doesn't sound too good, but maybe it is, if you aren't thinking about where the flavors originate. Also, what tastes good is just, like, your opinion man.
As long as you have an unobstructed view of the equator. To get 2-4m accuracy with commercial GPS you must use WAAS. The sattelites that tansmit the WAAS signal are geostationary.

So if you have buildings, hills or mountains blocking your view you're back to 7-15m accuracy. It gets worse thr furer north you go as your angle to the WAAS sattelites gets closer to he ground.

Plus it's North America only. Not sure if Garmin units support EGNOS which is the system in Europe.
The modeling and the maths allow us to make concrete, precise predictions of how nature behaves, that are testable by experiment.