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Touche, debate captain.

I wonder if the majority of small businesses are able to employ all those people because they force tax payers to subsidize their low wage payments. I guess the question then is whether it is best to have the lower classes struggling to survive on little wages while accruing more and more wealth to the top. Does this arrangement produce enough of a benefit to all involved to obviate the need to redistribute that accumulated wealth.

I think that the accumulated wealth of the 1% needs to be redistributed. I think it's not only better for society, but its also more moral...and I get that I'm using slippery language unlike the "hard science" of economics. (I detest economics because it poses as a science while mainly serving to provide intellectual cover to the purveyors of the status quo.)

So, yeah, I was being a dick. You caught me.
> The Huffington Post not only has a Pulitzer [0]

That's a bit misleading. David Wood was awarded the Pulitzer prize for a story that was published by the Huffington Post.

Just because the merit of David Wood's work was recognized by Pulitzer's board members it doesn't automatically mean everything posted by the Huffington Post is a Pulitzer contender.

> it regularly does serious journalism [1]

I believe you meant that some authors who host their work in Huffington Post do serious journalism. That's not exactly the same thing at all.
Damn, i was creating the same thing!
Some WordPress plugins have started working on getting a CII best practices badge. None have gotten it quite yet, but there's no reason they can't. There's no cost for the badge, and the criteria are general "common sense" criteria that most people would agree are reasonable.

That shouldn't be surprising. The CII badge process opened in May 2016, so it's only been available for about half a year. I expect that most WordPress plug-in authors don't even know about it (yet).

> I have to wonder if WordPress added a small cost and verification system at front, similar to the app store, if third-party code would be of higher quality.

I think that's likely. At the very least, someone could run some static analysis on the plug-in with rules very specific to WordPress (e.g., "don't use superglobals"). That could really help.

However, there are many general "good things" that plug-ins should do. Trying to recreate a list of general good practices would take a lot of time, and be a pain (trust me!). Instead of reinventing the wheel for a list of general good practices, I suggest using the CII best practices badge identify general good practices, and then if you wish, create a separate list of rules specific to WordPress. That'd be much easier.

Disclosure: I'm technical lead on the CII best practices project. But it's still a good thing :-).
You won't see it in the code. Run it through the debugger; the value of "channel" is sometimes the value of the GL enum rather than the index of the texture unit.

It could've been fixed since as well.
I also have never had this problem. I hypothesise that it has to do with being taught how to coil cables in Music Tech A level. (The method I was taught involves ensuring the cable isn't twisted, and securing it with insultating tape.)

If you leave out the tape, and you put a bunch of them in a box, this is the ritual for summoning an elder god. (the elder god is always gone by the time you re-open the box, but the non-euclidean tangle they've left the cables in is quite apparent.) Unless you're the kind of person who will happily and patiently sit uncluttering the cables without yanking them for a few hours, you'll damage your stuff extracting them from this class of mess.

For reference: I am actually still using the charging cable that came with my 2009 MBP (via a magsafe2 adapter) with my latest work-issued MBP as the spare adapter in the home office. The cable is a bit grubby, but undamaged and entirely functional.
> They need somebody with a Jobsian level of ruthlessness, attention to detail and unified vision to steer the ship back in the right direction.

This. I buy Apple products not because I'm looking for the latest tech gadget. I want something that feels like a work of art. There are too many products, too many sizes, too many options. Jobs would have told whoever suggested an iPhone Plus that he's a shithead moron. Why am I using Fantastical instead of the default Calendar app? I never did this on iOS 6. Go on their website and you see all sorts of crap acquisition products (Beats) they're selling. I don't want Beats I want Apple! I want premium, exclusive, luxury, high-end, polished tech products that work as simple as toasters.
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Companies that make money hire aggressively out of principle more than need. When this gets out of hand, they don't let people go. They have to find ways to keep them busy. Even if that means taking products that are already in a good state and adding useless features/redesigns.

It's the great equalizer.
Believing the hype about stock options.
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My default search engine isn't Google, but I guess going to google search is quicker than going to google maps, so it's a good idea. Trying a few shops, it seems to work, thanks!
It will always be beneficial to work on UBI, that's the whole point. The only reason why someone wouldn't be incentivized is if the actual amount is extremely high. But the very fact that it's unconditional is the whole difference here as that makes it always valuable to do more work even just one hour more.

Giving tax breaks to people who make no money isn't helping the poor.
There are several compatible and competing implementations of the C++ standard library.
I think the author just wanted to point out that "the" STL is not valid / accurate here; while the interface and behavior is defined, the implementation is afaik still vendor specific, e.g., the implementation in GCC may be different from the one provided by Microsoft.
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The payout is the problem with the definition "altruism", you can always find a reason for which the person did it, even if it was just because she felt better due to helping others.

If you ask this question, you either have to have one example where there is no payout at all (note this should be an example most people agree on) or you accept there is no altruism, at least not following your definition of the word.
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arguably the "crisis" was a perfectly rational response to inputs, namely, people no longer being able to service their debts.
The Bill Gates comment sounds shallow because Bill Gates getting $13K is certainly not the problem. The problem is that this version of UBI essentially takes money from poor folks and gives it to middle class, well-off people. Someone who was getting, say, $2K/month disability benefits, would get $1000 under this UBI version. While a SV programmer would get additional $1000/month out of nowhere. How is that making the society function better?
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You still must have been harmed in some way. You can't just sue and say "well somebody owns the copyright on that! You'd have to be the one to own it in order to sue. Continue reading about statutory damages and explains what they are intended for.
You might still want the precision and detail at the boundaries of the shapes that a raster representation would give you. Think big blotchy cow spots or something along those lines.
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I think there's a (provable) mathematical impossibility to have a general O(N) sorting algorithm

Basically, how many elements do you have to move in a list of N elements to end up with one of the possible orderings
> Of course, 50% bonds was easy to recommend 40 years ago when US savings bonds paid 5-7% annual interest, guaranteed for 30 years.

Inflation in 1980 was over 13%. 2015 was less than four fifths of one percent. Bonds today pay out much better than they did 40 years ago.
Actually, yes. Yes I do. And yes, I actually do. I don't take income tax deductions for charity payments, even if they are available, and I don't look for creative ways of lowering my tax bills.

I think that I, and people like me, should pay more --proportionally -- to lower levels of inequality before it rips the republic apart. The wealthy actually have the best of all worlds currently. Lower taxes and high government expenditures mean that the government actually has to borrow the money from them to subsidize those low wages. Instead of just taxing them, the government now owes interest.

I think that the wealthy have begun to believe their own bullshit and it's dangerous. Democracy should be used to fix the situation before it becomes worse.
Regarding "People like Bill Gates without a doubt would have to be taxed more", the problem is that the question doesn't include those taxes - i.e., it's the proposal that is shortsighted, not the voters. They can't invent other stuff out of the blue to justify their vote, otherwise each person would be effectively voting on a different question.
To pay all adults in the US (240 million) a UBI of $13,000 would require $3.1 trillion. The entire US federal budget (which is still in deficit by $500 billion) is $3.8 trillion. That can't be made up just with a little bit of increased taxation.
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Emacs...

Largely written in Lisp and is a great resource. Also has SLIME which is a fantastic way to develop with Common Lisp.

Clojure support in Emacs (via Cider) is also great.

Emacs is often the first exposure that many get with Lisp (other than SICP).

In terms of nice Lisps to work with I think Clojure is more active as a community than any other dialect, and so it's useful for contemporary projects and generally getting help and support and so on.
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Just the other day I had a few Chrome extensions stop working and sure enough they're disabled because 'This extension contains malware'. Never had that problem with Safari so maybe the $100 isn't such a bad deal after all.
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I'm actually at work and can't really do that at the moment, but you should feel free to take that as some kind of lie that I'm using to make up for not having proof.
Well I know instances of both, but a recent example was the opening of the A2 tunnel in Maastricht. I think Google got it by now, but OSM had it overnight (like 9am when it opened 8pm the previous evening). I myself thought of it Saturday morning after it opened on Thursday evening, but the mapping job was already done. Plus, OSM can contain roads currently under construction, so it's a simple matter of removing the construction tag, removing the old roads and connecting the new one(s). Or if you are a user and not a mapper, you can still see where the road will be.
There is also a typo in the first screenshot on the homepage ("PROJET" heading).
> Note that I don’t currently consider Windows a viable alternative. For the work that I do (Rails) and tools I use something *nix based is the best choice for me.

For a long time, it has been my workflow to almost never develop on the host machine. I find Virtual Machines to be preferable for a lot of reasons. Am I unusual in this regard?
I'm at work right now so I don't have time to summarize, but here are a couple things worth looking at. The USA did studies and experiments with this back in the 60s/70s.

New Jersey Graduated Work Incentive Experiment.
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I think in at least some cases they are integrated, because I use ublock origin as well and I did see at least some ads before I got YouTube Red. I could be wrong but that's my impression.
Exactly! Segmentation is good for consumers. Back when I was in college I would have stood up for a flight or been harnessed into a hanging seat for a cheaper flight. Now I'm not rich enough to fly first class but I would like a better option than crammed economy.

The solution is to bring back steerage like in the old passenger ships. It would cost less money than economy currently costs and make airline travel available to more people. Then, the airlines could afford to improve economy or leave some economy and put some seats between economy and first.
Unfortunately just opening a subsidiary in another country doesn't help, one of the 'features' of ITAR is that it is extraterritorial, so even if you open a subsidiary in another country all the ITAR provisions apply in that country, as well as all the export controls of that country. It's tons of fun even working for a Canadian company.
I doubt the passenger weight matters much if it is a larger (7x7 or A3xx) plane?
That's a pretty strained definition of "force" if you're still offering the free tier.
It seems to me that the only thing that a universal basic income will do is make corporations richer.

If you "double" the income of people living at or below the poverty line, you do not double their buying power.
Mile that cost $2/L will now cost $4/L, rent will skyrocket, because more "welfare" will be available.

I wholly support the concept of UBI. But it can ONLY work if we restrict how much corporations can charge. Some things that would help in that regard: restrict the $ divide between the highest paid and lowest paid positions in a corporation.
If in your simulation individuals could improve themselves as well as their group fit, I'd expect group dynamics to only have any relevance when the number of individuals is very big. Individual improvement leads to faster responses, so you'll need a big amount of diversity to let group improvement make any difference.

That said, I do expect it to be hard. Nature created cooperating species more than once, but not that many times¹. And it had half a billion years of a simulation that was certainly much larger than yours.

1 - Counting placentarial mammals only once, what is very likely correct.
There was a car commerical which sums up my feelings here pretty well. What do you do when you get a room full of trophies? You think about how to get more.

Apple seems to have gotten their trophies here (no doubt) and then stared at them rather than figured out how to get more.
>After the attendants closed the doors, we got the go ahead to just move to sensible seats of the exact same size and amenities, but that they'd have wanted us to pay extra for.

Well, you're lucky you were not on Air Asia. They don't allow you to move to the seats they charge for (Emergency row etc.,) even if they are all empty and the rest of the leg space challenged aircraft is extremely full.
Interesting read, thanks!
Sure, but they were giving those to you for free and now they'll be taking them away without decreasing the price. So you're still paying the same for the base fare, it's just nobody gets the "luxuries" anymore.
Think of an ant colony. All of them brothers or half-brothers, who will sacrifice themselves when under attack to save the gene pool.
Fellow hackers, a word of advice... always start with the marketing before building a product.

I too think a power actuated toilet seat sounds like a fantastic foundation for a business, but it's what the market things... not what your gut thinks.
Hmm, you could well be right and I simply didn't watch the right videos.
While Switzerland has a decent rail system (high frequency, somewhat dense), it doesn't have high speed trains. Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands all of at least some high speed lines.
I try not to make 'context free' decisions. What is relevant to one decision is not necessarily relevant to another and even when two decisions share a relevant feature, the weight of that feature is probably different.

And I accept that I'm going to make more mistakes (I've already made enough that perhaps one ought not to use my decision making advice).

Good luck.
And despite their capitulation(after being caught, everyone's sorry when caught) a significant % of people will cling to the scary commie narrative and the WaPo, et al achieved their objective, partially.

While I didn't vote for either of the two evils, I do appreciate the marked 180° difference in future-casting in the MSM from when Obama won the first election. Obama received a Nobel for nothing, so following that logic, Trump should be happy he's not in Guantanamo.

Edit: Let's not forget the current administration is getting their hats handed to them by Russia in the ongoing Syrian war-by-proxie.
why don't browsers just ship with its own fonts?
Someone else can answer better than me, but https://panopticlick.eff.org claims the canvas fingerprint provides 17 bits of identifying information (click detailed results after testing)
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It is impossible for comparison-based sorts; sketch of proof: there are N! different arrangements. sorting is equivalent to figuring which one of those N! arrangements we are seeing. In the worst case, each binary comparison can reduce at most, 50% of the search space. Hence the worst case may need log_2(N!) comparisons, which is O(N log N)

However, it might be possible if comparisons are not essential - e.g. radix sort is (with some assumptions) O(N)
It creates a smooth visual flow. Straight horizontal lines chop your website into blocks. This, on the other hand, separates your content without breaking it apart. Your link is a good example because it also has these overlapping graphics that "hang" into the next section. Stripe [1] makes heavy use of this.

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There's a difference between "following an example" and "learning from an example."
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Pretty sure that most interpreted languages aren't self-hosted, for obvious reasons.
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Not really. There's one other major phone OS out there (Android), with the majority of phones made by less than a dozen companies. Linux and Windows are the only other choices when it comes to operating systems for computers, and few companies manufacture high-end laptops with acceptable quality.

The only company selling everything is probably Microsoft, where you can buy a laptop from the manufacturer of the OS. But Windows Phones aren't nearly as well supported when it comes to third party apps, so you'll have to go with Google there.

So there's not really any company (except perhaps Microsoft) that can offer a similar experience as Apple used to.
Right, and which I'd argue has even more profound implications given the definition of 'soul' - as opposed to identity - is so squishy as to be meaningless.
Am I the only one surprised by how cheap first class is on ALT-MCO? It's less than 2x the cost of basic economy. I understand it's a short flight, but I turned in some miles for BWI-ALT for my wife and I to upgrade to first, and the sticker price for those tickets were about 2.5x main cabin, which was itself a little more than basic economy.
Any experiment that changes benefits to be unconditional whereas they used to be withdrawn if you get a job, will provide very useful insight into peoples behavior under a basic income experiment.

That is why this a useful basic income experiment - regardless of whether the program itself is classified as basic income in its current form or not.
You must have your copyright infringed upon, that's not the same as being harmed. Hence why it's presumed harm - if the infringement itself counted as harm, there would be no need to presume it!
> With respect, if you don't see any actual results, you haven't been looking.

With respect, if you think any category-theoretic results were necessary to author even 0.01% of the code executed in computation globally, you're willfully deluding yourself.
Brackets project wide search is faster than all of them.

It produces hits in realtime as you type.
I was provided free food on my train ride from London to Brussels, and on my train from Brussels to Amsterdam.
Or just a lowpass filter in the signal path ( assuming you can get access to this ).
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