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What doesn't work is giving tax breaks to companies in the hope that they'll hire more people. That's called trickle-down economics, and you're right. We tried it, and it didn't work. Companies and rich people tend to just save the money instead of spending it. What does work is giving tax breaks to normal people, who will then spend that money on something that benefits the economy. It's the trickle-up effect.

If you gave me $500, I'd buy a new dishwasher. But a rich person doesn't have to save money to buy a new dishwasher. Giving them more money isn't going to change their life in any appreciable way. Everything they want, they already have. But poor people want/need a lot of things they can't afford. Giving them a tax break means they can now afford to buy things they previously couldn't, which means Whirlpool sells more American-made dishwashers, hires more American employees, and pays more American taxes.

Oh and the reason Bush raised taxes in the 80s is to pay for a war. You can't fix the deficit, cut taxes, and go to war. War is expensive.
It is in essence Google following FB in what they did with Instant Articles. Users start in their ecosystem and they don't see any value in them leaving their ecosystem unless they are going to buy something.

Publishers typically aren't where people go to buy things. In fact, I imagine Google views them as part of COGS in a sense since they are what create display inventory.

So if Google has the leverage to reduce the cost and increase user satisfaction while simultaneously exerting more control on the display ecosystem, it seems like a smart business move to do so.
The author's theory is completely unsubstantiated. They make a surprising conjecture and instead of proving, asks the audience to disprove it:

"I defy anyone who has worked in an office over the last 25 years to write and say that my theory does not fit the observable facts"

Seems a bit lazy.
I feel very much like doing something similar but I'm reticent to move away from macOS because of privacy concerns.

If I moved to Linux I would still need some commercial software available on macOS but not on Linux. The obvious thing to do would be to supplement Linux with Windows 10 but I worry about privacy in Windows 10.

This maybe obvious to long term Windows users but I can only find examples from Microsoft about what they collect/track, not a definitive list[1].

Also if anyone knows, I'd also like to find out if it's possible to stop Microsoft Support from remotely accessing files on a Windows 10 machine and if you need a particular version of Windows 10 to do that. e.g. Is Windows 10 Home more or less secure than Windows 10 Enterprise.

So for the moment baring in mind I don't do CUDA I'm sticking with my slow old Mac. I should probably should build a dual booting hackintosh but I think if would be a lot of trouble to keep going (and also breaks the licensing terms).

[1] https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/
I agree to be logically consistent you'd also have to make the same argument about Obama's unemployment numbers. Most of the growth lately has been in relatively low paying jobs.
I totally agree with your point about looking busy. But that just means there's a management failure somewhere, right?

Shouldn't management recognize such an abnormally productive employee and a) let them go home after their work is done, no matter when that is, or b) give them more work to do (and a corresponding salary increase)?
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Your cousin Lenny had to get his BTC somewhere, with either an exchange or a mining rig in the path. States can make both of those paths very difficult - paying the exchange could require smuggling cash out of the country, and anomalous electric usages are already used to identify marijuana grow operations.
"A user with absolutely no Linux or terminal experience"

I can speak to this. Both my wife and roommate use ubuntu referbished laptops I supplied. Neither knows what a terminal is or how to use it. It just works(tm).
I think you are agreeing with the author, who is trying here to refute the misconception that Newton was simultaneously a brilliant, grounded, impartial truth seeker who discovered physics and a batshit conspiracist who dabbled in alchemy and theology.
He wagered his time. Everything you choose to work on means you're not working on something else. So by choosing to work on something, you're necessarily "betting" that it's going to be more fruitful than the infinitely many other things you could be doing.

Expending resources, whether time or money, on something with an uncertain outcome is a bet. I'm not sure what the objection is to using that term. Nobody said Newton was a Silicon Valley VC.
To be honest, nonce reuse with Bernsteins authenticated encryption algorithms will lead to the same problem as those the author points out with GCM (i.e. plaintext recovery). However, the biggest issue with GCM isn't that the plaintext leaks when reusing nonces, it's the fact that reusing nonces leads to an attacker being able to forge arbitrary ciphertexts.
> The King is the executive and the Parliament is the legislature. Both systems have courts.

At the time Montesquieu was writing (there has been some practical evolution towards an independent judiciary since) Parliament held not only legislative power but also (in the House of Lords -- which at the time was also the dominant House in terms of the legislative function, though that is very much not true now) the judicial power as well.

Again, the then-current British system was one of the primary reference points which informed Montesquieu's model (and he clearly saw it as far superior to the French system of the time), but it wasn't designed around the three-way separation of powers with mutual checks and balances the way the US system under the Constitution was.
> BLAKE traces back to Salsa

Just reviewed some Blake2b, the round structure even integrates the Chacha20 improvements: the quarter-round has the same structure (besides the extra 2 parameters), and their application follows the same SIMD friendly column/diagonal rounds we see in Chacha20.
If I click on one of the amp links, and I hit the x button, the tab closes on my mobile browser. Shouldn't it go back to the blog?

I'm using latest Chrome on latest iOS
Can rocket use `#[derive(get("/hello/<name>/<age>"))]` instead of `#[get("/hello/<name>/<age>")]`?
Counter-argument: The work described here as "bullshit" -- administration, bureaucracy, ever-finer metrics of people and products -- actually DO generate "real" value in increasing the speed at which information asymmetries resolve themselves. E.g. people metrics actually make it harder to maintain the cocoons of bullshit the author describes, product metrics make the disparity between what's provided and what's desired more apparent more quickly, etc.

The proliferation of these kinds of work is not necessarily out of "filling space," but because information technology has drastically decreased the marginal costs of this kind of information-only work, and so lowered the barrier of marginal utility required to justify it. So, we have information work where the workers actually carrying it out can't perceive the value, because it's too distributed and too many layers removed from the individual, but it's there. The apparent lack of productivity increase is because those metrics, too, are flawed and do not account for these kinds of value.

Now, the question of whether that work is then worthwhile at a societal level is entirely different.
I'd say co-invented would apply more if he worked together with Leibniz on it. Instead, they both invented it independently, around the same time (with differing notation, but both gave the means to reach the same results).
Talk to the staff. Tell them what you're interested in. But also buy a book or two. I listen a lot closer to the customer that complains and buys a stack, than to the "customer" that tells me I have the nicest bookstore they've ever seen and walks out without buying anything.

Based on feedback and sales, we axed our romance section (I didn't like it anyway) and more than doubled the size of philosophy section (and it would be even bigger if we could keep the damned things in stock).

A handful of customer can drastically change the nature of a bookstore. We have whole sections like "The Sea" and "Exploration" that exist for the half dozen people that come in a few times a year and are looking for that stuff.

Vote with your dollar; be the change you want to see. :)

Source: I am a bookstore owner.
Sorry, tell me about the better development environment. Especially if one needs xCode? What are you getting that exists on there, that doesn't exist on MacOS?
Most people receive resumes in a digital format these days, you can trick them into thinking that your resume is one page very easily by producing a PDF that is 15 inches long for instance. This technicality got me through to an interview at a company that specifically requested a one-page resume.

It taught me that most people don't actually care as long as you don't waste space, they just think they do
> die unknown

Is this really the motivation for anyone?
Seconded, the headline is misleading
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> loans are only at 3.5%, but you can earn 7% on the stock market

This isn't prudent asset-liability matching. If your loan is 3.5% and you can find investment-grade bonds that (a) yield more and (b) compensate you, in the spread, for your risk and hassle, then that might work.
Learning new skills by doing exactly this sounds like a good idea in order to increase their ability to pay.
> We keep forgetting that people tend to support policies and politicians for largely social and psychological reasons, not because of facts and ideology. The former are where the real battle is fought.

Your comment was perfect as a lead up to this story about this Table of Knowledge group in Iowa:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/donald-trump-iowa-cons...

I bet there are a large number of these informal groups around the country. Listening to how they reason and what their units of reasoning are, which are not necessarily facts, is elucidating.
Indeed! And how about that classic Robert Frost poem, "The Road Not Taken" [1]

Edit: WOW, after reading the commentary on the poem, I never realized how wrong I was. The poem is a joke, he's saying it didn't really matter which path he took. All these years I took it so seriously, which apparently is a common mistake dating back to the very first time the poem was read in front of an audience.

[1] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poe...
You may want to check out lowRISC.

http://www.lowrisc.org/

https://github.com/lowRISC
Its safe to assume that anything that happened since the election will be claimed by Trump. Regardless of whether he or his administration have the slightest thing to do with it.

All jobs created in the next 4 years will be because of Trump, and all jobs lost will be because of Clinton/Bush/Obama.
I think part of the question is how much leverage does the US have. It feels to me that 10+ years ago the United states had a lot more leverage in the world to push things in their favor.

Today it feels opposite that the US is losing that leverage and China doesn't really care. Perhaps I am wrong.
The money quote:

«Keynes was partly right, and many people today are working a 16-hour week. By which I mean that they spend 16 hours each week engaged in activities which create some useful form of economic value. The other 20+ hours in the office are spent supporting the monstrous extra informational, bureaucratic and administrative burden made possible by new technology.»

Is the bureaucracy in your company so huge? Are engineers in a startup, where bureaucracy is close to zero, several times as productive as in a large company? Are any commercial companies shrewd enough to kill most of internal bureaucracy and crush the competition? Are there any numbers to support this?
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Sorry, but visit an Apple Store sometime and look around you. You'll realize that 99% of Apple customers don't know or even care what CPU is in their laptop.
Get her a hip belt so the weight isn't resting on her shoulders?
Yeah, Chacha20 would fail the same way if we used the same key and nonce for different messages. I'm not sure what he was getting at.
You missed one quote at the very end. Without it, the above reads like a quote with your reply to it. However, the last sentence was a quote from the article too.
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Async/Await does not imply multiple threads. Often, the async version will use fewer threads than the equivalent synchronous code.

http://blog.stephencleary.com/2013/11/there-is-no-thread.htm...
It's another department jumping into the online delivery space. Looks like they're reusing a lot of the same policies that worked for the CS program. They are partnering with edX as Udacity's focus as a company has gone from university partnerships to their nanodegree model.
The article doesn't even mention what kind go jobs they are. For all I know they could be associates who sell things using amazon's infrastructure. Or low paying high stress warehouse picker jobs. But those are increasingly being automated away.
But… Poly1305 has the same "problem"…
I am constantly complaining about CSS3 because it often seems to have a mind of its own and won't do what I hope. I was really surprised to learn someone considers it magic. I appreciate the thought that went into this article and all the animations and code. I'll probably still complain about CSS3, though.
This is pretty common at all the top Engineering departments, nowadays.

My doctorate was at Texas, and it certainly catered primarily to what brings in the $$: e.g. research.
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I do this... I have 3-4 randomly generated passwords memorized. One for each "important" account (e.g. email, banking).
>"A third track, Business Analytics, will be eventually be added as an additional option." (https://pe.gatech.edu/online-masters-degrees/analytics/progr...)

Looks like the business track isn't offered in the online program (yet), which is weird because it looks like all the requirements are offered online.
check out richard stallmans notes on ebooks:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.en.html
i am an ebook fan myself, but it has some valid points,
one of which is ebooks are digital and it is really easy to censor or erase information that way. in the past you had to track down and burn physical books, now you can just send a request to kindle over the network
I use Feedly too, but the lack of other decent feed readers or aggregators suggests that there really isn't a user demand for RSS. OTOH, many sites and news organizations post to Twitter as a rudimentary RSS feed. Google probably could have adapted Reader into the social platform they wanted.
Ah, Mark Rain brings back memories of his Mary language...
Adrenaclick has existed for a long time.

Adrenaclick is the same drug as EpiPen, but a different injection mechanism, so it's a different prescription (if your doctor chooses to prescribive a specific injection mechanism)

The news here is that CVS has a marketing and distribution campaign for a generic alternative to Adrenaclick.
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I find it funny that capitalism requires what is essentially an irrational behavior. It seems to me that big public corporations, which avoid risk, and only buy startups once they have been established, are the rational actors. On the other hands, three guys in the garage doing a startup often do it not because they calculate expected profits, but because they want to do it for other than monetary reasons - typically to show that things can be improved and done differently. And so they are willing to take huge, irrational risks.
Again, thanks for the objections, they're making me think hard about the design choices.

> Lucky you if your SSH client never failed to connect. How do you think it reports a network failure?

Currently posixcube handles this by checking the return code and reporting the error.

> You see, there are tools that allow you to easily tell between network failure and remote command failure. RPC protocols are an example.

ssh does have some basic differentiation: "ssh exits with the exit status of the remote command or with 255 if an error occurred." Although, of course, 255 might be returned by a remote command (not sure how likely that is), so it's still ambiguous. I guess you're saying that if it's an SSH error, then that's pretty safe to retry and it would be a nice feature, and I agree so I've opened this issue: https://github.com/myplaceonline/posixcube/issues/6

> Now let's get practical: find me such a library.

I guess it would just be a matter of, first, checking for 255, and next, checking the output of the command to see if it's an SSH error for sure?

> We were talking about configuring servers. You basically tell me that I would have to pay for "agentlessness" with tracking state of each and every machine I would possibly want to reconfigure, and remembering to check if the machine was booted to re-issue a reconfiguration command.

So you bring up a good point. On DigitalOcean, for example, their Fedora images use extlinux for booting and I can easily update the Linux command line (e.g. crashkernel), reboot, and it picks it up. Their Ubuntu distribution uses grub, and update-grub works fine, but for some reason, it requires a hard shutdown instead of a reboot to pick up the change. The way I handle this now is here: https://github.com/myplaceonline/myplaceonline_posixcubes/bl...

We echo this instruction to the user. This prints a red-text error message and stops execution. This seems even better than an agent-based execution because with an agent-based architecture, the agent is now gone (hard powered off); whereas, this style of orchestration in the front-end can use a script on top of posixcube.sh that waits a minute, remotely calls DO to start the droplet, and then continues execution (using the same script since it's essentially idempotent). The only other option would be to have a centralized server that orchestrates all of this, which posixcube avoids.

> Sorry, I'm lost here: what re-running? The command didn't get the chance to run in the first place. I don't know where did you get the idea that I propose running the command again if it got through to the remote server and failed there.

See above, I'll need to try it, but I think the ssh error code for "command didn't get through" along with some simple heuristics on the command output /might/ work; I'll investigate in issue #6.
Probably off-topic, but it seems as though every new site advertising a software tool has a top-down picture of a desk with a Macbook on it, a notepad, and some other office supplies scattered around.

I'm not complaining; it's a nice image, but there's definitely a trend going on.
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Actual title: "EPA Notifies Fiat Chrysler of Clean Air Act Violations"
I think this is a great point. Expecting companies not to act in their own best interest is foolish. It's also foolish to expect our elected officials to act in the citizens' best interest rather than for their donors. Instead, let's make net Neutrality the only option so we can focus on technical challenges.
After a couple of retries (it does remember all your answers, so its nice) - it did work for me. I was able to complete the whole survey.
You could run i2p [0], YaCy search engine [1], and/or tor relay [2] there.

[0] https://geti2p.net/en/

[1] http://yacy.net/en/index.html

[2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en

Edit: All free software, all help the community.
What kind of chip are you building?
PG wants to make startups/hackers surpass earth-shattering thinkers, by considering the differences in the existential risks taken by each. Newton was betting (in PG's interpretation) that he would not go crazy or be seen as crazy. The existential risk for thinkers. Now to make scummy => crazy, where "=>" can also mean "greater or equals to".
This is true, BUT there's no reason to assume that the brand name absorbs better than the generic -- it's specifically NOT been tested.
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I completely agree. The fact that this cannot be disabled (like preferring a desktop site over a mobile one) is really annoying. Google is meddling too much in the website, they need to back off.
I will always remember what my neuroscience professor told me in college: "You know, after having worked in this cutting edge field for almost two decades, with some of the greatest thinkers in the world, I have learned one very important thing. Given all of the mounting research, vast amounts of data, and incredible imaging technologies, at the end of the day people will believe whatever they damn well want to."
That's anchoring bias. It wasn't $600 2 years ago
We sent out several emails to existing users that included a coupon for a year free, and thousands upon thousands of people did take advantage of this. Perhaps you missed the window? Either way, stay tuned. :)
Yes, that's the reason, and that's why it's a challenge for anyone trying to promote a news aggregator using Google search.
A better way to phase this is that Giuliani's private consulting business is a cybersecurity adviser. Giuliani himself likely has no expertise in the field at all.

Overall the US is going to keep getting successfully exploited until they actually ask subject experts how to defend themselves rather than lawyers, MBAs, and politicians.

This is something Obama did very well with the "The United States Digital Service." He cut out the useless empty suites, got in a bunch of subject experts, and accomplished things.

Can you imagine how critical the media would be if Trump's defence advisor was a lawyer? But for IT and cyber security that's just fine I guess...
They might be. Unfortunately only the new MacBook Pros have TB3 and not the desktops (Mac Mini/iMac/Mac Pro).

Performance is said to be OK with TB2 and AKiTiO Thunder2 enclosures but it's still a bit hacky and unsupported in macOS.
This is one of the main motivators in science. People do science trying to discover something no one knows and be recognized for that. Very few would be still motivated if you leave just discovery part and drop recognition.
I pointed it out for the sake of suggesting a work around. I'm a big fan of people taking control of their own browsers and I dislike that X_FRAME-OPTIONS is designed to prevent people from mashing up web content however they want.
pay isnt there
The quality control must be very strict. I'm sure that's what makes the price difference.
The author's statements are reasonable. I am surprised by your comment as well as the need to repost it.

He's taking the time to remind us of the richness beyond the technical understanding of mathematics. I think this is a good reminder, in particular, for a technically proficient audience that may spend the majority of their time on technical matters.

Nowhere did he say that we should be historians or encyclopedias of/for mathematics.

At worst, his point stimulates an additional portion of our brains and may make mathematics more accessible to some.

The title might be hyperbolic, but it's effective.
/r/TIL

/r/programming

/r/woodworking
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You can work in the same area, you just can't sell the exact same thing. From your comments, it seems like you have no problem working for free, so what's the issue?
I think the point was that Newton devoted a lot of time to things that are not optics, mechanics and mathematics - we do not remember him for the other things obviously, which is why it is rarely known, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies
Do you mind linking to the bug report?
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