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Boomers in the US have largely adopted ideologies that promise prosperity for all but, by shear coincidence, /also/ benefit them directly.

Trouble is, the prosperity stuff is all theoretical (cutting social programs to lower taxes = eventually a better economy, trust me), but all the benefits to the boomers were concrete (shifting tax breaks and program funding towards things that help older people and away from those that help younger people).

Shockingly, after 40 years of these policies, the prosperity for everyone never showed up, but the boomers somehow managed to enrich themselves above all others, despite not (by objective measures) working harder or being more skilled than the generations that came after.

I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm sure a better future was one of the things that they genuinely wanted. I'm saying that boomers (in aggregate) are self-delusional about their greed. Judge people by their actions, not their intentions.
I literally have struggled to come up with an appropriate question that addresses the several different misconceptions about your statement, so I'll just go with this: what?

How is anything you stated remotely analogous to what is in the article.
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In those cases, perhaps its use was objectively ironic, but it was not ironic from the speaker's perspective.
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There have been QuicktimeVR type real-estate tours for a long time.

How would this be different?
>The 2.0 version will then be employed by governments to silence dissent by bleeding the energy of movements before they happen.

Governments are already adept at sabotaging movements if they so desire.

I agree with you though, it's probably not the best idea.
reasonattlm, you're the man. I think lots of your good posts go unread because the paragraphs are too long. If you hit enter one more time than usual per paragraph, I think you'll 4x or better the posts read/understood.
There are other conclusions and interpretations you can draw from the two lines of reasoning. Much of the effectiveness of dog-whistle politics is that most of what's said remain non-explicit, so let me pop that:

The reasoning that there is a small group who would refuse to fund nonwhites/women, and that has an knock-on effect on everybody else suggests:

-that there is a 'culture of racism/mysogyny'

-that we need more diversity training

-that we need to move the overton window to exclude those people with the unacceptable views (and we should do so via diversity training)

-that we need to spend money to fund the people to make the above happen.

OTOH, the reasoning that many startups lead by nonwhites and/or women got seed-funding via affirmative action despite not being strong enough to get funded on a level playground, leading to lower average quality, leading to warier investors and difficulty attracting further funding suggests:

- that there is no 'culture of racism/mysogyny', just people being rational with their money.

- that we need to wind back the irrational AA money that is distorting the market and wasting its investors' money

- that 'diversity training' is not the answer and possibly counterproductive.

-that the overton window is either fine where it is, or could be moved a bit the other way.

It is unfortunate that there is so much attached here, and I'm fairly sure most of those things are not the intended interpretations by the posters, but you can see how this is a very baggage laiden discussion. Partially it's because it echoes many, many similar discussions elsewhere, and many of those previous discussions made many people very angry at each other.
>Your entire career jammed into a single page - not a good idea.

Why should your resume show your entire career? Isn't the point of the resume to tell a story that gets you an interview?

Anything else is overkill.
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Personally I don't want VR until it is divorced from motion controls. I hate motion based control schemes.
Tolerance build up happens with all flavours.
Terrible UX combined with unsane default, at best...
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closed and its not a health care system at all. as soon as you develop a problem you're screwed.
The alcoholics I've known have all had underlying emotional problems. One can't get over the business partner who left him holding the bag - it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for him to get the bank to leave him alone.

Another couldn't deal with her marriage falling apart. Prison also didn't help her learn how to better deal with life.

I believe the third was turned into an alcoholic by methadone. The etiology of this one's addictions is fascinating, but I think the main consideration is the lack of stability growing up. Money was never a problem, but her family life during childhood and teenage years was ... sub-optimal.

Emotionally-stable people tend to not become addicted to alcohol, heroin, cocaine, etc. I've met former cocaine users whose attitude is "been there, done that, no need to use again." That's kind of my attitude about alcohol - I don't care for it at all, no matter the price.

A wise woman once said, "... When a person feels safe, the false ego goes away." Helping people feel safe should be the #1 priority of every effort to help someone with substance abuse problems.
This doesn't explain why people turn specifically to opiates and not to booze or weed.

A recent article suggested that Purdue Pharmaceuticals dosing guidelines pretty much guaranteed addiction to OxyContin, by advising doctors to only ever prescribe the drug at 12 hour intervals despite the fact that it wore off more quickly for a large number of patients.

When patients complained about the drug wearing off early, Doctors were advised to not adjust the schedule but instead increase the dosage.

The pain-pleasure-reward cycle when the drug wears off early is what creates the physical addiction, and increasing the dosage only made it worse.

Purdue insisted on a 12 hour schedule because that is the marketing differentiater between OxyContin and generic opiates.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
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Thanks for the perspective. Makes sense.
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> Why do you feel that there's no way to verify closed-source software?

Isn't that the very definition of security through obscurity?
From anywhere:

Local cache on 127.0.0.1: ~0msec
Local nameserver on 127.0.0.1: ~0msec
/etc/hosts: ~0msec
I use Incognito mode for the same behaviour so it does not get messed up with my logged in sites data. But use it only e.g. when booking flights etc. (don't trust adblocking on critical bookings... shooted myself in the foot once with that)
Which only has effect if you pass multiple files to compile.
This doesn't sound ominous at all. At least facebook doesn't have a history of experimenting on changing it's users minds for them. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-...
It's the economy stupid. Americans have nothing in their lives but their jobs. Take those away and they start self-medicating. Well that's my pet theory any way. Also have to consider the demographic most affected by job loss.

Why not weed or alcohol? Because opiates produce a high and make you feel good. Much like work might, if you had it.
Call me paranoid, but the thing which is strange to me is that Whisper talks about this defending Facebook/WhatsApp.

This makes me highly suspicion my usage of Signal :-(
I personally don't have familiarity with these, but have you seen this?

http://thecodeplayer.com/
When I worked at CompUSA 25 years ago, many software titles were sold on consignment -- they went back to the publisher. The store was really selling shelf space and got a lot of money for it.
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Mostly it was the government regulation that made employer insurance popular in US. Accident of history:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1140451...
"keys or who has enabled a setting to see key change notifications."

If everyone has enabled by default this setting, the server can't detect who has enabled it on purpose(because everyone has enabled it), or not?
I dont know about that. Every SSD that has failed for me did so quite unexpectedly and prematurely, I haven't yet taken an SSD to its write limit and none of them have survived more than a few years except the very first Intel 80GB gen 1.
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One little correction -> Meat has zero carbs. All kinds of meat.
Agreed. The relationship has to be a net positive for both sides to begin with, for there to be anything to negotiate about.

The adversarial part is how to divide that mutually created gain. The "surplus", as economists call it.
I think the implication was that the choice made users suffer, and feel pain - so sadism fits.
That's the first I've heard of that. Amazon's app store had some controversial clauses including price matching.
All I can say is I am glad to be Australian. We might have some nasty wildlife, but at least I know that if I am bitten or stung I am not going to end up bankrupt.
> Essential's engineers are developing a proprietary connector that serves double duty for charging the battery and expanding the phone's functionality over time

a.k.a. Project Ara?
I welcome it! Admittedly I have enjoyed the past few years of not having to upgrade my graphics card. It would seem thanks to consoles, that shader technology and performance has been a focus of game development for a little while. The result being better and better visuals still running on the same hardware just fine.

But I am also behind an escalation of the chipset manufacturers duelling it out. Some market impetus would surely bring about some great new engineering.
I think VR is garbage. You take what would be a decent visual experience, and stretch it across your field of vision until it's nice and pixelated. Then you cut that crap resolution in half, by giving each eye its own individual feed.

Now that you've got the resolution lowered by 10 fold or so, you can induce sickness with lag, head tracking inaccuracy, poorly executed strobing to reduce blur.

Now that you're sickly enjoying the screendoored world, your can enjoy the face sweat, and not being able to find your beverage in the real world.

I can live with everything but the screen door.
I've never had any storage medium fail on me, and I feel like I do a lot of read/writes.

Exception is a flash drive I snapped in half once. Oops.
Pass phrases.
I THINK the commenter was saying that "serving billions of people from many different demographics all over the world" is inviting all of those different people together so you can betray them all at once.
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Which toolchain are you using? binutils/GCC or LLVM? Is the code for that upstream?
I'm aware of what excise taxes are, but I see why it might seem like that's what I meant, because I wasn't really explaining what I meant by that phrase. By "excess tax", I mean taxes in excess of the cost of the behavior they're trying to regulate. Both of these examples are both excise taxes, the rates of which are in excess of the costs borne to society of those activities.
I like how you've identified what the key difference is.

Demand-limited. Not supply limited like we have been for the past 60 years.

I think it applies to more than just academic jobs though. Oil. Cars. Fridges. Laptops. Computers. Dolls. For all of it demand limits seem to be the problem.
Unreal is a valid and popular alternative.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-birthday-present-from-bro...
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> in my experience the degree ended up being worth a $95K to $115K bump in starting salary.

Wait... isn't this kind of a good reason to suffer through the course?
I went into McDonald's and I couldn't buy a Whopper. What's up with that? I'm going to sue!
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Still using a HDD here. Would like to transition, but holding out for better price/capacity ratios. It's really clear that it's the bottleneck for everyday use at this point; I recently went to 16GB RAM which stopped a lot of Windows swapping behavior, and now the major pain points are bootup, storage-intensive tasks, and bloated web sites.
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I pretty much just ignore all of these reports and articles because of everything you just said. And I hate to change the subject, but studies done in every other subject are the exact same way. I'm in no way impugning the research and hard work of people out there who are doing an honest and forthright job and are trying to serve humanity. It's just that I've been to a lot of these same rodeos and well, I've seen some astounding breaches of ethics. Maybe someone down the line isn't trying to deceive the public, but the public is in fact being deceived, is it not? And now we have the bigger problem of we can't trust major news outlets and sources of information. So here we are.
I don't have enough certainty to want to take either side here, but wouldn't food make a better analogy than a refrigerator? Food is more similar to healthcare. It's something that you need to purchase regularly and it's vital to your immediate health.
Those people are called the "lay public" and they're capable of believing that caffeine is both good for preventing heart disease and a major cause of heart disease at the same time.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Craze
> there's every reason to expect the PPU of SSD's to continue trending downward

Not really. The big driver for cost reduction in SSDs was process shrinks, but the latest processes are actually more expensive per-transistor than older ones so that ship has more-or-less sailed. You've got 3D NAND but that's even more expensive to manufacture so the cost savings are marginal at best. It remains to be seen if XPoint will lead to big savings.

In the short term SSD prices have actually been trending up due to a shortage of NAND flash.
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All the high end and mid-range laptops have already dropped the spinning drive (unless they have a secondary drive for bulk storage), the user experience is just so much better. It's only the low-end laptops that still use spinning drives, because even a 1tb is technically cheaper than a reasonably sized SSD.

I took a look and the NAND chip trend lines, and I predict that by mid 2018, 256gb of NAND (which is enough space for an average consumer) will cost less than a 1tb drive. At that point, all the cheap laptops will drop spinning drives too.
Nor are they inherently less efficient.

Do you truly feel military procurement is equivalent to healthcare delivery?

Have you ever sold products to the US government?

Do you believe the primary financial gains would come from negotiating power? (Hint, the list I provided is in order of impact.)

Are you familiar with the impact Medicare Part D had on prescription drug prices? (Spoiler alert: it "substantially lowered the average price and increased the total utilization of prescription drugs by Medicare recipients" [1].)

Do you believe the decisions behind funding defense are in any way influenced by non-economic factors? (Hint: defense budgets increase even when the military itself requests lower funding. Does government healthcare funding follow the same pattern? Why not?)

Are you familiar with the many estimates of the cost of a single payer program in the US? [2]

I could go on, but won't. This is not Reddit. Sound-bite caliber anecdotal arguments are a problem, not a solution.

[1] http://faculty.som.yale.edu/FionaScottMorton/documents/TheEf...

[2] http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single-payer-system-cost
I bet taking a few months off from work would also lead to most of those things.
> carrying debt to maximize life now can potentially destroy your future, but the alternative is minimizing life now to improve your potential (and non-guaranteed) future later.

Define maximize and minimize. Is a life lived "to the fullest" worth it, when you find yourself frequently fighting off panic attacks as you realize you have to work until you die? Is a life spent maxing out a couple retirement accounts (IRA, 401k for most of us in the US), along with cooking your own food, and traveling to more modest hotels and always in the cheap airline seats really minimized? You still have time to spend with friends, and you have less stress, and you can still see many (maybe even more) of the places you want without breaking the bank.
> Helping people feel safe should be the #1 priority of every effort to help someone with substance abuse problems.

Exactly this thought. I've helped a lot of kids over the year through abusive homes and the greatest thing you can give them is the feeling of safety above all else. This isn't necessarily helicopter parenting, but it's attentive to the needs to help them feel like they can fail without losing the essential securities of life.
Look if WhatsApp wants to read your messages without you detecting, there's nothing you can really do to prevent it apart from not using WhatsApp.

For instance if you're on some list for message interception, they can give you MITMed keys when you first login. Or they can insert some subtle signal that tells the app on your specific phone to ignore key changes and avoid showing notification in some way you would struggle to check (closed source and obfuscated code) etc etc. They could even show you the right key if you attempt verification but use a compromised one for communication. This particular vuln. would be a ridiculously crude way to intercept messages.

To repeat, in any system where key distribution and message distribution are centralized, there is no way to protect against the service provider - and anyone who co-opts the service provider (eg. with a court order). The objective of the encryption is to protect against other actors snooping on you
I heard Hillary Clinton, when first lady, got a mandate from her husband to lead health-care reform, and tried precisely the strategy of not compromising in the hope that no one would actually vote against universal health care with the world watching.

It failed, legislators just voted against it and carried on with their day. No noticeable public blowback against them.
Or maybe you're just reading fake news.
Charcoal powered cars were initially more common than those powered by gasoline as well.

Energy density was the initial driver behind the push to gasoline, but if they'd had lithium-ion technology in 1880 the world would be radically different.

Electric powertrains won't take over all uses, but they'll take over enough that the remainder is mostly an anachronism. As batteries are produced at higher capacity and lower cost, as alternative energy becomes more pervasive, the whole thing tips steeply to electric.

For example, even for a cottage application with a boat electric might be better since you can charge it yourself vs. having to truck in marine fuel. With the right battery technology and solar panel system you'd save thousands. It's merely a decade or two away.
The suggestive adverb "terrifyingly" is not about an objective state but about Craig Mod's (author) subjective perceptions. Honesty in the sense of fidelity to the objective world is not really at stake. Presumably, Mod is being honest about his experience.

Additionally, Mod is from Brooklyn and Lynchburg, Virginia, is in the South (at least for a New Yorker like Mod). If he'd never been and had been aware of Lynchburg's media reputation as home of religious conservatism, "terrifyingly" is understandable.

As someone who lived in Virginia for seven years, I remember the town Lynchburg having ominous associations. I also recall stories about lynchings that had occurred in Lynchburg as well as something about a haunted building on school grounds. Not that these are things Mod was aware of.

I'm only pointing out that the idea that Lynchburg is "terrifyingly" named is not about being "honest" to the historical and geographical fact of Lynchburg.

EDIT: spelling
Yeah last time I checked it was at Columbia & Phillip, right next to UW.
It would be nice to add RPi support to the u-boot bootloader.
Look if WhatsApp wants to read your messages without you detecting, there's nothing you can really do to prevent it apart from not using WhatsApp.

For instance if you're on some list for message interception, they can give you MITMed keys when you first login. Or they can insert some subtle signal that tells the app on your specific phone to ignore key changes and avoid showing notification in some way you would struggle to check (closed source and obfuscated code) etc etc. They could even show you the right key if you attempt verification but use a compromised one for communication. This particular vuln. would be a ridiculously crude way to intercept messages.

In any closed source system where key distribution and message distribution are centralized, there is no way to protect against the service provider - and anyone who co-opts the service provider (eg. with a court order). The objective of the encryption is to protect against other actors snooping on you
Weird because I watch Top Gear^W^W The Grand Tour with the prime app on my roku and it works great.

The show is pretty awesome too.
Exactly. Also, it's worth noting that the "retail" price is a way that health care providers rip off the government by claiming a loss on their books after they are reimbursed by medicaid.

The grandparent's intuition that by being on a high deductible plan I would not be eligible for the "buying club" benefits of negotiated pricing doesn't pan out: The price is negotiated so that there is a captive "in-network" market which guarantees some level of utilization and helps with planning. Insurance companies want to offer a large population to care networks in order to negotiate a volume discount.

Also, if you consider a catastrophic plan that kicks in if something really bad happens and I use over $20K of care. Nearly any serious condition or accident would qualify. If it happened, I'd be able to switch to a lower deductible plan in the next open enrollment. Worst case, I'd end up paying my premium savings (and then some) toward that one event, but overall I would not be much worse off than if I'd just chosen the expensive plan to begin with.

When I had the high deductible plan through an employer I did the math on it compared to the most deluxe plan offered. Worst case, if I maxed out the individual and family deductibles on the high deductible plan, I'd end up paying about the same as the annual premiums of the deluxe plan. But if, as is likely, I didn't have a catastrophic incident, I'd save a lot of money (which I did).
Perhaps you aren't. That isn't the only alternative on offer.
yep, just came here to link this also.

more screenspace: http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/Portal_wcs2.swf
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Human error causes >90% of car crashes (https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/12/human-error-cause...), so brake maintenance is a very inefficient way to reduce insurance risk. Instead, insurers penalise people based on their history of crashes (or — more importantly to the insurers — claims). The market is actually working well in that case.
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This is by far the best book ever written on Antarctic living. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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Candy, in middle school. I'd go to a convenience store before school and buy a bag of hard fruit flavored candies with soft centers for a little over a dollar, and I'd sell them at a quarter for a handful. I always made them pick their own handfuls, because my hands are huge.
> Hyperbole of the century.

Everyone has had different experiences with VR. To call another person's personal experience a hyperbole is disingenuous.
You're quite welcome :)