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Star Wars seems to have many different economies operating across the galaxy, and they interact in various ways.

The Empire, for example, is known to have have made extensive use of slave labor (by non-humans mostly, such as Wookies). It also seems to make use of droids and clones for dangerous tasks (military work, natural resource extraction, etc.).

Outer Rim worlds seem to have a kind of anarcho-capitalist economy that is equal parts libertarian paradise (no regulations, no taxes) and organized crime syndicate plutocracy (The Hutt syndicates in particular are widespread and powerful).

Core worlds seem to be more like nation states, with each world governing itself and its economy according to local values. Alderaan (RIP) seems to have been a liberal parliamentary democracy. Coruscant (seat of the Empire) is a planet scale conurbation with a first world developed economy on the upper levels and a third world underdeveloped economy on the lower levels.
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infinality is obsolete. Freetype 2.7.0 ships a new interpreter (that's… based on infinality. but faster and simpler) http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2016-07/...
Yeah, I'd don't disagree that the original claim of incompatibility was overstated; it's quite easy to enjoy ST:TNG without agreeing with Roddenberry's political philosophy, because, again, while it shapes the background and stories to some extent, the work isn't heavy-handed polemic.
I've never taken the time to read/watch Dune, but this has certainly piqued my interest. Thanks
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Deep Space 9 has an arc where a Starfleet officer attempts to launch a coup against the (elected) President of the Federation - we do see an elected leader there, but you're right that it isn't spelled out in much detail.
Lol, you have cheap rides because Uber pays a part of it for you. If a ride is worth $10 to a driver then the driver still get $10 no matter if you pay $5 for the ride. Without Uber, a lot of people will be unemployed. Tell me how the drivers are getting shafted?
I think there's a much stronger overlap of Star Trek and the political beliefs of it's viewers than the overlap of Star Wars and and particular viewer (maybe in part because Star Wars is so much more popular, or maybe because the part of the world I live in or my experience with individuals.)

Either way, it does not do well to look towards pieces of fictions for solutions to our real world problems. Of course, if we as a planet discovered advance civilizations on other planets, we would have to re-organize our entire political structure to deal with such threats. But that's not the case, and that's not the world we live in.

‘There’s something my dad made up which is he told me when I was little I was frustrated about rules in Movies
and he said ‘How do you kill a Vampire?’ And I said ‘Stake through the heart, garlic, sunlight’ and my dad was
like ‘No, kill a vampire however you want Vampire’s because don’t exist you can make up rules for any kind of
thing you want’ - The Death and Return of Superman

Although the visual arts can offer unique and compelling perspectives (Apocalypse Now, etc) perhaps we should strive to scrutinize their work the same way a persuasive piece of writing would be.
I'm an introvert, I have a system for things to do when I meet clients.

It's easy and no big deal
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You've repeated this sentiment several times (and I believe you are right), but isn't it an appeal to authority?
Caring about the people who work for you is a crucial part of integrity. Not all people are the same, and not all days are the same. An employee whose father just died needs to be managed/led in a different way than an employee who just got a nice raise.

If you are indifferent to the burdens and emotional states of your staff, people will notice, and it will harm your ability to hire and retain the best employees. This is a failure of leadership, because the #1 job of a leader is to build a great team.
I'm so tired of this introverts versus extroverts stuff.

Seriously. You're good at what you do because you're good at what you do. Generally, the people who rise to the top or perform better are the ones who really put their minds to doing whatever it is they do, which usually means taking careful study of their field and spending some time alone to focus.
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I wrote my feelings about how Deutsche got into this mess here. I think its still a valid take on how things unraveled.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13047056

> Essentially, the trade had little economic purpose—only an accounting one.

Yep, that's one of the first things you learn about when you take any kind of trading course. At a lower level in the cash equity markets you have something similar with wash trades.

The rule of thumb has always been, did you swap any risk, if not then consider you may have done something dubious, not always, but its a very good first pass.

> This month the bank agreed to pay $7.2 billion to resolve a U.S. probe into its subprime mortgage business, admitting it misled investors. Deutsche has paid more than $9 billion in further fines and settlements related to claims of tax evasion; violating sanctions against Iran, Libya, Syria, Myanmar, and Sudan; rigging the $300 trillion Libor market; and other alleged breaches of the law.

I think this is going to be the new normal for banks from now on until they get completely out of trading an market making, which is probably going to be never.

It's very hard to police a world wide distributed teams, who have many conflicting views, all of who get paid based on what they produce and don't have much long term incentive to see things any other way.

I mean, in this case even the risk team singed off on it. What more could a CEO do. At some level you have to trust your people to make money and do it without breaking the laws of every country you do business in, even if those laws can conflict.

Having said that, Deutsche bank is one bank that keeps coming up when fines and abuse in the baking system are in the news.

They allegedly wrote famed hedge fund Renaissance Technologies their infamous basket option put that let RenTech claim that its short term trades were actually long term captial gains instead by virtue of them owning the put written by the bank that just happend to include every single short term trade Rentech did over the year.

Deutsche got paid handsomly for writing the put and RenTech got the cliam long term capital gains vs short term capital gains.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-21/renaissan...

Side Bar:

I've said this before, but when the tell all book about RenTech is written, their genius will be confirmed but I think you'll find they did alot more shady things like the above to juice their returns.
Yes, Levine quoted Yglesias

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-02/quant-awa...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/12/amazon_as_cor...
So 4 hours a day in a sweatshop is better working conditions than 8 hours a day in Google?

K.
Apparently the judge did not see that as a reason to prevent him from finishing his work and delivering evidence one way or the other (maybe he's awesome and his work will show this, maybe he sucks and his work will show this).

"Team science" is actively penalized, just so you know. You're either a rock star PI with 5 R01s and an indentured servant "research professor" to handle actual work, or you're nobody. It is, and always has been, all about the money -- those sweet, sweet indirects from NIH grants, and the endowments from gullible old rich people.

Rubin sounds like an asshole, exactly the sort of PI that is selected for at many top-tier institutions. If he's really clever he'll "help" German GTFO of his lab and then write some coded instructions in recommendation letters ("if you've any questions, please call me at 617-867-5309"). And then things can go back to normal, hopefully with Rubin being more cautious and/or less vindictive the next time around.
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Depends - if the robots can replicate without the same environment as people, then other environments might be better suited to the robotic colony.

However, that's treating robots or AI like we would people. Robots aren't people, nor are AIs. They are likely to take forms we cannot comprehend, and likely to change us in ways we cannot comprehend, at first. I'd argue that it is already happening. At the moment we're farming AI, but it might not be long until AI is farming us.
That's a big leap. They don't have to actually show ads for that analytics data to be extremely valuable.
Actually, telling you whether things are different isn't the goal.

The goal is to make practical business decisions with reasonably high likelihood of being right and, if wrong, having only limited impact.

The output of a well done Bayesian analysis can be very easy for business people to understand. Statements like (you have a 60% chance of making just the right decision and a 35% chance of making a decision that is within 3% of right) are easy for most business stake-holders to understand because that is close to how they frame their own decision making process.

Laboring to reject a null hypothesis is an unnatural act for most people.
I think these features should be included in every OS nowadays, like we have firewalls.

Anyway, I will probably buy this app, even if I share some concern others have about its own network calls.
As of several years ago the putlic http endpoints would easily do 1M/sec at peak times. Not just api, but web, images, et al.
I have a Herman Miller Celle at work and love it. They're a bit cheaper than the Aeron, and as far as I can tell offer a couple more adjustments not available on the Aeron. (Lumbar support, seat depth, and seat angle(separate from the back).

There are also some Steelcase Leaps laying around which are also great.
I've used a Stokke/Varier Wing Balans for about 15 years on and off. I find that it allows for a variety of sitting positions.

If you are experiencing knee pain, you may want to adjust so the top of your shin is against the pad, not the knee itself, and keep the majority of your weight through your core and seat.

I started using one when I bruised my coccyx (snowboarding accident) and found it to help with lower back pain YMMV

[edit] I prefer the Wing Balans because it is height adjustable with a gas ram, so it can be used in more positions, with a variety of desk heights. I would often use it very low in more of a kneeling position, or at the upper edge of its height range more like a stool
Parent didn't recommend an Asus Eeebook X205TA but a Lenovo ThinkPad X series tablet.
I've used the Herman Miller Aeron for 3 years at various San Francisco startups, and got to really appreciate it. Its best features for me were the ability to forget I'm sitting in a chair or that it even exists, I could just focus on my work. I ended up getting one for my current office. It was the new 2016 refreshed model, which is slightly nicer. I like it a lot.

It's also unbeatable if you tend to run warm, because of the mesh that has great air circulation. In a normal chair, you'd be sweating otherwise.

That said, I also got a standing desk and I think it's fantastic to be able to stand half the day, and sit the other half.
I've got an Aeron. I've been through a few others far cheaper and near enough as good for sitting in but they broke so quickly with effectively zero customer service about that the 10 year guarantee was worth it.

I've had it about 5 years now, no issues with it whatsoever, but if there ever are past the guarantee period the parts market is pretty robust for them.
Exercise ball and standing. I had a motorcycle accident 8yrs ago that chipped some of the nubs off my coccyx and lower spine. Sitting in a chair hurts after an hour or 2. No pain with the ball. Plus its cheap.
Little Snitch is noisy AF for the first day or so, but that's also kind of the point, right? You're running it because you want to know which apps are doing what. Those first sessions are enlightening. Wow, my laptop talks to all the things! That drops very quickly, though, as you tell it "yes, allow Slack to connect to" and "no, don't let Safari talk to sketchy.ru:8765".

I still get the occasional popup, but now they're limited almost exclusively to newly installed apps that I'm running for the first time. That's still an eye-opener: no, I don't see a need for a calculator to connect to Google Analytics. Deny!

Except for gamed, of course. There's no rhyme nor reason to which hosts and ports it wants to talk to. If you ever want to hack a Mac running Little Snitch, call your process "gamed" and the own will allow it through (if they haven't already set "allow connections to any host and port because alert fatigue lol").
While there is a singular society that is focused on in both Star Wars and Star Trek, neither is homogeneous or complete. No one would watch if either were, because struggle would not be an option. Star Trek has plenty if conflict, even within the Federation itself. (please note, I won't go very deep into the nerd pit that is opened by this article, but the spelunking is there for the brave). Lies and deception to gain control of the military power was a VERY prevalent theme for multiple episodes and movies of Star Trek, which washes away the thought of an egalitarian utopia brought about by replecators and a just government structure. The conflict with the Klingons and the Romulans can be arguably pointed at as a false conflict with the Federation in order to cement more military power and societal control by the generals of Star Fleet (depending on time lines). In Star Wars, the Jedi Order is overtly communist and sent out to help bring an end to conflict over "petty squabbles concerning money and power" in order to bring about peace and communication throughout the galaxy. Again, this is also pointed out to be an imbalance in the way of the Force as much as the greed and anger of the Dark Side. True harmony comes through a balance of all things. This seems to be the overwhelming message of both of these sci-fi gems. Conflict will always exist. It is with in ourselves to calm the conflict inside us and take a look around with true curiosity and empathy, replecators or no. Communist or Capitalist.
Colonization largely ended when international relations stopped being a zero sum game. The US could invade Chile for copper, but it's better for both if they don't.

I'm more intelligent than an average person on the planet, but I still want to help get all of them water, food, and safety. I want them to learn and grow and have meaningful lives. I even want animals like dolphins and elephants to have free and rich lives.

I highly doubt that sentient machines are going to view us like bugs on a windshield. If I'm worried about anything it's the opposite. They care so much for us that they stop us from procreating to end (what they think is) needless suffering.
I believe the holodeck was always fully reserved and that not dislike alcohol, most people attempted moderation. But there are several episodes that people become addicted to the holodeck
> Keep it in your own private space until it's accepted as being actually part of the project.

I don't understand; is a clone on my laptop not my own private space?
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Would just take a little icon saying so. A lot of dev communities seem to be pretty ubiquitously mac these days. I wonder if it's a side effect.
>Why do they need a crew of hundreds, when almost everything is automated?

I believe they do state in TNG that the galaxy class ship could doing everything on its own, and the crew was just there because of their love of discovery and what not.
I don't think that theory is at all supported by the material. It is, however, more or less the canonical explanation for human crews on Culture ships in Iain Banks's works. The ships are fully capable of doing everything themselves, but most of them have human crew because the humans have fun participating and the ships like the company.
Maybe TNG is just a log of the adventures a hermit named Picard goes on in his personal Holodeck?
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> They're not. [keys not collected by another agency]

Right. I think you're absolutely correct, now. And I fully expect (hope!) that the NSA will one-day come to you with some more-secure hardware and that you will gladly cooperate because as you say - we are all on the same team.

My point is that you can't say what you're saying now. You aren't secure, and you don't have the type of procedures that would ever let you get to more than a 4/10 or so. You don't even see having four independent points of failure as an issue, rather than a benefit.

By promising people that the NSA does not have your organization's keys you're providing the less technical with a false picture.

And maybe, one day, that might matter. You might trick the next leaker into trusting your org as a way to whistle-blow and cause them to be caught by the NSA before they reach the news.

> Yes, and at that point the name for it is "policy". [security procedures]

Yeah, and software is just automated policy. If this is a zero, and that's a zero, etc...

If the guard in the vault runs a non-exploitable policy (ie no "I'm the boss" backdoors) then you can greatly reduce evil-sysadmin attacks.
Also, our standards are pretty high right now, so I think chaos would ensue before our quality of living fell too much.
In-house email will always outperform paid media, so the fact that you record a higher degree of site interaction from people who arrive via email should be of no surprise.

With regard to the advertising on Facebook and Google, what audience targeting was tested and applied? What ad formats were used? How many ad concepts were tested? What testing was done on the landing pages to improve performance? What was the "ROI" of the advertising investment, and what was the +/- on these results relative to the goals ascribed to the investment at the outset?

If you have no answers to these questions, or cannot back up your response with data from the type of testing I refer to here (which is part and parcel to running online advertising), then your article is completely pointless.
I get a lot of flak for writing humorous things to keep one target audience interested in the topic at all, but getting picked up by a super serious target audience.
Star Wars is Feudalism not Capitalism. And we're likely heading into a neo-feudal corporate world.
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There's nothing wrong with citing topical experts.

The "appeal to authority" fallacy occurs when someone is cited outside their area of expertise or is not an expert.
Looks like there's also a metal one with a sweet carrying case (still not slivery though) --http://a.co/6yuAmGR
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It's a bit ranty (Devoy seems very frustrated - which I can understand 100%), but it's certainly also good to be informed about this kind of thing.

An interesting point here is the idea that he as a user/FOSS-proponent could be "blamed" for the symptoms of a bug. I'm not sure, how far that could go, but it puts a new perspective on the issue.

Does anyone have insights on how projects best deal with similar issues?
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Yes, SharpDX does work on .NET Core. Although it's not "official", it is essentially the de-facto library for DirectX bindings.
No, the ability for the machine to not crash or need to be rebooted for long periods of time. Linux has gone completely downhill in this respect for the past few years. Switching to Solaris on my main Unix workstation has been a breath of fresh air compared to the constant naggering from Linux systems for updates, but I like old school...because it seems to 'just work'.
Agreed that the publishers don't make that claim. However, I know that many publishers are hesitant to go 1.0. Not because they think there are too many bugs, but because they are afraid of committing to not changing the API.
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Doesn't matter, you'll use the 10 year old chair with the broken lift that your employer provided you and you'll like it.
Don't bother watching either production.
I don't think any of the adaptations are worth watching, but the book is deservedly a classic. I don't know about the sequels, I've heard bad things and never tried them, but the original one is great.
...which is deeply installed into your system and has (had) plenty bugs for others to exploit.

i guess it can protect your privacy but also makes your system less secure to advanced attacks. Same thing can be said of AV-scanners.
I own Chuwi Hi10 Plus with soft keyboard/case. It's a decent general purpose tablet but I wouldn't use it for work unless I had no other option.

Reasons:

* keyboard is too small for me (I find T430s keyboard much more comfortable);
* Windows performance was terrible (again, compared to 2nd or 3rd gen i5).

I ended up removing windows and installing Cyanogenmod.

Oh, and the stock RemixOS software was buggy to the point where it was unusable: crashes when using SD card and about 12 hours of standby time when keyboard is attached. CM build fixes these issues.

Also, if you're wondering: Chuwi's active stylus is not worth it- it's laggy, has bad palm rejection and needs too much pressure.
Doing shady business is not "testerone-y", it has nothing to do with genders. It's a business tactic, a scheme, etc..

> Unreadable this, unbeatable that, sailboats, fighter jets, etc.

A company stating it's "unbeatable", has "sailboats", or whatever, again, has nothing to do with "testerone".

In fact, you'll find that for ever rich male CEO/owner of a company with a sailboat bragging about it, there will be a rich female CEO/owner of a sailboat bragging about it.

You may have been mixed up since there are less female CEO's, so it seems that it's a "male thing", but really, every study shows that when but in the right position, females and males will do equally fantastic, or horrible, or stupid things.

I think maybe you need to make things less about "male vs female"?
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Note that there is nothing at all in the semver spec about bugs.
I'm saying that people in richer countries will feel the effects of global warming less - not saying the effects of global warming will be small. A few reasons are: Fewer people live close to the coast. We spend relatively speaking less money on food, so we can more easily afford higher prices. More advanced agriculture can better adapt to higher temperatures. Stable governments can more effectively change and enforce policies, etc.
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Ditto, I was able to get a Leap from an office surplus store for my home office and I enjoy its adjustability better than the Aeron I had at my last job. The breathability of the Aeron is nice, but I don't have issues with standard cloth chairs anyway.
Sure it's old, but Cloud Services and VMs are two different things and there's only a little overlap (in the sense that VMs creates availability groups and can load balance endpoints). Cloud Services offers machine provisioning via a packaged file that contains the code to run, configuration and other important bits.

Any reason you recommend it to not be used for new projects? (yes, I understand it's ASM and not ARM and shows up as "classic" in the new portal, but you can still get quite a lot out of it that you can't easily get with VMs or App Services).