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> After all, on the grand scale of things, if we're all fed, clothed, housed, but simply bored...

i think there's a likely middle stage of skyrocketing unemployment where nobody has a job to earn money to buy food, nor a robotic source of food. this could lead to some luddite-like activities.

businesses will pursue anything that reduces quarterly or annual expenses, but too few look at the overarching social impact of their choices. especially with the rather brittle mantra that "new jobs will be created, they always are".
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Sorry for the confusion I mean movement within the EU as an EU national, and in turn, I was referring to the hypothetical open border between the US and Canada for their own nationals.
So the tax preparation company was still in the initial stages?

It isn't clear in your article.
I could walk around Amsterdam all day with a 6" cross section piece of tubular metal and nobody would bat so much as an eye. And I have multiple suitcases large enough to put a 1 meter segment of that pipe in (inches, meters...).

Even the larger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

would easily fit, and those suitcases even have wheels so it would not look all that heavy to someone not lugging it.
So in other words, the free market has produced a pile of jobs that we don't really need? Lobbyists get paid money to get politicians to supply a deduction as a line item on some obscure form, which increases red tape, which requires a need for a free market service, the revenue from that service in turn goes to feed more lobbying for more red tape. This is basically collusion, using the worst aspects of the free market and government, in simultaneous failures.

Meanwhile, the accounting and tax lay industry is part of the lobbying effort to grow their business on the back end, rather than making the case to the customer on the front end. It'd double dealing.

So I'm hardly sympathetic, but yes considering there are an ass tonne of jobs that would just vanish overnight, there'd maybe need to be a transitional phase, just avoid an abrupt change. But how do you shrink a market in a non-disruptive and fair way considering it grew in a distruptive and unfair way in the first place?
The US has >318 million people, <22 million are infants and toddlers, >70% identify as Christian, that's 207M.

I'm not sure how you're squaring Christians not being very religious with the narrative of Christians as highly religious fundamentalists.

No doubt you can come up with some more qualifiers that would get from 207M to <200M, but 3M is less than two percent of 190M too.
I was going to say that FiveThirtyEight has written similar pieces but I see it's the same person: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-millennials-are-les...

But right. A particular demographic of young professionals (which happens to align with both a lot of writers in these sorts of publications and tech workers) are moving to a handful of mostly coastal dense urban centers.

I'm not sure how much of an outlier his interpretation of the data is or if you just don't hear a lot from his perspective because it doesn't support the urbanization narrative.
Right. A system can function at (effectively) 100% correctness being composed of individuals who are not 100% perfect (because nobody is).

If 1 person is 99.99% correct, how correct are 3 people when consensus is required to make a decision? 5? Its just math.
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If you have a spec that changes by the _day_ = it means you don't have a spec. You are still prototyping.

So yes, start writing unit tests when you no longer prototype.
> I have read elsewhere about moving your code complexity to your data. But I can't find that other article.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2...

ESR actually references Pike's "Notes on C Programming".
While the technology is amazing, I am a bit bothered by all these picture and video modifying algorithms.

The issue is that we can't know what's real any more. It used to be if you saw a video or a photo depicting an event you could be pretty sure that what you're looking at actually happened.

Now, if you see a video of a prominent politician saying something awful in your twitter timeline (or whatever), they may have actually never said anything remotely close. It could be a completely fictional video that looks perfectly realistic[0], made by some teen in Macedonia.[1]

I realize photography and video have always been used to trick people into thinking things that aren't true, but this technology enables nuclear-grade deception.

I am wondering: is there a use-case for such an algorithm that is practical and good for the world?

PS: I know an eye-rolling algo is quite innocuous but I've had this thought on my mind about these in general and needed to air it out.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk
[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/
Highly suggest reading "command and control" by eric schlosser (fast food nation). Terrifying but amazing book: https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Ill...

I'm really not sure why we're still alive.
> When I called the rep basically told me there's no evidence of a call and there are no notes on my account from that person/call and nothing was moved forward for a review.

Every time you call a company with a dispute or complaint, record it. May not always be useful, but better safe than sorry.
The title clearly starts with "unit testing".
This is absolutely the case. My parents' personal data was dumped when one of the major health providers got hacked a few years ago, and somebody started submitting junk returns with their info. Each season it takes them easily 20+ hours on the phone, and usually the IRS won't believe their identity over the phone (understandable enough) so they need to show up in person at the nearest IRS office (which isn't very near, and requires an appointment - another 3-4hrs on hold to schedule, and they never take you on time when you get there). It's a nightmare, and if you choose not to resolve it, you're just setting yourself up to get audited.
so did you

even if your intentions are pure such a vague unqualified comment smells a lot like FUD
Apparently you have to contact them if you don't see the link after clicking More> by your balance. (3/12)
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That's a good price. My accountant bill is like $3k/yr. 4 companies+equity, moderately complex personal.
That struck me too. Pretty amusing. I think there is definitely a trend against the mis-happen McMansion, though. I attribute it to times when home building was booming and demand was outstripping supply for homes of that size. The result was that people were willing to accept, or just didn't even know, that the architecture was a little "off". So when space > aesthetics in a buyer's mind "good enough" was, well... good enough.
TurboTax claims no knowledge of the tax law is needed.

Knowledge of your personal circumstances is required and TurboTax's interview process guides you through extracting that information.

Charitable donations (to take a straight "optimized return" angle). How much did you give? Did you receive anything of value in return?

Intuit (TurboTax) doesn't know that info. H&R Block doesn't. The IRS doesn't. CreditKarma doesn't. You do.
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which, of course, is the true tragedy in all of this.
> the free market

it's not the free market when you lobby the GOVERNMENT to do what you want it to do
So far, I'm quite pleased with the Norwegian health care system - though to be honest, most of my experience has been through "working" as a CNA (it was actually part of language classes), classroom learning, a few doctor's visits, and the stories of other immigrants.

Everyone is covered by the national health insurance. No more worries about getting hit with a huge health care bill. Children have a lot of free stuff - most health care and dental (braces are an exception). I can change my doctor a couple times a year if I want. Some things just make sense: For example, the government sends me a letter to remind me to get cancer screenings every 3 years (I'm female) - and this stuff isn't as possible with the fragmented system in the states.

Now, the downsides are things like longer wait times. This does suck, for sure. Some of this is simply being cost-effective, I'm sure. But other cost effective things work out: For example, if you need a home nurse, you get one covered up to 6 times a day. Free, because it is cheaper than a nursing home. Dental can tend to be expensive and folks have some odd ways of going about this. For example, I've heard of a group of Norwegian dentists in... Poland?... that cater to Norwegians. The cost is often cheaper, even when factoring in the travel costs.

There is a private health care system. The government still pays their normal rate to the private provider and the patient pays the difference. Some folks use this to go around the waiting times and I'm guessing this option would seem more similar to the American system for folks with insurance - though I'm not sure it is ever like the nearly on-demand medical care one comes to expect in the states. The system is vastly better for those with poor coverage or those that have good coverage but can't afford to use it.

Hopefully, if the US does a single-payer system, they take a look at some of the downsides and try some things to lessen them.
Setting aside the pretty debatable morality of this whole thing (lots of other good comments here to debate that), I think the real story, the interesting one, is that this is even possible.

The tools used all exist and are basically free and easily accessible (gmaps+streetview, flight data maps, the live stream itself, etc). The people behind this are just random strangers on the internet who agreed on a cause (as strange as the cause may be). This used to be something only the CIA could do and they took longer to do it. 15 years ago, 'The Bourne Identity' was nearly science fiction!

What's this look like in 10 more years, when facial/vocal recog software is just as easy, when drones are somehow even cheaper and smarter, when 5 new technologies we hadn't considered exist, when there's even more people reaching out to each other to find common causes?

I'm excited/terrified to see what that looks like.
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That was exactly my point - pretty well I'd say, 40 years later! I'm not championing countries here, but it's probably true to say that western views of Maoist China tend to lack breadth. For example I've personally video-interviewed people who had a great time being relocated for re-education in tropical paradise (despite the local ladies being off-limits), then spent years traveling around the country on the government's budget as lowly trade facilitators in the socialist planned economy!

Besides, if we take China's cycle from wealthy and inward-looking to corrupt and despotic, through widespread opiate abuse (English-profiteering), war and revolution (Mao) to a complete social transformation (post-Mao), then isn't America at about opiate abuse, and due for a Mao?

Oh wait, Trump... :)
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For most definitions of "free market," government subsidy of an industry doesn't qualify.
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What half? 19% of people in the US voted for Trump.
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Then why rely on interpretation?
Since this is inevitable by most opinions the real question should be how do we increase the number of jobs by 66%
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People grossly under-intuit the channel error rate of the SATA. At datacenter scale it's alarmingly high http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/imagesvr_ce/8069/sas-s...
> Who is NK terrorizing?

South Korea:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Yeonpyeong

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROKS_Cheonan_sinking

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Gangneung_submarine_infil...

Malaysia:

* http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/11/anatomy-of-...

Japan:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Jap...

and so on and so forth.
> It used to be if you saw a video or a photo depicting an event you could be pretty sure that what you're looking at actually happened.

This isn't really true. Image manipulation was long possible in the darkroom,[0] and you only need to look to hollywood to see how extraordinary deception can be done. The only thing that's changed these days is cost and ease of doing such manipulations.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
The United States has a complicated tax code because it attempts to make things more "fair" for some people. Some of these are things people like, such as deductions for people with children, paying mortage, etc. Some are more dubious.
Hey rarrrrrr, looks like it might be time to update the about box on your hacker news profile. :-)

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> So in other words, the free market has produced a pile of jobs that we don't really need?

Our current system is the opposite of a free market. You can think of paying your monthly rent payment, your banking, etc. as (mostly) free market.

You can think of taxes, DMV, healthcare, etc. as not free market.
Ha, no. Google can continue toiling away in the caves of antiquarian history if they like, but anyone with half a brain will be using Python 3. All the things mentioned, built in concurrency, speed, easy package management, are all in Python 3. I have no idea why Google doubled down on Python 2.7 years ago. I mean, generally they are competent technical folks. But 2.7 is littered with all kinds of obtuse mis-steps in the development of the language. And it's missed out on the last several years of feature addition to Python 3 (asynchronous primitives among other things). Why would one plant their flag in something like that? And I mean come on... print as a keyword? How can anyone not spit at that?
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Intuit certainly does this, but blaming them for our overly complex taxes is wrong. They might move the needle a little bit but they aren't the primary driver. The primary driver is all the constituencies of all the little things in our taxes that add up to make them complicated.

Like ObamaCare? That came with two additional forms.
Live in a high tax state and like deducting your state taxes? That makes things more complicated.
Big fan of deductions to for education or child care? That comes with complexities.
I could go on and on....

Now maybe your answer to all of these questions was "no", but there are a lot of people that say "yes" to a lot of these questions. It's really hard to upset that apple cart. Lobbying doesn't have much to do with it.
> How do you cope with the fact that a large slice of the population seeks out bad things and refuses good things?

I take comfort in the knowledge that, even if facts don't ultimately win out, human stupidity cannot affect anything beyond this planet.

Even if we end up causing global mass extinctions, life will flourish again in an eon or two.

Even if we develop some sort of planet buster and literally blast Earth to bits, the dust will reform into something else and there's an infinite number of other worlds out there anyway.
False. If people never used insurance, then they'd stop buying it, and the whole industry would collapse. The reason why the industry exists is it helps manage the alternative: fear of eating into savings, going into debt, or going bankrupt, just to get well again. Or worse, just giving up and dying.

The reality is, no insurance company insures known sick people unless compelled to with sufficiently large pools to redistribute wealth and risk. If a pool had only sick people, insurance is no longer insurance, it's a payment plan. What we in effect have now is one part insurance for totally unpredictable things, with one part payment plan for all the predictable doctor visits and scripts that people want to justify a monthly payment.
> I'm not the op, but if I was, I would feel rather violated.

Well then don't choose a public forum to vent a complaint, and since you're not the OP it doesn't matter anyway.

Turnabout is fair play: if you go into a thread about a product and make a strong play that their customer service sucks and then an officer of that company steps in and does what they can to see if there is a way to re-engage you on their dime that's about as good as you could possibly expect. On top of that he did not volunteer any info that wasn't already in the OP's post except for a possible correction of the date.

So you're wrong, twice.

FWIW absolutely no affiliation whatsoever with Spideroak.
> The issue is that we can't know what's real any more.

Ultimately, you have to rely on word of mouth and trust your communities. Same story as ever, technology just sped it up.
So in other words, the free market has produced a pile of jobs that we don't really need? Lobbyists get paid money to get politicians to supply a deduction as a line item on some obscure form

Politicians protecting an industry through action or inaction, no matter if its lobbyists or others suggesting that they do, isn't the free market.
It would be even better if resistance went beyond the Donald -- which is just a fashionable target du jour everybody on the progressive side can feel good about resisting.

Similar BS has been going on forever, now it's just unfashionable, tacky, and doesn't follow the same protocols that others followed nicely.

In short, the major difference, figuratively speaking, is that this time the devil wears crocs and has a bad haircut.
i think that's essentially how recession works. some job market or region becomes outmoded or otherwise disadvantaged; the lack of wages means the workers lack income to engage with other businesses, which are in turn financially impacted, and so on, spiraling out.
The author of the article is indeed not an engineer, but he did work as a programmer at various startups for about 5 years (before he changed careers by doing a PhD in another field), which I believe is much of his context for this article. It doesn't take a lot of benefit of the doubt to believe that during that period, he ran into a number of fellow programmers who called themselves "engineers" who were not really doing anything resembling engineering.
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> how you can triangulate a location by the presence of three contrails in the image

I think the English word 'triangulate' is nowadays used for all kinds of geolocating based on cues from geometry, not just for the original method that actually involves triangles.
Same here. Age 20 - hate the suburbs. Age 40 - love them. I'm guessing when I'm ready to retire I'll either go rural or urban. Probably rural where I can afford to have a nice sized workshop.
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U.s. govt uses tax code to incentive behaviors. We have 1040ez which is almost as simple as the NZ system if citizens don't want or have any deductions.
https://www.indiehackers.com

"Learn from profitable businesses and side projects."

People like you get interviewed to inspire those who want to do side project or start a business.
Yeah. I get that.

I just don't think the take-away of this was as long as you sound-proof a room, you are probably golden. It would be reasonable to have thought that an undisclosed location with no visible landmarks was fine. It wasn't.

As far as the using the geometry visible and google maps: this was done before in a video of a terrorist training camp. It resulted in Russia bombing the area, after they were alerted.
Erm, they continued a public conversation about the customer that the customer publicly started themselves regarding customer service, and they kept the details to the delivery of the customer service and discussed the experience all customers were probably having at the time. Context matters.
Why shouldn't they have to adapt to rapid changes in the "free" market like we do? Notice it wasn't called anything like the "dot-com gradual-and-not-too-painful realignment." Why the special consideration for tax people? I mean, if we're going to vaunt the free market, let's let it splash everybody, not just the little guys.
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I'll clarify in future revisions, yes.
To be honest i dont live there, i just quickchecked some sites and 20k$ seems very good for russia:

http://www.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_main/rosstat/en/fi...

http://rbth.com/business/2016/05/20/the-average-salary-in-ru...

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/wages

I think the best option for you/your friend is to get contract work outside of russia.
PyCon talk title (at least, what I proposed) is "Big picture software testing: unit testing, Lean Startup, and everything in between." Which seemed cumbersome, so I tried this iteration without the prefix. Will need to come up with something better if it's confusing to readers/listeners, though.
> The IRS is liable for losses due to fraud, so why would I care about fraud?

Because, ultimately, you and I wind up paying for it.
How much physics should a doctor know? Do you not agree that there is value in a well-rounded liberal education before specialization?
I'm curious about the setting in which you saw these failures, could you elaborate?

Unlike a plain checksum, CRC-32C is hardened against bias, which means its distribution is not far from that of an ideal checksum. This means if your bitrot is random and you're using 16KB blocks, you will need to see on the order of ((2 * * 32) * 16KB)=64TB of corrupted data to get a random failure. Modern hard drives corrupt data at a rate of once every few terabytes. TCP without SSL (because of its highly imperfect checksum) corrupts data at a rate of once every few gigabytes. Assuming an extremely bad scenario of a corrupt packet once every 1 GB, in theory you'd need to read more than a zettabyte of data to get a random CRC-32C failure. I'm not doubting that real world performance could be much worse, but I'd like to understand how.
There is also a documentary which includes some reenactments of the incident:

http://www.commandandcontrolfilm.com/
Lots of people consider use upvote to signal agreement and a downvote to signal disagreement.
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Bad lawyers also don't kill people as frequently as bad doctors.
Yah. We should make regulation for this kind of behavior.
I see I made a typo - meant to write "MW" for power, obviously.
The client could be open source; indeed the network protocol might even be simple. The client distribution or even implementation might be handled by third party. If for commercial reasons the provider wants a fancy shell and doesn't trust the open source or third party for that, they might consider a locally-untrusted (and possibly even remotely run) GUI that is a frontend for your local (trusted, open-source) backup engine.

I believe you can architect a solution such that it's easy enough to get a third party (or yourself) to verify it is safe and private, even in the face of a hostile backup provider (or more realistically, a backup provider that's met an opportunistic law enforcement agency waving a sternly worded letter).

If enough parties collude, they can still gain access to your data, but at that point I'm pretty sure the backups won't be the weakest link anymore.

I mean, you're still running an OS, and compiling with a compiler, installing and running software from a package distributor, and using a CPU with a management engine, and all those things might have backdoors too.