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> By backing I meant a .gov's ability to tax or confiscate wealth, or for that matter impose capital controls.

Neither of these are an advantage of a fiat currency. They are both very bad for users of the currency. These are precisely the reasons people prefer Bitcoin.

> Might I be missing something?

Yeah, although I can't imagine how. People don't like having their money stolen or messed with. That seems fairly clear to me. Bitcoin makes it a lot harder to do either of those things, which is an advantage.

> if shit hits the fan, my dollars are worth whatever US .gov and its taxpayers agree they're OK with

This statement doesn't make any sense. Can you please explain what your reasoning is here? Not to be condescending, but this sounds like you only have a very vague idea of what value is.

> backed by .gov's ability to enforce (through all of the latter three points) that it's worth this or that.

This is a very important lesson to absorb; a government cannot "enforce" a value. That doesn't even make sense. The closest thing they could do is kill people who use the market value, in which case all you're doing is devaluing other currencies by making them more dangerous to use. This catches up with you very quickly, when you can no longer afford to interact with external markets that don't have a crazy military trying to shoot the truth out of existence.

> with no ability to say "hey we've a taxpayer down the line"

Again, what does this even mean? The dollar doesn't derive its value from the existence of people who pay taxes in USD. Not even close.

> If the thing goes crashing to the ground, there's no guarantee anyone will pickup the tab

If the dollar goes crashing to the ground, no one will "pick up the tab either".

> fiat money, where a Nation's work output offers some guarantee on the value.

OK, this also doesn't make any sense. Fiat money doesn't entitle you to dividends sourced from tax revenue. There is zero relationship between the number of dollars and the "work output" of the US. What region's "work output" is gold tied to?

Again, I'm not intending to be condescending here, but I'm not sure how else to say this; I think you have a very deep and fundamental misunderstanding of what money actually is. Most of your arguments here "aren't even wrong", so to speak. They are just completely out of the ball park. There's no easy fix for this, and I can't recommend any particular reading. There are probably some good economics courses on coursera or something. But if you take nothing else away from this post, at least take this: having a dollar entitles you to nothing from the government. The government makes no guarantees about the dollar. The only relationship between the dollar and the US government is that it's the "approved" payment method for court-mandated debt repayments and tax payments, and enjoys a number of less significant legal privileges, especially w.r.t bank regulation and government debt instruments.
> No sympathy from me.

No sympathy for people who lost their home and possessions over a $75 fee?

I had a friend who had no sympathy for another friend who was diagnosed with throat cancer, because he smoked cigarettes. Didn't matter that the person had cancer, what mattered is that they smoked cigarettes and knew the risks. It was forgivable on the first friend's part because he was also heavily medicated for a psychiatric illness.
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The people who write the indices. Some are flakey and narrow, like the various Dow indices, now kept around for (dubious) historical comparisons and as headline fodder.

Some are broader and so slightly less dubious (S&P 500), or the larger n of the Wilshire 5000. Some aim for a different kind of breadth (e.g. MSCI).

All suffer from various epistemological problems (inclusion is largely on various market characteristics, e.g. mkt cap, volatility, etc), not to mention management challenges: e.g. ones like the dow are notoriously subject to weighting problems, not to mention splits; companies can change sector or of course merge or go out of business. So do you rebalance your index or not and by what criteria?

So you can pick what ever index floats your boat. Typically people pick very broad ones in the hope of an upward slope with minimal volatility. Black-Sholes would say that volatility is your friend but it hardly is for any normal investor.
A phrase that might sum this up: "Know what you don't know."

People that know what they don't know are far more valuable than those that think they know everything. The first class can educate themselves when necessary to fill a gap. The second class is lost. They'll often spin in ignorance for entirety, never finding a solution to the problem, probably without ever once asking for help to someone nearby that is more knowledgeable.
http://millcomputing.com/#JoinUs :)

http://millcomputing.com/topic/mill-computing-in-2017/ is our plan this year
I think a lot of publishers seem uninterested in untargeted advertisements though, so the distinction -- while existing in principal -- is not very relevant in practice.

Certainly the untargeted adds I see (or even those I can tell are by virtue of the place I am, instead of my own customer profile, seem much lower quality.
Try getting out of your privileges and you may learn that there are places where you don't have reliable electricity, no access to a computer, or dial-up is the best internet connection available and there you'll find facebook trying to push its own version of the internet before the actual internet gets everywhere, but also google trying to offer connectivity for a similar profit based reason.

So no the barriers to entry still exist and the worst actors of the online surveillance capitalism are there.

Then again wix or wordpress are part of the very issue (centralization, giving away control of your data, etc.) the way to do it right is self hosting which is not that hard with things such as yunohost, cozy or sandstorm. The difficulty is having a symmetric bandwidth and reliable connection to the internet. Now we're dealing with another part of the issue: tier 1 operators and the cost of bandwidth.
Honestly, yes. Competition is great. There's a difference between "commercial terms we choose not to offer" and real technical effort, but I've repeatedly admitted and cursed our failures.
Or maybe driving for FedEx/UPS... I think I'd like the varied routes, and learning new neighborhoods/streets.
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Oops, in the 2nd example, output will equal "Hola", not "Hello" (arr("node1","subNode1")). Also I'm pretty sure numbers are sorted before strings, so in reality on the 1st pass foo would equal 19849.
Hi! Got a couple pointers for you. First, my React/Redux links list [0] has links to many Redux tutorials of various kinds, as well as dozens of articles on Redux architecture, best practices, and useful techniques.

Second, if you've got questions, the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are a great place to hang out, ask questions, and learn. I'm an admin, and hang out there evenings US time, but there's always plenty of people happy to talk and answer questions. The invite link is at https://www.reactiflux.com .

Please feel free to ping me there if there's anything I can do to help!

[0] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links
And "immigrants" killed over 99% of the native North American population with small pox and the like.

We are all immigrants really. I agree with the spirit of what the article is about, but there is a serious Us vs. Them going on here that will not end well.
"GoMix" would be read as "gomik-s" in Russian.

"Gomik" means literally "faggot", the plural is "gomiki".

The suffix "-s" was being used in pre-revolutionary Russia as a way to make your speech sound more polite. Etymologically, "-s" is short for "sir". Nowadays, "-s" is used (very rarely) to imitate speech of somebody from those times, mostly for its humorous effect.

Given the above, "GoMix" sounds very ridiculous in Russian, something like "faggot, sir".
What sorts of price ranges did the wholesalers provide, and for what? (I don't need exact values, just a rough idea.)

Thanks for the info about the Dasung. A video showing the screen at its absolute worst might be very useful - but to be fair, showing what things the screen does do well would be very interesting to know as well.
Please don't rewrite titles to say what you think is important about an article. If you want to do that, the place for it is a comment in the thread. Then your opinion is on a level playing field with others'.

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I was thinking Lyft doesn't necessarily need Uber to fail, they're doing just fine?
What's their argument going to be, "we're sick of England deciding things for us, let's let Europe decide instead"? Scotland in the EU is a small fish in a big pond, I don't see the rational for wanting out of the UK but into the EU, Does everyone have to flip their vote from last time?
As far we know CIA analysts absolutely DID NOT believe that Iraq had a nuclear program or significant chemical weapons program. Rather, what the CIA institutionally believed was that it lacked any strong evidence to make an assertion one way or another.

The case for the Iraq War was made on the back of a single informant, an informant that most Western intelligence agencies (including Israel) believed not particularly credible. The CIA also, initially, didn't believe that informant very credible. However, Cheney & Co went hunting for evidence, dredged it up, packaged it, and sold it as a "slam dunk" to the previously incredulous Secretary of State Colin Powell and CIA Director George Tenet. It's only by dint of Tenet being Director can we say that the CIA believed the justification behind the Iraq War.
People are not resources. They aren't being "taken", unless you're talking about literal kidnapping and forced labor here (which, I believe, last time happened during Operation Paperclip, if we're talking about US). They come to US, because they believe it is a better place for them. If they wanted to "help elevate their own countries", they'd stay there. Coercing them to do so (including indirectly by depriving them of the opportunity to make that choice in the first place) is unethical.

Speaking as an immigrant myself, I don't believe my country wants me. It might want my skills and abilities, sure, but it seems to strongly dislike my liberal political views, and they can't have one without the other. So they get neither.
are you planning to have a pure-python implementation at some point ? I understand about the performance... but there are many usecases where a pure python implementation is far more practical.
Your understanding of English must be very poor, because you said above that "I didn't say he was guilty." and now you're saying "The evidence basically indicts him, outright. Full stop." So yes, you are absolutely saying he's guilty after hearing one side of the story. Which only very stupid people do.

So, at least acknowledge that you have no idea what you're talking about. If you think he's guilty, that's well within your rights, but understand you're making a completely premature declaration of guilt by hearing one side of the evidence. Full stop.
That's like saying "Bus stop claims transport strike under scrutiny" or "Jail cell claims long sentence under scrutiny" are natural-sounding sentences.
Oh, I totally agree. This is why software will never be a blue collar job. It requires an absolute commitment to self-improvement that has probably no equal anywhere else.
> Has the program been replaced?

Yes. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/29/457779757/...

> How do comments from high level officials denying that US citizens were being surveilled en mass fit into the picture?

There was a comment, singular, from a high-level official, singular, denying collection of data on US citizens en masse. There was never surveillance en masse, so any denying that would be completely kosher.

> What justification exists for such a program to be created without any public debate?

Most government programs are created without a public debate, just as most private sector advertising programs are created without a public debate. As long as in-house counsel says it is probably fine, the programs go ahead.

> Why should we believe that clearly illegal programs don't also exist?

We have no way to know for sure, but since no clearly illegal programs existed in the indiscriminate dump provided by Snowden, and since the one program that was questionably legal had plenty of legal documentation in the dumps, we can conclude that it is unlikely that any clearly illegal program exists.

> Considering that there is outrage about Trump commenting that he wishes to re-institute a "Muslim watch list", how is a metadata program that is essentially a meta-watchlist about all affiliations, creeds, etc., not expected to be rejected by the public?

The difference is in how the data is used. One is used to harass Muslims and their acquaintances. The other is used solely to find affiliates of a known threat to national security by anonymized ID, which then requires a court order to be deanonymized.
Honestly, I've had mixed experiences. I've worked with both great CS students that failed in real-world efforts and poor to mediocre CS students that excelled in real-world efforts. I've also worked with professional developers with no official CS training that were some of the best engineers I've ever worked with (one had a philosophy degree and another a physics degree).

I think there are 2 fundamental indications of indication of success in software development/engineering: 1. an eagerness and desire for continued learning. 2. passion for the quality of the product. Sure, there may be other factors, but I think if you don't have these 2, they're probably not going to be a positive net contribution on a project.
I was indeed confused by this example ! Thanks for the precision :)
I don't know about your parents, but I think many old people who used to do technical work are not that good with modern technology.
You're claiming that "totally deregulated private doctors" are better in terms of cost and service than any other system, but you can't give a single instance of a first world system that does this. More than that, you seem to be cherry picking the best of the examples you did give, which is not really helpful since the best in the U.S. (if you have a good insurance plan) is as good or better than these other countries.

India has some good healthcare in the major cities and major problems in the rural areas where many of its people live. Mexico is a public-private hybrid, like Australia and many other countries. Again, you can probably find excellent care in some urban areas which likely cater to medical tourists, but they do not match up to more advanced countries as far as high tech care goes.

If you can't give an apples-to-apples comparison for what you're advocating, then I don't see how helpful your example of "private being better" really is.
Lawful permanent residency is generally the ultimate goal of legal immigration. So if you let a million people in - tourists and (genuinely) temporary workers aside - you have to assume that you'll be dealing with a million permanent residents, and, eventually, citizens, somewhere down the line.

In fact, if that were not the case, it would make things even worse. Imagine if you take a million people, and after a few years, kick most of them out, and only a few get permanent residency. Who would want to build their life around that?
Fantastic. The competition in this space is going to be amazing over the next few years.
For anything even slightly useful with a half decent display I was still looking at USD $200+ per unit and many wouldn't supply just one.
Of course, BART is no picnic to ride on either...
I can't say that your summary matches my life - I've been pretty lazy, but having just enough work ethic about certain things and a drive to learn and a crapton of dumb luck has seen me "successful". I have friends at various points along the financial success/security path, and I only see strong correlation between working hard and success at the very low end.

> It means showing up on time for your 9-5 job and working hard at it is the absolute minimal bar for success

I've violated your absolute minimum - I'm not saying you can and should slack off all the time, but at the same time slavish devotion to fulfilling a 1950s viewpoint doesn't actually get you that far either.

> The simple fact is most humans do not enjoy learning for the sake of learning.

Probably and sadly true. I _suspect_ that it's because we (society) do a terrible job of TEACHING learning, so only those with the right parents/friends/genetic happenstance learn it. But that' is an unproven suspicion. It might also be a fundamental truth of the current state of human evolution. ( I have a theory that brain usage is "expensive" calorie-wise, and we've evolved to minimize the actual exercise of our brains. My theory gets a little support when they find that starvation/crisis spurs more energy directed to the brain, but I've not seen anything that has actually studied my theory. On the gripping hand, I've not really tried to check either, because that seems like work. [joke]).
I'm still quite young, but I notice it is harder for me to learn new concepts or programming languages than it was when I was a teenager. I can imagine many programming jobs have little room for learning. I'm still a PhD student so learning is part of my daily "work". I don't have a family to take care of either. I can imagine that in 10-20 years I will hardly have any time to learn new things and will have to rely on what I already know.

Also I frequently hear people say "programming is easy" or "you don't want to be programming all of your life, right?", so maybe people think they don't need to study new languages, because they think they will actually need to do less programming in the future as they get more senior jobs. I'm not sure if they are right or wrong.

I really hope I can spend a large part of my life learning about new things, and I hope those things I learn will help keep me employed. At the same time, it's hard to predict whether the things we study today will still be relevant by the time we are in a position to apply what we learned.
Utilitarianism doesn't actually give you an objective measure. It just shifts the subjectivity towards the definition of terms such as "harm" and "benefit". In case of immigration, this is very prominent: e.g. is cultural diversity beneficial or harmful?
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I'll take Caltrain in its current state over BART any day.

BART is a costly system and they've been masking the true costs for decades by deferring maintenance, the $3.5B they've gotten from taxpayers is just a portion of what they need to bring the system up to date. And worse, they can spend up to a third of that on operational costs... which are sky high in part because BART is saddled with high labor costs and can't rein in its union's lucrative work rules. Case in point, the Warm Springs station is not even open yet, but it's fully staffed, including janitors to clean an empty, unused station.

But the problems don't end there -- BART's equipment is non-standard gauge so every order is a custom order with high lead times and there's no world market for BART's gauge. While Caltrain is able to supplement capacity by buying surplus cars.

And BART is designed with no passing tracks, so there's no such thing as an "express" train. Want to go from San Jose to SF? Well you've got to stop at every station in between. While with Caltrain you can take a 5 stop "baby bullet".

And finally, the capacity of nearly the entire system is dependent on how fast passengers can get on and off the trains at Embarcadero station. BART has a billion dollar band-aid for that, by digging out the other side of the station so passengers can board from both sides. What they really need are multiple tracks, like what Caltrain has at their SF station (and other high volume transit systems throughout the world)
Oh wow :/ that's quite a shame.

On the other hand, this means that the Chinese "photocopying industry" doesn't realize people want (decent!) e-ink readers. Window of opportunity, anybody?
Personally I drive a fairly crappy car that I paid cash for, but I can see why people spend more on cars. Like cell phones they are luxury items that provide daily benefit to you. This is especially true if you're commuting long distances. For others a car is an extension of their personality. I'm not saying I agree with this mentality, but I understand it.
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Hi. My React/Redux links list [0] has a category for Redux architecture and best practices [1], with a ton of good info.

Also, the "Redux Tutorials" category has a "Project-Based Tutorials" section [2], which points to a number of tutorials that try to build _something_ in the process of teaching. Many of those tutorials are quite a bit more complex than yet another TodoMVC example. To pick out two specific examples:

- "Building a Simple CRUD App with React + Redux" [3] is an 8-part series that demonstrates building a CRUD app, including routing, AJAX calls, and the various CRUD aspect

- My own "Practical Redux" series [4] tries to demonstrate a number of intermediate to advanced React and Redux concepts in the context of a semi-meaningful-ish sample app.

Finally, my Redux addons list has a section listing a number of interesting React+Redux apps [5], both purpose-built examples and real world projects.

Hopefully that gives you some useful examples to work with. I'd also encourage you to drop by the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord to ask questions and get feedback, at https://www.reactiflux.com . Feel free to ping me on there!

[0] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[3] http://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/building-a-simple-crud-...

[4] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/series/practical-redux

[5] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...
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Isn't that DB MOOC more about using DBs rather than implementing them?
If I had a nickel for every time I'd heard the "b" word... :)

FWIW, there's quite a few ways to reduce boilerplate with Redux, and you're welcome to use as many of them as you want. Variations on folder structures, action/constant definitions, reusable reducer logic, various abstraction layers... all kinds of stuff.

Would be interested to hear which particular pain points bother you.
You do understand that the implication of your argument is that those people who come to US should be, effectively, forced to stay in their countries of birth, and work for their benefit?

You talk in terms of benefits and drawbacks for societies collectively. What about benefits and drawbacks for individuals? A person who is coming from, say, India to US is doing so because they want to, not because they're forced to. If you deprive them of that ability and that choice, you're harming them - specifically, you're restricting their individual natural right to freedom of association and to pursuit of happiness.

If your claim is that it is unfair, guess what? Forcing people to stay somewhere just because they were born there is also unfair by the same metric. If you're willing to restrict people's choice and force them to associate with a particular society to mitigate that unfairness, why are you only applying those restrictions to immigrants - why not to Americans? Let's send some of the best and brightest Americans to work in India. Oh, they don't want to? Too bad, we have the harmful effects of colonialism to mitigate, and no-one is entitled to live in a developed country until that's done.