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But what about when the only obstacle to gaining essentially free goods is, a capitalist holding them hostage?

Are you serious? Capitalist holding them hostage?

A capitalist can only charge what the market will bear. If they charge too much, no one buys what they have and they lose their return on investment and they are forced to lower their prices until those in the market can afford to buy what they are selling. If the capitalist invested too much and can't get the price they originally wanted, they will at least try to minimize their losses.

If you believe a "capitalist can hold goods hostage", the only conclusion I can come to is that you don't actually understand capitalism and how it works.

UBI is unproven. I could see a negative income tax making some sense, but at absolute best the maximum amount any individual receives needs to be uncomfortable, so there is an imperative to contribute to the productivity that supports a society. Wealth is created. It doesn't just magically appear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States
Not American, and the only place I've heard of March Madness is on reddit in a reference to ... guess what? :)

http://fortune.com/2017/03/16/vasectomies-during-march-madne...
If you are a foreigner, you are most likely not complying with the tax code unless you hired a competent CPA. TurboTax won't do.
Ask HN: How to get a job working with large distributed systems?
With general backend work for simple client-server setups but no prior experience with large or complex distributed systems or computations.

How can I move into the field? What plan of action would you take?

What can I do on my own to allow me to work with many cluster of nodes and process large data sets?

Along with gaining experience dealing with availability and consistency?

Does location matter? Will it be harder making that transition in SV?
it's only been a few days though, I think this fact alone invalidates the data.
There actually is a totally separate debate to be had on the topic of public records and communications by elected officials.

Under federal law, all communications to which a federal employee is a party constitute public records. Obviously, that doesn't mean they are all publically available; white house emails, for example, have traditionally been released several decades following the end of the administration. (With redactions, of course.)

Today, congressional staffers and politicians at every level use private email accounts and cell phones to subvert public disclosure, and by extension, public accountability. Even when the political or security sensitivity of such records is long gone, historians will likely never be able to track them down or study them.

EDIT: Congress is specifically granted an exemption to most of the public records laws that apply to the executive branch, including FOIA.
If you shipped 75 million unemployed people off the planet each year you would only keep up with current population growth, this number is increasing.

So, thats getting them to orbit and moving them somewhere.

Plus I'm not sure why whereever they end up won't also be automated given you can ship 10's of millions of unemployed people cheap, one assumes robots would also be cheap to ship.
Because Amazon has continually reinvested it's revenue into more capital and the value of that capital is worth significantly more than $75B?
Yes, cofounder. (That is exactly what my comment was about - sorry I wasn't clearer.)
First, losing money to edge out competition is not illegal. Loss-leaders are a normal business practice.

Second, none of your three points refute the Chamberlain argument.

1. There were limited alternatives to Wilt. When Wilt was named MVP in 1959, there were 8 NBA teams.

2. Technically, there were 39 other players in the starting lineups of NBA teams that year.

3. Among those starters was Bill Russell, whose Boston Celtics won their second straight NBA championship that year. The NBA has controlled membership very tightly in all the years since. It has been granted exceptions from laws prohibiting anti-competitive behavior.

And yet, Wilt is still featured in this classic thought experiment to illustrate fair distribution of wealth.
> In an ideal society,

There has never existed an "ideal society". Power always corrupts.
"Proper monitoring and alerting" do you mean the Redis software watchdog? As a bit above you mention running it with flag =0 is generally not a good idea, and propose =500.

Do you use it or something else for Redis production server monitoring? something with little impact on performance.
Sweet! For some reason I remember having bad interactions between blkarray and other packages, but I can't reproduce anymore...
And yet he's now one of the richest people in the world. As an employee, is Bezos really a million times more valuable than a typical Amazon engineer? That seems almost self-evidently unfair to me.

I think in a truly just society, the multiplier on the amount that a single individual could be compensated compared to his or her peers would have a hard cap. It would solve so many societal problems and also incentivize corporations to run more like collectives instead of fealties. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Apple would still exist, just as they do today; after all, their founders didn't get started out of the desire to make big bucks. But there wouldn't be any oligarchs on the other end of the pipe.

Not that it's likely to happen, of course! A person can dream...
Even if they were permitted to sell individual data, just because an act may allow them to doesn't mean it compels them to.

ISPs and advertising agencies have invested heavily into lobbing for this. The amount of money they'd make off of it is going to be more than this campaign could possible raise.
What's your contact? I might have something you can test.
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You're right, of course. This is what I meant by "unanticipated source of entropy," though -- some form of breakage which is neither visible nor predictable with the available information.
> Is large scale energy storage any better than just using nuclear energy?

Yes.

> but modern batteries and capacitors are still very dangerous and have a lot of environmental hazards to go along with them.

This is just absurd compared to handling nuclear fuel and waste.

https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...

"Tesla set fire to a Powerpack to test its safety features – the results are impressive"
Can you propose any alternative system that doesn't involve the concept of property that manages to avoid violence?

Broadly speaking, demand is unlimited and supply is limited. With these two as a given, violence is essentially inevitable. Property near as I can tell, is a cultural tool that minimizes violence and maximizes supply.

Only when there is abundance outstripping demand of a population, is violence avoidable. A couple million people spread across North and South America 600 people enjoyed abundance, relatively speaking. 7 billion people spread across 7 continents is an entirely different scenario, and one where violence is unavoidable.
I can use AdBlock on my phone and computer and not be subjected to anything from Google or Facebook. And Apple absolutely does not track you if you don't allow them to. So please explain to me how I am being tracked. It's technically not possible.

ISPs are completely different in that they can track me (a) without my consent and (b) with no technical means for me to stop them.
Yes, I know when I was a teenager, getting a girl pregnant seemed like a FAR worse outcome than getting AIDs and dying. I'm not sure if you think teenagers lack basic reasoning skills, or if this is actually your personal reasoning skills being projected onto all teenagers.
It's true that there is fatigue but shouldn't most of the fatigue be mitigated by the fact that they slow the rocket down significantly upon reentry? I don't see why a falcon 9 should suffer much more fatigue than any jet that goes faster than 2x the speed of sound
I've been a long-time user for OS X's built in text-to-speech [0].

IMO, it actually performs pretty robustly on these examples. Is Apple still using just diphones, or are they post-processing in some way?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk#Text-to-speech_in_Ma...
I'm with you on your description of ML as a different kind of programming tool chain, but how would a "programmed" computer the way you describe a non ML system

> get better over time until no one could beat it

if it weren't adjusting either weights or otherwise self-mutating it's decision path based on whether it's current strategy result in a win or loss? And if it were doing that, isn't that ML (programming by learning from examples)?
> claims against someone who purchased the stolen goods unknowingly ... are not valid

I am not sure about that. A stolen good cannot be legally buyed from the thiefs.
You would think, but just because it frequently rains doesn't mean it is all captured and can be treated for use. In the late 80s there were water shortages in King County.
You mean, like they did pre-2000 [1]? Don't know how good this would sound today, but nevertheless interesting.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin02...
If I write a blog post gushing about some politician or attacking another, is that considered an ad or contribution?
Don't repeat Pai's lies. ISPs are natural oligopolies and in some cases legally chartered monopolies. There is no level playing field.

He's not trying to increase privacy. He is reducing it.
lol, the doctor mentioned this! That's hilarious. The timing was definitely a coincidence for me though.
I can't even...

> At the moment it is the woman who retains control over the moment at which that melting in the bones feeling is allowed to over-take the firm "no this would ruin my life" feeling in the head.

Is not the whole point of contraception insurance againt emotional losses of control?
> when the violence was selling them an Amazon echo at a cheap price

How about when the violence was selling under the normal market value undermining competition, then remaining the only vendor. Also replacing employees with robots.

So in the end, people who would have had a job lost it, no matter if they work directly for Amazon or for the competition.

It's not violence to take people's jobs, but in a society with few social protections, it's as bad as violence.
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> ISPs are only permitted to sell aggregate anonymized data

Anonymising data is hard [1]. Competence with such anonymization and de-anonymization might negatively correlate with support for this bill. If so, the offense has the advantage.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-liv...
Despite repeated communication from employees that no one wants to live in fucking Waterloo, and a significant portion of the engineers there commute from Toronto anyways.
This is definitely an interesting tactic, but this is a pretty poor article.

#1. Chase is claiming performance hasn't been affected, but it has only been a couple days since they made changes. With display you can't measure performance in only a few days.

#2. The author confuses the number of sites with the number of impressions. Chase is buying the same number of impressions - if everyone else followed this strategy it wouldn't hurt exchanges. It would have weird outcomes, but if the same volume is served the exchange makes the same amount (excluding data costs and how cpm would be affected, etc).
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Watch the #archemail symposium videos from the library of congress.[1] For FOIA a lot of the emails actually do eventually go on the web. But with private individuals, when they donate their email correspondence you can almost always only read them on one computer in one specific university library.

But yeah, even when documents are supposed to go on the web there are often gaps. E.g. Hillary Clinton basically hired folks to steal documents about her legislative record from the library of congress.

[1] http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/archivingemailsy...
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No, at least not just "reading code". You need to understand and identify the patterns that underly there... so debugging other people's code and lear how other's strategies are solving their problems should be the actual reason behind "read code".
How is minimizing labor costs an act of violence?

The point was that Jeff Bezos did not violently force anybody to work for him. Nor did he force anybody to buy from him.

Your complaint is that Amazon is profitable because nobody works for them, and that's just feudalistic. That's an absurd argument.
> ISPs are only permitted to sell aggregate anonymized data, not anything personally-identifiable (as per the 1984 Cable Act).

remember how that worked out with AOL search logs?
I thought I read somewhere that the fastest networking technology actually gets close to a couple hundred instructions window of processing.

http://netoptimizer.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-calculations-10...

Hm, 67 ns per packet.

So even this local storage would be the drag in many scenarios...
I'm using Alex to read articles and comments. I love the Alex voice but it sometimes makes stupid mistakes.

I hope we will have decent TTS for linux too.
Totally. He comments on well documented pieces of work (at least Taubes', I'm not familiar with the other one) and discard huge part of them without bringing any evidence whatsoever (he even seems to admit that his wife is the expert on the topic of understanding statistics!).

I like Taubes work because he's thorough and refutable (notably in refuting a lot of other studies). Doesn't mean he's always right, but I've yet to see arguments against his work that are as sound as the one he brought to the table.
Uh. No but cell tower negotiation over LTE isn't using TCP/IP which is all the VPN has power over. Or am I really confused? The LTE radio is totally independent of internet protocols and can be tracked by cell providers since I must connect to their tower.

And maybe. I don't control the carrier firmware.
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It's not being stupid it's designed that way. "Gee that'd suck if somebody else bought ads for all your organic keywords. Sorry we don't have a better way to prevent that, you should bid on those."

Even if Google did provide a provision for blocking ads for certain keywords (and they do have one), who controls that system? Amazon is also a bad example since many 3rd parties affiliated with - and driving traffic to - Amazon buy those keywords.
As /u/fjdlwlv said, uBlock Origin will make sure work of that, plus if you're serious about blocking this stuff, pi-hole (https://pi-hole.net) will again add an extra layer of loveliness to your ad-network blocking capabilities.

Now throw a VPN on top of all this (and THEN work on the problems with policy, people)...

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It's actually not the same at all. Rome was extremely tolerant and welcoming towards homosexual activity and I'm actually surprised you think we're the same after 2 millenia. We're not. We got more religious and more prudish. Imagine "gay" (I use that term loosely because Romans didn't see it as gay/straight, that would be ridiculous to them, and it is frankly ridiculous to me as well) graffiti today that was endorsed by the masses. Not gonna happen. Back in Roman times getting penetrated in the ass by another man was considered a manly act and worthy of praise. And if you go back further into Greek era, male-male sex was seen even BETTER than male-female sex (which was an almost serviceable, "just to get pregnant" ritual as opposed to the hedonism of modern Christian-Western era male-female sexuality). Today male-male sexual activity categorizes you into "gay" and all of a sudden you're blasted with labels, and accusations of sinning plus scandals galore. Imagine Donald Trump blasting over Twitter: "There's nothing like the bond between two grown and the sex that makes them stronger." Laughable, right? In the time of the Roman empire, that would have been a normal tweet, the invention of tweets notwithstanding. We are nowhere near the sexual liberation achieved by the Greeks/Romans. We're absolutely nowhere near it one iota. The only thing we have in common with Rome is that we are also an Empire. That's about as far as it goes. Remember, this was the civilization that worshipped Jupiter and nature, not one that worships a martyr who died for our sins. I mean the worldview and mythology is completely perpendicular in nature.
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Social security is not funded to pay back what current workers pay in
Societies will need to tread carefully here.

Brexit, Trump and other national retrenchment movements are looking more like canaries in the coal mine --a bracing for the waves of displaced workers looking to displace the ebbing but expensive workforces in mature industrialized countries (EU, US, Japan, SK, CA, AU, etc) for less as the need for cheap labor by mature industrialized economies evaporates due to quickly slacking demand caused by automation. [We don't need factories overseas making things to sell in Wal*mart if we can have robots make them "in-house".]

Question 1 is how will mature economies offer their own population a way to make a living [keep their standard of living]. Question 2. is while globalization enabled billions to emerge from extreme poverty, a pause in demand for labor combined with growing populations in developing countries will result in big messes. If the first world finds it hard to provide for itself, there will be little they do for what were developing economies and even less the governments of those economies will do for their own.

We might see some economies ban automation as a way to stave off untenable unemployment in economies with little tax revenue.

Interesting times.
It works both ways. Even in this "perfect market" model, the remote salary will be higher if there is lower labour supply in the empolyer's local labour market than the global remote labour market.

I don't think there is more aversion to remote work on the employer side than on the employee side, so that effect should not turn the tables.
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At the same time good content providers will be paid more. So overall it is a good thing for the web. Content farming won't be worth much either.
I said "Let's use this opportunity to push for the "opt in" framework that makes the most sense."

Are you saying that it's ok for FB / Google / Ad Networks to track everything we do and create profiles without opting in SO LONG as I can find some way to block them?

If so I guess I'm not sure what I'm arguing with.
I've seen a few things pop up about ISPs and selling user data. Some of this is a bit worrying (especially since I seen at least one seeming-scam purporting to "buy congress's browser history"):

As far as I know, nobody is looking to make browser history available for purchase. It's unlikely that anybody aside from the NSA or some other state-actor, with very significant resources available to them, is even capable of storing that data.

Ask yourself this question: can you currently buy all of, for instance, Jeff Session's private facebook data? Every message he's ever sent, like he's made, etc.?

Of course not.

What you can do, and what ISPs are very possibly looking to do, is make general demographic information available to advertisers.

For instance: if a person has shown a recent interest in camping, show them ads for camping equipment.

Now, I absolutely do not think that this is acceptable (ISPs sharing data, however I do think that facebook giving me targeted advertisements is a perfectly reasonable exchange).

I just think that it's important to know what is being talked about. Especially when it comes to people trying to scam others for money.
Take a look at https://youtu.be/SIVKmwzWSuc?t=73

for the "first optical sorter".
Just use VPN. Or VPN and Tor. Or VPN, Tor, and VPN. Or ...
Parent did not say rates increase.
With all the hubbub surrounding Russia and DNC's leaked emails, and who talked to who when over the last year, I wonder if we'll start to see all political players incentivized to embrace encrypted communications. While messages will still inevitably leak (compromised endpoints, human factors), perhaps we will never see the like of '16-'17 again (doubly so if Russia proves to be 45's undoing).
> "Farm here or I'll decapitate you."

I think you got confused, that's communism. :P And it's not decapitation (too messy) it is a bullet to the back of the head or death in a labor camp.

Feudalism is "you can farm here but you owe me and your promise to fight in my wars".

> The fact that you harbor a resentment as if the former is anything like the latter is slightly terrifying.

Really? Is it terrifying to compare a vassal's contract with the "work for me in the warehouse and I'll pay you a minimum wage, if you don't like, there is a line waiting at the door". They are not the same, it's a bit silly but is that sending shivers down our spine?
The US has orphan and rare disease programs that give bonuses to companies for tackling rare issues but you're right that we currently have a hole in the system. I wish there were a non-profit drug foundation that could go after stuff like that but I'm not aware of one.

One nit though: A ton of research is funded by the government, including drug research. We just don't have a federal program that requires commercialization of research to pay a royalty back into the program. If we did it would be a nice virtuous cycle, assuming some research continued to lead to viable products over time. Some universities have such programs in place for obvious reasons.
Ask HN: How does Amazon Prime allow users to have so much and pay so little?
I understand economies of scale but it's still a lot of value for $10.
Yep; like I said I have definite biases and my experiences are only from unixy shops and server/backend stuff - I hope you don't think I'm claiming otherwise. In my specific area of tech it's a definite smell.

When I said 'choose driver' I really meant 'daily driver' which means workstation/laptop OS to me (so apple, linux, windows, bsd, etc etc) -- almost everywhere I've worked with in the last few years allows anyone to use whatever they want so the choice is personal and not enforced.

It's all personal, I'm not sure what we're debating anymore. Use what works for you. I guess I have less requirements than you when it comes to interfaces. It's good to have alternatives and I'm glad that MS is becoming more friendly/capable as a host for developers..

My workflow for the last few years is I ssh into some big linux/bsd servers and do almost all my work there via tmux, my workstation is just a terminal and browser (two workspaces, both fullscreen). OSX was okay for this, the hardware was great (I had one of those fanless tiny macbooks after a few MBP's and it lasted 10 hours on battery weighed nothing and was really pretty) but now I'm on a XPS and I spent a single afternoon customising dwm which has turned out to be a much better fit for me (even though I still don't do anything locally).

Linux isn't a great desktop os for non-developers. It can work, sure, but I don't see it owning the consumer market and getting a tagged year :}

As for IDE's -- that's another personal matter and is largely dependant on where you work. You'll lose patience being the only member of a team using jetbrains when everyone else is on netbeans or the other way around; but I duck in an out of teams without having their specific IDE setup with just git and a term no problem.