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UBI generally has the implication attached to it that creating a proper safety net allows for savings in other areas, simplifies other social services, and reduces costs through net social benefit - not just the upfront costs.

So health care savings, the ability to quit your job and go back to school (or other kinds of re-training, generally a diversified workforce is a beneficial one), reducing the need for shelters, etc.

This is aside from the fact that a reduced engagement in the workforce doesn't have to be a negative thing - plenty of money is being made, it's just not being distributed very well :) UBI just intends to right that inequality in a productive way.
The logic is sound in theory. But in practice if the government can't protect its exploits, they mot likely can't protect their keys to the backdoor.
There is no way to know for sure, because we have not embedded telemetry / spyware in open source operating systems.

One of the problems here, is that large organizations are reluctant to update software across a large population of computers. If those updates were smaller, more transparent, and could be separated based on whether they are a security fix, a new feature, or a new tool that allows a 3rd party to monitor user activity, then the sysadmins would be empowered to close security issues quickly, while introducing minimal risk.
if I'm actually done and it was a simple meal, I take a quick glance and hand over my card.
Because it is a tax of 100% of the income for everybody making between 0 and the floor. So it causes poor people to not seek jobs, and stay poor.
Ubi does fix that. If ubi isn't enough to cover those then it's not high enough.
Exactly, there are many laws that result in those being very supply limited.
Mine is the InfiniteScream: https://twitter.com/infinite_scream?lang=en

It tweets variants of AAAAAHH! periodically because it thinks the world is going to hell.
I don't see how this is defensible at all. It's both malicious and stupid, along with being a poor business choice.

He gambled away money that wasn't his (betting on his own company), and concealed it from the people the money belonged to, then told them they were SOL. He's basically a micro-Madoff.

It's not nobler because he used the funds to "keep the business afloat"-- that was for his own benefit. Presumably, a good chunk of that money was spent on his personal living expenses.

A stand-up guy wouldn't do this.
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Let's not pretend that Linux is invulnerable to the class of exploits that make this kind of malware possible [1]. Windows isn't a target because it's vulnerable (all software is vulnerable). Windows is targeted because it's widely used. If the majority of systems were using Linux, malware authors would simply adapt to write malware targeting Linux instead.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7117
In case people were wondering, the haskell stdlib answer to his interview question is at https://hackage.haskell.org/package/transformers-0.5.2.0/doc... (ContT is a generalized form which lets people run, for example, computations that involve IO). Though explaining it is still the fun part.
With a little discipline, namespacing, and good project organization you don't need a CSS framework either.
Well, the headline says "intact".
> What would keep Amazon from adjusting to this

Obviously not much. The point I was trying to make was that a small player probably can't compete with Amazon on price, but they may be able to compete some other way.
It's not DRM (or even "close to it"), it's a "canary trap", or a "barium meal test". The modern equivalents in images, audio files, ebooks, etc. are usually called watermarks, even though they aren't visible (so sometimes called an "invisible watermark"), and are used extensively (including by ebook publishers that don't use DRM).
I agree about this ethical concern, but this attack also shows that reporting the holes to manufacturers is of limited use -- these exploits have been known to manufacturers since at least March, and while patches have shipped, the computers remain vulnerable. Clearly, automatic security updates are still not aggressive enough to prevent these kinds of problems. Though it isn't clear from the article how out-of-date the vulnerable systems are, which would help in planning for the future. For example, Windows 10 pushes security updates very aggressively, and I wonder how many of the infected computers were running Windows 10 -- health care providers' computer systems are often notoriously out-of-date.
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If you don't see a dime I wouldn't call it an UBI. "Unconditional" is supposed to mean that everyone gets the same amount of dime.

If you are concerned with progressive income tax as a means of financing it. Consider the possibility to implement UBI based on land rent instead, like the Alaska oil fund but the rent from all kinds of natural resources that really should be shared fairly anyway.

Regarding the issue that people would work less:

- Perhaps that's not a big problem. Just think of all the people in telemarketing that could just stop contributing to that particular problem.
Or perhaps some other truly evil industry, like tobacco, would people with an UBI be more inclined to not work in unethical industries?

- Perhaps more people would dare to start their own business. Trying truly weird stuff that no one would invest in otherwise.

- Perhaps it contributes enough stress reduction in people to have significant effect on healthcare costs

- Given the safety net of an UBI, a lot of laws and institutions surrounding employment could perhaps be relaxed and more dynamic.

In my mind the potential benefits to the economy and could be quite interesting
> basically I'm taking enough undergrad courses to fill several semesters, before even getting to MS work
Saving ever more money is deflationary by removing it from the economy, but spending money is not inflationary because spending money does not create more money.

In the simplest possible term demand for money is created through taxes and loans because people need it at a future date to meet these obligations. Spending money does not remove these obligations so it does not devalue money.
How about a park? Or more residential housing? Office buildings?

Can't wait till we can replace our petroleum vehicle economy and it's superfund sites (i.e., any former gas station).
Definitely better, because it allows for GPLed forks, but not commercial ones (unless the copyright holder wants to compete with themselves.).
If they don't just replace your data outright with noise.
Why would ransomers use encryption with a back door? It's not like you can force them to only use the crackable math.
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Ensuring the tests are implemented right. For every (job role, seniority) we have a set of challenges that are appropriate. The SE needs to ensure that any question that a customer creates or we create follows the framework, monitor the performance of the test (how many people clear the challenge and what % get offers?) and provide the right recommendations to tweak the test, to increase the onsite -> offer ratio.

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The claim that diet drinks aren't bad for you w.r.t. stroke appears to be as unproved as the claim that diet drinks are bad for you w.r.t. stroke.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
I guess Uber wants us to believe that Lewandowski downloaded the files for some other purpose than using the information in the job he was going to start in a few days.
Looks like you are the one focused on his beliefs
Immutable infrastructure can be dramatically more secure
A nurse once told me "burnout is actually heartache in disguise". While I don't complete agree with that statement, I think there's some truth in it.
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I am just glad you are not trying to tell me that the earth is flat.
UBI avoids the step function where there is no (economic) incentive up until the "income floor". Policies like UBI could ally people (politically) of low to mid income.
Evangelical Christian, creationist, he believes the Bible literally (whatever that means, given translations and necessary interpretations).
We recently engaged in various conversations and it turned out he believes that Earth is 6000 years old (which has the most bizarre consequences: dinosaurs coeval of men, palaeontology being all wrong, cosmology predicting a 11-billion-years old Universe being a conspiracy of the Devil, etc.), that the Bible predicts Heisenberg uncertainty principle and various other scientific discoveries of the 20th century (therefore, by his logic, science and religion are compatible).
He is basically an incarnation of this website: http://answersingenesis.org/
Funny that he used to be the most disrespectful, unconventional and troublesome guy, which is why we became friends in the first place.
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Why do you think it is highly doubtful?
>The article is positing that there's enough research been done into diet soda sweeteners to claim that there are probably no adverse effects.

What part of the article said that?
Interesting analysis and great visual presentation. Would also be interested to see analysis on repetitiveness of intervals and rhythmic patterns used among popular songs. In many occasions people tend not to care about lyrics much in presence of addictive grooves/riffs, "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk being a good example.
I've often thought that the British government should have an in-house team of developers to work on services for local authorities and public facing institutions.

It seems every time a contractor gets involved the tax-payer gets a good fucking, think of all the accrued billable hours taken up by redundant layers of manglement pontificating, the endless reworks and finally the extortionate support contract to keep the end product limping along.
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If you set the floor at 12K, that means that people with no income get a refund of r*12K where r is the tax rate, not that they get a refund of 12K.
Well, it's believed to be cheaper to house the homeless than to leave them on the streets. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/housing-first-homel... ]

And there's plenty of housing, just not really in places that are convenient to jobs. If you didn't need a job, that becomes less of a problem. So giving people enough money for a secure housing and food situation--somewhere, anywhere--strictly decreases suffering.
why asking an expert when you can ask the data?
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It isn't more eloquent, because it's wrong. Wouldn't saying: "The new mafia." or "The new shake-down" be more accurate?

Terrorism is done for political reasons and often involves things that involve putting fear into the populace. Your general "If you don't do x we will do y." statement does cover terrorism, but it covers terrorism because it covers _all kinds of threats_. So I suppose what you really meant was: "The new threat."

Words are important :]
Note that MapD is not fully in-memory. It can pull from CPU Memory and SSD as necessary. So its essentially as fast as the fastest disk-based database at its worst and likely two orders-of-magnitude or more faster in many common scenarios where certain subsets of the data are repeatedly queries (for example, BI workloads or when repeatedly pulling out subsets of a dataset to train a model)
Q: does anyone know how to disable regular internet access in Windows except through a virtual machine (VMware or Virtualbox)?

I have set up my mom to use a live debian cd through VMware, but I would also like to disable networking through Windows Edge and Explorer. I don't know how to do this however.

Myself, I follow a similar scheme but using a linux virtual guest and host. Is it easy to disable networking for all networking except for apt/yum and vmware/kvm?

Lastly, does anyone know what it costs for a personal subscription to grsecurity?
I'd eschew the gun metaphor because rifht to bear arms, etc.

But if you find a cooler with a vial of Ebola on the street, take it home instead of turning it in, then have it stolen and have that strain implicated in an outbreak?

Yeah... that's definitely at least partly on your hands.
The actual tunnel will not have these continuously flashing lights.
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Very few people would argue that it's "OK" to commit crimes that you are capable of getting away with. It's the victim's "fault" as it is the fault of a person who doesn't wear a seatbelt and dies a preventable death in a car accident that they died i.e. not a moral failure, just a failure.
https://www.malwaretech.com/2016/01/exploring-peer-to-peer-b...
>I've restored your vouching privileges, but you probably overdid it at some point.

Are there guidelines on the intended use that I missed? I pretty much just saw "Don't abuse it", which I didn't feel like I was doing. I also assumed that it worked similar to flagging and voting (weighted against other voters), and would've been more cautious if I knew there was normally a 1:1 between vouch and undeadening, which seems to be the case.

I appreciate the restoration, and I'm sure you're right that I overdid it. I will be judicious with it moving forward. Thanks for the restore.

>Also, please try to keep the meta-commentary to a minimum? The reason we don't like people saying "@throwaway993 you are shadowbanned" is because of what it does to signal/noise ratio—that's one reason we created vouching in the first place. Meta is like those styrofoam packing nuggets if they grew like the Ghostbusters marshmallow.

OK, I understand that position. And it is nice to know that "improper shadowban" is among the signals received by moderators when a vouch is made. I have other thoughts, but in the interest of keeping meta-discussion minimized, I'll leave it there. ;)
Windows is not a real time OS. Neither is Linux (except for perhaps a limited number of forks/distros).

If someone is going to die if a computer stops working for any reason at all, it should not be running Windows, or Linux, or macOS. It certainly shouldn't be connected to the internet or to any other network.

When we treat computers as nice-to-have mixed-use machines with all the bells and whistles, you need to treat them like nice-to-haves and not need-to-haves.
"Lock-in", i.e. (economic) transaction costs, aren't exclusive to Microsoft. For every system or solution or whatever that anyone adopts there is some non-negligible cost to switch to something else.
Do you assume normal distribution of income? Because income is Pareto distributed, and shifting the median changes other parameters quite unusually.

For your convenience: US Gini index is ~41%, and, correspondingly, the alpha parameter of Lomax (Pareto type II) distribution is ~1.71. If you plug the median in [1], and try to run any income redistribution scenarios, it doesn't work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomax_distribution
also that it is very unethical for the US government to find some vulnerability in android/windows/whatever and not report it
I would say to you to go to kaggle and get your hands dirty in any competition related with bioinformatics. As you already know the domain better than other people in there you can focus on learning deep learning.
> in a country as rich as mine it's embarrassing that we still have such vast areas of the country that look more like the slums of Brazil than the cities they're usually parked next to.

Well, the slums of Brazil also do not look anything like the cities they're parked next to.

With the increasing economical disparity, less and less reliable government services (and laws), anti-intellectual culture and many other trends visible on the media, it looks the US is getting more and more of the "features" Brazil is working hard to exterminate. That's concerning.
Are your beliefs faith based or based on something else? Honestly curious.
Housing, supply limited? Except in the land-limited big cities, I don't see this as the case at all. Education would certainly be important, but most don't pay for that directly (just through Taxes); no reason for that to change.

Healthcare, yeah, that also needs addressing, regardless of the UBI decisions.
Current president isn't intelligent enough to pull the political maneuvers to pull this one off -- even his base would be up in arms. You can't say "bigly cyber" and click your heels three times and get back doors.
Politicians are loath to acknowledge this, but the fundamental purpose of taxation isn't just to fund the public good, it is to discourage rent-seeking. Economic rents (not to be confused with the rent you might pay for an apartment) are dead weight, so any tax that can target them without disrupting actual productive work is effectively free money. One of the best ways of doing this is, as you proposed, to tax the unimproved value of the land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
At least in the US, there is limited ability to sue foreign sovereigns in our courts - not sure if that's the case in the UK too. Beyond that, I doubt this is a rabbit hole any government, much less the UK - which has a fairly imperialistic past - wants to go down. Glass houses and all.
This is just plain wrong. Car chassis are much better designed now with better grades of steel and better design for managing crash energy. Crash-safety standards have also gone way up in that time. See here:

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/watch-terrifyingly-bad-car-saf...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a11201/why-cars-are-saf...
Time of day, come back in 12 hours and check again.

That said the Russian government is trying to move people to local distributions of Linux, like Astra Linux, but I don't think the uptake is enough to explain low infection rate in Russia.
Ok, we've de-intacted the title above.
I once briefly dated a girl that believed in horoscopes and was dead set that it is a pre-determinator of a person's personality.

And I knew another girl that believed in the healing power of gem stones.

I released that irrational beliefs take many forms, not just religious (which creationism comes from), and it is a common human feature to explain things that you can't understand in ways that might make sense to you.
Even information based value has limits. I feel those limits as heat when I push my hardware to its limits. There is also the space limit of how much information I can store, and the time limit of how much information I can experience or learn through my senses.

Those limits are constantly being pushed outwards, but they are not disappearing. Eventually, we might have cities and data centers covering the entire Earth, à la Coruscant. At that point, we will still be constrained by our ability to cool the system, by our ability to efficiently power it all with minimal waste heat, and by the speed of communications through congested networks.
People talk about it that way because locking your doors is more pragmatic than eliminating every criminal in the world for all time? Because the purpose of conversation about preventable injuries should be constructive, rather than idle? Because whether someone should do bad things should be a discussion between people who do bad things, but people who are victims should be discussing how not to be victims? Because when someone trusts you to protect something, there's 1) an assumption that that thing could be damaged, or else no reason to have hired you to protect it, and 2) a moral responsibility as the person entrusted with guarding it to do a good job, or else your taking money is wasteful and your promise made in order to get it is fraud?

Any number of reasons all boiling down to the same reason: what does calling bad people bad accomplish? Best for people who want to be good to talk about how to be good.
> the challenge is finding a "job" that you love and are excited to tackle every day

This is great and very important, but it doesn't prevent burnout necessarily. I have a job and career that I really enjoy and consider to be very meaningful (aging research), but I have been severely burned out several times.

In some perverse ways, having a "meaningful" job can increase stress and propensity to burnout exactly because you know it's important. I imagine this is why doctors and lawyers have a lot of burnout, stress, and substance abuse problems. OTOH, you don't really hear about corporate accountants getting burned out.

My personal theory of burnout is that it happens when you start to feel you are on a treadmill -- running hard to achieve an important goal, but getting nowhere. Then the stress and burnout symptoms increasingly make this a self-fulfilling prophecy and feedback loop.
Education & Healthcare are already universally covered in Nordic countries, yet cheaper than in America.
[disclaimer, MS employee here]

Question: If governments could inspect and audit MS source code, would the concerns brought up in the article be addressed?

This is a clarifying question, not a loaded one. To avoid any surprises: governments, including the EU can and do audit MS source code (public source, for example: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/microsoft-lets-eu-gover...)
I would say that 'purpose' would fit better into your argument than 'goal'. Taking care of children or elderly parent gives you a purpose but is not a goal. And yes, I agree that having a purpose makes the tough parts of life more bearable.
>historical stigmata

I only point out typos that are silly, so with that in mind: Stigmata is where you develop sores or bleeding on your hands as some sort of weird solidarity with Jesus. I imagine that would make writing papers harder.