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> From what I've heard of lawyers in the Free Software world, they most applauf AGPLv3 for its clarity and precision.

You're sure they were talking AGPLv3 and not [L]GPLv3?

The definitions of what constitutes an interactive program is quite vague (sect 0 and 13). Let's say you have a database server under AGPL (mongo, or say citus). Clearly they support interactive access in some form, but from the perspective of user of an application using said database access is not interactive, nor is it clear how the database could provide such an interactive notice. Various vendors addressed that issue with clarifying notes about their understanding, but that definitely increases doubts of possible users, including their lawyers.
You should try visiting some rural/small-town Walmarts. They're actually quite nice. The ones in urban areas I've been to look like war zones: stuff scattered all over, shelves half-bare, everything dirty, etc. The ones I've been to in rural areas are very nice and decent. Sure, the store's full of Trump voters but they generally keep to themselves, but more importantly the stores are clean and well kept-up from what I've seen. Also, the customers in rural Walmarts are a much better crowd: in urban areas, the customers are the bottom of the barrel, people who are too poor/cheap to shop at Target or better. In rural areas, everyone shops at Walmart because that's all there is. So not only are the poorer people there, but all the local doctors, lawyers, dentists, etc. are shopping there too, so the clientele overall looks decent, instead of a caricature of the "peopleofwalmart" website.

I currently live in a small mid-Atlantic town, and shop at Walmart for groceries because the nearest Target is 30 minutes away. Sure, there's some annoying customers sometimes with monster trucks or T-shirts with guns on them, but I don't feel like I'm going to be mugged. When I lived in northern New Jersey, that's exactly how I felt, so I didn't go to Walmart if I could help it. (But the nearby Target was great, so that's where I shopped for that kind of stuff.)
The comment you responded to specifically mentioned UX, not UI. Junk and scammers are definitely part of the UX.
If you like this, I have a state-of-the-art juice machine to sell you.
I would find alternative from other companies instead migrating to their new API. Who can be sure they are not gonna have the same forceful migration in next year, next 2 years ,etc.?
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What would be really interesting to me is the reverse-engineering of the outbound bitcoin to trace this back to real/named individuals.

Consider that every transaction is public information - so any bitcoin spent from that wallet has to go somewhere.

A friend threw out a stat for me while we were discussing this the other day that something like 80% of existing wallets are owned within places like coinbase where they are associated with named individuals. (I don't know if that is true, but for the purposes of this strategy it's the assumption I'll stick with)

Anyways - assuming 80% of wallets can be traced by law enforcement to named individuals. Imagine that you set an alert to watch all outbound transactions from any of those three wallets.

After each transaction, do a lookup on the owner of the receiving wallet. If it is a named individual, interview them to find out how they got this money. Who just sent them a bitcoin?

If the wallet is not owned by a named individual, add it to the watch-list. Repeat for all outbound transactions from that wallet until you can trace it back.

I'm interested to know how many steps it would take to arrive at the actual criminal.
Borderlands' sponsorships came about as an alternative to closing the store
Things got faster once a Barnes & Noble opened up in my hometown.

I would bring a notebook and pen so I could hand-copy passages out of O'Reilly books and Dr. Dobbs. Then I'd walk back home and try them out.

This was circa '90-'93. I was in middle school, and had no internet access.
How many of these customers have actually bitched out their vendors for not porting their software to non-MS OSes? None?

Sorry, I have no sympathy. Look for alternatives, or roll your own. Or find a new line of business altogether. Whining about your OS vendor abusing you is getting really, really old now. Like an abusive boyfriend, they're not going to change, so it's up to you to make a change.
~30% of the total population in the US live on less than that. Further, it's 24,000$/year on a 2 person household, which is well above the federal 100% poverty level.

PS: Having regional UBI defeats the purpose of having a UBI in the first place. The goal is for people to more efficiently spend money on what they want, because they don't get more money by making poor financial choices.
>I am pretty sure that running home versions of Windows in contexts like this is against the Windows TOS.

For Windows, Microsoft restricts features but not what purpose you can use it for if you're talking about Home versions. For Office however, the home version actually has restrictions in the TOS that limit use to only noncommercial purposes. For a standalone Windows box that is only used for some lab equipment and will never be domain joined there's a good chance that there's no technical reason to go with Windows Pro over Home.
Another pretty-easy variation to this are the "overnight" and "Saturday" recipes in Flour Water Salt Yeast.

Very slight kneading required, but not much. Easy cleanup, and better crumb than the no-knead recipes in my experience.

http://www.karenskitchenstories.com/2013/09/overnight-white-...
$2 trillion is a drop in the bucket. $2 trillion spread out over every man, woman, and child in the United States would equal roughly $5000. If you only paid working age adults, maybe $10,000 a year. In some areas of the country this is one month of living expenses, in other areas it may be a couple months if living cheap.

You would need to consume almost the entire GDP of this country and pay only a portion of the population to make this even a number worth doing with basic income.

It doesn't work, and the negatives far outweigh the positives economically.
Monotonically increasing income isn't enough.

If marginal tax are 90%, why would anybody be stupid enough to take an 80 hour a week job that only pays a little bit more, due to taxes, than a similar 6 figure salary job that only requires 40 hours a week? 100k-300k salary jump works out to only 20k increase, at 90% marginal tax rates.

I myself have certainly considered taking a job in finance, or at a high-payed, but stressful, tech company.

And it is a hard tradeoff that I think about. More money vs less stress and less hours. And if marginal taxes were something like 90% there is no way I would even CONSIDER the job that now doesn't even pay that much more.

I'd just switch to some 30-35 hour a week, "life-style" business that still pays OK, and, I'd chill. I mean, why bother, right? I am motivated by incentives. Remove those incentives and you remove my motivation.
That kind of thinking can be used to justify just about anything. That's nonsensical. The issue I have is that they seem to be deliberately misleading investors based on what has leaked out. They are certainly trying to mislead the public with their claims.
A bit off topic, but you're missing that the number you mentioned doesn't exist. What you're describing is an infinitesimal value, or, the largest negative number. This number doesn't exist in the reals.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/455639/what-is-the-...

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-smallest-positive-real-numb...
Like "Fermi Problems" and back-of-the-envelope math?

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
If the software manufacturer's instructions are to stay in Windows XP, then they should be held responsible for patching the security flaws in the system they delivered - if they choose to use obsolete components, maintaining them should be their problem.
Your comment was unexpected, and that actually made it fun. There's a theory about humor that it exists to expose wrong assumptions in a harmless way.
When I hard reload the Craigslist home page for my state, it downloads right around 150 kb.

That is a thing of beauty.
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Aside from don't? Haha.

My normal goto response is, unless you have a passion for fine dining, go do something that makes money, and just host dinner parties.

Realistically though, two things. A) knife skills, learn them, though google, YouTube and practice. They will be your best asset. It will take years. There is no shortcut to experience here, but there are shortcuts to mediocrity.

B) there is nothing wrong with not remembering everything. Read up on every style of cooking and each technique, so if you are rushed you will know the basics, but there is too much to remember - don't be afraid to google how to search a specific thing. Eg roasting times for different types of meat. I looked it up tonight, I don't roast that often, so I don't remember the general times for each type of meat, there is nothing wrong with double checking your memory haha.

(Bonus?) C) once you get to my level)executive chef), don't be afraid to learn or listen, I have learnt more in the past 12 months than I would have thought possible, due to meeting chef's with an amazingly different outlook on things.

Edit:

Mobile apps? Not really, there isn't a stack overflow for chef's, or any major resource center, just Google. (I am working on this with another chef :-p)
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This is true. You can return anything - obviously abused/ broken stuff, even items purchased from other stores. Items purchased from Walmart.com can also be returned to any physical Walmart location, no questions asked.
Why does it do it? To avoid triggering in many sandbox environments, as they often are not connected to the internet and track and respond with generic yes/"correct data" formats
Just curious, were you using the Predict API?
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Have a look at snoop snoo and see what it says about you based on your Reddit comments.
This was a way to save a much-loved bookstore. It's interesting that it's still holding up after 2 years.
That isn't quite the same as "Uber took technology from Waymo", though.

Levandowski took a bunch of stuff from Waymo. There seems to be very little doubt of that. Levandowski, while in possession of those documents, formed Otto. Uber bought Otto. Therefore, Uber bought a company that included a person who stole a bunch of documents from Waymo.

Now: Did Uber get access to the documents? Did Levandowski not show them the documents, but just use the contents to give guidance/instructions/knowledge? Either of those would be "Uber taking the technology".

Or did Levandowski just put those files away on a drive somewhere, and never use them while at Otto or Uber? I don't believe that for a minute, but it's possible (from the evidence so far).
Because, as best I can tell, many more people actually like the ultra-simple UX than dislike it.

I wish more sites would go retro. It really is a breath of fresh air after so many sites that make me feel like I'm fighting my way through the "experience" they're trying to shove down my series of tubes.
Why are you trying to excuse Microsoft's behavior here? Who could have predicted that Microsoft would have actually done what they did and forced the Windows 10 update on everyone?
An $8 Billion valuation on a company that:

- Has no products.
- Has done no public, verifiable demos of real tech even.
- Has no verified technical innovations even as far as I know.

Something is seriously, seriously wrong in the valley^H^H^H^H^H^H tech investment world.

Edit: Clarification since Magic Leap isn't a valley start up.
Currently browsers only support JS. If you want another language you have to transpile to JS or implement your language in JS, etc.

If the browser vendors were going to add another language I would have hoped it would be something so generic like LLVM instead of this WebASM which is too tied to JS.
I think the parent point is that if even your hiring manager / new boss can't negotiate with legal / HR... then the company is probably dysfunctional and you wouldn't want to be working there anyway.
I just finished reading the book "Raising the Floor," an argument in favor of universal basic income written by former SEIU president Andy Stern's book.

It's a worthwhile read.

This article just sounds like some cross between anti-UBI propaganda and defeatist nonsense. Stern addresses many of these issues.

But -- more importantly -- he argues that our economy will become more and more automated over time and jobs will go away and simply not come back. So we need to figure out some way to have an egalitarian society in a world where overall productivity is high but need for workers is low.

It's a big shift. I'm not sold on UBI as the sole solution, but it seems like a good place to start looking for ideas. Apparently some places that already have some form of it (like Alaska!) have seem some successes. And apparently the United States nearly passed some form of UBI legislation in the 70s with the support of none other than Richard Milhous Nixon.

As a part of this change, I do agree that we're going to have to loosen some of our moral aversion to people not working full-time jobs all the time. There's a lot of good you can do for yourself and the world if you're not obligated to give all your time to some menial day job.
We really should make it illegal to pay ransom. The only ultimate solution to this problem is to eliminate the incentive.
For example, I just googled briefly for the Chrome WASM platform status and to quote directly, "WebAssembly is in the early stages of language and spec design."

Although I would love to have a working model of WASM to play with, the fact is that it is a fresh idea and that any spec you see today will not be around in five years.

Wanting WASM to look like C/C++ is so hilariously misguided that I wonder if any programmers have been paying attention to language evolution in the past 5 decades.

Yes, Javascript is the best we can do at the moment, and that is truly sh. I do not disagree. My latest progress with regards to that is using something that compiles to JS, but there is still the indefatigable issue of having to use Javascript.

To me, WASM is an initiative to redesign the language behind the screen, and anything short would be inadequate because Javascript already does almost everything, just in an incredibly roundabout, piecemeal, poorly evolved way.

So, you are right in assuming I have not been paying attention to the news in the world of Web ASM, but I must also appeal to your logic and say that any of the news you read now is just theoretical debate. Maybe I should take up my issues with the language designers, as that may prove more fruitful.
Yeah it's not clear if the aversion is due to their corporate citizenship or the reality of the inside of their stores. One is rational, the other is not.
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Why indeed?

On the other hand, maybe they just don't care. Why should they, if they're landing a multi-billion-dollar D round without having done that? They seem doing a good job of convincing the people they need to convince to stay in business, if "business" is the right word for an organization which, if this news is accurate, will be most of $10 billion into debt before it has its first cent in revenue. Why split focus and try to convince anyone else? If the tech gets off the ground (and exists in the first place, of course), everyone who sees it will be convinced once the product hits retail. Until then, I don't really see how it matters.
>that detection was pretty flakey, too.

FWIW there was a handful of reports of exactly that happening on /r/sysadmin. There was also a ton of domain joined machines that were spammed with the Windows 10 nagware but didn't actually upgrade on their own.
On the one hand, I hear you and don't disagree - programming ergonomics is a big deal, and access to the language you like is important. I for one really don't want to program in a language that uses significant whitespace, if I can avoid it.

On the other hand, "keep up with JS" is something of a misnomer here. It's not javascript that's moving super-fast, it's the web ecosystem (plus the node one, in parallel). It's moving fast because new ideas are evolving at speed (functional-reactive approaches, new ways to think about mixins vs multiple inheritance, etc), and those ideas lead to new framework architectures gaining popularity as they exploit these new ways of thinking about organizing data flow through a complicated system.

Couple that with some baseline things that aren't changing here - you're still going to have to interact with the DOM, you aren't going to magically get re-entrant multithreading, and the event model isn't changing. There's still going to be a lot about web programming that feels different from systems programming, and things are still going to move quickly. Probably even more quickly (but I'm not certain about that - I imagine one major reason JS shifts quickly is that it has so many programmers working with it, if the population fragments there will probably be a number of slow-moving communities that neither shift often nor take advantage of new features, which feels like the kind of neophile - neophobe split that's already apparent in different areas of programming).

So: I am not convinced that a (say) rust or go compiler to WASM will suddenly make front-end programming feel like systems programming. It'll be a new language, sure, but there's a lot more to web development and the (reasonable) complaints people have about a shifting landscape than just javascript and its funky definition of OO and triple equals sign.
This is pretty basic, and I'm surprised Kenji made such an error, given that he could easily have asked someone.

I'm pretty sure that a dutch oven simply allows for more humidity in the air in contact with the dough, which allows that air to be hotter, without drying out the crust. In other words, the same mechanism that commercial bread ovens use to make bread.
The article makes three arguments.

> Any resolve to invest in themselves and to improve their lives through work would be put to the test every day

Yes, because work sucks for most. Maybe work will have to improve in order to compete.

> It is therefore likely that basic income would redistribute resources from those who are employed to those who are not

People who earn money already hate or not paying taxes. They already despise or not people who do not work.

> Migrant workers and other immigrants need more mechanisms to help with social integration, not fewer.

You need to have a really stellar program to be better than cash
It's easy to think of a UBI scheme that doesn't change the net tax you pay to the government. For instance, everyone gets an extra $10,000 a year, everyone pays an extra $10,000 a year. No change in the net amount of money people pay, no change in the federal government.

But that doesn't do anything, so let's tweak it a little. Everyone gets an extra $10,000 a year, everyone pays an extra $10,000 a year, except you use TANF money to offset that payment for lower income families. So if you're above the TANF threshold, you see no difference, like in the first scenario. If you are below the TANF threshold, you're only paying back some of the $10,000 you get (the rest being paid with TANF funds). Again, no increase in taxes, no increase in the budget.

You can keep fiddling with the numbers - you can use food stamp money to lower the amount those on the lower end need to pay back (or increase the payout), and keep using other funds allocated for the impoverished to do the same. These types of plans would all be neutral in terms of tax burden and the federal budget.

Why would you do this? It'd be much simpler and better than the current system in a lot of ways. If you loose your job you automatically have the supplemental income - you don't have to worry about navigating a dozen different government agencies. You don't have to worry about going in for drug testing if some governor decides to make that mandatory for assistance, or any of the other junk that comes with stigmatized assistance (since everyone would be getting the assistance, the difference would only be at the tax end, which already exists).

Now, I'd argue that increased taxes on the wealthy to bolster the program is a good idea. I'd also argue that if people think helping the impoverished in their country is "no benefit" to them, that's part of a much broader problem (the same problem where people are happy to watch the infrastructure of their country collapse if it means they pay a few hundred dollars a year less in taxes). But even if you don't want to increase the tax burden on anyone - not even the richest citizens - you can still devise workable UBI implementations.
Snap and Twitter both have valuation much higher than $3 billion and have zero profit. I would agree that the valuation seems high, but not compared to other tech companies.
If bitcoin were truly that ineffective for use by extortionists, why is it so commonly used? Note: I'm truly asking a question, I know very little about the subject.
That said, it's pretty amazing that UBI has become such a big talking point. I remember about ten years ago I brought up the possibility of UBI in a college course where the instructor literally laughed at the idea. It's nice to see it being considered enough of a 'threat' that people feel like they even need to deign to argue against it.
I like to buy big/heavy items from Walmart.com. Buying a full weight set from Amazon would not have free shipping. I can have the heavy stuff sent to any Walmart store for free and go pick it up. And yes, Walmart.com has a huge amount of stuff that isn't sold in their stores.
UBI has some genuine drawbacks, but the correct conclusions are the opposite of what this article says.

1) Landlords can capture all extra money by raising rents. Solution: land value tax (which can probably finance UBI all by itself).

2) Some people have high medical costs. Solution: free health care for everyone. No "insurance" where rejecting sick people is profitable!

3) Loss of meaning in life. Solution: free education for everyone. Let people study and socialize all their lives if they want. Don't force them to find jobs or starve!
Once you move into 2+ sockets you're already paying $5000+ for a CPU so what's an extra $4000 for a main board?
I've come across Amazon doing surge pricing before.

A pair of earbud headphones came up in an article praising them at their price point, so myself and a bunch of other people decided to buy them. They were $35. Amazon had it for sale through a bunch of resellers, and themselves for that price.

You couldn't order any of it though, it would error out and say it wasn't available right now.

I tried ebay, and got almost the exact same message from ebay on everyone selling those earbuds.

I ended up ordering it off of a 3rd site, which was already sold out, but honored the price.

In a few days, Amazon let it's sellers sell the item again, but around 2-3 times the original price.

It's interesting how they and Ebay blocked the sale of a suddenly 'hot' item like that, to price gouge everyone who had decided to purchase them.
Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's essay "The coming war on general-purpose computing".

https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
The mobile site is really good. Hell, even the regular site has incredible usability and is very lightweight. It might not look as pretty as GumTree, but it's very usable.
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Here's an idea: write the self-destruct password on a post-it note and leave it on your monitor. It's the same sort of thing, but preemptively - it's not obstruction of justice if you're not under investigation when you do that.
Smalltalk/X, the jv branch