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I believe they aren't allowed to change the hardware spec, so at some point they will not be able to get supplies anymore. As far as SimpleDB, yeah, believe it or not, on AWS bill, it still exist and most support engineers from Amazon don't really have a clue why it's there. I still don't know which service we use is using SimpleDB. Only a few cents, so nobody really care.
That's a plus inside a circle. This logical tweak to the notation was proposed by someone I forget, maybe 3blue1brown.
AT&T was a legal monopoly, so they were bound by law to have research and I think a certain percentage of profits had to go to a development wing (Bell Labs) focused on improving technology. Neither Verizon nor Comcast have any such obligation.
Yes, JS and wasm can call each other. In the long run wasm should also be able to call web APIs directly.
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... and that they will need to allocate a budget to this migration project, and make sure it is delivered successfully. If they do not understand the benefits, "business" folks will just see it as an annoyance.
Good first approximation but I think there are some limitations. For example, basic Income advocates do not say that everyone (children, for example) get the cash. So your denominator of 360M is incorrect and should be reduced by at least 75M.

A 2006 study put the cost at 1.8Tr. And then goes on to detail how it can be done, largely by eliminating new tax loopholes versus introducing new taxes: http://www.usbig.net/papers/144-Sheahen-RefundableTaxCredit.....

For a less academic answer, the author Scott Saterns has spent a lot of time researching this topic and even lived on a simulated basic income for a year: https://medium.com/basic-income/what-if-you-got-1-000-a-mont...
I think the idea is that you raise taxes such that the middle class sees no difference, the rich pay more in taxes, and the poor receive more money.

Alternatively, the rich employ lobbyists and financial experts to ensure they don't personally pay any more than they do now, the middle class ultimately bears the burden due to the load offset by the rich, and waste/fraud/abuse results in the poor being no better off.

If I were a betting man, I'd wager on the second scenario.
Ok, I submitted: https://github.com/thestk/rtmidi/issues/110
How do you visualize 10-50 dimensions? I'm asking because in Algebra courses I was told more than once to try not to visualize vectors of higher dimensions, and I understood that to mean it would at least be difficult.
Is that true? They'd still need to adhere to HVM vs. PVM, but that should be it.
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They did, but they've resumed again recently.
I think the Judge is very clearly signaling that if any pilfered files were used by Uber that he is intent on getting to the bottom of it. And that all the claims of privilege that Uber has been claiming so far in the expedited discovery is about to go bye bye.

The head of research on LIDAR at Uber had 14,000 files from Google that were pilfered before he left and he did this for purely for shits and giggles and not in any way to use these files for anything in his future job? The Judge says in the order it is preposterous to think this. Still, it is up to Google to prove misuse and he is intent on giving them the discovery they need to do so if they can.
By definition anonymization is supposed to be irreversible. What you're describing is de-identification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-identification#Anonymizatio...).
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There was one for a while that did this specifically. You had to give them access to your online accounts with UPS and FedEx. They would then get the refunds for you and keep/bill for 50% of the total refunded. A nice no-risk proposal.

Now, the carriers require that the shipper themselves (or whoever paid for the shipment to begin with) must claim the refund. So third party refund collections are a violation of terms of service.

There are still some very large logistics providers that claim to offer this, but I am not sure how they do this. They might actually route all shipments through them, making them the actual shipper, allowing them to collect refunds. But you have to commit to them for all logistics/shipping.

Unless you monitor it closely yourself, there is no way to get information about late shipments from the carriers. So they make it hard to get them. And not all late shipments are eligible (only if fault of carrier).

So there is value alone in being aware of what to seek refunds on. I've thought about rolling this out into a service. I'm still working on tweaking my setup.
No, this is a peace treaty for a single block in one city, out of an entire country that is still at war.

It's nice that a handful of people are being helped, but they are utterly dwarved by the amounts of people in the same situation who won't ever receive help, not because it's impossible (other countries do it fine) but because the country refuses to recognize the needs of all of its citizens.
Because as software engineers, we are in the business of either:

- creating new service industies, many of which serve the rich and are thus mocked

- Solving problems in cheaper ways cheaper than paying a human to solve them. This is equivalent to... well... unemploying people.
You might like this article: https://aeon.co/essays/what-if-jobs-are-not-the-solution-but....
Communism thy name is UBI
> I really don't think it would be that hard to copy

If it were that easy Walmart would already have it. FBA has been around for a decade. Walmart still doesn't have anything that comes even close to it, despite having an incredible dev team (Walmart Labs) a ton of money AND the distribution network to make it very feasible.
I'm sure in this kind of human rights stuff the problem is absolutely not technical. It's just a detail. What counts is to be able to put yourself in a position where you can be defended by a lawyer or whatever support (like an Ecuadorian embassy ? :-) ). Trying to technologically sidestep the law enforcement is just ridiculous. It proves that you recognize you're doing wrong stuff (wrong in the eyes of those running after you), it sends a very bad signal.

And anyway, as said elsewhere, at some point you are opposing a government. And if you're opposing in a strong way, then well, you basically declared war and you'll have to fight the Goliath. Thus before attempting any fight, make sure you have a very good network of supporters...

Technology won't help :-(
That has been the stable state of the US since, roughly, 1980. This is one effort to counter that trend.
The idea isn't to let everyone live at median income with no job. Most would suggest that the basic income level could be set below current minimum wage, more like current unemployment benefits + basic subsidies. That would probably be more around your $10k figure? You say this still doesn't work; perhaps that's true. It's not inconceivable that some tax rises would be palatable in exchange for this freedom. There may also be savings by eliminating other social benefits in exchange for this payment. Sure, eliminating social security etc would mean this income paid for very basic lifestyle, but you still have 40 hours in the week to do with as you please. The bigger questions for me are labour force participation and (present day) price inflation
For the US, the refugee visa is one of the hardest to get. It takes like 2 years on average, requires the most extensive background checks and interviews by intelligence agencies, and of course you have to prove you are in danger and have urgent need for it. Also, there is a 50,000 cap on how many refugees the US can take in per year (It was at 70,000 and Obama was pushing to raise it to 110,000, but it was cut by Trump's executive order).

As for the refugee crisis in Europe, my understanding is the reason refugees try to get to Germany and Sweden isn't because they have the best benefits, but because they have the most welcoming refugee programs, and are thus less likely to deport asylum seekers.
If you make median income then the above math means that this program has no effect on you. It doesn't matter what the rich do or don't do or what waste is involved in the program.

I would bet that (a) the rich already lobby to pay the lowest amount in taxes so having BI or not having BI doesn't affect that and (b) BI would have much less waste/fraud than current programs.
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Man, there are some enterprises still running mission-critical stuff on Windows XP. The idea that a year to transition something is a long time window for enterprises is absurd.
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Twice the installed base of Mac OS makes a lot of sense to me. My wife and I both have an iPad but only one laptop which we share but almost never use. If that is representative of everyone that owns a Mac then you end up with about double the installed base.
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Look at what Scientific Linux did - as I recall, they didn't like the changes that RHEL did (backend for OpenSSL) so they did their own respin.

THAT is what they need for the NHS, and any other industry that needs a really long support period.

RHEL gives ~10 years support, the MRI scanners etc need at least 15. On top of that, the customers also need guarantees that the vendors of the MRI scanners or whatever will keep up with this.

So - no more of using whatever library you like, or php extension - it's a case of - this is the base OS, build it on that.

This is a fuckup on so many levels - the vendors, the NHS for not giving a shit, the government for not mandating an open solution. The one I can't blame, for once, is Microsoft - they're supported XP for 13 years, thats enough.
TLDR ask person in front of you not recline and compensate them with drink or other small gift and most likely they will accept it even without the gift
My Company lost a lot of money due to WannaCry. Should I sue the USA Gov?
"The only people to blame are those that don't follow manufacturers instructions."

I disagree. I think it was the folks that thought it was OK to encrypt files and hold them for ransom in the first place.
This one-year-long deprecation warning comes atop what is a fairly reasonable migration path for most users. I have yet to hear of a single user of any size whose “entire stack” relied on a single API, let alone this one, and who would be left without a faster, easier, or less expensive option in this move.

But you might have info I do not!

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Raising U.S. taxes to the non-U.S. OECD average,[1] and eliminating "other" welfare spending (excluding Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) would give you about $2 trillion. That's enough for $9,000 per adult and $2,000 per child, assuming everyone already on Social Security gets to keep that and is excluded from basic income.

[1] For the median household, the basic income will far outweigh the tax increase.
The smart people that go into a casino aren't expecting to come out ahead, they walk in knowing they're probably going to burn a couple hundred bucks. They also get to leave, which is why they're willing to play at worse odds for a short time. Given that, I don't think its safe for you to rely on an infinite supply of suckers.

What if they want to go to a different casino that gives them better odds, will you force them to stay? If they can't leave they'll figure out who they shouldn't play against because they'll lose. So now are you forcing them to play? Now you're either micromanaging which ones should play against each other to make sure nobody ends up broke, or you're actively forcing them into poverty.

Is this a casino you'd like to visit?
Doubling taxes to pay for UBI isn't a big deal, since to anybody making a median income the government is giving them the money to pay for those increased taxes.

That's why a negative income tax is probably politically more feasible. So even though it's functionally exactly the same thing as a UBI, it doesn't feel like a tax increase on the middle class.
That's a pretty pessimistic take.

You could just as easily say that we as a "Great" nation and society decide that we will not allow our poor and underprivileged to be impoverished so that a few billionaires can die with a little more in their pile. It's not a demand of the proletariat, it's the middle and upper class deciding that they want a more egalitarian society because it has a higher utility.
Sometimes culture prevents/subverts this. For example, if your reviewers won't approve diffs where the new code is not yet actually connected to anything, you won't be able to parcel a feature into small diffs and then turn it on at the end. That is only one example.

Also, while it's true that reviewers will "lgtm" a large diff without close examination, reviewers also allow themselves to get hung up on mind-bogglingly dull details in a small diff. There is little else to focus on in a small diff, and people seem to feel insecure about "rubber-stamping" PRs. There apparently needs to be some contribution from them, or else do they really exist? I usually just change whatever silly thing they want changed, so we can all get on with our lives. And because I strongly believe we shouldn't get too attached to our own code or ideas anyway.
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I would appreciate a short TL; DW for your opinion, since at most work places, watching videos is not considered good etiquette :).
If the started that, local law enforcement companies would also ask to have their govOS signed by apple to be installed on a particular device. How do you make sure that a) the link from the local law enforcement branch is authentic and has not been compromised, b) make sure that the person requesting such an update is actually authorized to do so (and not just some criminal how gained access to the law enforcement computers).

Not matter what you do, there is still a very good chance that somehow unauthorized people get access to sign an OS for any of apple's devices device they want. It might not result in such a huge attacked but nonetheless, there is still damaged to be done.
You maybe could argue the shift started earlier, but the floodgates really opened on Digg v4. I was one of the "Digg refugees" who joined reddit at that time, and there were hoards of others that did the same.
It's not so ppl can't work. No one wants to live on $10k in the US.

Even LeanFIRE types want $20k/year.
the other side of the coin is a lot of people just stopped using the thing. I haven't touched a tablet is a long time, my phone screen is big enough for most things.
Well, they advertised m1 as such and such hardware spec. I don't know if in their ToS they state they would be allowed to change the spec without notifying customer. Maybe.

I believe m1 is only available on PV.
Did it ever actually sell pens? I always understood it to be a joke; if it's been anything else, I'd love to know more.
Very cool, please let me know when you release it! I'd love to check it out.
This is like a pre-ferment rather than an actual dough. It's overproofed -- you can see through the crumb, and it has a wet, gelatinous texture due to the starch all breaking down.

And as others have noted physics knowledge is lacking.
I literally had someone run into the problem and they received a credit towards their Prime membership. That was a week ago.
More: It's usually only outside counsel who gets to see that kind of stuff. Even corporate attorneys don't.
Business folks: So instead of new features we have sold to customers we have to spend X weeks on this feature which was working perfectly fine?
This. In GCP, they are handling these things transparently, professionally and proactively - usually giving you a personalized heads-up, alternatives and reminders as early as possible. Facebook on the other hand has been shutting down critical APIs under my systeme literally with a days' notice.
> capitalizing on public infrastructure for far too long without giving anything back.

Does amazon not pay taxes?
I happen to agree with you, but it's also a very unpopular position in tech circles for whatever reason. They seem to gravitate far more to the socialist side of these topics.
Are you of the opinion that we should dismantle our military? Because that's what you'd literally be doing by sending NSA employees to prison.

They are military. It was a cyberweapon. That's the point of a cyber weapon. Russians stole it from the NSA. Yes, that's incompetence, but an attacker only has to get lucky once. It's much harder to defend a cyberweapon than a tomahawk missile.

Does that mean we shouldn't build cyberweapons? No. That's just how cyberweapons are. That's the reality we live in now, and the world will just have to deal with it. There's nothing to be done, is there? Not unless you're suggesting that computers should never be used for offensive capabilities, which from a game theory perspective means that country will be powerless in the digital arena.
Thanks, it is interesting.

Horace Goes Skiing definitely brings back memories.
"It seems that the scope of possible harm has been reduced..."

The Judge specifically says in the ruling that a much stronger injunction can come at any point right up to the start of trial if Google is able to find additional evidence in the new discovery he is ordering. My read of the ruling is that the Judge expects that Google is likely to find just such evidence in the discovery he is newly ordering.
its not whataboutism.. its making a fair comparison. I'm not excusing Microsoft's behavior based on others actions especially since I know this behavior is simple to disable in its latest OS release which is free to upgrade to.
Even 100% tax rates (the total fully dictatorial income redistribution) will not be enough. And, of course, not needed, since it will make the economy uncompetitive (Soviet block countries learned this the hard way).
> relocating people halfway across the world is solving any sort of crisis

I think the people fleeing war and ethnic cleansing would disagree. It's not the most effective solution because you can't relocate everyone, but it is something, and it makes an enormous difference to those we can help. You can call it "political pandering" but I think of it as a moral obligation to do what little we can to help those in need, though I understand others may disagree.
Exactly this. Companies are still running on-prem software from decades ago, because it's not economical to migrate. Why should the cloud be different?

It's very scary to a purchasing manager at a company to know that when they invest $100k+ in developer/consultant time implementing a solution, that every 3-5 years they will need to spend an additional $xk to simply keep the solution alive!

AWS is doing this right. I can't imagine recommending Google for many cloud use cases, given their propensity to decommission software that companies use!
Is wasm also restricted to running on one thread like js?
What a shame. They've surely done many orders of magnitude more than $26k worth of damage. They've done a really really bad job at monetising their impact.
Looks like you'd have to file suit against specific employees: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/suing-government-negl...

It also looks like there are some pretty severe restrictions on the timeline of the suit.

Good luck!
You basically want everyone's machine to be locked down to protect people like yourself with bad taste in applications.
Well, the judge requested federal prosecutors to take a look.
There's privacy and there's anonymity. They don't care about our anonymity for various reasons (which may or may not satisfy you). But they do (seem to) care about our privacy.
No that's just hyperbole without any basis in reality. Those poor and underprivileged can already find aid when/where needed. Poor people in the USA aren't even poor by world wide standards.

You do not have the right to rob Peter to pay Paul.
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This makes sense. If the number is 5.5 by throwing away the .5 you lose less than 10% of precision. On the other hand if the number is 1.5 and you throw away the .5 you lose 50% precision.
While I do not contribute code, I do contribute documentation and support what I can via issue triage & community support for Home Assistant (https://home-assistant.io/) which is a Python 3 open source Home Automation webapp with over 500 components.

You can check out my automations, configuration files & docs at GitHub https://github.com/brianjking/homeassistant-config.
"Buying clubs that focus on Quality are the future"

To a degree I agree with you, but buying clubs are not great either. For instance I tried out "Harrys Razors", but I only shave once a week. A blade lasts a while for me. So even with the "lowest frequency" option, I ended up drowning in razor blades.

I also tried one of the clothing clubs, because I hate cloth shopping. I ended up getting a lot of stuff I Hated.

I like the idea, but there's something to be said for "buying what you need when you need it".
What for? The website is simple enough to render fine on mobile devices, and it avoids the whole app ecosystem and update issues.
> 25. A Craigslist competitor. Craiglist is ambivalent about being a business. This is both a strength and a weakness. If you focus on the areas where it's a weakness, you may find there are better ways to solve some of the problems Craigslist solves.

http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html
Ugh, I know! I hate it when broke people have opinions.
This is funny because he has the exact same conclusion that I have regarding the costs--that the UBI would be around $10,000 and that the breakeven would be $50,000--yet he believes that to be feasible while I don't.

But the difference between our views is this: politically it's infeasible because middle class people are more politically active. People making over $50,000/year will lose money on thus deal. Thus, even if it's better for people making less than $50,000, it is unlikely to ever be enacted.

Finally, he talks about fixing tax "loopholes" but in reality he's talking about removing deductions. Those deductions are supported by many people... go ahead and try to remove the mortgage interest deduction, and see how far you can get! (polling support for its removal is almost zero)
> How would a basic income impact workers and firms in this context? It would surely protect workers against the economic harms of unemployment and underemployment by giving them unconditional resources, and it would enable them to bargain for higher wages and to refuse terrible jobs. But a basic income would do little to reduce corporate power, which is a function not just of wealth but of the ability of firms to structure work relationships however they wish when countervailing institutions—such as a powerful regulatory state—are absent or ineffective. Yes, a basic income would make it easier for workers to organize and demand reforms—Andy Stern dubbed it “the ultimate permanent strike fund”—but the threat of termination or retaliation would still prevent many workers from protesting or striking in the first place.

What? The threat of termination/retaliation is exactly what UBI would prevent. Or are we talking about mafia-style retaliation? In that case, it's not UBI that is the problem.
If 600M is profit (not revenue), that's 400M short from 1B. That's not a bad valuation, also consider the user base is quite strong. Using both yield 3B is very conservative IMO. If you buy it for 3B, then you will get your investment worth in a couple years.
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