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> The top 20% of earners pay 84% of income tax [1], yet can cast only 20% of the votes.

So you favor explicitly connecting wealth and political power? That's not democracy in any sense. All democracy trends toward tyranny of the majority and thus needs measures to counteract that (such as requiring supermajorities for some things, having constitutions that are hard to change, having power split among branches of gov. and lots more).

Fairness? UBI and wealth distribution aren't just about fairness either. They are about maximizing health and happiness overall. Is it fair for me to have to pay for the treatment of homeless drug addicts? What matters is that I want to live in a world where they get treated, not a world where I live with the consequences of having them around on the streets. We need a sustainable and long-term way to deal with social issues like this (and many many other things). Sure, fairness is nice too, but it's more of a factor in sustaining a healthy society than an end in itself. Judging fairness is extremely hard, hugely subjective. We'll never achieve ultimate fairness, life just isn't fair. We can increase it, but it's not the only factor to consider (and it's one of the least objective).

Anyway, the top 20% of wealth holders in this society do not create all the value. The distribution of "earnings" is NOT correlated to positive impact on society. A notable portion of that top 20% are people involved in stupid financial scheming like high-speed trading. They only take value from the rest of us and do nothing positive at all. Any discussion about what's "fair" in political power and taxation and wealth has to be based on trying to get at who is actually doing valuable work, not on whoever happens to capture the most wealth.

I'm sure you're one of those people who recognizes regulatory-capture and other forms of corruption. Those lobbyists/politicians in a corrupt revolving door Washington system are in that top 20% you're talking about. If you change your whole framing to think about which work is actually good for the world, you can then have a discussion that is valid and talk about the problems with democracy (which are, as I've agreed, real concerns).

I hope you can recognize the lack of correlation between wealth-capture and value-creation. Otherwise, you're just falling into the Just World Fallacy.
Light rail is the best for this. I have about an hour and 15 minute train ride (on top of commute to the train) each way and it is perfect time for me to work on side projects. That wouldn't work on a bus, especially if you have to make many stops/transfers.
I buy all the different apples for my kids as they show up in the stores. Their personal favorite? Red Delicious.
Be sure to give them feedback on the UI. I recently gave em feedback and they're fairly receptive.
The fact that your life sucked in many other ways is irrelevant. Having fresh fruit growing on plants near your house which you can eat is a privilege that most people do not have.

I'm not saying, "your life was privileged, and you suck." I'm saying, "your situation of having fresh-off-the-tree apples was an unusual privilege." Am I wrong, or do you just object to the one word, and want me to know a bunch of other things about how you lived too?
I never said:

1) That it was easy to do right: that's why we get paid.

2) That it was an excuse not to do other checks elsewhere: defence in depth is key.

Anyhow, I hope that we're really furiously agreeing.
Are you suggesting that the parent took a quote out of context, in order to criticize a critic of the apple campus?
Absolutely, my immediate reaction was just wow. Past the amazing story, the way he tells it really makes it seem so real. I never imagined modern slavery to be so casual to the slave master, and I certainly never thought about how it would effect the slave master's children.
"But nearly three-fourths of the variation in longevity is accountable to behavioral and metabolic risk factors, including obesity, exercise, smoking, alcohol and drug addiction, blood pressure, and diabetes"

After searching a bit, it seems like there is a lot of overlay with the obesity maps of the usa here: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html

not as much precision but exercise seems like it could also be a legit factor according to these maps: https://nccd.cdc.gov/dnpao_dtm/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=DNPAO_DT...

What would be interesting is to see if there are places where there is perhaps an inverse relationship and figure out what there the offsetting factors are.

Does anyone have links for maps of the others by any chance?
they didn't list my goto: Empire apples!
Wait, you're saying that Apple wanted to be able to provide it's employees with a place to park while they're at work? That's crazy.
Our democratic structure doesn't work in a society with vast wealth differences. Over the last 10 years, has the prosperity and freedom of average Americans increased or decreased? Increasing wealth inequality in the long term is almost a guarantee of a broken democracy because who wants to be less prosperous?

That statement does expect some background in this. Potential resources include the Iron Law of Oligarchy on wikipedia, rules for rulers, or google :)
I have to wonder how many who claim to immediately tell the difference between mp3 and FLAC have instead simply been exposed to horribly encoded mp3s.

Although this is anecdotal, it pings off your own experiences: A friend of mine (and self-described audiophile) recently got into a discussion with a mutual friend regarding mp3, FLAC, and how both of them could tell the format apart simply by listening. I suggested that perhaps the mp3s he had available were simply poorly encoded, and sent him a sample of my library that's a direct rip from a CD (at a modest bitrate of either 192kbps or 256kbps, I can't remember). He then realized that the mp3s he had been comparing against his FLAC copies of the same album were likely YouTube rips from before he bought the album, and that he likely never downloaded the official mp3s when he purchased the FLAC sources. He confided that he had a difficult time determining which was which when comparing the two on more equal footing with the sample I sent.

I still posit that the average person can't tell the difference, even with above average hardware. Exceptionally sensitive hearing outside the normal range of most humans notwithstanding, a decently encoded mp3 (or Opus format for that matter) should hardly be distinguishable from a FLAC, if at all. I suspect that most of those who claim they can hear the difference aren't particularly special--they're just comparing poorly encoded files against a source format.

At any rate, I'm in my mid-thirties, and I know my hearing isn't quite as acute as it was a decade ago. FLACs are more of a novelty for the sake of original sources, because there's no way I could tell the difference between that and mp3s with a good bitrate. With the exception of the Hunt for Red October soundtrack, I've not been able to tell low/moderate (~128kbps) bitrate mp3s apart from high (384kbps) ones AFAIK (the high pitches in the hymn "warble" at lower bitrates--not sure I can detect this now, though).
Still a very common practice, especially in the Philippines. I'm making stats here based on my personal observation, but here's how it goes:
- The lower class (below or near poverty line) would usually have relatives (sisters or mothers) helping them out
- The middle class are more likely to employ help, especially once they start their own families.
- The upper class definitely employ help. The number of employed help is sometimes even bigger than their own family. And they are treated as employees -- complete with uniforms etc. It's pretty common to see them eat out at a restaurant, and not have the help sit at the same table as them.
I see a lot of ads in the highway rest areas against slavery translated in multiple languages. There is hotline phone number on them. Its so easy to report to authorities they even encourage you. Every time i saw them i thought slavery in our day and age??? Now i know better.
What exactly would a mixer with a better ui look like?
The claim may well be manufactured from whole cloth
Have keyboards been banned from the cabin too? If not, cardboard + a physical keyboard would do :)
Reading over the methods the CB in this case is the 'regular' soda and is indeed sweetened. The main result for the rats is that the group given degassed CB gained less weight than the CB with CO2. There is another quote where they look at the reason for the weight gain and argue the following: "The cause of weight increase was probed. Rats, which were given access to RCB or DCB, significantly consumed more food daily, compared to rats which drank water or DgCB (Fig. 2A). This increased food consumption was due to a significant increase in ghrelin levels in the sera of rats on CBs (Fig. 2B). On the other hand, the levels of the satiety hormone, cholecystokinin (CCK), were assessed in these rats as well and the results showed no significant difference among different groups (data not shown)."
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You want to go one further... according to this interview[1], Yuji Naka actually wrote a 3D graphics engine for the Master System! :) It was very low resolution, of course, but...

[1] http://segaretro.org/Interview:_Mark_Cerny_(2006-12-05)_by_S...
I mean very close to a PC...
> there's a sort of Stockholm syndrome going on

Imprinting basically.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8219409
I don't get the fuzz but i have a galaxy s3 with omnirom and usb keyboard and mouse work out of the box. Also bootstrapping debian is easely done. Connect it to a monitor and your good to go.
IIRC from my conversation with their founder, the front-end is still pure js.
the future, once smartphones become a lot more powerful.
Haha, I still remember the rage from when I was forced to install steam to play CS on legit servers :3
I recall having read that it was not yet economical to mass produce memristors, which had to compete against modern transistor chips.

So they went ahead with the unified memory architecture, just without the memristor component.

One could argue that this architecture is future-ready, once memristors become economical to produce
No SQL insert/update plus hard lock-in via egress charges and now incompatible app changes. Work hard to port your app to get there, work/pay hard to get it out.

Technically stunning for sure though.
I'm objecting to your sentence, saying it's objectively false. Whether or not training another human being is ethical or not is another argument (e.g. children).

A dog needs to be taught what is acceptable behavior and what is not acceptable behavior. If you have somebody living with you, they need to be educated on what they can and cannot do. And since dogs and human are pack animals, you need to enforce the idea of a hierarchy where you are above them to ensure obedience.

The fact that you're denying them contact with their families and not paying them is one thing. However, it's a completely different thing from saying that the modification of behavior of humans is wrong, categorically.
You're going to get practice where you search out for it, when you're open to and ready for interacting with other people.

I can go to baseball practice, work on my game, and go home when it's over. Or I can ask if someone wants to stay and go for drinks after. Everyone's got the choice of what they want to do. If I love the game but not the people then I'll maybe hang out with a different group instead, or with my partner.

The point behind eliminating these side-effect interactions is that now you can decide when and with whom to interact, rather than being forced into it when you just wanted to get something else done.
Why aren't Apple or Google doing something like this?
We tried Teams and returned to Slack.

Broken notifications and horrible SharePoint magic behind the scenes. The way Teams is organized confused some of my team.
Interestingly, we also had a lot of problems with Skype for Business.

The dark theme and the way Teams formats while you type was great, though!
Facebook, Github, Pinterest, etc. are listed as Graphcool enterprise customers? Is that true?
> innovation is the true source of value. Nations that are more innovative will ultimately prevail.

Really? Because the upside (spread) for innovation and productivity gains is much higher for developing nations (eg. China) than it is for developed nations (eg. USA). Every tic up in productivity in the US only exacerbates the existing underemployment and declining wage problems the United State already faces. Whereas, innovation and productivity gains in China are reinvested in new Chinese capacity, albeit more horizontally or vertically spread than would have been seen 5 years ago. In sum, you are wrong.
I visited Hong Kong a year ago. It is famous for its night markets, its abundant partying, and the massive financial powerhouses that make their home here. I did all the tourist things, I partied, I explored, it was great.

A couchsurfing host showed me around the city on a tram. She pointed out masses of ladies in plain clothing sitting around on the sidewalks and in streets. It was a Sunday. This was the "maids day", the one day a week when maids are required not to work.

There were thousands of them, all sitting in groups around the streets and buildings that were closed on the weekends. Groups of street vendors dotted the scene. They appeared when the maids did, a sort of "maid economy", where extremely cheap goods and snacks are sold to the maids on their time off. At night they sleep on the street, and are easily victimized.

The maids have no place to live. During the week they sleep on the floor in a closet, or on a cot in the kitchen of a typical Hong Kong home, and work all day and night, 6 days a week. The little money they make they send home to their family. They are mostly Filipino, mostly illegal immigrants, and as such, they have no rights. And because they have no status here, they also can't get a legal job, leaving them with no other choice to make a living.

There are an estimated 200,000 female domestic workers in Hong Kong (336,000 migrant domestic workers overall), and they are effectively slaves. As many as 56,000 migrant domestic workers here endure forced labor. http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/15/news/hong-kong-forced-labor-... As you might imagine, a large number of these maids are victimized by their "host families".

The really scary thing? I would have had absolutely no clue this was going on if my host hadn't pointed it out to me.
No, the poster is talking about influencing municipal policies.

You're not even trying.
> Have some decency and confront your so-called friend.

Sounds like you haven't been in this situation.

You know, there's often a gap between how good we think we are, and how good we are. I feel terrible about it, and the subject comes up now and again of whether we should say something, and my wife and I feel bad.

It's easy to tell people what they should do, I do it all the time as well, even to myself.
Exactly. Wealth disparity results in disparity in political representation, and that is inherently undemocratic.
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My two cents as a sufferer of emotional pain is that if the exposure of a personal emotional wound, raw and without bandage, helps others heal then that is worth it. This is speculation as I have no formal training in mental health nor neuroscience, but it is my anecdotally formed opinion that any person suffering from loneliness is sure to appreciate the palliative effects of the outing of one's personal pain for others to relate to, thereby serving as both a sword by which the personal enemy of loneliness is cut down and a bridge on which to share the same power with others. To me, if one cannot understand this then one does not understand loneliness nor how to dig themselves out of it. Which John may not have.

Brian Reed intimately got to know and was deeply affected by John's story, and it is shameful to me that others without understanding of neither their relationship nor what John went through would think themselves judge and jury on the morality of this production. It is reasonable to question them, but to pass the judgement that Brian Reed is taking advantage of John for his own journalistic advances is to not think very deeply about the podcast in my opinion. Brian likely recognized this relationship between the sharing of loneliness and its cure, and likely conjectured that this is what a healthy version of John would have wanted.
I watched a few years ago a French movie about a Parisian family owning a quasi-slave, a young woman from (IIRC) Africa. The son of the family finally sent an anonymous mail to an organization which had it taken care of. The interesting character was the grandmother who was vehemently supporting her son (the father of the boy who sent an email) until she realized how the slave-girl was treated.

The movie was average but I am mentioning it here because contemporary slavery (or almost slavery) can happen next door, today. Even a an average movie (we call these in French "TV movies) can be eye opening.
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Nonono there is so much wrong here.

Sample size: 20 people. (Okay what? Are you even trying guys? Releasing something about the the human metabolism with a sample size of 20? Shame on you!)
Concluding a weight gain because Ghrelin levels are raised? What? Do you even science?
Ghrelin in the first place only tells your brain to look for more food because it signals an empty stomach.

Studies on Nutrition don't get me started...
While this is true, in most cases, public transportation is funded at an even lower rate by fares / fees and more by general taxes.
> They want good engineers to solve challenging problems.

Serve bits. Suggest movies based on coarse signals. Is there much left?

Netflix is not SpaceX nor Tesla; its an online Blockbuster Video. Serving video in 2017 is not complicated.
Thanks for the advice Nancy Reagan
Not to mention that most of the experiences are team-based. In any medium/large size company, you can end up in a terrible team and your view of the company is very negative. You can end up with a brilliant manager and great team, and you love the company.
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Likewise for me — it's the best general purpose, (very) high-level programming language.

I don't think it's really even playing favorites when it's a competitive language with a very diverse collection of good libraries across applications and domains.
General computer science-y kind of software philosophy question:

Should we really be thinking of sharding as something you can outsource to the infrastructure layer?

It just seems like having a stance about how the data in your specific domain naturally shards is probably going to pay off not even the long run, but immediately in terms of sanity checking your information architecture.

And I wonder if in 2017 we haven't gotten to the point where a cloud application should just shard, because we're trying to think about software as something that runs on a transient instance with access to a subset of data, appearing and reappearing, not a giant box with everything on it.

I get that Google engineers are darn close to abstracting away that "giant box with everything on it" behind an API, but I guess I'm asking if that's really how we should be thinking about our code.
Great read! Many Asian countries have the concept of live-in housekeepers. I think the 'best' (scraping the bottom, here) arrangement is in Singapore, where the government, laws, and law-enforcement ensure that immigrant live-in housekeepers are treated fairly- kinda like au pairs, etc. in the US. I knew someone in India who brought their live-in maid's sister to the US in some capacity (and AFAIK, paid her wages- she returned happier and was able to put her kids, etc. in better schools).

I am pretty sure some of these arrangements, especially in poorer Asian countries like India, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. are effectively, slavery.

In most cases in Asian countries, live-in housekeepers are paid wages and their families are provided with various amenities and help- kinda like a very small-scale version of the servants' lives in Downton Abbey. But, there are at least two very serious problems: 1. cultural norms allow the servants to be treated very poorly- as second-class citizens, 2. while obscure well-meaning laws exist to prevent trafficking in India, law enforcement doesn't care much if they are treated shittily (physical/mental abuse, nonpayment of wages, etc. often go unreported or are ignored by cops).
Python is great for prototyping. I work a lot with spatio-temporal textual datasets (think geo-tagged tweets), and most of the time, I need to verify my idea actually works before working on performance improvement using C++.
Nobody has brought this up: why should we trust proprietary software running on the vendor's server? And more practically, how can we expect this service to be reliable in the future (related: Parse shutdown). I think this is a disturbing trend that more and more things that used to be open and on premises, are moving to the cloud/serverless/microservices hype.
Nice; thanks for the info.
It could be worse. Imagine sitting in an office full of artists and game designers, and a special TV to put music videos on, the whole day.
Is it more monstrous do do a bad thing then lie about it or to do a bad thing and own up to it, including the criticism?

Can we even say firing slackers is bad?
Your description of "several small towns pushed together" basically describes much of northern New Jersey. I used to live there. It was not safe for cycling. The place really was a bunch of small towns, that all ended up growing into one big mass, with little downtown areas with shops, surrounded by residential areas. The problem is that growth was never planned for, so the road system is a mess, and small little 1-lane roads actually serve as the main thoroughfares to get between all these little towns in many places. So there's very few places where it's actually safe to ride a bike if you're trying to actually get anywhere. Riding around a little housing development might be fine, but if you want to go from township A to township B, you're going to be on a very narrow road with a lot of fast-moving cars that are in a big hurry. Worse, cars don't stay in their lanes at all: any time someone is turning left on one of these narrow roads, cars will simply go around them on the shoulder (which AFAICT is perfectly legal there) to avoid waiting and blocking traffic. If you're riding on that shoulder, that's a great way to get hit.
I rarely turn it entirely off, since it takes an annoyingly long time to start back up again, but it stays in silent mode most of the time. I don't use email sync, either, and I leave location services disabled unless I'm about to launch an app for which I think location services would be useful. Basically I want the phone to sit there and do nothing until I decide I want something from it.
"People have been drinking carbonated water for over a hundred years now (maybe even two hundred years actually)."

There are naturally carbonated springs all over the world. I used to drink from one in Guffey, Colorado when I was a kid - it tasted like a glass of water with two alka-seltzer tablets in it. I think Soda Springs, Colorado is named for one.

Perrier comes from one[1].

People have been drinking carbonated water for more than 100-200 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrier
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if you want to compare, i don't see ads when i use free office online or when i use google office.

What i do see is that when i use outlook.com it doesn't pop down telling me to switch to Edge, but when i use Gmail its always telling me to switch to edge.

Have you actually used MS products in comparison to google? didn't think so..