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> Until unions can once again demonstrate openly and conclusively that their primary concern is the welfare of the worker rather than just being another power player jockeying to get their share of the pie, scrapping them would be a very good idea.

As I said, their presence is an inhibitor to regressions in employee rights. If you scrap them, the inhibition is removed, so you'd have to replace it with stronger employee protections in the form of regulations if you wanted to keep the status quo for rights.

That's a bell that can't be easily unrung. I would think carefully about whether we want to introduce government-mandated rules into each industry about what is appropriate, as opposed to having the efficiency of self-regulation and negotiations.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was true, particularly given Google's incredibly close relationship and revolving door with the government. I haven't read The Silicon Jungle, but I might have to do that now.
> And finally, from a user perspective, this doesn't go far enough. Many users will install ad blockers to get rid of the ads on YouTube alone and there are a ton of other unacceptable ad formats that the "Better Ads Standards" don't cover (like animated ads, small sticky ads, ads that look like download buttons).

There were many years when adblockers were readily available but not extremely widespread. The typical user has to hit a fairly high irritation threshold before seeking a technical solution to this kind of thing; I think the rise of adblockers is a direct response to ads getting catastrophically worse. If that can be dialed back a bit and stop the race to the bottom, it may help at least a bit.
Unions are a necessary evil in my opinion. Haven't had a positive experience with them in my own life[1], but life without unions has been done (a lot), and it sucks.

[1] The first of these was telling the team I was on that because we were part-timers, we wouldn't get union resources allocated to resolve an issue we had. Funny that, we didn't pay 'part-time' dues, and our work was still just as necessary to putting food in our bellies.
Who is talking about ultimate truths? Science is about doing observations and trying to figure out what models explain the observations best, not finding some mystical ultimate truth.
This is what I cannot understand about Go: how did a newly-designed programming language end up as such a muddle?
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I guess we'll find out if Internet content disappears because of a lack of "Gotcha!" advertising.

My guess is that the Internet will be just fine.
Deploying a custom real-time service to Kubernetes
Me too! I thought I had it beat and then it through me a square:
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They made that story into an episode of Outer Limits (the less-good reboot).
The teachers unions keeps terrible teachers employed. In California some school districts have pulled teachers from classrooms because they are unfit to teach, but they can't fire them because of union rules. They are literally paid to do nothing [1]. Many of the teachers I've talked to hate the union, but it's a very strong union and not much can be done about it.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/06/local/me-teachers6
This is an article as to why Longhorn failed. If you want to know why Vista failed, here's two big reasons:

1. In Vista, there was a completely new Antivirus framework that AV vendors had to use in order to support Vista. Good idea in theory, but because it was brand new (and because vendors had to write brand new code to support it), it had a fuckton of problems, mostly contributing to an enormous performance degradation compared to XP. Like, horrendous. And since every laptop you could buy in the store had 3rd party AV because that's how OEMs make $$, whoops every laptop is absolute garbage out of the box.

2. Windows Vista completely rewrote the USB stack, an extremely complicated, timing-sensitive component (like, add a printf, break a device kind of sensitive), and about 80% of the way through, the lead architect who planned the rewrite left the company. Meanwhile, there were a _ton_ of devices which weren't actually correct wrt the USB spec, but just happened to work with the timings that WinXP solely by accident would exhibit. A friend of mine made a lot of money in bonuses by slogging through bug after bug in the USB stack trying to make it right for Vista SP1.

It's funny, because Vista shipped a ton of great features, that then got attributed to Win7 - it really set the foundation for the modern Windows OS until Win10 came out.

So, if you learn anything from the story of Windows Vista, it's this: Performance is not a Feature, but it sure can make all of your other features not matter at all
At some point the majority of workers voted to organize. After that, anyone working there has made the choice to work a unionized job. I don't think it is fair to allow a single jobseeker to break the structure of a union this way. Why not consider asking these individuals to choose to work a different job if they object to paying union dues?

In general, there's an information asymmetry between workers and employers that collective bargaining presumably helps alleviate (especially in the private sector), and union advocates would say that the value of this outweighs the drawbacks of unions. That's the right question to be debating rather than the fairness of closed shops.
I get an even bigger laugh imagining the same sentence being used in an article about a different industry. Imagine "A nurses' strike today was averted when management agreed to install a rollercoaster and free frozen yoghurt machines"...
I'm only using a blocker, because I don't want to be tracked and sucked dry of any data. I wouldn't mind some ads on the pages I visit.
Exactly, I thought the very same thing. In fact, I read it with a critical eye at first and as I got through I was quite pleased. I thought it was really cool to mention the 8b/10b encoding near the end. yes, well done indeed!
At least there's new versions of Chrome and it has automatic updates. The real bear with IE6 wasn't the state of the tech when it was released, it was that enterprises were stuck with it for ages.
Miners can't change the issuance schedule. They can only delete blocks and form new ones with valid* transactions, and only if they collude, and are okay with destroying the value of their capital assets.

* transactions where the private key associated with a public key holding value authorizes an outgoing transfer of value.
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Are you suggesting we rebuild our bridges with code?
You could say the same about many other public institutions. To demonstrate:

The media seems more interested in sensationalist irrelevant news than informing the public (it pays better).

Until the media can once again demonstrate openly and conclusively that their primary concern is informing the public rather than just being another power player jockeying to get their share of the pie, scrapping them would be a very good idea.
That's unscientific. The best explanation (imo) of what I mean: https://youtu.be/ztmvtKLuR7I
This[1] seems to be a better overview

In short, right now only two investment firms are allowed to purchase homes using the instant feature. So basically a giant corporation buying up homes for cheap. Sux

[1] https://www.inman.com/2017/05/26/everything-you-need-to-know...
Are you aware of how the Open Handset Alliance works? It's a 'partnership' where Google decides if you get to be in it, you have to sign a contract with Google, and Google can threaten to kick you out.

Suffice to say, Google claiming to listen to industry standard agencies Google was part of founding doesn't mean much to me.
Neat. I see a lot of mention of Twitter but the first thing I thought of was packet compression. A ~50 byte packet shaves off around 20 bytes with this. Those are good savings although I haven't looked into the encoder / decoder enough to know if it's worth the tradeoff of having to translate every packet on both ends. I can also see UDP datagrams being a pain in the ass to work with when you're throwing around streams of Unicode characters.

Overall though, I like it and look forward to Base131072 being possible!
People still publish sites for the love of it. That never changed. Not every site has ads.
Comments like this annoy me. A few decades ago unions were powerful forces for worker rights, and served a major purpose by allowing collective bargaining.

Nowadays we have "right to work" laws being sponsored by companies and people somehow think it's "wrong" to join unions and bargain collectively.

When I see posts like this, I shake my head and wonder where we went wrong.
Low interest rates also inflate stocks. When you can't earn much with cash sitting in the bank you switch to something with more return.

And last I checked the average Joe doesn't have enough savings to put into stocks.
The article mentions a few of the pitfalls of backtesting, but it does not mention one of the best tools at your disposal in backtesting: Walk Forward Optimization/Analysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_forward_optimization

See also: "The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies" by Robert Pardo
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If you don't like it then vote with your feet.
Huh. Palo Alto is closing on 50% renewable energy for the entire city, not to mention the large % of electric cars.
> The neocortex stores these patterns primarily by forming new synapses.

We don't know that. We have no plausible theory and no working model for biological memory storage.

This whole article is jumping the gun. Before emulating the neocortex we'd need an understanding of how it works and we don't have one.
I don't think you can have ads without tracking these days.
For most systems the bar for meaningful contribution is too high - the average trucker who has trained to code cannot participate in automating transportation, for instance.
>Poor people are massively more likely to benefit from low interest rates than to be hurt by it.

We're talking about homes here right? Take a look at major cities across the country, poor people aren't buying homes — developers are, and they're renting them to the poor.

The type of interest the poor are paying is on credit cards, cars, and payday loans. The poor often don't even have bank accounts.
My consulting practice became ramen profitable after 2 weeks.
search isn't working for me - all of the links are broken :-(
What's the response when a competitor (rightfully IMO) claims this is a blatant abuse of googles position as the leading browser provider?
True.

Hey, you haven't been doing any home deliveries lately, is everything ok? Oh, well we have to reduce your shifts next week.
>Our discovery is that every region of the neocortex learns 3D models of objects much like a CAD program.
Citation needed. If this was the case, certainly we'd have some experiments that show this? Especially since every part of the neocortex is supposed to be doing it.

Now if we can make artificial neural networks that work with 3D data, learning such things as 3D data to value, 3D data to 3D data mappings that would be damn useful. IE, estimating how much it would cost to make something from a CAD model or how aerodynamic a thing is without running costly CFD.

I'd also argue that we don't need 'truly intelligent machines' to "build structures, mine resources, and independently solve complex problems"

Ants and termites are capable of doing similar tasks and I'm doubtful the author considers them 'truly intelligent'.

>it should be possible to design intelligent machines that sense and act at the molecular scale.
>These machines would think about protein folding and gene expression in the same way you and I think about computers and staplers.
>They could think and act a million times as fast as a human.
So if the author means in simulated environments, we are quite slow at simulating molecules. For molecular simulation, we need something like femtosecond(10^-15 s) time steps whereas each time step is on the order of milliseconds. We are trillions of times slower than realtime. This is for completely classical systems, if we take into account quantum effects, it's much longer. Oh and our simulation methods for such things are terrible. Intelligence would help here, but it's not going to be millions of times faster than a human.

Now if they mean videoing what's happening with a microscope and learning from that, well the problem is we don't have a perfect microscope for seeing such things at the nanoscale. So in order to figure out what's going on we have to get creative and make tests for each thing we're trying to analyze.

Now if the author means nanorobots inside cells doing learning and what not, just having such machines would be useful in and of itself. Heck if we could make such things, we wouldn't need to worry about problems such as gene expression or protein folding because we'd be able to make our own damn proteins or our own damn cells for that matter. Even with drexlerian tech doing this sort of machine learning at this scale is pretty ridiculous. Current nanobot designs require something on the order of kilobytes of memory[1]. In addition, gene expression, protein synthesis and folding are slow processes. Average protein synthesis time for eukaryotes is 2 minutes[1](eons as far as simulating these things is concerned!). So getting this data can't happen much faster than a human can think.

[0]http://people.umass.edu/bioch623/623/Second.Section/7.%20CoT...
[1]http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/Microbivores.htm
Are the ads really that awful, or just in an area where google isn't winning already?
Thanks! Do feel free to ask if you think of something :)
Buy bitcoin, put in mixer, use it to pay for accounts from your "legitimate" SaaS product.
I don't understand why collective bargain is expected on the employer side and reviled on the employee side. If employers can band together to form a company and present a unified front to the people they pay, why can't the people they pay band together to form a union and also present a unified front?

Why do we trash the very concept of unions because bad ones want to tax robots and such, but don't apply the same standard to companies, when so many of them kill people and poison the planet? If unions are bad because the Teamsters abuse their power, what do entities like Koch Industries, Mylan, or BP tell us about companies?
I am aware that all of this is possible in C++ as well and for many things C++ might be the better choice (more standardized compiler hints instead of using pragmas, generics and templates etc.).

What I meant is that C++ does not add anything for me personally.

POD-structures are all I need and the way I fetch/store the data may require the struct layout to be interleaved or non-interleaved (depending on the platform / architecture I am targeting for a specific build) requiring different code to be generated to access them.

I do not need to disable name mangling or add 'extern "C"' everywhere (I still do in case the code will be used from C++) when I just use plain C.

I like the many new features added to C++ like concepts, lambdas etc. but for these I prefer to use Nim (they just added complete concept support as well).
and they got there by cramming it in everyones faces with their search monopoly.

Totally different than bundling it with the OS.

Except wait, they do that too.
People not having food or water sounds more like a political problem than a problem that can be solved with code.
Great, thanks a ton
yeah man code is magic everyone should learn how to code
It's not blank, it's just that there are no cells to turn yellow.

These panels are fairly small rectangles clipped out of a larger plane, so it could be that there are filled cells elsewhere that don't show up here.

However, if you think about how the number 512 looks in binary (2#1000000000) you can see why the rule would make for a lot of blankness. Only one bit is set, and that bit corresponds to a pattern that doesn't occur in the initial conditions used by this page, which has only one cell filled in. If you ran this rule with different initial conditions, you would get a different image.

Also note that you're looking at rules which are powers of two, not just multiples of 512. (For example, rule 1532 is not entirely blank).
If you remember this tech, read this next line:

When you make an account at https://www.houndify.com/ the first thing you see is a microphone-enabled textbox you can type or talk into and play with.

--

A couple things for SoundHound to consider adding to the to-implement list:

A) "What is the temperature in the south-right-most delineation of the country north of me": "Didn't get that!"

B) "When will it next be 25C": "Didn't get that"

(I was trying to match the complexity of the voice demo... sorry)

C):

Me: "What is the temperature in celcius":

SH: Got it right

Me: "What about in fahrenheit"

SH: Got it right (I checked)

Me: "What about the town 15km northeast"

SH: "It is 76 °F in Borgou Department, Benin."

Me: ...WAT. I'm in [the suburbs of] Sydney, Australia. :P

That's mildly scary. :P
Implying that fundamental lack of respect for her as a human being whose opinions are equally important as her husband's in determining their lifestyle is grounds for divorce as it tends to cause all kinds of very serious problems.
> the lead architect who planned the rewrite left the company.

This alone explains a lot.
Any metric can be gamed. It only works until people figure out how.
It's kind of admirable they aren't even trying to hide that they are cut out, says it right in the first paragraph.

"Realtors will lose millions in commission" is point #2. As if anyone other than Realtors would see that as a bad thing
Not IE: not bundled, not integrated, easily uninstalled. If people don't like this move, there are a myriad of other browsers available for them to choose from.
The end game is collapse. To be more specific, a return to less intensive, lower overhead, and more efficient ways to support our needs. Like, currently, Americans worried about not getting taken care of in their old age do something like "create advertisements that convince people to spend their money differently for forty years, siphon off 5-10% of that, invest it in a complex hierarchy of financial instruments that nets out into debt of some sort, and finally cash those promises of real goods and services into actual healthcare/housing/living expenses".

5 generations or so ago, the plan was something like "have a bunch of children and set them up for success as best you can."

Anyhow, there's a lot of safety factor in terms of optional rent-seeking behavior. Hospital prices and care levels can be dropped from "optimized to loot savings of middle-aged families" to something more in line with the real costs of having X doctors per hundred thousand citizens. We can let the McMansions rot. We can stop squandering our resources on stuff that really doesn't matter.
About 15 percent of residential sales in the US are managed without a realtor. A homeowner is perfectly free to sell a house without one (such listings are generally referred to as FSBO, for sale by owner). A FSBO doesn't get access to MLS listings or any other promotional effort a realtor might provide, but also they don't pay any commission.

So Zillow is free to act as an intermediary on whatever terms are acceptable to the parties involved. On the other hand, Zillow's ability to act as an intermediary is greatly enhanced by access to MLS data. So if the NAR pulled Zillow's access to the MLS, a buyer would have a much harder time searching for houses to buy without a realtor.
None of this solves the fundamental problem with ad-centered revenue models, which is that advertising has driven down the quality of content by forcing sites to optimize for cheap clicks. Even if you're blocking ads, you're still being affected by them, because they're driving the strategies of the sites you visit and defining the metrics by which they judge their own success.

Don't get me wrong; this is an improvement, and a welcome one in my opinion. Pre-stitials in particular were never anything more than a slimy way to get around pop-up blockers. But ultimately the internet needs a new way to make money. I don't claim to know what that is, unfortunately, but I think the problem is clear.
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I think a union is something you earn - not something foisted upon you. If you dont want workers to join a union, treat them well, pay them significantly above market rates, give good benefits.
The comparison here is, as usual, to go down a dimension. Imagine living in a world where everything is constant vertically, like those old 3D maze screen savers or Wolfenstein 3D. You're really seeing a 1D amount of information about a 2D world (in fact, this is how the calculation is for Wolf3D and other games of its era). You can infer depths to objects if you have two eyes.

Now contrast that to if you were plucked up vertically 'above' the game's level to look down upon it. Now you can see the entire 2D extent of the maze at once. Before, your vision was blocked by the walls, now you see the walls and what's on the other side of the walls simultaneously in a way that's entirely distinct from simply seeing through a transparent object.

Now, like seeing a 1D amount of information about a 2D maze while live inside it, we see a 2D amount of information about a 3D world around us (a picture demonstrate's this 2D amount of information - it's planar). Now imagine being lifted out the 3D plane of existence so that you could behold the entirety of the 3D world at once. That's the rough analogy.
> she’s not an idiot

> a biodynamic farming course at Rudolf Steiner College inspired her

It's either one, or the other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodynamic_agriculture
Collective bargaining is never mandatory on the employee side. The employee is not forced to work for a particular collective. The employer on the otherhand is forced, by law, to only hire people who are part of some government-recognized collective, known as a bargaining unit.

In other words, employees can monopolize the employer's hiring options, using anti-free-market laws inspired by the 'labour' movement and socialism.
A myriad? Really?
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What is Android or Chrome OS?