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> As automation replaces low-skill jobs, the wage premium may actually skyrocket for those who are able to get a job.

There was an article recently about automation actually lower the cost.

I had a debate about this with my libertarian friend.

Buddy: "Automation is a great!"

I know he's libertarian I was curious if he would support government program for the job that's being displaced. I'm for automation too.

Me: "So what about the people who are displace?"

Buddy: Well for the job that left over from automation will go up. So if waiters got displace, the rest of the worker who sill wait table will have their wages rises.

I didn't have a response to this because I have no idea if it's true or not. Then on reddit and hacknews there was an article talking about automation will cause wages to go down for the job automation is taken over. As for your comment of either job wages going up or not.

Anyway, it goes on and on until his solution was: family, church, community, and he very very reluctantly states government assistance. Also throughout said talk, he never thought about these people or flesh out a real plan for this.

Your comment reminded me of this conversation.

I'm not entirely sure if you're talking about the people who's getting replace or the other job. Either way unskilled workers still need a skill/trade to even get a job that's not automated.

If we're going to automate away all or most of the low skill job then what happen to these unskilled people?

For the people that are able to land a job, I think it's your speculation, in term of wages will go up.

I think education either college or vocational school or online or whatever is going to help unskilled labor pool. And how are they even going to even do that given that the job pool for unskilled or low skill labors are going away? How do they train for skill while having no money?
> Why does visual programming suck?

It doesn't? Shameless plug, I build a visual programming tool for UI design (https://www.ux-app.com/static/learn-actions-and-events.html).

It's great for a huge subset of people for whom coding is tangential to their job. Product managers, designers etc.

It's not ideal for a programmer because it's not as dense as the textual representation and once you've developed that muscle memory, typing your code is a lot quicker, but increasingly, there are a lot more people coding now who are not career programmers. For these people visual programming is great since it's less intimidating and reduces the possibility of syntax errors.
Check out this video. He has a nice explanation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_SvuUYQ5Fo

Basically, painting/diagram is good for more abstract overview, and text/code is for more specific instructions.
AWS have an image recognition service called Rekognition - https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/
Yes, to be clear, the "social-justice" "narrative" in the film is a relatively hamfisted and shallow one saying segregation is bad. A large portion of the film is a (good) story about the daily lives of black women in the 1950s, which is also by far the most fictionalized, and therefore editorialized, part. I mean, at the end of the day these women were working for an organization that was a mix of propaganda and military-industrial complex. The work they were doing is, within the film, contrasted to political radicalism of the period (much of which in turn we would consider run-of-the-mill today).

"The point" it was trying to make is a straightforward one: NACA/NASA employed a shitload of black women, several of whom offered extraordinary contributions to the USA's space program. As if an ordinary contribution to such a major national myth weren't already noteworthy enough!

To bring it back to Jean Sammet, because this is her thread: To the extent the film is political it's because we've forgotten or hidden the foundational contributions of women to so many aspects of science and technology, and likewise raise a disturbing aura of exceptionalism among those we do remember. Sammet did good work and shared her expertise in the field for many years, or as Booch put in the obit "Jean Sammet was a strong, consistent voice of integrity in [engineering discipline]." Would that any of us be so fortunately remembered!
Yeah, we need more people without history degrees. Or philosophy. I mean, seriously, enlightenment is overrated. How are we going to build a better Facebook if everyone is taking art degrees.
Lots of people don't pay extra for in game items.
I don't mean to attack you, but the thought occurred to me because you're not rigorously engaging those who disagree with you. Multiple people are giving you detailed responses that are well-grounded in history and geographical realities, and you're just coming back with "far-fetched," "self-contradictory," and other content-free dodges. I'd be more convinced of your sincerity if you actually took the time to rebut others in detail.

Edit: dogma1138's post in particular deserved a much better response than you gave. S/he's telling you of a dynamic that's been driving national strategies for literally thousands of years -- access to ports -- and you're acting like it just doesn't matter anymore. Why?
you specifically said "who has tried to alter Wikipedia to support fringe scientists & alt-medicine gurus"

That narrative is from RationalWiki, and is misinformation. This is very clearly detailed on the website.
How Lego clicked: the brand that reinvented itself
I think a lot of people are looking at this as "maybe this article is offering advice" instead, the way I'm looking at it is this is giving us a rough quantification of what we all know intuitively: that college is so expensive it's reaching a natural ceiling.

The way this manifests in reality isn't millions of people all doing a cost/benefit calculus like this and coming to the rational conclusion they can skip college. What happens is that slowly, the meme that "Jim went to college and he doesn't seem better off" seeps into the collective consciousness. More and more people start running into this evidence, and reconsider mortgaging the house (figuratively) to send their kids to college, and the upward pressure on college tuition starts to lessen.

After a while this meme that college is a tradeoff becomes well established, and it becomes common knowledge that you think hard about it before you send your kid to college. The underlying reason is something like "You can make a better return in principle investing in the S&P" but the way it becomes a force in the real world is by a collective bayesian reasoning process we all engage in as a society.
That's not true, it's highly variable. Community colleges are much less expensive, that is true. But depending on the chosen career, a diploma from a community college means lower starting pay than a state university or a private college. Just the way it is.

There are some worthwhile tricks, where you do 2 years at a community college, transfer credits to the state university, and finish a degree there and you get a diploma from the state university.
The problem is that "government" is poorly defined. Local governments, involving and affecting only people that you know personally, and operating with some form of consensus, are generally good. But at any greater scale, governments will likely be co-opted by criminals. Or at least, people with self-serving goals. It's a hard problem, because local governments need somehow to organize for defense.
>If your example actually happened, I think that first, people would ask the person claiming "XAA RAPES CHILDREN" for evidence.

This has happened. A national newspaper (yes, the one involved in phone hacking) began a campaign to name and shame child sex offenders.

A woman's house was attacked. Far from being a paedophile, she was in fact a paediatrician.
Depends on the branch, but considering that about 10-15% of costs of college is actually faculty, and marketing is twice that, then something is going wrong.
Its funny that you are the only mention of default on the entire page.
When the majority of student loans will default.
And its easy to skip them just by emigrating to a better country - of which there are lots.
Sorry my words were not clear, glad someone else clarified for me :)
I went to my state's top public school for <7000/year. It's doable. In addition to a predatory loan system, the US also has a problem of too many kids who can't afford it being suckered to private or out-of-state schools.
Interesting slides. I would like however see how performance relates with costs.
>Even Finland and Norway which border Russia don't care, but Sweden do

Tell it to a random Finn and their eyes will not stop rolling.

Finland has modern reservist army with modern planes, tanks and very sizeable artillery.
>no i'm not. i said condition B is often present in condition A, and that given A, you'd be stupid not to do B.

Are you or are you not saying that if the car appreciates you should use a loan to buy it? That's what I read from this sentence at least:

>if you're expecting an asset like a 918 or 911RS or R to go up in price, you'd be stupid to not leverage your cash at a low interest rate and put the rest of it to work somewhere else

What I'm saying that unless you can get that value appreciation to make the loan cheaper it doesn't matter.

Say you have 200k$ in cash and are considering buying two different cars both costing that amount. One appreciates and after 5 years is worth 300k$, the other depreciates and after 5 years is worth 50k$. Say you also have a bunch of other assets (a house, a boat, etc) that you can use as collateral to borrow the 200k$ at 10% over 5 years. If you take the loan after 5 years you've paid 250k$ for the car, doesn't matter which one. If you don't take the loan you pay 200k$ up front for the car, doesn't matter which one. The decision to take the loan would only be more attractive in the appreciating in value car if you could convince the bank to also use the car as collateral, reducing the risk of the loan, and giving you a lower than 10% rate.
Opinion:

Just like the stock market, college is also an investment. There is risk involved.

One of the main problems is that this is NOT communicated well. (If it all.)

Too many people take on huge long-shot risks that are unlikely to pay off.

Yes, if you get an English degree and become a professional writer selling books and screenplays at $1MM a pop -- that's an awesome and incredible gig. But not many people can get it. The $30k - $150k for that degree is a very risky investment.

On the other hand, spending $30k for a degree in engineering, CS, physics, math, etc... is much less risky. And it's a better investment. However--even in this case--maybe it's not worth the extra $100k for a private college. Maybe Big State U is good enough, and a safer bet with similar outcomes.

When I first went to college, everyone around me said: "it doesn't matter what you major in, just get a degree and you'll be fine." They were wrong. It doesn't work that way anymore (if it ever did).

Communicating this risk/reward tradeoff, and what it means for one's future, is the source of most college-related money problems.

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Personal anecdote: I have a CS degree, but started out in a liberal arts discipline. So those experiences form my opinions.
Fair enough, I'll admit I don't know much about Georgian history, and it's absolutely true that many (most?) large countries have very bloody track records. And you won't hear me defending US oil wars. But Sweden doesn't have to fear the US or UK as they are allies and also neither US nor UK particularly need Sweden as a strategic location. Some people in this thread have provided a number of reasons why Russia could make good use of Sweden in the event of a larger conflict.
So I don't think the Swedes are just playing some internal politics in beefing up their defences.
I wouldn't call $22,000 plus whatever interest you have to pay on those loans "pretty darn close to free". Though yes, it's lower than many other options in the U.S.

I do think California is one of the better places to make this work, though. The community college system really is almost free, and California has mandated that 4-year colleges must structure their degree programs in a way that makes it possible to do in-state transfers from an Associate's degree. Therefore you can do the first two years at a community college (~free) and pay "only" $11,000 to finish the last two years at a CSU.
College is expensive because it has resisted commoditization. You can't get a Stanford diploma from just any school if you know what I'm saying.
> We don't see any of that wrt to this topic.

There are countless studies that get conducted every year by universities, think tanks, NGOs and journalist style organisations on this topic. And these are tabled in parliament, reviewed by ministers and debated in intelligence committees and within cabinet. In Australia for example we have Senate Estimate Hearings which are freely available online for you to watch.

To think that governments are not exploring every avenue in order to protect their citizens is a bit ridiculous.
10,000 New Yorkers. 2 Decades. A Data Trove About ‘Everything.’
Wow, really? The internet is very very broken. I believe in privacy, but I am also a very very big believer in accountability.

Anyways, disabling crypto is super stupid. We all agree on that. Terrorists will just embed crypto in images.

Kay also wants to restrict access to pron but that's her hang up.
where specifically do you see that? It is detailed and mentioned both on Wikipedia itself and the website that the focus was on non controversial biographical information and had nothing to do with the ideas or the theories.
> I don't think it is the paradigm that sucks but the existing implementations...it is a hard design problem to solve. No one has quite figured out the right approach....often the existing implementations make you click and fill out enough fields to make the entire exercise much worse than just coding something up in a text editor.

True. That's why a proper visual programming environment should build on existing text-based environments and offer the same capabilities while adding power. Not disregard all progress, conventions, and achievements and start form scratch offering some unique features, but at the same time taking away stuff that's already been figured out.
If you're really an entrepreneur type, then your discomfort for working for a huge company will never go away.

Leave the squishy free breakfast huge happy company now and don't look back. You were never that googly to begin with, were you? :)

You are young and fresh, go see the world, see what else is out there. Go!
This is obviously nonsense - but I'm not envious of someone who has to stand at a podium and say something that will make voters believe you'll sort this problem. Nigel
Farage just suggested internment camps (on Fox News). That's where we are now.

I don't think May's suggestion has any way of ever working - but her listeners don't understand that. This is populism in its purest form.
Reasons I Started Reading 35 Books per Year (From 5 Books per Year)
Thank you for pointing this out. It's a key point to make that it's kind of a complex issue.

It's obvious to me that cryptography shouldn't and realistically cannot be outlawed. That doesn't make any sense. On the flip side, I think that most people would accept that targeted surveillance of criminal suspects is a reasonable tool.

The thing is, if it becomes the default for all messages to be encrypted end-to-end – obviously a good thing – then this effective tool becomes useless.

I think any proposals to restrict cryptographic software are obviously wrong and doomed to failure, and I will continue using such software regardless of what laws are passed in the UK. But it is a complex issue, and I wish there was some more acknowledgement of how the field of surveillance has changed.
G.M. Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves
Ah, I see. But other than WYSIWYG editing I'm having trouble imagining how a language could be general purpose and could still be visually representative of the output of the program rather than the behavior of the program (much like the visual layout and syntax coloration of modern text languages conveys).

Are there other examples of those cases?

Edit: maybe I was presumptive to assume that they had to be "general purpose". Are we talking about more narrow domain-specific languages here?
The cost of comprehensive/collision coverage has nothing to do with safety. Bodily injury insurance sure, that's lower if the car is safer but comprehensive/collision premiums have nothing to do with safety.
> PTYs are "terminal servers"—they're just sucky ones from a time when a terminal had fewer expected capabilities. But, indeed, you can connect a TTY directly to e.g. a serial modem, and then the person dialling your modem will get a TTY and login(8) will accept(2) on that descriptor and serve them a login prompt.

In a way, but ptys both don't do the "UI state" thing well, and don't do the "server" thing well - you can't really "take over" the controlling side of a pty easily.

> Now it was more like SSH was the terminal server, and screen/tmux was virtual desktops.

In the normal use of SSH+screen (`ssh -t foobaz screen -r`), SSH just tunnels the VT100-over-serial over the network, and provides the needed authentication and routing.
It doesn't suck if your code involves complex flows of relatively simple data. Programs like Reaktor and Max MSP have been hugely successful for this kind of coding in the music world.

If your data structures are more complex and require more convoluted logic, which is more often the case than not, then the benefits of visual programming diminish and the downsides are much more apparent.
I think the competency of most politicians right now is seriously suspect; but then the general population is, to me, sounding increasingly tired of democracy and just wants an autocrat to make all their life choices for them. (Not necessarily a majority of society, but perhaps a significant minority).

The rational response is, more people die from falling off ladders than domestic terrorism. Can we look at this problem seriously in a way that includes the economics, without insisting that people be scared little bunny rabbits? Apparently we're not so inclined toward Vulcan logic, this silly primate species.
What is the safety record of a Bugatti?
2030: "To like Perl, you need to possess a particular kind of BOFH mindset, a fruit of an 80s abused nerd mental subjugation."

2050: "To like Roar and Yavascript, you need to possess a particular kind of startup bro mindset, a fruit of a 10s ZIRP mental subjugation."

Well, Alan Kay already said it better. "Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it's living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from]..."
I did about a month of college before I realized I could make a lot more money jumping right into web dev. Sure I missed out on some things, but I'm doing pretty damn well right now.
Is this using "microcode" in the same sense we'd use it today to refer to e.g. "Intel CPU microcode"?
Because... Sitting in a cubicle doing a job you don't like is a great inspiration to find startup ideas?
From most brokers, margin rates are higher rate than mortgage financing. Etrade, Fidelity, Schwab, Merrill, Scottrade, Ameritrade, Vanguard are all (much) higher than mortgage rates right now.

Some deep discount houses (IB and TradingDirect among likely some others) are lower than mortgage rates.
Since others are posting their favorite FlexBox resource, I'll post my goto link -- The FlexBox playground by Gabi on Codepen:

https://codepen.io/enxaneta/full/adLPwv/

It was the #1 most hearted pen of 2016:

https://codepen.io/2016/popular/pens/10/
It does give the motivation:

"We show that this heterogeneity is spatial in nature. We also show that in the presence of such spatial
heterogeneity, the precision of the individual case study estimates is overstated. By essentially pooling all such local comparisons and allowing for spatial autocorrelation, we address the dual problems of omitted variables bias and bias in the estimated standard errors"
I would assume because retirement fund managers and pensions like constant safe returns on investment, given they have a to have a constant payout, they go for things like debt, especially tasty non-dischargable student loan debt. Debt is a lot easier to predict than investing in companies.
You can't discharge college loans if taken from a federal program. Unlike other ventures where you can pay pennies on the dollar when you bet and lose, such loans are pursued by the full force of the United States.
Does that mean you open people's letters to make sure they don't commit a crime?
At Alabama. What about the other 100 or so FBS schools? Does Alabama make a profit without mandatory athletic fees? What about other schools? Alabama is an outlier and even its numbers are not as good as they make them out to be.
> Just see who the US president is.

Think it is time to update Godwin's Law.
> only Sweden

Patently false. Literally every country along or near Russia's border is concerned about Russia.

> Sweden has become lately very worried about being attacked by Russia. And my point is there's no any possibility of such attack

Sweden is neutral with a capital N, and yet they just reinstated conscription resulting from years of aggressive Russian military exercises along their borders and airspace[1][2], threats against neighboring countries[3] not to mention overt and well publicized Russian military action against sovereign nation along its border.

Frankly, your bias is palpable and I doubt this discussion will lead anywhere constructive.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/world/europe/sweden-draft...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1213...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/646064c8-d07a-11e4-a840-00144feab...
> I have to say I haven't profiled Postgres to that level of granularity, so I am making an assumption about why my updates are slow. What I notice is relatively slow UPDATE performance, with high total disk writes and a write-ahead-log that seems to be large.

Hm, that could be quite independent things. Could you check what your checkpoint_segments (< 9.5)/max_wal_size & checkpoint_timeout settings are? Having very frequent checkpoints will trigger a lot of superfluous writes; both the checkpointing itself and increased percentage of full page writes (to prevent torn pages).

When you say your write-ahead-log is large, do you mean the pg_xlog directory, or the amount of writes to it?

Another common reason for slowness can be foreign keys, if you've not indexed both sides of it. E.g. if there's a foreign key referencing the table you're updating, and the referencing columns aren't indexed, you'll end up with seqscans...

> Do you have a favored resource that you can direct me to that would help me identify the factors that you cited and ultimately allow me to make more nuanced criticisms (or to find a fixable error in my approach, which would of course be the ideal result)?

I'd strongly suggest enabling log_checkpoints - that'll log information about every checkpoint, allowing at least some diagnosis.

Another useful thing would be to run pg_xlogdump --stats, that'd give you information about what takes up space in your WAL.

I'd also look at EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) one_of_your_updates; - that'll tell you a bit more about the timing, including trigger runtime.

Edit: brevity
I wonder if that was because in the very early (punch card) days it was not uncommon for women to be employed as "coders" literally typists who would transcribe code onto cards from written code sheets prepared by programmers.

It would be natural for many of them to learn how to program from reading so much code.