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> On the other hand, the minimum wage definitely benefits middle class teenagers on their first jobs (if they can get a job), and has questionable benefit for millennial humanities college grads who have yet to start a career.

This is the problem. Everyone working 40 hours per week deserves a living wage, whether they're fresh out of high school or 8 years into a humanities degree. There's this weird sense out there that working in food service isn't a "real job," or as you say they haven't started their "career." This is how you end up with people working 60 or 80 hour work weeks, or two or three jobs, to provide for themselves and their family. Every 40 hour job is a "real job" and deserves a living wage. Otherwise you're just making people depend on our social safety net, and no one wants that.
Yep, typo!
Hey, please file an issue on github: https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTCP/issues

You may be running a distro that doesn't have libsodium (such as ubuntu 14). In this case you have to grab libsodium manually and build et from source.
What a relief.
Did CIDR even exist in the 1980s, let alone NAT? (They are basically now selling off half of their "Class A" block now to AWS)
I just paid the higher prices on Amazon for the Nintendo Classic, no fuss. That's Economics 101: if there's more demand than supply, the price is too low.
Too perfect. This needs to be a thing.
Is this open to companies as well? We do consulting have several software engineers, I'd love to be able to list them for availability.
Correct.
I think as part of being grateful for his willingness to exchange seats, I humored him for an hour or so, before starting to cut my losses.
If nobody is allowed to offer him work below a particular rate and nobody is willing to pay him at or above that rate, then he's effectively forbidden from working.
I am going to chime in and really suggest they hire a qualified legal professional - if they intend to share this application. A simple disclaimer may not be adequate.

Edit: Typo.
Quote from study: "as shown in Table 2, in Washington State as a whole, single-site businesses comprise 89% of firms and employ 62% of the entire workforce (which includes 2.7 million employees in an average quarter)" [2].
The trouble is for $15 per hour the business can probably hire someone more productive or less hassle than the homeless guy. Thus the homeless guy stays unemployed.

I was always a put off minimum wage laws by reading Thomas Sowell on how blacks had lower unemployment than whites in 1948 before minimum wage laws had much effect. After people hired non blacks and the unemployment rate shot up giving problems that continue to this day. ( eg http://www.twincities.com/2012/02/07/thomas-sowell-the-minim...)
It really boggles my mind that they did this... performance is absolutely critical for emulation.

This is like using Javascript to run a car.
Are Wine and LibreOffice missing the mark by so much that you'd have an entire operating system for an office suite?

I know those who heavily use Excel have good reason to use it over alternatives, but I would thick for home users, that'd be rare and that Wine could suffice.
Per Wikipedia, "Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization. Founded on 23 September 1889...."

I think they're doing okay running a business.
>Do you focus on one topic/book/course/project/article at a time, or split your time between multiple things?

For me, I deliberately split across multiple topics/books because my brain has different thresholds of concentration depending on time of day. The early mornings are best for more challenging subjects (e.g. math, deep learning algorithms, etc). At night, it's easier to read softer topics like history and politics. I think it's important to pay attention to your brain's energy levels and when/how it gets distracted. With that knowledge, you optimize your learning schedule around that.

>- Do you use any tools to track your resources, todos, notes, or goals?

Since learning time is finite, I think it's a important to put together a little curriculum of all the topics you want to learn. Prioritize them.

>Are there any pain points you have while learning

Another piece of advice that nobody ever seems to emphasize (but I wish I had known early in life) is that there are topics that will be a waste of time to learn. In my case, I regret I spent hours on PowerBuilder, IBM DB2, and DOS batch scripting with VBScript. It doesn't mean those skills are bad for others but a little research would have made me realize there were other more important skills to spend precious hours on. (Time spent learning X is time not spent on learning Y.) The tldr is that people will often evangelize things for you to learn that you really don't need to learn. They have good intentions with their advice but they don't know the complete picture of your life's goals.
For reasons not clear to me, the following statement is political suicide: "We tried something we believed would help low-income workers based on the best information we had at the time. The results have not met our expectations, so we will reassess whether it's a net benefit in our unique city or if we should suspend it and look at other proposals to help low-income workers instead."
The crux of the issue is at the end of the day, the true "market value" of most 0 or near 0 skill jobs is close to 0$. This is especially true in the case of your hypothetical homeless person for whom any employment represents a significant percentage marginal increase in income (hard not to beat 0). Given the power asymmetry between "people offering low skill jobs" and "people forced into taking low skill jobs" minimum wage is morally superior than forced feudalism.

Now, the US (and most governments) miss out on the other side of the in that, we want to force people out of low skill effectively worthless jobs, and into higher skill positions that drive the economy. That means reeducation programs, community involvement, and a social safety net which all costs tax money.
I paid like $140 on Amazon for the Nintendo Classic. MSRP is just a made-up number - the true price of anything is where supply and demand reach equilibrium.
It's more like trying to save a sinking ship by telling the crew on the ship they can only use high-quality licensed ship repair equipment, instead patching the holes with whatever they can improvise.

Yes, it would be better if they used high quality hull repair equipment, but sometimes it's not available and insisting that's the only thing you're allowed to use while the ship is sinking and people are struggling to survive is not helpful at all.
It absolutely is a problem with the minimum wage. Chances are a homeless person's marginal productivity is less than $15/hour. Why would an employer hire someone that's going to be a net loss on their bottom line?

Sadly this is not just a consequence for the homeless but it impacts all those who are low skilled, which is disproportionally the young and minorities.
> Homebrew crypto written by 4chan.

Where did you get that from? Tox uses libsodium. [0]

[0] https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/blob/master/docs/updat...
I'll have to buy two, then hope I can trade it for a Classic since I've missed out on that one. I really wanted the Classic but the Super Nintendo is great anyway as well.
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Ok, valid argument: telegram servers DO receive and store plaintext version of every conversation done (except private chats), while, as a reference, whatsapp don't do this, applying end-to-end encryption by default.
So, basically, hack telegram servers -> you have all the convos. Bribe some employers, locate and grab their servers -> see above.
Also, how would you know they're not connected with some 3-letter agency already?
Nintendo needs to be clear on whether this product will actually be produced in enough quantities to reach customers, or whether it will be an extremely limited special product like the NES Classic.

I was able to get an NES Classic because I lined up a half hour before a store opened the first day and got in on the initial shipment. I never saw it in stores after.

Unless Nintendo is clear that things are going to be different this time, considering the popularity of the NES Classic, people are going to be lining up over night to try to get this SNES Classic.
Yes, that is voluntary. It stops being voluntary when you make it a long term contract.
MIT just sold off half of its class A subnet.

MIT was always going to be the last place on earth to go total IPv6
That metric of success will never be achieved if you don't win the heart and minds of "regular folks" and remember, to "make" a phone, router, TV or fridge you first need to plug your keyboard somewhere.

Don't try to conquer ARM doing what ARM has done, time doesn't go back and the small world of embed big wigs will ignore you.
If it wasn't React it would be [insert any other framework here]. React isn't the cause - bad developer practice is. As you said - a text box is laggy due to how horrific the code base is.

That's not something that is going to be fixed by changing library.
Can I get you to briefly outline why you don't believe in raising the minimum wage?

I can't say that I agree with you, but you're generally a thoughtful guy and I would appreciate getting another perspective on the issue.

(Also, curious: is the word "national" operative there -- eg, do your beliefs differ between a national minimum wage and a local one like the Seattle measure?)
Thanks for clearing that up! I wasn't trying to insinuate that they were cherry-picking data. But doing a study on the Seattle labour market and excluding these major companies completely seems to be overdoing it.
"We have gotten pretty good at getting DNA from dried samples (for example herbarium sheets)."

Best DNA comes from before about 500 years of age. After that, degradation is pretty bad, and while we can get an idea of what it once was, we cannot currently perfectly reproduce it.
I think your assumption (1) is incorrect. Quote from article: "They've cut their payrolls, putting off new hiring, reducing hours or letting their workers go, the study found."
You nailed it! Students love that they can just spin up a whole new web server, no questions asked. I certainly won't be where I am on sysadmin-type skills without the kind of tinkering that the un-NAT'd network affords.
> raised the minimum wage from $9.47 to $11 per hour in 2015 and to $13 per hour in 2016.

> we conclude that the second wage increase to $13 reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs [...] while hourly wages in such jobs increased by around 3 percent.

Sounds like some pretty intense statistical manipulation. The second wage increase was ~18% ($2/$11) not 3%. So they've fished for a larger pool that only had a 3% increase in wage and arbitrarily designated these as "low-wage jobs". Also very conveniently they've chosen to highlight only the second wage increase; it sounds like no data massaging could make the first one look bad. If they were honestly aiming at statistical significance the best approach was of course to bundle the two increases together. An overall 37% change in minimum wage should have much clearer effects than its individual halves.
Looks like Amazon thinks their pricing page / calculator needs help: https://jobfinder.amazon.com/job/504836
You forgot to put in the link. I am guessing this is the link:

https://moz.com/blog/mozs-18-million-venture-financing-our-s...
and using your model/analogy, everyone at the company must "be on the same culture page" with company at every stage? In the life model with which this is supposed to correlate for illustrative purposes, teens and tweens have parents and other facilitators, role models, coaches and guides on their team is all I'm saying. Adults have friends, maybe kids, maybe nieces and grand kids and friends of all ages, one hopes. Here are some big tech innovators whose later business derived benefit from their own mixed age/ability education in Montessori School. Just saying. http://www.businessinsider.com/tech-innovators-who-went-to-m...
Yes, it's much better to prevent any employment opportunity for that person.

Situation A: I can choose between no employment (bad), and exploitative employment (slightly less bad).

Situation B: With the benevolent intention of a minimum wage legislated into existence, I can "choose" no employment (same bad as before).

You don't make someone worse off by increasing the number of options.

You don't make people better off by arguing for the goodness of an intention.

Measure results of your policies. Keep in mind foundational economic principles. Do good.

Ninja edit for pedants: adding additional options to a baseline set of options. "Live peacefully -> (join my army | die)" is a greater number of choices, but I don't have the option of sticking with "live peacefully". I hope this helps clarify my sentence above.
That's what I meant yes. Of course if it's applied onlx on routes where utilization is low a priori, my argument doesn't apply.
Its interesting that none of the "welfare state" economies of Scandinavia have minimum wage laws. Instead they allow collective bargaining by unions.
Except for the DS line. I never had trouble finding any of the non-special editions anywhere. If you want a Zelda or Pokemon one though (that isn't a 2DS, the 2DS that shipped with X/Y preinstalled was incredibly common) you are going to have a bad time.
"This plant will never procreate without explicit human effort."

You'd say that but then there's a SINGLE species of lizard in Australia which depending upon where on the mountain it grew up it either creates eggs or bears live young.

You think you know genetics but things like that prove very much that we have ZERO clue.
> When Europe finally caught up (and to this day, in the year 2017 there are still businesses that don't have credit card infrastructure set up - meanwhile even mobile food trucks in the US offer it), Americans had already built out the infrastructure and found out about the hard issues - which gave Europeans time to implement a better solution, which was chip + pin.

It was a US based in the beginning - but by the time Chip + PIN started there was significant infrastructure already in place. Its not like we all just started to use cards in 2005

> But all that aside, the real question is, why are you still using a physical credit card? In the US, I can use Apple/Google Pay at nearly every business I find, and all of the large banks and most regional and smaller firms offer support for their products on the platform.

Sure - that is down to market forces, not banking tech. There are banks here where I can use both Apple / Android pay, and all merchants take it (by virtue of our advanced usage of contactless payments - another thing that was introduced before the US).

What other areas is the US more advanced in (bank tech wise) ? We have online only banks, push notifications for transactions, and all the other things I see advertised by US banks.
1. is painfully true. Movies and music cost money to make, and that money is recouped by sales. We can talk about profiteering and Hollywood accounting and the like, but fundamentally sales still fuel production.

Academic work also costs money, but journals have tricked someone else into paying for it. Research gets done on government, corporate, and university budgets, submitters get no compensation, and reviewers do the hard work behind publication for free. Journals have been priced far above costs for decades, but with the advent of online distribution costs have sunk even further while prices continue to rise.

The best (moral) argument against piracy was always "if everyone does this, we won't get more media". That's not even true in the case of journals: it looks an awful lot like the system would find a way to work even at 100% piracy rates.
Hmm. I've tried using them multiple times, but have ended up ditching them for one reason or another. There always seems to be one thing that makes it easier to just implement one via a regular akka actor or a regular scala class.
People really need to be more frugal.
> Otherwise you're just making people depend on our social safety net, and no one wants that.

I suppose the homeless and chronically unemployed people you've condemned do not usually use public assistance? I disagree with this, and regardless, it doesn't sound like a good solution for them.

There are a lot of cheap places out there (see: Midwest, South), but unfortunately, millennials do not want to live there. I would rather let economics sort it out instead of creating a vicious local inflation cycle that prices out local minorities and increases the homeless population via minimum wage.
What Germany does have is a better social safety net so such minimums are not required to pay for basic needs.

A minimum wage worker in the US is likely working 2-3 such jobs to cover food, rent, and other such necessities.
1. That's not a "loophole", it's a deliberate feature of tax law.

2. Changing that would not do anything to solve this problem (even if you think it should be solved through more government spending, it wouldn't raise much money)
Of course, the last time I did that I ended up between two people who did not want to move, yet still wanted to talk to each other the entire flight with me in the middle.
The 68000 did well and was popular (in Macs, Amigas, NeXT / Sun boxes, etc) as long as ISA mattered. When it faded away, x86 was C-based and 32-bit which mitigated its weaknesses.

Yes, MS software was terrible, but this had little to do with x86 after the 32 bit transition.
What do you mean when you say that the brain is a glorified linear regression?
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> within 4 hours

It's usually quoted as hours, but in practice is often 'instant.' More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_Payments_Service

US is archaic in many ways too: the necessity for paper checks in many situations (and still having to pay for them in many banks), no contactless payment cards, the aforementioned dire signature/chip situation... It's certainly anything but at the 'forefront of digital technology.' Not to mention fees. Fees everywhere! The effort it takes to avoid meaningless 'gotcha' fees is just insane -- and must surely stifle innovation too, in creating friction against change.
Sure, but I'm just pointing out an example where MIT students get to be actors as well as playwrights, whereas now one must follow the prescribed lines and mustn't be too naughty.
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Cool stuff, I had a really similar idea. I was going to call it bat signal but your branding is probably better for legal reasons.
Not feasible, really, unless you've got a frozen sample. Any other preserved DNA is heavily degraded due to heat and other factors like nucleotide half life.
MIT is run by corporate shills now driven by profits, and IS&T is just another bureaucracy with its own interests to justify existence.
Well, there is - but consumers prefer free + ads to micro-payments or subscriptions. Granted there has been pushback recently but that's usually due to gross abuse of ads.

The only realistic way that I see forward are the ad networks (and this includes Google) setting lower maximum payload sizes for ads. Obviously sites can push back on quality and size but it's a hard metric to track consistently given how ad networks serve things.
> When a person is desperate, 'voluntary' starts to lose all meaning

An honest assessment of the tradeoff is that we eliminated cheap labour OP's homeless person might have done to remove pricing pressure from the restaurant worker. That is, the homeless person might have done Task A at $2/hour and the restaurant worker Task B at $6/hour. By setting the minimum wage at $7/hour, the restaurant worker gets a bump and the rock-carrying job is eliminated.

Without the minimum wage, someone hiring for Task B could threaten the restaurant worker with unemployment under the bogeyman of the homeless person taking their job at $5/hour. The bogeyman is not real. The homeless person, we assume here, could not be trained to do Task B. But expecting the restaurant worker to know that, and negotiate competently on it, is not a responsibility we ask workers to bear, and with good reason.

TL; DR people doing Task B vote while people who could do Task A don't, or at least not in an organized, politically-coherent fashion.
Regarding the master key part, it probably makes sense. May be this is the reason why IE does not have extensions.

But browser vendors like Google, Mozilla and Opera know this even before I came to know what privacy on web is.

Chrome extensions served from it's web store are analyzed by Google. Firefox and Opera extensions are code reviewed before they go into their stores. All these web stores combined, there are millions of browser extensions and billions of people are using on day to day basis. So can't we trust browser vendors' efforts in this case?

And if I start a startup and develop some software, how can any user trust me on day one without using the software I developed? I am just curious to know
>AFAIK the definition of a Ponzi scheme is a fake investment where no actual investment in productive activities takes place and all profits are paid out from increasing intakes.

The way to tell your understanding is wrong is that it would describe every currency, and every possible asset (land, valuables, etc).
Hopefully they do a follow up study if they can get better data sets from the big companies. But they estimate based on Washington-wide stats that they cover ~63% of workers with their data.
It's weird, but I actually kind-of enjoy getting out and waiting in line in the middle of the night waiting for something. It's exciting.
Oh good, they're finally getting it. Now we can maybe have a nice AI winter for deep learning and clear the stage for the next few things.
It's less of a loophole than one might think, because much of long term capital gains is illusory due to inflation.
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That is Clarke's First Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
And my point is that, it is fine to want to help people, but doing something that clearly hurts them is not the right way to do that.

Maybe those better solutions have the same dynamics. Economics is all about trade-offs; many of them are hard to evaluate and some of them are not worth making. Minimum Wage increases to $15/hour seem more and more to be not worth making.
(Author here). Hi Greg! I am excited to hear about the new Universe environments. I want as many RL environments as possible for my upcoming project, so I will probably draw from Universe and ALE as well as µniverse.

I took a lot of inspiration from Universe and am grateful for OpenAI's work on RL in general :). I probably wouldn't have started on this project if a company like OpenAI hadn't already decided it was a worthy goal.
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MIT is selling its IPv4 space to fund its transition to IPv6. Didn't see this link anywhere in the article.

https://gist.github.com/simonster/e22e50cd52b7dffcf5a4db2b8e...
Blockchain-based social media and messengers are already in the development phase. It will take a few more years, but I think some of them can become mainstream.
I used scare quotes to indicate that it isn't an actual law, which is also why I said that it's weaker than something like F=MA and that economics ain't physics. Then you chose to ignore all of that to accuse me of pretending otherwise.

I don't deny that there are exceptions, I just claim that they _are_ exceptions, and that therefore the burden of proof is on the one arguing that a particular case is exceptional.
And yet presents a framework of analysis that is objective and a case study in the application of bias to an objective technique.

The lesson of the book is more than the ideology of its author.

It is hubris or naivete in the extreme to assume that someone you disagree with has nothing valuable to say.