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> The market didn't think so.

"The market" is not a helpful model for this interaction. My boss paid me the lowest legal wage, and I didn't ask for any more. Imagine a driver pointing to a bridge on a map when in reality the bridge is gone. The map is helpful in many situations, but it will not help in getting over that bridge.

> you have to push for it, since the market can't read your mind argue on your behalf.

OK. What if I can't? In my case, it was anxiety, which affects at least 18% of the US population. In other cases, it's the risk of alienating a contact or going too long between jobs. If I can't argue, then by your own argument the market wage-setting mechanism must necessarily fail. At the lowest pay levels, I could become a burden to the public despite being employed, which doesn't do anyone any good.

> People who can't/don't/won't negotiate expect the same income from people who do negotiate

Obviously, a lack of salary negotiation decreases one's salary. Minimum wage laws don't repeal that fact, but they set a limit on how low salaries can go, reducing the number of charity cases among the working poor. It doesn't give bad negotiators the same income as effective negotiators except at the very bottom of the labor market.
I graduated in the recession without any real skills or an applicable / usable degree (lib arts in a language I could barely speak).

The first job I got after college was for data entry where I was expected to go to an email inbox which received some automated messages with some strings in them and to copy these strings and paste them into an Excel spreadsheet.

I was expected to do this for ~6 hours a day every day. Sitting there, copying and pasting strings from some email. Then this spreadsheet would be forwarded to my boss who would forward it to some other people (I don't remember who these people were, probably for auditing of some kind).

After a couple of weeks of this I really started to hate it. I had taken a class on spreadsheets when I was a kid and knew that there was a way to automate it all, so I did a couple of Google searches and figured out a way to copy all of these numbers automatically. It was done using some VB script IIRC and some spreadsheet formulas.

I stupidly told my boss. So now he had me doing other stupid and mind-numbing work for those 6 hours I would have been copying and pasting strings from the emails (like manually burning hundreds of CDs one after the other with Windows XP and a CD-burner which only worked half of the time).

I quit a week or two later, but learned a valuable lesson. Don't tell your boss. Side note: this is how I became interested in pursuing programming as a profession.

It would be great if there was a means for people to sell technology like this to their employers, for those rare cases where someone goes above and beyond the expected solution. In reality employers don't care because they own your output regardless so why do they need you?
I think Fussell'd peg banning swearing to act higher class or more professional as a deeply middle class thing to do. Part of their trying-too-hard while missing-the-point tendencies. Avoiding out of fear of punishment would be more mid- and low-prole (high prole being too independent to care much about the whole matter).

Imposing it from above might be an attempt to force/encourage middle or low/mid prole attitudes in one's workers in general, and to make people with such attitudes feel elevated by the notion that "we're so much more professional now!"
I've been using Chrome for years, but I'd love to switch to firefox. The last time I checked, 3 things were preventing me:

1) U2F support for Google. There was a U2F extension that worked for some other sites, but I could not get it to work for Gmail / drive /etc.

2) Support for Hangouts

3) All the random web passwords that are in google's password manager
> and.. well... that's been the case for decades. No-one seems to have got much past step 1 because it all seems to fall apart then.

Agreed. And while there's nothing wrong with it (hey, it happens with actual science too!), what's infuriating is people claiming "let's be open-minded, if only we approached this in a scientific way, if only scientists (or skeptics, or whatever) gave us a chance!" as if the discussion was new and people had just started trying to do this. Pseudo-science has been going on for ages and they had their chance, with no success. It's not a new discussion, it's an old discussion occasionally re-framed in new terms.
It's a little thing, but 14.4kb/s should really be stated as kbit/s. 14.4kbit/s is 1.8kB/s. Looking at this reminded me how fascinating the Wikipedia entry for "modem" is [1]. Apparently "The first 9,600 bit/s modem was developed in 1968, and sold for more than $20,000."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem
Yes, that's roughly the gist of it. This is a hard problem because Lego comes in many shapes and sizes, a pre-sieving step limits the pieces that hit the belt at 42 mm largest cross section. So anything below that (but possibly much longer than that, all the way up to 2x1x16) can be found in the hopper.

There are some really good suggestions in this thread, the one that stands out for me most is the brush edged screw feeder, I think that one has most properties just right to work.
Keep in mind, this piece is based on an older one. Looks like it dates to 2010. He probably bought up mediocre places during the end of the housing bubble for very little money.
Yea.. Too late.
From there I also discovered Rig Veda and its siblings. I guess I have to quit my full time job to get through all of this^^
The level of knowledge of civics, current events, and history, not to mention the level of civic responsibility has done nothing but go down since this nation was founded. This idea might have been more tenable 200 or even 100 years ago.

The jury system is an entirely different problem space. There the decision is made based on a relatively narrow pool of information, and is in fact constrained to that pool of information and the personal experience of the individual jurors.

Congress is a whole other matter. There decisions must be informed based upon a vastly greater background of knowledge and, dare I say, wisdom. International affairs and history, broad understanding of current events, economics, knowledge of our system of law and jurisprudence. Do the individuals in congress all meet this standard? No. But the process of putting oneself and one's knowledge and experience forward to the voting public does act as a sort of filter to weed out people who have no understanding or ability to govern.
Porn sites are very aggressive with ads. Think of any sort of dark pattern used in web advertising and odds are porn sites are using it.
1.5 is a little low 1.75 after 8 Pm 2x at weekend and 2x plus a day TOIL for sunday
The single site I visit the most when I am on mobile is Hacker News. The reason is simple: It's very fast and well structured, and most importantly it is free from bloat, no ads or unnecessary menus.

I feel like Hacker News is pretty much the best example for the concepts mentioned in the blog post and it proofs that beeing fast can be a sites main feature (or one of them).
Isn't this the same principle google uses for their location services?
Yeah, Chrome makes it really easy to maintain and run multiple sandboxed profiles backed by completely separate Google accounts with their own settings, histories, extensions, etc.
It's interesting to trace the evolution of Calvinism in the United States. There's an argument to be made that Calvinism minus the divinity of Christ equals modern liberalism and the liberal market economy. A lot of the same attitudes and practical programs carry over without the spiritual context [0].

On the subject of the article, I thought this was going to be someone with a large capital surplus providing a basic income to someone "unluckier" than them to argue the benefits of basic income, rather than advocating to increase taxes (but probably still not on them since he made a point of saying how he hardly pays any).

0 - http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801396,...
There is debate about the security of the PIN when the POS has been compromised. So the threat is that your PIN gets stolen and then you have to dispute unauthorized charges against your bank without the protection of Visa or MasterCard's fraud protection.
This is so disappointing ... my favorite way to read a book was purchase on oreilly.com, and download the ePub to iBooks or Google Play Books (tablet reading). If the ePub wasn't great, which is common for tech lit, I'd use the PDF in OS X Preview instead.

Safari is too expensive, and a lot of technical stuff looks like crap on Kindle / AZW.

Also, publishers like Manning aren't on Safari so the subscription only covers some of the materials I read.

I feel like I just got punched in the stomach.
Tremendously impactful decision, regardless of which side of the case you support.

Interestingly, the majority addressed a Google argument centered upon concerns regarding the possibility of international censorship:

"Google’s argument that a global injunction violates international comity because it is possible that the order could not have been obtained in a foreign jurisdiction, or that to comply with it would result in Google violating the laws of that jurisdiction, is theoretical. If Google has evidence that complying with such an injunction would require it to violate the laws of another jurisdiction, including interfering with freedom of expression, it is always free to apply to the British Columbia courts to vary the interlocutory order accordingly. To date, Google has made no such application. In the absence of an evidentiary foundation, and given Google’s right to seek a rectifying order, it is not equitable to deny E the extraterritorial scope it needs to make the remedy effective, or even to put the onus on it to demonstrate, country by country, where such an order is legally permissible."

In other words, if an interlocutory order with international scope would violate foreign freedom of expression legislation (or other legislation in general), it would be possible to seek to vary the interlocutory order by raising those issues specifically.

This framework should be familiar to jurists in Canada, as it resembles the Paramountcy doctrine.

Whether or not this case will be widely used is unclear. This case is nearly 100% fact-perfect for the Respondent - it honestly looks like a civil-rights test case. It is very possible that imperfect everyday facts provide sufficient fuel for judges to distinguish this case from the case in front of them.

The dissent is interesting because it lists a number of pieces of evidence the dissenters would have needed to see before moving forward, including the impact of the first order on sales figures. These dissents often provide counsel with information regarding how to structure future cases in order to avoid outstanding concerns.

These are my first pass thoughts. I'll probably read it through another two times before the day is done.
Adjusted for inflation, has it changed that much in 10years? Ditto for median wages.
If you can trust the company to act in an ethical manner rather than a purely profit-seeking manner, there should be no problem in telling them you have automated your own job out of existence.

They pat you on the back, license the software from you for 0.5x your former salary every year, move the folks that formerly did that same work to other projects, and put you on retainer to update the program if it ever needs it. Then they offer you different work, to see if you can work more magic.

That said, I would only trust one of the companies that I have ever worked with to do that. The rest would screw me over good and hard, giving one excuse or another.

By the Hillel principle ("If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?") you have to consider the impact on yourself as well as upon others. Will the company fire me? Will it keep me and fire my co-workers, since I can do all of their work for a week in a single day? Will it pay me more to do so? Do I have a duty to act in the company's best interest if that conflicts with my own? What if it is best for myself and the company, but ruinous for innocent bystanders?

Clearly, if this is a typical US company, the ethical course of action is to not inform the employer. This is an unfortunate loss for the economy as a whole, but it is the only appropriate response to the modal behavior of business management. Maybe also file a patent on the method of automation, if able.
In my opinion, napping becomes more essential with hard training. Even with sleeping well every night, I still find myself napping almost daily.
You're missing the point (again). VHS defeated Betamax because Sony tried to keep porn off betamax.
Thats pretty ridiculous. Any business that punishes innovation isn't long for this world. If the PM was really that concerned about billable hours i'm sure he could have found something. Heck maybe you shoulda recommended disabling copy & paste on all dev computers in order to increase profit by 30%
Do you mean the original level editor, or the one that produced the images on that site? If the former:

http://www.shikadi.net/moddingwiki/TED5
Probably but the result would have likely been similar. The standard is supposed to be a bit higher than 'isn't a political shitpost'. If you have something interesting to say about this, you can always write it up as a blog post and submit that. If you just want to vent a bit, it's probably not going to get too far as a post.
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Let's look at Person A vs Person B.

Person A is a football player and makes $1 million in salary per year. This is all taxed progressively, meaning that Uncle Sam takes off 39.6% of most of his income. As a result, he pays close to $400k in taxes.

Person B is an investor. He invests in Applied Materials, and they have a very good year. His stock is now worth $1 million more than it was at the beginning of the year. Some of it, he sells - he's gotta eat, after all. That sold stock is taxed like income. Note that as long as he isn't living like a rockstar, he probably didn't sell enough to put him into the top tax bracket; he's just paying his expenses.

The remainder is taxed at about 20% - capital gains is taxed at a lower rate. Thus, because he can control how much of the stock he sells, Person B ends up paying somewhere around 60% of the tax that Person A pays.

This system screws over people who make most of their income through salary and benefits those who make most of their "income" through investments.
The exploits in question haven't been from "network configuration wizards" or "wobbly windows" - they're literally from backwards compatibility. And medical devices are one of the EXACT reasons there's so much cruft in Windows. They rely on ancient code becaues getting things re-approved via the FDA can take YEARS and millions of dollars. Those manufacturers won't change unless they have a gun to their head.

So what... we switch to a stripped down version of Linux that won't ever have the kernel updated and will need to continue supporting version 1.0 of samba because of some arbitrary codepath to load new versions of firmware.

It's easy to sit back and cast judgement when you don't deal with that industry... but they aren't doing it this way because it's fun.
Everyone's code breaks eventually. Even the people who spend 8, 10, or 12 hours in the chair. The solution is not to require that everyone spend 8 hours at work.

Rather, it's to require that the code be explained and discussed in code review. After that, there's an on-call team (which may or may not include the original developers of the code!) who handles the system in case of a breakage.

Butt in the chair time is completely irrelevant to this process.
> He should stop introducing errors though.

Then the QA team would stop paying attention and if he ever introduced a bug it would be much much worse.

Seems to me that in this case it serves a "test your backups" function.
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Even more impressive. Large to small is exactly the right way to do it. You seem to have thought through the problem for a bit before embarking on it, almost every choice you made is optimal or near optimal to get this done in an acceptable time.

It's interesting how much you learn about how our minds work by doing a job like this. All kinds of insights into color discrimination, shape recognition and so on, as well as how much of a job gets pushed down to our subconscious once we've done enough of it.
> Not actually true! A common misconception. Absence of evidence when you'd expect to find it is actually extremely suggestive that a hypothesis is incorrect. It's key to the criterion of falsifiability.

Ok, you got me. If you expect to find something and don't, it means your expectations were wrong, the experiment was bad, whatever. It proves nothing about the thing for which you have no evidence.

The coin example should clarify your apparent misreading of "If someone believes something without evidence, and you do not believe it because of the lack of evidence, then you are both guilty of the same thing."

Rephrasing: the statement "not believe it" means to "believe it to be false." It's a colloquialism. Both stances are choosing to believe something without evidence.
People that like these benefits in Firefox should really check out Opera.
The Racket ecosystem allows developers to create DSLs as they like. Does it qualify as a "language workbench"?
Unless the contract assigns the copyright to Zillow then it doesn't matter what it says. A contract can't generally be enforced as against third parties. And if Zillow can't sue then it is unethical* to threaten to sue.

However, to be fair to the lawyer, the copyright claim is secondary. The primary claim in the C&D is a violation of the terms of service.

*In the legal sense, not in the moral sense. Though maybe that too.
If you keep your money invested and never cash out, then you never pay tax. He mentions this later in the article. Also if you don't buy anything you don't pay sales tax.
Wow I am astounded that all the comments so far are trying to tear down this person and what he is saying, and very transparently because there seems to be something threatening about this idea that he got where he has through luck. Why do people find this idea so threatening?

I got where I am today due to luck. I did work hard. But I know other people who work hard too. Who are just as capable. They just didn't get assigned to the class with the really awesome, motivating teacher. Or randomly picked out of the pile by a recruiter for a call. Or happen to wind up working somewhere where they made friends with a guy who was well connected. Etc.

To discount luck's role in how people get successful is a huge blind spot.
> As a society (and this goes from a community to a global scale) we should make it a priority to give everyone the resources to meet their maximum potential.

Provided that I am willing to concede this point for the sake of the argument: what makes you think that your redistribution model will actually allow everyone to achieve their maximum potential?[1]
Given that similar redistribution systems have been tried before, where governing bodies were thinking they actually know what's good for "everyone/society", but all of them miserably failed, what differentiates your proposed approach from what have been already implemented?

[1] I don't even know what "achieving maximum potential" means. Is it achieving someone's goals in life? Producing the most widgets possible? Killing as many unbelievers as possible to get into heaven?
And "self-limiting", maybe, for a "bad" value judgement.
If you're "not 'on the hook' for fraud" only because you haven't shared material facts ("this has been going on for 6-months"), you're committing fraud.
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I don't say copy this religion, but its processes.
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Which it doesn’t.
I think this and Twitter's attempts to police the language of its users is quite flawed since context is hard to read into a sentence if you're doing the most naive analysis as it seems both are doing right now. I doubt throwing ML or NLP at this problem will ever work because the biggest problem with moderation is that people tend to get into fights without much intention of getting into one. So for me moderation is a human-level concern that should be solely done by humans since human moderators despite their own biases are better judges of misdeeds and outright trolling. Once FB and Twitter get on board with this idea and stop pretending it's a technology problem the sooner their parts of the Web might be tolerable.
I'd really love to switch back to Firefox from Chrome but it's just so sluggish on my Android phone and I had the same issue with an iPhone a few years back. Why is this, really?
When he was doing the same work by hand he was producing data with errors in it. All he's done is achieve the same error rate he had before. I don't see why the fact he could trivially reduce the errors to 0 is relevant when from the employer's point of view the exact same result is being produced.
This happened to me during my childhood fevers as well. Multiple voices more or less simultaneously saying the same thing, like a group of people whispering in a room, at times growing louder, more insistent, angrier, in the end shouting. Almost forgot about it until I experienced something similar during my brief experimentation with salvia divinorum in my early twenties, though this time the voices sounded somewhat unified and much less like an angry mob, more like some kind of incredulous medieval choir reciting lines about what I was doing while not having any of it.

Fast forward twenty years and the angry insistent mob decided to once more pay me a visit during a sleepless and feverish night, this was about a month ago. Not sure if normal, I'm definitely not, but I've never heard or seen anyone mention this phenomenon in a way I could relate to until you just did.
They want x amount of data processed, and are willing to give $y to do it. If the OP has found a way to offer x at a much lower price than estimated, good for him.

People make shitty deals all the time, he is under no obligation to tell tell them to fix it. The relationship is contractual and nothing more.
I don't care if it's a biological reality or not. I'd like for people to stop scrutinizing my being. My existence is a reality, my reality, and I want people to stop talking about a personal characteristic that is as boring as liking the color green or having red hair.
It has been a while since I tried. These are the only two sites I could find that mention it:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/captain-comic-ii-fractured...

https://raisedonvideogames.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/captain-...
It's not like a power outage. It's more like a power surge that's somehow crafted to exploit every engineering flaw in every surge protector that well-funded state actors have piled up over the years. We would not recover from that in days.
What I got out of this was the suggestion to fund Basic Income by taxing unearned income. I'd like to read more on how the numbers would actually work out. If that were the only funding source of BI, then how much impact would that be on the rich, and how much benefit would that be for the people that could use BI?
You're missing the point (again).

I love when you get haughty and abrasive online, at some stranger you've never met. Over basically nothing.
How do I find a mentor?
A lot of advice seems to tell young people to find a mentor. What are the best ways to find a mentor in tech? If you're a mentor, what do you look for in 'mentees'?
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