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I don't believe social conservatives will ever accept genuine universal income, even in the face of major economic disruption caused by automation. Firstly, because it is too contrary to their instinctive ideas of fairness, secondly because it is too tempting to use it as method of social control, and thirdly because there will always be a minority that misspend their assured income, which will require an additional welfare system to help them out.

I think it's more likely we'll see a large expansion of existing welfare and food-stamp systems into a system of universal basic rationing. Probably they'll be some kind of parallel, digital pseudo-currency, in the form of spendable credits. They'll be limited to certain categories of goods, and luxury brands and most entertainment products will be banned.

I think you'll also see a requirement to do some form of "work", even artificial and meaningless tasks, in order to qualify. This is already how the system works in the UK, for example. In order to access the UK's welfare system, you are basically required to seek work, any work, no matter how menial or pointless. There is a "workfare" system whereby you work, unpaid, for commercial companies, doing things like stacking shelves for low-quality retailers, in order to get access to your welfare payments.
GDP is a terrible measure of anything, except for monetary policy... which is almost entirely irrelevant to any kind of sociological considerations.

And your history is inaccurate. The primary consideration is simply that they were starting from a much lower base. They were an agricultural peasant society, with a fertility rate of over 5 children per mother.

The USSR was growing at breakneck pace during the first half of their existence, but just in very particular sorts of ways, as a result of forced collectivization, forced urbanization, and forced industrialization.

However, they levelled off quickly during the postwar years, even though they had a strong focus on nuclear research, space exploration, etc.

They had no one-child policy, they simply underwent a sped up version of the normal Demographic Transition, and ended up with below-replacement fertility rates just like Japan and many others have.

This, in combination with poor central planning, and no more low-hanging fruit, led to their stagnation. With war, and a glorious leader, uniting the people to undergo a complete transformation of their entire lifestyle, the rate of growth can be astounding.

But in the postwar years with absolutely none of that, and an already-industrialized economy, you run into a sort of nihilism, and all your lies become less likely to believed, and production targets less likely to be strived for. (see: optimum tautness)

Also the complexity of modern life, aside from the basics that they achieved early, is just very hard to plan for. Think of all the millions of niche products that you can buy, and then imagine trying to dictate to an entire economy how to produce all of that.
If you're making a notary system, the part you can get from a blockchain is a very minor percent of your code, and comes with a lot of complicated baggage. It's not convenient at all.
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>Why do you need other people around?

They might wonder the same about the owners. The French Revolution didn't work out well for the owners.
>Is there any way to ask a gzip file which size it will be once unzipped, without needing to decompress it?

The closest is uncompressing it and counting and immediately discarding the bytes in the output stream.

But of course the proper defense is to give up if you exceed a predefined memory or time budget.
In a purely selfish model, because when people are made completely redundant, they riot. And because (fortunately) the automate-everything folk are not who makes the laws.

In a actual human model, because the point of technology is to make human lives better, and not just to get more technology.
Magical thinking apparently includes freedom from respecting laws and ethics, and cheaping out on family planning for more magical "reasons."
I'd say the charitable interpretation is that the poster believes that 'male' is salient because males are generally more clueless in regards to grocery shopping.

From experience I'd agree that this is a correct observation, but perhaps a risky one to make considering recent discussions (among other things).

Again though, the charitable interpretation is that the poster did not really think about this statement too much, did not intend to cause offense, and might be quite open to the viewpoint that men are actually great at grocery shopping and assuming otherwise - however harmless it may seem to some people - is to be avoided.

I can't speak for anything else but I've become convinced that I should assume the charitable interpretation. If even writing this is considered an example of 'privilege' or sweeping real issues under the table, I truly and honestly want this to be pointed out and I'll seriously consider it in the progression of my personal views on these matters.

This is a bit of a sidenote, by the way, and not a direct response to your comment. I've just been thinking a bunch about all this lately, and your comment seemed a good a place as any to express myself :).
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I have always thought there is an optimistic version and a pessimistic version of this.

The optimistic version is that technology creates enough wealth to provide a basic income for everyone when the value of most human labour is diminished. The interesting part here is who 'everyone' is, because in our imagination it rarely includes impoverished countries.

The pessimistic version is that technology could already create enough value for everyone, but what it really does is it increases inequality.

The value of automation might be captured by few large companies and a technological elite in a few countries, which have no incentive to support the rest of humanity other than to avoid a bloodbath. Combine this with vastly increasing populations in developing countries and resource scarcity + climate change in various regions causing mass migration movements, I just do not see how this can really workout peacefully.

If people have seen the movie Elysium, I always feel that this is already happening, just that Europe and the US are Elysium, and it is only about to get worse.
It was the word terrifying which seemed a little out of place, I don't agree men should be or are in terror over changing social norms. If you act naturally but respect the other person and what they say and do, you really have nothing to fear. Just treat people as equals and check they are comfortable from time to time.

In most of these cases we hear about it's very, very clear that someone was using their position of power to attempt to coerce others. If you don't do that, you have nothing to feel terror about.
> "When you're losing money, your mentality is largely about survival. But when you're profitable, you're confident about your future and you look for opportunities to invest and grow further. Alaska's economy has historically created this winning mentality, which has led to this basic income. That may be a lesson for the rest of the country as well."

Is this true? My impression is that many of the problems in regards to young people having trouble in the labor market have to do with the fact that for the most part they are more free than their parents to pursue their interests rather than "survival". This is due in part to their parents being more wealthy and they have the luxury to pursue majors that don't pay well. Also, the safety net extends after they graduate. For instance, 40% of Americans under 35 live with their parents or relatives [0].

And the problem runs deeper than that. Low labor participation rates are not something that should be a policy objective. From my anecdotal experience, those people not participating in the workforce are rarely living meaningful happy lives.

[0] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/percentage-of-young-americans-li...
Imagine the whole domain of physics to be P and our current knowledge to be a subset of it, P'.

Is there any reason for the operations of brain to be limited to those involving P' only?
If the MTA supports regular SMTP, POP and IMAP, then it cannot be said to perform end-to-end encryption. When a client accesses mail through any of these legacy protocols, the server must decrypt all messages before pushing them down the last hop. This used to be Lavabit's way of offering "encrypted" email.

If the MTA also supports some other protocol that affords end-to-end encryption, that's great, but now you need to use special client software that is either proprietary or seriously lacking in features. This is ProtonMail's way of offering encrypted email.

ProtonMail is currently working on a proxy called ProtonMail Bridge that runs on the client and talks to legacy MUAs. All communication between Bridge and the outside world is still encrypted. That sounds like a good idea to me, since I have no intention to stop using Thunderbird anytime soon. It's also probably the only way to bring end-to-end encryption to a large number of people, since it embraces and accommodates the inertia around email instead of arrogantly telling people to switch and wondering why they don't. When it comes to email, backward compatibility is everything.

I'm not sure if Lavavit's Magma can fill the same need; the documentation is rather sparse. But I would gladly run a local MTA if it means I can have my cake (end-to-end encryption) and eat it too (compatibility with legacy MUAs). DIME also looks like a much more open protocol than the vendor-specific stuff that ProtonMail is using.
The modern pro-life movement that people are referring to here is dominated by evangelical christians. If anything, the Catholics are marginalized in the movement.
Focusing on the one communication we've got (her message to the data scientist) how would you have delivered it within your company? I (UK too) would have used the language she used or softened it slightly, depending on the recipient.
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Could someone ELI5 what that actually does and how one would use it?
I believe this is the original pitch that Bismarck used to introduce the modern welfare state, though it was more about not having your family dragged into the street and shot by revolutionaries who didn't believe your claim to be the God given ruler of the country.
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Yeah, but it feels like a kluge, specially when used to F# on Visual Studio.
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This looks nice, does it let me restrict who can sign in to my site in some way?
While that is all true Amazon Fresh has completely blown that out of the water for me. Though it is only available in Greater London atm.
This time it will be Python and C++ instead of Lisp, though.
Take a look : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGpsfvRb120
As we’ve been discussing the user/customer life cycle quite a bit now, to take a closer look and know more about a specific customer/company, we need a tool that does more than just showing where users clicked, focused and similar.

Zarget’s Session Replay is one such feature that captures and plays the user path without any flaw in the user usage patterns. Importantly, having the hold of real-time user interaction data will help us conceive when and why the losses are happening. And with such strong insights it gets easier to fix any conversion funnel (regardless the type business you’re in).

Perhaps, employing a session replay tool to map out the critical customer journeys is the only possible step we could take to fix this issue.

Whether we dogfooded? Yes, we ran recordings within our product. It busted many myths on users’ behavior and needs, as we were able to track our own journey as a customer. And we were able to make changes to customer’s onboarding process and do tweaks based on the findings. Now our product managers know how users interact inside our app and don’t make any guesswork on how users will adopt a feature. Also, our product folks can’t live without Session Replay anymore.

https://zarget.com/features/session-replay.html
In a perfect world, that's what he's doing. In reality, he's potentially being a big jerk to legitimate users and giving a tool that can allow malicious people to send victims his way. It'd be self defence to cut the connection, not to send harmful files.
Based on my experience:

- Beginner's mind, with discretion

- Ability to avoid buzzwords / marketing mumbo jumbo and identifying true value (or lack of) of any tool

- Remembering you are here to solve a problem, beautiful code is not an end to itself

- Beautiful code is maintainable

- Maintainable code makes you productive

- Productivity is everything: The more problems you, can solve the better you are

- Personally, Hatha Yoga and certain related practices (Kriyas) have rejuvenated me every time I felt burnt out. I'm not a hippy new age shill and if you contact me, I'll share more information.
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This goes much farther than Linux distros. All of open source suffers from fragmentation and re-implementation of things that already exist rather than to contribute to the existing source base.

There are many causes underlying all this (ego, commerce, abrasive/lazy maintainers, NIH and many others besides) and it is something that I believe only time will solve. It's like music, a decade on you'll be able to determine which ones were the evergreens and had staying power while the rest will wilt and be forgotten.

For now I've bet on Debian/Ubuntu, Python and Erlang, I believe those three will still be with us a decade or more from now.
You can see this in action today with "the resource curse". If you can get mega rich by digging stuff out of the ground then you only need enough modern society to support that activity. If you can get foreign engineers then you can let your country rot while you fly around in your personal jumbo jet.
Seems like you're cherry picking your arguments, as the article you linked to directly contradicts your impression.
While you lose a lot of the benefits of IMAP if the server does not have access to the content of messages, this is absolutely not necessary for POP and the only information which must be transferred in the clear to use SMTP is the TO address (and even then, only in the envelope, not in the actual message). Claiming that these protocols inherently are incompatible with transferring encrypted content is like claiming that any protocol that sits on top of TCP or HTTP is incapable of end-to-end encryption. What I think you are actually trying to say is "compatibility with existing clients without any additional software or plugins", but that is unrelated to the usage of SMTP, POP, and IMAP.
Although it does have some problems, I rather like Elysium - the ending makes me think of how something like the Culture could get started.
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Is this post satire?
Not always, it started as merely a cynical attempt to force Catholics to vote Republican.
Another super-fun take on this concept is Job Simulator, available for the big three VR platforms:

https://jobsimulatorgame.com
You missed the black and white photos of team members making their best "I am credible" look.
> This is either complete and total incompetence (not at all impossible), or the Tesla lawyers must think they are on amazingly solid ground.

They seem to feel extremely confident indeed, this is from the previous the Guardian article on this story:

Tesla has continued to strongly reject Vandermeyden’s claims. A spokesperson said the company had “conducted a thorough internal investigation” and “extensively re-reviewed all the facts”, repeatedly concluding that her allegations were false.
If you're in ML, can't you just stick a new GPU in the PCIe slot? A GTX 1070 can be had for below 500 €, which would still be a bit less than a new motherboard, new RAM and a new i7.
Good correction, but a small second nit.

> sometimes they're just plain faster

Not faster for sufficiently large N (by definition).

But your general point is correct.

I've best seen this expressed in Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming [0], Rule 3:

Rule 3. Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small. Fancy algorithms have big constants. Until you know that n is frequently going to be big, don't get fancy.

[0] http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/pike.html
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Your last line is the bit I've never been able to understand. If someone is running from you, do you have any legal argument for killing them?
> Use the same sentence everywhere. Commit it to memory.

Sounds like a master password to me
After being a strong GNU/Linux zealot during the early days, it started to become irrelevant to me the moment I stop caring about POSIX.

As long as my tools of choice offer rich libraries and packaging systems, the actual underlying is no longer relevant unless I require some special use case.

Looking at how Linux distributions turned out, I think GNU/Linux developers failed to learn what happened with the UNIX wars.
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I know of lavabit but I want to know what this software does.
What kind of garbage title is this? Mods, please fix the title to make sense (or at least copy the article title)
> Take a look at filesizes. The biggest files usually contain the meat of the program, or at least a dispatcher that points to the meat of the program. main.cc is usually tiny and useless for finding your way around.

This is my #1 pet peeve with GitHub. When I first look at an unfamiliar repo, I want to get a sense of what the code is about and what it looks like. The way I do that with a local project is by looking at the largest files first. But GitHub loves their clean uncluttered interface so much, they won't show me the file sizes!
Knowledge that's not propogated and retained isn't cultural knowledge, it's personal knowlege. It dies with the individual.

That's one of the distinguishing elements of humans: we learn, and retain, knowledge, and transmit it beyond the individual.

We have an entire class of indivduals whose sole productive contribution is dedicated to the task of training and instructing others. No other species has anything remotely that.

Biology is an information transfer system: molecules, DNA, learned behaviour, taught behaviour. Humans came up with writing, teaching, and now electronic information, genetic engineering, and perhaps AI, as extensions of that.

Each allows for the acquisition, storage, transmission, and application of knowledge in new ways.

(I'm not saying "without limit" or "forever accelerating". But I am noting that we've far exceeded any other life forms of which we're aware in this degree.)
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> It's really the only way the rich will be able to stay rich.

Why? If the means of production and warfare run without labour, what do you need population for? Ignore ethics for a second. The rich can be plenty rich buying and selling to and from each other, exclusively, if their guns and butter churn out without workers.
This article is written from the perspective of someone working on creating Linux distribution(s). I agree many distributions lost their appeal because now it seems most people are happy with having two options: Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora/RHEL/CentOS. There's less appeal in creating yet another distribution and I think that's a good thing for developers and users alike.

My initial impression from the title was that the author would be making the point that no Linux distribution is necessary. Although I can understand that, on servers, developers care less and less about where their apps are running because of containers and other tools, people still do have to select a base Docker imagine... and boom, distribution choice again (unless you're shipping a single static binary, of course).

Except for things like Nix and other non-traditional methods of configuration, outside of the main DEB/RPM camps, all other distributions are trying to solve the same problems in slightly different ways... I'd argue the disadvantages of that outweigh the benefits.
> 2. Collect examples. Start with a spreadsheet of data that highlights the data you have available.

This is true not just for data science but when trying to solve any numerical problem. Using a spreadsheet (or a R / Python notebook) to implement the algorithm and getting some results has helped me in the past to really understand the problem and avoid dead ends.

For example, when building a FX pricing system, I was able to use a spreadsheet to describe how the pricing algorithm would work and explain it to the traders (the end users). We could tweak the calculations and make sure things were clear to all before implementing and deploying the algorithm.

Great advice!
And there's a backlash forming about this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/

I signed on once as I was between contracts and it seemed like it'd be stupid not to.

Soul destroying and utterly ridiculous bureaucracy that's feels like it's meant to humiliate you rather than get you a job.

And that was like 8 years ago, it's got worse.

Ultimately, as automation drives more people out of work, the voting base for a radical change for wealth distribution will grow and the social conservative base will shrink.
A professional basketball player earns entry to a guild of high ability players after a lifetime of competing against their peers. Since they must continually prove their worth in a public arena, and they are competing against such a high percentage of the population (everybody who wants to be a pro), their status is validated.

If Mensa was set up as an open competition which everybody (or at least a majority) participated in, then it would have more credibility.

At the moment most people are fine with the idea of Mensa as a club, but not as a guild of "special people".
Interestingly, I cannot really tell if the notebook is in the backpack, but a water bottle with about the same total weight can totally be felt. Probably the very beneficial weight distribution of a flat slab that's affixed in an upright position directly against my back, vs. a cylindric bottle that's either moving around in the backpack, or stuck to its side and therefore exerting a sideways torque on my back.
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I'm socially conservative, and I agree with parts of your statement, at least regarding myself.

"Fairness" will be a sticking point. It's not reasonable that some people should have to work, so that others may voluntarily sit idle.

But my other reasons for opposing universal income are different than what you listed:

(1) I suspect universal income makes inaccurate assumptions about human nature. I think that without a need to work, a large fraction of people will choose not to. I doubt universal income could sustain that.

(2) Our population keeps on growing, but our planet stays the same size. Unless this changes, we'll see increasing competition for food and living space. The fraction of the economy spent on UBI would continue to increase due to inflation of those costs.

If I turn out to be mistaken about (1) and (2), then I'd be more open to UBI.
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"this is content" sounds extremely useful for everyone. Curious if there is much abuse of accessibility markup to trick users into clicking ads.
This is a really good idea and I'm going to go request it as a feature in Cinnamon right now.