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So, you're finally getting to the point of noticing things and raising some interesting points. A few of which I was hoping you might turn up.

We're also getting pretty late in the stage of an HN discussion. I don't know where else you comment on things, but I'm active on Reddit, and run a sub there. I've just created an open thread post: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6l5nfd/open_th...

Some of the points you've raised:

* Failures of composition: what's logical for a single agent isn't beneficial on net for society as a whole.

* When you're driving into Manhattan, you are directly benefitting by the existence of the rail network as it reduces the congestion of the roadways you're on. That is, if your time, or transit flexibility requirements, make rail unattractive, you are an external beneficiary of that rail network. (Positive externality.) Ergo: you should pay for it.

* "NYC's GDP dwarfs that of the state as a whole, so it should pay for its own upkeep." Interesting perspective, one which could be further discussed.

* Not made, but possibly imputed: NYC's notional financialised GDP exceeds that of rural districts ONLY BECAUSE of favourable consideration NYC has been able to impose on the very notions of property, market price, and relative surplus value capture. You haven't gone there, but I will. It's an interesting argument and turns many economic core/periphery arguments on their head.

* NYC is a capability centre whose benefits spill out over not only all of New York State, but much of the US and world. To what extent does this justify various forms of tax in support of NYC?

* Transportation and explicit vs. implicit subsidies. Again: there's a vast literature on this topic of which you're evidencing little familiarity. I'm not saying you haven't read it, though you're not arguing in a way which suggests you have. Going back to Smith again, largely Book V, which deals with such matters, though I could point to many other elements -- the justifications for creation of canals, railroads, postal roads, post offices, libraries, schools, public universities, the aviation industry, highway systems, and publicly-managed ports, all come to mind. Simon Winchester's The Men Who United the States addresses many of these elements, though not from a principally economic perspective.

Keep in mind that the notion of trans-continental or inter-continental travel occurring within hours rather than days, weeks, months, or years is one that's only about 60 years old.

And again: if you want to continue this discussion, I invite you to Reddit, where it's easier to keep an exchange alive.
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I wonder how many people input (or almost input) their real username and password in the first screen.
Do you care to elaborate on how they're differently treated?
> Don't worry, somehow, they are saving the environment in all this, despite the fact that most cars these days probably put out less emissions than a family that ate too many beans.

First, this comparison is wrong. Cars generate roughly 5,000 liters of of CO2 per gallon. A human passes about one liter of gas per day, maybe two.

But even if you were right, what's the point of this comparison? We can eliminate the CO2 emissions from cars, but we can't do that to people, and we really need to cut these emissions a lot, or the earth will cook.

https://ollilaasanen.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/humans-cows-me... Humans pass 1L per day

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t... Cars generate ~9kg CO2/gallon

http://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight/substanc... CO2 is 1.8 grams per liter
you do not even need that. just set appetite = 80 in the human source code so you start eating 80÷ of your daily caloric use. the pounds will melt off. when you have a goal weight set appetite = 100÷ and you will simply stay at that weight.

it is very simple physically.

as for where to set it, I have nothing to say about it just as you have nothing to say about how to make a choice.

/s

The fact is, a choice fat people can make is "I will get gastric sleeve surgery" and this "commit" is statistically enough.

the "commit" that parent suggests is the same as my suggestion at the top. I give no practical advice at the top of this comment and neither does parent comment.

if there were a variable that would set someone's appetite and saciety then it would work. if there were a variable for commitment then parent's advice would work.

parent ignores the hard work of finding and setting that variable, and parent ignores statistics that most fat people have spent a few dozen hours looking for how to set that variable and have failed to do so.

your advice is as bad as when people defend some totally useless setup on the grounds that it's turing complete. yes, you can make a social media app with a custom backend written in C++. No that does not work statistically and most people who set out to do so fail.

but physically it's very simple.

reasonable people don't ignore the statistics.
I'm a consultant and my last 2 clients have been going through changing outsourced service providers because "The last guys were hopeless/too expensive/just liked arguing about contracts" or whatever.

I can't for the life of me understand why large companies don't want their own in-house dev/infra capability. They do everything they can to give it to someone else and then pay companies like my employer $2k a day for me to sit here and write unit tests, ansible playbooks and no end of just bog standard dev jobs.

In my case I'm meant to be mostly doing architecture rather than dev, but what good is the architecture when the actual systems and applications are not looked after properly?
> there is so little software work in Australia

Is this actually true? Maybe me and my friends have all been extremely fortunate, but none of us have ever had a trouble getting a job doing development and being paid well.

Sure, there's a smaller amount of cool, hip, early-stage startups to go work at compared to... New York, but still there are loads of people hiring if all the recruiter spam is anything to go by.
that is horrifying
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I wish this were any company other than Yelp pushing things.

Yelp is sufficiently slimy in and unto themselves that it hurts their case.
To be fair, a lot of people had that prediction. But DARPA has definitely been ahead of the game in most research.

More importantly, Dennard scaling has basically already dropped dead since around ~40-28nm, although we did get a "pseudo-continuation" in the form of FinFETs and friends.
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Top job is Chief Technical Officer, but there's a (guessing bounds error) bug that causes it to stop valuing your work when you're supposed to be promoted from Computational Administrator to Screen Technician.
There's this company called Cisco that makes routers with serial ports.
To be fair, more and more companies these days are brining these capabilities in house as they realise that Digital needs to be a core-competency.

But besides, the upside is that you can just go work for these consultancies anyway. Look at CommBank - its agencies, contracts and subcontractors all the way down, but those agencies are still hiring those people locally here. I have like three friends who are all working for Qantas via three different agencies.
"As a result, most of the work force is in low-productivity jobs"

Most of the workforce are in pointless jobs that wouldn't be there but for the obsession with the false notion that "the private sector creates jobs".

We can create all we need and grow all required with about 20% of the manpower. By definition the private sector destroys jobs with innovation and automation. That is its purpose.

The problem is that the power has shifted to corporations and away from the population since the 1970s. That power results in moribund governments and a system of oppression that ensures there are always fewer jobs available than people that want them.

A perfect system of control for a nation based upon the idea of excessive individualism, that has made it trivial to divide and conquer.

But, as the political scientist Mark Blyth puts it, the Hamptons are not a defensible position. Eventually they will come for you.
We have anumeric people in modern-day America, too. We call them "Republicans".
Based on my personal experience, sometimes even if the API is yours, making changes can be difficult. The example I first think of is my last company.

We had a backend and frontend team, both working on the same product but the two teams disagreed a lot and would take weeks to make a small change even if it wasn't a breaking change.

To add to it all, there wasn't a standard to deprecating APIs so even a simple key rename could cause everything to blow up. Things weren't fun so I can see the need for these kinds of tools.
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Agreed, and there's heaps of interesting work in Australia if you know where to find it. I'm working on commercialising (a restricted subset of semi-) homomorphic encryption, leveraging Hyperledger for some really interesting companies, and tbh getting paid really well to do so.

Even outside of that, a lot of big important companies are starting to take security seriously here in Australia, which I think is a great thing :)
RWC to Mountain View (southbound) is still faster. The construction in Palo Alto still screws everything up but that's expected.
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All Cisco, HP ProCurve etc. still use serial (they tend to have serial over USB these days) interface for configuration. You can connect via SSH / telnet, but to configure the management interface you first need to connect to that serial port and give it an IP address...
Can we please stop promoting the Raspberry Pi stuff as "open".

The Raspberry Pi is NOT OPEN. If you wish to build your own Raspberry Pi, you can't do it. Broadcom won't sell you the chips. You can't even get the documentation.

There are other options that work just as well both less powerful and cheaper (Espressif and similar) or equally as powerful and same price (Beaglebone and similar). And these are genuinely open.

I really don't get all the Raspberry Pi love among open source folks.
I live in Denver and we only have a few HOV lanes, but none on my commute. I'm fortunate enough to live close enough to one of the, somewhat weak, train system lines and now commute vis public transit and drive my car maybe 1x/2weeks. It's been really liberating. We still need one car for the family, but not one per working adult.
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Constant application of great amounts of willpower against your most basic biological instincts is possible for some individuals, but generally you are really arguing against the dictionary definition [1].

[1] [trak-tuh-buh l] .. easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding:
I went through the PT option for many many years. It definitely helped, but never provided lasting relief. Finally, after a period of nearly a year without any pain relief at all (I now have extreme empathy for people who suffer chronic pain), a microdiscectomy/laminectomy resolved everything. After 2 weeks I could go back to work, after 3-6 months I felt fairly normal, and after a year I felt better than I could ever remember.

I kept seeing experts, getting more opinions, and aggressively pursuing all options. Eventually I was referred to an amazing back doctor who took me through all my options - first PT, then a series of epidural cortisone injections, and finally surgery.

Worth noting though, I did a ton of research about failed back surgeries (it has its own name - "Failed Back Surgery Syndrome"), and while you can put the odds in your favour, there's no sure thing. However, getting a highly rated doctor and surgeon working together to get a very accurate diagnosis, combined with the latest surgical techniques will maximise your odds of success. The microdiscectomy with metrx is pretty incredible for being minimally invasive and keeping recovery time as short as possible.
Given a set of 100 numbers and asked to compute their multiplication how much time does your brain need?
> You might as well say "...in any society." If a government doesn't claim a monopoly on violence, someone else will.

Whichever entity (even if nominally a collection of entities considered together) has (whether or not it claims) a monopoly on the legitimate use of force is the government, whatever it calls itself.
> Wilson says the evangelism over Agile working and minimum viable products has resulted in poor security practices becoming commonplace procedure.

Even if it's food for thought in general, this is a pretty weak argument as applied to the Australian government - agile practices haven't made a lot of inroads there, particularly projects supplied by companies like IBM who tend to use super-rigid waterfall. If anything the recent failures prove that less-agile processes don't guarantee you anything in terms of security.
Maybe they will pile up behind the lights but the tunnel experience will still be fast and pleasant.
You are... until gmail decides not to accept mail from your mailserver.
The text that you end up "typing" is actually very motivational!
It is compiled and output is bytecode. Currently bytecode interpreter is in Java. In the future, it can run on other languages (go?) or using something like LLVM with we write an interpreter for the bytecode. However, to do that we need to port the connectors, which is some work.
There's 2 separate but somewhat related communities here - open source and open hardware. Most open source people don't care that much about hardware. They just want a cheap and tiny Linux box, maybe with some GPIO pins.

And really, you can take it further - is espressif really better? You can buy the chip, but it's not like they give you the actual transistor-level design so you can modify it and redistribute it as you so choose.
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Curation of shitty content is also built right into the algorithm.

They'll hide behind "But people are voting for this mindless content" but that's not the full picture. A vote after 5 seconds is actually weighted higher than a vote after 5 minutes.

It's specifically because Reddit the company is against too much engaging content. They want people to smirk, chuckle, acknowledge, and move on. Engaging content means fewer pages viewed, which means fewer ad views.
The Fiat 500e is extremely cheap to lease ($87/month). Last year there was even a point where it was $1500 down, since you get a $2500 incentive check from California if you got that deal you were basically being paid to take it.

Most people would be fine with an EV given how much they actually drive, it's not just for rich people.
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The problem is that the notion that 'microfoundations' can be linked to the macro economy by searching for 'deep parameters' suffers from precisely the same critique.

It's even proved wrong within the body of theory that embraces it. The Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem.

Economists then do a lot of hand waving and point to 'data', without acknowledging that the 'data' is collected from a system that has been under the influence of their ideas for over 40 years and therefore will, inevitably, be the right shape.

If you collect data from a man in a straitjacket, unsurprisingly it will look like a man in straitjacket. It can tell you nothing about ideas that involve removing the straitjacket.

Non-falsifiability of theorems is the hallmark of macroeconomics. Because it is an ideology dressed up as a science.
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Here is a question for all the "brain as computer" proponents. Given the molecular level activity of a bunch of neurons over time can you figure out what "maths" happened there? If not, then please stop this "brain as computer" advertisement and come back when you have the answer to the above question.
I haven't heard about vision 2030 but the quote as posted makes it sound like the root of the problem was that SA is poor and the people suffer "economic disparity". If only they were't so cash strapped all this time...

So, whose economic disparity are we talking about and why couldn't the trillions generated from sale of oil do anything about it?
> Most open source people don't care that much about hardware.

That may be, but, in this case, Mozilla needs to care and should know better. Especially when there are perfectly fine alternative options.

Broadcom can torpedo this if it starts impinging on their own business in some way. That's not the kind of power you want to hand to somebody when you are trying to promulgate something.
I would imagine that it's a number greater than zero.
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Unanticipated glitch ceiling in the HR autopromotion system, clearly.
They're talking about millions of data points. They could probably find significant correlations between anything at that point.
Another (occasional) Haiku user and supporter here. This article isn't even a review of the OS, it's just a web-browser grumbling session. In any OS I hardly ever use the browser for work-related tasks.
Never heard of'em.
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Why will it be tough for them? They will be able to figure it out 6 months later. Google can't make that much money in the short term in the grand scheme of this potential market.
That's pretty much the point I was trying to make. A society without a government that monopolizes force can't really exist, or at least not for long.
Opened in Android Google Chrome, normal and incognito, also requested desktop site from menu, no luck only duck, just a grey page :(
> there's a bug that causes it to stop valuing your work when you're supposed to be promoted

They always say that...
Actually, though the root cause of this issue is about cryptography logic, no data-race.:-)
I mentioned in another reply the problem with DNS is that multiple entities can mess up with you and government is only one among many.

Correct me if I am wrong, but is a registry even obliged to offer a renewal of your domain when your current lease expires? Without jumping through the whole loop of "owning and defending a trademark", what legal recourse do individuals have when faced with malicious takeovers?
I know of one cafe owner that had legitimate 5 star reviews removed. They were returned after the bad press.
Where I live (a nordic country) the median for architect level positions is about 4000-5000e/month (we don't talk about yearly salaries here).
After taxes you get about 3000-3500e per month.

All tax information is public here and the magazines publish yearly lists of people earning over 100000eur (salary+possible capital gains).
The lists usually never contain anybody doing "low level" work (ie. not CEO level etc.). And actually very few people earn that in salary alone.
Probably slightly orthogonal to your post, but @aurynn on Twitter has had some thoughts about UX in relation to open source:

https://twitter.com/aurynn/status/882411143611924480

https://twitter.com/aurynn/status/882036680869371904

Confronting, but accurate.
> I have gmail setup to send 'from' my own domain (with validation).

How do you set this up? I have several domains pointing to my gmail but can't send from them...

Edit, should have just googled, https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Edit 2: this really: https://blog.alexlenail.me/i-want-to-send-emails-from-my-goo...
I used JavaScript because I'm most comfortable with it - I believe you can use any language you want, but you're better off if it's one the interviewer knows (Java/C for back end, JavaScript for front end.)

I personally applied as a front end engineer, but the only difference is that the system design interview question gets swapped with a front end focused one. Within Google my official title is still "Software Engineer" and I'm expected to work across the stack.
Privacy badger also blocks referrers to those sites - having only a connecting IP and asking for a copy of jquery isn't exactly privacy breaching in my eyes. Could be any one of many sites that wants it. Not much they can do with that information.
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IRCv3 FTW. I don't think they'll achieve their goals before IRC completely dies, though.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/why-you-ca...

Apparently, boffins are starting to realise it's not that simple.
There are probably food delivery and restaurant reservation startups complaining that Yelp has a monopoly position on restaurant search.
The pedestrian has the right of way.

In CA, you aren't suspose to enter the crosswalk until the pedestrian is out of the crosswalk completely. The problem is people don't know this, and will honk. Cops in my county know the average driver doesn't know pedestrians can't be on the street before your vechicle enters the crosswalk. Meaning, if the cross walk is 300 yards, and it's you and the pedestrian. You need to wait for the pedestrian to set foot on the sidewalk. (They set up stings, but they are for Revenue collection. It's an easy ticket.)

I do try to hurry across crosswalks. I don't understand the mentality of people who purposely walk slowly. Actually, I get it, but don't do that myself. To each their own?
As i read your well said reply i only know one thing: it will?change again.
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They even started with my favorite quote:

Ever tried, ever failed, no matter.

Try again, fail again, fail better.
I have also found sleeping on a hard floor very effective in preventing back pain.
Obviously he has the spine to do so :)

On a more serious note, I think an app that motivates people to be more active isn't a bad thing or scam per se, though I can't speak to the quality of this particular one.
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And the actual work itself is also not really valuable and it's okay if it never actually gets done. Most projects end up in a semi-failed state anyways.
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No, thank you! (:
What part of your back? Is there a name or website for the routine you follow?
I ended up laying my fingers flat on the keyboard (thumbs still on space) so I can hit more keys while mashing, lifting them only to set calendar appointments.
It's like I've become a parody of myself.
Until the US switches to a parliamentary system, any third party is just a spoiler. See Jill Stein and the Greens.

The Democratic party is centrist. But it's a huge tent that covers a lot of people and a lot of interests.

I honestly don't know who the Republican party appeals to, apart from being a good vehicle for corporate interests.
Infinite universe can contain infinite set of objects without any of them being your doppleganger. Unless there's only limited set of objects that can exist in universe at all which doesn't seem likely.
Furthermore, human CO2 emissions come from plants as part of the normal carbon cycle - they're not an ecological problem. It's carbon-from-the-ground that's a problem.
Signing the same payload multiple times would work for my use case (channels). I also need to accept transactions signed by at least one of two keys. I suspect this might be possible too. However, I can imagine that anything more complicated would go outside of the system you have designed. I haven't had the chance to learn your language, but I would be wary about it either being too limited for edge cases that most real world stuff is going to have, or turning into a "universal framework" antipattern.