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A world of free economist articles would be _____ richer.

Yet they built the paywall.

There seem like a lot of obvious objections that are not addressed and raises more questions than it asks.

> Workers in rich countries earn more than those in poor countries partly because they are better educated but mostly because they live in societies that have, over many years, developed institutions that foster prosperity and peace

What are these institutions, and would they be damaged at all by free movement? If the people in good_country made the institutions, and they get demographically boxed out by people in other_countries, what happens? What are "institutions," exactly? Why did other_countries grow bad institutions? Would emigrants damage those countries further? The article semi asks these questions then drops the thread.

I think articles like this tend to simplify or handwave the caveats in unrealistic ways, so their result is always a lopsided analysis. Example of such a simplification:

> But most Western cities could build much higher than they do, creating more space.

Yeah they could, but most won't. See: The bay area, Boston, NYC. (A few do: Montreal, or Tokyo, which added more housing than all of California last year)
How to combine a background-image and CSS3 gradient on the same element
You could add PPA for VS Code on Ubuntu, you should try rsync (cli) or grsync (gui) and get Meld for diffs. Shutter for screenshots, Parcellite for clipboard history, Caffeine to inactivate the screensaver. Also you could get a lot of task specific software via so called snaps or package your tools own with snapcraft.
I love the Twitter <> Medium idea so much! Only thing I'd want to point out is that some of the best content on Medium is deep, long form articles that really get into the meat of a subject. So you might want to think about that 450-word max.

Re your monetization idea, it seems very interesting but my hunch would be that you should study usage patterns to determine pricing. For eg, off the top of my head, I think that I might use the app(s) actively only a few days a month when I am writing a blog post but it might be super valuable. With the 10 days free policy, I might churn out at least 3 posts before needing to pay.

It's also important to set pricing in a way that it roots the user, even more, deeper into your app. An idea for that could be an affordable yearly license.

Just spouting ideas here :-)
As a person fluent in both Arabic and English, I always wonder if Arabic dialects count as "languages". Note that basically no one speaks "written" Arabic; everyone uses a dialect based on their region.

For example, North African dialects are basically unintelligible to Middle Easterners. Even within North Africa, the dialects are vastly different: for instance, Tunisians have trouble understanding the general Algerian dialect. You can go even further: people within Tunisia can find trouble understanding each other's dialects (e.g., north vs. south)! The linguistic variations are enormous.

I was raised in the UAE, so I can understand (at a high level) basically all Arabic dialects. In Tunisia, I speak Tunisian; in the UAE, I speak the dialect closest to who I'm talking to (if applicable), or a form of Emirati Arabic otherwise (e.g., in the case of Sudanese Arabic).
Not to mention that you also need to learn how to speak it. And sounding native is extremely hard.
I have no clue, so could you point out why fat in the human diet is good (or not bad)? I'd like to learn.
This article is a fluff piece for the doctors interviewed. Awful research, brief interviews, and so vague you have to laugh. The entire thing screams "Yeah, no shit."
That was it. Thanks.
We're constantly hearing how fats are bad for us and we should eat a low fat diet. The article is overstating that fact. A better statement should say that the overeating of fats is bad for us. Eating NO fats would certainly be bad for people. Everything has to be eaten in moderation.
So many marketing pros have to collaborate with a lot of people for technical blog posts. Often, you brainstorm with people, come up with a topic and outline, write a draft, go back and forth on actual text, and then finally publish. Google docs with its version control and commenting does a pretty decent job but it doesn't make it easier to write better. Things can also languish in random docs and after a point the number of comments and iterations gets overwhelming.
Hacking content_for to create a simple display helper
The fundamental ideas of OOP are pervasive data privacy and the consequent synchronization via message passing. Now, many OO languages have badly butchered that, but that is the idea, as in Smalltalk: Objects are opaque participants in a colloquy.

I'm not sure where you got "the majority disagree with your definition of the term" when I didn't even attempt to define the term until this reply! Or why you key on the word "orthogonal" which is in the parent of my comment, and certainly is imprecise: A better description would be, OOP holds no exclusive claim to these ideas. We don't all despise OOP, but rather the false notion that it is a "silver bullet." I quite like well done OOP with expressive types.

I'd be irritated by you linking to Wikipedia articles for "Programming paradigm" and OOP except they're mobile links, which means you're getting all in a hissy on the go, and that's sorta cute.
for simple cli notes application terminal_velocity is great, especially with Tilda.
Indeed, I was briefly involved with the "bookz" scene as it was known at the time, over a decade ago, and the amount of --- completely voluntary --- effort that its members expended, especially considering the risks, was nothing short of amazing. People would go to their local libraries and borrow dozens of books to scan and upload, while also discussing on the forums ways to make the process go more quickly, and in general collaborating very efficiently.

When a few of them turned out to be from the same region, they would even organise "scanparties" where the goal would be to digitise whole sections of a particular library within a short time. I'm sure they raised some suspicion among librarians, and others would've noticed when entire shelves suddenly became empty, but to my knowledge no one was actually caught... and there were plenty of excuses to go around.

A memorable result from one of those is that there is now an extensive collection of car service manuals floating around on the Internet in various torrents and also as individual PDFs.
>> Why does the article say this?
ANSI CL in fact uses the term "dynamic variable". The "special" aspect of a d. v. is the marking of a symbol itself for binding dynamically, rather than lexically. I.e. special treatment applies to it.
The neurons with larger numbers of connections likely have higher electrical activity in the body.
A world of free whatever simonsarris does for a living would be _____ richer.
It's a bit weird, many try HTML5, some try Android, many do Qt but some run something with help of Weston. It's difficult to say for me who is winning because I'm not involved in enough different projects I feel.
The article only describes them being eaten one by one, and does not describe how massive numbers are being eaten at once. The question seems reasonable-- how is the number 40,000 arrived at? Do you know? The article feels hand-wavy and light on sources and details. This feels to me like the kind of number that someone arrived at by assuming that a bear might eat its entire caloric intake in moths and then dividing 20k calories by 0.5 per moth, so it could be up to 40000 moths.

There's a sign on waterless urinals all over the place that claims it saves "up to" 40000 gallons of water per year. It'd have to be running non-stop 24/7/365 for that to be true. There's an ad that I hear playing on NPR sometimes about a container rail train that gets "up to" 500 miles per gallon. Just keeping the lights on uses more gas than that. These "statistics" don't pass the smell test, and this story feels similar to me.
Do you have any ideas on how to prevent "really, really bad stuff" versus regular old bad stuff?
We know what happens: evolution. The idea that the whole thing will totally collapse because you made one change is ridiculous and frankly utterly unsupported by the evidence, not least our understanding of this poor optimization algorithm driven by random chance.

I frankly always find these comments unpleasant because they seem to come exclusively from people sitting in some air-conditioned building miles away from a full 5 m^2 trees that they got to riding a 2 ton behemoth on tarmaced streets that casually reaches speeds no animal ever could powered by the remains of dinosaurs. Yeah I wonder how that affected "the web of life". It's a fashionable form of NIMBY except these people are not arguing from a position of naked self-interest but ignorance.
Yeah, I guess you're mostly right because they write all the UI code from scratch anyway.
These guys basically believe in magic soil, and that the inhabitants of "rich countries" are inherently interchangeable. The institutions just magically appeared separate from culture and demographics.
There was a big problem where people were manipulating biomes in the game by messing with OSM, so unless there's some sharing going on with Google..?
The reality is humans have caused another mass extinction event for the planet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/climate/mass-extinction-a...

So that's the reality of the situation. If we are wiping out species, might as well do one like mosquitoes which are a nuisance, bring disease and do not have some kind of monopoly in their biological niche. Anything that eats mosquitoes also eats other bugs.
But won't you please think of the mosquitoes!
The moped menace: how the scooter became muggers’ vehicle of choice
Do you have evidence to support this claim?
Whether something is a language or a dialect is a political question, not a linguistic one. The Arabic dialects are as varied as the Romance languages in grammar and vocabulary.
You are either lying or misinformed. The "big block camp" absolutely does think a user's ability to validate the blockchain is worth keeping. This is why proposals that scale blocks according to Moore's law have been created. This is also why proposals exist which allow flexible block sizes based on need.

You are also ignoring the fact that for most of bitcoin's existence, block sizes were soft limited by miners as appropriate. With soft limited or flexible block sizes, just because big blocks are used sometimes when transaction volume is high does not mean that we will see gigabyte block sizes every 10 minutes for all of time.

The root of the debate is that small blockers have conveniently chosen to ignore the reality that markets and market participants can regulate themselves.

In the small blocker's mind, keeping the power in the user's hands means making bitcoin so expensive that the only people who can use it directly are banks and governments that offer sidechain connections to other networks. They blather on about decentralization while the reality is they are the ones creating centralization.

It is a questionably convenient choice for small blockers because it forces centralization to things that aren't actually bitcoin which is the most logical desire of governments or other bodies who wish to subvert bitcoin.
But its still the wrong explanation. Think about it:

(i) Miners, not average users, hold the voting power.

(ii) When the 1 MB block-size is congested (like it is now), miners make significantly more money on transaction fee's.

(iii) Increasing the block-size increases supply and reduces demand for priority processing in the block, hence, reduces transaction fee's.

Which explanation truly matches your view of reality here. People (miners) are motivated by "A shared vision" or a dollar in the bank account? Look at it closer (quote from parent comment):

>

> "larger blocks means more resources required to transmit, validate and store blocks and if you cannot validate blocks, then you are trusting transaction validators (miners)"

>

Can you see the problem with the explanation now? Its written from the view of an end user (of bitcoin), not a miner. But its miners who vote on the fork, hence, the above quoted text is mostly irrelevant to understanding the "WHY" of the fork battle.
There's no reason for a p2p marketplace to be tied to certain medium of exchange or to use a blockchain for anything else but identity and reputation.
This is only a good idea if we ignore that a billion people would migrate in a few months in an attempt to escape poverty. The results would be catastrophic.
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>European countries, such as Sweden, migrants are more likely to get into trouble than locals, but this is mostly because they are more likely to be young and male.

I don't even know where to start with this. Could it be that young and male aren't the core of the issue?

I like how the article almost dismisses the realities of religious and racial conflicts.

Then there is this:

>If the worry is that immigrants will outvote the locals and impose an uncongenial government on them, one solution would be not to let immigrants vote—for five years, ten years or even a lifetime. This may seem harsh, but it is far kinder than not letting them in. If the worry is that future migrants might not pay their way, why not charge them more for visas, or make them pay extra taxes, or restrict their access to welfare benefits? Such levies could also be used to regulate the flow of migrants, thus avoiding big, sudden surges

This seems like a very sane system. Why is this not something we do? Do we not care about local interests at all as long as immigration isn't "too high"?

As an immigrant, I think this would be fair.
What do you think about the steemit.com model, where instead of reader pays for the upvote, the whole community pays for it through dilution?
They stiched still images together to make the video, perhaps that created the speed up?
http://knowledgenuts.com/2015/01/21/how-to-starve-to-death-w...

A certain degree of fat is essential. People have been reported to actually starve on very high protein/very little fat diets.
I think we're now going in another direction it seems. First it was fat is bad, then it was fat is good, now it seems fat is bad again.

I don't know what to think anymore...
> I remember thinking how on earth did Porter get his name on a "theory" when really that's just common sense?

This is how I've always felt about "De Morgan's Laws". There are two, and they state:

1. If it is not the case that two things are both true, then at least one of those things is false.

2. If it is not the case that either of two things is true, then both of those things are false.

(Actually, they are logical equivalences, so they also apply in the other order -- "1b. If at least one of two things is false, then it is not the case that both things are true.")

I'm pretty sure both of those "laws" were known well before the nineteenth century.
> The only people who get screwed are the main chain people, and NOT the BCC chain supporters/users.

Sounds like definitely adversarial behavior to me, not "borderline". They have the opportunity to write secure opt-out (on-by-default) replay protection-- like by choosing a new address prefix (etc)--, and they choose not to.

Your "steal segwit coins" scenario wont work when the transaction tree is tainted by post-fork coinbase outputs.
I believe the article is talking about the (lack of) corruption and general respect for rule of law (and the implications it entails; such as a independent judiciary and fair/transparent trails).

The author really should've gone into detail and defended their assertion though.
Man makes out with dog
I second this. I don't know why, but I can feel my heart beat at all times. After strenuous exercise, it throbs very forcibly, but it's also very noticeable when lying in bed (I sleep in a prone position). It's not a great feeling, because, for one, it reminds you that you have a thing that's beating all the time and would kill you if it stopped, and also because it's just annoying to be feeling your heart pulsing inside you every moment of the day.
excellent! i wonder if there are more algorithms that can be used in this game. binary search is an algorithm that can be easily done by a person (doesn't need a ton of iterations to locate result).
>they both use open-loop policies that lead to massive volatility

Is that really the (only) reason that there is a massive volatility? Why isn't gold more volatile than it is then?

I'd say that another reason for massive volatility is the newness of everything and the consequent lack of confidence that something about the system (technical or otherwise) won't break down in time.
Bears, like true omnivores, eat bugs and fruits and animal flesh and grass and practically anything to fill their bellies. Bears also, like true omnivores, can't get atherosclerosis from things they consume.

Humans, feeding on primarily fat based diet get atherosclerosis very often. Best epidemiological/history research on that topic is done on Inuits where remains of children showed atherosclerotic plaques in the vessels - their diet, although not ketogenic, contained mostly animal fats and proteins. Other mechanistic studies proved that direct causal mechanism exists but the same thing happens also with sugary diet, or essentially any diet with a caloric surplus (highest effect of course with highly caloric diets or diets rich in cholesterol over long timespans).

Essential fatty acids (omega-3 and omega-6), on the other hand, are abundant in animal flesh (if we ignore plant oils). Human reliance on these sources definitely implies we are omnivores but with a certain complex twist.

Given the young age of nutrition science, lack of personalized methods, and flawed epidemiological studies (for example, epidemiological studies condemning meat and dietary cholesterol ultimately fail, on the other hand, studies showing that dietary cholesterol has no effect on basline cholesterol are methodologically flawed), a skeptic would conclude we still know little when it comes to long consistent living and the effect of diet on health. We do know a lot about intervention on sick people though. Practically any diet that is more healthy than a diet sick people practice works, best one being the one with highest nutrient to calories ratio (foods that have huge volume but low calories tend to have that characteristic and its mostly just plants - hard to overeat and create a caloric surplus), which is a plant-based diet. Still, it's questionable how this works long term (what's the source of fatty acids? where's B12 etc.).
As somebody which picked up a lot of Italian and Spanish by watching TV I can tell you about a problem of this method - you will understand it pretty well, but when you'll try to speak it the words just won't come out. You'll immediately recognize the word for "car", but you'll struggle to come up with the same word on demand.

I think this shows that there is a need to also speak/write a language, not just listen/read.
The tearing is the monitor's fault? I'd noticed some tearing, but attributed it to driver issues.
I love it that you can customise it to have FreeDOS instead of Windows:

http://store.hp.com/us/en/ConfigureView?catalogId=10051&lang...

Edit: PS, is there a way to get this thing in Australia? Their aussie website is atrocious, can't for the live of me find the customise option for the Slice...
Well dude, I have some funding for crazy gene therapy projects, so let me know if you want to work on things that matter. But it's all somewhat outside of academia, so it doesn't really appeal to everyone.

Some very high-level background on where this is coming from: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/hplusroadmap/ (we hang out mostly on IRC and would love to hear your project ideas).

Much more modest in scope, this is one of our recent projects: https://blog.kitmatic.com/2017/06/28/electroporation-is-now-...
Institutions are mostly policies, procedures and process.

What's the difference between a well-run company and poorly-run one? Would you rather work in a team of geniuses with no process, or a team of average developers who follow best practices?
> All registered attendees will have the Legendary Pokémon, Lugia, added to their account.

Lugia? That’s some damage control right there.
Yes but that's configurable with a good tool.
There's no tree, it's flat. I find it works better than Tree Tabs at the moment unless you need the tree.
This guy went to Harvard and went to the industry, we call guys like these lemons in our profession.
Yeah, I got mine out after a few years. It lost sensitivity as magnets do, and I didn't want to pinch a nerve. They have new ones that are much slimmer now, but also much more difficult to remove...I passed.

We actually do have promising 'batteries' for this sort of application as of 2017, though; lithium hybrid supercapacitors. They're roughly an order of magnitude worse than Li-Po batteries today, in energy density and cost. But the advantages over LiPos are a higher ~10C charge/discharge rate, no thermal runaway "Galaxy S7" issues, and a maximum charge retention rate on the order of 80-95% after 10,000 cycles should let them last decades at least. A very compact 100F/24mAh module is available today at 1.8-2.7V from Murata, and I think Taiyo-Yuden has offerings too.

I think we're still making progress. Anyone buying one of those magnets knew they were buying into an alpha version of a product; it's not like we asked the FDA to approve things first.
What value? The market cap of bitcoin relies on an assumption that it will be used on a large scale as a transactional currency - its usefulness for transactions and the expectation that this usefulness will increase in the long run is the only thing that makes bitcoin valuable.

Without this assumption there's no inherent value; and thus it's also a bad store of value since the current market cap can't be justified if it doesn't stay/become a popular transactional currency.
Never fuck the company, even if it is your company.
> Could it be that young and male aren't the core of the issue?

Young males commit most crimes all over the world. If you have an alternative explanation, I'd like to see strong statistical evidence to back it up.
stop relying on others to tell you what to think!

Just eat a tiny bit of everything, and make sure you get regular exercise.
The curious case of del.icio.us
Yes, this is a usecase up and running. But it is only interesting for people who fear the censorship of a transactions, which is not a lot. High international fees is something other startups like TransferWise are addressing – and they don't need a blockchain for that.
Not to mention the social welfare systems would collapse.
FTA:

> If the worry is that future migrants might not pay their way, why not charge them more for visas, or make them pay extra taxes, or restrict their access to welfare benefits? Such levies could also be used to regulate the flow of migrants, thus avoiding big, sudden surges
https://www.brain.fm/ does this. I enjoy using it while working sometimes and I think it works very well as believable background electronic music.
Mosquito elimination is considered for metropolitan areas where it'd have an insignificant environmental impact rather than as a global extinction.
I presume their satellites aren't equipped to take more than one image per second. (For most of their applications, it's not necessary, and adding that ability to a microsat is would definitely increase the weight/cost/power.)

You can watch it on 25% speed on YouTube. It's pretty jittery, so it would be nice if someone made an interpolated version.
Care to explain more?
Eat moths.
Do you really think that if a billion people wanted to migrate in a few months we would have anyway of stopping them? They would have to be motivated by something pretty terrible and yet allow them mobility at the same time. Like say a war. Which we see all the time.