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They're IT companies that just don't sell any of their tech. But then Facebook don't sell their tech either. Just as a computer is an enabler at Facebook to manage personal contacts and communications, at Google to manage their indexing and advertising business, at Amazon to manage their ordering and inventory systems. Banks nowadays are just as much IT companies as any of these. A typical bank employs thousands of developers. They even develop their own development and service deployment environments, their own IDEs, even their own custom languages, middleware, development frameworks and libraries and database technologies.

Some have even rolled their own internal cloud infrastructure services like mini-Azures or a mini-AWS and systems like Hadoop but using entirely custom tech, not just an instance of an open source solution. There is almost nothing going on in the big tech giants in terms of core technology development that some banks somewhere aren't also doing.

You might split hairs or come up with some technical definition to avoid classifying them in this way, but if you do you will be deluding yourself. The Banks have found that in many areas they cannot rely on external technology companies to meet their needs, so they have to meet them using internal resources and roll a lot of their own tech.
>But mostly the cache is used for retroactive surveillance to catch colluders after an event.

The bar for collusion is really low. Look at what happened to the pot dealer for the guys that bombed the Boston marathon.

The odds of any one transaction coming back to get you are practically and almost literally zero but when something bad happens it doesn't happen in a vacuum. The bank robbers have to buy their getaway car from someone.
You probably shouldn't act like a dick online with your linkdin page in your bio dude. Just a tip.
> 2009-05-31 - Conventional wisdom

>The future is now in the hands of political forces. We can't predict that from fundamentals. So we have no further predictions at this time.

So diversifying ones portfolio based on ones portfolio exposure to "political risks"? Usually you see people trade on that in currency markets? If most of ones portfolio is dominated by a single currency (and hard to liquidate to another asset?) one will have the most exposure to the political risks in that particular locale?
> I would also include the arts, entertainment, service work, craftsmanship, etc.

But that destroys your argument, because these things are not automated and won't be any time soon. Automation certainly does not remove the need for humans to create works of art and entertainment, to perform services, to provide craftsmanship, etc. So if all those things are included in "produce", then there are lots of ways for humans to produce that won't be displaced by automation any time soon.

> Automation on the other hand eliminates jobs as it goes

So does labor specialization, as you call it. Machine augmentation doesn't just create "more and more specific jobs"--it eliminates the old jobs that didn't require the knowledge of how to use the machines.

Also, even if a tractor isn't automated (it requires a human driver), it still enables one human to do work that it took many humans (about 20, with the present state of farm automation in the US) to do before. All those other jobs are indeed eliminated. Historically, farm laborers whose jobs disappeared went to the cities and started working in factories or learned a trade.

> My argument is that paying people to sit at home and watch soap operas is preferable to paying them to sit in jail cells.

Agreed, but my argument is that if those are the only two choices, we're doomed. Basically, you're saying society will, in the fairly near future, end up stagnant--all important jobs will be automated and all of the humans will just sit around watching soap operas (except, perhaps, for the small number of humans who oversee the automation). And I'm saying that such a society will collapse, because the rest of the universe is not stagnant. Things are always changing, and only humans--human thought and human ingenuity--can cope with change. (And if your answer is that we'll just invent AI and automate that too, that just means we'll be at the mercy of the AI, which I don't see as a good situation.)

> the idea that someone could live off of the excess production of our society is offensive to huge numbers of people

I would put this differently. I would say that the idea that someone could receive a basic living without producing anything that improves anyone's lives is offensive to huge numbers of people. And it should be.
No, since I've reduced my day to ~6 work hours I am much more productive.
To me the whole point of a university course is to learn part of the theoretical knowledge you would not learn spontaneously by practicing. That includes way more than just algorithms and datastructures.

For example, a good knowledge of language theory will prevent engineers from creating scripting languages that cannot be parsed. Probabilities are everywhere in machine learning. Many engineers work with by-products of operational research and need to understand the theory behind them to make them efficient. Complex numbers and trigonometry (quaternions etc.) are needed to build even basic 3D engines. Recent probabilistic data structures such as hyperloglog are being integrated into modern database systems. Good understanding of operating systems is useful for security and parallel programming...
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The worst thing from a hardware perspective on the switch is their proprietary dock. They could have used open standards for docked mode, then people could use existing things (like my Apple HDMI dongle, or any of the other third party USB-C power/HDMI ones) as a portable docking solution.

Personally I'm not going to buy a second dock, because it is unnecessarily bulky for traveling, when some thing dongle sized could do the exact same job. Taking my switch and plugging it into a friends TV shouldn't be as much of a hassle as it is, being that it is a portable console. Yes, it is smaller than other consoles even with the dock, but it still requires its own bag to carry it all.
"Dianne Feinstein and her financier husband, Richard Blum; House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi;"

I'd buy it and set up a shooting range.
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I'm saying that $3 -> $5 is less of a difference than $30k -> $50k.
Every Australian state (but not the Territories) has a 'Brighton'

Brighton, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane

Brighton, South Australia, a coastal suburb of Adelaide

Brighton, Tasmania

Brighton, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne

Brighton, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth

Brighton-Le-Sands, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Australia
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I actually met Max while we both happened to be in Thailand in 2015. We spent the day on bicycles following the directions his script told him, without hesitation. Regardless of where it was in the city, that's where we went next (a laundry mat, daycare, cafes, and the zoo iirc). Nothing was skipped, because it was what the software told us to do.

Here are some pictures from that day https://goo.gl/photos/gyCNRz2rs7zLJrt79
Yeah, it's meant to be more fun than practical (or realistic)
I used to take the 456 line on Lexington Ave. back and forth between Home & Work for the past 5 years. In January, the Q line on 86th st. opened, and although it takes me ~10 minutes longer each way, it is a MUCH more pleasant experience.

The 456 is a nightmare, and I can tell you first hand, that it is crowded to a point where it is inhumane (imagine people literally fighting for a spot to have the "privilege" to smell the arm-pits in their faces).

The Q line is well worth the headache, and the frustration of dealing with the 456.
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I hope they dont ban it. although i dont like the concept it needs somewhere to go. i dont think a ban is on the cards. utrecht is still building brand new brothels. unfortunately in my neighbourhood. would be better if they used areas outside of city limits for this though. you dont want kids growing up near brothels.
There's plenty of context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14938427
Buried lede: All those very valuable privately-owned parking spaces weren't even being assessed for anything close to their fair share of property tax.

If you owned just one parking space on this street, how much do you think you could rent it out for on Craigslist?

This land has 120 parking spaces. And it was being assessed at $14 a year in property tax -- not just the parking spaces, but all of the common property.
No it's not. The only people that view Bitcoin as an alternative to gold are the people buying/trading in Bitcoin. No one else is that delusional.
Same language, we called L because I'm Larry, then decided that was stupid and renamed it little as in little language.
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Yeah, there were a huge number of articles in 2006 with a theme of market doom and housing debt and CDOs being the culprit.
Interestingly, reaction to the manifesto by itself displayed pretty clearly social temperature as to public reaction to a male employee that shared his feeling of inequality.
Of course. There's rarely a single cause for anything.

But in today's world, real systematic discrimination in hiring and employment isn't likely to be the main driver at places like Google. When you're selecting for individuals several standard deviations above the mean in ability, even very slight shifts in the population mean dramatically affect the number you'll find at such a threshold. This is a touchy third-rail subject, one we'd probably do well not to discuss much, but when the alternative is constantly being told that you're racist or prejudiced, people will naturally want to fight back.

If the city police or local factory had extremely lopsided racial representation, I'd be much more inclined to believe it's due to prejudice. Any average person can do these jobs. Even if there are differences between groups, all groups would have a huge number of people around the average range.

And I'm not saying this out of some attempt to claim supremacy, justify prejudice, or advocate for eugenics. My family is from Portugal. If I had to wager, I wouldn't bet on Portuguese being at the top of the heap intellect-wise, on average. Look at who's winning the Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals--it's not people like me most of the time. Still, we should treat every person as an individual, with respect and dignity.
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Ah, I was getting the same error in Chrome Canary and it just took a while to load data. Came here to let the OP know about it and when I tabbed back it was no longer NaN/10.
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Meanwhile, Toyota and Mazda quietly announced a tie-up specifically for all electric vehicles. I know it's not as much fun as rooting for Tesla, but the odds are on the German and Japanese incumbents in the long run. It's very Japan Inc to wait until consumer interest proves itself, and then start the long game in extreme earnest with cross-brand cooperatives and government backing.
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I ride the 6 every week day -- luckily I don't go during prime rush hour, but even when I do, I don't understand why more people don't go to the end car. It's ALWAYS less full any time of day.
It seems like all the animations in this article are GIFs, not actual animated SVGs :(

I wonder why he chose to export them as GIFs after going through all the work to create SVGs. They also seem to be pretty choppy as a result. Maybe whatever CMS the article is using doesn't support SVGs?
Zen cores actually have half sized SIMD units compare to Intel. They will execute AVX instructions, but for programs that use AVX well, Intel should win. Using AVX at all is still rare, using it well even more so, but Intel's AVX SIMD performance is pretty stellar.
One could argue that the volatility scale should be the other way round; that the diamond should be showing extreme values on everything other than household debt, which is middling.

The market is normally calm on the way up, which is why you might think its current upward movement will soon be interrupted by a volatile down-move.
Break that down for me, do you prefer to remember 0003 or just 3? 1 in 7-adic or 7 in dekadic? I count 1, 2, many; so don't ask me; also I asked first.
Have you had any issues with the trackpad? I have a Lenovo w530 and the trackpad is junk. The texture completely rubbed off with a few months of heavy use. The scrolling behavior is erratic on both Ubuntu 17.04 and Windows 10. It's probably the biggest factor in determining whether I buy another Thinkpad or go back to Apple.
Agreed, it is a common trap of people who are 'smart' to assume their own reasoning is valid even without external confirmation

Increasingly identified as "Engineer's Disease."
What's offensive is, the thought that the only good in a life is working like a slave to please an intellectual's ideal.

Its the old Protestant work ethic, which served us for a time but is rapidly becoming obsolete.

In the 1950's we wrote about how robots would remove the yoke of labor from our shoulders, let us go on to be creating and enjoy leisure. Now that it's happening, folks are panicking. Cries of "But people must work; its offensive if they have leisure!" go up on every discussion site.

Try to think outside the box. What might people accomplish if they're not required to labor at McD's for 8 hours a day?
Take any tests with scaling governor "powersave" using the intel_pstate with a grain of salt. This powersave mode has nothing in common with the acpi_cpufreq's version of powersave and is quite aggressive at clocking down the CPU, even in periods of 100% CPU usage (when it decides that the throughput benefit of remaining highly clocked isn't worth it). This happens especially on memory-bound codes.

See for example https://stackoverflow.com/a/45201673/149138 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43343231/enhanced-rep-mo... - both of which show large performance variance between powersave and performance. In the first example, the CPU clocks down indefinitely to 1.1 GHz from a nominal 2.6 GHz despite being 100% CPU-bound, and performance is cut in half.

Despite having the same governor name, "powersave" with acpi-cpufreq has no relationship. It's using low-frequency software control and generally ramps up to 100% frequency (highest pstate) once CPU-bound code starts running and stays there.
Ignoring correlations to market downturns and ignoring the data is delusional https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1...
Maybe they should put housing on it. Keep the streets as they are (free for residents) but sell the air rights to a developer.

That should make the other residents happy.

But maybe that would take a zoning change.
I still rock an X201 :)

Arch Linux + Gnome 3 + SSD everything feels instantenous.

Only thing lacking is the slugishness if I want to convert an h265 video. But that's understandable.

Battery still lasts whole day (9 cell battery at 68% health).
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PoW wouldn't work if power was free or unlimited.
Everything based on crypto currency.
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Long answer:

On a grand scale, it's hard to tell, as the market is so big. When you break it down, there is the stock market, then there's the derivative market, the bond market, the housing market, foreign markets, crypto markets, and on and on. You also have to look at previous crashes and see what sticks out from past lessons.

With the stock market, you can look at average P/E ratios over time for the Nasdaq and get somewhat of an estimate. To dig a little deeper, you can look at individual sectors index, such as the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index - NBI

Derivatives market - Deutsch Bank last year was facing a semi crisis mode due to having too big of an open derivatives position. What was it? Idk, I didn't dig too deep. Derivatives markets are still, well, derived from an underlying product. So in theory, if you find the product, you find the bubble. Something like soymeal futures last year, is a good example.

Bond market - falling due to increasing rates. 1981-82 was caused by interest rate hikes, to fight inflation, but they were like 15-17%. We're struggling to get the glorified 2% inflation. Granted this is all what's reported to us, who really knows.

Housing market - new housing starts, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST does seem to be a somewhat of a leading indicator. General housing index doesn't seem to show a general cool off -https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA.

Foreign markets - A lot of countries for the past couple years have been in the shitter, in terms of GDP - Russia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, etc. Then there are countries who have cooled off - UK, Germany, China, etc. However, the US and India just keep charging up the hill. Also, a lot of it is based on speculation. China a couple weeks ago announced that they had tied last years GDP growth, when analysts thought they were gonna miss. Regardless, this is still one piece to a massive puzzle. If you look at participation rate through out the world, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.ZS?page=2 it's been falling. This could be explained by an aging population of basically all WW2 countries - http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-larges.... As well all know fine and well here, this may not be a big problem YET due to automation. In other words, it's hard to truly tell where and which pillar could break, that could really push this beast downward.

Crypto markets - the fun new kid on the block. Super entertaining to watch people hodl and meme about it, but is still no where near the size needed to cause a correction.

A few other interesting things I've seen floating around:

The VIX is at an all time low. Someone commented somewhere that they believe this is due to too many people believing there's gonna be a crash soon. As such, they're holding more cash than usual.

Around $4.2 trillion is now tied up in index funds. As such, if there is a panic in the index fund market, it could cause a crash. Idk about the validity of this one though, market makers could easily prop it, and buy on the panic and sell when it's cooled off.
I wonder if there's some way to do proof of location based on the latency of light.

Edit: It would clearly require some pretty complex network interactions. You can't be able to precompute a proof and send it to another place.

I'm thinking something like every node broadcasting a public key, which every other node then uses to sign an identifier and sends back. From this, you can generate local maps of the network. While nodes could collude to seem close to each other or lie and claim other nodes are far away, there's presumably some density of truth at which you can construct a reliable global map.
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Thanks, I appreciate your response. I can see how it was right for your specific scenario.
I feel like there are so many use cases for this library.
That required a second console and an add-on.
Dyson vacuums have interesting industrial design, but in terms of function they don't even make the CR top ten[1], so yes, I expect they are better than some, but they are also more expensive than most.

1: https://www.consumerreports.org/products/upright-vacuum/rati...
Can you be more specific? What exactly do I need to disable to see a battery life boost?
You're right about that. The context there was another phoronix article. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-se... and the update to it explains what happened.

There are however reports of segfaults during compilations that seem more Ryzen-specific, though even there GCC versions were said to play a role. It is all a bit obscure currently.
It wasn't as simple as the Switch's dock, which is included in the box. It felt more like an afterthought.
Too bad the worth of this information is regionally constrained. (The internet is truely amazing to bridge this gap so easily.)
Which itself is a bit silly, since there are already wireless video standards being built into TVs.

It seems like a pretty obvious ad though.