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I know this is going to be unpopular, but my family spends more on the Haagen Dazs because it's one of the only actual real ice creams without the guar gum and other fillers. I looked at the ingredients of so many brands in the grocery store before realizing.
I think we have to consider using higher levels of abstraction when discussing how organisms so far removed from our neighborhood of the tree of life deal with experiencing the universe.

Instead of "talking" - communicating

Instead of "feeling" - sensing

Instead of "thinking" - processing

And so on. We risk anthropomorphizing other living beings we can't possibly relate to. Just as it's important we gain better understanding of how other living things live, it's just as important to not apply how we live to them.

At worst we should talk about "analogs" instead of euphemisms. Does a tree feel "pain" or does a tree feel a "pain analog"? The first is ascribing something that may not even make sense, the second grounds us in comparisons and looking for cause and effect analogs.

Do trees talk? No, they have no mouths. Do trees communicate? As we understand these things more and more, it appears that there's some kind of analog there.

Do trees feel? Maybe that's the wrong question. Do trees respond to stimuli? Of course!
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I would honestly rather change careers than work in a cubicle. They give me a feeling of deep existential dread. Do some actually prefer them?
Do you allow remote work instead?
It's likely still cool after sitting for a while, just not ice cold. If you take melted ice cream and eat/drink it, it's still cool, although probably less pleasant.
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Huh? 1-Click patent? Does this mean I can literally patent a design choice?
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While I don't doubt this contributed, it also presumes that government is the main driver of social interation, which itself implies a non-participatory philosophy of the person..

If you are correct, how then did this philosophy get into place to begin with?

I would argue that it is more likely the rise of corporatism in the post war era which brought massive disruption of 'organic' social networks and through the large-scale transformation of economic activity from small businesses into larger ones removed much of the need for societal participation.

mass media, the decline of religious life, and the entrance of women into the workplace also likely are major factors - we can entertain ourselves, don't hear moral/values in a community, and have fully 1/2 of the house dedicated to matters of societal rather than economic concern
> who will read slogans like this and react in a negative way, even though I know they could be convinced otherwise

I guess what I'm saying is "out of the closets into the streets" probably didn't convince anyone that gay people were not pedophiles coming out into the streets to molest their children when it was being chanted by "rioters" in 1969. But the people who were inspired by that slogan and came out to their families and friends... that convinced a lot of people.

Slogans aren't always about converting other people to join your cause, they can be about convincing the already converted to act on their beliefs.
I wrote a much longer comment, but long story short:

I'm in medical research. Do I think antivaxxers should be able to publish in medical journals? No (unless they performed an experiment that passes peer review, etc).

Do I think they should be able to run their own websites, have nonviolent meetings or rallies without losing their jobs? Yes, I do. Even though antivaxxers are doing far more harm than neo-Nazis are.

Also, "scientific/academic consensus" and "rationality" are not synonyms.
> ...life there can be very harsh indeed if you strike adversity and don't have family to care for you.

Life can be very harsh if you're unfortunate but don't qualify for government benefits. Or maybe you've genuinely turned a corner in your life but government rules don't have mercy like individuals can.
Isn't caring for your neighbor an inherently 'collectivist' act?
Why is that? A cubicle is essentially an office without a door.
One of the things that Tocqueville approved of in America is that everyone had some experience of government via jury duty. Which is compulsory (at least in principle, and in those days, probably in practice too).

I've often wondered if random juries should play a larger role in day-to-day government. Forcing people to work like this is a huge tax and not to be taken lightly, but taxing peoples attention rather than their wallets might actually be what we need.
Me too. I love how the most insightful comments get to the top instead of meme comments or just plain circle-jerk stuff, like in reddit.
I was going by what was suggested in the featured article, and my thoughts on the matter are nothing more than conjecture based on what was implied:

Americans tend to place great importance on both marriage and personal autonomy, which is reflected in their very high marriage and divorce rates (higher than in other advanced industrialized countries, including Canada)

Relevant link embedded in the quoted text: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2012...
Compared to open plan? Absolutely. Even half-walls are better.
It is interesting that those who are looking experimentally for both dark matter and dark energy have come up empty in every experiment so far performed.

The theorists seem to ignore this and rely more on faith in their mathematical theories and models leading to dogmatic reliance on their belief not on experimental evidence.

Reminds me of the "The Neverending Debate" between String Theorists and Non-String Theorists.

Mathematics is a very useful tool, but if reality differs from the mathematic model then the mathematics is not sufficient and is only a simplistic view for us to use.
I am a cynic.
I do agree with compassion and kindness as basis of humanity. Eudaimonia.

But I do reject shame and guilt as motivation. For me this is just a mechanism of social coercion, especially for urban societies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynicism_(philosophy)
"that guy doesn't listen to, or maybe listens but doesn't believe, women when they speak about their lived experience of oppression in our society."
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They wouldn't pay it unless it made good business sense. And besides "just works" Apple wouldn't want to have to offer a subpar default search offering to their users. So it's always win-win.
People on HN seem to be more open minded and curious. Reddit seems more judgemental. Just my 2 cents
Not sure how it's played out in practice but I've heard a lot about GE Predix. It's something like an IoT PaaS "Heroku for factories".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predix_(software)
The IOCCC is fun, but isn't it time for C/C++ to get standard formatting for consistent readability? Like Go and Python.
Well they give you the opportunity to have down time when appropriate. And when you don't treat your employees like factory workers - surprise! They stay more with better satisfaction
Why should I believe what you say? It sounds truthy and has plenty of logic to it, but I've come to ask for more before believing something.
I've been trying to run Adwords Universal Campaign on my iOS app, but Google just wouldn't drive any traffic to my iOS app while similar Android campaign works like a charm. Is Google trying to undermine Apple via its Search/Adwords monopoly here?
The reason you're not contributing to the conversation is that your comment seems to reflect a naivete borne only by those few who haven't read Thompson's "On Trusting Trust".

tl;dr: We can't even trust the compiler, let alone a transhuman superintelligence's source code.

Edit: Beyond that, your post demonstrates an additional naivete in that you hold that a superintelligence's would even have source code. Today's ML models consist of thousands or millions of node weights, and the source code is uninteresting. A superintelligence would almost certainly be shifted even further toward data and away from code.
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The divorce rate is a new thing though, right? I'd bet that even if it was an arranged marriage, if you knew you weren't going to get divorced, you'd try to find ways to love your partner...
So in addition to hearing people chatter all day I have to hear them rolling desks around?
I suspect it's that they don't want to take the risk that not being front and center on Apple platforms could have on their business. Maybe droves Apple of users would jump ship to Bing... Or maybe they would jump ship to Android if Google Maps and Waze were pulled from the App Store.
I hope they don't do all of this. UberEATS is best in class. Seriously an order of magnitude better experience than all of the other food delivery apps.
Transaction fees, even when they're really expensive like they currently are on the Bitcoin chain, are still minimal in comparison to the block reward of 12.5 Bitcoins (or about $51,250 at current prices) per block found.

Here's a link to a recent full block found on the Bitcoin chain, total transaction fees were 0.43 BTC (or about $1,750).

Recent Full Block on Bitcoin Chain - https://blockchain.info/block/00000000000000000112ebb0462fe5...
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Lol. People don't like my opinion and idgaf. If they are that offended by it, I removed it even tho I think its stupid.
I guess I don't know what sort of scenarios you're alluding to. In the context of healthcare, universal healthcare means by definition that its available to everyone.

But yes, unfortunate you if you get something that's not covered under the universal deal, e.g. some kind of leading edge cancer treatment. That's when you hope your private insurance (if any) will pick up the tab.
He might have used a naughty word but he's on-topic for the hot-desking the article mentions, and not wrong. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7377002.stm
I am trying not to cargo cult here but I think if I need to scroll a file with 9 font on a 32"+ screen with 4k display it might be a sign of code smell (again, this should definitely not be a hard rule just saying it might be nice to stop and think why it is so long)?
Its not technically possible at this time for this to be true.
For accountant offices, the Big 4 are starting to roll out hotdesking, unfortunately.
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When we celebrate rather than punish differences, we a get a population where people are more self-actualized and less oppressed, but have little in common with each other. If we are to have any semblance of community, we need to build it through voluntary associations.

Trust, empathy, bonding, etc. are going to be a lot harder when someone's identity, life experiences, and circumstances are completely foreign to your own. I don't think it makes cooperation impossible, but as a practical matter it means we're more likely to need huge, complex institutions like the federal government to mediate cooperation. People also seem less likely to want to cooperate or sacrifice their resources for others who are nothing like them.

One way societies have historically dealt with this is to close their borders, beat the shit out of internal nonconformists and, if they remain unrepentant, torture them to death in the public square by lighting them on fire. Subtler variants persist; for example, the official government's indifference to vigilante enforcement actions ranging from bullying (Japan) to beheading (Saudi Arabia).

It seems clear to me that our culture of welcoming and celebrating differences is more just and causes better outcomes for more people, but it does mean that we aren't all in the same boat.
As someone who spends less than $3k a month and lives a comfortable western lifestyle in a first world country, that seems rather high.

Now I haven't been to Thailand, but in Vietnam you could live very, very comfortably for half that.
The Company should be putting a property tag on everything that is theirs, or at least recording serial numbers.
In regards to the issue of file systems being non-searchable, it's definitely worth taking a look at compressed full-text indexes: http://pizzachili.dcc.uchile.cl/resources/compressed_indexes...

Under this scheme each file on disk would be stored as an index with constant factor overhead. The original file is not needed; all of the data can be decoded out of the index.
A big day for Apple is changing it's color on a phone with the same specs. Apple=consumer product(aka look at the jeans with the name brand)Google=business class. Microsoft=Smithsonian. Google just needs to step up there game and stop playing nice with Microsoft. Just sink there battleship already, they are always 10 years behind the times. Microsoft needs to put out books to figure out how to use the shit and Google is intuitive, no manual required. Mic drop.
> That seems to imply that there are no grey or black markets for currencies. This is contrary to what has been observed in history and in some countries today.

Grey and black market currencies exist but the exchange rate is very painful. Its mostly only viable when the fiat currency is unstable (or in the black market) for that reason.

Either way, its largely useless in the country it has been grey/black market'd and they are relying on their ability to convert it elsewhere.
In the specific measures of civic organizational membership, you have to put a lot down to women entering the workforce. People of my grandparent's generation (middle aged in the 50s and 60s) participated heavily in these activities, Elks and church in their case. A lot of the planning and organization of these groups was done by women who stayed home. Particularly after the kids had gone off to school, homemakers put a lot of effort into civic groups during the day. Now, of course, there were lots of women who worked, but there were enough women who didn't to keep these groups running. With women staying home now rare, especially after the kids are old enough for school, the people with free time to keep these organizations going don't exist. If you want to see a subculture where these organizations are still thriving, look at members of the LDS church.
Sure, but good luck avoiding 927. [1]

Go gets away with it because it ships with the official compiler tooling and most projects use it. C++ has 30 years of existing code that follows whatever convention was in vogue + whatever the individual preferred.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/927/
Sometimes I wonder if it would be called cheating if you could do the math to figure out the PRNG parameters in your head, then calculate the next known timestamp. It seems similar in premise to Ethereum contracts, where an "exploit" is technically just following the contract.
I wonder how much we've hobbled our species with Academic Nonsense-Speak.

We need to learn how to teach better and cheaper.
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Fossil fuels are basically a non-factor. The US could stop exporting oil and we could give every man women and child an electric car if we all, together, decided that was what we needed to do.

Things I'm really concerned about are water, and immigration. With the ongoing anti-science stance by Conservatives toward global warming, areas in Africa and others are going to be displaced and destabilized. Add to that radical Islamic terrorism and you have a recipe for something big actually happening.
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After the slashed IPO pricing and the continued downward trend since, besides the fact that Blue Apron's unit economics are dubious, the market has been crystal clear that they don't value Blue Apron as a tech company.

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The government hasn't recently grown in scope, in any meaningful way. Since the 1980's, the government as percent of GDP has stayed about the same 30-35% ... our taxes are lower and our 'welfare' is arguably lower than in the 80s, so if it was growth of government, you'd see it it correlated with that

I know it is cool to blame everything on the government, but ...
By the alt-right and others who have trouble accepting reality, sure.
> Rails/Django are fast enough for almost all apps...

Absolutely not true for Rails. In an Elixir app with Phoenix my response times are anywhere from 0.2 to 12 ms while the Rails app that uses the same database has response times anywhere from 300 to 2000 ms.

(Before you ask, I did went the extra mile to rewrite one of the small Ruby on Rails apps from my job to Elixir & Phoenix and maintain it as a feature-complete clone, just so I can have objective data.)

If we compare web app stacks, Elixir & Phoenix app is orders of magnitude faster than Rails in particular and this is not an exaggeration -- can't talk for vanilla Ruby though, I've had positive experiences with mid-sized Sinatra apps; but they still weren't capable of more than 20-30 requests/sec if you are looking for consistent throughput.

I truly like Go but to me it has always been a much better choice for highly performant microservices. I tried 3 separate web frameworks 12-16 months ago and I simply concluded Go isn't a good fit for a full web app -- at least compared to the conveniences and dozens of other advantages of an Elixir & Phoenix app. Go is definitely better in several other areas.

TL;DR -- Rails is very far from "fast enough". It's very okay for internal apps used only in business teams where the load won't ever be more than 20 requests a minute.
Hm you could argue the largest project did it that way... The Android platform used to be tens of thousands of GNU Make (including the GNU Make Standard Library). For 5+ years. I think they are migrating or have migrated to a custom system now.

Also, the Linux kernel is pure GNU Make (no autotools, since that doesn't really make sense).

But yes those are platforms/OSes and not applications. Applications typically work on multiple Unix flavors and Windows, so something like cmake makes sense. Although honestly it's a shame that they made the same mistake as GNU make -- not paying enough attention to the programming language design and ending up with a crappy macro language.
>Remove subsidies including tax writeoffs like depreciation. Either an asset brings value or it doesn't.

Are you familiar with the reason the concept of depreciation exists in tax law? Because profits are what the government is trying to tax. Contra your point 2, it makes no sense to tax revenue in a way that ignores expenses. You'd be taxing two businesses the same, whether or not those revenues were just eaten by expenses.

But once you're taxing profits, you need a sane model of what constitutes business profits, and which handles more than the (very atypical) case of "buy a block of stuff, then sell it for more". At any given moment, a business has inventory and capital equipment, which is not completely used up, nor sold. How should that affect profit?

When you say "don't allow depreciation writeoff", then you're saying one of two things, neither of which maps to a good model of "how much profit is this business making".

You're saying either:

1) Any capital good should be booked immediately as a pure expense. That would imply that businesses can forever defer taxable profits simply by spending all profits on such equipment. "Oops, don't owe taxes -- again -- because we bought another robot. Sorry!"

2) Any capital good should be completely non-deductible as an expense. This would mean that one class of expense somehow "doesn't count" merely because it happens over years rather than the moment you buy it (e.g. wear-down of a saw vs purchase of electricity).

Depreciation schedules do not exist as some giveaway-subsidy for capital good purchases, but to recognize the economic reality that the truth is somewhere in the middle; that a capital (durable) good does not immediately decrease profits, but does function as an expense over a longer span of time.

In an ideal world, we would have an auction to get the market value of each used capital good to know how much value the business lost as the capital good lost its value. But this would be horribly expensive and convoluted, so businesses are allowed to assume a certain schedule. The harm of such an approximation is minimal; any discrepancy between the schedule value vs the true market value is realized as income or loss when the good is sold.

tl;dr: Depreciation is not a subsidy, but a recognition of the true effect of capital good usage on a business's book value and therefore taxable quarterly profits.

Late edit: Disclaimer: not an accountant, just my understanding of the logic behind depreciation in tax law.
You could do a fairly straightforward conversion but it would be terribly slow for many things.

Take the sorting example i gave. In a column-oriented program you would generate a list of indices and apply them to each column. That has very good cache locality as you work on each independently. Also you tend to manipulate that index list instead of the data and after all is done, filtered, and whatever then apply it to the data.

If you did things the AoS way you would be bouncing around in memory going from column to column.

Dealing with SoA and column orientated data is more than just a storage decision.
Please don't inject partisan politics into threads that have nothing whatsoever to do with politics. That's vandalism, not discussion.

Everyone else: please, please don't feed this stuff by debating. This should be a thread about mathematics, not about the politics of Internet urban myth sites.
I've never understood the price issue. Class A in midtown Manhattan is $80 per square foot. That's $8,000 per year for a developer that probably makes well over six figures. Put two in an office that's only $4,000 per year.

I really don't buy it considering how much money companies spend on office space. Like why he hell would you have offices in Greenwich Village (http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-new-york-office-tour...) instead of say FiDi. It's not only be much cheaper, but an easier commute to places peopled live, like Brooklyn.