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No serious plan for UBI comes without progressive tax increases, so that at some income threshold you start paying more in additional taxes than you receive in UBI.

3 trillion isn't anywhere close to the actual cost when you consider this.
Agree it would be foolish to build something huge if there is uncertainty about customers. Expect an email from me.
I am a huge VMware fan and have been for a long time.

Caution: I have found mentioning this confuses people because I'm often mistaken for a FOSS zealot. I am not. I just prefer FOSS because I like to tinker. I have no moral qualms with closed source.

So, if you do decide to go VMware, you may get odd questions if you mention it. That has actually been the most difficult thing about using it. They are well supported and feature rich. I've been paying them for years.
USA has a single primary language for 300M people. that's why internet companies do so well in USA. (Same for China.)
This reads like a formulaic "We broke up with you" statement.
Think about how much time you spend a day speaking even your own language in your daily life. Do you think it's 16 hours in a day?

400 hours of practice is a pretty good rule of thumb I think, but that's deliberate practice, not just physically being awake in a country that speaks the language. You need to be engaging in conversation and actively processing things for those 400 hours. Plus it has to be at a practical level. Watching TV in Japanese when you don't know any Japanese doesn't make you much better at the language - your brain isn't really processing anything.

Or to make a music metaphor, you can't really just play with a violin for hundreds of hours and be good. You need a tutor, someone to challenge you at your level and help you make small steps so you slowly get better. Anders Ericsson has done some fascinating research on excellence and the important difference between doing something and deliberate practice at it.

Also, don't mistake being in a country with language immersion. When I was in Paris and knew some French, I would maybe be able to do a few hours a day at best, if I was really trying to engage. Even in English in America, I probably only really talk or engage in conversation for a few hours a day on average. I was in Germany last year for a few weeks when I was around an A1 level and I barely progressed, because the immersion is very surface-level at that stage. You have encounters but it's not really practice - most interactions are too high-level and don't help you because you can't process them.
I don't see a point right now, but just in case: how much of a hassle would it be to migrate my Hugo-based projects to Gutenberg, if it proves to be more useful somehow?
Do we? The definition of an atom in the 1900s was wrong, but it was science at the time. In 50 years, a lot of scientific definitions will radically change but people keep saying that science > religion.
Okay, so I am now surprised they are already doing that.

However, I was thinking more along the lines of conference/events which the hotel business is a complement of, since so many people go to conferences to party at the company's expense, this is just one step further.
I agree that a name matters, though I disagree about needing to sound a certain way. A name is a first impression and a small form of marketing. At it's best, a name should try and say something about what it's representing. However, at the end of the day, it is just a label. Using a common given name isn't terrible or bad, it just seems like a wasted opportunity.
That’s exactly the point though. It’s not like we’re plopping a floppy from Oracle into every machine running a modern SQL db.
Beer aside, every WeWork I've ever been in seems to have dozens of fridges stocked to the brim with rancid milk. It's weird that they have custom furniture but can't even get their shit together on the most basic issues.
Uber: -8% losses as a percent of gross bookings

Lyft: -13.5% losses as a percent of gross bookings

This is based on leaked/estimated Q2 2017 financials.
Cassandra is a pretty good alternative if you're looking for excellent write speeds and scalability.
Finally! The lack of screenshots spurred me to build https://fossdroid.com and opensource it (MIT license).

The F-Droid team is great!
has anyone gone down the list of most popular TED Talks and run similar replications of the claims made in other presentations? itd be interesting if there were some ratio that scored most-popular TED Talk vs. "B.S." content. i wonder if there'd be a link between popularity and amount of B.S.?
Considering AIM just got shut down, that's a rather poor long term outlook.

Which I think is the point. To be a new billion dollar company (vs pump and dump) you need to either make 100's of millions in profit for a few short, but profitable years. Or, have steady profits and steady growth over a very long time scale.
Moderators are needed, of course and im glad i am not one. But i can only imagine how much of a burn out job with little satisfaction it must be. Like data entry jobs in the past.

I'm one of the moderators over on reddit.com/r/AskEngineers.

It is work... that I don't get paid for. Or any kind of reward, really.

But I'm doing it because I want to promote high-quality discussion on various engineering topics. I'm glad when we can help each other out by answering questions.

To be a moderator, ideally you're in it for the long term, by trying to guide your community in a good direction, educate people, uphold standards of good and civil discussion.
Sometimes I think that smoke too much weed is a self-destructive habit but after I smoke I think it is a self-healing habit so it depends on the time.
Except that the tactics used in days gone by to stifle small businesses are being done now, by these companies. And when that doesn't seem like a viable option, they're bought outright.

The market doesn't see deserve, and the market is driven by these companies. Their eyes are shareholder numbers, advancement at most costs, government pushes and trends.

I disagree with you about Snapchat. It'll die, but it'll go the way of AOL or pivot. There's no "driving it out" when you have a youth adoption demographic as that demographic are now the shakers and movers in the future. In the past it was "convince the old to convince the young / allow the young", not it's "convince the young to convince the old".

You're missing the point if you need to see a point, rather than seeing points within demographics and the adoption in those spaces. You're seeing the moves, but not the driving forces.

Twitch has nothing but IRC components and video streams YouTube provides, but it's not going away either.
The actor model that Elixir/Erlang is OOP in its "purest" form, but that's not what most people mean when they discuss OOP languages.
That really depends on the terms of their last investment round. As far as I know those haven't been disclosed. I would suspect that the investor in the last round is compensated with more shares, probably something similar to if he had invested at a 1.1 billion instead of 1.6 billion valuation. Maybe not though. Depends on the terms.
Rust. It's fast and the syntax feels like OCaml/Haskell. Like Haskell, the compiler does a LOT for you.

It's the practical Haskell.
That's exactly how it works. What you are describing is the standard IB B.S. speech. It has been debunked multiple times, starting from the time of DLJ.
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Aerospike for low-latency small row sizes, HBase for everything else.
I'm in an adjacent academic field and know some of the principals in the story.

Based on private conversations with mutual friends, the reason Cuddy received so much heat is that she continues to profit off the mistaken findings and refuses to disavow them, despite overwhelming evidence.

She embodies everything wrong with the popular discussion of science.

The only analogue I can think of is Brian Wansink, whose scandal is much newer; who did not go nearly so far to profit from his own results; and who has received plenty of heat so far.

"Although 11 new papers have recently been published that do not show the downstream effects of power posing on behaviors, Cuddy is still fighting for power posing."
To be honest I'm not completely sure.
I'd be very interested in those statistics if you can find them.

If you can't find them ... that would tell you something.
A static method can of course mutate an object of the same class (give the object as an argument (direct or indirect) or use a static variable of the class)

I can not see how they could be used to help escape analysis more than that you have one less reference (this).
Ugh, I hate people that bring their backpack to the grocery. It slows down the packing process a lot. Paper bags are a-okay with me.
According to the docs (http://devdocs.io/help#search) you can actually integrate DevDocs into your search habits by using the browser bar search (on Google Chrome, at least).

Go to search bar -> type in 'devdocs' -> hit tab ("Search DevDocs"). You can then search directly.

It's pretty awesome.
If your investments hold no value then everyone else will have come down in a similar proportion - assuming you're diversified.

So, you might have a lower total number but your value will still be pretty similar, as will your buying power.

Right? I may be missing something, but that's kinda what I recall from econ. To be clear, that was 1982 that I last took an econ class.
Don’t take him to seriously on posts like this.

Tptacek is obviously very smart but IMO can be quite mean at times in his political posts.
Heading to the Courthouse for Sandvig V. Sessions
> but you don't go on Tinder for a relationship, it's a hookup site...

Yeah? I know two couples who met on Tinder. (FWIW, second marriages)
Imageboards have a clickbait-based bubble. To survive on a busy board, you need to create a post that captures attention.

Hence, the effect of 4chan on the Internet — its top posters are the edge of the troll evolution.
Perhaps the meta lesson is we massively overproduce academics, making the stakes and competition insane.

In the cutthroat world of academic soft sciences you're not getting tenure unless you make a breakthru and you're allowed zero mistakes. Its up or out. She made her one mistake, and she's out. And there's 10, 50, 5000 people equally qualified without opportunity to cheer on her demise. One of hundreds or thousands of equally qualified researchers now gets a chance at tenure, good for them bad for her.

On the other hand in the commercial software development world, we usually don't blacklist software devs from the field after their first bug because 1) we're low on supplies of software devs plus or minus propaganda, at least we don't have the excess of her field 2) the experience of having a software bug makes a better dev.

You can't expect non-pathological behavior from a pathological situation. Until the supply/demand hiring issues in academia are fixed, stories about academia are going to read like an insane elementary school playground version of Lord of the Flies. You can't produce 10 to 100 times as much product (new grads) as the market can adsorb without behavior for the few good positions being viciously cutthroat and extremely dramatic.
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> Fiske is publishing her defense in that journal

APS Observer is a magazine, not a journal.

Furthermore, Fiske was not the president of APS or an editor of the Magazine when that article was published. And even if she were, what's the problem? I see letters from the editor in most magazines I read on a very regular basis.

Finally, the claim that Fiske was construing her opinion on conduct as a scientific fact is just... well.

I'll refrain from calling you corrupt or deceptive because it was probably just a misunderstanding :-)

> Notice how you deceptively switch to Cuddy from Fiske

I actually have no idea what you're trying to say or what this refers to. Can you be more explicit?
That is the key transition. Once they start greying, users will perceive any new platform as unwelcome change. But until then, you have to eventually give them better reasons for staying than just "this is younger and wilder than that other thing".

Facebook's ticket for growing up in lockstep with their core user generation was coordination and communication for loosely coupled groups with some real life connection. People who move into a new development, the "parent cohort" around a daycare class, new hires who joined a company at roughly the same time and so on. All that is young adult stuff that fits well with what Facebook offers.

Nonpermanent asynchronous video messaging? If interpersonal exchange is always a blend between information propagation and entertainment, Snapchat seems dangerously lopsided towards entertainment. That is good for getting people excited (quick growth), but probably not so good for long term retention. MySpace was similar.
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Do you have any evidence for what you are suggesting? A simple Google search reveals several questionable looking sites repeating the lack of dyslexia in Sudbury Schools, but there is never a source cited for this factoid. This sounds like a bunch of new age pseudoscience.
They set goals of 20% car ownership rate, 15% of trips made by private vehicles, and less than half the parking spaces of comparable areas.
You can combine approaches. I'm a "weekend warrior" with climbing, hiking etc., and my passion for those activities spurred me to train during the week on a schedule. I'd gym climb or work out at home with dumbbells, so that I could do harder objectives during the weekend.

This can be a gateway drug, and cause you to change your whole lifestyle and move to a place with such activities in abundance.
Is Gulp itself complex? If it's just a series of steps, does it really matter whether you're using Make or Gulp? The author knows Make, so it's easier for him to debug it. Someone else might know Javascript, so it's easier for them to debug Gulp.
I don't think they provide the milk, just a place for people to store their own. Despite the fact that all the WeWorks I have personal knowledge of appear to be horribly overstaffed, the staffing at WeWork is not very effective.
Evidently for their trials, they have bots that scan the VMs and kill machines running cryptocurrency software. Just read a bit of threads on google, reddit about this.

Possibly, you can run it on paid machines - but why would you? They charge you more for a machine/hour than you can make cryptocurrency/hr.
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thanks overfishing...
> You have to figure out what your priorities are, and if you really want something you'll find a way.

> Too many ifs, sorry but those sound like the same excuses people say when they explain why they can't travel (more).

That's a really narrow way to call it an "excuse". It might be easy for you but it's not a case for everyone. You were privileged to be able to do this -- acknowledging this instead of calling it an excuse would be nice.

> Using your intuition is crucial here. The rest is basically pattern matching. A single word you can understand from the context.

I'd agree to this. I learned English as my second language through this approach.

I am now trying to learn French and this is where it gets complicated a bit, unless someone can correct you. If you take the template for "I am ..." which translates to "Je suis ..."; plug in some word -- say, "I am sorry" for "Je suis desole" it works. But it can't always be expanded. You'd expect "Je suis excité" to mean "I am excited" but it translates to "I am horny". Point being -- pattern matching and cognitive techniques can only get you so far. Linguistic connotations are complicated.
Thanks for pointing out. Oracle has distributed transactions too.
The JDBC driver for postgres fully supports partial updates with JSONB, though?
> I was excited about using alacritty as a wayland-native terminal, but it does not yet work with sway.

Forgive me if I'm being dense, but: do you mean it's possible for a Wayland app to be incompatible with a particular Wayland window manager (or compositor)? That seems like a huge regression from the X11 status quo.
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We have been building a wordpress to cloud (right now AWS) migration plugin. Right, we have the free version mostly complete and working on a pro version and adding features to it. What would be the ideal set of features you can think of for such a product ? Right now, it works by backing up assets to S3, moving mysql dump and creating a new LightSail instance as a clone.
Happy to see Bootstrap 4 moving to a final release. Beta 1 is already very mature though. I love it.
survival is lifestyle ;)
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Ah yeah, sorry, I was thinking about it from a performance standpoint. Which is odd, since I have an AWD car specifically for snow (and I live in CA!)
"Most spaceflight trajectories are based on physics that was introduced in the 1680s. In the 1680s, we were using slide rules to multiply numbers."
I mean, thanks, and I do try really hard not to write crap. But there are people that follow my comments here --- I know because I'll sometimes reply to an old stale comment and see my reply +1'd within minutes --- and nothing I write stays negative for long. I think I do a decent job of writing here (unfortunately, it's really the only place I write anymore), but the "reward" I get for it is clearly compounded somehow.
1. No, not for bouldering, though it helps to have climbing shoes.

2. It's generally considered impolite to give advice on how to climb something, unless the person asks.

3. Most bouldering/climbing gyms have small workout areas in addition to the walls, and memberships that aren't a lot more expensive than a regular gym.
> You can't do this at all in PostgreSQL since you will hit a column limit.

JSONB is designed for exactly this, isn’t it?
For what it’s worth: to the extent that you keep answering “but you refuse to apply your own logic to (any other medium, without reason as to why)”, I think a lot of people in this thread believe that -you’re- not debating in good faith. You can only handwave an argument away with “but different medium” so many times without explaining how a change in medium changes the relevant logic.
I really wish critiques would go birdseye. We're talking about radically restructuring our economy. Don't hold back.

UBI burden assumes current costs. That's short sighted.

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Transitioning to single payer (medicare for all) would 1/2 our costs, at least. This is a no brainer, comparing Canada & USA's per capita spending.

I believe, but cannot prove, that adopting capitation model (incentivize wellness vs fee for service, treating disease) would knockoff another 1/2.

I think we'll still pay more than other countries, because we fund so much research, use some much more new tech. Which I wholeheartedly support.

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Food costs can be brought way down thru better logistics, incentives, thereby reducing food waste. Ending subsidies for corn, wheat, soya, diary would reduce food waste and improve public health. A double win.

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The USA has more housing than people. If people didn't need to relocate for jobs, allowing people to go to the available housing, per capita spending would also plummet.
You say that like it's free.

It's entirely reasonable, IMO, to do more "exploratory" studies at p = 0.05, and then do a follow-up on promising studies at p = 0.01
Job posts are a perk for YC companies. They do not pay for it.

IIRC YC companies can submit job postings to a queue and a limited number of them are published per day. Their position slowly decreases over a period of time until they're off the front page.
White woman singles out black guys as sex-crazed maniacs? She might as well have gone full 14 words as far as Facebook's moderation bots are concerned.

Of course you and I know that's not really what her post was about, but Silicon Valley being so heavily invested in BLM and associated movements really can't take any chances. And with the volume of traffic manually reviewing these things and applying some common sense just isn't an option.
NoSQL is optimized for no solutions. You do all the optimizations yourself. Only then are you allowed to speak of "optimized for certain use cases at the detriment of others."
Yes, I did and it's very bad form to go around asking people if they read the article. Try to remember that different people form different opinions from similar information.
Wait...

It is ver. 1.0? Does this mean it has been beta for this whole time?

I am obviously not an Android user. Sorry if this is a dumb question. For whatever reason, the text (mobile Safari, outdated a little) all appears in just one vertical row of letters.
I've found this for German and French too. If I watch a movie or tv show that I already know and turn on both the German language track and the subtitles, it's awful - they're almost never even close.

I would assume it's better for English because so much is produced in English, so there aren't two different teams on audio and text. I would try to find more German language stuff, but due to a lot of media region restrictions, it's insanely difficult to get foreign language material if you're in America. I've been known to pirate content just so my daughter can have French cartoons to watch. So frustrating...
Personally if I was going to stake my professional reputation on a set of results, I'd expand from an exploratory study with a 20% chance of being wrong to a more rigorous study with, say, a 0.1% chance of being wrong.

Of course, that's much easier for people in STEM than it is for social scientists.
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True, but the vast majority of small companies (~24 for Snapchat) don't make people multi-millionaires by providing so little to society.
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Steadily doing good science, where good science is expected not to produce results much of the time, continues to have no support.

We say this, but I haven't heard any particularly good ideas on how to build such a system that isn't also easy to game. How do you ensure the failed studies were actually worth doing? Is peer review of study design feasible?
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