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The monarchies of the late 19th century were technologically advanced, but that did not stop Europe from adopting democracy in the 20th century.

The monastic system was the main scientific institution for over a milenia, both in Europe and China. Only an ignorant person argue that this system developed no new technologies.

You say "only capitalism", but what are you comparing capitalism to? In the past 200 years, capitalism has been the only economic institution in the world, how do you know that other institutions would have been incapable of technological advancement?

If your point is to compare capitalism to state socialism, then you would be far off the mark. The USSR was extremely technologically advanced. The hunger was due to other problems, mostly having to do with Stalin intentionally creating famines in order to weaken insurgency.

"Is has been proposed that the Soviet leadership used the man-made famine to attack Ukrainian nationalism, and thus the man-made famine may fall under the legal definition of genocide.[57][58][54][59][28][60] " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Causes

I am not promoting state socialism though. I would like a future in which each person/family unit/group of friends owned a small amount of land, and robots that would help them. Quite the opposite of state socialism. In state socialism, wealth is concentrated in the hands of the government. State socialism is basically monopolistic capitalism, and I believe that the two systems share many problems.

I want the distribution of wealth, not its concentration.
You are free to assume as you wish. I draw my assumptions from his actions.
It allows you to use the <good-maps> element in your markup, rather than <div class="map">. Tbf, it would be more of an advantage if it used a better name than 'good-map'.
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When the crash comes they are probably too busy using those savings to stay afloat after losing jobs.

You'd be an idiot to invest unless your in a super stable job or confident you can find another quick in a recession.

I've been in a similar situation and thank god for Airbnb.
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What counts as 'foreign' to LA? An investor from SF? From outside CA? From the east coast?
It is obstruction of justice.
Amazon is proving to be a vacuum cleaner for inefficiencies in the economy.
"Your margin is my opportunity" in another light.
> no requirement to actually live in a property to claim

But how do you enforce it?
You're absolutely right that the word 'rational' is so overloaded that it can be nearly meaningless -- that's why I qualified it with 'selfish'.

We do need to draw distinctions between consequences that are immediately faced by the decisionmaker, vs. the long-term consequences to the group.

Note that even if you do care about the long-term consequences to the group, it may still be narrowly rational to decide not to immunize. After all, your own individual decision is only going to have a tiny impact on whether herd immunity persists in your community, but will have a much greater impact on yourself.

This is the same logic over why companies pollute, people litter, fishermen overfish -- there is a 'commons problem' where people collectively benefit from collaboration, but selfish individuals can benefit by defecting and free-riding.

If one can't see how selfish behavior may appear rational, then it becomes very difficult to figure out how to structure norms and incentives to encourage group cooperation.
There is one flaw with your theory here: Historically, noon was defined locally by the sun being directly overhead. All time was local time.

Then we invented trains and railroads and you couldn't schedule anything with such a system. Thus was born standardized time zones where it is the same time across large swaths of land. Noon is no longer strictly correlated to the sun being directly overhead.

I think there are all kinds of things we could do, including promoting the gig economy. If I work when, where and as much as I choose, it makes little difference what time it is (as long as I meet deadlines).

The world population is both high enough and mobile enough that you can now find 24 hour establishments in a lot of places, even relatively small towns. The small town I am in has enough 24 hour places that I have quite a lot of latitude on when I shop, when I get lunch, etc. I don't care all that much when the sun rises or sets. I care much more about things like if it is raining, and that is because I live without a car, so I walk everywhere.
>Do you go down this rabbit hole?

What requires me to go all the way down the rabbit hole? Everybody has moral beliefs that they don't follow to their extremist conclusions. I see people getting laid off or turnover being allowed to happen - I see that the replacement job for a cashier gig is sometimes even worse - I do my little part to make society a little less bad. I also don't feel that pure individualism is really the way to live so I do sacrifice a bit of a wait in line and hopefully it helps the girl that checked me out keep that gig for a little bit longer.
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As a resident of Georgia, I really wish we had two states - metro Atlanta and the rest of GA. I lived in south GA from the time I was born until graduating from college and then moved to Atlanta. When I go back home it's like another world.
I thought the author might have meant not disclosing your location to third-party websites, but disclosing it to Google, for example. Presumably you'd be able to customise your map provider and have a consistent experience, which is one advantage of this approach.
And life gets interesting if your time zone crosses through anywhere populated. (That's why northwest Indiana is on central time: it basically exists as a bedroom community for Chicago, so it's most sensical to be on Chicago time.)
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/923223634386...
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This would be either too limited to be useful, or too complex for browser vendors to implement.
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I'd just pick the timezone that gives 12:00 closest to the local solar noon and leave it at that, year round. Calling that time of the day 12:00 is completely arbitrary, but any other number would be equally arbitrary, and 12:00 is a long-standing convention.
Out of curiosity, why are you not just calling, say, `dig`?
Thanks. Note that I wasn't trying to guess at what twitter does, just to provide a workflow that should be viable almost anywhere, in the absence of easier options. It's good to hear that the underlying idea of "calculating the metric isn't the hard part" is true.
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Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand.

75% of Auckland is zoned for 1 or 2 story buildings (according to http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...).

Of that 33% is the most restrictive single house ("The Single House zone currently covers around a third of residential Auckland and is very restrictive, allowing for only one dwelling on sections smaller than 600 square metres." according to http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/75219048/Aucklands-controver...).

5% is zoned for apartment buildings.

Here's 97% of your house pricing problem. Not foreigners, not low interest rates, not land taxing policies.

New Zealand has total population of ~2x Paris and land 1000x of Paris.

This is Venezuela style of fixing problems: instead of addressing underlying economics (limited supply meeting increasing demand causing raising prices) by increasing supply, find a political scapegoat (all nations are xenophobic so outsiders are always a good target) to get people to vote for you and create ineffective rules.

The real fix is politically unpopular. Unsurprisingly, Aucklanders are NIMBY with the best of them. The plan to upzone is "controversial" and anti-upzoning arguments are the same you see in SF and everywhere else where that comes up.
Vacuum chamber much, you lovable absolutist?!?
The manifesto's idea that files should have a unique address which any machine can access reminds me of Brian Hauer's rant, which argues that each application should have a single instance with a unique address (for a given user) that any machine can access (http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao). Put the two together and a person's entire digital life would seamlessly follow them between machines.

I like the proposal of making caching a central design element to work around today's bandwidth limitations. I work with large-ish (a few TB) scientific datasets, and it isn't pleasant to have to choose between (a) storing everything on network storage and suffering slow IO or (b) storing everything locally on every workstation and suffering the need to synchronize data.
You're right, my bad-I updated the comment. Still, even with their net income being $13.64B for the year, it doesn't seem like much of an issue, especially if rolled out over a multi-year period.
Yeah, those deep-pocketed government lab and university researchers are clearly the dominant revenue source for MathWorks. Everybody in the corporate world is super nimble and moved on to Numpy as soon as they could.
What you have written here is what I came to logically myself as well. However, it would then be more difficult for someone in Sacramento to ask someone in San Francisco what time the train leaves. Plus, all sorts of similar issues.

Mental math of "train arrives at 3pm, takes me 30 minutes to walk there, fifteen minutes to pack. Gotta be sure to be out of my meeting by 2:15" but if you live 30 sunrise minutes west, you and your coworker would have different 2:15 times.

You are 45 sun minutes west, but you go out to a job site with coworkers which is another 15 sun minutes west. You think you're able to leave on time to get home for your daughter's birthday, but forgot your clock that is calibrated to your current gps location, is going to make you 15 minutes late when you get home.

Good luck.
That is because the majority of the dev platforms have terrible UIs for making UIs!

Imagine how bad things are when people only know the XCode Form builder, get impressed by react/bootstrap builders or think Visual Studio is great on this...
You’re going to have to ask the Chrome and Firefox teams about that. I’m guessing there’s performance issues—perhaps every function invocation needs to check if it’s a proper tail call?
I talked to my accountant and he suggested CGT + lower personal income tax.

So, someone who owns O(1) house, pays CGT, but that's compensated by O(1) less income tax.

Someone who is flipping houses is paying CGT but in the end, it's not offset by less income tax if they are flipping lots of houses. They pay tax O(N) on it just like everyone else, and they gain O(1) less income tax.

Would something like this work?

(Forgive my bastardisation of the O-notation :)
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In Australia this just gets gamed so existing houses are knocked down then rebuilt and sold as "new".
Here's the relevant SEC document: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2017/33-10429.pdf
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Same in NYC, but I don't think splitting states is the answer (or possible). Very few states would be intact if we started that. We should allow more legal autonomy for counties, to reduce intra-state political struggles. And maybe do "foreign" (intra-state) student exchange programs.
Supposedly the annotated version is actually the official Georgia code.
The failure of Communist Russia was in losing power to someone who used fundamentist rhetoric to sieze power and then subvert that system.

Stalin's late Russia was something quite different from where it started. In much the same fashion that we recognize China's form of government fundamentally changed TO Communism we can recognize that it lost hold.

And if you need a source of negative propaganda about Communist government, look no further than China. A sexual harassment crisis it's illegal to talk about, systemic religious and ethnic persecution, a 2 tiered oligarchic economic system, dark but weighty rumors of involuntary organ harvesting... You name it, they got it, where "it" is bad outcomes.

I'm always surprised that there aren't more proponents of modern, IT-informed government systems in our community.
The zoning laws keep it that way.

In a truly fair market, the new tech class buys newer, larger homes or apartments while the hair dresser buys their old starter home or bachelor pad.
It could be a tax, meaning it is still possible it just costs more. Or could be made outright illegal.
Yes it would. It's not statistical gerrymandering. It's categorising by continent that is a gross oversimplification. Just notice you're lumping, say, South Africa and Niger in the same category. This alone should tell you how bad that categorization is.

>You are why people voted Trump

Wat
It would seem a simple matter to charge each individual from the lowest levels with a straightforward crime, and flip them as they ladder up toward the people who gave the order/suggestion/plausibly-deniable-wish.

Simple, that is, if the prosecutor wanted to prosecute.

We are all mere resources.
The distinction is strongly related to the habit of claiming Charlemagne as the founding myth. Makes a lot more sense as a precursor of the EU, but in the fast-forward way history is taught at school, this is usually the point where the wording shifts from "tribes who lived in the same geographic area" to "a precursor state".

People who want to identify with victory over Romans to fuel a nationalistic mindset won't stop at Arminius, they also claim the legacy of various gothic etc tribes who troubled and/or continued thedying western empire.
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This wasn't and isn't true in Vancouver.
From the WITS - https://imgur.com/a/nE1of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Incidents_Tracking_S...

If you know a good replacement, please let me know. That's worldwide data, but even using worldwide data, there just aren't that many violent Nazis out there.
We already have UTC when you want the same time worldwide. Using UTC in everyday life would be somewhat confusing when travelling. I guess it would take quite a while to get used to things happening at a different time on the clock.
I doubt that's possible, although it would be very interesting.
I'm not confused on this point. The people of North Korea have devastatingly unfortunate circumstances, and the thought that, in addition to living such grim lives, they may have to die to ensure our safety - it's unfair beyond the power of words to describe.

And yet, if I had to choose between a million North Koreans, hundreds of thousands of South Koreans, and tens of thousands of American soldiers, dying in a pre-emptive war - versus all that plus a few million more Americans and North Koreans dying in a nuclear exchange... Well, it's an obvious choice.

North Korea is approaching the point of being able to achieve mutually assured destruction. They could build a cobalt bomb, or spend a decade building ICBMS, but relatively soon the problem will be intractable and we will play nuclear chicken with an unstable murderous dictatorial regime.
I think Apple might like that with their privacy stance. It really does increase the user's privacy by never sharing the location with external parties.

It will also simplify things for the developers in simple use cases and offer more integration like "jump to native maps" etc
Isn't the problem that food prices would have to increase hugely if we were to switch to less industrialised forms of agriculture, and thus the poor would suffer worst of all?

Overall though I agree with you - it's said that the British were never as healthy as under rationing. We don't need anywhere near as much as we produce, and would all look and feel better eating less. And less cash going to Monsanto - who IMHO seem to be a truly sinister outfit - would be a welcome side benefit.
Sure, or when your doctor asks, "how much alcohol do you drink each week?" you answer, "not much -- maybe a glass of wine on Friday and Saturday."
Its an online forum. Anyone being harassed is free to ignore it or block/mute their harassers.

There is no magic technology that can automatically detect and stop harassment. Its a social problem and must be dealt with as such - e.g by shunning trolls online. In that light I don't understand what people want Twitter to do about it. Blaming Twitter is not a productive response given their limited ability to stop it, just as blaming HN would not be a productive response to being flamed in a comment on HN.
Sadly, it's not that simple. Facial verification has come a long way, but it's not accurate enough. You need a person to verify the person's ID matches the face of the customer that is buying it - otherwise some teenager can swipe his Dad's ID and buy alcohol.

Plus you need someone to verify the customer is not already drunk - selling to someone who is already visibily intoxicated is a great way to a lawsuit.
Personally, I've found it quite okay.

However, IMHO, if you have a commercial project with a deadline, don't take on board additional risk by installing it.

A lot of "project management" can be thought of as risk management. A risk is something that's hard to judge or unknown - e.g. will this developer finish on time? Is this implementation going to work?

Installing a new version of the dev tooling is definitely a risk. Think about it from the POV of risk management. Are there features of 9.x that you need to complete the project? What are the unknown parameters? It might not compile your code correctly? How do you mitigate it? Time? Money? Reverting back to a previous version? Some risks can be mitigated by the developer, some need to be passed upstream to the customer. e.g. "If you want to deploy on iOS11, we need to upgrade Xcode, which has documented issues, we expect this would require x hours to complete and have the following potential issues."
This reminds me of a thought I had some years ago. The idea was that we can think of general intelligence not as an optimization for a specific given goal, but as optimization for a special position from which some wider set of goals can be most rapidly converged upon. Thus optimizing for future flexibility rather than current results.

At the time, I remember being excited to hear of a physics paper[1] concerning an inverted pendulum, where they solved the system for some dynamic forces which would keep the system at the position of maximum instability, and claimed that it was, in some sense, a description of dynamic intelligence. The analogy there is that this is the unique position from which the pendulum can be efficiently made to move quickly in any 'required' direction (the 'goal'.)

I still think that idea has some merit, but putting together a coherent formalization of it seems really tricky and requiring some genius far beyond my own meager pondering.

[1] I found the article: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/46
Yeah I used to make modpacks for them. It got boring. But I do still stream Minecraft irregularly.
Wait, so you can get paid to renovate a place above what the market will pay in rent and deduct the difference from your taxes, but then eventually sell the palace later and make cap gains on that?
You don't even have to be vision impaired to benefit from this. If you are walking along a narrow road or alleyway and a car approaches from behind, the noise will alert you and you can move accordingly.
You could still have sunrise-based time zones the same way we have noon-based timezones now.
Probably the biggest problem with this idea is that all of the major geocoding facilities, including Google, say in their terms of service that you're only allowed to use their lat/longs on their own maps. You're not allowed to use Google's API to get the lat/long of an address and show it on a Bing map, but that's exactly what you'd do if Microsoft Edge offered a <map> element.

Furthermore, in addition to violating the geocoders' TOS, the lat/longs won't look right on each others' maps. Lat/longs are hard; maps don't line up perfectly. Lat/longs are relative to your mapping provider.

Just use their SDK, OK?
> Requires the pandoc package, which isn't installed by default in Ubuntu.

Neither is lynx, since you mentioned it.

Neat trick :).
It is used pretty extensively in my industry (industrial manufacturing). There has been some talk about R but not sure it will be widely adopted.

You are right that engineers are conservative which no doubt plays some role. But I'd say technical debt and legacy code plays much more of a role.

Most Engineers (Chem, Mech, Matls etc) are not exposed to code during university. Maybe it is changing now but it is slow process. Often first exposure comes when the engineer enters industry and is asked to work on existing model - usually under supervision of a senior engineer. You learn whatever the language the senior engineer knows and that is typically what they learnt from similar mentorship - it is often Fortran or C/C++. Our Industrial Process has not changed dramatically in last 30 years. So once efficiently written and accurate simulation code exists very little reason to rewrite (if given the choice to rewrite an existing model in whatever the current language du jour is or continue to hack on something that already exists most engineers - at least the ones I know, would chose to hack on existing code). For pretty much this reason there is a heap of Fortan that is still alive in my org (with roots that can be traced back to the '80's). I think it's probably worth mentioning a lot of engineers don't approach code thinking about algorithms - it's equations i.e. I need to write something to solve Bernoulli's equation - or Ergun's equation or similar. Linear programming (i.e solving simultaneous equations) is the other main reason to write code and hey MATLAB does this pretty well...

The other reason for being "gunshy" about new technology at least in my org is that a lot of the senior engineering people still remember when we got bitten by investing in Microsoft "Stack" in the late 90's. There were a lot of Modelling done with VB6 and Access which tuned out to be a technology dead end. Access databases in particular have plagued our org in many cases multiyear effort to migrate something out of Access. Open source probably protects against this but everyone wants to be sure any new technology will still be around in 15 years time. I think that is why people in my org are finally starting to look at R it has passed that initial hurdle and there is some confidence it is not just a fad...
OK, so take measures against that instead.
Foreign as in an individual whos permanent residence is not in the United States. i.e. A Russian millionaire buying a townhouse in LA
This is not a NZ First policy, it's been listed as a major policy on the Labour Party website since before the election.[1]

[1] http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
>> preferably without the history bullshit because... people never make decision based on history that's just pretext

If you seriously believe this, then I don't think you have much of a chance of understanding much of anything
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/

Have fun destroying Earth!
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And low interest rates. There is a complex dynamic between the decision to buy vs rent and a prolonged low interest rate can lead to expectations of rising housing prices, which lead to a boom cycle.
I'd expect that a sunrise-based system would use the calculated time that sunrise would occur for an observer at the middle of the time zone on perfectly spherical planet. Well, if we did one today, anyway. If it had done it in ancient times it would probably be based on sunrise in the capital city as observed each day by some designated religious office such as a high priest at the main temple of the dominant religion.
Serious question - why didn't they make it blue?