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No, the employers won't capture that value by following your recommendation.

What you are recommending is that employers pay for training, and then pay employees exactly the same that they would get for hiring someone with equivalent skills from the market. This leaves employers out by the cost of training from the cost of hiring from the market. So the business is strictly behind where it would have been.

But worse yet, a non-trivial fraction of the time when you train someone for a role that they aren't currently in, you find that by ability or inclination they are not actually suited for that role. Which means that you're now just out the cost of training and may well have also lost the employee. By contrast someone that you hire externally who is already in the role is more likely to be a fit. Furthermore businesses tend to run on lean margins. You're hiring because you need those skills now, not in a year. A lot can change in a year.

Now against this you have to balance the fact that hiring people is expensive, new hires take time to come up to speed, and not all new hires work out. Furthermore a loyal employee with institutional knowledge has value because of that. It isn't a one-sided deal. Companies do train people.

However it is more common for it to be someone that they know already. Such as an internal promotion, or someone who did an internship. Hiring strangers expecting to train them with no particular reason to believe that you will keep them is a losing proposition.

Businesses that consistently pay for losing propositions usually wind up going out of business.
"which is my personal belief that is the leading cause to the biggest increases in prices"

The Sweden housing crises was decades in the making. https://www.thelocal.se/20170828/the-story-of-swedens-housin... .

Already the prices were high and housing scarce in 2010. https://www.thelocal.se/20100928/29292 , dateline 28 September 2010, quoting the local paper "Housing crisis worse than ever!"

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160517-this-is-one-city-w... from 2016 points out "But amid strict building regulations and a lack of investment over a number of decades, successive governments have failed to build enough homes for its long-term residents, let alone the latest arrivals. ... Prices have also been pushed up since a law change in 2013, allowing private individuals to charge tenants based on their mortgage costs rather than comparable rent prices in the neighbourhood."

That 2013 change is just before your 2014-2016 time frame. Perhaps it had a bigger effect on the market than you think?

Yes, Sweden accepted a lot of refugees in the last few years. But as the first link points out, they cannot "afford the kind of houses that were being built in the years following the crunch." It seems more that they are priced out of the market more than causing the market prices to rise. (There are certainly secondary effects.)

I tried to find something in the Swedish press. I think this is relevant: http://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/s%C3%A5-l%C3%A4nge-m%... from 2014, so before the timeframe you describe. If I read it correctly (thanks Google Translate), in Gothenburg there were 20,000 fewer homes, relative to the size of the population, than there was in the 1970s. There were 210,000 people registered in the housing queue, and the time an applicant needed to queue was 950 days.

One of the people being interviewed also argues that "there is big gap between what is being built and what those who need a home can afford to pay. A survey conducted recently by Sifo on behalf of the Tenant Association shows that 70 percent of them are considered to be able to pay a maximum of SEK 5,000 for a one. A newly built one in Kvillestaden costs over 6 500 kronor."

This seems to confirm the arguments presented in the English language press, that is, there are large-scale systemic factors that lead to the current housing crisis, and it cannot easily be explained by the large number of refugees.
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Never heard of auto-formatting editors?
That’s a super complicated way of describing ‘push the fork button’. You really don’t have to worry about all of that.
Speaking of Kamala, I like what one blockchain is doing with in terms of 'creating elections' and voting mentioned here https://medium.com/@gaetanconsulting/3-icos-with-working-pro...
Both firefox dev edition and chrome (mac) score 97 for me.
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I would not be where I am today if he wasn't a part of this. What would I do if I lost him? Answer is I don't know. The company would not implode and we would keep moving forward but at what cost?????

Talking this out helps. Thanks for the input.
Of course there is an answer to unbreakable encryption, the same answer to in person conversations at a private location: bug the location where the communication takes place.

You don't need a back door on communications if you are "looking over the shoulder" of someone as they type it in. If the person is a suspect, then they can get a warrant to plant a bug.
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For sure. But he doesn't go into any details where he think the advantage would lie, which I think conflicts with calling it a "major weakness".
For example, NoScript disables webfonts because parsing font files (which is among the jobs of the rendering engine) is done in decades-old, convoluted C code.
> The feature did not ship in 57.

But CliqZ did ship for some German users, randomly chosen. Which tracks your entire browsing history, and sends it to a company that’s most known for its tracking products.

After this, Firefox deserves to be treated as just as much spyware as Chrome.
Also, not all pasture land is suitable for growing crops. Certainly in my country there's lots of marginal land and hills that sheep are left to wander over that are in no way suitable for growing any crops on. In this way humans can extract calories and protein from land that would otherwise be useless.
I really want to create a public-facing roadmap that's specific to this issue. Unfortunately, our resources are limited so we often don't focus enough on blogging/publicizing our planning... but in the meantime, here's something of a brain dump:

In terms of our actual data structures and algorithms, we're already starting to be in really good shape. We've dropped a number of components of our core TextBuffer to C++, ensured that most of our algorithms scale logarithmically with file size, cursor count, etc, and made use of native threading for important operations.

1. The one remaining structure that we need to drop to C++ is what we call the 'display index' - the thing that stores the locations of things like folds and soft wraps. Once we do that, opening large files (which is already reasonably fast) will be like butter.

2. Our find-and-replace is already pretty good - you can type without almost any lag even when we're storing the locations of millions of search results. But now that we have the ability to easily use background threads, there are some easy optimizations we could do there. The search results could really update instantaneously, we no longer need to wait until you pause when typing in the search box.

3. We have in the works a major change to our syntax highlighting system using my incremental parsing library Tree-sitter. Once this lands, it should eliminate any perceived latency in syntax highlighting (as well as enable a host of great syntax-related improvements).

4. Atom still uses synchronous IO (which blocks the UI thread) in some places. This is because it was created before GitHub created Electron, so node APIs were not available from the outset. Many of these have been eliminated, but there are several Git-related code paths that we still have not updated. This probably kills the experience of editing on remote drives like SSHFS for some users. We need to revisit these code paths.
Is life a formal system ? I prefer to say that we need to make hypothesis, and this is part of life. But religion is not simply a collection of hypothesis.

In my view, religion is a cultural spine of a community that defines the rules for living together. It also comes with a set of assumptions (beliefs) that are used to justify the rules, make the whole hold together, and enforce their acceptance.

Calling back into question the assumptions lead to question the rules. This puts the community at risk. As a consequence religions establish protective measures. Some of them are swift and brutal. I hope you understand what I'm referring to.

Some religions are much less toxic, but there is still the problem of their assumptions that introduce a bias in the act and decision making. People who adhere to a religion tend to forget to put a weight of confidence in the assumptions with the rational to not put the community in danger. Anything that represent a threat to the religion is considered bad, and this includes calling back into question assumptions and rules.

Science did not work that way. And this is why it evolves so fast toward a better understanding of the world we are living in. I'm not saying science is a religion or an acceptable religion substitute. I'm just comparing the effectiveness and benefit of a faster evolution of knowledge.

I'm convinced by multiple personal experiences that any community (e.g. startups, forums) needs a cultural spine and community rules, but I don't think that religions is the appropriate answer to it. The rule and the knowledge must be able to evolve and this is only possible when they can be called back in question by anyone anytime, and an objective method is used to decide. Assumptions and beliefs should be considered as mere hypothesis. Religions tend to obstruct evolution for their survival and the survival of the community. And of course many humans use religions as leverage to manipulate people, not only for the good of the community.

The real problem of religions are their beliefs that we can't call back into question. People brain washed through all their childhood with these beliefs, that we are requested to respect, can't make the difference with was is true and not, can't call back into question the beliefs and are prone to integrate similar irrational beliefs. This put humanity at risk.

That is a summary of my current view of religions. Note that it may still evolve because it is only based on my current knowledge and past experience.
Why are your notebooks wet?
You're right that policy needs to change but raising money via mining to actually free people can change those people's lives while we press for a legislative solution. It's an abstract problem for you but why merely sit around waiting for policy to change when people still suffer from bad policy?

Added bonus: when there is energy around sidestepping bad policy that is another sign to legislators that the policy should indeed be changed.
The number of leaks and breaches shows there's a serious problem, but keeping keys secret isn't necessarily implied to be near impossible by consequence of this.
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I'd add a fourth, Delivery. As in new kids.
Hot Wheel car restoration and customization: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnsnjDFdtULQ4ILpABYb9UQ

I have absolutely no interest in doing this myself, but the guy does an incredible job with the cars and videos. Simply relaxing to watch.

Tips from a Shipwright: https://www.youtube.com/user/TipsfromaShipWright

I have built a wooden boat and would love to do more. He is currently on his second beginning-to-end project. Incredible skill. Fun to watch him work and see the final product. Also well done videos (professionally produced by a sponsor) and just a really pleasing personality.
Did you even read the "article"? You seem to be replying to the headline only.
Did the two teams collaborate to make the editors protocol-compatible?
Ugh. Agilebits left out until the very end that this is only for their hosted solution.

No surprise but looks like standalone users are left out in the cold. Again.

Much as I like and use 1Password every day, I really really do not like the fact that they moved to a hosted model.
If hiring were truely an issue for companies, then salaries would be going up or at the very least you'd see them make location decisions based on where the supply of labor is greater than the demand. You almost never see companies doing that. It's always, let's move the company to where-ever is most convenient for the founders or the VCs.
Is it relaying the data over Microsoft (or Azure/Skype/etc) server? Or is it a point-to-point / peer-to-peer connection?

And if it relays the shared data over Microsoft server, what data beside currently opened source code files and keyboard + mouse inputs is transfered? Will it also transfer more source code files (e.g. whole VS project)?

I have to say this feature reminds me of the hollywood movie "Startup" (2001): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
I agree that it's tough to measure "success," but at least it would be presumably easy to measure failure. If we see exactly what opponents claim will happen, it would suggest a more strict implementation might be worse.

My concern is that with this we're likely looking at an even worse version of the problems seen with sending shoes to Africa [1]. Over the duration of this experiment, it's quite possible you'll create a society that abandons skills / equipment / expertise necessary to sustain an economy. That won't be a problem until the experiment ends, and then you've left people in a place far less than where you found them.

[1] http://www.djiboutijones.com/2014/02/dont-send-your-used-sho...
> Firefox does NOT do any this, as far as I know. What is the source of this FUD?

"Firefox by default shares data to: Improve performance and stability for users everywhere

Interaction data: Firefox sends data about your interactions with Firefox to us (such as number of open tabs and windows; number of webpages visited; number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons; and session length) and Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners (such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals).

Technical data: Firefox sends data about your Firefox version and language; device operating system and hardware configuration; memory, basic information about crashes and errors; outcome of automated processes like updates, safebrowsing, and activation to us. When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs.

Read the telemetry documentation for Desktop, Android, or iOS or learn how to opt-out of this data collection."

via

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet the study grossly underestimates how much more fertilizer would be required to turn pasture into cropland, as pasture is normally far less suitable to cropland, and thus is used as pasture.

Not that there is a need to convert very much of that land to cropland - corn and wheat produce far more food per acre than livestock.

Most or all of that land would turn back into wilderness and we'd all die in car wrecks from the millions more deer crossing the roads.
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Some of our best conversations are the result of reading a great story. But recently, those conversations have become less enjoyable as we instead debate if a story is biased or outright false. Speaking with hundreds of people, we found this mistrust and confusion around the news to be pervasive.

Today we’re excited to announce CivikOwl to help you get news you can trust. We are releasing a Chrome extension which instantly rates news stories and suggests better stories for the topic at hand.

Here's a blog post that goes into more detail : https://blog.civikowl.com/can-you-can-trust-the-news-you-are...

Hope to open source the extension code in the near future.

Would love to hear what you think!
I think they are probably going to mess up with the new chips like they did with their OS and Qualcomm will be back up in sometime.
Are you actually expecting useful answers from poor questions?
If you just want to play with the Oberon-07 language (the one used to implement the whole system), there are several compilers available for different platforms. You can find a list here: http://oberon07.com/compilers.xhtml

This includes my own Oberon-07 compiler targeting the JVM: https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc
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This mentality is also related to the insane idea that junior developers are just glomming onto companies to get the training and then leave, taking advantage of the hard work these companies put into them. This is not a strawman, this is a true fear that I've hear several executives utter out loud with no self awareness.

Treat the junior developers like anyone else - someone who wants the best for their career and knowledge base - and provide it for them. Incentivize them to stay. Train them properly and give them resources to succeed. Maintain an internal culture that properly cultivates their talents and gives them mentors to work with and aspire to. Compensate them when they've reached proper thresholds in their usefulness to the team, and provide honest and valuable feedback (positive and negative) as much as you can. Plus avoid the obvious pitfalls: don't abuse them or belittle them for basic questions or silly mistakes. Don't throw them into the deep end with little to no chance of success. Don't talk down to them or treat them as a substandard part of the team. Don't start firing the juniors the minute the workload starts winding down. These are all signs of disrespect for your own workforce and everyone can see obvious red flags, even juniors.

Given the griping about tech interviews these days, does anyone really think that people actually like job hopping? They do it either to avoid poisonous situations, or out of obvious and necessary self interest, one that can be provided by a company willing to treat their junior hires with respect. There's no reason hiring a junior cannot be a win-win situation for everyone involved.
A far more annoying blurring occurs when you enlarge pages because they were designed for small / low resolution screens.

Currently I zoom most pages to 150% and bitmapped logos look horrible, even using the best possible algorithms in image processing software.
If Facebook fails, it doesn’t just affect Facebook’s users - it affects the whole world.
>"No country should let the "landed gentry" hold them hostage over interest rates or tax policy so that their assets - many of which they do not even actually own - can appreciate."

Can you elaborate on what you mean here?

What would be examples of ways in which people who live in places with strong housing markets hold others hostage via interest rates or tax policy? What policies are the policies that accomplish this specifically?
the cost to insure people in that 7% is substantially higher than the 49% receiving coverage through their employers. That's for a variety of factors including them being statistically unhealthier (unemployed people tend to be sicker)

From where do you draw the conclusion that the 7% individual market customers (if not 7% + 9% uninsured) are unemployed?
Totally agree with this. This is the reason that I self-host with Gitea but mirror everything to Github.I essentially use Github as a forwarder to my Gitea instance.

However, I have seen a drastic decrease in interaction (PRs, issues, etc) with my self-hosted repos even though you can auth with your Github credentials.
Like others have said, pilot programs are a poor trial for UBI. You're creating wealth for select individuals (even a village), so you aren't dealing with economic issues such as inflation.

For example, read about Mansa Musa, who gave away so much gold in his pilgrimage to Mecca in the 1300s that he caused devaluation of money (hyperinflation) for nearly 10 years [1]. The huge influx of "free" money caused lasting damage to the functioning of the economy.

I don't doubt doubt the effectiveness of UBI. I just also believe in the efficiency of markets to absorb influxes of money while keeping the relative cost of tangible assets the same.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali#Islam_and_pilgr...
It doesn't answer all questions. For another example, we won't know how much the results will transfer to other countries.

But it's meaningful to see what people will spend the money on, its effect on the local economy (village level), and how this compares to other ways of reducing poverty.

There are still a lot of people who think that people will stop working or spend the money on some wasteful way, and this will tell us whether that's true.
>So to me it sounds like a terrible implementation of a basic income scheme, since someone making X pays no taxes but x+n pays some fraction of n in taxes and presumably has little real incentive to work for n additional dollars when n is sufficiently small enough that x is close to x+(n - tax).

This is true of any tax scheme. NIT/UBI are intended to fix the 'welfare cliff' problem of making significantly less money by earning an extra $1 at certain point of the income curve than at higher ones, by setting a fixed marginal tax rate (even if you're a net recipient of distribution) or guaranteeing a fixed amount to everyone regardless of need, respectively. There is no discontinuity in effective marginal tax rates under NIT.
> The most historically important labor union of our time, Solidarność, was the largest player in driving the Communists out of Poland

You're confusing a labor union in a communist country versus those in a capitalist country. There is a long history of American labor unions being the main infiltration point of communist movements. The AFL CIO had to specifically write a bylaw in the 1950s to expel them.

Here's a really interesting interview of Thaddeus Russel, someone who was raised by two communists in Berkeley, whose main goal was infiltrating labor movements: https://youtu.be/x4YxSGFqOH8?t=3m50s
Historically, Modula was Pascal v2. Modula-2 was arguably different enough to be v3. And so Oberon was v4.
UBI is just a special case of a negative income tax where numbers cancel out.

The biggest advantage of UBI is its simplicity. You just get your UBI, done, much easier for people to understand and for the government to manage.
Interesting - aren't those examples written in Python?
In which way?
On the 3rd argument.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

> In 2001, the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System recommended to the European Parliament that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy, because economic espionage with ECHELON has been conducted by the U.S. intelligence agencies.[7]

My guess is that the real benefit that the NSA provides is largely economic and military espionage. terrorism hasn't been reduced or increased regardless of NSAs activity, and the folks that run the show are not stupid.
Do you mean that they either work or don't?

I mean the Psilocybin content can vary depending on how the mushroom grew and was stored and deteriorate over time.

Whereas with LSD, even when the tabs are weak, there is at least something on there, at least that'd be my explanation.

My experiences are several years in the past, so memory is hazy, but LSD always felt 'sharper' with fractal like infinite details on textures and the like. Mushrooms on the other hand felt more 'organic', but the head space was quite similar.

I tried microcoding with mushrooms once and I think the effects were similar as to what people are describing with LSD microcoding.

However the whole microcoding seems to edge between placebo and real response, almost by definition.