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I doubt we will ever see productivity concentrated in the aristocrat class: people are too lazy, and after a couple of generations it falls down between either a society that encourages rent or a family that isn't rich anymore. However, if when you say "the economy becomes driven by the 1%" you mean "the economy reaches a point where it is funded entirely by the 1%," then I have an interesting thought experiment for you:

You may not know this, but I am the richest man in the world. All economic activity is technically mine, carried out by stewards of my capital. However, I have decided that the most humanitarian approach to this massive responsibility is to let things run their course - I am comfortable on a meager living, so I take no interest. It's not like someone is going to replace me: after all, everyone in the world simply manages my funds, and does their best to earn the right to manage more.

Now, my brother on the other hand - he's a notorious criminal. He owns nothing rightfully, but his famous heists have resulted in a 3% annual decrease in the value of every bank account in the world; and even worse, the multitude of shots fired in the ensuing high-speed chases have done the same to essentially every asset.

Congress has decided to close the loopholes my brother has been using to escape justice, but they're fine with me.
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It's more than that, for some countries.
If that's the case why would the 99% allow such an economy to be built?
I think the argument is something along the lines of: the public hears that an engineer is making certain claims and then push for the laws to be changed. Running of yellow/red lights ends up killing a lot of people. Perhaps without this passive enforcement, more people would die.

Having read some local news about the incident, it sounds like his wife blatantly ran a light according to the laws of Oregon and he attempted to get it thrown out using a dubious technical argument.

http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2014/02/joseph...
When the mods take the time to remove bait from a title, especially when it's bait you disagree with, please don't bring it back to the thread.
Unless you have remote SSH logon enabled and IRC exposes your IP address.
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> On the one hand, if those scraps are enough to live on (and educate my children and so on), it's fine with me because it's enough.

That's a pretty sad state of affairs though. Constant "revenue optimization" means it's almost guaranteed that scraps will be less as time goes by. I mean, rich folks can always want more, no?

The issue isn't with "we have scraps" but the 1% focusing on the 1% and that if you don't have an economic voice, you will eventually lose all of your remaining scraps and your rights (e.g. Native Americans, Palestinians, etc).

Now you just have to add in privatized military and drone/AI based policing and it starts to look a lot like dystopia.
I would say that wealth concentrating in a small number of hands is not a surprising outcome, nor is it a dynamic anyone with libertarian leanings can really be uncomfortable with. I'll admit I'm unpleasantly surprised by how quickly it happened.

I would say that cryptocurrency has one advantage over traditional systems of money in that it governs with the consent of the governed - if the richest 4% of the cryptocurrency world become too aggressive and stifle innovation to protect their status, cryptocurrency's nature makes it very easy for the other 96% to take their ball and play elsewhere. There have been several 'hard fork' moments already (Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, etc) and what the majority of people went with was mostly determined by who inspired their confidence. I don't think Greenspan or Yellen could have gotten the majority of miners to switch to their system, that takes the confidence of the majority.

So to answer your last question - I would expect the experiment to lead to a more brutal and cutthroat competition than we are used to, but I also expect the rules to be more fairly enforced, and the incentives of the rich and the rest to self-correct if they begin to diverge.

I can't speak for other libertarians, but for me, finding that tradeoff worth it is what it means to be a libertarian. How clear-eyed I am about the costs I couldn't guess.
I think it's about not creating adverse interests. Generally, a company is much more interested in a living employee than they are the payout from one dying.
No need to reuse your password. If the machine has sshd enabled, the attacker only has to guess the account name, but that's hopefully a lot easier than guessing the password.
How do you have such insight? If you can produce such insight so easily, surely you must be a very successful investor? This is such a strong perspective it seems.
That sounds very annoying, and I infer that some people have it even worse. What efforts do you see upper management making to bring the two sides together? I notice that as I get to know someone better, I can understand our differences by understanding the ways in which we process information differently. Of course there will be exceptions, but sales people and engineers (beyond their tasks/goals being different) have different strengths and weaknesses as people and processors; sometimes the differences aren't better or worse - just different. Day-to-day, how often do sales people and engineers problem solve together?
I struggle with this too. Sometimes I will only ask the first question, let the recipient respond, and then ask the next question. It can give the interchange a more conversational feel and some people really prefer that.
Of course you're allowed to disagree! Without exception, any person is allowed to disagree with any thing at any time. It's a basic human right.

Whether or not that disagreement can be reasonably expected to have meaningful impact on what many others regard as a decision long made is a different question, and the one to which I was speaking.
You're kinda both right. But the focus-protection part has nothing to do with SAS.
So now CDS sellers are too big to fail?

I imagine Hovnanian and Blackstone are owned by pension funds, etc, too.
> because it would be too complicated for cops to enforce.

The only reason speed limits get so much focus is that they are so easy to enforce.

Because of that, they have essentially become a direct-to-police tax, rather than something useful.
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Why focus on command line tools? There's already Leiningen which does an amazing job, and Boot for the few use-cases Leiningen doesn't take care of. Creating another CLI seems very strange.
I don't want to hear you chewing. Please consider push to talk.
I think I'd be in favor of introducing a public option and seeing how it competes with other commercial insurance options. Going completely single payer seems very risky, and could upset a large percentage of californians due to the subsequently necessary rise in taxes.
Your "5% APY" option is a prepaid debit card that has a maximum balance of 5000 and the advertised rate is only good for a couple of months.

The lesser rates have similar terms - only earn 3.5% on balances up to 10k, you must make 12 purchases from your debit card per month. You must spend more than 1k from your debit card per month. You must log in to your account at least once or month. If you skip any of these things, your interest rate is 0.01%.

This is your suggestion for storing wealth safely?
Someone made the decision, this year we will hire X number of security engineers and Y number of poop animators. Ultimately that guy is Tim Cook.
Take your best guess when Bitcoin will fall of the cliff: https://twitter.com/BitcoinPlunge
You are reading way too much into what I'm saying. I never claimed any of what you're putting into my mouth. All I said is that when websites block cloudflare, it's usually because of spam and attackers.

Honest feedback: You need to take a look at how this conversation went down and if you're happy with projecting this attitude you have onto the world.
I don't follow.

Why shouldn't the government lock up a criminal that does so much damage? And what does it have to do with you? Does it matter that he is your brother? Are we supposed to judge you by his actions? Are you saying we are lucky to have a benevolent dictator such as yourself?
It's not driven by the dearth of suppliers, it's driven by the impossibility of choosing the cheapest provider due to a combination of 1) the lack of transparency in hospital pricing; 2) not being able to anticipate your expenses; 3) the insurers being able to "cheat" by agreeing on lower prices with the providers; 4) insurers forming a cartel.

When there are so many forces pushing against the creation of a free market and a healthy balance between supply and demand, there is only one thing that the government can do: either socialize it (that's what happens with roads, for example), or regulate it like there's no tomorrow (that's what happens with utilities). However, in the US it is blasphemy to even suggest doing either thing to healthcare.
Being unaware of or uninvolved in a process does not in any way, shape, form, or manner render any person's opinion invalid. I apologize deeply and sincerely from the bottom of my soul for even accidentally creating a situation where such a thing could be interpreted from my words.

With all that said, whether or not one can have a reasonable expectation that one's perfectly valid opinion might have any impact on what many in the outside world regard as a settled matter is perhaps upon occasion a more subtle and complex question.
Pale moon, Waterfox, maybe Basilisk.

Firefox as we knew it is dead, mutilated by parents that wanted something else than what they ended up with.
I asked for clarification because I didn't understand what you are arguing. I don't think it helps to follow up by repeating that I need to understand.

I now understand your point, thank you.
If you add up all those numbers you just gave besides the gold in the ground one, they add to exactly 187200. So no that is not gold in the ground. That is the estimated gold existing that has been mined. You may be reading the articles but not getting the right thing from them. Also gold in the ground does not count as being in the market because well it is still not mined, it is just known to exist.

Also you omitted the direct quote "Total above ground stocks: 187,200 tonnes" from the site you posted. So no that does not include gold that has not been mined.
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Same issues here. I dread having to unplug or shutdown my MBP connected to 2 external monitors because it means I'll have to reconfigure the displays.
I've written about why I think this is a disingenuous comparison: https://paulbutler.org/archives/stop-dragging-hayek-into-bit...
> If you are not actively passing a vehicle, you have zero reason to be in the left lane.

Well, aside from left lane exits, upcoming forks, and that the left lane is where special limited-use lanes tends to be, and, most critically...

> This assumes something resembling fairly open road

If someone has bothered to build a multiplane highway in the US, it tends to only rarely be so underutilized as to resemble fairly open road. Even if it's not “stop and go”, much of the time it is continuous traffic at some speed in all lanes, not sparse traffic in the right lane (or even the lane just to the right of the leftmost) and no significant traffic in the lane to the left allowing one to use the right for all regular travel and only move left to pass and then return to the right.

And the induced traffic effect means that adding additional capacity doesn't actually change this meaningfully.
Well, for the first time since the langauge was created you can now do `brew install clojure`, and then `clj` on the commandline and get a repl. I would have loved something that painless when I was learning Clojure.
Without context, I have no idea of the significance of this or its relation to HN.
In the states I've lived they have no obligation, but it's incredibly helpful to keeping traffic flowing. Often a +/- 5MPH adjustment can help a whole lot. I know it's not mandatory, but if you are aware of a merging vehicle I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone to be bothered to make a minor adjust to ease the process, and often/most times they don't. That's all I was getting at.
Nope, they're under no right to let you in, merging traffic yields.

Consider if you were driving a 80klb GVWR semi. If the law required you to yield that could make for an incredibly dangerous situation.
Consider https://superuser.com/a/61772
Yeah I don't take such a generous view of it.

In my opinion a person can work hard and make money in the millions in a lifetime. That can be done by penny pinching and good old fashioned hard work and bootstraps.

But a billion dollars? Ten billion? You can't get there without stepping on someones neck. The fact we even have elites means someone's getting screwed.

Eat the rich.
Why would anyone want to sell you on something?

Do you want to be sold on it? Is that what you want your interactions on this site to be?
Funny enough the correlation between speed and traffic fatalities doesn't seem to matter that much. Speed limits on the German Autobahn are famously much higher but there are fewer fatalities per mile traveled. I'm inclined to believe that the reason is that traffic there and in northern Europe in general is in fact much more orderly then traffic in the US. No overtaking on the right ever. Cars only move into the left lane to overtake somebody. That requires a lot more lane changes, but they are very predictable lane changes and the is so much less to watch it for. People also accelerate properly before entering the Autobahn. So your speed delta to cars in the land you are trying to merge into is usually quite low.

It also takes many hours of driving with a trained driving instructor and a full hour practical test plus a genuinely hard theoretical test to get a license.

Edit: I grew up in Germany and when I moved to southern California traffic terrified me. It was much slower than traffic on the Autobahn but the chaos was just terrifying. Oregon traffic is super slow but still pure chaos compared to what I've experienced anywhere in Europe.
>and you can flash your own images if you'd like

Just an FYI for anyone interested in getting it. You can do this only if you buy directly from Google, not from Verizon. Only Google's version has an unlockable bootloader. Google sold out pretty hard to Verizon in order to get some sales. One of the nice things about the Nexus line (at least all the later ones) was that you get a good no-bullshit phone no matter where you buy it from. Now, with Pixel, you get the shitty one if you buy from Verizon. The major downside to this is the used market. No way to reliably buy a good phone on ebay etc. The model numbers are the same. Some respite is swappa, which lists them accurately.
Having started in python land, and having started to wander into the borders of lisp land, this talk covers the experience of the transition very well. More importantly it provides great suggestions for the social aspects of getting new users over the hump (with happy intern comments as well, (I would like to hear the unhappy ones as well)).

Overall a good talk about the realities of one way to use lisp successfully in a 'modern' software development environment.
Or rather: It's that our economic models are so poor, that we need to use poor monetization techniques to make up for it.
brew install leiningen -> lein repl does exactly that
I believe the point the person you were responding to was getting at is that the person's proof assumes that the reals are a field. It's not a convention that cancellation holds for fields. It's a theorem one proves about integral domains. That a field is closed under multiplication is not a theorem; it's part of the definition of being a ring.
Today's instalment of how America's healthcare is a trainwreck.
Leiningen has been incredibly painless:

$ brew install leiningen
$ lein repl

That's literally all it took.
Alright sure. You can however protect $70M Bitcoin easier so it balances out I'd say.
I think most people enjoy GoT despite the story line. The content is otherwise quite gratuitous in the violence and sex departments, so it has a lot to offer to the most casual of observers without having a full grasp of the story line.
Associative data structures (maps / dicts) are super first-class in Clojure, in a way that they aren't in other Lisp-1's (at least from what I remember of dabbling in Racket). There's a literal syntax for them. Keywords are functions that you can call with a map as an argument. You can destructure them in `let` bindings. And so on.

In my opinion, this turns out to be a pretty major win. Code is still data, it's just that this data is a mix of lists, vectors, and maps, and now you can type associative data structures into your code as easily as you can lists. Hash tables in vanilla Common Lisp are a nightmare (there is a nice library that at least gives a Clojure-y initialization option via Reader macro), and a glance at the Racket documentation suggests the story there is probably not much better.

Clojure code in the wild uses the destructuring on maps a lot like, e.g. Haskell code uses pattern matching, and Spec is an interesting core library aimed at allowing libraries to insist that keys be present in maps and so on.

Anyway, I had occasion to interact with some Common Lisp code I'd written several years ago, and I was struck by how annoyed I was at it for not being Clojure. Part of that is the Lisp-2 issue, but I also really missed how lightweight and easy Clojure maps are, and how easy they are to use for control flow. (I will say that Clojure's clunky recursion annoys me, but much less than trying to deal with Hash Tables in CL)

Also, and I know you say you don't care about Java, but ... sometimes you have to interact with some annoying outside system (like, a database or a web browser), and there is a high-quality Java(Script) library that makes this task trivial and lets you work on what you want!
You can't expect people to go the same, or similar speeds.

There will always be trucks going slower, and always people who feel comfortable at much higher speeds.

Going different speeds is what multiple lanes are for.

The problem is that multiple lanes lose their value when two cars are driving side-by-side at the same speed. If the left car speeds up for a short period, then moves to the right, traffic will be able to circulate, creating more distance between cars, and fewer instances of significant speed difference in a close range over a period of time.

The problem is that speed itself is quantifiable, so police focus on it way more than is helpful. To legitimize speed tickets, there have been years of propaganda teaching people that slower = better, so those who want to drive slow feel vindicated, and those who understand traffic flow are frustrated.
Also, sometimes there can also be tax advantages to not selling something (realizing gains) and instead buying insurance on it (possibly deductible expense).
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> In order to open a new hospital in most jurisdictions, by law you need the permission of other local hospitals

That doesn't really have much of an effect these days, though, because if anything, we already have an excess of hospitals in most areas where this would come into effect.

That's why hospitals have been hemorrhaging money, and so many have either gone broke and closed up entirely or been consolidated into larger hospital systems. The independent hospital is a dying breed, and it's been dying for a very long time.

In other words, there just simply isn't really any appreciable desire to open hospitals in those regions. The Certificate of Need isn't the limiting factor; their ability to break even on their operating expenses is.
Okay, but France is not known for its stellar economy or the prosperity of its people. Over here, at least, France is known for its stifling amount of government control when it comes to anything economic. It’s possible these things are related. (Just sayin’!)
OK, I've got to admit that what I wrote was a bit ambiguous. I meant physiologically, it's easier to lose weight. But when you are starting with a group of people who are overweight to begin with, there are other factors like behavior or psychology.
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The new tools.deps.alpha and command line tools are focused differently. They are specifically for creating classpath and launching Clojure programs, so do not cover use cases of building or deploying artifacts - for that you should still use a build tool like Leiningen or Boot. (But those tools may actually be able to use tools.deps.alpha.)

However, tools.deps.alpha doesn't restrict itself to a Maven-artifact-only dependency system. It supports an open system of coordinate and provider types of which Maven is one, but also local (no-artifact) dependencies, local jars, and eventually others as well (like using projects directly from Github). All of that vision is not done yet but it will enable many new capabilities.

Clojure is a language that runs code from Clojure source files. It does not inherently require "building" or "deploying" anything. Those are useful tools to interoperate with the Java ecosystem, but we should not limit ourselves to only that means of program building.
Stop trying to use your "registered professional traffic engineer" title as a labor monopoly. It doesn't even mean you are good at your job.
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Since IPFS is based on content addressing, if a node tries to spoof a piece of content, any peers trying to fetch from the malicious node will immediately see that the content provided does not match the desired hash.

I'm not sure how peers handle that situation, I'd assume it'd be treated like wire corruption (retry) or give up and try to fetch from a different peer.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional. Apple is known for planned obsolescence for their products, especially iPhones.
If there isn't one (which is rather improbable - AFAIK all the browsers have it set by default), then it should be either English or both English and the language assumed given the IP address.
In a company that's thousands of people large, across 5 continents, I have the power to make dozens of people, most of whom I've never communicated with outside of the occasional email, leave? I basically have superpowers.

Like I said, I'm sure "data science" as a science is great, and I'm sure there's plenty of "data scientists" that I would love to sit down and talk with and learn from. I just have never met any.
How accurate can you get with an IP address? I seems like it could act as a fallback if the geolocation web api is blocked.

I have a side project[0] that uses the geolocation api to post to Slack and seems to be pretty accurate, even on mobile. Maybe I'll try this as a fallback.

[0]: https://github.com/styfle/geoslack
I am a big fan of all Lisps (you will pry my Common Lisp REPL out of my cold, dead hands!), but there is only one that which has elevated both my hobby and professional work into a realm I can honestly describe as fun and intellectually stimulating even years after the honeymoon period has waned. That Lisp is Clojure.
Ironically Linux has had so many long standing versions of this exact vulnerability (screensaver issues leading to various forms of terrible disclosure) that it's not even really interesting to talk about them.

I'd send you to the relevant jwz rants but I'd rather spare everyone the goatse-ing...
You can buy in the UK from https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1548489778/

Thanks for letting me know that it was confusing that the picture was a link. I updated the page with a more obvious amazon.com and amazon.co.uk link.

I don't think there are too many US only spellings. Behaviour was the only one my (English) mother commented on...