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This article starts off terribly. It does not get contain enough real substance till it gets to the point about the differential in life expectancy and discusses the point about 'the myth of exceptionalism in America'. The whole line about the difference in entertainment is utter drivel. Big Brother started in the UK, there is plenty of garbage culture coming from Europe.

For the record I've met quite a few Europeans (French and Germans) and I've asked them about what compelled them to come to the US. At times it does seem like Europe is a less stressful place to live. And the answer I get typically amounts to this;

"In France (or Germany or UK) security is much better than the US. But the opportunity in the US is much better."

I find it strange to mention Spain, and really all the PIIGS nations who not long ago were in financial dire straits and Greece has still not escaped.

The lack of a decent safety net in the US scares the crap out of me. The richest nation in the world should not have this poor a safety net. But to make Europe seem like some workers paradise is laughable.
> You can have a useable bike for a hundred Euro or so.

Sure; you can buy a usable car much cheaper than current flagship models too. I spent over 4k on my bike; the high-end market does exist (and is currently the only place you'll find electric shifting, but all these technologies gradually work their way down).

> If you want a small, self-driving vehicle, you might as well put four wheels and a roof on it. Cars don't have to weigh a literal ton.

A motor and batteries or fuel tank are always going to be pretty heavy though, much heavier than sensors and processors. In any case, I like the exercise and the visibility/openness. I'd expect self-driving scooters/mopeds before self-driving bikes, sure, but I'd expect them to happen eventually.
It's raped a few, though.
Curious, why not instead contribute your valuable Go expertise towards matrix (specifically the homeserver called Dendrite)? Certainly don't want to take away any of your passion for xmpp...but if you haven't read up on on matrix in general, I encourage you to do so.

For matrix in general, see: https://matrix.org/

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For Dendrite - matrix's homeserver written in Go - see: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

Cheers!
Maybe this is because, as someone once put it, Americans don't see themselves as worse off. Rather, they see themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"?
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as much as i want bitcoin i think it would be premature for the us govt to embrace bitcoin at this point.. the tech around all this stuff needs to seriously bake and be refined before seriously considering it
Japan as well, If you go outside major train stations in the large city there are big department stores run by the train company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintetsu_Department_Store
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetan#Subsidiaries
Hmm. I personally find the "tip jar" less inviting, but I can talk about using different wording in the article if others agree that a different wording would be beneficial.
People who didn't understand the internet invested in the .com bubble. Compared to crypto/blockchain, the internet is a relatively straightforward thing to understand.

My suspicion is that, because a much higher percentage of the population isn't going to be able to make sense of blockchain, it will be easier for the finance industry and startups to trick idiots into investing, and they will have a deeper pool of idiots to draw from.

Just like the .com bubble, there is real value in blockchain. You just can't judge that from the investments.
I presume because they are under the impression that universal healthcare would be worse.

Often Canadian health care is cited in America as an example of a crappy system because some Canadians will travel to the US for surgeries.

Most of it is unfounded, takes anecdotes, and paints broad strokes. As opposed to looking at it as a whole, and doesn't consider the underlying costs. It would be nice if we could have a pragmatic conversation about it.

The GDP portion that the US spends on public health care (Medicaid, medicare) is already comparable to the total portion other nations spend on universal healthcare. So insurance is just systemic robbery, its private yet mandatory spending. Costs are high as a result of paying for useless insurance infrastructure.

Finally Americans are vey independent, as in I'll make my own keep and provide for my family, I don't want to rely on the state.
This is true of every nation, just the premise changes. In India it's how bad the corruption is. In many countries it's how their religious leaders are screwing them.

The cause it seems is propaganda.
i think lots of people in america view politics as a sport and root for their team, irrespective of its policies. and the republicans have been steered against single payer or other healtcare reforms, so their fans all follow their lead, simple as that.
A lot of people realized that the dotcom bubble was a bubble well before it burst. The biggest sign was investors pouring money into startups that were sort of inherently incapable of generating the level of profit that would allow them to continue operating, e.g. Kozmo.com.
Because the money we put into Defense, Europe puts into the comunal programs that boost said quality-of-life indicators. Perks of being a superpower I guess. Love it or hate it, the argument could be made that without America choosing that path, Europe would not be able to enjoy the quality-of-life they have now.
I know this is a popular way to phrase it, but opponents of gay marriage are not saying gays shouldn't have the same rights as other people. Not being allowed to marry a person of the same sex is a universal law, it doesn't just apply to gay people. It does only affect them though, but that is not the same,especially when people are using this argument (as you do) to insinuate that people opposing gay marriage think gay people are lesser beings or something like that.
> There is a myth of exceptionalism in America that prevents it from looking outward, and learning from the world

In my experience, this is not exclusive to America. It seems to be a feature of very large and diverse countries. I’m an immigrant from Brazil and I saw the exact same thing there. When a country is large and diverse enough, people seem to think that all that there is to be seen is in their own land, and nothing outside can be much different from that. I had friends that refused to accept that life in other nations was objectively better. They claimed it was just “different”, but that quality of life was the same everywhere. Evidently, they had never traveled abroad.
Why are we pretending its a binary choice?
Not yet, you mean.
Racism is morally wrong but not mathematically wrong. P(criminal|black) > P(criminal), but if you observe that someone has black skin and treat them poorly because of it, you've done a bad thing. It doesn't matter that you were just following Bayesian reasoning because you're still hurting someone on the basis of something they can't control.

Lady Justice doesn't wear a blindfold as a fashion accessory. Discarding information is a key factor in nearly every established system of justice / morality. Refusing to do so (i.e. "just" running a ML algorithm) places you directly at odds with society's hard-earned best practices.
Depends whether that collectivism is forced or not. Because the forced one has been tried - and it's horrifying.

Funny thing about individualists: they just want to be left alone and don't care if you are collectivist or individualists. Kinda like that about them.
I thought the article was poorly argued, so I looked up the authors and thought it was worth sharing the info and to let others draw their own conclusions.

My own suspicion is that this "research institute" hasn't really done true research into whether crime is out of control and the homeless are to blame. Maybe it really is out of control, but I suspect that the authors don't truly care to investigate, seeing as they simply chose some anecdotes that fit the views they have held for decades.

Sorry you're getting downvoted.
There's an entire class of super-rich people which have been working at subverting the common good and have richly bought congressmen and newspapers to propagandize about the supposedly inherent superiority of individualism. This is at the root of the settler colonialist agricultural society but has been transformed and multiplied a thousandfold by corporations which have, ironically, built their early wealth on the European reconstruction. Read Manufacturing Consent for the rest. :)
Yeah gotta love having the freedom to die because your health insurance doesn't actually cover the health care you need.

American's have a very perverse idea of what 'freedom' is.
The general public is not talking about using bitcoin as a currency, or converting their daily spending habits into bitcoin, or even about the underlying tech and possible future applications for it. All of the "average-joe" hype is around getting rich quick off of it's meteoric rise. That's what scares me the most.
Except hapiness statistics are superior in the US than in EU [1] while suicide rates are higher in the EU than in the US [2].

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

2: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html

Maybe we shouldn’t use vacation anedoctes to try to find what the best political system is?
Completely unnecessary stab at GMOs
I didn't mention the EU once in my comment, so I'm a bit confused.
Yeah, like that game too, but I still find it hard to remember the attribute to effect relation and I think to play around with the attributes the playground is better suited.
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You're conflating things -- collectivism and individualism are not necessarily defined by the system of government.

I'd argue, that collectivism is inherently superior for most albeit with a lower magnitude of quality for most and individualism is the inverse, with a higher magnitude of quality for some and is inherently superior for some.

However I'd also say that individualism is more resilient as it is inherently decentralized. You're right in that one cannot necessarily be better in all ways, but for the traits the article speaks to, I'd argue collectivism is superior.
You are doing it too.

Our lives are not random samples.
I think you meant "Serverevres" :D
Yeah, I own some ETH and EOS (not very much), because those are the ones I most believe have long-term intrinsic value for the world.
What socialist government has ever reduced in size? They grow and grow to become fully socialist ala Cuba.
yes the key is OSS openwrt instead of vendor-specific openwrt, which is normally lagging behind still, probably slightly better than closed vendor firmware, but not that much better.

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America has always been a country of self reliant individuals. What you're forgetting (and what todays "progressivists" want to erase from history) is that America was (and still is somewhat) a country with convictions, particularly because of the Christian religion which a majority of Americans in the 19th and 20th century identified with. Charities, church hospitals, philanthropic efforts by the wealthy, and a sense of taken care of your local community knitted our country together far better than government mandated collectivsm ever could have.
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It’s in Facebook’s interest to do the policing here. You’re right, the responsibility is on the advertiser, and the law needs enforcement mechanisms. Facebook doesn’t want to be regulated, but if they through malice or ignorance perpetuate civil rights violations, then they will be.
You absolutely are. You can't compare the nonviolent opposition towards both groups without considering the basis of those groups come from. Right here:

>Take a moment to put aside your very strongly held personal belief about gay rights to consider this dispassionately: aside from the fact that you feel right in your views, what is materially different about your suggestion from the suggestion that people should not be allowed to eat meat and participate in the community, because eating meat is unethical? What would your reaction be if I was advocating this position as strongly as you’re advocating yours?

Is your point in comparison. You're saying that there is no effective difference between someone saying 'People who eat meat shouldn't be allowed in our community' and 'People who are against gay marriage shouldn't be allowed in our community'. Your entire argument hinges on this false equivalence.
Who mentioned EU? There's a broad mixture of different political approaches right across the EU. Some of the wealthier states do appear to have a strong social-democratic leaning but maybe that's just 'cause they can afford it?

A comprehensive socioeconomic fabric costs a lot to maintain. You have to have a base of taxpayers who are willing to pay it and who feel they get the value for their money.
From the article

>The faces and ID cards of Xinjiang residents are scanned.
>Near the Xinjiang University campus in Urumqi, police sat at a wooden table recently, ordering some people walking by to hand over their phones.

Yeah...life in the US is exactly like that..
In America Europeans are easy to spot because of their clear healthy looking skin. My theory is their diet is better, but it's likely due to many factors that relate to a healthier higher quality of life.
In the 20th century, the political implementation of collectivism involved the deliberate murder-- often through starvation-- of at least 100 million people.
I'm happy paying for schools despite having no children because it benefit society as a whole.

Can we not apply the same thinking here?
History indeed repeats.

But if you were a smart investor during the .com bubble, you might have invested in Amazon or Ebay.

The question is, will there be an Amazon or Ebay cryptocurrency, and which one?
Do they ever qualify or quantify what is meant by “more opportunity”?
I don't follow. You seem to be suggesting that we simply repeat a proposition for which we have no good evidence ("Steele was paid $2.5 million"), or a proposition which is verifiably false ("the Form 990 says that Steele was paid $2.5 million"), until someone can convince us to stop.

First of all, I would have thought I've already provided enough evidence to correct the latter assertion to any reasonable person's satisfaction. And second, simply repeating an accusation for which we have no solid evidence is, at best, inconsistent with rational discourse. And at worst will get you sued for defamation.

I have no problem at all with people asking where the money went. Bot that's not what you seem to be suggesting, and it's certainly not what I recommended people stop doing. It's also worth noting that Nautilus itself has weighed in to address this elsewhere in this thread:

>In 2015 Nautilus was transferred from an LLC to a 501(c)(3). As the transfer was in process, NautilusThink paid Nautilus Venture LLC to produce the magazine because the staff and contracts were still in the name of Nautilus Ventures. Is was a cost passthrough. Nautilus is fully owned by NautilusThink and Nautilus Ventures was closed.
It's a comment in response to an article comparing Europe and US?
I chose 'spectrum' since the comment I was referring to was starting from a "which party" question - the spectrum I was envisioning was "fringe to mainstream" within a given party.

I certainly agree that framing political beliefs themselves as linear is misleading, though. I should have been clearer about that.
I'm not well-versed in machine learning, so I just want to make sure I understand the general point here: these researchers trained a competitive deep neural network without using gradient descent? Does this mean neural networks might become more useful for discrete optimization problems without gradient information, like program synthesis?
Grants don't just magically disappear...you know one will expire for several months before it does

I do grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies (and some research-based businesses). Publicly funded grants generally don't just disappear, except in the case of recission: http://seliger.com/2011/01/09/as-predicted-in-january-2010-t... . We've had clients who've suffered from recissions.

Private foundations, however, can play by just about whatever rules they want, as long as they give away 5% of their assets every year. So a foundation that promises $1 million over three years (say), may give away a third of that in the first year and then say "just kidding" in year two.

Or it may say nothing at all.

I'm not saying that happened here, but I am saying that it's possible for grants to "just disappear," even if that isn't common. I've had clients experience just that.
> unadulterated reverse-chronological order

This is a wonderful phrase. It's hilarious and strange what we've come to value in a feed. What else might we now be taking for granted that ad companies are going to fuck up?
It's not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_p...

We spend about the same as other OECD countries in public healthcare funding, plus we spend a bunch more privately, for an overall healthcare spend that's the highest per-capita in the world, and outcomes that aren't as good.
A signal failure can lead to dead passengers, so maybe you want to reconsider that statement.
An email is not a job offer. It's just an invitation to interview. There are no procedures against that.
Might come after market close, but I think this is real judging from the other things I've read
I agree with what you wrote, but why does the US have be the same as those countries? Why can't there be a variety of implementations of government such that different humans can choose different situations for their own needs? I'd still like to see Cuba change to a fully democratic communist state, for example.
They do - other countries.

Which I guess begs a follow-up question: why aren't they more outward-looking? This is the question the article asks halfway through, but it still ends without much of an answer.

As someone living in Ireland, where many things are of similar low quality (e.g. healthcare), we are outward-looking but only in one specific way: we look toward the US for a lot of things. I've often asked this question in a different way: why do we look to the US and not elsewhere (e.g. the UK, France, other EU states, where healthcare is actually ok). The two answers I've come up with are anglophone bias and anti-English sentiment arising out of our history, only one of which applies to the US, and yet they definitely don't look too us, to Canada, to other anglophone countries. So I suspect I'm wrong on this explanation in both cases...

It's likely a very multifaceted answer.
That was not the point. The point is that universal healthcare is taking money from my pocket and giving it to someone else.
> It’s a good time to experience what a bubble looks like so you can detect one in the future...

Unfortunately predicting bubbles is nigh impossible. Bubbles can only be defined after they exist.
Where do you see that directory listing is enabled?
Lots of opportunity to make quick bucks with shorting this. And riot blockchain.
It's driven off whats called your dollar cost average.

So in your scenario

Buy 1 ETH for say $500, your cost base is $500.

If then trade the 1 ETH for bitcoin, it only depends on what ETH is worth at that moment.

If 1 ETH is now worth $400, then you have a $100 loss, if ETH is worth $500 then no taxable gain or loss, if 1 ETH is wroth $600 then you owe tax on $100 of capital gains.

What bitcoin is worth is irrelevant until you sell the bitcoin.

EDIT Just assume that every transaction between crypto currencies has an implicit, convert to USD first and then buy the other Crypto with USD.

Also, There is always a USD price, what the price is, is a bit of an art, but its what ever price you can convince the IRS of.
As the other reply sources, the "wrong direction" the public thinks the service is going in is increased privatisation as a result of austerity measures, typically. This is also why dissatisfaction is happening "for the first time" - up until now, the standard of national healthcare has been high, to an internationally-recognised extent.
There’s no actual reason that gold should have the value it does, either, other than the global shared delusion of it as a store of value.
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Europe is still to some extent enjoying the fruit of capitalism, but probably not for too long. There is always a day when roman does not have free bread to hand out any more.
The fact that this is all on one cpu seems like a problem, does it not?

Does someone have a mental model of how to take advantage of multiple cpus without creating a mess? If so, can you explain it like I'm 5 (or more like I'm 55 and tired)?
Big brother started in the Netherlands [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(franchise)#Histor...
The article. Also, those European countries don't have tax rates much larger (if at all) than the US. It's just that in the US, it gets wasted.
I don't know if platforms already support it, but there's no reason why you can't have a throttle (calls/minute).
It’s funny to me that that article talks about everyone loving to bash Millenials, on an article bashing boomers, which you can throw on the massive pile of other media that bashes boomers.
So? I still didn't say the EU is collectivist or mention it at all. Both EU and the US have collectivist and individualist policies.
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Please read the rest of my post regarding how sentiments supporting the disenfranchisement of minorities does affect the workplace even if one does not soapbox it. While I agree that minor differences such a diet and similar should not affect the workplace, I believe the op is too broad in their approach and net implications they may not desire which I am pointing out. Unfortunately I believe that based on their response they also do not mind what I’ve pointed out.
To be fair, totalitarian regimes are not always socialist, especially the outright fascist ones.
What do you think will happen when these countries massive debts come due? I don't think they'll be peaceful then. They are living on the backs of their unborn children right now.