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United Fruit (now called Chiquita) was able to exert influence on the Eisenhower administration because the Dulles brothers (Secretary of State and Director of the CIA) had a long work history and direct financial interest in the company, which was outraged that the Guatemalan government planned to force the company to sell its unused land back to the country at the company-assessed price (the company owned >40% of the arable land in the country, which it had claimed was nearly worthless to save on taxes).

The US imposed a military coup on Guatemala which overthrew a democratically elected government and installed a right-wing military junta in its place, after which the military ruled via a succession of corrupt dictators and military puppets, and undertook a horrific genocidal decades-long civil war against armed rebels and rural peasant civilians.

But I don’t think that’s quite the same situation as the Koch Brothers today. For one thing, all the consequences were borne by poor foreigners.
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There are two extreme ways to remove the inheritance problem. One would be to forfeit personal property: you can't give what you don't own. The other would be to remove the concept of family: when born you are placed in a communal system to be raised by professionals. People start with the same chances, the same level of social knowledge, network and vocabulary, you almost get to a pure meritocratic society (there are still those pesky genes).

Let's not imagine the unwanted effects and just bask in the idea of those kind of perfect societies.
Objection.js and the Knex query builder are excellent. Think ORM light with full access to SQL.
Mining is a "proof of work" event - in essence, you generate a random value so that a cryptographic hash total block would end with a particular number of zeroes. Such a block + hash is trivial to verify but very time/effort consuming to create, thus proving that you spent a large amount of (otherwise useless) work to "mine" that block.

Having a large amount of work required is what prevents a malicious actor from tampering with the chain, since doing so requires doing as much work as all the other miners together.
Yes, surely.

- Eiffel

- Oberon family (Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Oberon-07)

- Mesa/Cedar

- Modula-3

- D

- Nim

- C# (specially now with 7.2 improvements)

- Go

- Swift (RC is also a form of GC algorithm)

These are just the most well known ones, there are others if you feel like having a dive into SIGPLAN papers.

I can also provide examples, how to do it in any of them, if you wish.
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http://pbfcomics.com/comics/transfer-patient/
The fact that people are defending this guy, or treating it as "no big deal" blows my mind. Just off the top of my head, a few ethical issues:

- Breach of patient-doctor trust -- a very asymmetric relationship
- Breach of the Hippocratic Oath (you don't *burn* healthy tissue without good reason)
- Permanent bodily modification without consent
- *Multiple* offenses

Should he have been terminated? Does the punishment fit the crime? Considering he was a leading surgeon in his field, I honestly don't know. One would have to consider potential future lives saved compared to these ethical breaches.

It's a tough call, for sure, but to exonerate him or, worse, downplay these egregious violations as "victimless crimes" is, to me, unfathomable.
While you raise a very interesting point, I suspect that overwhelmingly wealth is passed down to children; it's a pretty basic human instinct to look after your clan. Though I would like to see some data to be sure.
Evokes a certain PBF comic: http://pbfcomics.com/comics/transfer-patient/
The insides of a person loose a lot of there holyness and gloriousness, that law ascribes to the object, when you have it in your hands every day- and if the plumbing doesent work out close the lid on some meatsack with sticks in it.
Although, this does happen[1]:

> Oxford student given suspended sentence for stabbing boyfriend

> Judge had reportedly earlier told Lavinia Woodward a prison term could damage her prospects of becoming a heart surgeon

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/sep/25/oxford-student-l...
Banks are also backed by the fed which is there to prevent failures, and the government through too big to fail. Even in the case of the Bank of the United States (which despite its name was just an ordinary bank) whose failure in 1930 kicked off the bank panics of the 1930s, when it was liquidated the depositors received 92.5% of their deposits.

Most failures of crypto exchanges have resulted in a total or near-total loss for depositors, and triggered rushes to the exit on other exchanges.
But the same would happen for any similar-functioning market. If every AAPL shareholder tried to simultaneously sell for $173.97 (current price), many would end up disappointed.

Instead, the article seems like FUD that would confuse non-tech users into thinking they couldn't cash out their 0.5 BTC at the price they're seeing on their exchange (they can.)
It takes a while to understand what's going on in the world. 20-somethings have a simple model with hardly any details filled in. Ambitious people are also purposely ignorant.
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Correct. In German culture it is frowned up to write "Scheisse" (Shit) but at least you can say it and don't have to write "Sch*sse". Which I personally believe is a silly way to obfuscate the word.
Known to be an urban legend:

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The major difference from the current equities market, as described in the fine article (the latter half of it), is that in the Bitcoin market you see common manipulative practices that are illegal and also mostly eliminated from the current equities market.
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When my bad judgment as a driver impacts my decisions as a programmer too, I don't expect that to slide.

If his ego/vanity changes the actions that he takes when performing surgery, that sounds like a problem to me.
Have you considered working for an NGO or charity or something?
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Can't speak for any GP/OP but I learned simple welding with 12 when my father built a new grid for the berries in our garden to grow, spot welded a few steel grids together (about 8mm thick). Of course my father watched the first 10 tries or so but after he was sure I would be able to handle it he would go do other things and only occasionally check back to make sure I didn't spontaneously die.
I sidestep this issue on my personal projects by using Docker w/ Python (although this is probably applicable to other
languages). I use this at work in production as well although to a lesser extent as we aren't containerized for most services.

I create a base image that has all of my deps installed in a virtual env. Use that base image as the `FROM` clause in the next image. Additionally if you were to rebuild this image and a dependency went missing or broke it's trivial to go back to using a previous working image.

So, I guess technically they are checked in since a copy of the system and thus the libraries/binaries on it is stored in a Docker repo but those are separate from your code and well abstracted away. You can also easily run your own PyPi server on your network to avoid going to the web at all (this is probably also possible with other languages). You can also host your own docker registry so you can totally remove dependence on external versions of your deps if you want to.
Does this solve some of the core problems with GPU programming, such the difficulty of writing reusable code without significant performance overhead (via nested parallelism or fusion), or the need to follow some potentially awkward rules for performance reasons (struct-of-arrays and coalesced memory access patterns?).

I mean, it is surely nice to easily launch a bunch of threads within a single-source program, but there are already plenty of C++ libraries that let you do this, and it has not really led to an explosion of making efficient GPU programming accessible to the layman.
> It seems that the graphs in this tweet are another confirmation of Piketty's observation.

As far as I can tell, the graph is based on an earlier graph from Pikettys paper:

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/AlvaredoGarbintiPiketty2015....

Compare to Figure 5
> It approximates the total amount of wealth currently held in the form of a particular crypto,

I don't see how it does anything of the sort.

* It's not the amount that was put in
to it

* It's not the amount you could get out of it

It's a number that's easy to calculate and gets headlines, but I can't see what else it's good for in practical terms.

Perhaps with a tiny altcoin it would be worth 51%ing it. But for anything larger, or for an ICO token? What does this number actually do?

Say there's a crypto asset that isn't getting headlines. Its market cap is $100 million. Just knowing that, what do you know about the crypto?
Im sure free market man is going to save us. Any second he will plunge through the clouds, his invisible fist coming to save us all..
As far as I know, in my experience. Stored procedures in postgres are good when you really use the database and care about the data, you need transactions, need to handle races and concurrency etc. Whereas ORMs break down at this point or prevent you even getting to a point when you can use your database as a database.

Why pretend your SQL database is about objects? It is not... (it is about data)

A stored procedure can act like a view or a query, or use procedural logic. Point is: your app can call it and get a concistent result, no matter what refactoring has been going on.

A direct query needs to know too much about the database (orm generated or otherwise) which prevent refactoring and couples app to database harder...

You can rename or merge tables, views functions in the database but the interface the app use (stored procedures/DAL) will stay the same and work the same way.

As for app logic... I prefer bussiness logic in the database, not the app when the data is important. Application logic stay in your application, data dependent bussiness logic stay with the data.
Because it is very very difficult.

1. The spouse needs to get offered a job, and have the employer file for a H1B on their behalf.

2. They can't start working until the H1B has been approved. So the employer has to be willing to hold the job until then.

3. However, filing for a h1b is not just expensive, but there is only about 30% probability that the candidate will get it since the visa is allotted on the basis of a lottery across all applicants.

4. The applications are open only once a year, in April, and there is a limit of # of applicants (IIRC 195,000 max applications) which usually gets reached in less than a month, after which you have to wait until next April. And if you are lucky enough to get it, you can start working from October onwards.

So here's the actual equation for any h1b hire. Your employer has to be willing to pay the extra legal fees, and wait for 5-15 months, for a 30% probability of you actually being legally eligible to work for them.

Now it is important to note that the Obama administration's action on this wasn't even for all spouses. It was for those spouses, whose spouses were on H1Bs _and_ had filed for a green card but due to country wise quotas or other reasons, they were on a long wait list for their green card application to be processed. For example, the current wait times for Indians for their green card applications to be processed is >10 years [1].

These spouses want to be productive employees of the economy, but a wait time of 10+ years is basically going to make it impossible to get back to the work force. The number of people who were eligible to take advantage of this H4 EAD program was estimated at about 100,000, but realistically, I would guess that only a fraction (say 20-40%) were actually going to use it. Which is a miniscule fraction of the total US work force of 152 million.

The Obama administration wasn't able to fix the deeper problems in US immigration policy, but it did this one humane thing for these spouses. The new administration hasn't shown any signs of trying to actually fix immigration, but in my opinion, as a populist xenophobic move which won't move the needle on the economy, the Trump administration wants to undo even this small step.

[1] https://www.immihelp.com/visa-bulletin-tracker/
> Anyone who doesn't understand the basics of how markets work (the people this article is aimed at) shouldn't be trading anything.

(author here) I'll second that. Unfortunately, they are ...

I've never personally felt so comfortable with "accredited investor" rules, they feel too much like "only the rich can get richer" - but junk-quality assets like this being marketed to normal people, I can appreciate why this sort of rule exists.
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Can't believe anyone is defending this creep. What if your nanny wrote "FUCKSTICK" in washable marker on your baby's face but made sure to wash it off before you came home?
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It's Nintendo. I wouldn't be surprised if they designed cartridges this way on purpose now.
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Americans, perhaps. But whole nobility (more of a European thing) thing is in part to preserve these skills across generations.
WaPo had been doing great reporting these days. I just don't know how much money they lose in ad revenue by being behind paywall. Any summery of the article?
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How what is described in the article - political group promoting their opinion - is "corruption"? Yes, some rich people may have financed that particular group - as rich people finance a lot of politically active groups - but what's corrupt in that? Did they bribe anyone? Did they break any laws?
People don’t change, they merely reveal themselves.
We already have inheritance tax laws, they are just not very good. They need to target trusts and other ways that rich families get around it.
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In git the consensus protocol is "whatever the maintainer thinks is the correct HEAD" or "what the maintainers can agree on to be 'master'". There are many ways you can achieve consensus.
This statistic is from the DIW, a German think-tank which is known for it's left leaning/biased views. It cost them their membership in the country's "council of economic experts" once.

PS: That doesn't mean that the claim is false. But you could - as is often the case - draw different conclusions from the data. E.g. that the European countries have heavy welfare and tax burdens that reduce social mobility and the chances of earning private wealth through work.
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This is why there's so many ethical issues coming to the forefront these days ... people grade things into "acceptable" levels of bad behaviour.
I worked for a cable ISP helpdesk once and during a particularly hot summer I vividly remember an on/off outage where we'd be getting regular updates from the field guys along the lines of: "We opened the doors and it works now." and "It failed again but we got a fan from the neighbors and that seems to help!"
That's a trade off. Have you ever estimated a game development budget? Sure, we can write our own engine in C++ and be running smoothly on 7-year old machines - which, theoretically, can bring some additional sales. But we can also use the money that C++ engine developers cost to hire much cheaper mid-level devs with a typical industry engine (Unity/Unreal), invest that time in additional polish/iterations and get a much better ROI.

And quite more often, it's a choice between doing a game using a modern engine or not doing the project at all.
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Query Builder: You build a query, just not in SQL. So you can get around SQL's limitations (like composition)
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What does it mean that a factor is the most important if all of them are necessary?
I cannot phantom a reason to put your health at a risk just to accomplish the ego of someone who should just do his work. I personally find it humilating. Care to explain better? Sometimes I'm really curious about how someone can have such a radically different view from me on such simple arguments, and I always love finding the reasoning behind that.
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Correct title would be "A non-profit, financed among others by Koch brothers, opposes all kinds of government spending and meddling with private economics, including, in one case, spending on municipal internet".
> if something were to happen that made holding bitcoin undesirable (such as say, a possible crack for their elliptic curve crypto implementation).

A much more realistic scenario that could make bitcoin undesirable to hold would be something like all major central banks collectively viewing bitcoin as a threat then working in concert to target the weakest link of the cryptocurrency: exchanges that facilitate conversions to fiat.
I've been a physician for about 16 years. I won't defend the guy, it's just that I routinely see things that I would consider worse: doctors drunk at work, doctors who sleep with medical students in exchange for good evaluations, rampant cheating in medical school, rampant stimulant abuse, and the list goes on and on...

It's unethical for sure, but I guess my gut reaction is that it's not necessarily an offense that demands termination.
It's a facet of the American exceptionalist mindset filtered through a Biblical worldview. Good things become enshrined and eventually turn into unquestionable scripture (cf. the Constitution); bad things are whispered in conspiracy theories until they become the Original Sin ("nobody else could have been so evil as us").
I lived in Osaka, which is ostensibly the crime capital of Japan, for a few months. I have never felt more safe in my entire life. Yes, there were the characteristic Yakuza businesses, but I would have been surprised if I dropped my passport at 2 am and it wasn't returned.
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No, but they are a common punchbag for articles like this. In this case, Kochs probably had no idea what TPA is doing and exercised no control whatsoever over their actions in any way, they just gave money to a fund that gave money to ideologically affiliated fund that gave money to ideologically affiliated fund that gave money to TPA. But of course that doesn't make a good headline.
Are you a woman ? I read they tend to be interrupted more by their male colleagues. The imposter syndrome is also common in tech circles.
I experienced exactly the opposite of your comment. Going to the police was the default answer for Japanese. A friend of mine parked his bike in front of his apartment one evening, the police were called and the bike was destroyed by the time he had asked about it the next day.
Whose privacy has been disregarded here?
If he'd done it to me, I'd have carved my name on his forehead. Completely unacceptable.

//edit// I'm not sure why this evokes such a strong reaction in me. I think it's because it's like a claim of "ownership".
To me it looks like US Congress is dirt cheap. Just few thousand dollars to pass laws that would have massive impact! Top countries spend billions on military and trying to revive their economies. With a tiny fraction of that budget you can buy lots of US politicians legally and easily generate desired effect. The beauty of this whole thing is that everything is legal. Rich folks even made sure you can have unlimited "donations". BTW, this is used to be called bribes and people were used to sent to prison for accepting that.

I can't stop but wondering if there is a startup opportunity here. What if it was possible to create a market to buy and sell politicians which was more efficient? May be we can dress it up little better... How about buy and sell "political cause"? Unlimited money allowed for each auctioning! Each political cause can then have underlying actual politician that gets part of the proceeds via campaign donations but all parties get to remain anonymous. No need to debate gun laws. Who ever is able to beat auction gets their say.
> you almost get to a pure meritocratic society (there are still those pesky genes).

That's OK, we can use CRISPR tech to solve that problem.

Brave New World in 3.. 2.. 1..
This isn't the first time I've heard of such a thing. From When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank Vertosick Jr:

> “He’s a big fan of yours, too, pal, ever since the bone flap thing.” The bone flap incident had occurred early in Gary’s chief year. Fred and Gary were performing a cranial operation to remove a benign brain tumor. Fred had performed the entire operation himself—a grave insult to a chief resident, known as “stealing the case.” After Fred left the OR, further irritating the chief by dumping upon him the tedium of closing the wound, an angry Gary had engraved the phrase “Fred sucks” with the electrocautery knife on the inside of the bone flap, the plate of skull bone that is temporarily sawed away to gain access to the brain. He had then wired the flap back into place, thinking that the inside of the patient’s skull would never again see the light of day. Unfortunately, the bone flap developed a staph infection and had to be removed a week later. Once contaminated with bacteria, the free piece of skull must be removed to cure the infection. The soft spot is filled in with plastic several months later. Gary coerced me into assisting Fred with the surgical removal of the infected flap. I’ll never forget the almost unintelligible stream of invectives that spewed forth when Fred saw Gary’s skull graffitti. Fred was too embarrassed to send the discarded flap to the pathology department as it was, and we spent an hour drilling the message off the bone before allowing it to leave the OR.

Considering the type of personality that surgery attracts, I see why this happens. That said, I don't think this is a common occurrence. (And it should go without saying, but such actions are unethical, unprofessional, and worthy of criminal charges.)
ORMs are more useful as insert builders. Putting data from an object into the database is something of a boilerplate process. Queries vary with what you want to ask. Most of the time, you don't need all the fields, so filling up some object just because it has slots for everything is a waste of effort. Especially if it means references to multiple tables.
I don't think anyone really collected that data to compare. I know most of those happened to me, when I was unsupervised, and others I knew. It would make a good project for an academic to collate the data through interviews.
The branding itself is bad enough --to put another burden on the system of patients who are already in a bad enough state to need a transplant is just cruel-- but this also means that he prolonged the operation just to satisfy his vanity, possibly risking further complications, and wasting time that could benefit other patients.
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>it's not necessarily an offense that demands termination.

Someone murdered someone near my workplace. This surgeon branding his initials on someone's liver isn't so bad in comparison. Therefore, it isn't so bad in the absolute.

You set up the slope yourself and then proceeded to slip on it.
So which exchange are you using? How viable is it to cash out smaller amounts, few hundred or thousands?