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At a certain point, rather than trying to radically reengineer American society for a post job world, I think are far more palatable solutions (palatable to our crazy system as it stands).

Shorter work week!

Higher taxes, spent on social services. There is tremendous need for all kinds of social services in the US. Such occupations could fill a lot of jobs. Social workers, teachers, judges, police, EMTs, soldiers, programmers, managers, infrastructure building, doctors, financial counseling, career advisors. If the Republicans could let go of their incoherent,burn the house down strategy of governing, things could really be put on a better footing.

Limitations on amount of AI that can be utilized in a company. It’s simply not viable to exclude large percentages of citizens from the working economy, and think that the technicians and managers will capture increasing proportions of the economy’s output. There’s no rule that we simply have to accept unfettered and increasingly Darwinian capatilistic competition, as it destroys society. I doubt it’s even possible in the US, as the sort of brutality required to maintain this type of extreme system is antithetical to the spirit of America. US citizens have some notion of themselves as having worth and rights.

The history of the labor movement shows that constraints on trade in the name of improving working conditions is possible.

My view is that we see the ugly rumblings of what a backlash might look like in the election of Trump. I understand some of the frustrations behind Trump as protest. I don’t think that is working that well. Things aren’t actually that bad in the US, compared to what they could be. There will be time to change course if things really start to disintegrate.
Of course there's nothing new under the sun, this is one of the features of Algol68 (1968) that Wirth discarded when he made Pascal

They're not coming, they've been and gone, probably a couple of times
That number seems a little high for USA schools. 95% maybe.
>never seen a single person who truly "understand the technology perfectly well" say it's underwhelming

I'd say I've noticed an inverse correlation - people who don't understand the technology see it as this amazing thing, the kind of people who know their hash functions are a bit skeptical.
So great that there actually are influential politicians who understand that universal income is not a luxury but a necessity for a modern society.
You could start by taking a look at the Squid web site (http://www.squid-cache.org). Also the HAProxy web site (http://www.haproxy.org). There's some useful background info there. There's also a commercial entity behind HAProxy with some additional info (https://www.haproxy.com). A nice intro to HAProxy here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...

Also take a look at the Wikipedia pages for Squid and HAProxy.

With regards books, the ones I looked at seemed a bit dated.
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You're aware there's a mass of evidence that the DWP is, at best, ineffective and trending towards excessively cruel in its capability assessments? It's not exactly something that's gone unreported.

Your friend is lucky, I know several people personally who have been dragged through the courts for months before they were able to get their incorrect assessment overturned.
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Google still manages to get far too many non-sociopathic employees, by feeding them a supernormal[1] morality surrogate ("googley values") industrially designed to draw moral attention away from Google. Many employees actually start to perceive whatever they do at Google as "good" because Google has these supernormally good "googley values" of Google's own manufacture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
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"Anyone receiving the "dividends" would not be able to claim any tax allowances, which the RSA says would act as a disincentive to wealthier earners wanting to apply for the handout."

It's also a disincentive from becoming a wealthier earner, which is _exactly_ what UBI is meant to address (among other things).
As others in this discussion have pointed out the sensationalist (and technically correct but meaningless) headline isn't based on data corrected for the distribution of population.

Another reply elsewhere did point out that even corrected as such there was still an elevated chance (but not anywhere near as sensational of one) with denser areas of the population.
> By default if the image is available on the web, it is meant to be seen

Some might argue the image is meant to be seen...in the context of the web page it's on.
This puzzles me immensely since nuclear fusion is far more save than nuclear fission. So if you're an organization opposed to the dangers of nuclear, wouldn't you, pragmatically, want a less-harmful alternative to exist?
Oh, wow! I guess even busy they still couldn’t pay the rent.
It works well for courses which are based on critical reasoning such as physics and mathematics. Going both with and without textbooks for many courses I can say that the textbook doesn't make much difference if the notes from the course are done well. If they aren't then the class can be a real pain.
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I've been forwarding all outgoing connections on port 80 (and a selection of other commonly-unencrypted ports) through a VPN (in the router) for a while now - but leaving all other ports (including most importantly 443) connecting directly.

It feels like a good compromise between privacy and speed.

(I realise this is not the subject of the article exactly but I figured it's a related issue.)
Backend:
Java (phasing out), Go (phasing in), Postgres, Redis, all on Ubuntu EC2's.

Frontend:
JS (TypeScript/ES6), React, ReactNative, SASS, all Webpack'ed (except RN).

I think it's a fairly light stack but am happy with it. I would use this as the starting point for pretty much every project.
Also, rude comments aside, which avatar received the most useful comments?
You should not trust anyone handling your traffic, that's why things like HTTPS and SSH exist.

The problem here is not that the ISP can not be trusted, you should never trust them anyway. The problem is that the ISP is using their router to force their way into what is supposed to be the trusted part of your network, your LAN.

This is exactly why I don't use the ISP provided router, and every piece of equipment of theirs I have to use (mainly the IPTV box) is in a separate, untrusted, VLAN.
> The letter calls on the AMP team to make two primary changes:

> Instead of granting premium placement in search results only to AMP, provide the same perks to all pages that meet an objective, neutral performance criterion such as Speed Index. Publishers can then use any technical solution of their choice.

How would you measure this in a way that couldn't be gamed?

I'm not saying AMP is the best solution, but the way AMP prevents you from doing things that hurt performance makes it much easier for you to know for sure an AMP page has certain performance properties.
as mentioned elsewhere 'union' originally came from Algol68 where (eventually) they were implemented exactly as described in the article
you can see the functionality in the screenshots. When you click on a google image search result it open directly the image.
Who didn't think they were being spied on?

This is why you used https to hide the full URL, VPN to push the problem to a 3rd party who might care a bit more about privacy and then Tor on top of it all.

Here's the good old EFF explanation [0]

[0]: https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
You'll be doing well to get a bitcoin payment through in less than a minute. Half an hour plus is typical. There are faster cryptos though.
> and they are almost univerally scummy

Source? I do not think most of the ISPs in my area are particularly scummy. They provide reliable plain internet service with no data caps (and also TV/phone service if you so desire) for a reasonable monthly fee, and in my experience, most of them hire enough customer service workers on their support phone. All of them also resisted internet filtering until the legal system forced them to do so. What more is there to ask of an ISP?
RTFA.

> The worst 1% of counties have 19% of the population and 37% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders. As shown in figure 2, over half of murders occurred in only 2% of counties.

It's interesting to see what happens to the US rate when these worst offenders are taken out:

> In 2014, the murder rate was 4.4 per 100,000 people. If the 1% of the counties with the worst number of murders somehow were to become a separate country, the murder rate in the rest of the US would have been only 3.4 in 2014. Removing the worst 2% or 5% would have reduced the US rate to just 3.06 or 2.56 per 100,000, respectively.
Emacs. I wrote a few reasons why I still use it here:

https://coffeeandcode.neocities.org/why-i-still-use-emacs.ht...

Every now and then I play with other editors, but always end up coming back to Emacs.

There are some nice editors out there these days though: Atom, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is very nice too.
Yeah, I guess that's the Rust way. The more options/configurations the better! Simplicity is not on the top list for sure.
I'm perfectly fine with this, after all they have little choice because of the result from the Getty case, but now that option is gone they need to crack down on sites presenting different images when referred directly from Google than they present more generally: presenting an unaltered image to Google and a heavily watermarked one otherwise for instance, or sometimes the destination page redirecting off to something else if your request doesn't include a Google referrer or agent-string. These things are already against Google's policy and is basically the destination site being dishonest to the user (drawing people away from sites with the same content really but don't pretend to offer something else freely).
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> The people who lost their jobs had been actively assured this would NOT happen for the past several months.

My last employer did this. Not so much the exact scenario, but they constantly assured us they were fully committed for the long-term to our satellite office that they opened. They went out of their way to reiterate this quite regularly and put a good of effort into it. Until one day they showed up and shut down the entire office.

I just don't understand why. Who treats people like that? It's not like these decisions just suddenly pop up out of the blue one morning and a decision to fire people has to be made immediately. Clearly companies have to mull over this type of stuff for quite some time. I don't understand why you reassure people like that only to completely up-end their lives. Knowing that B&N pulled this crap, I'll definitely be avoiding them moving forward.

So moral of the story is, when I company has to start assuring you that you most definitely won't be let go any time soon, it's a pretty good indicator that it'll be happening very soon.
Not sure I would describe the "RSA" as "influential politicians" - they haven't got anything to do with the government or civil service.
Many train stations in the Netherlands have book and magazine shops with "self checkout". Basically a scanner & screen like you see at Ikea. Works great in rush hour when these places are packed with people buying morning newspapers and such.
What's up with these "international editions"? I've seen textbooks with strongly reduced prices that were only supposed to be sold in third-world country, which makes sense to me. But surely the publishers don't consider every country outside the US and Canada a third-world country in need of cheaper textbooks?

BTW, the cheaper prices here in Europe don't only apply to the original English editions, but also to translations. Quick checkup on Amazon.com vs. Amazon.de:

Begon, Ecology, 4th edition: 86.73$ vs. 53.99€ (= 67.39$) -> original English edition
Campbell Biology, 10th edition: 246.62$ vs. 99.95€ (= 124.75$) -> German translation

Why the heck is that?
Google is religiously avoiding doing things that don't scale. Just like hiring people to do customer support for their products, paying content providers doesn't scale.

Why bother paying Getty if it means you'll have to pay other people when they eventually sue you too. That just means you'll incur more an more expenses as people sue/threaten you. Far cheaper to just forgo the grounds for being sued altogether.
The long time one in downtown, not sure if there is an Amazon building downtown. They closed the attached (real) Starbucks and now it lacks a cafe, even though the Starbucks was always busy the store was still kind of empty.
A lot of people would disagree but I would nominate Arthur Whitney of k/q/j/apl fame; others on my list are Bill Spitzak of FLTK, Salvatore sanfillipo (antirez), Richard Stillman (who hasn’t written a lot of code recently, but did write the original Emacs, GCC and a lot more)
As discussed in the thread[0] on this from the other day it's largely FUD.

Fundamentally a VPN service allows you greater control over who you trust with your traffic. You always have to trust someone[1]. For example I trust F-Secure and the Finnish court system much more than I trust Virgin Media, GHCQ and the British court system which is why I run Freedome and route my traffic through Finland. As pointed out in another subthread here UK ISP are required to collect a bunch of data by the Snooper's Charter, the same is not true in Finland.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16371030

1: The default for many people is their local ISP which might or might not be a good entity to trust based on where you are. In many place you also have very few choice when it comes to your ISP.
I personally find the social part hard and the concentrated part easy, but I’m not an a type :).
I only got to try one "phone VR" setup and it was a very underwhelming experience. There was very little synchronization between head movements and actual change of the image; I didn't feel immersed into the virtual world at all, it was more like watching a 3D movie. I wonder what was your experience with immersion in those phone setups?

I also got to try Vive and it's completely another league - I'd say it's as much better as it is more expensive :)
> But surely the publishers don't consider every country outside the US and Canada a third-world country in need of cheaper textbooks?

Apparently, they do. I suppose competition might be healthier here: if a lot of students were to complain to a lecturer that the textbook for his course was prohibitively expensive, they would probably look into possible alternatives.
Every now and then, we are reminded that our router remains the prominent data collector for our online presence. And ISP, the prominent data aggregator. And neither are really too keen to protect our data online.
I downvoted you because of the suggestion that "most books" are appropriate for (and interesting to) 8-14 year old girls. That is so untrue as to border on absurdity.

And, I also downvoted this comment because asking why you're being downvoted is not only dull, it adds nothing to the conversation.
In addition to the contradictions already highlighted by many posters, I don't like the way the only economist they've quoted is Patrick Minford.

Not because he says UBI won't work (I'm on the fence about this, because I'd love it to work, but I don't see how you can stop it triggering inflation to the point that the UBI sum becomes useless to live on - but I'm no economist), but because he's really quite far out of the mainstream of economists and it's as if they've picked him solely because he's the only big name pro-Brexit economist - and I'm sick of the BBC dragging pro-Brexit commentators on to speak unopposed regardless of whether they know anything about the subject or how out-there their views are.

Some prior references on Minford:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-minford-economi...
https://www.economist.com/news/britain/21727078-patrick-minf...
>Unlike with taxes , the sovereign wealth fund could invest the money it holds onto to earn some interest

The people the money was taken from could also have invested it profitably. They know that their taxes will be higher down-the-line so it's up to them whether they want to save or spend it.

>'s the same reason universities have endowments being managed as their own thing.

University endowments also seem far to big to me (at least the largest ones do). I suspect it's mostly a prestige/signalling thing. It might be rational on the part of the university if it attracts more donors, but in that case it isn't rational on the part of the donors. They view saving money as the responsible thing to do because it is the responsible thing to do for a human who will eventually retire. The same logic doesn't apply to Harvard.

> if it's a fund, the money is pre-earmarked for this usage. Taxes -> UBI end up being more easily messed up by politics (see social security vs. your 401(k))

I guess this is partly true, but it's easy to get the money out of there with accounting trickery. Just say "To make the fund's investments safer we are going to invest them in government bonds" and then as-if-by-magic you have the money.
Afaik those predictions relate mostly to nuclear power (main source power in the Foundation trilogy), from the article linked in the post among others:

The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes. The isotopes will not be expensive for they will be by- products of the fission-power plants which, by 2014, will be supplying well over half the power needs of humanity. But once the isotype batteries are used up they will be disposed of only through authorized agents of the manufacturer.
For compound interest to make a difference, you need to leave the money alone for quite a bit of time. That does not seem to be be plan here.

Sovereign wealth funds are generally endowed with some kind of income stream, typically the revenue from natural resources, which it then invests and spends the proceeds from. The UK doesn't have such revenue streams lying around, that aren't already paying into the treasury, thus any such funding will deprive the treasury of the same amount, and so the wealth fund won't really do anything, as least on the short term.

And that's without considering the fact that the government runs at a deficit and continously borrows money. Taking a loan to boost your savings is an interesting strategy.

There are all sorts of paths the UK could take to transfer things around and build up a sovereign wealth fund over time, but getting it to a stage where it would be able to pay out billions a year would take decades in the absolute best case scenario (that excludes any of the 99.9% of scenarios where the government "temporarily" taps the fund for some very important political goal that absolutely coincidentally have to be met in an election year).
Wouldn't any language with exceptions work here? You just define an indexing operator that throws an exception instead of crashing and handle that exception outside the unicode handling function.
While that is true, i think the manufacturers are more afraid of competitors, which could in some way "clone" at least the software.
As far as I can tell we should just be safety first. This does indeed mean getting as much information about how to browse privately.

If we all use tor, it will help the tor project because then it's harder to spot individuals using it.

Tor is slightly slower, but it's pretty much a perfect browser replacement. The only reason I don't use it all the time is that I like my browser history. Plus I've got a self built VPN which is about as good as I can hope for.
This is why you used https to hide the full URL, VPN to push the problem to a 3rd party who might care a bit more about privacy and then Tor on top of it all.

Did you read the article? The ISP-provided modem/router automatically sends an overview of devices actively connected to the router (with their MAC address, name, and whether they are currently connected) to the ISP.

This is a different issue than private browsing and using a VPN/HTTPS/Tor is not going to solve this particular problem. The solution to this problem is replacing the router or putting another router between the ISP router and your internal network to hide your internal network from the ISP-provided router.
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People interested in Allied military government may like the memoir "Naples '44"; the author was landed at Salerno and from that point was in charge of trying to impose something resembling civil order in Naples in an environment where there was very little food available to the local population. Armed only with a classical education and a reasonable command of Italian.

> "We had been given no briefing or orders of any kind, and so far as the Americans were concerned we might as well not have existed. This was the greatest invasion in this war so far – probably the greatest in human history – and the sea was crowded to the horizon with uncountable ships, but we were as lost and ineffective as babes in the wood. No one knew where the enemy was, but the bodies on the beach at least proved he existed. In place of the guns, tanks, armoured cars, barbed wire we had expected to see, all that had been landed in this sector of the beach were pyramids of office equipment for use by Army Headquarters. We had been issued with a Webley pistol and five rounds of ammunition apiece. Most of us had never fired a gun.

As the sun began to sink splendidly into the sea at our back we wandered at random through this wood full of chirping birds and suddenly found ourselves at the wood’s edge. We looked out into an open space on a scene of unearthly enchantment. A few hundred yards away stood in a row the three perfect temples of Paestum, pink and glowing and glorious in the sun’s last rays."
Just fucking look for yourself? You could have done that in the time it took you to write that comment.
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More likely the other haven't just lost in litigation like Google has. The same group or someone similar may turn their attention to Bing, DDG, and others, now that this first case has completed in their favour. Unless of course the traffic through other search engines is not deemed significant enough to warrant the lawyer's expensive time, though the first case having been won will presumably reduce the potential costs of future cases (or make the search providers capitulate to "please turn this off voluntarily or..." without the need for even that effort).
rustc could definitely be faster.

I'm simply pushing back on the idea that there's some obvious low-hanging fruit that clang did that rustc didn't. Compiler performance has more or less much been the #1 goal for well over a year now. The Rust compiler team (which hasn't included me for years, by the way) is fantastic. We'd all like for there to be some magic bullet that makes the compiler faster, but at this point I don't believe it exists. It's hard work from here on out.
Indeed that would be a much more elegant way to go about it.