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> You can't lower your minimum wage by law, but you also can't live on that, either.

But, given the context of discussion, the only other alternative is to have no wage at all. Being able to buy some things allows you to live better than being able to buy no things. We're not talking about the real world where automation creates more jobs than it destroys, we're talking about a hypothetical world where your only choice is to go directly head-to-head with automation. You have no hope of winning if the law forces you to charge more than the competition.

> It prevents employers from creating jobs that prevent a person from ever being successful.

You're slightly off on that. Minimum wage prevents employees from competing against each other once the price reaches the defined minimum. It's to protect you from other workers, not the employer. Minimum wage exists precisely because people have proven over and over again that they will sharpen their pencils and figure out how to do job for less than you in order to get the job over you.

If there was nobody to undercut you, employers would be forced to pay you whatever you want. This is why software developers, who are limited in availability relative to the jobs available to them, are generally able to charge significantly larger amounts of money. Jobs at the minimum have such an overabundance of labour that they're all fighting for the limited number of spots, and thus there is always someone willing to work for less to get the job.

> Who does the OP think this person is that can live on $5/hr or lower? Minimum wage _as it is_ is arguably too low.

Although it seems kind of silly to compare the needs of our current situation to some hypothetical future where everything is automated. If humans were doing all the work that automation currently does today, the current minimum wage wouldn't just be arguably too low, it would be but a tiny fraction of what would be necessary to survive. Food, for instance, would easily be 10x more expensive than it is now if we didn't have all of the efficient automation keeping the costs down. Imagine trying to live on the current minimum wage while paying an order of magnitude more for your groceries. With automation taking over in this hypothetical future, the cost of living will have no relationship to what we're accustom to in this current reality.
Donald Trump is a crook you didn’t anyway getting over all his life he messed up the football league the AFL me it just shows where we are today
Spot on. Old talk by Simon Sinek presents it pretty well, start with the why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4&t=3m20s
Batteries of the same capacity can have different quality/lifetimes. Batteries in phones that get hotter also don't live as long. Batteries in Chinese phones that constantly do obscure stuff in the background also don't tend to last a full day.
> It is not far-fetched for her to spend 2-3 hours to save a $1 on something.

That's not a far-fetched thing for a poor person to do. $1 can buy a can of beans and add nutrition to an otherwise hungry day.

> Meaning that she needs to evaluate the opportunity cost of saving a dollar versus spending 2-3 hours to save that dollar.

Opportunities aren't unlimited, and the closer to poverty one is the shorter their term.

So she needs short term opportunities that beat $1 savings for the 2-3 hour period. Short term here means the amount of time it would take her to spend the saved $1-- let's be optimistic and say two days.

What do you have for her that beats the $1 savings and beats it with the same (or better)predictability of success as searching for deals?

edit: clarification
A lot of the web properties are HTTP based and they probably won't bother to switch either because the owner doesn't care enough to go through all the hassle, or because they hosted their site/pages on a server whose owner doesn't care enough to go through all the hassle.

Just because these owners don't care about their site, doesn't mean they are not valuable.
Cars congest cities. Articles like this encourage policy makers to target users of ride sharing, while ignoring the obvious broader problem.

If cities build appropriate multi modal transportation networks and restrict the amount of space allowed for vehicle traffic, people will walk, bike or take the train rather than drive. All three are preferable to being stuck in traffic.
Those living on the streets with severe mental issues probably don’t want to be in a mental institution. And unless they’re a danger to themselves or others (and not just in the sense of making bad life decisions), they can’t be held against their will. This is a free country.
I'm not saying I literally want to rent a phone for $250 a year. I still desire all the benefits of owning the phone, like selling it for market value at a time of my choosing, being able to switch carriers without paying off the phone first, etc. I'm saying that $250 doesn't seem like an unreasonable annual spend to have a current generation phone with timely OS/security updates. it definitely sounds better than buying a $400-500 phone whose OS is already out of date at launch every two years and then not bothering to sell it because it has depreciated so much.

the only thing that makes it rent-like is that I would pay a similar price every year.
Well, some of them went to Acadine Technologies to work on H5OS.
They're having problems with slow sales and are cutting production as a result.

http://bgr.com/2018/01/29/iphone-x-sales-high-price-supply-c...
Pinker is more than jack of all trades, master of none. He is a charlatan. It would be all the more tolerable if he had a sense of humor.

No.. really: tell us what you think? Pinker is smart, and writes well, and holds opinions you don't agree with, but this is an eggregious take-down. Do you really question his chops on linguistics too? Or is it just that he chose to step outside his baseline and do work you don't want to respect or bond with?

Put up better stats if you want to refute his numbers.
The owner is the guy who invented RSS. I think he knows a thing or two about what he's talking about.

If you think it's weird and very bad, explain why you think so. I for one can sympathize with his point of view.
I'll never be able to buy anything from Lenovo. I just can't forgive superfish.
I read some of the comments on that video, many look similar in style talking about a 'scam', or have a negative tone. Is it possible those are planted from a competitor, or do video ads often have feedback like that?
Some people just "get" software architecture and some don't.

Part of it is indeed experience, but another part of it is just being able to visualize the entire application (domain experience helps with this) and see it as a series of interconnected modules. Think of the parts individually and what downsides they have and than as a whole.

An example of this is if you have a module that does something very GPU heavy or very bandwidth heavy. On an architecture layer you want want to give it it's own server outside of the main server (in the case of a web app).

In terms of code you need to think about how some modules will need to be updated in the future (want to support multiple payment methods) - and also to think what modules need to be secure or performant. If two modules will always exist together they might be something you can couple if it saves you a large amount of developer time. But if they might be re-used in the future they need their own API's and no close coupling.
I seem to know a lot of anarchists, so I’m very well-acquainted with the idea of a world without the rule of law. Anyway, I think the principles of the American court system are pretty solid. Like all legal systems, it’s made up of flawed humans, and I don’t think it’s impossible to both hold it in some sort of esteem while also acknowledging that it needs improvement. That it is unfair to the poor doesn’t mean the entire system is broken (at least, that would be my argument; I’m sure you could argue that the whole thing IS broken), it just means parts of it need improvement.

Let’s not ignore all the ways the court system has succeeded, oftentimes in numerous tiny ways (i.e. cases at the state level that set important precedent and have pretty fair outcomes for the involved parties. C.f. restrictive covenants on deeds. The rulings for my state (Michigan), at least, seem pretty well-reasoned and legally logical.)
This is incorrect; the problem is that htmlspecialchars() doesn't know to escape {{ }}, and that that then allows user input to get interpreted as Vue template expressions.

If you have a sanitizer that cleans up ' and ", that'd only serve to limit the vulnerability to executing javascript without quotations in it. That's nowhere near a comfortable place to be - user data should not end up interpreted as Javascript, quotations or not.
Not about the OED really, but my favorite dictionary resources:
https://www.waywordradio.org/resources/#dictionaries

and the double-tongued dictionary is fun: https://www.waywordradio.org/dictionary-listing/
I really got into building simple hardware while in college. For me it was about the physical aspect of it.

Building software is amazing as the barrier is very low and you can iterate and experiment so fast. But 99% of software I've built exists only as 1s and 0s on a hard drive somewhere.

There's something great about physically holding something you've built. I mainly built midi controllers for friends and other weird i/o devices, But the fact that (maybe) they are sitting somewhere collecting dust brings me joy.
The best approach is to have congestion pricing applied to all roads, but with each road (or road segment) having its own price. After all, 'hundreds of cars driving down a residential street' is a case of demand exceeding supply, so we can fix it by increasing the cost and therefore decreasing the demand.
ok. i see the case you're making, but i still think the explanation for a nation's power and leadership depends upon much more than how many highly talented people it has.

i say that because all countries have highly talented people. and some countries (e.g. Nigeria, Indonesia, Japan, Brazil, Philipines, India) have large populations and thus large numbers of highly talented people. but that isn't enough to explain the big differences between nations as technological innovators, military powers, per capita wealth, etc.

for example, when i look at the war that led up to Britain's acquisition of Hong Kong in the 1841, i don't think i can explain much of the outcome by looking at how many highly talented people there were on each side. in 1841 China had a population of roughly 400 million while Britain had less than 30 million. China had a HUGE pool of highly intelligent, highly talented people. i see the same thing in Britain's colonialism in India. India had a VAST number of highly intelligent people.

does anyone doubt that China and India had more highly gifted people than Britain in the 1800s?

i guess i just don't see as much explanatory power in that one variable as you seem to see.
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> The ad was terrible.

Agree - I found the voiceover in particular, to be very off-putting.

That said however, a brief view of the comments section on the ad showed that more than one person thought the voice was great.

Which kind of leads through to this statement from the article

> Now you might understand why I want to get people not in my target audience to skip – it's cheaper because you don't pay when people skip your ad!

If I didn't use an ad-blocker, and I was ever shown that ad, I would've skipped it straight away just to get away from the irritating voice.
"Fine" is how you go bankrupt. There is way too much competition out there for 'fine' to be enough.
Yes, agree with that - I've created a mini web server in C# before, but I wouldn't want to expose that to the internet.
Additionally, just because someone is interested in Japanese candies, doesn't mean they like anime. The high-pitched annoying cartoon voice really turned me off right away, and it's not immediately obvious in the first 10 seconds (which is how long you have to watch before you can skip on YouTube) what it's for (after all, CrunchyRoll is a service for watching anime online, not ordering crunchy rolls.)
json_encode will escape / with \ by default, so this shouldn't be an issue.
I was referring specifically to the author's claim that deprecating HTTP and displaying a warning to users is the equivalent of "rendering large parts of the web inaccessible" and "massive book burning".
Finding a job as a junior iOS dev is so hard right now. I would look for an entry-level iOS QA Automation Engineer position, or SDET if they use that title instead, even though I think the positions are usually distinct. You will still be using Xcode and writing Objective C/Swift, even if you're not making contributions to the source itself.

It's extremely difficult to fill those positions because people looking for their first tech job don't want to start off in QA, and they'd rather just be unemployed for months or years instead. There's not enough experienced people to go around if you don't want to overpay significantly to poach them.

They pay very well, easily on par with developer positions in many cases. Average where I live for entry level seems to be over $70k, and I've seen postings for $200k+ for people with experience.

You could probably spend a week or two messing around with UI Automation and XCTest (if you don't already use them) and be more qualified than most of the people applying to those positions with prior QA experience but no prior iOS experience.
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Are you talking about the application of force to prevent someone from voting? Because that is violence..
Don't worry for ranting; I've been known to rant at times too. I think we agree mostly, tho it sounds like you're a little less tolerant of distraction than me. I can certainly understand that. It wasn't clear to me from the article if this was one of those really noisy disruptive (in a bad way) workplaces, but on reflection, I think you're right and that is the most parsimonious explanation.

> different than the occasional joke, though. A person appearing from under my desk?

Yeah, that was one of the most disturbing allegations. If that's what it appears to be, that's straight-up voyeurism and all kinds of illegal. Felony, probably. Even if he was just pretending, that's not a funny joke.
The work they do is of low value because almost anybody can do it. Morally they may not deserve to be poor, but nobody is going to pay them a lot of money to perform that work.
Most job posts are careful to list CS degree "or equivalent experience".
Even Seattle is seeing per capita transit ridership drops, odd considering expansion of rail lines.

In an urban environment the car is what turns transportation into a game of the prisoner's dilemma. From this point of view ride shares are just the latest way that America has managed to extend the game.

My desire is that we develop ways to make cities hospitable to carless families. That goal seems more remote now than it did in 2010.
Why data science is simply the new astrology
Many X86 instructions appear to be constant time, but under certain conditions are not.

One not-so-well-known and possibly surprising fact is that on the NetBurst (P4) microarchitecture, 32-bit arithmetic operations that produce a carry/borrow between the two 16-bit halves introduce an extra clock cycle of latency, because the ALUs are only 16 bits wide.
There really is no absolute right or wrong to this issue.

HTTPS is indeed more secure for users, but it does have some cost, and I think OP has a sensible argument.

If you really think HTTPS is the best thing ever and is absolutely better than HTTP in every sense, you're just looking at it superficially.

When you start looking into how the entire Internet works and what role each party plays in the ecosystem, and how much "real" power each party has, you'll find that HTTPS is THE biggest centralization force of the web. If you think centralization and oligopoly by big tech companies is awesome, fine.

But there are people who don't like that direction for a good reason.
Removing a handful of thousands of common words won't make the OED noticeably shorter, and it's not space constrained anyway.

And I don't think a rare use of a common word is any less likely to be looked up than a rare word.
>Demand for "personalized" transport is here to stay.

For those that can afford it.
So basic price discrimination [0]?

I thought everyone has been doing this since the early 2000's seeing at is so easy to track people online?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
I still have a ZTE Open C with me. It has 512MB of RAM and 2-core CPU.

It's been running on the Firefox OS quite slow. Having in mind a very poor functionality, I considered to switch to Android.
When I installed Android, it was a total game changer. It was fast and smooth (back in 2014 of course, not now) and I never installed Firefox OS again.
(a) This problem is long known as color/contrast transfer, and it was solved > 10yrs ago, (b) the results shown in this paper aren't objectively or subjectively better/more photo-realistic than Kokaram etc.'s work; and (c) I question whether this task even requires deep learning at all.

https://francois.pitie.net/colour/
I don't mean to be overly picky about Gray's response, but proper English is: "Yet even if Pinker were capable...". (I am not aware of this being a British-ism.)

When an author, none less, writes incorrectly -- it makes me question his basic thesis.
That's what I was referring to. I don't understand what you don't understand about the reference.
If you live somewhere with a social safety net (I'm from the UK) then there isn't the same social imperative to save: saving becomes a luxury for those who are not the poorest in society (which in reality it is anyway)

This works because we end up sharing the disproportionate costs which sometimes fall on those who are unfortunate (they lose their job, they get sick, etc). It's much more efficient than everyone having to have individual savings.
How about the Syrian civil war?

"global warming is said to have played a role in sparking the 2011 uprising. Severe drought plagued Syria from 2007-10, causing as many as 1.5 million people to migrate from the countryside into cities, exacerbating poverty and social unrest."

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/2/syrias-civil-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War#Drought
It seems you think that either mental institutions are unfixable, or you have a very poor sense of the harms of say, untreated schizophrenia.

This may be a free country, but we shouldn't use that to neglect our duty to our neighbors.
Very telling that you're being downvoted. So many people seem to have a very biased attitude against our foundational institutions, which is unfortunate because our institutions do a good job of protecting us and and safeguarding justice and order. By "good" I mean that most of the time these institutions do protect the common people.

I think much of this bias emerges for two reasons. First, the news we hear is usually bad news. One can only hear so much bad news before developing negative bias. In a large nation like the USA with so many people, abuses of power are almost guaranteed to happen once in a while. It's critical that a free press report on these incidents to keep institutions honest, but an unfortunate side effect of this is negative bias against those same institutions that so often work well and protect us.

The second reason is that institutions do have power over us, and look large in our lives. In comparison to them, we are very small. This can be disconcerting and uncomfortable for some.
Depends on one's definition of "livable wage." Minimum wage and "decent standard of living" are often conflated but minimum wage was not imposed and has never been intended to provide that. It's always been a wage that was at or slightly above the federal poverty line.

The lowest minimum wage I remember hearing about as a kid was $1.50/hr. I thought that sounded like a lot of money at the time, but I probably was not even 10 years old.

That would have been in the first half of the 1970's when the federal poverty line was around $2,500. So working full time, you'd make $3,000 or about 120% of the poverty level.

Today, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and the poverty level (2016) is $12,200. So still, a full-time minimum wage worker earns nearly 120% of the poverty level.

Source: Table 1, https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p....
You’d have to defeat the automotive lobby and voters in the suburbs who have issues with certain types of people being able to visit. I’m hoping those of us who really want it get the public transit everyone deserves, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
This is, historically, true: in communist countries with “equal sharing of misery”, power and wealth was 100% concentrated into the hands of a few elites or outright tyrants.
But that's the point. It's not a discriminatory clusterfuck. You're not accurately representing the system.
I found it extremely difficult to find any employer in Indiana that wouldn't scoff at paying a senior engineer more than $75K in 2015. That is less than my inflation adjusted junior engineer starting salary 15 years prior. The entire industry has a problem with fair pay and rushing to the middle is just a way to squeeze more profit from the labor of tech workers.
I think they all do something similar, either via JTAG or USB. The problem is the drivers, software and ROM needed to flash the device are very confidential.

My experience with the mediatek flashing software on Windows was that it looked like one of those hacker tools that generates a license key for Photoshop while installing a trojan.
This problem is long known as color/contrast transfer, and it was solved more than 10yrs ago. The results shown aren't objectively or subjectively better/more photo-realistic than Kokaram etc.'s work which is far simpler. I question whether this task even requires deep learning at all.

https://francois.pitie.net/colour/
It's important that we have an independent press and groups like the ACLU to hold our institutions accountable and bring this sort of abuse to light. However it's also important to keep in mind that we only ever really hear news about these institutions when something goes wrong. We only ever hear the bad, not the good.

This bias is unfortunate because our institutions do a good job protecting us and and safeguarding justice and order. By "good" I mean that most of the time these institutions do protect the common people.

I think much of this bias emerges for two reasons. First, as I said before, the news we hear is usually bad news. One can only hear so much bad news before developing negative bias. In a large nation like the USA with so many people, abuses of power are almost guaranteed to happen once in a while. It's critical that a free press report on these incidents to keep institutions honest, but an unfortunate side effect of this is negative bias against those same institutions that so often work well and protect us.

The second reason is that institutions do have power over us, and loom very large in our lives. In comparison to them, we are very small. This can be disconcerting and uncomfortable for some.
I'm from the UK and I'm currently travelling the world for a few months. I have been shocked by how different American attitudes to poverty are to European ones. We may not be very good at actually helping people in poverty, but most people accept that poor people are in need of help.