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Only if you plan to live in that country for the rest of your life, and you're absolutely sure that the economy will never change, so your buying power always stays the same.
When multiple degree educated people who use language as a tool of their job continue to misunderstand what damore said maybe the problem is with his piss-poor communication, and not their understanding.

When very many people who read his document come to the same conclusion maybe, just maybe, that's what he actually said.
From reading the article it seems they present many negatives and no benefits.
>>Mozilla has been taking gradual steps in that direction

I disagree with this.. I do not see Mozilla taking any steps toward privacy at all, infact in many ways they are taking steps AWAY from privacy with many of their recent actions and blunders. From their use of opt-out rather than opt-in for various privacy invading features, their pushing adware to all users via what was suppose to be a QA/Feedback feature, their purchasing and invest in certain companies...

No the Mozilla Foundation from the 90's is long dead, it has been replaced by the Mozilla Corporation, which is really no different than the Google Corporation or the Microsoft Corporation
The link you posted only analyzes the relationship after 1980. It also doesn't compare multiple sources of inequality. That's not evidence for "union power is largely what held income inequality in check until the 80s"

Here's another study (that actually cites the one you linked) covering the same time period and shows multiple other factors having greater impact.
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1513.pdf
>Why are developers (since this is an issue that shows up with cargo) running Windows 7 without security patches installed? Especially since the issue only shows up on Windows 7 installs that haven't received security patches since June 2016.

The issue shows up on patched machines. The patch does not enable TLS 1.2 by default. You have to add reg keys for it.

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5065#issuecomment-...
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-are...
> State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Of course, Nietzsche wrote this before companies with "no I in team" and whatnot :P

> What's wrong with having an independent sovereign government

Nothing, but "nationalism" to me implies some sort identification with a symbol, rather than interacting with reality. Sufficiently developed individuals don't "belong to" groups, it's the other way around. Tribalism is a great method to stop that development dead in its tracks.

http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat

> The emotional urges which are inescapable, and are perhaps even necessary to political action, should be able to exist side by side with an acceptance of reality.

In so far that is the case for what you would consider nationalism, carry on. To me, a sense of responsibility towards the place where you live and towards the people that live there is just that,
while nationalism adds more and only bad things to it. I generally see it used as crutch or excuse.
No idea what you mean. Windows 7 receives updates from Microsoft through Windows Update just fine.
You can whitelist exceptions.

Which of course trades off against privacy.
There no RAR file entry in the list. It might be a macOS quirk, or it might somehow be caused by some sort of conflict with The Unarchiver. I'll probably play around with uninstalling it and trying other tools to see if that helps. Perhaps there's some sort of unexpected sandbox restriction with the default file handlers due to The Unarchiver having been installed from the App Store, or a bug with the app itself.

I just noticed that in the popup RAR files are identified as binary, while ZIP files are properly identified. Gonna have to dig into it a bit.

I've used Wireshark before, but most requests nowadays are using HTTPS. I vaguely recall at some point having tried to snoop on local HTTPS requests with Wireshark and ending up frustrated.
And, more importantly, minimal (environmental) regulations. Cheap labour is great. But not having to worry about the disposal of waste, or the air pollution you generate is even better.

When China has smog issue many in the West point and wave fingers. The truth is, that pollution is The West's. We're just too naive to admit it.
It has math and numbers. Nobody interested in that on Twitter anyway.
A factor here that might be overlooked (and I'm not making excuses for the bad process you're describing) is that changing business processes means re-training all your non-technical staff (and everything that comes with that - training materials, manuals, forms, public-facing processes, etc).

In a unionized environment like the Canadian federal government, that would likely incur not only a fairly high cost (but less than a failed technology project for sure), it's also a massive HR undertaking that business-side managers and leaders want to avoid at all costs.

So they'd rather push all that work onto the technology teams to ensure process remains the same, even if it's the wrong thing to do.

My personal anecdote on this: years ago in a past job, I led a team that worked on a project for Bell Canada to build a retention portal for their call centre agents, and the requirements were full of crazy and sub-optimal flows and features, and every single one we questioned was justified with "any other way would require too much re-training of unionized call centre staff".

In one case, for a call centre in New Brunswick, the union actually had a clause that major process re-training could only be done every 2 years, regardless of cost.
> It’s not the most powerful or widely used form of AI at the moment, but it is making something of a comeback. The ability to crack Q*bert could be read as a good omen that evolutionary algorithms are going to be very useful in the future.

Wow that's quite a jump to make
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> Until now there was one good argument for capitalism: sooner or later it brought a demand for democracy...

A lot of the rhetoric in the past went the other way: freedom is good because capitalism requires it.

As a former and still sometimes libertarian who once read a lot of Ayn Rand and still thinks she made some good points, I personally get a big case of the "flying saucers didn't come blues" from this.

Freedom and free enterprise were supposed to go together. Then Singapore and China proved that you don't need freedom for capitalism and that it might even be a liability.

Markets love a kind of pragmatic totalitarianism that acts proactively to restrain any genuine "disruption" and much more importantly to prevent panic selling and crashes. Investors can feel confident in the market if there's a totalitarian backstop in place that will spring into action to prevent a market panic. Markets work great if they're just not allowed to go down.

Controlled societies are great for capitalism. Real freedom means the freedom to do things that do not increase GDP and behave in ways that disrupt or distract from corporate culture. Turn the world into an office park. We can see this mentality spreading to the West.

The lower classes can safely be ignored, drugged/entertained, or distracted by pitting different races and cultural identities against each other.

If the upper classes (upper middle class, technicians, academics, the "lower rich") get politically uppity or have moral reservations you can just flatter their sense of superiority and entitlement. Make them think they've been brought into the fold. Invite them to rub shoulders with the real elite. Give them a false sense of freedom through consumer choice and BoBo pop libertine indulgence. Take the hedonism pioneered by the counterculture and strip it of its rebellious and spiritual undercurrents. Tinder is a great example: a meat market night club without the music, dancing, or art. Create pseudo-free gated enclaves where the upper middle classes and the rich can enjoy custom tailored lifestyles optimized for the consumption of high-end goods and the production of intellectual capital that ultimately benefits the real aristocracy.

Edit:

To all the leftists and anarchists right now who are wagging their fingers at us libertarians saying "we told you so," please hold back a little on the schadenfreude. This future is absolutely not what we had in mind.

Edit #2:

In all seriousness though... independent of whether or not capitalism or markets are good things I think it's important to advocate freedom in and of itself as an independent moral, ethical, and political goal. Freedom is not good because it makes this or that work better. Freedom is good because human beings must be treated with dignity and deserve personal autonomy.
Processes are similar. Likelihood of success, impact of your actions on outcome, and ownership of upside (both real and social capital) are very different!

Art is a black swan industry where compensation for effort is a lottery ticket. Only the fringe of "wantrepreneur" culture comes close to extracting as much effort for equally uncertain reward... And even then the efforts develop and demonstrate skills (tech and business) which can be transferred to low risk / well paid jobs. Artists who don't become famous can't recycle much of the investment.
Starving is not isolated to a regime. People starve everywhere, including the US: https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-hunger-us
The case is an example of wireheading [1] and illustrates the difficulty of eliciting behaviors we actually desire from complex systems we do not fully understand.

[1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Wireheading

Another lesson: Evolutionary algorithms are really hard to control. Using neural networks developed through evolutionary algorithms means that we are employing a mostly opaque (though not entirely black) box created by a mechanism we can't mentally keep track of in detail. Hope that they are not deployed to control any critical systems until we get a much better grasp of them.
> I have more in common with a programmer of any race than with a non-programmer of my own race.

Is that unusual freedom from unconscious bias reflected in the history of what engineers you have chosen to interview, made offers to, or subsequently promoted? Everyone thinks they're free from bias, until the empirical results show that the majority of them mathematically must be wrong.
People like to say that they are immune from advertisements. I clearly am not. I like a KitKat. I saw a KitKat ad on MTV as I was bundling up to head to the store about a hour ago. I do like them, and it does sound good. So I went king-size.

I use uBlock Origin in my browser.

I run a chatroom and this afternoon a guy in the room was bitching that McDonalds fucked up the sauce he was supposed to get with his nuggets. This resulted in me wanting McDonalds chicken nuggets and explaining why and in the end led to a few other people acknowledging they are shit and still wanting them.

My point is that even nuggets that were not advertised to us and just a random dude posting he had some for lunch made us want them. And he posted that getting them was a negative experience.
If you run facing a Lion you will probably die first.It's a bad tactics. I wouldn't run, and I don't "run" against ads.

Spam me with that ads and this will result of hate and I will choose another supplier. A great example of this is with the ads of "Carglass" the ads is so stupid and so massive that I have decide that if my windshield break, I will call them and tell them that because of their massive ads I will choose another compagny.

Add value to your compagny / product and I will buy it. Focus on value added not ads.
> How about we judge people on their merits ?

That's fine if everyone starts from the same base and has the same opportunities which, currently, they most assuredly do not. Let's knock this privileged bullshit on the head until then.
The argument was not that freedom of speech follows from democracy. You could theoretically have an authoritarian rule that allowed unfiltered criticism against it. The argument was: not allowing freedom of speech is always wrong, independent of the type of governance.

I agree that democracy in itself does not guarantee rights for minorities. It depends on the majority adhering to a moral system that enshrines human equality. We know that this system can break down, a population can agree to subjugate some of its members. I would still rather put my trust in the majority over in one person and especially in a system that allows me to replace the government after some period of time.
Yes, once you get used to the development environment, coding Serverless is pretty smooth. However, when you need something a bit more convoluted than executing a single function, but rather orchestrating a bunch of them across different services, you have to think about stuff like service discovery. Making the right decisions and designing an event driven architecture is going to take time, which is worth money that could pay a lot of servers. With Serverless you get scalability almost for free, but there are trade-offs, so the first you should ask yourself if you're really going to need that scalability or would rather getting to market quicker. In some cases it makes more sense going for Serverless straight away, in some others just using the web framework you're experienced with and in some others a combination of both.
With 1.5 billion people you could find some who disagree with literally anything you could say about the situation in their country or about the world in general, I'm talking about the general sentiment.
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I don't want to buy books from Amazon anymore. I'm perfectly capable of "pirating" a copy myself and printing it. I want the real thing, not another cheap print out.
I moved first with some savings and then started applying through job pages on local companies' websites. Took a bit under 2 months overall.
> "zionist" isn't a euphemism for "Jew" or "Jewish".

Yes it is. It doesn't literally mean Jewish but it absolutely is used as a euphemism for Jewish.

It's usually easy to tell the difference. If it's being used in the context of the social and political events leading up to the establishment of the state of Israel then it's likely to be the literal meaning.

If it's being used in almost any modern context, but especially in the context of conspiracies, secrets or money, then it's very likely to be euphemistic. And anti-semitic.
Ever read the 13th amendment of the US constitution? Guess what, slavery is still legal and practiced in the US. Using the so called "war on drugs" i.e. poor black people, so that you can imprison them and use them as slaves.

What a land of freedom.
https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/22 from above
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There's possible and there's likely to happen in nature. two opposing planets in symmetry you'd have to have symmetric mass all around to cancel the forces out. One side will have the galactic centre on and the other won't might even be enough of a tiny imbalance to disrupt the orbits as you say.
Asking nicely would help.
Offering to pay someone to put in the work would be even better.
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That being said, and not being troll-y, the has already happened - in a different way - in the USA. The democracy part is mostly myth at this point. The capitalism part, the same. Both are facades that are propped up with propaganda and ignorance.

The question is, how long can that ruse continue.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/america...

Yes. The source is left-leaning. None the less, plenty of smoke to ID a fire.
No it absolutely doesn't.

"Technological progress and the resulting rise in the skill premium (positives for growth and productivity) and the decline of some labor market institutions have contributed to inequality in both advanced economies and EMDCs."

Emphasis mine.

That ^^^ was literally the first reason given in the article.

The second point it makes is about the role policy-making plays, which of course is probably as important, but is intimately connected to the presence or absence of union power because who the hell do you think lobbies for those policies?

Institutional support (donations, political support, control of voting blocs, policy research, etc.) behind those policies (e.g. raise minimum wage) comes from unions whereas the policies do the opposite (e.g. lower minimum wage) come from business lobbies and high net worth individuals - who have opposing interests.
Plenty of places offer cheaper labor than China. It's more about the quality of their work, although relatively cheap labor is obviously part of the equation.
This sound like me at the end of every school essay. A forced and over-broad conclusion just to get a "proper" ending.
I'm sure Knuth has "Ambition and desire" in heaps. Desire to do excellent work and ambition to see it through

Perhaps you mean "Greed" ? So what you're saying is greed should be rewarded with money
Of course. My assumption can be stated as: the employer, for whatever reason, sees that empirically the correlation between e.g. GPA and work performance is different for different populations, and therefore corrects it. If the "correction" is done beforehand, then the employer won't see this phenomenon.
I am struck by a thought: isn't this just yet another kind of a pyramid scheme?
> If the lives of the vast majority of Chinese are improving, who is to say their system is morally wrong?

If the people of the PRC are not permitted to speak freely, then it is all the more important that the rest of us do. You are as entitled to criticize the government of the PRC as you are of any Western government. Therefore let us speak plainly to the matter at hand; let us not evade the issue by pretending we, as human beings, have neither the wit nor the right to look and judge; let us not be so naive as to think that an increasingly authoritarian and chauvinistic China does not affect the rest of the world.
And be replaced with what? I still think that Twitter is the best avenue to get in touch with companies and, otherwise unreachable people.
Probably if you're capable of capturing and moving 400+ planets into a new sun's orbit in a decent enough amount of time, then no one is going to be bothering you.

But it'll send a pretty impressive message.
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Yes, this is what I always do... after my muscle memory has already clicked the link normally!
> In her follow-up Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the Twenty-First Century, Adam, a longtime editor at the Art Newspaper and contributor to the Financial Times, considers the negative effects this influx of money has had on the art itself. As contemporary art is increasingly viewed as an asset class—alongside equities, bonds, and real estate—Adam sees artworks often used as a vehicle to hide or launder money, and artists encouraged to churn out works in market-approved styles, bringing about a decline in quality.
Tversky and Kahneman, anything from Irwin Levin for framing and consumer behaviour, James Druckman for opinion formation (albeit re. political opinions), Anne Lang for media message processing, Ebbinghaus (very old) for exposure repetition, &c.
>For a start, silicon semiconducting is a probabilistic effect and only happen on populations

Is that a fundamental theoretical limit like the uncertainty principles or is it a matter of engineering advancements to figure out how these forces work? I can imagine carefully positioning two atoms (maybe moving?) to obtain similar effects.
Yes, perhaps, but the difference with art is that artists are encouraged to pump out works to cater to the whims of these rich collectors in a way antiques dealers cannot.
I was astonished when I met this 20-something art dealer here in Sao Paulo at an event.

He was talking about how, after graduating he developed a passion in dealing art, some 2 years later the guy has opened 4 or 5 galleries around the world.

Quite a star, right? Then I found out he's the son of one of the most notorious corrupt politicians in Brazil...
Think of it this way. You are not in the office with the team. You need to actively do as much as possible so no one notices this. This means reading other peoples commits and PRs just to know what everyone is doing. If you had been in the office they would have probably mentioned it in conversation. If someone messages you every 5 minutes you need to discuss that so you can work, just like if someone was interrupting you every 5 minutes in the office. But again, like in the office if its work hours and someone messages you, just like if someone asked you a normal question in the office, then you should answer promptly and be on top of it. You don't wont people to not be able to get in touch with you or not know what you are doing - and this is on you to solve not them.
As skeptical as I am of some of the cryptocurrency craziness, I can't help but see this as "head of entrenched monopoly calls for crackdown to defend his monopoly."

Cryptocurrency has suddenly transformed bankers into humanists who are suddenly concerned with progressive values and the environment. Who knew?
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I don't think they offer hope beyond their own borders. India may rise to be a liberal world power with a free people and parliamentary government, but that doesn't really give me hope that the many other nations in the region will follow in their footsteps. For leaders to give up power requires clear and powerful incentives.

Both India and South Africa were British colonies who had some elements of British politics & liberty passed onto them. The freedom of these peoples, if they maintain it, will be down to their history.

Other nations, particularly in Africa, are looking keenly on at China's economic miracle, and realising for the first time in history that liberalism is not a requirement for a thriving market economy. For decades, if not centuries, this has been the established rule. What's so dangerous about China apparently breaking the rule is that every leader, autocrat and downright despot with a population hungry for a better life will now realise that there is a path where they can give their people a better life but they can keep their own power. Before, it was clear that liberty, at least to some extent, went along with prosperity. If and when when African nations get their feet out of the mud it will shake the foundations of the global order. I desperately want to see their power and authority granted and restrained by free and equal peoples. If they follow in China's footsteps that certainly won't be the case.