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I'd argue that's not entirely true. Consider, for example, the fact that corporate prisons exist in America. I would say there is a difference in governance, but I hesitate to speculate about cultural differences.
It's not "free money". Investors get the money by selling assets. But it might be at a better price than they could have gotten elsewhere.

One lesson is not to use a savings account as the only place to keep your money. Anyone who has looked at interest rates in the last few decades already knows this.

Another lesson is that it would be a lot more fair if the Fed had a way to boost the economy that involved giving money to normal people. This gets talked about as "helicopter drops" but never happens. (It probably requires an act of Congress.)
I think this is an important point.

I had a coworker who grew up in Romania under Ceausescu and the stories he told! He talked about neighbors just disappearing one day and someone new living in the home. People didn't bat an eye since if you started asking questions, you might be next.

He mentioned how there was an election for president and it was a write in ballot. Someone wrote "Mickey Mouse". Despite voting in a booth in private, they figured out who he was and he had to report for "reeducation" every weekend. This involved sitting in the police station watching propaganda all day Saturday and Sunday.

I don't think people in the West can even fathom what it's like to live under an authoritarian system like that.
I would like to see if there exist any societal examples of self-regulation in social status, beyond rehabilitation and re-education centers.

A healthy human body releases sweat as one form of regulating body temperature. If it fails to do this, you can reason that the person is unhealthy or has an illness. A cause of a systemic failure. If such feedback loops exist in a society that cause the worst in reputation to fall in even deeper, then there is also a systemic failure here. It promotes the idea that anything broken should just be discarded rather than fixed. It is a very passive way to run a society.
Similarly, I like Python and C++’s emphasis on duck-typing. I use STL containers often, and provide similar interfaces to my custom data structures for flexible, general, fast code.
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I've read the Graves translation, and it's excellent.
Anyone can mine. Anyone can earn bitcoin. Early adopters have been rewarded, sure, but the distribution of bitcoin has been steadily increasing. The vast majority of the world is able to exchange their local currency for bitcoin should they decide to take that risk.

How exactly do you propose a decentralized currency controlled by no one bootstrap itself?
Oh, on the contrary. His legitimacy is directly related to his ability to have stability, and that stability comes from employment. When you are a state-run economy, you make sure everyone is employed, even if it's not profitable, because that's how you keep them from going all Tienamen Square on the leadership. So they spend a lot, and they loan a ton, to prop up their growth numbers. The CCP subsidizes growth by dumping goods in several markets and looking the other way at companies stealing intellectual property. They are willing to loan money at such low rates (one belt one road) because they see more of a return usually then what they normally do with money.
Wow. Communism at it's best.
> The fed is literally giving asset holders free money at the expense of people trying to save in traditional ways (savings accounts).

If you believe this, isn't the rational thing to use your dollars to buy assets?

I think you're betraying a deep mis-understading of how money works. QE has been raging for 10 years, but inflation is incredibly low (2.5% US, 1.5% EU). In other words, even though you claim that the FED "gives asset holders free money", when you hold cash you're not really losing purchasing power. How do you square the two things?
> UPS tells its drivers to park illegally and then pays the resulting tickets in bulk.

Interesting. Over here, a company cannot deduct parking tickets (or similar payments). They are not cost of business and are therefore directly reducing the EBIT i.e. money of shareholders. Also, they are treated as taxable income to the person who got the ticket, if identifiable (here enforcement is weaker, but the outcome is that no company pays parking tickets for its employees.)
If you can't control your vehicle (bicycle or otherwise) you have NO business being on a city street. Or are you ignoring the potential for all other manner of obstacles to be present in the roadway? Strollers, pedestrians, debris, etc. Can't stop for those either?

As for getting doored, well, how are motor vehicles avoiding this? Oh, right, by WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON. Noticing brake lights in parked vehicles, or someone seated in the vehicle. Can't see? GIVE ROOM.

Honestly, I'm willing to give considerable support for cyclists, but the blithe way they often completely ignore the traffic laws pulls their own rug right out from under them.
It is free money. If you bought a bond for 30 years today, and the fed came along and said they’d give you what you paid for the bond plus 20 years of interest payments, how is that anything other than free money?!

Without conflating savings with investment, how would you propose an individual save money?
One of the ways that I do this (assuming you have access to unix utilities) is to do:

cat output.log | tr -d '[0-9]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

This is a fairly useful way of removing relatively useless information such as timestamps and line numbers when you're looking for rare or unique events. The alternative, I think, is to do a bunch of awk or sed magic, which isn't really fun for anybody. It's especially useful in a time crunch when there's an ongoing outage.
SF solves this by putting cameras on the busses themselves. Bus driver sees someone blocking the bus stop or bus lane, presses a button and creates a ticket.

You get a live witness, video footage and only enforcing it when a bus needs that space.

It works too, uber drivers do not like picking up people in bus stops.

You could extended it to citizen cyclists too with some political controversy.
On my work PC, I constantly get messages that "[Program] caused a problem, the default app has been reset to Microsoft Photo Viewer" etc. Then, when I change it back manually, Windows simply outright ignores it. Default apps on Windows 10 are a disaster, and I don't see the motivation for doing it. Why does Microsoft care which photo viewer or browser I use?
TI and Cypress through Ramtron has done quite a bit of work incorporating ferroelectric materials into CMOS processes and such for FeRAMs mostly. Obviously RAMs are not transistors but the work is certainly relevant. Like the article says, the large feature size for ferroelectrics has mostly been the limitation for ferroelectric applications.
> Crap like this is precisely why bitcoin will succeed

"Indeed it has been said that democ­ra­cy is the worst form of Gov­ern­ment except for all those oth­er forms that have been tried from time to time"

I'll believe you when the entire world economy has run on non-Keynesian cryptocurrency economics through a couple of recessions...
> Sometimes, I wish I have more time coding to accelerate growth.

First: You may be at odds with what your employees are doing. Whenever I catch the CTO/co-founder doing something I'm able to do, I'll gently push/nudge him off of it and do it or take a mental note to learn to do it. I try to get as much off of his plate as I can (bug fixes, features, staying on the lookout for tooling, best practices, thinking about new uses for our products, refactoring and profiling/documenting/testing the code, trying other ways to do things, polishing ux/ui, tweaking the servers, helping with hiring and marketing, learning new tings, thinking about strategy and how to implement it, mentoring junior members, prototyping and proposing things) do so he could do the things he's really good at and squeeze the most value out of his work day.

Second: Is your growth really driven by the number of lines of code and what's the impact on growth of the code you write and is it the best use of your time? My point is that if you're coding, I think it's good to ask if you're spending time on code other members can't really write, and then eventually think about hiring someone who can write it better than you so you could do all the other stuff a CEO does.
Absolutely, had I realized what the fed was doing when QE was happening I would have definitely done that. And a lot of people smarter than myself did do precisely that! Inflation is only “incredibly low” if you cherry pick the basket of goods used to measure it.
Thirded. Struggled with payroll through three other (terrible) companies, have been DELIRIOUSLY happy with Gusto. Please oh please, don't ever change (or lose focus)
Toys R Us just said yesterday that one of the major causes of their bankruptcy was a decline in birth rates.
This can pose a problem for visually impaired persons, other disabled persons, or people carrying ungainly packages in bad weather
That’s interesting, especially as that’s not what the link you’ve kindly referenced says. Congratulations on being able to change the user agent - Microsoft is not you and has to support decisions it makes. I can see why there’d be little cause for them to perform Linux testing given the small market share. So, if you were Microsoft - and not you - would you rather potentially break the experience for Linux users, or not enable what appears to be OS/browser specific code that speeds up the experience? Again, calling this a deliberate slowdown is extremely misleading.
Doesn't that break down due to a total measurement bias? That is, if the universe were not tuned for life, there would be no-one around to wonder why that is the case.
So. No need for bitcoin.

You're just running away from a complex thing you don't understand but has a lot of traction, to a simple thing which you understand but has no traction. My strategy is stick with the former and educate myself more. Different strategies.
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So, since they're breaking the law it's ok for you to break some too.

Don't have kids yet, eh?
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The problem is that actually grade-separating the layers is so ridiculously expensive that we don't do it. And not for lack of trying - the world is full of abandoned skywalk networks and mind-bogglingly expensive underground highway boondoggles.
Well, I mean, the greatest economic booms in American history happened when our money was backed by gold. When the dollar came off the gold standard in the 70s, we saw wages decouple from productivity. This is not a coincidence.
Not so long ago, it was scientific dogma that all life on this planet was dependent upon photosynthesis. Then some oceanographer types sent some cameras down to the sea floor to look at some hydrothermal vents and... there went that idea! Is our universe tuned for life or is life tuned to its universe?
The "NYPD is unwilling and unable to enforce" part was the hostile part. That comes of as "traffic cops aren't doing their job" when I think you meant "without 100x more traffic cops we can't even make a dent in this"
Just wanted to hear the complete thought.

I'd say that the assholery on the design side comes more from ego and lack of consideration than intentional sadism.
One aspect of the original Civ I always enjoyed was when a country could sometimes split into two. It wasn't in later versions, although I haven't played some of the more recent versions. I know myself too well (Civ games are great time sink).
Rolling right turns on a completely empty intersection late at night done at 5mph is treated the same as running through a red light with traffic with a $550 ticket.

Because of financial incentives for municipalities, the laws tend to stick that way, even when law makers want to make distinctions in red light camera types. And it hurts the poor the most.

See more red light camera bullshit here: http://www.highwayrobbery.net/
Easy question with too many wrong answers
a crontab script that does `git fetch` would be enough
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"An extremely rudimentary diplomatic model came in, with geopolitical relations boiled down to make war or make peace, demand tribute or pay tribute."

Actually seems like a pretty accurate description of American diplomacy in 2018. "This week, I shall make peace with North Korea but demand tribute from Canada. Next week, we'll see what happens?"
Preloading at the TLD level is pretty severe, will never be done for .com / .net / .org, and so will never apply to the vast majority of sites people visit. Interesting idea, but unrealistic.
By the time you get to a vessel large enough to have any of these systems integrated they'll very likely have means at their disposal to seek immediate aid. That and systems such as this are often redundant and almost always have means to be operated manually. So, please, spare us the 'easily lead to death' fear mongering. That's just plain wrong.
The tech industry and canada being next door might help with that :D
They showed that the system could be adapted to learn any two player perfect info game.

Once it has learned Go it won't play chess. Also, it has to be manually adapted.

By this logic minimax has also been shown to do the same:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax
This is really interesting. Do you have any recommended readings/videos to get a better understanding of monetary policy and its effects?
Geocoding is probably simpler if its users aren't "customers".

Lots of systems have checksums. It appears to me that what3words's complexity is designed to make it intentionally difficult for someone else to reimplement.
Convert all bus stop areas into 3-minute loading zones? Charge a fee when taxis / ridesharing / delivery providers want to use them, then use that for a transit fund.
> It is free money. If you bought a bond for 30 years today, and the fed came along and said they’d give you what you paid for the bond plus 20 years of interest payments, how is that anything other than free money?!

If you had to put it away and couldn't use it for 30 years, it's not really free, is it? It cost you 30 years of not being able to use it. Plus you're taking inflation risk, default risk, depending on the bond you might also be taking liquidity risk, etc. You're talking out of your ass dude.
Have any of you guys deployed to a combat zone? For us fobbits (people hopelessly stranded to the safety of the forward operating base) all the stresses of daily life are gone.

There is no commute, no worrying about what to eat, what to wear, picking up kids, or anything else that consumes a normal person's time. In a way it is kind of like a vacation. You have so much disposable time to spend on hobbies, exercise, or education.

It is very much like being in prison, except that I am not afraid of my fellow inmates. It is strange though, because you don't get to pick your friends, much like prison. I suspect the fellow fobbits are substantially more educated on average than a typical prison population and probably generally healthier physically and mentally. You would be surprised, though, at just how mentally unhealthy many of your coworkers are when you are around them long enough to really see it.

Unless you are extremely ambitious and psychotically disciplined that much downtime grates on your soul. Being deployed for too long can be depressing and you cannot escape a certain amount of emotional isolation. It is also weird having a spouse and children and yet living apart for a year or more like a single person.

The long term consequence of the environment is an unhealthy dose of apathy. If you are too bored for too long you really don't care about most anything. Unfortunately, the environment provides little motivation to care as you are less likely to die in a combat zone stuck on a fob than driving to work in the civilian world.
You have to realized that New York City, as a polity, is very far from American norms.

To start off with, the majority of households in New York City do not own cars. New York has been consistently electing anti-car culture politicians for almost two decades now. And New York has a sizable contingent of people actively demanding red light cameras and speed cameras. Not to mention that New York already effectively has a surveillance network anyways, and yet that doesn't seem to fall afoul of the existing laws and rights.

If the laws are so terrible than they can be repealed. But the solution is to not stop enforcement of laws on the books in total.
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China sets AI standards – can anyone tell me what they are?
Folks, I read : https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610546/china-wants-to-shape-the-global-future-of-artificial-intelligence

Can anyone provide the document and a translation?
They don’t need robots, they need immigration. Japan has been relatively xenophobic compared to other nations/cultures.
How much surcharge should you expect for the ability to perform a verifiable miracle on demand?

An actual workable solution would be to simply not allow deliveries to a building unless it has an available commercial delivery spot. That may make some businesses unhappy however. Residents may be unhappy to see entire sections of the city suddenly have no walkup businesses as well.
Because the gerrit workflow is extremely different from all other common git workflows (which is to say, you build a set of commits in your own branch or fork and ask the maintainer to pull it). Gerrit actively encourages you to rebase and rewrite (and lose) your development history in the pursuit of a "perfect" one-hot non-merge history patchset, which actively loses information about the context of where your changes where applied.

The problem with submitting a rebased branch is that while there are no apparent merge conflict and your changes appear to have been developed on the tip of master, your changes may actually have been developed on a much older version of master. Builds may appear to compile fine but they might not make sense - when you discard and rebase the context of commits, you lose important information.
Hm, I can see how the wording of the article is ambiguous.
Errata: that should read: WQED and 'The Children's Corner'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250142/

... the show for which Rogers created many of the later famous characters. In between (beginning in 1961) he did over over 300 'MisteRogers' shows for CBC.
> As for getting doored, well, how are motor vehicles avoiding this? Oh, right, by WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON.

Motor vehicle drivers don't have to worry much about being doored, as they're way more visible and it isn't life-threatening for them if it does happen. The person opening the door is way more likely to be injured in such a scenario than the driver of the oncoming vehicle.

Also, if we biked the same way we drove cars, that is, in the middle of a full lane, then we wouldn't be at risk of being doored either. I do that on occasion as necessary, but you would not believe how furious drivers get when they're stuck behind a cyclist going much slower than them that they cannot pass.

How about this -- You can make it the cyclists' fault if and only if you can get all drivers to be OK with cyclists taking full lanes of traffic, away from all car doors. This will likely reduce the max speed of vehicle traffic to around 12 mph.
You clearly haven't owned a boat to understand what "costs money" means. An expense that would have your average automobile owner up in arms about would be pocket change for even the smallest of boat system systems.

And for the majority of boats out there this is a total non-issue as they're not even going to come close to having any of this integrated in any usefully hackable way.

So unless you're talking about the 80'+ class of boats or megayachts things are still based on circa 1990's tech, at best. Even the big boats don't integrate all that much.
One thing I tried to do in dfsch is to use the same IR format (in the sense of being interpretable by the interpreter) accross all the stages. What I found out is that this is surprisingly hard to do in Lisp-1 language while preserving the semantics to the extent of somehow abandoning the language and thinking about making it CL-style fully lexically scoped (ie. with suport for labels and similar special forms) Lisp-2.

(CPS-style IR does not make much sense for dfsch, as it explicitly and intentionally does not support call/cc, as the main use-case is easy and straightforward C interoperability)

Edit: dfsch distinguishes mutable, immutable (which are somewhat redundant and in fact consume one combination of tag bits which can be used for something more useful, like strings) pairs and CDR-coded lists, which are always immutable and CDR-coded lists have additional slot that records where they came from in case of things that either was parsed from source or is result of macro-expansion, which in my opinion meets the intention of R5RS. On the other hand the very aggressive constant folding done by the macro-expansion stage probably does not.
> Rolling right turns on a completely empty intersection late at night done at 5mph is treated the same as running through a red light with traffic with a $550 ticket.

And it takes all of 2 seconds to circumvent... by not rolling through. Get a ticket only once, and you'd probably learn your lesson and never do it again. You always have the power to avoid that ticket.

> See more red light camera bullshit here: http://www.highwayrobbery.net/

No, thank you. I sense bias and propaganda in the URL name.

This feels the same as the people who claim there's a conspiracy and that bicycle helmets don't increase safety, or that requiring motorcycle helmets is abuse of government power.

As a citizen who wants peace and safety for myself and my family, I am in favor of more speed limit and red light enforcement, among the many other apparently controversial things that I'm happy to pay a little bit of tax for, and/or happy that the government can make some revenue on.