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Heard of the blockchain recently?

Money used to be backed by naturally scarce resources. An ounce of gold is an ounce is an immutable portion of some finite limit of gold until we get alchemy rolling.

But yes, fiat currencies based on the promise of government protection are very susceptible to being popped.
Imagine this happened to telecom companies. Would you have said: nobody forces anyone to use a phone?
It's the same with mineral rights in proximity to residential housing. The system needs to adapt over time, and it is reasonable to expect people to accommodate changes as they become necessary.
> 100%? What about the hardware manufactures which release closed source and buggy drivers?

They should just be rejected from the Play Store as part of the guidelines. In Windows, the drivers cannot make blue screens anymore, they are sandboxed, they should follow the same model and enforce it with their agreements.
No representation without taxation.

Why should Facebook send Zuckerberg when Facebook paid a grand total of £2.6 million taxes to the UK in 2017.

If the British parliament wants Zuckerberg to attend, make the UK relevant to Facebook. Tax it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/04/facebook-...
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Fission is expensive to start up primarily due to regulation. Modern designs are extremely safe (fail-safe instead of fail-unsafe) and produce little in the way of dangerous waste. Politics is what killed fission.
> they did not choose to do so at hours that suited them

Aside from being particularly banal, the assertion that employees partaking in a gig economy can reasonably choose their own hours is provably false. People relying on gigs to make a living are effectively obligated to follow demand; choosing your own hours is only an option when the revenue is no longer necessary for sustenance.

Don't take my word for it -- this stuff is all actively being litigated, regulated, and decided, and generally not favorably for Uber:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/11/10/british...

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/wage-dumping-_swiss-authorities...

https://www.bna.com/massachusetts-uber-drivers-n57982089498/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uber-driver...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uber-suprem...

etc.
Have you actually driven with one of these systems?

There are plenty of intentional maneuvers required to integrate with real-world (ie. non perfect) traffic that trigger these systems.

They’re designed to take hints from human input (so for example, LKA responds less strongly to forceful unexpected inputs than a lack of expected input).

There is 0 chance the system wouldn’t interfere with a self driving.

Not to mention many of those safety systems include lockouts on the CAN bus which make removing their safety module a first step to even add your own inputs. I know that’s how it works on my Volt with a Mobileye sensor
> We're not talking about the smartest people here. Something that had a stable (and slowly rising) value for 100 years didn't seem like a gamble until the lobbyists came in and convinced the lawmakers to allow unfair competition.

This is not right. It was a bubble. Prices rose from ~$250K in 2001 to over $1.2 million in 2013 [1, 2]. That's a 13% growth rate.

It was obviously a bubble. Yet people were jumping on it, taking out big loans to buy more medallions. It had to burst at some point. Uber was the trigger, but this had to blow up at some point. The sooner the better.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-taxi-medallion-king/

[2] http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/march_2013_medalli...
Okay, maybe I should have said "access to medical treatment shouldn't be decided by ability to pay".
It could be done; they could drive in shorter shifts, and they could have automation like some high end cars that detect eyes off the road or off the wheel. I guess the main issue is that it would be expensive.
True - both that that's why we're talking about it now, and that it seems extremely likely this is a contributory factor to Trump getting elected. Perhaps not directly or traceably, but through the huge spread of conspiracy garbage, inflammatory clickbait, and fake news.

In the UK, the trigger issue is Brexit instead. The fake news long predates the internet - Boris Johnson built a career printing false articles about the EU in the Spectator, and the EU has long had a debunking site to deal with the UK press in general: https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
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He is like that with every top dignitary visiting India. It's just diplomacy. Don't read too much into it.

Read this article for more such instances: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/modi-s-hug-diploma...
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Like I say, the meat of his ideas are not controversial and actually quite banal. He doesn't really say a lot of things that self-help authors haven't been saying for years.

As you point out the acceptable margins of contemporary discourse are stifling and he purposely sets out to challenge (even "bait") them, and this is what's controversial. I think this is what people like him for, as much as for his actual therapeutic writings.
"When someone claims that capitalism requires coercion in order to pay high salaries, the burden is on them to explain why so many high salaries exist, sans coercion, under capitalism."

I was trying to make an argument that in capitalist countries without worker protection laws like minimum wage, holidays, worker safety regulations, retirement etc (think China, industrialization-aera Europe), workers tend to be exploited by their employers, rather than receiving part of the wealth they help generate.
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Looking at the roadmap (https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap) GTK3 or even 4 is planned for the 3.0 release.
I like JavaScript a lot, I've got no problem with it. But when WebAssembly can access the DOM (or replace it) it seems likely that performance-critical code will use that instead.
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I don't think controversy needs to be modern. To take a more extreme example, it was common just over 100 years ago in the UK to hear that women should not have the vote due to the distinct natures of men and women [0]. Now (for comparison's sake) we hear Peterson talking about how women are naturally more "agreeable" and "self-sacrificing", and that this is vital for the purposes of childcare [1]. I'm not qualified to debate biological determinism, but I do wonder whether statements like this reinforce existing prejudices about the capabilities of both men and women in the workforce. Just recently for example there was an article about how men tend not to work in nurseries, "as parents assume they pose risk to children" [2].

[0] http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_ArgumentsAgainst.htm

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9hcKUUFn5k

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/03/14/majority-co...
It's good, yeah.
then why are 1 in 7 people food insecure in the US?
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Uber isn't the villain. The TLC regulated yellow cabs into oblivion. $1M for a medallion should have been a warning that they are issuing too few.
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Any government policy has winners and losers. Literally any. All that's reasonable is that governments act in.good faith and with proper accounting of, say, time horizons. They should have figured out that medallions were unsustainable, what, in the low 100k's? Once it starts working as a pyramid scheme there are only losers from then on... Except the now retired taxi drivers, who banked 1M.
I'm shocked that nobody commented on the horrible way you've been treated: misdiagnosis, bullying, being labeled "weird" and given poor advice even by your own teachers, being experimented on and then even incarcerated.

Why are people accepting this events so lightheartedly?
Thanks. It confirms my empirical experience that most users (of all backgrounds) don't read, those who read don't fully comprehend the information, and those who comprehend it are thrown off by cute illustrations or the urgency of what they want to accomplish in the moment.

Personally, I'd prefer the message to be split in two parts, like so:

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# Text anyone in your phone

This lets friends find each other on Facebook and helps us create a better experience for everyone.

## Privacy

This will continously upload:

- Info about your contacts like phone numbers and nicknames

- Your call and text history.

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(I don't think I'd have gotten FB to a half-trillion market cap.)
Remember, like a lot of the other big Silicon Valley names, Facebook stock is not priced for their current size, it is priced for the idea that they are expected to grow massively in the future. They already reported a user loss last quarter, seeming to have basically weathered that, but if they go into this quarter report (which is still a ways off) with a report that even just another 2 or 3% left, they can see a massive drop off in their stock price. Yes, even a drop that will make the current drop off seem like merely an opening overture.

From there, you get recruiting and retention problems. From there you get long-term slow decline that even though nominally everything should be coming up Facebook, internally they just don't have the engineering talent to execute on it. And so on.

As I was saying a few days ago, Silicon Valley's massive wealth and valuations are a great deal more fragile than most of you probably think. That's why all these news articles about Silicon Valley swaggering around and swinging their weight around by deciding who sees and who says what represent more danger than you realize. In something like the car industry, their wealth and power is mostly realized gains, the ability today to build millions of cars and sell them, etc. A lot of SV's power and wealth is tied up in future promises of power, and future wealth and prosperity can vanish in the wink of an eye. (Yes, there is a lot of real wealth today too, but that's not where the valuations are coming from.)

I'll also tack on the end of this that contra a lot of people's claims that the only way that Facebook can fail is if a competitor arises that everybody jumps too, I'm seeing a lot of the "normies" in my life either simply limit Facebook or even straight-up drop Facebook, for no competitor at all. Will it stick? I dunno. But the "Facebook competitor" that may beat Facebook is just "no social media at all". And people are really thinking about Twitter and such as well in the same boat. (And I don't live in SV. The "normies" in my life are pretty representative of the bulk of Facebook's customers. If a Facebook exec overheard my family's discussions from this last Sunday, they'd probably be terrified. I didn't even participate, because I like to just observe these things sometimes to make sure I'm not unduly steering the conversation, so it's not my opinion being reflected back, either.)

What if social media is fundamentally a bad idea, and will be looked back on in 20 years in much the same way we look back on pets.com or CueCat? I'm not ready to say that's the case for sure, but the pathologies seem to be getting worse, and the people running the social media sites are so ideologically uniform that they don't strike me as being capable of fully understanding the problem, only their corner of the problem, so the solutions keep making the problem worse overall. The bad scenario I describe above isn't guaranteed by any means, but at the moment I believe the course is currently set for that disaster, and I have no confidence in the current personnel to figure out how to successfully avoid it.
"The reign of the all-powerful capitalist class has returned with a vengeance. The job conditions of working men and women, thrust backward, will not improve until they regain the militancy and rebuild the popular organizations that seized power from the capitalists."

...

"The ruling capitalists will be as vicious as they were in the past. Nothing enrages the rich more than having to part with a fraction of their obscene wealth. Consumed by greed, rendered numb to human suffering by a life of hedonism and extravagance, devoid of empathy, incapable of self-criticism or self-sacrifice, surrounded by sycophants and leeches who cater to their wishes, appetites and demands, able to use their wealth to ignore the law and destroy critics and opponents, they are among the most repugnant of the human species."

...

This article is just individual anecdotes mixed in with rants taken straight out of a socialist recruitment pamphlet. I'm open to different political opinions, but this is just ridiculous. Can anyone really take this seriously?

Additionally, I'm not convinced that regulating Uber and Lyft as heavily as we regulate taxi companies is a good idea. Taxis are a very entrenched industry buried in red tape, which is part of why they were so expensive and inconvenient. Uber and Lyft have been so successful because there was a desperate need for a ride-hailing solution that didn't suck.
Two charts:

x1: How much the product improves my life (judged based on how much I would be willing to buy it, asked after I acquired it)

y1: How much the product costs

x2: How much expendable income I have

y2: How aware I am of how advertising influences my buying decisions

Depending on where the marketed products/services and the targeted consumers land on these charts the answer to your questions may turn out very differently.
To my mind (pardon the pun) what he's doing ultimately boils down to the study of personal identity.

What does it mean to 'me'? What does it mean to be 'you'? What are those differences really? What makes the 'me' of 10 years ago the same or different from the 'me' of this morning? And of the 'me' 20 years from now?

That, to me, is the really interesting question. And Derek Parfit basically answered it.
nah

new business generation is way, way down.

the reason why is precariousness. if you don't have a margin large enough to risk starting a new business, a new business isn't started.
In case anyone didn't already figure it out, (ash) was an autocorrect error from (ssh).
Easy. Work at a startup and 9-5 because Midnight to Midnight :)
Same goes for TLS - there's ample evidence that TLS data is being suctioned up at scale and stored for eventual decryption.
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I'm not happy with this level of privacy, that's why I don't use Facebook. :-)
My employer was being lumped in with a currently existing privacy violation. I won't argue much against hypothetical future possible privacy violations. I'll just point out that web-based email, your credit card company, and whoever installs software on your smart phone overshadow privacy implications associated with fitness trackers.
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> The underlying issue is that these VC backed companies break the law to gain a business advantage and face no real consequences

You don't even need to break the law to gain a business advantage. Just making a large pile of money can be sufficient to start dominating a market.

Take for example Uber-eats. Small restaurant owners suddenly had to give up control over their sales channel to a big player, and are now forced to pay a large monthly fee just to stay in business, where the benefits don't outweigh the costs.
Pretty much every serious attempt at protecting pedestrians requires building refuges (which already exists) and devising ways to get drivers to actually slow down (as opposed to slapping a lower speed limit sign and hoping they'll do so). If you want to truly dissuade pedestrians from crossing, you need to erect a median barrier.

Merely putting up a sign sounds a lot more like the traffic department dealing with drivers' complaints of annoying jaywalkers in the least effort way possible.
As jobs and talent have flocked to American cities, once-prosperous rural communities are finding their primary competitive advantages are desperate residents willing to work cheap, and local Republicans ready to extend tax breaks and slash regulation.

American companies have long taken advantage of these trends.

A leaked report from the 1980s, which was prepared for a waste-management company seeking a community for "locally undesirable land use," listed the "least resistant personality profile" as: "longtime residents of small towns in the South or Midwest," "conservative," "Republican" and "advocates of the free market."
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it sounds like the cities should be forced to buy them back at the price they sold them
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So long as the news-story "Putin elected Trump" exists, this isn't going away. Only once we're sure that it's only "our guys" can use Facebook to manipulate public opinion will this go away.

That probably means the end game will be something like "certified advertisers" for political campaigns and similar e.g. only registered political parties are allowed to make political ads, so can in effect be held accountable. That could potentially mean less revenue for Facebook in the US, although they'll probably make it up again by dealing in other nations e.g. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/revealed-the-powerfu...
What's a living wage? $30K/yr?

How many Americans are there (or just American adults)? 325M / 250M

What's those two figures multiplied together? 9.8T / 7.5T

What's the total federal tax revenues in 2016? 3.5T

To what multiple would we need to raise taxes to pay for such a program? Raise to 3.8x current taxation levels / raise to 3.1x current taxation levels.

All that assumes that basic prices wouldn't rise in an environment where money metaphorically fell like manna. (That $30K would have the same purchasing power as it does today, which seems unlikely.)

Adjust the assumptions as you like; IMO, there's no mathematically viable solution to a "living wage before the first hour of work".
This seems like a lesson in why government regulation can be good.
The city should auction off the licenses annually. Still rent-seeking, but at least the rent seeking is the city/government.
The police department was also quick to defend Uber by saying that the crash was 'unavoidable'.

From the reports it seems like Uber were heavily focused on putting in miles trying to make up ground. The NTSB report will hopefully expose the failures (if any) of the Uber self driving system or the organization.

They've said that self driving cars are critical to their survival and if it turns out they cut corners / mis-represented things then it'll be hard for them to get out of that hole.
Perhaps some research is in order before you start frothing at the mouth at evil Russia.

Only "propaganda among minors" is an offence but it is not a criminal one. Not sure anyone has even been found guilty of it in the years since the law was enacted.
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I agree, and to segue a bit, I think it's rather unfortunate that his thoughts on psychology, human behavior, and dealing with tragedy are likely buried beneath partisanship for many people.

He's a career clinical psychologist, father of two, well studied in Jungian archetypes, and bears all the mannerisms of being a folksy father figure. And what do you know, there is some popularity of memes referring to him as a "father of YouTube/Reddit/Internet" and wishful posts for him to be their father along with them.

If there are people listening who have a deficit of such a figure in their lives, perhaps it's good they receive something to compensate for it. That seems more important than the partisan pontificating to me.
Taxis are going to be replaced by robots within the lifetimes of most people reading this. I think it's been clear for a while that owning a large segment of that market is Uber's end game.

Under the classic hacker ethic, this is a good thing; humans shouldn't be forced to perform menial tasks. Of course, people currently performing those tasks for a living might not appreciate that. In the long term, however I think the safety advantage will be compelling.
> Redundancy is only essential if the potential for failure is unacceptable. If you remove that (by not driving in public streets), it isn't.

In which case we wouldn't be having this conversation, Uber wouldn't be under investigation, and someone wouldn't be dead.
As with most things that can be measured, it depends on your POV and agenda.

In 2017 dollars Regan increased the debt by ~ 4.15 trillion, while Obama increased the debt by ~ 8.88 trillion (using the numbers found at your link (which is just one way of counting the debt for a president), taking the the entire debt increase as a lump payment in the middle of the presidency and using this inflation calculator to estimate the amount forward to the present http://www.in2013dollars.com .

So in absolute terms Obama increased the debt by more than twice as much as Regan who had "insane deficit spending" according to you.

Also you state that Trump is on track to increase the deficit in 4 years more than Obama did in 8 years. I believe this is a lie -- the estimated numbers even on that website show 1.233+1.225+1.193+1.119=4.775 trillion over four years for Trump which is marginally less than Obama spent over his first four years (even excluding the Economic Stimulus Act in 2009) of 0.672+1.276+1.229+1.652=4.829 trillion even before adjusted for inflation. On what planet is 4.8 trillion more than 8.9 trillion?
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I've tried to use GIMP over several years but never got used to it. Things like resizing and transforming layers, applying filters, etc. are too cumbersome. Many tools also don't have a live preview, which means there's many attempts before getting the needed result.

Now I'm back to Photoshop CS3 from 11 years ago, yet many years ahead of today's GIMP. It has smart objects and filters, layer effects, live previews and the very good UI means I can get things done much faster.
My experience, on the contrary, has left me thinking that none of these are absolute. You apply certain constructs and styles where they make sense—which depends on what you're writing and who you're writing it with—and become increasingly suspicious that people who appeal to absolutes simply haven't yet encountered situations where the trade-offs ultimately balanced out in favor.
I'm genuinely curious, have you taken a cab lately? Can you honestly say you prefer that experience to what Uber or Lyft provides?

I understand what that quote is saying, but I feel it's a false equivalency. There are already cars on the road in NYC. It's not like adding 10,000 horses to Central Park. Overall, the regulations on the taxi industry are the reason Uber and Lyft have been so successful - because they skirted the regulations, they were able to provide a much better user experience.

We need to take a look at which regulations are actually helpful and which are expensive and unnecessary.
I simply don't have time to engage with his lectures. I've seen all the summaries and they're just something I don't need. Thankfully.

What I do see is him continuously parading around the podcast circuit and the polarised discussion online about him.

My gut reaction when I heard him on Joe Rogan was one of disgust, while quietly finding I actually agree with a lot of what he says. He's a guy who has access to "truth" (in the pragmatic, William James sense) that many of his attackers do not.

I don't believe he's on the level of any of those people you've put up him up alongside. I think he draws on their work, mediates and applies their ideas as a clinical psychologist does.

Clever, no doubt, and with a message that is undoubtedly of value to many, and certainly making a lot of money at it too.
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