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Don't capital gain taxes zero out wrt. to risk, since you also get tax deductions for money lost?

There's waste in both private and public institutions. They work in different ways, and when you make a public institution work it can be extremely efficient in terms of value per dollar.

My point was that maybe public funds could play a bigger role... Imagine a drug being developed by many private subcontractors the same way the space program worked.

I'm sure private competition would be good at optimizing cost of drug trials.. just an example..

I don't have a recipe... Just the feeling that the big picture risk is probably better absorbed by public investments.
What was the course?
A UBI would certainly create a permanent underclass of unemployable people. Make-work jobs are better than no jobs at all because they effectively act as training. Some people need training in basic job skills like showing up on time and properly dressed for work, and following a supervisor's directions without mouthing off. And there are actually many simple jobs that would add value to our communities and will never be automated in our lifetime. Things like painting over graffiti or maintaining trails in public parks. It's a lot better to do that then pay people to sit around and stagnate.
>Medicare (in aggregate) reimburses 7% less than costs //

So, do I have this right, Medicare is state funded - they pay the doctor less than the cost of manufacturing the medicine and the doctor over-charges other people's insurance companies so as to pay for fixed costs and add profit, to the drug company and themselves?

Your expansion under [1] makes no sense - you were billed $1000, the insurance paid $300 and charged you $50 of that; who is paying the $700? Are you just saying that those at the point of delivery barter by trying to charge $1000, hoping you'll pay it, but the insurance company negotiates a 70% discount? Rather than having an actual cost for a treatment.
If a significant portion of the FB userbase opt-in to not get any ads, then that makes the number of persons that an ad can target smaller, meaning ads would have less ROI for advertizers, driving the ads price down. So, in fact, the more users opt-in to not get any ads, the more the subscription would have to cost.
I'm not sure if this would work, but what about hosting a node that you can manually add to your bootstrap list? Would that make getting the content quicker?

Edit: Oh, amd why couldn't I just pin the top node of the dag recursively? Wouldn't that basically do what you want?
That all sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I was happy with the distributed document viewer system and never actually wanted the complex application platform. I still don't want it, but I'm forced to put up with it if I want access to the document viewer system, because the two wildly different projects have been smashed awkwardly together.

Since the web as a document viewer system appears to be dying, leaving only the distributed application system I don't really want to use anyway, perhaps in a few more years I'll be able to abandon the web thing and do something else.
It is legal because court records are public information.
>That is only to weasel out of the legal issues.

Which supports my point. Theses responses likely have had a bigger influence from lawyers than PR folks. The goals of those two groups are almost diametrically opposed to each other. The best thing for Tesla from a legal perspective is to downplay the capabilities of autopilot. The best thing for Tesla from a marketing and PR perspective is to exaggerate the capabilities of autopilot. Tesla is doing the former in these responses. They are choosing the legal response over the PR response. It also should be noted this is also probably the best move from a public safety standpoint. I don't know why people are claiming these responses are PR spin or how these response could possibly sell more cars.

Regarding the rest of your post, I was not talking about Tesla's general marketing. I haven't seen Musk do anything like you claim. That is certainly misleading and irresponsible if he does do that and implies that any current Tesla can "drive all be itself"
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This is a good point. I've seen in practice systems where in hindsight it would have been nice if we had used some virtual clock rather than the machine clock.

An OS could help by making the virtualisable clock the default API. Still there will be applications that want a high-precision or low overhead clock. But those applications should buy into the trade-off explicitly.
That's what I've heard as well. Solid folks
Maybe not in the suburbs but it's definitely the case in SF. Try Sightglass in Soma for instance. Loud, no internet, no outlets at all.

Or Coffee Bar in Potrero. They have no laptop sections and possibly the slowest internet speed I've ever seen.

They don't make the experience tortuous but it's not the most pleasant experience either.
I probably get 5-6 when coding and browsing in Linux. I have the big battery that fills the hard drive bay.
> Why is it a toxic attitude?

It doesn’t follow the law. And it doesn’t attempt to challenge it. It hand-waves it away with an unprovable hypothesis. It’s lazy in a way that encourages unthinking and stupid behaviour.

Interstate legal competition exists, but it’s slow and complicated. It’s especially unusual in finance. Furthermore, cryptocurrencies are, in many jurisdictions, starting from a hands-off position. Deregulation is less likely than further regulation.

> Your statement is 1-dimensional and makes the assumption that every law is good

I don’t assume that. If there is a law one finds unjust (a) work to change it or (b) break it in an act of civil disobedience. Don’t tell other people to break it with false assurances around why they won’t get in trouble because regulators are competing or whatever.
The copy on your webpage[0] makes it seem like you "make any tech addictive" to me. So sounds like the press isn't that far off.

[0]: https://www.boundless.ai/
From the Facebook post near the end:

> Analyzing the reward function and changing the parameters of an experiment is NOT the same as “unplugging” or “shutting down AI”. If that were the case, every AI researcher has been “shutting down AI” every time they kill a job on a machine.

How long until this is sensationalized as "Brave Scientists Kept Skynet at Bay for Decades"?
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16820686
Nobody has satisfactorily explained why the majority of ICOs are not securities, and thus should be regulated as one. It all sounds like the mid-90s and early 2000s situation, where people were taking existing processes, and getting existing patents for them by adding the magical phrase, "On a computer".
This is copied from a Wired article, https://www.wired.com/story/android-phones-hide-missed-secur... , which is reporting on a paper that isn't published yet (it's being presented tomorrow). Discussing papers based on their abstracts without the actual papers available is bad for discourse, and we shouldn't do it.
I don't know enough about grant funding to hazard a real guess. That is an interesting issue, though. I presume that grant committees are not typically staffed by people well-versed in the subject area? Would they not be capable of recognizing a global acceptance of an applicants prior work without a fallible journal citation? I know that in many fields the amount of other work which cites a given publication is a very important factor, perhaps that would play a role?

What position would it put journals in if they were reduced to providing vetting for grant committees? If instead of being arbiters of scientific validity, which they are poorer at than open publishing, they simply become some sort of thing similar to ratings agencies that provide parents with an unreliable best-effort guide to content acceptability without needing to actually learn about the thing in detail?
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And those autopilots can only land under close supervision by specially trained aircrew.
20-33 percent? That's crazy! I often encounter MAVN for restaurants in Austin. Looking them up, they $50 a month and $0.25 an order, which is way more reasonable.

http://www.whatismavn.com
Print this out and post it on a wall where you see it every time you leave your desk or come back:

Refactoring is a bottom up process.

You make local changes, and those reveal the paths of least resistance in the code. Contiguous refactors start suggesting further refinements or even new features and it spreads and spreads across the app.

By the time you are making structural changes to the app, the avalanche should have already started and it is too late for the pebbles to vote. If that isn't happening for you then put it down to impatience borne of frustration with the rate of change.

One of the best ways I know to speed this process up without violating the 'rules' is to start with the build scripts and work your way through the initialization code of the app, chipping away at smells until it starts looking right. With good code to the 'left' you have a beachhead (and a line in the sand) you can use to push out into various subsystems improving as you go.
> You only have to look at a management salaries at any large defense contractor to find counter examples.

First, defense is by far the government-affiliated industry with the most leeway salary-wise. But even there, outside the C-suite, there's a $500k salary cap. That sounds like a lot, but many people in tech and finance make more than that, especially if they start their own business (even one that has a modest exit).
I would prefer a beautiful robot built brick house over modular housing, but I do not know a ton about pre-built houses.
Does SciHub need an actual domain name? Could they provide their website on a well-known IP address, kind of like CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1 DNS? Other people could build websites that redirect to or reference this known IP address.

(Or can IP addresses be seized too? I assume not, or else I'd expect the actual SciHub website to be shut down, not just the DNS names pointing to it.)

Edit: It looks like SciHub is in fact available on certain IP addresses. The following website lists a few of them: https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ - one example is http://80.82.77.83
Because Ethereum
I agree.
I have friends who wear makeup to work that reason. The confidence from looking like they are put-together. I imagine wearing a suit can be the same mental confidence.
Why would a pharmacy give you a brand name, the generic is chemically identical, the doctor can give a brand name - they've done their part. The pharmacy could then offer you the brand name, or the generic, as long as they make the generic cheaper then the pharmacy can make more money; save you money and give identical service.

Some people will still opt for the more expensive, of course, but where's the incentive for the pharmacist to fill a script for Neurofen RTM with anything other than ibuprofen? Why even is there a special box -- if the generic isn't the same drug (tested, licensed, etc.) it's not a generic. Might as well have a "are you getting a kickback for prescribing this" box?
Lawyers unaffected? Some lawyer office here in Belgium is automating everything they can for a cheap price, eg. Late Invoice notice,..
On Privacy – Joe Edelman
Honestly I have better things to worry about. Despite that being theoretically possible, how often do you think it actually happens? It's more likely that I'll be hit and killed by a car tomorrow, a more likely scenario with a far more severe consequence. And even that is a scenario I don't find myself dwelling on.

Possible? Yes. Terrifying? Not even remotely.
While I don't agree with everything that is happening in the ICO space, I don't think the law should always, without question, be held above all. People should be able to interpret and challenge it in ways (with the exception of crimes such as murder etc).

In this case, I think the floodgates are open. The SEC and CFTC can't go after everyone, so by that reasoning, some people will be able to (maybe illegally) sell unlicensed securities through these ICOs. Some of those will do well and some of these investors will make bank. Others will lose their shirt.

What this whole ICO thing shows is that perhaps fundraising should be more deregulated in certain areas. Artificially limiting investment opportunities to HNWIs, while a sane approach, isn't working. You can keep enforcing and going after hundreds of ICOs, but it's not likely they have the resources for that. That's the equivalent of putting your head in the sand while not realising an uprising is happening.

For example: why not make it possible for companies to raise at most $25K per person, from people who do not classify as a HNWI? The law should be shaped as the world develops. And that's what I think will eventually happen. The world shouldn't be shaped around the law.
I don't want to take the thread away from what a bad idea ILPs are and onto how much Uber sucks, so I will only say that it's not clear to me that anything has actually worked for Uber as an entity yet. Yes the early investors have cashed out sufficiently, but that's true of fraudulent ICOs too.
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It's like people expect the SEC to throw their hands up and say "Aww, you got us!"
I asked a pizza shop owner and they said everytime they’ve raised prices in the past revenue still went up.
> reading my credit card number over the phone

I find this interesting because most places I call for carry out just take my order and name.

I then pay at the counter with my credit card when I pick it up.
It being blockchain based makes it innovative. I mean, it's linked lists 2.0: electro bugaloo
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So there were not major changes to postgres that may complicate using citusdata?
>I think the problem is the "bad" things I may or may not have done in the past is none of the potential employers business.

But that's simply not true. Peoples' past behavior has a predictive value over their probable future behavior and we all know this, and it applies in positive directions as well as negative. I mean, this is why we ask about "experience": because we think that if you did X competently in the past, you are more likely to be able to do X competently in the future.

This predictive power is not perfect, of course, but it's silly to claim that it's "none of the bank's business that I stole $1M from the last bank I worked at", or "none of the kindergarten's business that I previously molested 15 children".

People who get turned down for jobs because they did bad things years ago (1) didn't have to have done those things, and (2) have ample opportunity to demonstrate that they have improved/moved on/"are a different person now"/etc. Companies may lose out by failing to hire some of the best of that group, but it's not insane or evil for companies as a group to be hesitant.
That's the point of the investigation. Many things could have happened. Maybe the driver fell asleep, maybe he tried to move the wheel and it got stuck. Maybe the car slipped on a patch and had nothing to do with autopilot. We don't know yet. It takes time to review witnesses, multiple sources of information and that's the NTSB's job.

Tesla seems to think they know exactly what happened after only reviewing data collected from the car. They see what they want to see and have become blind to any other possibility. I think that's terrifying. I couldn't trust an automaker with that kind of arrogance.
One of the most truly fascinating things I learned from my father was how early 1980s word processors were designed for the magazine he worked for. The different ways to handle fonts, screen placement, and how to include data from a local database.

It was truly an awakening to the hidden wonders of the world.
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I shouldn't have spoken so generally, and I apologize. My knowledge of the situation is derived from researching the coursework involved in receiving a PhD in Computer Science from Bangalore University. At the time I researched it, it required (American) high school level math and then 6 months of additional courses. I had a professor who had 2 PhDs from this 'school'. In an 'Intro to Object Oriented Programming with C++' course, he taught us the wrong way to use cin to get a number from the user then assigned homework writing a program that accepted two integers and printed out their sum. At the next class, he announced that anyone who wrote the code as he instructed would receive an A despite it not working... and anyone who looked up how to make it actually work would get an F for not listening to him. A group of fellow students and I went straight to the department chair and he was shortly fired. That inspired me to research where he got his 'degrees' from.
After reading about this for a while, just now, I'm much less comfortable with the idea of trusting an automotive autopilot system. Just imagine if your taxi driver told you "I will drive perfectly safely, except if there is a truck parked in the road. Then I will run into it at speed." It seems like such a glaring omission. If I were an engineer I don't think I would be comfortable releasing an autopilot system with this kind of safety issue.
You can program 8051 in c using tinycc. It functions great as an assembler as well. You can structure the parts that must be in assembly as c functions using inline assembly. Very convenient!

Using c does come at the cost of some code compactness, but you can selectively optimize as the need arises.
They had pilot BPL (broadband over power lines) projects (I think ibec comes to mind) back in the day, but the FCC doesn't like interference and the BRU (broadband regenerator units) that have to be installed every so often to fix signal degradation weren't cheap if I recall properly.
When I was working as an air control monkey at a local television station, on the overnight shift, it was common (and absolutely forbidden under any circumstances) to route the cable box or an unused satellite feed into the preset bus of the production switcher and watch it (this was before the transition to digital, so somebody had to manually switch some things and there were still tapes involved.)

Nevertheless, I heard someone who was definitely not me once routed something which shall not be described up and it somehow ended up on the air.

So yes, accidents definitely happen, and they don't even always require technical savvy.
This is pretty much clickbait.
Funny, I find this more or less works with everything.

Getting out of bed early. Getting something done on a side job. Getting to the gym.
I disagree. The nuances that change are on a different level. I have learned a number of languages from books and this is taught pretty easily. If you can't conjugate a verb, you don't know much about that language.
Although, occasionally, they make mistakes. Coca-cola tried to sell water with a campaign that declared it 'bottled spunk', in the early 00's. Spunk, in english english, means semen.
Which almost always happens because someone messed up their C or machine code, not because of using nodejs.
> Worked for Uber

Uber deliberately broke rules in an effort to change them and went into their fights willing to pay the penalties. That’s civil disobedience. They didn’t argue the rules wouldn’t be enforced because of regulatory competition or whatever.

Furthermore, when Uber broke the rules it was their asses on the line. They had a terrific record of reimbursing drivers who got fined for taxi violations. With ILPs, in the other hand, we have some rando encouraging others to take stupid bets.

Night and day.
Why Silicon Valley Lobbyists Love Big, Broad Privacy Bills
This proposed solution would eliminate many of the applications that web users use every single day and many more that haven't even been invented yet.

No big deal. When Apple introduced the App store, a maybe-not-new-but-finally-practical way of shipping applications to end-user devices was born. And they weren't webapps. No JS at first, mostly Objective-C and plists. And was still revolutionary in its reach, and consequences. Then Android came. Still no JS, but XML and Java.

So, no, you don't need HTML+JS to deliver rich content application to users.
"The more experienced workers, she said, are attracted to the increasing number of Washington restaurants with high-profile chefs, leaving midlevel establishments like hers struggling with inexperienced and often fickle help."

That's because chefs and restaurants like me actually: pay over minimum, train staff and actually treat them like humans. Not like cattle or worse.

One of my (admitably) many pet peeves in this industry is "restaurants" complaining that they can't get top talent for peanuts, and wondering why, for example, my place is full while theirs struggles to meet basic cost.

Yeah having a 200 seat, cater to everyone with super low prices('it attracts customers!') seems like a great idea, until they actually try it.
Most people order at half time to resupply and also because for 1/2 the country it’s closer to dinner time.
Amazon's model wins (this customer). Prime is something that I'm 100% willing to pay for (between shipping, music, video -- again, for this customer). That it comes with WP digital access is a nice add-on. If there were a $10/mo hike in price for lots of other digital access products, I would go without. If the price hike were mandatory to keep prime, I'd keep prime.

Again, for this customer...

I'm moving soon and seriously considering not signing up for internet at my new address (new job, I'll be at work a ton, and the common area has free wifi I could use for the occasional email or weekend netflix download). But I won't cancel my prime subscription. That's what made me realize how sticky amazon is: I will pay 3 figures for access, even without instant access to the network that lets me get to them!
That's an interesting thought. I didn't mean to suggest anyone code in WASM, but I think I see what you mean.

I have experience embedding lua applications within mobile apps, and it required a fair deal of wiring in C to marshal between java and lua (android) or swift and lua (ios).

To do the same in WASM sounds rather undesirable.

Edit: to finish my thought, I dont see the problem with using a compiler toolchain to create web applications. Can you elaborate on why that isn't a good thing?
Plan for an AI-Based Direct Democracy Outsources Votes to a Predictive Algorithm
One ( SDSSJ0146-0929) of 37 objects in a program to image strong lensing fields with Hubble.

http://www.stsci.edu/hst/phase2-public/13003.pro

"The fundamental unit of star formation in the Universe is neither a star, nor a galaxy, but a star forming region with a typical scale of at most 100s of parsecs."

More interesting stuff at: http://www.stsci.edu/
I think the problem behind this is that ad revenue is not the same as a subscription revenue. You cannot assume that if a user was worth $3 a month in ad revenue that that would translate to a $3 a month subscription.

For example, I would have no doubt the the customer acquisition cost for an "free" application with advertising is a lot lower than trying to sell that same user a membership.

When it comes to social networks I would suggest that the stickiness is because your friends/family etc are on the same network. It's not if you are willing to pay, it is only really worth it, if your friends are willing to pay.

If you are talking more about a paid and free version, then there are already services out there like YouTube Red (available in some areas for $9.99+ USD). There are always options out there.
Here's a sneak peek of something I'm working on

http://fingswotidun.com/avr/AvrAsm/Testbed/

It's pretty much a project to scratch the itch being described in this thread. It gives you an in-broswer 8-bit AVR based fantasy console and Assembler.