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Even on the demo page[0], there's noticeable lag when typing. I have to delete the vast majority of the content for it to feel about as responsive as Google Docs, which still feels far slower than Sublime Text or anything native.

For reference, I'm on a 2012 rMBP with a 2.3 Ghz (turbos up to 3 Ghz when I'm typing) quad core i7.

[0]: https://canner.github.io/slate-md-editor/
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> Mind you, I was speaking in general about people who claim they don't care about their privacy

We are talking in a thread about NSA having your data vs other companies having your data.
Title is definitely overblown. Roll-to-roll production is still very much a small scale process. Linear change not stepwise
If it's just a few, that's not a big deal. But what a lot of people are envisioning isn't just a few scooters and bikes left around, it's the nuisance and eyesore of public areas being absolutely littered with these things that people are seeing in photos from cities that have had these services for a while.

I don't think they're wrong. I also don't think it's a non-solvable problem. It seems that the worst of it is largely due to there being simply too many of the things -- far more than are needed to actually meet the demand for short- to medium-distance transportation -- in many cities. Requiring companies to get a permit for each of their bikes so that the city has a way to limit the total volume, and so that it can ensure that the rollout happens incrementally so any apparent problems can be addressed before they create a major nuisance, would probably be more than sufficient.
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Now the comment makes more sense. Guessing some here were not aware of that story. http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-have...
Wouldn't be interesting if all the Facebook data being collected is really to feed info to Palantir...with a layer of deniability and they get data on billions.
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> the administrative requirements of assessing who and who doesn't need it, and then policing all this, is just too high

Oh okay this makes sense.

> To make up for this, you raise the taxes a commensurate amount on the people who don't need it

Wait just a second..
That's not obvious. In fact, it's quite likely that my reading Trump's tweets and news along with my internet history from the early 2000's indicating an interest in Nirvana may have a weak correlative effect in a deep learning system that indicates I am slightly more susceptible to committing certain crimes or personality affects.

Ergo, can we all refocus this discussion of universal privacy rights violation on my partisan social group interests?
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I don't want it - I have a real knack of stretching money and I could very well see myself becoming lazy if given a dependable source of unearned income.
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I guess I should've prefaced my comment that it's more of a response to the comments that existed here before I posted - most people just stated that they don't care and they were aware of the fact that such businesses have all this information.
Is Palantir not considered to be private sector?
I can't see how it's theoretically possible to do a small scale experiment with UBI. If not everyone gets it, you can't see the big impact on the economy (what happens with supply/demand/inflation). And if it's with a short horizon, then people still have to plan for life after the UBI experiment.

You can't give up the career you are going to need to make a living in 2 years time, just because you get paid a small sum per month for 2 years.

So I can't see how experiments are worthwhile unless you actually go in head first. UBI should be announced as universal and forever, or it isn't "proper" UBI, and doesn't show the effects of UBI.

This is also the reason why no one tries it.
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You have to give the money to people who don't need it, otherwise it becomes a powerful disincentive to working or earning income. That's what differentiates UBI from welfare and also what makes it so expensive.
That said wasn't the state of the art production previously measured in single digit square centimeters?
How much cpu/ram does this take up on a pi? I imagine it's a nice interface to have.
I might assert that what developers have is not a privilege. A privilege is something granted out of generosity or grace by another party, perhaps even undue (and hence the grace).

What developers have is some "game", which makes them a "player". As soon as they lose their game, they cease to be players. Their relation to the game is exactly their value and nothing less. Tech employers are higher level players who know that the economy takes no excuses, and they will trim the fat, so to speak, of anyone who cannot contribute to their gamesmanship.

Generally, in most industries, seniority is respected in and of itself. But in software, you see disgraced older people who didn't play the game right, and you wonder if they are to decline away out of sight. That suggests this is not grace granted by another party. Does that look more like a privilege granted (by whom? charitable businesses?), or a loser in a cold and harsh game?

I see more question marks over the futures of software people than I see in other industries where other peers have gone. In other industries, I feel there has been more of a multi-factored consideration for the generational passing of the torch. In software, I feel everyone is always in a sink or swim test, and I think older people sink a little more.
Not that I approve of China's approach here, but the use of the word "cells" in the title is blatant scaremongering.

Consider a hypothetical title like "The Democratic Party Is Setting Up Cells in Alabama" and it becomes more obvious.
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That sounds very similar to the FairTax bill that's been proposed since the 90's. Only with FairTax money comes from sales tax rather than income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax
You're missing a section on the bottom of your chart.

Who will pay for UBI? -- income tax. Raise the per capita income rate an average of £12,000, (£15,000 pounds minus the ~3,000 in savings you calculated earlier).

No net impact on the average taxpayer, little impact on the rich and massive impact on the poor.
https://optinmonster.com/9-lead-magnets-to-increase-subscrib...
Yes, he's observing a trend and comparing its results to the ideal “capitalist democracy” that Thiel wish existed. Women, in general, aren't very libertarian especially on fiscal issues. He's not saying their rights should be taken away. I'll admit, it isn't the best worded statement in the world.
I think that's generally the case, but if we flip it then "being comfortable with the world" becomes "complacent", which in turn is abused by someone less keen to relinquish control.

I want to live in a world without rat race, corruption, power hunger, etc, but being old enough to realize that it just takes a few to abuse everyone else, I don't know what safeguards need to be put in place first, for that to be possible.
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>But the article touches on the biggest issue with Palantir, which is that they seem to be completely fine with allowing law enforcement agencies to use their software for parallel construction

I think that any company that works for the government to any degree is considered part of the government and is bound by all rules a government agency/employee would be.
Look no further than the Financial Independence movement for more evidence than you'd ever need. It's made up of people who basically are creating their own personal basic income, and while some do work to pass the time, a goodly percentage do no economically meaningful work again.
How can we expect democracy to work well when most Americans (including college graduates) don't understand enough about American history, institutions, and civics to pass a basic test? Just follow the party line or vote for the person who is most attractive.

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2011/summary_summary.ht...
Recently having read Gore Vidal's book 'Burr', Washington come out as a poor military leader, whose terrible military decisions prolonged the American Revolutionary War by years. In fact none of Washington, Jefferson or Hamilton come out as people of virtue and character as per the book.
I don't understand how examples such as Yahoo are "good" or "bad".

The terms and conditions seem fairly laid out and transparent. It seems to be worded for a 5th or 6th grade English reading level.

They seem clear and concise. I can't imagine any better content for average users.
I have heard it was pretty rough. I extricated myself after the technical interview after reading up on process and conditions seemed like interesting work but not remotely altruistic in its goals. I hope you found something much better.
The same amount of work with the same relative amounts of pay?

Doesn't that require far greater wealth distribution. Currently people mostly work for companies which make their capitalist owners rich. If the companies ditch workers and use robots then in order for the workers to also be employed the money from those owners needs to be spent on other things - the unemployed workers don't have money other than what they're spending with the pre-existing companies for food/clothing/housing and such.

Those currently earning off others labour will increase their take of profits; by what mechanism will that additional proportion of the wealth be made available for new industries. What industries will move the wealth from the Uber rich and distribute it, they're going to need to be large employers of many low-skilled workers.

I don't see how this can happen without a revolution such as UBI or a cultural shift to a communistic system, say, that can democratise the profits from robotisation.

Yes, the industrial revolution freed workers to take up new roles, but the lower population and higher availability of easily acquired resources fed in to that. The world is different now, I don't see the same happening again, the maths of that doesn't add up.
>> If you run a small US company with a few hundred paying customers and low single digit EU customers, how is the EU going to penalize you?

By forcing EU ISPs to block your ip.
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With most modern engines the cowling is supposed to be able to contain fan blade destruction..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wcALjMJbAvU
No it's a joke article 27 says that you need to establish a presence in the union which isn't going to happen article 3 is also vague as hell.

Compare this to FATCA: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/corporations/foreign-account-...

And again FATCA and SOX applies to huge financial institutions that can afford all the lawyers in the world.

Say I make guitar picks and tuning forks in Zimbabwe I sell it online and I have costumers in the EU. I either need to comply with the GDPR which will be prohibitively expensive or will have to stop selling to EU customers.

The problem with the GDPR is that people don't understand both the inconsistency and the scope of it. Come 25th of May I'm sending a data access request letter to my dry cleaner which they will have to comply with within 30 days or face fines.
Likely the biggest factor. Engine failure in general aviation often ends deadly, in commercial aviation it hardly ever does.
Accelerate-go is definitely used in twin pistons and turboprops. For example, in the DA-42, V1 is specified as 75 kts. In the King Air 350, V1 is typically around 100 kts.
He isn't saying that they ought to never have been granted?
I think anyone trying to spec parts for wireless networking hardware is (supposed to be) an expert.

Even if you don't understand log scales and you're trying to decide what to buy it's literally just bigger numbers = better.
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I am very skeptical of claims that outcomes are discontinuous in policy space. Going one step in direction A should give you information about going further in that same direction, at least on some scale of change. Clearly the people running the experiment agreed, because they designed it with the intent to get that information.
This might just be my confirmation bias speaking, but MIT seems to put out a lot of moverblown and clickbait-y headlines about their research.
some context from his response to the article.
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

"I had hoped my essay on the limits of politics would provoke reactions, and I was not disappointed. But the most intense response has been aimed not at cyberspace, seasteading, or libertarian politics, but at a commonplace statistical observation about voting patterns that is often called the gender gap.

It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better.

Voting is not under siege in America, but many other rights are. In America, people are imprisoned for using even very mild drugs, tortured by our own government, and forced to bail out reckless financial companies.

I believe that politics is way too intense. That’s why I’m a libertarian. Politics gets people angry, destroys relationships, and polarizes peoples’ vision: the world is us versus them; good people versus the other. Politics is about interfering with other people’s lives without their consent. That’s probably why, in the past, libertarians have made little progress in the political sphere. Thus, I advocate focusing energy elsewhere, onto peaceful projects that some consider utopian."
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Yeah that definitely wasn't the first time Capt Sullenberg had experienced a double engine failure on takeoff.

First time in the middle of Manhattan, sure, but that doesn't change much, just means there's no big cornfield to set the plane down in.
I don't know sounds like a pretty awesome app combined with a bunch of "Liar"..."Liar Liar pants of fire" type sounds coming out of your pocket when someone is talking...especially if you could get Jim Carrey to do the voices.
It's interesting to understand the frequency dependency on antenna size by studying the Friis equation. There are three cases:

Small rx, small tx: low frequencies are better (lower loss).

Small rx, parabolic dish tx (or reversed): frequency does not matter.

Parabolic tx and rx: higher is better.

Small here means something like resonant dipole, so the antenna has to be physically bigger the lower the frequency.

For the case of a parabolic dish, we hold the diameter constant vs. frequency.

Anyway for phones lower bands are better as long as the antenna fits.
How effective a tool was it compared to other tools at your disposal?
No, not really. We don’t expect all of our actions to be monitored and collected 24/7 throughout the course of our lives when going about our business offline and then used to entrap us. We should have a similar standard when it comes to our civil rights in the digital realm.
Things you need to live: food, dwelling, energy, transportation, healthcare. (And necessary for a thriving economy/government: trade skills, education, military)

Self-sustaining would be very plausible on extremely modest amounts of income if the government subsidized the dwelling, energy, transportation, and healthcare. It may be unnecessary for large portions of a nation to work if people produced their own goods and services (most of which could be done by individuals, not even necessitating cooperative work except for a few difficult tasks).

What occurred to me, though, is that this would never work in a traditional society because the government would be responsible for too much of people's lives. So as an alternative, a split model may work, where people can choose between a competitive libertarian model and a cooperative socialist model. You either work hard to earn a living that you fully control, or you sit back and let someone provide you with your requirements, and the model you choose determines what things like your taxes or labor go towards.

This may be an incredibly stupid and shortsighted idea, but I would love the opportunity to live in a commune subsidized by the government - with the choice to leave for a different model if it sucked.
I've added a couple of small cloud functions for daily statistics that are pushed to our company slack in dedicated reporting channels. Pagespeed reports for our websites, keyword rankings, crawls from Google Bot etc. Definitely reduced the monkey work for our team.
From what I recall all activity is logged. We also had numerous external databases/tools that were essentially API connections to reduce the number of separate logins we'd have to do, and each of those databases had their own audit mechanisms. Long before we ever had Palantir in my department, we did have an employee who had misused a database for personal reasons. They were initially terminated but that was undone upon appeal. They were reprimanded either way and lost access to various tools/databases going forward for a long time. I know of many stories of police, for example, getting fired for abusing the NCIC databases for personal gain. Sadly it often falls on the agencies to self-police these issues, and most don't have anyone dedicated to this effort. So it really falls on the first line supervisors, of which some are great about it and some couldn't be bothered. I am of the opinion that all security, intelligence, and LE agencies should have an internal team solely focused on audit & review actions for internal abuse/misuse/privacy concerns, but that is a minority opinion from my experience.
Do UBI supporters intentionally not understand supply and demand?

Who wants to work at a restaurant if they don’t have to? Who will lay bricks and take out the trash if they don’t have to? The idea that UBi can help people find fulfilling work leads to the question of who does the unfulfilling work.
Sorry to go off topic, but, when I started reading this response, I started thinking, "hey is this the dadhacker.com guy?". I really loved your atari st history blog posts, man!

I'm laughing at the extra 2 bytes of memory you just gave us! ;)

IMO, the NES dev community had a better time with the 6502 -- but they definitely had far more memory to play with by then and they had (more) expensive cart mappers with RAM.
Piecemeal batch production to continuous roll-to-roll production is most definitely a step change.

Continuous production allows for mass production, quality monitoring, and progressively increase in width, in a way that is not possible with batch process
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The article does say this:

> But in December last year, the Finnish parliament passed a bill that is taking the country's welfare system in quite the opposite direction. The new 'activation model' law requires jobseekers to work a minimum of 18 hours for three months - if you don't manage to find such a job, you lose some of your benefits. And Finance Minister Petteri Orpo already has plans for a new project once the basic income pilot concludes in December 2018.

In short, the current political climate doesn't support it.

IIRC there's also been some discussion whether the experiment has been in violation of equality guarantees of our constitution, as it treats a randomly selected group different from others.
Yeah, the other thing that is weird when you read the article is that it wasn't UBI at all. It only went to people from a set that was unemployed. This "trial" just removed all bureaucracy and removed restrictions on side jobs, etc.

I'm not sure what you could learn from this experiment. The things a lot of people want to know is can UBI provide a safety net for the poor and allow people to quit a toxic job without fear. It will be interesting to see if any of the 2K participants used this income/time to retrain or receive education.
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On a positive note, New Orleans decided to not renew their contract with Palantir. I am not sure whether this is the result of that article or not.
It is. I did not work for palantir though, I worked as an intelligence anaylst in public sector who used Palantir in my job. Palantir does not provide analysts, generally, they just sell the software. The forward deployed engineers help install and instruct, and sometimes they have people come on site to walk through analytical use cases, but generally they don't employ many, if any, actual full-time intelligence analysts, from what I saw.
I typed up a large response rebutting this, until I realized that still retain the markdown meant that it was still there visually.

I thought you wanted to type markdown, and then have it transform as soon as it had enough context to do so. Which sounds like the worst of all worlds.

Now that I re-read your comment I understand that I actually agree with you 100%.
How did he win the Republican nomination if not by being the most Republican of Republicans?

He has all the support of key groups, such as evangelicals: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/383886-poll-white...
> The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services uses Palantir to detect Medicare fraud.

Having worked in this field, I can say that this is hilarious overkill. The vast majority (in dollar terms) of Medicare/Medicaid fraud is drug companies misreporting their Average Market Price (AMP), the critical variable in how much they get paid. In 2012, Glaxo settled(!) a small bundle of cases, some of which I worked on, for three billion dollars [0].

You don't need police-state surveillance of individuals, you need visibility into company transaction records.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/glaxosmithkline-plead-guilty-...
I'd love to see some data to back that claim up. I've heard that bandied about as a reason to NOT give people markdown but every system i've heard of being deployed and forcing markdown on their users has been "oh, actually this is really easy. we love it"
> you _know_ you're being watched - makes life different, in some way, simpler.

Arguably, what happens when people are aware of surveillance is one of the worst parts of it. Following the Snowden revelations, there were noticeable chilling effects:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/27/new-s...
The term for what you're describing is Product Management. My favorite speaker on the topic is Marty Cagan https://svpg.com. As a developer you're in a great position to just do it by building a product of your own.
People who pay more taxes than UB are essentialy people who do not receive UB.
But it might not be worth it, to make that bearing more efficient if it costs more.
Yup that's my point exactly - it's just less restrictive unemployment benefits. As you said the really interesting stuff from UBI is people quitting shitty jobs (or, working part time at shitty jobs instead of 60 hours a week) and doing something else with their lives.
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