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Bloomberg went to a 3/month paywall a few months ago. I used to read this column all the time. I should subscribe just as a thank you for writing it.
Ah, Objective-C, the language that seems designed as if on purpose to confuse and confound. I'm glad it's on the way into the garbage bin.
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> If I can find a single days work I lose all of it.

I can't speak to social programs outside of the US, but here, most of our programs (SNAP, Section-8, unemployment benefits) are on a sliding scale. This allows for benefits to somewhat decrease as earnings increase.

That said, I anecdotally have noticed a couple things:

1. Many low income people actually aspire to be accepted into these programs, especially Section-8 (US housing assistance).

2. Once people are accepted into these programs, they never leave.

I own dozens of rental properties, some of them low income where we accept tenants who receive housing assistance. I've never seen a singe person lose this benefit or have it decreased because they start earning more.

Now, I'm not sure whether these programs are a trap or not. I think it is waaay more complicated than that. Some people need help. Some people will leverage this assistance to climb up or make it through a tough time. Some people will take advantage.
> Not only does this proliferation of forms over-complicate a language, but it's also completely redundant as a no-parens language would write it as `f a b c d`.

and I don't see how it makes anything more readable. It doesn't.
I agree static analysis can help. Specifically for changing column names it just doesnt really happen that often in most projects I worked on...so I never really thought it to be a big deal.
if the market price for garbage collection rises that high, every other job that seems 'better' will have to rise the pay too, else people will all go into garbage business. who will clean my seat at the peep shows then?
and if every job costs that much, the product of it will have to cost accordingly. in the world of UBI, either a loaf of bread will cost 300000 of cold hard cash, or there will be no one to build the first generation of your precious robots. hence the nightmare.
anyway, back in the 1960's some idiots already forewarned that factory automation was fast approaching and it would make everyone lose jobs. google automation hysteria. what they proposed was eerily similar to UBI. this new iteration is just history repeating itself. guess they didn't predict society just changing to find new jobs.
Have you looked at Matrix.org? It's essentially the "modern IRC" people are asking for. I strongly suggest giving it a chance.
I’m glad that Fortnite and Rocket League have found success with crossplay, as that indicates that Sony has made crossplay possible.

I’m sad to see you dismissing “authoritarian control over a platform” as “being a dick”, though. I prefer my society less authoritarian and my gaming platforms (and coding guidelines) more authoritarian, but I guess this isn’t the right venue to discuss that dissonance.
You shouldn't assume grep is in /usr/bin. On many systems it's in /bin.

Perl's exec and Python's subprocess already search for executables in PATH, so you don't need to provide the full path.

In C, you can use execvp() instead of execv().

(No idea about PHP…)
> Maths is more type-dependent in the absence of parentheses

Yes, mathematical notation is also heavily overloaded, often abbreviated or "abused" and full of "puns".

There have been some attempts to "fix" this. Lambda calculus (the basis of most functional languages) could be seen as an attempt to do this. A more recent example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...
As interesting as this is, and no doubt useful for the pioneering missions to Mars, most of these concerns are rather negated by the plan to colonise Mars. Looking at the Elon Musk plan he is talking about taking 100 people at a time IIRC. This allows social groups to form, and allows breaks from the norm by the ability to visit others.

If we are talking about 100's at a time, then there would be doctors, engineers, surgical facilities, public meeting areas etc. Presumably the initial settlement will take place in one place not in lots of isolated areas? Early trips presumably would be setting up the space-port and living facilities, making rocket-fuel etc. I think with work to do and with more people and more space to wander around the social problems would be rather easier to bear
Coincidentally, I can tell a story about computer keyboards, in this case Ultra Classic from Unicomp. Their keyboards use the same technology as the legendary IBM Model M keyboard (I have one that was produced in 1985 and it's still my favourite keyboard, use it almost every day). I even heard (though don't know if it's true) that Unicomp produced branded Model M's for a while.

But even though the Unicomp has mechanics equal or comparable to the Model M, they have serious issues with the molding process. In spite of warnings on various internet forums, I got a slightly used keyboard from Ebay and it quickly developped issues with the space bar (the mold is so bad that the key had too much friction).

They have been nice enough to send a new space bar, but sure enough the new one has a huge dent on it (only affecting looks this time). Also, I'm left with a deformed spring (I thought I'd been careful but...). Now being offered RMA and being requested to send it from Europe to USA. Again, friendly service, but I'd rather have quality.

I don't know anything about molding, but it seems to be that some process knowledge gets lost over time, as demand decreases. (Or maybe the machines need to get serviced?)

UPDATE, found an introduction an youtube and loved it. Submission, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381697
Yes but banks are protected by the mechanisms I mentioned.
Maybe you should be all consumed by not having enough money to eat, if you don't... What's the implication here... That we need to supply these underpowered brains with government money by means of redistribution? :P
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I mean, that's it. It's a rule of our society. That word means "black people that are weak, ignorant, servile and subhuman". We as a society have elected to make it a word that is forbidden in polite conversation unless you think the definition is accurate. Using it casually, even if you think you are not racist, is a signal that you don't care about other people's feelings.
The advantage of Serverless to me seems that it already forces you in a somewhat sane design and separation of concerns so all work out into the lambda functions should be easily translatable into a different architecture.
Yeah, lots in this case. The reason so many say the Assange charges are a setup is that the case was dropped initially by the prosecutor after it became clear the women were lying, their stories simply didn't stack up so there was no chance of a conviction. Assange hung around in Sweden after the charges were filed and requested permission to leave after the charges were dropped, the Swedish police said they were done with him. Then after he left a different prosecutor mysteriously reopened the case and demanded he return for questioning again, though nothing had changed in the case, no charges were filed and the chance of a successful prosecution was still zero.
I think judges need to be able to kick some thungs back to parliaments, with a demand/request for new legislation clarifying ambiguity.

It should not be so hard to determine what something is legally, considering how many people are affected. There are obvious implications to defining these grey areas using precedence, the goals of the legislation are less important in a courtroom than technical aspects of the law.

On one hand, a lot of these gig companies (especially Uber) could not have scaled as they did using regular employment arrangements. There were undeniable efficiency gains. Many of these benefit employees/contractors too. One big benefit is having far less gatekeeping, which benefits those who tend to be kept out by gatekeepers.

On the other hand, these driving and couriering gigs are (using common sense categories) more like casual part time jobs than "true" contractors. Ie, they are exactly the types of vulnerable workers that a lot of labour laws were written to protect.

Find a legislative solution. There ways to maintain flexibility, but pretend Uber is contracting freely with a peer. Call it something new. Make rules. Do your job.
My first thought is kill one, train a thousand. Mars is a long way away and if you have a problem its your's alone to solve.

But really how do you not have rcd power supplies in this sort of context!

Does Nasa stuff run on AC? I can't see a reason why you wouldn't want something like mains power for the crew being 12v dc for most applications and only a few things like an oven or high wattage device needing more. Kettle?
The video doesn't support your conclusion at all, quite the opposite.
Where is handball a major sport; I don't think I've ever seen it played in a match.
Yes people are putting all of their eggs in one basket when practicing intellectualization for such long stretches of time.
> IRC has deficiencies that ensure that only a small cabal of power users will endure it. I prefer to be part of communities that are more accessible to more walks of life than the person who was bothered to install irssi on his spare EC2 instance.

I've been in, and now run, a channel for about twenty years that, at its peak, had about a hundred active users.

Most of those people were normal folks, from all walks of life, many of whom barely knew how to use a computer.

I would argue that it's only power users who want chat history in the first place. Normal people don't want to go back and read god-knows-how-many lines since they last logged in. They just want to chat.

Offline messaging is a valuable feature for everyone and can be improved by services, without needing a bouncer. Many networks have a "memoserv" that does this. Improve the UX of something like that (should be transparent, no different from a normal pm) and you have good offline messaging.
I live in DC and experience exactly 0 of any of that. Your imagination of a "city" seems to be based entirely on the Mission district of SF. I would suggest travel.
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil. Set in pre WWI Vienna. It’s a three volume unfinished novel full of brilliant writing, much of which should appeal to the crowd here.
> ... Gernsback Continuum...

I agree with the thread sentiment that the short stories are better than the novels and novellas, though I enjoyed them when I read them in the 1980's and again, maybe less so, recently. But Gernsback Continuum really resonated with me and I love the idea and metaphor that these zeigeist-driven unrealized futures exist and shimmer at the edge of reality. Visible to the tired, drugged, and crazy it's solidly in the same camp as Burroughs and Dick.
It's not just decreasing spacing.

It's decreasing wire resistance and gate capacitance. That's what makes the most difference. It is also about making things cheaper, because your costs are constant for a wafer, but the use is measured by gate count.

That said, things are not that simple for a long time already.
only if you subscribe to the notion that current social democracies are not socialist.
"opposition to enabling people to live off the back of others"? strange, the left implements that everywhere already.
and of course marx would be opposed, because his belief in LTV is an entirely different kind of wrong.
I'm not sure I follow. "High Energy" has a very specific meaning in physics, which typically refers particle physics, which may include nuclear physics but would definitely not include the UV spectrum. Energy, in the photonic radiation sense sense, refers quite literally to the wavelength of a photon. UV is not high energy. It's the energy of a photon which is the bad stuff for cancer. UV is energetic enough to damage molecular bonds, but that's easily mitigated through clothing (which workers _already_ wear) and titanium dioxide, which completely absorbs those photons.

You are right that both hazards for cancer risks in both plans are well understood, but one is mitigated by spending hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment, construction, water, a regulatory commission, constant improvement of procedure and policy, education, and clever engineering.

The other requires long sleeve shirts and a hat.
Because every single vanilla pod needs to be hand pollinated, and the labor in Mexico is too expensive.
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I am sure you have given your kids a great example of succeeding in a tough situation and taking care of a family.

Edit: Don't know why was my post down-voted. My intention was only to give emotional support to a fellow human being that goes/went through pain that I personally have struggled with and know all too well.
Yeah, if its programmatic PDF filling, it depends on your language/platform of choice (make a comment with that to get more relevant responses). For PHP I'd recommend TCPDF with FPDi.
"Nobody procrastinates doing what they enjoy."
I'm guessing mental illnesses are out of the picture here then.
See, this is what happens when you pay tech people too much. They get uppity and start dictating terms. :)
I imagine it's still popular because those harsh fines are not issued very often.
Did you try kaggle?
That near 100% foreign is the norm everywhere, not just “elite” schools. It has been that way for at least 30 years.
Where is the opioid crisis right now?

Thought so.
Some separated and independently operable facilities would be useful to avoid losing the whole project to a meteor (or seismic activity? or weather?).
Ever feel like you have “Programming Synesthesia”?
It’s not as simple as “just multiplying”, though.. You don’t just give everyone $X dollars. If you make $100,000 per year, you don’t get anything. But if you make below a certain amount, say $10,000, then you pay a negative income tax, which means you get some money.

Also I don’t know which version of libertarian you’re using, but I don’t think I’d classify libertarians as being super supportive of UBI...
It is odd that governments have not shown more interest in electronic cash systems specifically designed to address their issues like Taler[1].

[1] https://taler.net/
This looks like pyresttest.
Visiting Mars few times, then the public losing the interest is the most likely scenario.

Mars Colonization in our lifetime is fantasy. Not necessarily from technical but from purely economic perspective. You can't make near time colony self sufficient and maintaining it would require billions in subsidies year after year.
We haven’t had issues but we keep our time windows short for any searching through logs (and we don’t use json logs so that’s an interesting difference). We use other systems for longer range log analysis.
http://logging.apache.org/log4j-audit/log4j-audit-1.0.0/
Well sure, you’re only born once (being born into money is the best way to become rich), but losing your job or your house or your health are all things that can happen throughout most of you’re life.
It depends if you plan to stay (immigrant) or not (expat). Since most long term visas in the US terminate in a green card, we use immigrant more often than not to describe those who come to the US on an H1 or as PRs.

Also immigration primarily occurs from poorer developing countries to richer developed countries, so the label immigrant is used to describe long term foreigners since it is likely that they actually are. In contrast, in primarily emigrant countries (like say China), the immigrant label will almost never be true, so something else is used instead.
Yes you've paid income tax for it and have to pay VAT if you buy something.

The idea is you are going to invest / save the money and earn interest, get dividends or profit from the stock price itself.

The old system used a virtual profit of 4% a year, and over this 30% tax needs to be paid. That's 1,2% over the amount above EUR 25.000 (per person, so 50.000 if you're together with someone)

Mind you do not have to pay tax over the real profits, and also pay if you loose.

So if you make 8% a year, you are only taxed as if you've made 4% , but if you lost 8% you're still taxed for 4%

They are changing it to a way the rate reflects the real interest rate better, and many people want the real profits to be taxed.

I personally don't, because if you're just a bit good with ETF's you're easy beat the 4%
> IP and knowledge was much less valuable in the 19th C industrial economy than it is today.

Actually it was far more valuable because it was far rarer and you could do far more with it. With IP you could own/dominate the entire textile market, the entire cotton market, the entire oil market, etc. With IP you could dominate the world's oceans with your navy.

It's counterintuitive but IP at the beginning stages was far more important.

> The Chinese (NK, Iranian, Russian) corporate hacks we have seen recently could have a MUCH larger economic effect.

This is simply not true. The markets today are much larger and far more diverse and the IP space is ridiculous complex, large and diverse. Of course IP theft has a significant economic impact today, but IP theft 200 years had a far greater effect when industries and IP was so limited.
H1B's usually terminate in a green card. Maybe you meant another kind of visa?
Sounds like some seriously amateur hour electrical shit. I've seen photos of their setup. An off grid photovoltaic system with battery storage, and propane generator that feeds a battery charger, is not rocket science.

Telecom people build them all the time for remote mountaintop sites with kWh/day loads much greater than their habitat. They can't ground things properly and have exposed wiring? For the multi million dollar budget, inexcusable.

I could build a better power system than what I've seen pictured for well under $80,000 in one time equipment expenses.

This article focues on how the medevac compromised their experiment. How about their failure to adhere to proper engineering standards compromised their experiment? Nobody wants to take the blame.

Edit: Here is a photo of their pv setup. All COTS stuff. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mars-nasa-hi-seas-project-hawai...
It’s no different than saying “really”. As in, “I’m really ready to kill myself”. Of course, it doesn’t mean “in reality”. It’s an intensifier, just like “literally”
I followed the instructions leading to https://archive.org/details/MtGox2014Leak
but the mtgox_balances file when unzipped is an exe file.... where is the real file?
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. Some other comments inline below.

>Also, because of static typing, I get faster feedback when I've broken something. Unit tests do a pretty good job of catching things in Python, but I still find a couple of bugs a week in our Python codebase (usually in error paths) that a static analysis tool would have caught.

True, static typing can help a lot, and you get the feedback at compile time, not run time, as you said.

>so you don't need to optimize in Go as often as you do in Python. But when you do, the optimizations are usually spelled out to you by the profiler and you can actually fix them (since Go gives you control over things like allocations which allows you to intervene to reduce memory pressure and improve cache performance).

Interesting, will check that feature out.

>Also parallelism; for all intents and purposes, your only parallelism option in Python is multiprocessing, and this is shitty. For most peformance issues, the Python answer is "just use C for your hotpath", but this can actually make things slower for a lot of situations since calling into C typically means converting between Python data structures and C data structures. I had a coworker throw Pandas at a performance problem, but the solution involved running Python on every cell in the dataframe, so we actually lost (10-30X) performance over the naive list-o-dicts solution because of all of the calling across the language barrier. And if you're not using something like Pandas or Numpy, writing C is actually pretty hard for the average Python dev, and writing memory-safe, secure, portable, cross-platform C is hard for lots of above-average C developers. There are definitely cases where "just write it in C" is a reasonable thing to do, but even being able to identify those cases takes a certain amount of expertise that your average Python developer doesn't have.

Those are good points about issues with calling C from Python.

>Lastly, Go compiles everything to a static binary. Python finally got pipenv, which solves some of the same problems, but it's still a pain and every issue seems to take a full afternoon to debug. Go binaries just run out of the box on pretty much any Linux.

True, and that (binaries from compiled-code languages) was a more common deployment method before dynamic languages like Python, Ruby and Perl became popular. Done a lot of dev work in C earlier.
> My first thought is kill one, train a thousand.

While there may be an argument to make for more risk-taking in science, with space travel itself being among the likeliest candidates, I don't see how it applies to this situation.

Remember that every one of these simulated missions provides hundreds or thousands of examples for indidividual human interactions each. That's an indication of the amount of data needed to draw applicable conclusions. Allowing people to die could never approach those levels. Any conclusions would also be tainted by the nature of these experiments as simulations far more than any other events–because "is the result worth the price" would be the dominating question.
As long as X is a good thing - a few people want power just so they can hurt others...
Read Kunstler's book "The Geography Of Nowhere" - our suburban system is not an accident
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"Surprising" only if you're in a small minority of people. To the vast majority, this is not surprising at all. To have an ambitious notion of an ideal life, that is what's surprising. (If you define surprising as whatever dominates the greatest concentration of the distribution, instead of focusing on the anomalies in the tail.)
Since when is India in South east asia?
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That's why the €500 note was taken out of circulation: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/business/international/ec... .
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Wire and contact resistance has been steadily increasing and FinFETs actually increased gate capacitance.
How does this apply to traditional mail-order catalogues? I thought their no-sales-tax orders were the model for e-commerce.
What are the differences among these JDKs? Will JRE always remain free?
You're right it is a tax on the possessions (except your primary home) you have.

so if you've bought a second home, it is also taxed, so not unspent , but if you put more than 25.000 on a current account with 0% interest rate, you still have to pay tax as if you have made 4% (the system changed, this is to keep it simple for non Dutch readers).
In that case it at least feels like unspent income tax.

Anyway, if you're in the position you need to pay this tax, you usually have nothing to complain about financially..
I can recall two students I knew at Stuyvesant who lived in a couple of the more violent public housing projects who went on to college. My anecdote proves your anecdote wrong. That said I will need for you to come with studies and real data that show you are not wrong. This is because what you are saying has very real world implications that will hurt children who do need sometime up to 18 years of housing assistance so that they can also go on to college and become productive members of society.