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I totally agree that employment should be made easier. For example things like health care and 401k should be handled by the employee instead of the employer. It would also be nice if there were pension funds that are open to everyone instead of just employees of one company or government.

But the trend to just relieve employers of the "burden" without giving more power to the employee is wrong too. For example each state or the whole country should be one risk pool where everyone can buy in. Same for 401k, disability and others. A lot of tax deductions should be moved from employer to employee.

We have to be really careful not to end up with a market where employers have all the power and the rest are just day laborers without any rights.
This is my biggest concern as well. Just to address your points:

* My firm belief is that once felons do their time, their debt is paid and they should be full citizens again. They should definitely have the right to vote, although gun ownership might need to be addressed on a case by case basis for violent criminals for the safety of society. So UBI might need nondiscrimination laws attached to it.

* If UBI is per capita, then a single mother with 2 children who doesn't receive child support would immediately see a roughly 3x increase in funds. This could be used to dissuade special cases for allocations.

* Rent will almost certainly go up in places that have no appreciable disposable income currently. This may be a straw man argument however, encapsulating the fallacy that inflation would increase with UBI. If no additional money is being printed, then prices will even out somewhere else. For example, people might be able (as a whole) to afford mass transit or urban renewal projects which would open up competition for cheaper housing in other areas.

Aside from specifics, I see your point however that people working for the general welfare may inadvertently undermine the efficacy of UBI. This is probably the single biggest threat to it, since I don't see any serious technical or financial hurdles.

I'd vote to start everyone with a UBI plus a stipend that adds up to each welfare recipient's current payment (financed with debt initially). Then put a hold on welfare increases for 3-5 years. My guess is that the federal government wouldn't end up paying substantially more than it does now, although I'd like to see a study/projection on that.

Also this all needs to happen outside of self-funded agencies like social security. I think that sacrificing so-called entitlements for UBI would be unethical, since people have paid into social security their entire lives.
> I'm super curious where the demand from users to connect with businesses via WhatsApp is.

Simple -> WeChat and the Chinese market is the only citation you need. Your argument is probably then "but that's China" and I think that's basically the point of offering this...to test it in WhatsApp's markets where WeChat doesn't have dominance.
Well except you need to pay the contractor twice the money because now they need to spend time and a lot of money on experts to just file their taxes correctly. This scales a lot better for employer/employees, not for any particular reason but that the system was "designed" for it if you can call it that.
There are dozens of solutions to this. City officials are never going to outsmart Google, et al.

My favorite, courtesy of Heinlein:

On each side of the door was a huge brass bowl — filled with money.
More than filled — Federation notes of various denominations spilled out on the floor.
He was staring at this when Patricia returned. “Here's your drink, Brother Ben. Grow close in Happiness.”
“Uh, thanks.” His eyes returned to the money.
She followed his glance. “I'm a sloppy housekeeper, Ben. Michael makes it so easy, cleaning and such, that I forget.” She retrieved the money, stuffed it into the less crowded bowl.
“Patty, why in the world?”
“Oh. We keep it here because this door leads to the street. If one of us is leaving the Nest — and I do, myself, almost every day for grocery shopping — we may need money. We keep it where you won't forget to take some.”
“Just grab a handful and go?”
“Why, yes, dear. Oh, I see what you mean. There is never anyone here but us.”
My buy was a protest buy just as much as your protest non-buy. Of course it's emotional. We are just protesting the different things.

"...without consideration of the company." So now investment is based on company's performance? Where is the ethical standard?

Manipulation of people's emotion has long been used in investment. Just an example, you have used guilt with ethics to manipulate people from investing in a company.
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Employee A has no clue which person to target. Nor does he know which emails to pay attention to. His search tools are primitive. His brain's processing power is limited. OTOH, Google's core business is scalable search.
This is the goal of the wealthy class and corporations.

This is the inevitable result of healthy complex adaptive systems under free market capitalism.

These systems are as effective as they can be inhumane. It's our job to inject humanity into the system.
Libraries are pretty great. Costs very little and you have some time pressure to get it done before having to return it. Most books don't get read more than once anyway, so it's a pretty nice money saver too.

"What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they’re trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?"
– Jerry Seinfeld

Although I totally get that different books are worth and important to different people to be had around as your own.
> It's comparatively much easier for you.

No, it isn't. It's way harder to deal with each employee than it is for the person to deal with their stuff as a contractor.
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Here is a nice "cheat sheet" that introduces many math concepts needed for ML: https://ml-cheatsheet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

> As soft prerequisites, we assume basic comfortability with linear algebra/matrix calc [...]
>

That's a bit of an understatement. I think anyone interested in learning ML should invest the time needed to deeply understand Linear Algebra: vectors, linear transformations, representations, vector spaces, matrix methods, etc. Linear algebra knowledge and intuition is key to all things ML, probably even more important than calculus.

Book plug: I wrote the "No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra" which is a compact little brick that reviews high school math (for anyone who is "rusty" on the basics), covers all the standard LA topics, and also introduces dozens of applications. Check the extended preview here https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide2LA_previ... and the amazon reviews https://www.amazon.com/dp/0992001021/noBSLA#customerReviews
We are working on adding price charts; thanks for the feedback!

The data is sourced from a number of sources including multiple exchanges that we integrate with.
is there a presentation explaining some of the networking setup you need to understand in order to get wireguard working properly? For example, a common openVPN complaint is that the default setup hijacks all your network traffic -- and on ubuntu since 16.04 the default config gives a dns leak (they changed to systemd-resolved)
The traditional model was to have nobility that reaped all gains and the rest were just day laborers. Not sure we want to go back to that. The last 150 years where workers got more power worked pretty well economically.
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I just use plain text-areas and markdown - it avoids a lot of footguns from text-editor-like widgets.
Because they can make more money from ads. Why do you think Facebook for work is so cheap?
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Can Asana sponsor work visas?
Of course, this only works on Android, and the user has to have given explicit permission for this.
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If you believe that demanding agility is "far from unreasonable" I strongly recommend taking that line rather than insisting people should use relatively untried shiny new toys out of fear of a monster that may not actually be under their beds.

I don't know that WireGuard's author will agree, but you at least have a coherent argument that makes sense. Replacing 25519 with NTRU because you're terrified of a bogeyman (in the form of Quantum Computers able to run an algorithm that solves the appropriate hard problem) doesn't make sense.
Fwiw I think you're being mildly too revisionist in the other direction. The major issue with the hacking wasn't stealing source code, but attempts to access user data. Certainly accessing source code is bad, but imo in general Google protects user data much moreso than source code.

(I work at Google)
Where are you from? I think location and Culture makes a huge difference. Whatsapp wasnt even a thing in US before Facebook bought it. France was mainly iMessages ( transition from SMS ) before Facebook acquired WhatsApp.

Then there are places like China which no one uses WhatsApp.
Again, there are more than 7 colours available if you include the intense and faint palettes. Which is, in my opinion at least, better than the to-do list authors imposing limits on what shell colour schemes I can use.

Or alternatively, they can just not use any colours at all. Frankly I don't even have different colour schemes on my JIRA kanban board so the argument that CLI todo lists require true colour support is tenuous at best.
Noise is attacking me. Anyone live in Texas?
This is a serious breach and I'd suggest "gloss over" does not characterize Reddit's statement appropriately.

Given how the report is structured, it seems like the amount of leaked data is purposefully being hidden behind red herring info about SMS 2FA that is not important to users who want to know where they stand.

When this DB is leaked, there should be more than enough weak passwords to both pwn and dox many, many reddit users. Do we know the encryption scheme reddit used to encrypt their password database involved in the leak?

Also, how is it that Reddit gained a head of security 2.5 months ago? Who was in charge of this prior to that date?
Money is cheaper than time and risk.
> There's nothing here about thinking they're better than you.

I can guarantee that most people at Facebook, Google, etc. look down on people with my pedigree and employer.
I'm wondering if this pressure was in response to the 20% decline on FB stocks. Its as if the shareholders looked at their portfolio in search of companies acquired that could fill that void.
Yeah those are the types of article topics that should be aggressively weeded out by any credible SEO specialist or consultant.
Our job? How exactly do you propose that those with no leverage and no power do that job?
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Any democracy could decide to write a check to its voters now.
Was late feudalism really "much of history"? It was just few hundred years and peasants were not slaves for a lot of it.
This is amazing!
So I can save bandwidth and just stream to Castr and Castr will stream to all platforms?
I hope i got it right.
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I am not sure how viable this hiring model is for companies that want to develop bleeding edge IP. Speaking only about development jobs: contractors are nomadic, they're not tied or married to your success or failure. From a developer POV, that's not a bad thing. You can just come in, do your thing, and move on to the next great adventure. From the employer side, each time you are training someone new to become familiar with your code base, your company intricacies and peculiarities, etc. which takes time and effort, and learning from failure, time for which may not be available. And the end result is that you may end up with a mish mash that doesn't work well together because the people who made it are gone or moved on. Also, developing is mentally exhausting. Not sure what dev, unless they're really desperate, will want to indulge this and expand that kind of mental effort for less payout or benefits. Or maybe the company only hires these for less innovative stuff or CRUD jobs.
Income inequality: US vs. Europe
I'm confused. Why are these firms "shutting down" if they don't have any exposure to the loans they brokered?

I mean, the description of the business model sounds like it's a bunch of transactional companies like ebay or paypal or whatever. Those might be expected to "fail" if the overall market shrinks, if expected growth didn't arrive, or if they get beaten by a competitor. But they don't fail "like dominoes". If anything the exit of one player would be expected to strengthen its competitors.

But the headline and analysis is using terminology that make this sound like a credit crisis. Is it?
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I am familiar with one medium-sized tech company in downtown Mountain View, which used to provide catered lunches from individual restaurants three days of the week, and now uses the EAT Club service three days of the week instead.
I don't know what is it about math -- especially when it involves manipulation of symbols as opposed to pictures or lay language -- that turns off so many people.

I can tell you at least part of it, from my subjective perspective. I tend to "think" in a very verbal fashion and I instinctively try to sub-vocalize everything I read. So when I see math, as soon as I see a symbol that I can't "say" to myself (eg, a greek letter that I don't recognize, or any other unfamiliar notation) my brain just tries to short-circuit whatever is going on, and my eyes want to glaze over and jump to the stuff that is familiar.

OTOH, with written prose, I might see a word I don't recognize, but I can usually work out how to pronounce it (at least approximately) and I can often infer the meaning (at least approximately) from context. So I can read prose even when bits of it are unfamiliar.

There's also the issue that math is so linear in terms of dependencies, and it's - in my experience - very "use it or lose it" in terms of how quickly you forget bits of it if you aren't using it on day-in / day-out basis.
I also recommend Linear Algebra Done Right 3rd Ed
See your sibling post
I’m talking about leaking the censorship program.
it's not double, esp fully loaded incl benefits, payroll taxes, career development & performance mgmt, time off for vacation/illness/childcare, etc.
While this is convenient and cheaper for businesses, it also removes financial incentives in place to help businesses succeed. This seems to be short term advantageous but long term destructive.

Many a good business idea has come from someone who felt they had something to gain from the company succeeding. Contractors have incentive to put up and shut up, after all, argue with the boss and you are replaced.

It also gives core business competency to contractors, who can turn around and give that knowledge or experience to competitors, or even open up shop themselves.
I wonder about healthcare a lot. It seems to me the people who actually have the ability to vote with their wallet invariably get good health insurance through their employer. Surely this must do something to inflate prices.
The reason you're getting downvotes is because you're throwing around some serious accusations without any evidence to back them up.
Maybe if you were contracting for someone, while knowing what you know about all those systems. If I were a contractor, I wouldn't know where to start. I'd need to spend hours figuring the law out, figuring out which forms need to be filled and when, how to deal with weird one-off edge cases. Multiply that by the number of employees that you have, and there's the social cost that decentralizing this inflicts.

Because this is a process I'd do once a year (Or four times a year as a contractor?), I wouldn't remember what the hell I did last year, what software I was using, where I found the forms in question (Maybe they moved, maybe the government changed the rules, maybe the website that I learned all I know from is dead/out-of-date), etc.

A company's HR department/accountant does this all the time. This is their core competency. This is not my core competency.

This is the same thing as with self-checkout lines at the grocery. I've yet to see a single customer be half as efficient at scanning and bagging groceries as the clerks. Yet, it's cheaper for the store, because their customers' shopping time is 'free'.

[1] What changes when I'm on paternity leave? Unpaid time off due to sickness? This is something that most people do once, maybe twice in their lives. This is something that most HR people, working for businesses deal with all the time.
Per employee?
You don't even need those. TOTP is perfectly acceptable. It's simple, it's offline, it's free. It's a weekend project. Two functions and an extra column in a database. No hacking on clients, no implementing protocols, no buying hardware.

Implementing TOTP: https://www.serverstack.com/blog/2013/02/21/implementing-tot...

My opinion is hardware tokens are a joke for average user security. If I can't even keep my phone around to use TOTP, I'm sure as hell not going to keep track of my U2F token.
No, I don't think that. The one thing governments don't try is to homogeneously tax rich people.

I do think governments all over the world work hard to find some way to tax their foes and let their friend pay a pittance. At the same time, they don't care any bit about the people with just barely a surplus, that end up collectively paying most of it.
I have friends and family spanning four different countries (U.S. and southeast Asia), so I use WhatsApp, FB Messenger, GroupMe, and WeChat regularly.
They can finish lunch quicker and leave work earlier.
Confluence finally supports inline code blocks like GitHub and Slack