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"Everybody wins".

This is a sadistic logic. People dying because they can't afford healthcare. "Everybody wins". Living precariously from wageslip to wageslip. "Everybody wins". Internalising the toxic logic that one's worth is directly proportional to one's market value. "Everybody wins". Etcetera.

Several things:

1. If this were so it's strange how so many widely different forms of economic organisation, across the past and present - from post-war fordism in France to the state-owned enterprises in China today - have achieved remarkable levels of growth, stability and innovation. Economies are incredibly historically, sociologically and culturally varied and complex things. They cannot be reduced to a universal and parsimonious law.

2. What is of market value is not what is of social value. Even the most gooey-eyed neoclassical economist admits that a huge number of inefficiencies and distortions separate the two. Many thinkers - Rousseau, Marx, even Rawls - took them to be very far apart. A system in which the majority of people hate their job, have no bargaining power, have no say in their workplace, and are told by society that they aren't worth anything and to be grateful for the Promethean achievements of the rich, is not maximising social value. It's socially and culturally crippling.

3. You are naturalising a contingent and defeasible fact: that people need gratuitously large paychecks to have sufficient incentive to work. It's proven that above £28,000, increased income has no effect on quality of life. People want more money than that because capitalism, like any social system, functionally reproduces itself ideologically; and humans can be extraordinarily sensitive as to their social status and how others perceive them.
Yes, but Tesla already do this just fine with their huge 18650 cell packs.
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No, that is the main site, it hosts the full report: https://stateoftheworldsfungi.org/2018/reports/SOTWFungi_201...

The link by OP posts to the project showcase page at Kew.
I'm not native english speaker.

To me, someone who speaks English as second language really shouldn't be concerned about non-technical meaning of a word. It almost feels like he is trying to be offended for someone else.
At least for my part Blendle has been a huge win for publishers. I've probably spent more money on Blendle articles in just a year or so (even asking for my money back a number of times) than I have on regular subscriptions.

Considering the fact that I'm generally not too interested in mainstream news, and somewhat frugal, I imagine there's quite a number of people who spend even more.
While not totally free (access costs) a vast majority of the knowlage I've learned and use for my job has been from free resources online. Realistically, I've probably spent under $500 in 10 years on educational materials (excluding buying my first non-work-sponsored laptop) and am now "Senior" level in my field. Plus almost all that was in more recent years as I'm trying learn more theoretical / academic applications.
Combine that with most cities having libraries with free books and in major cities free internet, and I'd argue is cheaper and easier than ever to learn, though it does still cost time.
I tend to feel the same way (in principle though not convinced it will be because of "Dweb" tech). I've been using searx.me for a year or so. This is a metasearch engine based on open source software, anyone can run an instance of it. I get a mix of results from Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo. It tells me which results come from which engine and I don't think it would be a big deal if Google started censoring stuff, or if it was removed altogether.

If Google starts censoring results in the US or EU with clear political motives, a Searx instance will be clearly superior (probably Bing and DDG standalone will be too). Many people will switch and search will become a more competitive market all of a sudden.

I'm not pro-censorship and I think Google censoring results for China would be disgusting. But if they migrate the practice to Western democracies I think they'll basically commit suicide. (Therefore they probably won't do it.)
Yeah, I'm absolutely aware what is happening here.

Of course if they are creating slot machines they should follow the related regulations. However there is nothing that forces them to make actual games. If they can make business by selling virtual slot machines let them do so as long as it's legal. After all they are not the only game publisher out there and if there is an actual need for quality games it will be fulfilled by other publishers.
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Proof-of-waste systems need to be subject to a global ban like CFCs and tetraethyl lead.
How exactly do you intend to fund the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of such a massive social engineering program?

Your anecdote doesn’t really mean much. “Significantly way better” is apparently still not enough.

Similar to why food stamps are cheaper than food education. The administrative burden is prohibitively expensive.

Let’s not consider the thesis at hand here; jobs aren’t the answer. That flies in the face of our corporate sponsored religion.

Of course believing that inherently threatens your status.

This site should best stick to discussion of technology. Whenever social topics come along, the community quickly reveals its ignorance of reality for the majority, and knee jerk defense of its status quo
I'd love to be able to support individual authors, or 'collectives', regardless of where they publish. I suppose that's hard for Blendle to arrange though.
Yes, it seems more like an advertisement for recruiting.
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You really shouldn't put the car in neutral if you're approaching upcoming traffic as you aren't in full control of the vehicle if you suddenly need power to get out of a developing situation.

You're also not getting the advantages of engine braking especially as most modern cars won't be pumping fuel to the engine if there is no load, instead your car is just idling in neutral.
You have no idea the kind of mental state, upbringing and understanding of the world Vanessa had at 16. One of the big reasons teen girls get pregnant is a desperate hope to fill the psychological void in their hearts created by neglectful parents.
I wonder if paying with cash is an issue in other countries also?

It might be possible to solve the issue of cashlessness by making it even easier for the poor to use it, perhaps by providing super cheap cards that somehow let people still make/receive payments without phones?
Thirst for stories that vilify Muslims has eroded basic principles of journalism
And all the free time in the world while working 3 jobs:

https://youtu.be/wFNj5sireDo
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See my other post. Hate speech laws are actively used in Germany to manipulate political campaigns. The legal process has been removed and private organizations close to the government get to decide what's hate speech and what's not.

And that's exactly the problem with it: It cannot be clearly defined and everyone is offended by different things, which makes it a perfect tool to censor just about everything you want.
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That seems like a hack that won't hold up in court. Now it's still loot box gambling, but with the n+1 th box instead.
To be honest, I don't see this censorship as such a big deal, it's an annoying speed bump, but not much more. Media has censored things forever, and as long as the internet remains open, it's not like censoring search results will prevent information from existing on the internet. It just means that we might need to build some new channels to share it. To me, the scary thing is the centralization of power with respect to networking (DNS/BGP/switching/etc. - see net neutrality). If internet infrastructure remains open, we'll continue to have the opportunity to build mastodon, duckduckgo, OSM, etc. And eventually those things will overtake the walled gardens that "Megacorp"s are cornering themselves into. Linux is the shining example of this.
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Seems that the bug was introduced in 2016 due to an optimization in ORDERY BY clause.

Code that doesn't have to evolve at all for years is very very rare, especially in a product that's used on evolving hardware and software architecture.

Responding to parent post, i don't see another solution than theorem provers if we want to pretend that we're doing anything reliable. But it's going to be a long long way...
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> it just feels like EA are digging their heels for the sake of it.

That's exactly it. They are challenging this in court because they don't want to lose their loot boxes by this enforcement spreading to other countries.

They could pursue it all the way up to EU supreme court. That would set a binding legal precedent for the EU, hopefully not in favor of EA.
Well, if the definition of free speech is 'it should be allowed on Facebook' then that's a horrible definition :)

It does point toward a bigger issue, where Facebook is used and trusted by so many users that they do not access alternative sources of information.
>How exactly do you intend to fund the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of such a massive social engineering program?

Maybe take some money out of military spending? Educate the population, the economy soars, and then you can re-increase the military budget 30 years down the line.
it really isn't a recruiting advertisement, we only have R&D in Israel & Ukraine - but we will take it into account and add a drill down on the next article
My main issue is that my ISP blocks SMTP(S) ports, meaning i'll have to host it on a VPS somewhere. While i would avoid being indexed, i wouldn't truly own my data anyway.
I have a 300/300 mbit fiber connection, so in theory i could mount the storage over VPN, but that just adds more places things can go wrong.

Also, i remember from running my own mailserver 5-8 years ago, that keeping it off various spam blacklists is a job in itself.
I'm not arguing for removing all personal stories from journalistic articles. But if every single Article I read has a headline that I am interested in, but then asks me to read a long personal story before it will actually explain to me what the headline means, it will discourage me from reading articles. In fact, it already has.

Journalist aren't just paid to communicate with median readers, but with all readers. If close to all articles have the same format some readers will be put off by that.

I'm not arguing for removing all personal stories. Just for more of a balance.
hmm.. does Betteridge's law apply here?
Everybody sees "Clojure" → click upvote → Read the article → regret it → look for downvote button → :( /me
One of theproblems in this case is the strict privacy given to children in family courts in England. More about that from the excellent Transparency Project: http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/the-muslim-foster-care...

The Times reporting was severely distorted. More about that here: https://www.byline.com/column/68/article/2281
Glad you got out of poverty, anecdata only gets us so far. Hard work counts, but so does the opportunity you mentioned, and access to being able to put in hard work.

The lack of social mobility is well documented, and it's a travesty that's affecting large parts of the developed world still (and shamefully, the UK pretty much leads on it):

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/working-papers/17-2...

https://www.suttontrust.com/newsarchive/disturbing-finding-l...

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/15/social-mobil...

Unfortunately I'm not as well versed in reliable US sources, but there are references through here that the US doesn't exactly beat us hands down on social mobility either.

I do implore everyone to read more on this topic, there's a lot on HN about "meritocracy" and "well, just work harder", but that's just simply not the world we live in. It's a shit-show out there, and people's ability to break through the "class-ceiling" is being stunted, not improved.
Software is different than any other field because it's supposed to stand on pure logic.

Errors due to hardware failing because of physical properties are expected and unavoidable, but a logical statement no matter how big is supposed to be provable to be correct (except maybe weird self referencing statements, but that's another topic). I think that's what makes our expectations higher in that field as opposed to any other ones.
The kingdom of fungi, really astonishing that they can survive completely independently of other life and further setup relationships with living creatures from other kingdoms so making life possible on land etc etc. I just came from Kew Gardens, wish I knew about their fungi collection before left London
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No. The companies involved (Arvato/Bertelsmann) get to make their own rules. Facebook doesn't even have a say in this, although they're paying for it as required by the law. They were threatened with fines in the millions (up to 50 mil) if they didn't comply.

The situation is absurd. Facebook is legally required to pay for censorship by companies with close ties to the government.
It's unnecessary. We are running a:

cpu
which does abstraction and containers
OS on top
a container on top
an application toolkit
a cross platform development framework
a browser embedded inside
with containers
with a javascript vm
which runs framework
which generates their own, non-standard UI widgets.

What am I gaining? Only more layers, and possible flaws

Oh, and don't get me started about all the languages
It ends with "Want to write everything in Clojure? Join us"...
Also interesting to know how performance differs between e.g. twins, people in the same family, people of different cultures, occupations, etc.
I made a Nintendo fan site with FrontPage 2000 (well the first version was made with Word which made atrocious HTML but I migrated quickly).

It was complete with all the expected features of the time, including an autoplaying MIDI Pokémon background music, Comic Sans everywhere and 3D rotating text gifs made with Xara X3D. Oh and moving text in the status bar.

I'm not sorry at all though.
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Et voila:

"How and when would these changes become effective?

The European Commission's proposal will now go to the European Parliament and the Council for their agreement.

To allow for a smooth transition, under the Commission's proposal each Member State would notify by April 2019 whether it intends to apply permanent summer- or wintertime. The last mandatory change to summertime would take place on Sunday 31 March 2019. After this, the Member States wishing to permanently switch back to wintertime would still be able to make one last seasonal clock change on Sunday 27 October 2019. Following that date, seasonal clock changes would no longer be possible.

This timeline is conditional on the European Parliament and the Council adopting the Commission's proposal by March 2019 at the latest."
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-5709_en.htm
I think you’d have quite a hard time finding one. Maybe at a specialty rental place, but not one you’d likely find at an airport.
Actually I think that's a common salesman trick ? Put the product in the hand of the customer, so that they feel they already have it, then they have to pay.
You can't brush away the misvaluation of teachers by blaming the state. Education is a public good. It's something with huge social value, but that value isn't and can't be captured by the educator. That's inherent in the activity. Capitalism only values something insofar as it can be directly exploited for personal profit.
Exactly. People like to complain about how awful a company is and yet proceed to keep them in business.
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How much of that could you do pulling multiple low-wage jobs and raising child(ren)? If you yourself had a serious chronic illness? If you yourself was raised in poverty so you had to go to schools with high failure rates and no education in which to acquire your own education?
It seems like the Chinese government would be happy to subsidize cashless payments for the surveillance potential alone.
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You got that right. Look at all these corps taking advantage of government socialism.

Why do we need institutional competition over facts of STEM?

Universities have become corporate job training centers, not places of higher learning.

They teach what industry seeks, and thus industry is subsidized through government expenditure and private debt.

This forum is remarkably ignorant of practical reality. Instead leaning into what are at this point banal and debunked myths

Anyone wants a shot at an economically comfortable life it comes with serious strings. And no guarantee the education or 401k will be worth squat in a decade
> When apps are built on the assumption that residents of a specific community are formally enrolled in a bank or financial institution, the unenrolled are simply locked out of being able to pay

Ironically I recently realized tourists visiting China might be victim of this too. If you're coming to China you won't be able to do much until you open a bank account and get a local phone number.

More and more restaurants or stores only accept mobile payment using wechat/alipay but short term visitors won't be able to open a bank account (even if you try these days, many banks will refuse you if you have a tourist visa). Visitors also won't be able to get a subway card on their phones, can't rent shared bikes, and won't be able to order a taxi using the local "uber" because all of these require a local bank account too. Even my local coffee shop only accept payment through their app with gives you a QR code to get your coffee, no cash.

Even more ironic, if you do go through the trouble, open a Chinese bank account and use the local payement apps (WeChat/Alipay), you won't be able to use it back in your country - even if the stores in the airport accept Alipay for example, only users with a Chinese ID can use it outside of China.
This is typical of soft science papers in economics. Authors haven’t explored major aspects and clearly they had some prior beliefs and went after it. For example, when capital stays in the hand of few, it also means wealth accumulation happens much more rapidly at the top. In capitalistic society, not having capital means significant portion of your earnings is returned to someone else who is targeting passive income. When you go in the mall and pay $100 for a dress, $10 goes to someone who simply is owner of the mall and rarely visits it if at all, another $10 goes to owner of factory who never works there but has legal titles, another $10 goes to owner of farm that produced cotton but never put sweat in that farm -and so on. A vast majority of your purchase price ends up to rent seekers one way or another. This is why rich becomes richer.
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That does not absolve her of her irresponsibility. 99% of 16-year-olds realize having a kid is a bad idea. She made her bed, and now she sleeps in it. I can empathize with her situation, but I can not empathize with anyone saying she is not herself at least partly responsible.
It loaded freaky fast. So there's that advantage over current design.
Yeah, I'm sure that's the correct way to drive with an auto in general. The problem was a v8 E350 is horrifically noisy when it's revving hard. Moving from a steep down grade onto a flat it would often refuse to change up. Similarly, when moving from a flat onto a steep down grade getting it to change down fast enough to avoid using a lot of braking was tricky.
that seems reasonable to me. To recontextualise it in software terms, the requirement comes from the state but the solution comes from the local level. As long as the requirement isn't overly prescriptive (e.g. "people who can't use their legs are entitled to a wheelchair" vs "local authorities must invest 50M SKR in departments X, Y and Z") that's a good solution. My aversion to the idea of a central state (though I don't have a proposed solution to this) is that because there is no antagonist to push back on poorly thought out requirements, states trend towards centralised prescriptive solutionising which I believe to be the root cause of the problem with centralisation. A classic example was the Soviets as you mentioned earlier, with their economic planning committee (Gosplan) explicitly telling factories how much steel to produce and who to send it to. It's one of those problems that pops up in different areas like software development and management practices too.

Markets are good at preventing this because they separate the requirements (the customers) from the solution (the producers) and provide a Darwinian process to optimise for the best performers, but markets have their own problems and inefficiencies that make them a poor fit (like markets' tendency to ignore customers with unique or rare requirements, meaning people with rare diseases or multiple problems get rejected or priced out by medical markets). There are market-oriented solutions that libertarians propose, such as evening out costs through medical insurance, but markets will always leave cracks people can fall though (such as those who cannot afford insurance, or immigrants with pre-existing health conditions) and introducing state mandates into the market often fundamentally break the market itself (see: US health insurance market). State legislation leaves cracks too when written badly, so neither is a perfect solution in practice. I don't have a solution to these problems because I think they're rooted in patterns of thinking rather than systemic design, but they're interesting to think about.
Arguments like this is what I find entertaining about (pure) free-market advocates.

They argue that regulation is not needed because, if there is a problem, consumers would vote with their wallets to remove it - and when the consumers inexplicably fail to do so, the advocates get mad and blame the consumers instead of adjusting their theory.
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The culture has changed and is ok with gambling being inserted everywhere, especially in tech circles.

Look at the threads about daily fantasy sports in HN. Many impassioned comments about how the ability to bet on sports is freedom, etc..
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Exactly. You're buying a known thing and an option. What's the option for? That's the gamble.
I'm not being sarcastic, if that's what you're asking. It seems silly to to lose a worthwhile comment to censorious flagging.
Sadly Debian stable is still stuck on Samba 4.5, and vfs fruit isn't available until 4.8, which is in testing, but who in their right mind runs a server off of -testing :)

Same story with netatalk, latest version is 3.1.11, and debian has been on 2.5 forever, with 2.6 in testing.
Thanks, that would be a great help!

I could manage that query but your average user wouldn't. How about a way to export it to a CVS file so it can be viewed and filtered in the users choice of spreadsheet app?