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>We are also going to tax the news, politics, religion, tobacco, alcohol,and gambling platforms

I strongly recommend barring these industries altogether and just not 'bothering with them'.

Let's say you are donating to a health charity, and it's coming from tobacco advertising. There may be a net cost to society's health. See here for similar example: http://time.com/3967567/skydiving-for-charity/

Is it profitable to allow tobacco et al into your customer base? Now you have:

- More externalities to map, and more intricate, delicate issues to traverse

- More negative impact to your brand

- More cognitive dissonance in the impact to the world (Is this company really doing 'good'?)

- More complaints, adversaries, protesting against your alliance with those industries

- Less legitimacy as a for-good enterprise

- More resource expenditure on your ethics/review board / policing your product

- Potential lost business from more ethical industries that refuse to partner alongside tobacco / gambling etc.

- Need for change over time (Public opinion on tobacco & gambling will only get worse. Therefore these industries being customers means that there is more trouble lined up in the future, and an inevitable transition to a different client base once public opinion cripples those industries further and further).

At the very least, the opportunity costs make this a poor choice of business model.

>I understand that this idea is very weird. Technically, we would be utilizing a totally new economic platform we are calling Consumer First Economics. However, what is the alternative? Look where our current system has led us!

I think it makes absolute sense - There are benefits in (much of) the free market swinging even further to a distinct Freemium model - I.e at least two tiers:
- Free (subsidized by advertising or higher tiers)
- Paid

Both tiers need to map externalities, minimize negative impact, then offset any remaining issues (e.g. charity dontions).

Both tiers will inevitably need to become more distinct - At the moment, many paid tiers supplement rev with data sales & advertising (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18277411). Hopefully, consumer demand will mature and split these two tiers apart - I.e. we will see less of a hybrid model, and more siloing of advertising & data collection. Consumers would choose between a cheaper car (advertising, data collection) or select the higher tier (a more pricey car, with guarantees by the manufacturer as to anonymity, pure experience, high quality content, no spamming). This does mean that big business is currently digging itself a hole - Many orgs are cementing their reputation. This will be hard to undo in the future if they want to position themselves as high quality/premium. It will be interesting to watch.

>If you live in San Francisco we can meet up for a coffee and discuss things in greater detail. If not, you can always reach me here or directly at josh@freeboxedwater.com.
Ta, emailed. I'm trying to tackle the 'premium' tier while you are working on the 'free' tier.
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Personally when I saw JVM as a VM for this I lost interest. JVM is not how you make something as fast as C/C++. You want to make it that fast you should be running it directly on a C/C++ code base. Thats pretty much how Python, PHP, and other scripting languages work.
UK, US to Sign Accord on AI, Cybersecurity Cooperation
Mr Musk would like to have a word with you.
> I'm not exactly sure why I started reaching for Python instead. It's so much easier with perl to do things like backticks to call some utility, or to use system() and easily deal with its stdout and stdin, and I never have to do a Google search to figure out how to use a regular expression to process the output (whereas I almost always need to bring up the doc page for Python's re).

The thing I find easier in Perl than in the other languages I might reach for when doing a lot of quick scripting tasks is declaring nested data structures. It's easy in Perl because often you don't have to declare them--you just use them. And that means that you can often make major changes to how your data structures work with just small source changes.

For tasks where you need to process data from logs or text files or similar, but don't actually quite know what it is you need to be doing with the data so need a good bit of exploring/flailing to get your bearings, and then maybe a few iterations trying different approaches to figure out what structures you need, and you don't have a lot of time to think about it up front--in other words, data analysis improvisation, Perl shines.
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Heh, funny they brought up the rabies vaccine anecdote. I was jogging and had a bat fly into my eye one night. This was during a period in my early 20's when I didn't have health insurance. My bill was around $14k for the immunoglobulin and vaccine series.

I paid somewhere around $2k out of pocket for ER fees. There was a program through Sanofi Pasteur and the CDC to pay for it for people under a certain income threshold. Seems it's bad press if Americans catch symptoms of rabies and die, since prevention is straightforward... and it is such a deadly disease.

The kicker was, around a year after this... the hospital reported me to collections for nonpayment of the full amount. I begged the guy that I submitted the application to, to provide me with a record of being covered under this program. Thankfully he violated HIPAA law and did it. Provided me with a complete report of everyone paid under the program that month.

The hospital's response was to tell me to immediately destroy the document, citing privacy law, and to tell them where I got it from. I explained that I would not be doing that, and that I would go public with the situation to as many sources as possible. The next day the hospital had a meeting with their vice president and the head of their pharmacy department. Within the week, I had collections removed from my credit reports.
Then one day your Hadoop installation starts acting up, and you thank your dear lord that you have someone on your team with experience in the arcane.

Unix is well over 20 years old, so is Ethernet, TCP, GCC, and an endless plethora of technologies that stand tall behind the thin curtain of a Node.js installation.

Full-stack nowadays means "I know how to write a Dockerfile and deploy it", but a senior dev might actually understand the full stack. This is of course assuming they have 20 years of experience, not one year of experience * 20.
Well, Stanley is known for overstatement, and there's a good chance this is hagiographic. But, I take the point to be that we need to be on guard about what we call worship because it does form us.
Thats a good point, but I have tried to watch the the show every year or two, just to see if it got funny again.. And the jokes are all bad, all satirical, homer is too stupid now.. also the characters voices are starting to sound weird and old..
I find this statement very offensive. Papers like this exist to update people on the state of the art in their field (a target audience of rarely more than 100k people in the whole world). As others have mentioned already, there are great review articles, specifically meant for people just entering the field, and even they require quite a bit of dedication for a layperson to understand.

Or to phrase it in a different way: how often do emails on the dev mailing lists of open source project include a detailed description of the project that would be enough to bring laypeople up-to-speed.
> but I just want to know who actually is on the "right" side?

What is the “right” side?

Trump is quintessentially American and a nationalist.

Is that good? I guess it depends on who you are and what you want.
This is precisely the problem. There is too many people, not enough housing, and the housing that is here is too expensive. And from what I've heard its also very hard to get the permits and approvals to build knew housing here. What they really need is to flood the market with housing to help drive costs down.
> Some urgent care clinics post wait time online so you can find out how to see a doctor the fastest way.

These are often misleading, though - the clinics that market this way essentially perform triage with docs instead of nurses, so you're technically seen by a doc quickly. Time-to-discharge would be a far more useful data point.

They're also often marketing like this because they're standalone clinics that are out-of-network for major insurers in the area. https://khn.org/news/surprise-that-urgent-care-center-may-se...
I'm speaking about performance here, but yes, intel drivers seem to be pretty good (though my Haswell GPU seems to crash X11 after reactivating the screen(s) after they got blanked due to inactivity, if X11 had a now-unplugged Displayport screen configured before) (arch/xmonad) ).
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The problem with mob grazing (and really any kind of similar system) is that you cannot support nearly as many animals per sq ft. in comparison to more industrialized farming.

Salatin's solution is to shift a major portion of the work force/economy into making sustainable food. It sounds amazing from a utopian standpoint but is a total fantasy.
Dawn of Dianetics: L. Ron Hubbard, John W. Campbell, the Origins of Scientology
Global business community filling vital moral void
I've been assigned tasks and simply essentially ignored them after any of my initial questions were ignored by those who assigned the task. Reasons include: task not assigned by my supervisor. No funding. No resources in general. No consultation. Person who assigned tasks has no authority to do so. These are similar and all have happened to me more than once.

I get why the status update lying part offends but I'd also say the project manager who tolerates this isn't really project managing. Setting traps isn't the height of high performance I'd be aiming for.

But let's say you assigned a task and know the magic key is required. And the magic key is never accessed or acquired. You as project manager have failed. Did you reveal this dependency as a requirement? Are you sure that dependency is real? And why did you wait so long?

I've got a project in my history where I was expected to use a corporate credit card to purchase server time on AWS but didn't. When asked why I said I'd found better internal resources that worked at higher performance for the time needed. Imagine my surprise when I got criticised by immediate manegemenr for not spending 30k but praised by upper management for saving 30k and delivering ahead of schedule.

The real reason was that someone had 30k they wanted burnt before financial end of year but didn't state this as a goal. The project instead simply optimised for real cost and schedule instead, offending the management that wanted the money burnt.

By the way, the canaries in the coal mines usually died. I feel that tech in general should remember details like this and not create delicate metaphors for real events that had gruesome realities. Something is only a canary when the messenger died during delivery of that message. Just my $0.02 worth.
I lost my copies of those books because I rarely needed them. Once I wrote it once, it stuck in my mind.

Everyone has a language or two that really "clicks" with them. For me, one of them is Perl. Python, on the other hand, is one of those languages that won't ever stick in my mind. I don't know why. I just can't do Python.

I picked up Golang in about a day.

I've tried Python about 4 times over about as many years and it has gone from something I wanted to learn to something I wish never existed.
While I don't disagree with much of what you said, I think it misses the point of the article, which is that the legal industry has a hard time using new tech, because they don't trust anything not created in-house. Breaking into the market is difficult, even if the gains the tech would bring are enormous.

I've seen this first hand, as I had a brutal two year long divorce case, and in spending time with my attorney, got to see many opportunities for technology to improve their jobs. I actually wrote some Python to calculate something called the Hug/Nelson formula to figure out community property interest in options/RSUs. I was really surprised that nothing existed to do this for me, and even played with the idea of making an app to sell to lawyers, because they are seeing more and more divorce cases with these types of assets being split. But where to start? How do you "certify" something to the degree that a lawyer will trust it? It's a huge market potential I think, but the status quo seems pretty entrenched.
At ~$1000 per month, you're either on Medicaid, stuck in the coverage gap if you live in the wrong state, or getting both premiums and deductibles subsidized so that the deductible is at least an order of magnitude lower than $13k. If you qualify for subsidies and are earning slightly more than the poverty line, the only way to get close to a $13k deductible is to deliberately avoid the plans that qualify for the most subsidies.
The medical profession's billing practices make used car dealers look reputable.
I'm 18 yrs experienced, tech role (C++, semi-conductors).

I landed a job in a reputed tier1 semi-vendor out of college. I worked there for about 8 years. Work was (technically) fantastic, pay was very good. But I had scratch the itch..

Left the company to join a startup (at that time, 2 yrs in operation). Took 50% paycut, but my wife stopped working at the same time, so effectively 75% paycut. My plan was to work for approx 3 yrs and see what I'd like to do next. Nearly 10 yrs down, I'm still here. My pay is still about 60% of what I'll get if I quit today and join elsewhere (I'm reasonably confident of that statement). My cumulative loss in monies over 10 years, taking into account growth due to investment as well, comes to nearly 7 times my annual salary.

So yes - not a financially wise decision. In retrospect (even though I didn't think of it that way earlier), it is a very selfish decision - missed family vacations, higher financial stress, budget stays, ... all to scratch the itch.

I have mentally written off the amount. I'll never get it back.

I'm still here due to few reasons:
a. My salary even though much lower than what I can get, is still "sufficient" for most purposes
b. I get to jump into very interesting problems - work on topics I wouldn't have been able to, had I been in a regular corporate environment.
c. I have stocks - which potentially can give me back a good return if and when we exit.
d. I still believe in the story we are selling.
e. I add significant value to the company. My leaving the company will effectively devalue my own stocks.
f. I have lots of work-life flexibility.

I'm not going to advice you - it is your decision. But,
a. It is very likely that you will never recover that 25% of salary loss
b. Your stocks may make it harder to jump ship later. And it is no better than monopoly currency - until the startup exits. Which may take forever - and may never happen (don't listen to what they say).
c. You will likely face a much more challenging work environment - including activities that are not core development. Your time with Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoint may increase. I don't mean that as a bad thing!
upvoted for the vivid imagery.
"hostile" - Again, with the attempt to paint atheists as ignorant and violent simply by insisting that they themselves know their own beliefs or lack of belief in a higher power.
Because constant surveillance of a targeted group will be systematically abused. And because next is using facial recognition to monitor other groups — LGBT, activists, political opponents.

That is extremely frightening coming from an administration that is increasingly using violent and elimitionist language to levy completely made up charges at immigrants, LGBT, and particularly political opponents.
Something like 40% of Americans already receive "government health care" in some form or other. Any government employees, military, police, teachers, fire fighters, and so on, receive health care. Anyone who qualifies for Medicare does.

Just push that number to 100%.
The “right” side is the one supported by evidence. There are some things maybe people can never agree on, but for the vast majority of issues, there is evidence that supports one side more than the other.
I don't mind if this gets shot down, but I completely agree with the article.

The level of complexity is far too much for me. What Apple seems to think are obvious things (Eg UI interaction elements) are not obvious to me.

A thoroughly frustrating experience.
Just nationalize the whole damn thing already.
Tagging email with + has been a feature of email forever, and has nothing to do with Google. Their service would be broken if they didn't support it.
Basho went bankrupt over a year ago. Riak is still around, but I encourage checking out the level of support for it. Redis, Cassandra, Couch, Influx might be good alternatives depending on your use case.
Fta with US. FTA with China. FTA with EU.FtA with Japan and Korea.

Pretty much almost every developed nation has an fta with Singapore.
I still can't believe that ozone depleting CFCs and putting toxic lead in gasoline were the the inventions of the same guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

Given more time I'm sure he would have come up with other world destroying chemicals.
how are these different than consuming seeds and nuts directly? eg walnuts, sunflower, peanuts etc
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Transitioning from Video to Physical Game Development: An Education (2014)
This is politics in general. The power structure incentivises liars and crooks. It shouldn't be a surprise.
Yeah, research books AND goal types before you study. Lots of good suggestions on HN.
Shall I point you towards some keywords: ghost ads, conversion lift, brand lift studies.

But what does it have to do with the ad fraud?
General cognitive ability is a pretty big contributor to social and professional success but so is conscientiousness. To a lesser extent so are extraversion, (a lack of) neuroticism and work ethic, all of which are heritable.

Family trades are a big thing but even absent that social status is highly heritable in every society Gregory Clarke looked at in England, the United States, Sweden, India, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Chile. A doctor’s children may have divergent status but their children and grandchildren will look more similar, on average, as n increases the variance will decrease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book)
I'm in New Zealand and trees grow here like weeds. A hectare of pine trees reaches maturity in 25 years and holds 200 odd tons of carbon. Once mature, those trees can be harvested and the carbon locked away in furniture, buildings, etc. As far as I know, it doesn't matter where on the planet the carbon is being sequestered, so a global view will likely be more effective.
> bernie sanders calling open borders a "Koch brother" conspiracy.

Quite right. It wasn't just that Bernie disagrees with open borders, in that video he is visibly upset. He really doesn't like it.

(It was the Vox interview I assume, unless you saw another one)

Also if you are old enough you might remember large anti-globalization protests around G8, Bilderberg and other such meetings.

It is kind of baffling how just a decade ago left groups were getting teargassed fighting globalization and now they are openly advocating it.

Such is the power of propaganda. It is extremely effective and could turn pink into blue, and then yellow with some moderate effort.

I suggest everyone read Chomsky and Herman's Manufacturing Consent. It was actual when it was written and just as actual even if not more today.

Speaking of Chomsky, find his writings on NAFTA and globalization as well. It might also surprise you what he has to say.
Should have planted that bean. Maybe it would have grown an entire stalk of $2,000 beans.

In all seriousness, that they are able to charge that much with no upfront warning is pretty insulting. But then again they know they have you hostage, its not like you are going to change your mind and tell the doctor to just leave it in there.
> I get that Neil was a private person, but it was a little too over-dramatic

I don't know. My granddad [0] told me a story about being pinned against a wall and screamed at by Armstrong because he allowed little kids to hang around and ask for autographs at a NASA event. Armstrong was not only overly private, he was also apparently really bothered by the small industry that developed selling things that he (Buzz Aldrin / Mike Collins) signed.

In contrast, others like Jimmy Doolittle, would supposedly talk to you for hours on end about NASA/WWII/whatever.

[0] some high-level guy at NASA in the 70-80s
I'd be less opposed to it if it was equally applied to everyone and not just immigrants. It becomes another tool to disenfranchise, disable and disadvantage a subset of society.
I can't imagine there won't be huge patent fights. Whatever is needed to make self driving work is clearly non-obvious or it would be done by now.

It may be the case of just throw enough ideas together and that works, in which case it may be effectively a commodity; everybody working on it has enough patents that cross-licensing works. Or it might be there's one key idea that makes everything work, and whoever files first controls it for whatever a patent lasts these days. Kind of depends which company owns that patent how it goes.
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I think discard/reduce most of the non life-essential technology is more important than inventing new technologies, than opening countless startups.
> Maybe it's because Americans like to be alive and atheists have an alarming tendency to kill themselves.

If a religious belief is preventing suicide then it sounds like theists are afraid of punishment more than having a stronger desire to live than atheists.

Personally I think condemning someone to hell for eternity just for being unable to cope in this life is one of the most morally reprehensible things imaginable.
In Japan or Korea, that would've been $50-$100 tops without insurance.

And almost all hospitals are walk-in without appointments, and many big ones have night coverage.

ER? sure, it's there. But only if you have rebar sticking out of your torso.
How could they go out of business? Any time they need money they can just go through patient records and charge for anything they feel like with very little statute of limitations. Its a license to print money at the expense of those that can least afford it.
But that only gives you info from previous runs. A JIT profiles the current run. That's strictly more information than an AOT compiler has.
If you know tech and know how to manage, there is always a career in crime. Trust me on that. Best thing: You can start immediately, don't have to write job applications anymore. Actually, I think I would have been pretty good in law enforcement or an "agency" too. But this is not the road that was available for me.

"Two people are lost in the desert with only one water bottle. There is not enough water for both people to reach civilization. Who gets the water, or do they share it (and both die)? .... Rabbi Akiva, whose opinion is the accepted one, declared that the owner of the water is the one who should drink the water. " Because it is my duty to live.
Whatever the solution is to global warming and the looming ecological crisis, I don't believe it lies in more technology.

The only viable solution in my opinion is for people to realise that our planet's resources are finite and that we need to accept this fact. AS others here have stated, moving from a growth-based economy to a sustainable one is the only way forward. Sustainability and technological startups are diametrically opposed.
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