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Moral of this story: become high skilled. If you are high skilled not only do you make more money in absolute dollars, but also the things you want to buy are cheaper in absolute dollars.

There are plenty of things to automate for the foreseeable future. I don't know what the correct answer for kids 100 years from now will be: they have the figure out their own answers.
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i wish people would call out the fed.

their primary metric for increasing interest rates is wage inflation. so they play wack a mole when people start seeing income growth, a recession comes, and employers have all the bargaining rights again.

yet despite the fed's goal of smacking down wage growth ahem, inflation,, nobody points a finger at them.
As an engineer and computational scientist, drawing conclusions from correlations like this is absurd. Maybe Reagan was good for income inequality or maybe he was bad for it. Did you control for the other variables before drawing your conclusions? What about:

* The governments' legislation and economic policies in countries like the USSR, China, etc. in the 80s

* Changing technology especially communication technology

* Changing levels of education in the world.

* Lingering/diminishing trends/effects from wars like: Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, etc.

* Changing age distribution of humans in western countries,

And on and on. The world economy is extremely complex with heavy nonlinear feedback effects. How can you possibly state things like Reagan caused X w.r.t. the world wealth distribution with such confidence?
Absolutely no disagreements here.
> World Draw determines what someone is sketching and turns it into a 3D model in WebGL.

This appears to be highly misleading at best. It appears to be a fancy classifier for 2D drawings, that matches to a database of predesigned slightly-customizable 3D models. There's no real connection between the drawing and the model.
IMHO it doesn't matter who a show laughs at - the essence of comedy is offense. My problem with BBT is that it just isn't funny
The question is how much profit should go to a few. I don't think many people would object to a world where most people get 1.5x and some get 10x. The 10x people should have enough profit motive in that world. I don't think today's CEOs are better than the ones in the 50s when they made it 20 times morw than their workers compared to them making several hundred times more today.
Still, 15 hours of manual labor a day. I worked in a bakery and this is a hard sell for anyone. Assembly line work in a factory is much easier occupation (I did that too).
I'm sorry, but you are plain wrong. The log has nothing to do with utility. And there is no chance of really understanding the result if you're confusing yourself with that bad idea.

To start, EVERY utility function that is both increasing and sublinear will agree that Kelly is the best strategy. Whether square root, log, or bounded - it doesn't matter. The details of your utility function are unimportant.

What matters is that each iteration of an investment strategy multiplies your net worth by a random factor. But log turns multiplication into addition. And statistics has very strong results about sums of independent variables.

The result is that with 100% odds, a player following Kelly will eventually wind up ahead of any other static strategy that you could choose. Both wind up ahead and eventually remain ahead. Which is why a wide variety of utility functions will conclude that Kelly is the optimal strategy.
>>As a proposition it is as naive as trickle-up, which is what the other spectrum usually sells. ('if you give poor people more resources, its good for everyone')

Incorrect. It has been well-documented that when people have more disposable income, their spending increases. This increase in economic activity grows the economy.
Sorry, so part of your scenario to divine why wealth inequality isn't so bad is an assumption (without grounding or explanation) that a lack of wealth inequality necessarily leads to high levels of economic inefficiency?

I feel like your initial question is just coming from a very disingenuous place, the discussion of the relative economic efficiency of unequal vs. perfectly equally distributed wealth is a bit aside from the question of how extreme wealth inequality is. So I suppose, I agree that wealth inequality does provide value, but it does so in very small doses which we have greatly exceeded at this point.
Good distributed/remote development certainly doesn't happen without effort. I work remotely (9 hour time difference from the main team!). I was one of the first people on our team to go full time remote and it was difficult at first. These days I have practically no problems, but it took us a year or two to get the bugs worked out.

I think the main key is that you need to have management on board. It is trivially easy to cut a remote developer out of the loop. Any kind of petty office politics around remote work can sour the deal pretty quickly. Our biggest improvements came when management decided to transition from "Core development at the office with remote workers" to "We're remote first with some limited ability to work from the office if you want". That change in mindset made it much easier for people to make appropriate decisions.

Since the company I work for is growing rapidly, I don't think we can even go back to the way it was -- we don't have enough desks. Management is loving the cost savings and even those that were opposed originally seem to be big fans now. We've even started having some of our call centre work remotely from time to time (which, if you know the culture of a typical call centre is astounding).

Despite enjoying working remotely (and being grateful that I can), I've always preferred office work. However, with very few exceptions remote work is just superior. Communication is explicit (if it's not written down in an accessible place, it didn't happen). Work is inclusive. Generally things are more focused. However, it's really important to work hard on the social aspect of the job (because people can get isolated quickly).
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> He was unique in the way he self-deprecated government,

This is false on two levels:

First, Reagan was not a monarch who shared personality with the State, so any deprecation of government he did was not self-deprecation

Second, he is not at all unique in that. Bush (43 more than 41) and Trump have done much the same, and even Clinton did it off and on.
Because that idea (about economics) has been heavily, and successfully, pushed by interested parties:

'The economy' and 'the market' are sacred things that are disconnected from the dirty world, and work perfectly in their own if you don't bother them. No need for 'political economy' anymore, only 'economics'.
But then how would they eat their cake and have it, too?
To tie this all together, I'm a programmer and (small time) olive farmer who worked on FieldView, among other products.

Small world.
:P Ouch, going right for the partisans. Presidents are important people, but they are a lot more reactive than is generally accepted - what about the theory that Reagan was reforming economics in response to some deeper underlying problem [0]?

[0] https://assets.weforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150710...
The Flynn Effect. People aren't getting more ignorant, we're becoming more aware of our ignorance. Of all the foolishness and idiocy in the world, if you look at human history it's always been worse than now.
I was thinking about the same thing. Probably because of recent news about Airtable.
People have been saying this for 40ish years, if not more, and it's never been close to happening and still isn't. China's relationships with developing nations tend to be predatory/parasitic, not an alliance.
REST is good mostly because of the ecosystem. You get to build responsive web apps and also non-interactive automation. You get to have all manner of proxies because the transport is very amenable to them. Lots and lots of tooling is available. It doesn't suck, really. But it's not like REST is so superior to RPC -- yeah, there's caching, but that could be built into an RPC layer as well, and the only reason it hasn't been is that HTTP won.
Is it really proven that profits are what drives progress?

Would Einstein have stilled discovered relativity regardless if he had been paid large amounts of monney for doing research or not?

Sure, there are examples like Ford - where without profit motive, they would not have gotten the advances that happened. But those examples tend to have less impact than the non-profit driven motives.
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Opinionated personal experience:

If you need to meet face to face, it's because you have to "arm twist" people to get things done. And/or it's because you have a knowledge/learning/teaching impedance -- a disparity between these abilities in roles and co-workers -- that is too large. Speaking of "knowledge work".

In the physical world, an example can be worth a thousand words. But when you have to keep showing someone the same thing over and over...

In knowledge work, I find frequent, repetitive meetings to be a version of that "over and over".
This has been my path through his work, and it's been pretty enjoyable to follow. The non-fiction is definitely the most accessible, and built my taste for his writing.
Inequality also seems edged up noticeably just after 2000, though by the bottom dropping more than by the top rising.
> People outside of Italy are probably not aware of how seriously they take the topic of olive oil over there. The label "extra vergine" increases the price so much that there is a huge economic incentive for fraud.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/07/06/chemists-detect-olive-o...

Around half the oil labeled as extra virgin olive oil is fake. If memory serves part of the problem is that the labeling laws in Europe are much less strict than they are in the United States. This is why you might see a tool marked "Made in Germany" that's actually made in Turkey and merely packaged in Germany. In the United States you'd see something along the lines of "Made in the US with foreign and domestic components" or "Assembled in the US".

Personally I've stuck with one or two brands of olive oil from California because it's a.) supporting my local economy and b.) a known quantity.
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I'd start with "supposedly fun thing". Easy and short read, but enough to get a taste for him.
Ditto (from Croatia).

I never understood the obsession with oleander around these parts. It's (in my humble opinion) not any prettier than "native" ornamentals, and it's toxic to boot.

Add to that list that it's apparently an eager vector for X. fastidiosa...
I watched a bunch of Halt and Catch Fire. It's trying hard to be an accurate history of the early days of the internet, but at the same time it's a melodrama conveyed by ridiculously good-looking and wildly emotional people.
Isn't this what robots.txt was created to convey?
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> There's no particular reason why a transaction can't be such a resource, any more than any number of other very abstract resources that exist in the world.

Well, true, but also kinda besides the point? I mean, what you are saying is essentially "there is no particular reason why a transaction can not be represented as a sequence of bytes". But by that measure any sort of protocol or transport that can move sequences of bytes is equally good/useful.

The fact that you can in principle tunnel anything over anything is not a useful insight when trying to determine the usefulness of a particular abstraction, at best it tells you that you can always add another layer of abstraction to add missing functionality.
This is very important. It is absolutely critical to be able to push state out to the client (e.g., using encrypted state cookies, or avoiding state altogether).
> First, Reagan was not a monarch who shared personality with the State, so any deprecation of government he did was not self-deprecation

It is absolutely legitimate to characterize the president denigrating government as self-deprecating, splitting hairs about this is silly.

> Second, he is not at all unique in that. Bush (43 more than 41) and Trump have done much the same, and even Clinton did it off and on.

Reagan was more unique in his ability to actually do it, though. The others had much less impact.
Emacs has a great rx macro that does something like that and is widely used in elisp projects.

https://github.com/typester/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs-lis...

Though then again the nice (best?) thing about macros is it gets inlined as a string at compile time anyways.
> Is Google News really that big a deal for publishers?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-study-shows-...

https://www.aeepp.com/pdf/InformeNera.pdf

The NERA analysis found a 6 percent overall drop in traffic from the Spanish Google News closure and a 14 percent drop for smaller publications. Those numbers are slightly smaller than a GigaOm analysis from last year, which found traffic drop-offs of 10 to 15 percent.
This is perhaps my favorite non-fiction of his (which appears in Consider the Lobster): https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-...

It's a discussion of descriptivist vs prescriptivist grammar and led me to A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, which is a way more fascinating book than its title would imply.
I feel conflicted about this piece. On the one hand I'm excited to see someone do an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of engineer-types gravitating toward sourdough baking (which is something I've been noticing for a few years now since I myself picked it up).

On the other hand, there seems to be a lot of unnecessary negativity and shaming going on here toward the male engineer-types (the author uses the term "tech bro" at least a dozen times -- really?) who are getting into sourdough, implying that we are somehow ruining a pure and ancient craft for the sake of fashion and "disruption".

I get it to some extent. The pseudo-celebrity status of Chad Robertson of Tartine, the ubiquity of Instagram shots that emphasize only the visual aesthetic of breads, etc... those things definitely do tend to convey shallowness and egotism.

I just don't think we should be stereotyping and shaming people for picking up a hobby that brings them joy and yields direct benefits to others with little-to-no downsides. Anything that helps techies (or anyone really) un-plug and reconnect with their physical environment is a huge net-positive for society IMO. Plus, when people you know make good bread, you get to eat good bread. It's a win-win people!

I also don't think it's fair to scoff at the recent trend in the scientific approach to bread as a futile endeavor:

> Bread has been around for 6,000 years and the process of making bread has fundamentally not changed ... I think it’s funny that people would think they’d disrupt something that has this 6,000-year history to it. It’s not that easy to step into the river and change its course

The fact of the matter though is that some of these folks are actually making significant innovations in bread-making. The bread that results from these new methods is really, really, really good in ways that their predecessors simply were not. Just because something has been around for that long doesn't mean there aren't many new discoveries to be had. Hell, it wasn't until a couple decades ago that people picked up on the fact that you don't have to knead the dough to make great bread. Sometimes little things like this go undiscovered because no one bothered to look.

My final critique is that I think the author is blowing this a bit out of proportion. There is definitely a growing interest in sourdough from many types of people all over the world. Yes, an unusual proportion of them seem to be men working in tech. But this is not some panic-inducing mass-epidemic of "tech-bros" suddenly swarming every supermarket by the thousands for artisan flour and baking tools. Three years in, I'm still the only person I know who makes bread on a regular basis. People are getting more interested and trying it out, but it's still pretty rare for someone to commit to it at the same level as myself or the author's partner.

These days it's fashionable to blame "tech bros" for a wide variety of societal issues, sometimes justifiably so, but I think going after them for thinking bread is cool is a hell of a stretch.
I posted my take on this recently on Facebook. (And I recently gave a TedX talk on the same concept entitled "Money: The Greatest Story Ever Told" [1])

Here is an image of the entire world's Money supply [2].

In my eyes, the majority shift occurred due to two things:

1) Ending the gold standard peg

2) Creation of the derivative market

1 --- Ending the Gold Standard Peg

In 1971, Nixon severed the connection between Gold and the US-Dollar. The USD now became purely fiat --- no actual resource backed the USD anymore.

This allowed the dollar to change. Banks could create money -- really. Credit could be expanded and offered to customers. Debt could become an asset, and banks could trade.

But the most interesting part is that it led to #2 --- the Derivate market

2 -- Creation of the Derivative Market

By removing the gold standard tether, money became anything that people believe in

In 1973, the first derivative began to trade.

And banks utilized this to create futures, contracts, warrants, swaps --- bets against bets against bets against bets. The money isn't really there. It's just a financial instrument traded to hedge against fluctuations.

It's a betting system. And it's turtles the whole way down.

Here's the crazy part. The global derivatives market is 1.4 QUADRILLION dollars. That is, 20 times larger than the GDP of the entire WORLD.

In the picture attached --- see that giganticly long section at the bottom? That is derivates. It outweighs the rest of the world's money by FAR.

1.4 Quadrillion USD are in derivatives. Guess how much money world-wide is in coins and banknotes? $5 trillion.

That is --- derivatives are 280x the amount of coins and bank notes in THE ENTIRE WORLD.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G0F-VUPTa4
[2] http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-v...
Facebook is already kind of gone.

What used to be a place to hang out, share photos of last night's party, gossip, brag, etc.. is now a mind numbing scrolling experience.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell it apart from reddit.
In rare instances, the show just misses stuff and it annoys me since they get a lot of things right, especially the characters. The season 1 adderall episode annoys me because it felt like the writers on that episode didnt do their homework. Someone who is good at breaking into stuff is not the same as someone who is good at building stuff. Also the plot where Hendrix couldn't figure out how to explain the benefit of their compression technology to normal people also drove me insane. In real life, there's a very small chance that everyone on the team from the other devs, QA, to support, or even the VC's themselves couldn't borrow / miss the "unlimited storage space" marketing trick from the telecoms and ISPs?

Other than those two things so far, I really love the show.
Shameless plug here, but if anyone wants to benchmark in-memory vs. NVMe NAND SSD vs. NVMe Intel Optane DC SSD performance, we're looking for someone with FoundationDB expertise to give it a shot and share their learnings with the community. Make a request for a server by posting a new issue at our Github page [1].

Basically, I'm curious to know how FDB's memory engine performs compared to the SSD engine with a standard NAND SSD and an Intel Optane DC SSD. Something along the lines of the throughput per core and latency results on the FDB performance page [2].

[1]: https://github.com/AccelerateWithOptane/lab/issues
[2]: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/performance.html

Disclosure: I'm working at Intel and help manage our open source lab with our friends at Packet.
SQL schema defines data and you cannot limit which queries are available on that data, whereas GraphQL schema defines both data and which queries are available.
Hey pplz. For those asking about pairing Xstate with React, I made a library using renderProps approach. https://github.com/bradwoods/react-xstate-js
I'd prefer a tax on increase in wealth. Which is to say a tax on income with a deduction for consumption.

So you're taxing the act of becoming richer, rather than just owning stuff. I suppose you could still have a wealth tax, if you set the threshold high enough that it only affects the top 10%.
Well throughout history the education gap has always existed. "Bread and Circuses". In every culture, from the east to the west.

What has changed today is hyperconnection. That changes the rules of game.
Make a PR ;-) I have limited time to work on the docs but will be working to improve accessibility this week.

Also, how's this for a nicer tone?

"It would be great if this site supported better keyboard navigation, like using the space bars, arrow keys, page up/down, etc. Here are my suggestions: ..."
I think that's where I was coming from: "if you don't have several years...." I learned enough C++ in school to complete my assignments. But the C++ PRs I've reviewed contain FAR more than those rudimentary basics. When looking at Rust, it brought back some of those memories. (`using` vs `uses`, etc) I'd never DARE say I "know" C++ well enough to be useful.