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>- Using $1.90 as the baseline to beat is too low for what we would consider as being out of poverty.

It's called absolute poverty for a reason. Just because you're above the absolute poverty threshold doesn't mean you're not poor anymore. It just means that you can minimally survive. Whether you're poor or not depends on the society around you, because poverty determines how well you can participate in society.

He even cites this data:

>Using the $1.90 line shows that only 700 million people live in poverty. But note that the UN’s FAO says that 815 million people do not have enough calories to sustain even “minimal” human activity.

I went to check the numbers and I'm not quite sure where he took the numbers from. They're not really wrong, but I didn't find either number in the reports. The numbers I found in the report are closer together.

According to the FAO 2018 report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition [1] the number of undernourished people is projected to be 820.8 million in 2017. In 2016 it was estimated to be 804.2 million. In 2015 it was estimated to be 784.4 million.

The World Bank's Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018 report [2] gives a figure for the number of people living in extreme poverty at 736 million, but the latest figure is from 2015.

The 784.4 million and 736 million figures are remarkably close for such fuzzy data.

>- Most economic successes have not been due to neoliberal markets but rather state-led industrial policy, protectionism and regulation.

Yeah, it was just a coincidence that when China stated opening up their markets that their quality of life improved immensely and hundreds of millions are lifted out of extreme poverty. When you're talking about economic success in general then you can't forget the ex-Soviet states either. The ones that embraced free markets the most recovered the most.

>- Most quality of life improvements have not been due to neoliberal globalization but simple public interventions including free healthcare and education.

All of which requires enough economic success to support such policies and societies.

>- Progress is slowing relative to the resources available to tackle the problem.

Because the percentage of the population in extreme poverty is shrinking.

[1] http://www.fao.org/state-of-food-security-nutrition/en/

[2] http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-p...
This is actually not the case. The owner is always made aware of whether the system has been opened up to "untrusted" software or not (they get a warning at boot if it has been), but an "untrusted" system can still be OTA-updated if the original OS image has been preserved as-is. This is often combined with some amount of custom modification by separately installing an "overlay"-based solution such as Magisk. But a full-custom ROM cannot be updated in this way, because the manufacturer's OTA update is monolithic and effectively replaces the original stock ROM!
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would you care to expand on why? If you're wanting to inform others that the book isn't accurate, stating that it's wrong and it made you angry that it was wrong is not a very convincing argument.
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I disagree with you. First, spyware is installed without anyone's knowledge and this is not the case. Second, I can agree with you that any decent human being would be outraged. The reason of this outrage isn't this specific app, but rather how women are mistreated there.

So my question is this. We can all take moral high ground and demand that Google takes this this app down. But if you look at the situation broader, one can argue that the US government is a much bigger enabler than Google in this instance. Is there really a big difference how women are treated in Iran than they are in KSA, for instance? Iran is probably better off, though not by much.

Think about all that oil money that flows from US to KSA for decades. What is the real cause here? Is it just Google's failure to police their marketplace? Or have the Saudies always been this way.

Google is a very easy target here. Blame it on Google, pressure them to take the app down, problem solved. Or is it?
> There are still veterans of WWII alive today

There are still veterans of WWII alive today that were born at a point in time where the idea of fighting a new world war was unthinkable.

FTFY
That is a nice list and all, and I would add that if you can't use a memory safe programming language then you should look closely at the compiler flags in use as well.

But if you need all that to spot the obvious issue in the OP's original specification ... then wow.
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Depends on the show. Some do but some don't. However even ones without a laughter prompt will usually have a compere / warm up acts who will whip the audience up so they're already laughing at jokes before the main show begins recording.
> While in the end the operator made the wrong decision, these automation ironies fit very well contribute to why he made those decisions or wasn't prepared to make the right ones.

Not at all convinced. Hauling back on the stick and just keeping it there would never have been the right decision under any circumstances. At the same time it's a reasonably common panic reaction, and was long before any kind of cockpit automation.

A pilot who had been in tense situations before would have been more likely to make the right decision, sure, and modern automated systems may well mean that the first truly deadly situation occurs later in a pilot's career than it might otherwise. But by definition there's no safe way to test how a pilot will handle genuine danger.
> So many comments here are really depressing and lack a sense of adventure and romance.

I have plenty of both, but I just don't find these kinds of crass marketing scams enticing.
In my case it was the online subscription, not the paper one. Which I think makes the lack of easy cancellation even worse :/
It makes sense when you consider how many "throw away" accounts are out there. You couldn't get away with creating those kind of accounts on other platforms.
What's England got to do with this, and who's the naked Brexit lady?

He isn't saying agrarian is better than industrialised. He's saying industrialisation was forced on them by colonialisation.

Read about the Congo free state for example [1].

Also. The early stages of industrialisation aren't particularly good for a nations poorest, Britain's industrial revolution was not a land of plenty for the poor, they just went from being poor farm hands, to poor factory workers.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State
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Can you recommend any of his books in particular?
Chrome did the as fast as they could sandboxing because they has no better alternative, because we lack better libraries for parsing.

Decent programmers also try to err on the side of safety, use the right tool for the job, and so on. And writing parsers should not be done directly, instead the parser code should be generated by a battle tested library/framework. (Or via using parser combinators, etc.)
Sorry, but I don't see the word 'perfect' in my statement. I stated what I stated and I think I am fairly accurate when I say that Pinker's main premise is that modern global neoliberal capitalist model is fighting poverty much better than anything else.

(Which is probably not true if you agree with the Pinker opponent POV).
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This is me not trusting yet another open api that will close the minute it gets inconvenient.
> Those poor countries are improving faster than Sweden ever did... so in just one more lifetime they'll be where the world leaders are today.

This is a very simplistic extrapolation. There are significant factors, primarily social/cultural ones, that will halt the relative development of those countries, sooner or later.
I ask for basics.

Why? There is a lot of stuff happening in the top layer of everything (UI, full-stack, os/cloud/vm/container)... and it is impossible to evaluate properly knowledge in that area.

BUT... If I ask for basics (OS, Database, organization, how to isolate processes from each other, how to scale), I can see if the answer is solid technically, if the candidate can articulate an answer, how she/he communicates.

Also, I always ask for a projects candidate is proud of.

I want to hear what (s)he did, and why. Architects have to decide stuff, so I want to hear the whys and the why nots.

Then I ask what the would do differently now in the same project.

Reject the candidate if (s)he would do everything the same way: there is always room for improvement, and shit usually happens.

This is a sign other people did the work, or the candidate has a complicated personality that might backfire after hiring.

(edit: sorry if the answer looks a bit harsh)
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It doesn't seem to have affected Twitter very much.
There's more to that in the post. Hickel also raises that e.g. the recent improvements are actually due primarily to China and East Asian tiger economies, which have had protectionist policies; the rest of the South, by contrast, have seen a degradation of their poors' situation on a backdrop of neoliberal policies.
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Shanghai in the 1930's is the existing framework. It didn't work then, and it won't work now.

See, marslegalcode.org.
A bunch of tiny pjmlp's running around in a hamster wheel providing electricity maybe?

Are you suggesting the post I linked above from someone claiming to be an engineer on Office is inaccurate? It may be well be, but it sounds more plausible and supportable than whatever question it is you seem to be posing.

If you have evidence to suggest that Office365 is written in C# these days I'd like to see it please, because I have read on more than one occasion over the last 10 years that MS had attempted this and given up.
They were an amazing example of a legacy system being maintained far beyond any reasonable expectation of life at gradually increasing cost, to a great extent because nobody could agree on a replacement and the one-off cost of a replacement was always a bit more than the endless "maintenance" and "refurbishment".

If I remember rightly the refurbishment project hit the problem that, because the original planes were hand-built to 1950s tolerances, building new parts off the original plans simply wouldn't fit. The only viable approach was measure the specific plane you wanted to fit, and build a custom part for it.

Eventually one simply caught fire in the air: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1528109/Fire-was-reported-o...

The destruction of the airframes was controversial: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12292390 but I see it as a symbolic driving of a stake through the heart of a project that should have been honorably retired a couple of decades previously but instead took on a vampiric, undead, and ultimately fatal life.
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this is the difference between ecologist thinking and economist thinking.

economists think in curves - starting from a low base it's very easy to improve fast, but the rate of improvement drops off as it nears the global average.

ecologists think in straight lines - the rate of improvement is x/year, so in 50 years the improvement will be 50x and they'll be richer than Sweden, who are only improving at (x/10)/year.
Can't wait for an 'aliases' 'feature' to be developed while throwaway accounts become increasingly more difficult to create.
A train ride cannot be more expencive than the car, then the car will be used.
Was it sent as a family/friend transaction? If so this should not happen.
I spend way more on charity but thank you.
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It's better from the client POV too. As a client, I have work that must be done, I want to know how much it will cost, I don't care whether it takes you 3 hours or 10 hours, and I especially don't want to hear "whoops... I miscalculated, I will need more time, gimme more money".
I have no idea what your response has to do with the current post.
Just to note - Branko Milanovic (cited by Roser) backed up Hickel on many of the main poinst:

https://glineq.blogspot.com/2019/02/global-poverty-over-long...
Agreed, but maybe people were put off by your opening racist? Insult, and needless reference to Brexit.

I've responded to your first point, I don't agree with any of your other points either.
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I wonder why no one includes other metrics like being happy with life and having a dignified job.

Metrics that are important and overlooked. Well, I have a job, but I have to slaughter animals for it, is something I would consider here too.
Wish I could find it, but I read an article recently about all the work Amazon is putting into India, working with small traders to handle ordering, payment and delivery in person etc when you can't rely on things like the postal service or easy access to online payment. It makes for an interesting contrast to what you describe as Apple's lack of local awareness.
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Not shocked honestly.

A lot of Reddit users are against the idea of being advertised to or having their data sold. In addition to this semi-anonymous and throwaway accounts are common which must lower the worth of any data collected.

I personally have 3 different accounts, One for work, one for politics and a final one for games. I'm more then happy to rotate (throw away and recreate) any of these accounts at any time.
Just seeing that stump makes me terribly sad for what has already been lost.
I wish the title included the word ‘commercial’.

I’m not a Redditer myself, but _some_ of the things to come out of various eclectic reddit communities have been amazingly valuable
I'm a bit confused about the global poverty amount. What is that $7.50 exactly?

I've recently lived in Cambodia, and I'm now in Australia. $7.50 in Cambodia is enough to get three good meals and a couple of beers (for a local). $7.50 in Australia is not enough to get a single meal.

How do they calculate it so they take into account disparate purchasing power?
Philosophically, he is a dog-in-a-bucket. Either be moral or don't; you don't get extra credit for agonizing a bit on the decision and suggesting that somewhere there might be some really good solution ("maybe there will be a broad multi-constituency committee of wise people who can decide for all of us who gets to be on the internet"?).

I'm sure as a businessman he knows exactly what he's doing. Some Pilate-level hand-washing ("I don't want to make this judgement, you know") is just good business - you can blunt some of the criticism from the Free Speech Absolutists ("Hey guys, I'm uncomfortable too!") while also saying farewell to your least favorite customer, the Daily Stormer. Putting the criticism up is also pretty astute in this regard.
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Could you provide a breakdown of what you know it should cost? That would be interesting.
So wouldn’t it be reasonable to test what happens when it can’t reach its upstream servers? I assume Russia will need to provide some way of DNS record changes still working. It could be they intercept/replace 8.8.8.8, or they intercept the upstreams, but whatever it is I can see why they would want to test it first.

Not that I agree with the ultimate reasons for doing this exercise — mass filtering and surveillance — just speaking to the technical merits of why a test would be done.
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It’s a tissue culture. The result is an exact clone of the tissue doner. They didn’t get Dino DNA from amber but a clones a clone.

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Or maybe we know the program we inherited has flaws, and we don't connect it/publish its source code to the internet claiming it's fit for general purpose use, and we strive everyday to provide new mitigations and defense in depth to prevent its exploitation.

But you go ahead and believe it's because of dumb luck if you like.
> As these are very large trees, establishing large colonies can have a relatively meaningful impact in carbon capture.

Surely it's not size but speed of growth that matters? Wouldn't forests of Leylandii (a fast-growing conifer that can grow as fast as 1m/year) felled and resowed every few years/decades capture more carbon?
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Chromecast was Chrome OS, which is not Android. (And I doubt that's changed.)
I thought the solution is simple: just put China in brackets after Taiwan (China) and you should be fine? And don’t list them as “country”, use region instead!
That looks pretty cool. The official website [0] has more examples.

[0] https://uber.github.io/ludwig/examples/
I can imagine it, because US already doing that to Iran, Cuba, etc...
As they say... YMMV...
Home ownership rates in America are historically very high. It dipped since the peak in the pre 2008 when they were nearly 70% and is now around 65%. Pre-WW2 it was around 45%.

The idea that home ownership is rare and out of reach for Americans is not true.

[0] https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/housing-market-persp...
Of course the problem is how are Google and Facebook supposed to determine what 'trustworthy, reliable news' is. If you read the Government report behind this article you'll find that the Government's only suggestion seems to be literally 'you know it when you see it.' Seems very open to abuse and 'knowing' that news you don't like is untrustworthy 'when you see it'.

I think society in general is nearly at the point of basically declaring bankruptcy on trustworthiness of journalism and are treating everything as having an agenda. But then how can you fund news with an agenda from public funds?
That’s a good thing folks.

Talking about the user being the product, I’d try to choose a platform where my value is minimal since I think it’s fair to assume that there’s less data collection and profiling going on.
I think the focus on money is misplaced, forget about GDP and start measuring GNH (Gross National Happiness); it is about time the rest of the world looked to Bhutan and realized there is much more to a pleasurable human existence than simply quantifying in terms of income/money/wealth. It is an over-simplification that degrades humanity and our potential.
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I agree and this is what I meant by "The downside is that a free market isn't very good at adjusting to unlikely individual events" above.

Since banning overselling would increase ticket prices, there will inevitably be some passengers who would suffer as a result. Statistically we'd find that some passengers can no longer afford to go on holiday, etc. These passengers surely want a cheaper ticket so they have _some_ opportunity still.

Instead, I think the most reasonable solution is to allow oversell but enforce adequate compensation by statute, which is what we have today in many places.

The difficulty is in deciding what constitutes adequate compensation. Too much and we'll be back to the "no oversell but inefficient and therefore high ticket price" situation. Too little and traveling would be a mandatory gamble that passengers might be wiped out (eg. a weekend away ruined with no compensation to go again another time, etc). A balance is needed. Banning overselling completely however is I think too far in the wrong direction.
Author here. It's fun to see this post 14 years later!

If you like this, you might also enjoy:

- Prolog: This is an entire language built around choice and backtracking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog

- The Reasoned Schemer, which builds a Prolog-in-Scheme from first principles. This book is excellent, or even mind-blowing if you're never seen this before. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer

- Oz/Mozart: This language takes the basic idea even further, adding concurrency and constraint solving. There's an older book about this that's nice: https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html It feels like Oz was an evolutionary dead end, but an interesting one.

- Probability monads. You can extend this general idea to include probability distributions over values. I have an older series of blog posts at http://www.randomhacks.net/probability-monads/ that explains this idea piece-by-piece, but there's been a ton of research in the past decade on probabilistic languages: http://www.probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home

It's definitely a fun topic!
How does that make any sense? If you keep buying something, they'll continue for ever. If you don't, they'll do it for a bit more and then stop. What kind of an argument is "they won't stop immediately, and stopping almost immediately is the same as never stopping at all"?
>Yet none ever wonder or look at why cockpit windows remain decidedly rectangular. :)

Aerospace engineer here. It's not the shape of the window but the radius of the corner. A circle is just a square with large-radius corners, really, and it's the sharp corner that causes stress concentrations.

If you look closely at modern jet liner cockpit windows you'll see they are in fact still rounded at the corners.
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Interestingly enough, I was JUST today thinking to myself, has google auto-suggest been consistently degrading or is it just me?! Now my thinking is there is some over-engineering going on (for lack of better articulation) as type auto-suggest as well as speech-to-text are just plain "off base" + your observation of search results, I'm sure they're all on a common, core "function" ; )
Reddit has some valuable users, but its poorly monetized. For example, I dont trust political support reddits... after 2016 they all feel gamed. I think a paid sub, a sub that has a monthly subscription which added an extra level of scrutiny to the users and posts might be interesting.

Alternatively, a revenue sharing model where I pay for a subscription to a sub, and I can read normally paygated links.
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