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If we consider a more concrete example, you will see that this attack can't happen.

We can either elect Trump, or not-Trump as president.
Everyone agrees that we want the price of beans to be cheaper.
So there are 4 possibilities:
1) expensive beans + Trump president
2) expensive beans - Trump
3) cheap beans + Trump
4) cheap beans - Trump

An attacker doing what you describe would buy up many shares of (3) and (2). To try and convince us all that if trump wins, beans will be cheap. The attacker will need to keep buying up (3) and (2) to keep them more expensive than the alternatives. So the attacker is betting like $100 for every $50 others are betting.

Assuming the attacker has more money than everyone else who is willing to participate in this market put together, then the attacker could cause us to think that Trump will make beans cheap.

But, there is still the possibility that beans will be expensive, even though Trump won.
If that is the case, then the attacker will lose all their money, and will not be able to afford to do attacks like this again.

Attacking a market like this necessarily means paying more for something than it is worth, which necessarily means that on average, you are losing a big chunk of the money that you use for manipulations. And everyone who bets against you, on average they are taking your money.

I wrote futarchy onto the blockchain with Amoveo.
Recommend skipping the article with the clickbait title and instead read the Dalio essay on which the article is based: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-refo...
I loved Paul Buccheit’s (of YC) quote on social media:

“[Twitter] is like a game where you get 1 point for being fair and thoughtful and 1000 points for character assassination.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/paultoo/status/110014488287253299...

(He said it about Twitter, but I think the spirit was about social media generally)

Paul also helped brainstorm “Don’t Be Evil” at an early Google.

Personally, I don’t blame the media alone (as some in this thread do). All of us are a product of the incentives we face, and feed algorithms play a huge role (including for the journalists at media outlets).

And as always, I will shill my media literacy guide (there’s also a version for software engineers):

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README....

https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar...
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What do you mean people who have already made their money love to call for this thing? The author is a billionaire who is is proposing for the wealthy to be taxed more, how is he insulated by paying more taxes? Those who want to get rich in the future might be helped by measures to create more income equality thus creating more social mobility. Equality doesn't mean everybody makes a same amount of money, but more like the ability for everyone to make more. When the mega rich own everything this is not possible.

Or perhaps, you dream of being mega rich yourself and want things to stay the way they are now so you can make it?
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Fracking has solved the problem. The answer is right-angle drilling, plus the wet diamond-belt saw already used in quarries since 1984.

Drill many holes at the boundary, to the desired depth. Right-angle drill to connect the bottoms of the holes. Pull the saw through the holes to cut the sides of the block-columns. Now grab one block-column, lift it with a crane, and use the saw to make horizontal cuts at appropriate intervals to make rock blocks. Ship the blocks upstate, and use them to construct a mausoleum pyramid on your country estate. ~Or send them to your dwarven workshops to make mugs, tables, doors, and thrones.~

A rich of sufficient moxie would also cut new "local bedrock" countertops out of their own basement-quarry and tell all the other riches they know about how great it is to eat off of what used to be the floor of their very own basement, before they cut it out to make two sub-basements.

Jackhammering makes gravel. Quarrying makes usable blocks.
A union can protect against scenarios where a studio hires a bunch of people, the publisher pulls funding, and they're all laid off several months later with no severance or healthcare or assistance.

Movie crews are constantly rolling on and off projects and are unionized. This is hardly a foreign concept.
There's only so many jobs available in a career field. If there's far more people clamoring to take those jobs than positions available, why should employers bother to pay them more than a pittance? The employer who pays extremely well will be uncompetitive compared to the other employers.

If employees don't like this, they should stop trying to get these terribly-compensated jobs, and go to other industries. There is a shortage of qualified developers in other industries. Salaries are very high, working conditions are generally good, so why do these masochists insist on "pursuing their passion" in the games field where this isn't the case?

I'm sorry, I have no sympathy. It's not like these people don't have options. This is seriously a "first world problem" here.

The big problem is that too many people seem to think that people have some kind of "right" to a career. They don't. As a society, people should have the right to a decent job and livelihood, I will agree. However, no one has the right to do their dream job, and get paid a fortune for doing it! Careers are subject to the laws of supply and demand like anything else, and games are not something vital to society where the government has any business stepping in with regulation to keep things running smoothly, as it does with things like electric utilities, infrastructure, education, or aviation safety.
At my old company, one spiky-haired genius explained it to the simple minded as "monolithic architecture is like a wedding cake. Microservices are like cupcakes." This was after he compared it to Ben and Jerry's versus FroYo.

I sure hope the refrigeration doesn't go out, they'll have a real mess on their hands then.
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People who are very rich usually want to be clubby with other people who are very rich. The super rich who talk in concrete ways about how to tackle the failures of capitalism are relatively rare.
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Oh, memories. We built a custom arcade board based on SLI Voodoo1, mips r5k, and custom jpeg decompression in hardware to do Magic the Gathering: Armageddon. https://youtu.be/cci5l21aMss We wanted to run at highrez (640x480 vga) at 60hz with tons of animating sprites on screen and realized nothing had the fill rate we needed. Rather than changing the game design, we kept looking and met the 3Dfx team when they had barely taped out the Voodoo1. We gambled that SLI would work and started designing the hardware and adapting the game to an early alpha of Glide. We prototyped on SLI cards running on Windows NT and pentium pros. In parallel, Atari Ganes built Voodoo1-based hardware to replace Zoid. Mace and War shipped on that hardware.
Rich have their money in stock and investments. And if surplus of money would be taxed, being in debt would be the obvious easy way to “earn” taxes instead of paying them.
> Something like Softpedia would be great (although simpler), although preferably without garbage reviews like this: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Coding-languages-C... (for a bonus WTF check the screenshot).

Oh lord. That was nothing short of embarrassing to read. As in I feel embarrassed on the part of whoever wrote that "review". And you were right about the screenshot lol.
That sounds like a recipe for a dystopian future where more and more people are pushed over the edge where they become dependent on the welfare.

Then the corporations and the state would together dictate what you had to do to be eligible for the welfare.
I think esports are awesome. The players just aren’t physically strong. And I think mainstream spectators will not completely let go of wanting to see people demonstrating what they can do not just physically but in complex gameplay strategy and tactics.

To your example, I don’t see snooker becoming some major thing, but I do think some kind of hybrid virtual / physics MOBA could be a major sport for a long time.
It's not about some special status, it's purely about money: casting the magic tax-lowering spell requires a lot of mana.

I'm sure your accountant could have set up a charity, put most of your assets there, the charity would hire yourself as an independent contractor... But it will cost more than it's worth.
I think it's a difficult claim to make that there's no demand when they specifically state that unpaid overtime is the norm. Why would they need overtime work if there were enough workers?
If you really use an app all day long, you're going to want a dedicated desktop version. The browser app-in-an-app model is convenient for casual use, but not optimal for long stretches and doesn't integrate as well with the desktop for real workflow.

When you think about it, iOS and Android apps are desktop apps (in full screen mode), not browser apps. And they may be more popular than web apps, for now (though I hate the toll imposed on them).

Maybe someday soon, you'll be able to click on a web app and turn it into a desktop app, with better native platform integration. That might be a reason to stop desktop development.
It depends on your definition of "worship". It's not particularly well defined.
> Audits can be hit and miss,

The same could be said for proprietary applications, which may never see third party audits because 'meh, customers have no access to our source and IP protection or something'
If you flip it around, it I think it's also entirely reasonable that many of these people only feel like they can criticize things after they've made their money. Or they know we wouldn't listen to them beforehand.

I'm not sure what you're criticizing but Dalio's post is explicitly about economic mobility, i.e. reducing barriers preventing more people from getting rich in the future.
1. This is a fantastic piece of reporting.

2. Reading through all of this, I hold no sympathy to the IRS given this situation. The government policies described, from the requests of disclosure to the taxation levied in this specific case appear downright abusive.
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That's why I'm happy about the US being an oil producer: less arab/persian oil money to sponsor terrorism. Syria is also screwed. Too bad they scewed Gaddafi, a hopeless romantic who wasn't sponsoring terrorism when the US made everybody think he was, but it was in fact Hafez al-Assad who did.
Unfortunately, that situation caught up with Tarn recently. They've had to change their whole model due to rising health care costs and are now hoping for actual sales to keep them afloat.

I think that just shows how all of the factors in the article (work conditions, health care, "crunch") are intertwined. People are torn between doing what they love and doing what pays well so they can stay afloat.
They realize that if the whole house of cards collapses they're loosing the most. If the house of cards (the system) is stable they're better off as well.
> Fewer overall cars

Fewer cars, but more miles. Every moment that a car is going between one drop-off and the next pick-up adds to the total.

> Each physical car sees much higher utilization

Higher utilization is a mixed blessing. The more a car is driven per day, the fewer days it will be until replacement. There's not much difference between two cars each being driven half the time all year and two cars each being driven all the time half the year. At best you get some benefit from keeping the car warmed up, but that's outweighed by the passenger-less miles.

> t's more likely you can get a shared ride quickly and with minimal diversion

That would work a lot better if demand were uniformly distributed, but in fact it's highly cyclic - toward office areas in the morning, away from them in the evening. This asymmetry is even worse for things like sporting events. Once a driver has taken a commuter to work, going anywhere else means 2x distance because they'll have to come back for the matching commute home.

The only way to reduce ecological footprint is to reduce the number of vehicle miles per person. It doesn't matter who or what is driving the vehicle. Reducing commute distance works, even when people are still in cars but especially when people can walk/bike instead. Increasing per-vehicle occupancy helps, whether it's car pooling or mass transit. Replacing private cars with shared ones doesn't make a dent, and in some cases can make things worse.
I’m glad to hear that seeing as “big indie” is where all the best gameplay innovation tends to come from. Many AAA titles are actually quite dull and repetitive affairs. They get wrapped in a super pretty and eye candy laden veneer so you don’t notice the underlying mechanics and gameplay are actually exactly the same as the previous 400 entries of whatever franchise
I think social media is a tipping point for a lot of basic human behavior - a threshold has been crossed. Sure, it's just amplifying normal human behavior, but so does cocaine. (Remember the wise words of Bill Cosby here... he asked someone to explain the appeal of cocaine, and they said "It intensifies your personality". He said "But what if you're an asshole?")
I think there are a lot of other software categories to add to your parenthetical, but I think you're right that it'll be only those things that require a really rich interface (I'd add music production software, for example).

I know for myself (15-ish year Java dev), even if software I'm writing will only ever be used on my local laptop, if I need UI I'm likely to do a Spring Boot app with a web frontend and Bootstrap.
What's interesting about this is that there isn't even a narrative or a partisan bias here. The media just lies because there's no reason not to.
Just have goals that are easily measured.
We can easily measure the relative prices of things in the market.

If your company's goal is to increase the stock price above some target, that is a metric that is easily measured. So we can make futarchy markets to help your company make decisions to achieve your goal.
... Fuck debuggablity. Fuck performance. Fuck understanding what is actually going on....

(Sure, managed solutions can satisfy all of those. But not without understanding a few orders of magnitude more complexity than a simpler solution, and you'll never get there if your attitude is "I'll pay Amazon to do that for me." Amazon doesn't care whether you succeed.)
There's some company somewhere that thinks I own a Honda. I keep getting calls about Honda recalls. The exact model changes from year to year. Nice to know that despite the rep's assurances that I would be removed from the system, in 2049 I'll still be getting calls because the new Honda Accord has a faulty quantum tunnelling distributor, irrespective of whether I own a Honda or any car.
A theoretical solution to that would be an inflation scaling bursary given to low income workers.
Making video games is a dream job because lots of people want to make video games. Amazing that some people choose jobs for reasons other than high salary, job security, and low stress. Shocking that some people are actually motivated by oh, I don't know, actual interest in an industry!

We can force employers to treat game devs differently via unionization or laws. If people want to discuss these kinds of measures, that's fine. But these people ought to recognize that these regulations will involve trade-offs. If you think the trade-offs are worth it, cool, but please acknowledge them.

My feeling is that highly skilled programmers who are incredibly in demand in every industry do not need unions or special legal protection. They have options. Only by denying the existence of their free will can we pretend that this is a serious problem.
Yes, I was trying to quantify it from experience over just saying it was the best. They sure was and some would say, still has an edge, though some still prefer CRT's as well.
After a weeklong trip to NYC, I was walking home from the airport thinking how quiet downtown Toronto is and then I started to laugh when I realized that I was walking past a construction crew jackhammering the sidewalk. I guess I just tuned it out.
Which makes it deliciously ironic that Larry would bring that point up, since Perl's syntactic user interface is so terribly designed.
They don't need it. They do it because it's more profitable. If you don't want those conditions they can easily find someone else willing to accept them due to the huge hiring pool available.

Edit: you're far less likely to risk burning out your employees if they are hard to replace.
>By far the biggest problem with LastPass is that it sometimes just doesn't apply (or misapplies) the password or username to the appropriate form entries, and I have to go find it and copy it. Occasionally it also misses the saving of a new password (that it generated) and I have to put it in the vault by hand. I suspect this is a really hard problem given the massive variety of forms out there, but would be curious to hear if other password managers never have these issues.

Agreed, ambiguously named form input fields cause all kinds of havok, I helped our UX team track down one in our application because it was breaking my lastpass =)

For the second issue, I've just adjusted my workflow to accommodate LastPass's peculiarities. I just click "Generate Secure Password", copy it to the clipboard and fill the form myself. Then I have a copy of the password on the clipboard should LP miss adding the site properly.

While it's a slight pain to work around that particular issue, it's far better than what I used to do with regards to password reuse.
If you look at journalists’ social media accounts you’ll see that it’s not about making money but it is about in-group signaling and being extremely obnoxious. They tend to tweet a lot and engage in the worst behavior. Blue check mark Twitter is the most toxic Twitter.
What is the benefit of using this? In what scenario would this excel? Thanks.
Despite what many people say, usage of you guys as non-gendered address, similar to the regional y'all, is rather well-established: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gen.... However, in corporate environments it's still a good maxim to be mindful of people who have non-standard sensibilities, e.g. I personally use you guys as email address only for all-male group of recipients.
Syncthing is peer-to-peer, so I believe you'd only have a problem if _all_ the computers you're trying to get data from go down at the same time.
You mean the DOM. The web isn't slow because of JS.
>why the AMD EPYC “Rome” generation will likely see 160x PCIe Gen4 lanes plus likely additional lane(s) for a necessary function.

Emphasis mine. This seems to be pure speculation, not 'news'.
No, I think civilized countries absolutely need a strong social safety net, and rich people should pay their fair share, but increasing spending before proving that you can get the rich to pay is putting the cart before the horse (and moves the burden to people who have don't have access to the tax avoidance techniques that the rich do)
That example isn't comparable to the kind of contracts that were originally being discussed. A contract with fixed hours on the scale of months doesn't have the same degree of stress as one with hours varying from day to day, week to week.

Fixed term contracts are allowable, because taking that thinking to the extreme would mean never being able to terminate a worker, even in cases where their employment becomes obsolete.

The issue revolves around "technically being employed" - having a contract which doesn't entail consistent or sufficient hours, and then not even having the choice to work enough to get by. This unfairly pumps employment figures for companies and the government, who can say that they have X workers, while denying an honest representation of how much people are actually able to work.

My original question was - is there an example of a job which could justify these kinds of fluctuations in working hours and subsequent income?
The problem with this is that a huge amount of wealth today is not in the form of land, it's in the form of capital (physical, cash, and equities) and a lot of that is located off-shore. Yes, the Apple UFO campus is extremely valuable land but it's a very tiny fraction of Apple's overall wealth.
Yes, if income is used as the base in the calculation, consumption taxes are always regressive. How workable it would be, I'm not sure, but the FairTax proposal included a refund to all households equal to the tax on purchases up to the poverty level. So, effectively, income up the poverty level is tax free, thus making it progressive.
Points are a team-internal measure of a task. You can after the fact convert points to time, and then after a few sprints (when you have a fairly stable average velocity) then you can convert points to hours and do a forecast/estimation.

// In my mind you forecast the date of completion, but you estimate the amount of work. It's probably just mindless semantics, after all saying you can estimate the date of completion sounds just as natural, but saying you can forecast the amount of work sounds a bit unnatural.
To what extent is the video game industry crunch culture driven by non-negotiable deadlines? (trade shows, Christmas, movie releases)
I think it's experimental right now, but Idris (which I consider the "Child of Haskell"), has basic support for linear types [1], which could at least help the space-prediction problems. Doesn't hurt that Idris isn't lazy-by-default either.

My point is that I actually think that Idris could end up being successful in an industrial sense, due to the fact that it gives you all the correctness guarantees of Haskell (and more), but has managed to (thus far) avoid a lot of the cruft that has built up in the ~30 years Haskell has been around. Fingers crossed.

[1] http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/reference/uniqueness-ty...
A flat tax is regressive in nature since the wealthy demand a greater share of the services provided by civil society.
Exactly! And of course this ought to go further and only the desperate are ultimately deserving of that job. They won't even demand safe working conditions. They'll be grateful for the opportunity. It's not slavery if the employer doesn't "own" that person.
I haven't yet deleted facebook, but I only access it from home computer once or twice a week, and as a result I miss some events because my friends keep sending me messages via facebook messanger even though I have post at the top of my page saying I'm not actively use facebook and ask them to use literally any other messaging platforms.
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I don’t understand “stresses me out with the deluge of emails”. If you’re getting tons of emails that you don’t need or want, take a minute and unsubscribe from those mailing lists. If not, set up filters to do whatever with those kinds of emails. Idk I guess I’ve always been pretty organized when it comes to emails. Appending my email for each service or site I sign up for etc.

Anyway I just use the stock mail app on my phone.
I think the fact that they can get unpaid work, means they don't need to pay for it. Why pay for 10 people when you can get 5 to do it? No matter how little you pay for labor, free (i.e. unpaid overtime) is cheaper.
Technical solutions solve social problems all the time. A lock is a technical solution to the social problem of theft, and much superior to a social solution.
There can also just be a lot of randomness involved. How many actors hit at least B-list status because of some TV show that ends up a big hit and then they never really get a significant role again? [ADDED: Or, for that matter, the many other actors of similar talent who didn't click with the casting director for that role for whatever reason and never got that break at all.]