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By itself, knowledge is a public good. It's not excludable (I can't block non-payers from getting it) and it's not rivalrous (your use doesn't reduce its value for someone else).

Public goods are chronically undersupplied in a normal market situation. Providing them imposes a cost on the provider, but because the good is non-excludable you're relying on the goodness of consumers to pay for it. Some will, some won't, but the net amount recovered will be less than it would be otherwise.

So what do we do about the undersupply of public goods? There are a variety of options. Taking knowledge as a particular example, one option is the patent system, which grants a temporary legal monopoly on the claims in the patent. It creates an artificial excludability that allows the provider of the knowledge to recover more of the cost of providing it. Overall that should raise the production of knowledge.

But, you say, that reduces competition. And sometimes it will. But many ideas can be substituted and so the competitors will patent different things. In fact the monopoly of the competitor gives them an incentive to find new ideas that the competitor hasn't found yet, an incentive which was weaker in the original situation.

The alternative is provision through a central supplier, typically: government. But it turns out that the costs of developing knowledge still remain, so how are they paid for? Taxes, essentially. Generally speaking the costs work out to be about the same, but become differently distributed. Instead of knowledge being created by active, incentivised parties who can then get a return from those who value the knowledge most, the incidence of cost falls on everyone.

Someone who doesn't value that knowledge gets ripped off, and someone who values it very highly gets subsidised.

That said: pure research almost always needs to be publicly subsidised because, by very sensible policy, the laws of nature can't be patented. And representatives passing public budgets can give consideration to which public goods ought to be subsidised, beyond the cold light of economics, as a principle of fairness or morality or furthering humankind.

But most knowledge is not pure research. So either we pay for it with taxes, or we pay for it with patents, or we pay for it by getting less common knowledge. Nothing comes for free. Not even ideas.
So can’t you bill terminate your length prefixed string and pass a pointer to the data to POSIX. From what I understand, that’s how C++’s std::string works with ::c_str()
The Prius is on the leaderboards for MPG. I don’t buy your argument.
I could have argued my way into the same position I transferred to after getting the degree, but they would have delayed things, delayed upping compensation, maybe given me lesser tasks or been less convinced of my work in some cases. They also would know which other companies couldn't be competing for me.. again loss of compensation.

The dot com boom was fairly isolated, unlike what happened in 2008. In 1999, when I was looking for my second job, enterprises were so desperate for qualified developers jobs were easy to come by. I negotiated a relatively decent raise (not Silicon Valley type money) after the dot com bust because profitable companies still needed developers.

Even today, most corporate enterprise type developer jobs - where most developers are - wouldn’t know CS from a hole in the wall. They just want people who can turn business requirements into shipping products. The degree has never been what gave me leverage and optionality, keeping my resume in line what the market wants has been.

When I stayed at one job for 10 years until 2008 and was woefully behind the state of the art, my degree did me little good.

I would be very surprised if that 1996 degree isn't on your resume, equally surprised if anyone checked if the school is accredited and surprised if many of your choices were slightly fewer/different options leading to accrued path dependent losses on average. I.e. a first team lead isn't suggested leading to no path or a significantly delayed one to team lead on your resume.

Yes the degree is on my resume, but not the year I graduated. Neither is anything before 2008.

My very delayed path to being a team lead was a function of me taking my eye off of the ball for close to a decade and not gaining the skillset to be one. Being a team lead has nothing to do with how well you can do algorithms in most companies and is usual a combination of your interpersonal skills, your emotional intelligence, and experience with translating business problems into working systems. In fact, more often than not, it’s knowing what not to build and focusing your team/company on writing software that is within their core competency and outsourcing the rest or using third party systems.

That being said, I purposefully self demoted (in title not pay) from being the dev lead of medium ($1 billion in revenue) non software company to being a senior engineer at a much smaller software company who needed someone to modernize the software architecture. They were basically using AWS as a glorified overpriced colo. I discovered as a team lead that the real money locally was in consultancy and I had a few gaps to fill in.

My CS degree from 1996 definitely didn’t prepare me for my roles over the past three or four years dealing with enterprise architecture.
Good on you for sharing it :) I have a friend who loves making machines out of materials on hand (many a stirling engine built from plywood, tin cans, and balloons!), and I've forwarded this link to him.
Yes.

You did not specify the time duration, though.
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Most landlords I know want to ease building restrictions so they can build more rental units, and have a less expensive higher quality building than buying an old beater that they stitch back together again.
I've worked with several. Computer science degrees, publications, time working at Microsoft and IBM, etc. All of them were as qualified or more qualified than I am.

As it happens one of them left his law firm and founded a software company.
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Rent control that permanently keeps units below market price is devastating for lower-income people. Rent control that simply smooths out price increases, and loses landlords perhaps a year of the new price during sudden spikes, is pretty innocuous.

> No. It doesn't 'incentivize', it mandates.

Well, they always have the option of not keeping up with market-rate increases. Not that I think anyone will take that option.

> Price shocks are a result of spirling supply in face of rising demand. THIS DOES NOT FIX THAT.

The point isn't to "fix" the increase in price. It's to give renters a year or two to adapt to the change, either by moving out, finding new sources of income, or getting roommates.

> Landlords don't just spike prices over a month

#NotAllLandlords. But enough do to create a serious public policy problem
Note that international patent law isn't national patent law. Sure, it's possible to have your patent valid in multiple areas. But e.g. Chinese patent practice isn't quite in line with EU or US patent law.

Secondly: patents are inherently a form of publishing your ip. The "giving away" part is enforced by laws, but the whole concept of patents is to make knowledge publicly available. Typically, "giving away" is only restricted to commercial uses - anyone who duplicates the patented invention for personal use is fine. You may argue that that is foolish for an advanced economy, but that is what most of them do.
Your question is quite loaded and rests upon false premises - for example, your assertion that people don't show up for court hearings rehashes an anti-immigrant trope that has little basis in fact. Attendance rates are actually quite high, close to 100% for those who have attorneys and still high even for those who don't: https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/562/

It's a deep complex subject that can't be summed up in a short (or even a long) comment. If your understanding of it is based on misleading tropes that you've heard from pundits or political figures, it might be worth taking up the issue as a research project or taking some classes so that you are not taken in by slanderous misinformation.
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Very cool, but I wouldn’t want to pay to repair that after an accident. Oof.
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Wages are also far higher than the US or Canada: the legal minimum wage is $19.49/hour, and many industry unions have negotiated higher rates. This means a backpacker can do menial labor and still save meaningful amounts of money to use for travel, even when accounting for the higher cost of living.
How far is the average commute? There are a lot of places where this level of additional range for "free" could potentially halve your charging needs.

Might also mean that people start looking for uncovered airport parking. Or that it's a lot harder to get really stranded with an electric car.

Even at 100% efficiency (which we'll never get) I think electric cars will still have to charge off of something. But dragging the panels around with you so that you always have some kind of charging seem pretty reasonable.
Passing the patent bar requires a baseline of technical knowledge. I don’t know that a patent attorney, agent, or examiner knows “as much about software” as you or GP, but it would be wrong to believe they are ignorant on the subject. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USPTO_registration_examinati...
Maybe, but it's not very tractable to have thousands of prototypes being delivered to the USPTO each day. The point of the patent is to provide all the information required to completely recreate the invention and explain how it works.
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"yellow journalism" was a major factor in swaying american public opinion into supporting a war with Spain. It's a very long standing problem. Not a recent development.
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> The alternative is that nobody shares anything with anyone.

Open Source software demonstrates otherwise.

Also interesting, several major companies in existence today (including a well known chocolate manufacturer) were started when their home country decided patents weren't useful, so stopped using them.
It's weird how so much of the conversation about these is how they look. If everyone rode them, they'd look normal. If the looked normal, more people would ride them. Is the only solution to have early adopters who don't give a crap?
> sustained market-wide price increases of 5%+inflation are very rare.

No sane investor forecasts an increase in rent of over 5% over a decade.

> if all units aren’t filled right away and you miss a year of increases

If a unit isn't filled, then you don't miss out; when it is filled you can immediately charge market rates.
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4,500 US Truckers Lose Their Jobs In August Amid Freight Recession

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UPS Quietly Using Self-Driving Trucks For Months

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Sure. I would just consider that the working group keep a broad perspective on the issue. There are developers who use graphics frameworks bare-metal, and there are also a number of frameworks that haven't been mentioned and don't seem to be cooperating, for instance, Pixi.js and Three.js. I think the WG has a responsibility to represent their interests as well, whether or not they are actively participating. I also don't think that the technology has to match the existing architecture of engines. Instead, we should be looking at find the best technology for a long-term solution.

Many developers already know that they will have to make significant overhauls to upgrade to WebGPU. "If WebGPU turns out to be as powerful as we all hope it to be libraries like Three.js will likely have to be rewritten from scratch in order to take full advantage of it." [0]

[0] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/issues/15936#issuecomment...
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These are all amazing features

I am really hoping for private properties and compiler support of class properties (it supports the syntax, I think, but doesn't compile them down from what I understand).

I also hope they update their decorator support to be in line with https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decorators

I know its stage 2 (and it was stage 3, I think) but I think the reasoning behind the major(ish) changes are solid ones.

Thats pretty much it. Now tc39 just needs to acceept Reflect.metadata :)
the value of a share doesn't mean anything until you know how many shares there are out there.
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I'm with an ISP that has a direct link to TorIX, which has a who's who of the major Internet properties and CDNs:

* https://www.torix.ca/peers/

My e-mail is hosted on Canadian soil with a direct-connect to TorIX (and I personally know the people who run the servers).

I know when I hit a foreign corporation (AMZN, GOOG, etc.) that my data is probably up for grabs, but I also know when when my traffic is not leaving Canadian (digital) soil.

So yes, I know all about ECHELON et al, but I know how the packets I send out are generally routed as well.
Meditation is different because it requires sitting still and doing nothing for a period of time. I have probably gone months without doing this to any degree. I don't sleep without listening to something. I can rarely sit down and just watch TV. Etc.

I am fairly sure the issue isn't medical: I can code, drive, and read for hours at a time without losing focus. But meditation is still torture (as is having to sit down and watch TV). I have tried several times, I have done it every day for up to two or three weeks (willpower is not really an issue) but every time, after a while, I ended up feeling more trepidation and anxiety about doing it.

In addition though, I think there are good reasons to prefer exercise in certain cases (YMMV, and this is just my experience):

Stressing your cardiovascular system mimics the physical effect of a panic attack. And part of the reason that panic attacks occur is because something is wrong with the link between the physical and mental parts of the system. You can't solve it with looking at one side alone but it is useful to experience the physical sensation of panic without the mental side (hopefully, it can set things off). I don't meditation is as effective on the physical side, it may be effective on the mental side but not for me.

This is not going to be relevant for 95% of people. But it has been my experience of it. I also think it is pretty unwise to say it should work for everyone. If you get the impression that should work for everyone, and then you try and it doesn't work...you feel terrible (if you have a disorder, it is worse...you might feel shame). Unf, in my experience, this is fairly common within psychology too which has endless "universal"-sounding solutions with weak effect. It just isn't that simple. Try stuff. See what works.

Again, hopefully this will help someone. The number of times that I have tried meditation should suggest that I was convinced, past the point of logic, that I was the issue...not meditation...unsurprisingly, that belief elicited little progress. It makes more sense to just do what works.
So let people have work permits as long as they don't commit serious crimes and the illegal work problem goes away. There is no necessity for the control freakery that has driven much immigration policy in recent years.
Translation is one of the canonical examples of derivatives works [1], and one of the rights implied by copyright is the right to control the production of derivative works.

The question of rewriting a library in a different programming language has never been litigated, to my knowledge, so there's no precedent as to whether or not it would violate copyright. The customary practice is to assume that the code produced by anyone who has seen the original source code would qualify as a derivative work, and therefore to rely on a clean-room implementation, where one group inspects the source code and builds a spec that a second group uses to implement the replacement.

In the absence of legal precedent, the customary practice tends to be accorded legal preference, so it's reasonably likely that a court would rule that somebody who looks at a C implementation and produces a Java implementation without any intermediaries would constitute a derivative work and therefore be in violation of copyright if not properly authorized by the copyright owner.

[1] It's literally the first example given in the US law.
Anduril has a nice model. It's not unique to Anduril, but it is nice. Most R&D places with eventual infusion / sale to acquisition partners start with IRaD funding and move on to small scale demos and sales.

I can't comment on the major acquisitions like fighter jets and aircraft carriers, but this feels natural and familiar when it comes to these advanced, small-scale, systems-level engineering projects.
Something Awful is great, at least partly because the paywall (if you aren't logged in you see a very restricted view of the site, with a profanity filter on top) and $10 USD joining fee combined with the active moderation team is very effective at stopping rule breakers - you can rejoin (for another $10) if you get banned, but if you continue to be odious you will eventually get permabanned (which I think extends to preventing any credit cards associated with you from purchasing new accounts). There are a few serial pests who keep trying regardless, but they number in the single or low tens of people.
> How exactly can a private prison "illegitimately pursue" having a lower recidivism rate?

Picking prisoners would be one obvious way.

Now, you can say "well, we'll just make sure they can't do that." That's fine; the overarching point here is that you can't simply set up an incentive system without thinking about the ways it can be gamed, among other unintended consequences.

Though: do you know that you can make sure prisons can't do that? Is it legal to forbid them a choice? Can you set up a system for distributing prisoners that's resistant to capture or influence? It's a little bit like saying "we'll just make sure our software is secure."

> you are suggesting that there will be widespread systemic corruption of the entire nation's judicial system.

I'm far from the only person suggesting that private prisons corrupt the criminal justice system, but yes, that's part of the argument.

Some people concerned about the issue believe that industry lobbyists work to back criminal code changes requiring more prison sentencing. Others believe in milder phenomena like judges internalizing lower costs of imprisonment and therefore using more of it in sentencing. The former could be described as corruption without being even slightly illegal. The latter might not even be recognized as a form of corruption, but it'd be a systemic issue unless you think imprisonment is underused in the US.
And as a software engineer I have a strong incentive for copyright to exist. That doesn't disqualify me from holding opinions about it.
Restoring that requirement across the board would have a profound negative impact on the biotech (and likely I would guess, advanced materials) sectors. Think of, for example, discovering a useful small molecule, and wishing to build a moat around it while you do the med chem work for a lead compound.
And yet immigrants have lower levels of criminality than native-born Americans, so you're actually better off with more of them.
Because everything worth knowing is in a book or on a test? Because experience doesn't matter?

No matter. What's your plan?
Travel involves real costs: flights, hotels, transport. How would you arrange a system where travel is allocated to everyone regardless of wealth?
Yep. River stones -- just want them to be relatively small and not to have to many jagged edges.
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Exactly. A Chinese doctor was ostracized for effectively programming a zygote to be immune to HIV. Theoretically this should work for human adults. And not everyone need it too once a community achieve herd immunity.
In my experience in a corner of this field, I can say that's less true than you think (there are many more partners), but competition is still not quite strong enough.
> Can you elaborate on why Tricare and the VA aren't government run healthcare

They are in the technical sense that the US govt "runs it". They are not socialized medicine as every Western country has implemented. They hardly have the scale, participation or political pull.

> I define government run healthcare as healthcare that is run by the government.

This is a bit naive, because the VA and DoD have a strong vested interests in short term solutions to keep soldiers going and back on the field. Also, many of the VA's problems stem from the fact that only a small % of Americans actually use the VA and care about its performance. So politically, it's hardly something that anyone focuses on, despite many promises to the contrary.

> experience from the government run Post Office

The post office is actually really efficient and is an example of a very well run government service. They're on par with any private company, easily, in both price and service. If anything, cuts to the post office have hurt it more than any operational problems or mismanagement.

> The point is that many Americans have relatively little faith in the government to design a good system

This is because many Americans actively vote against their best interest and elect politicians whose sole purpose is to hamstring the government from doing anything effectively. It's the classic conservative self fulfilling prophecy: cripple the government, point to the fact that the "government doesn't work", then privatize and reap the rewards. It's just a political game to make rich voters richer.
probably this? https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
Think of it as landlords having to share some of their Prop 13 savings with tenants. Now both owners and renters can both enjoy the protection of not being forced from their homes due to an increase in cost.
>>> As for your sovereignty - it ends outside of your condo

Why do you have sovereignty over your condo? Why can't I express my right to sleep on your couch, regardless of your consent? If you can express access control rights over a particular piece of territory or property that you consider your own, then why can't a collective group of people also express access control rights over their common, government-managed and administered property/territory?