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In general, you can fit the motivations for evil into one of four categories: there's evil for instrumental reasons, evil for ideological reasons, evil as a result of threatened egotism, and evil as a result of pure sadism.

There are some genuinely sadistic people, but they tend to be few and far between, to the point where once we find one of them, they spawn books and movies and huge long wikipedia pages.

There are plenty of people that will trample others to advance their own selfish goals. They know that they're doing something wrong, but they feel they need to in that circumstance, or are just willing to do that.

Then there are people who are genuinely thinking that they're doing good, and that the world will be a better place after they do whatever evil thing they do. In this context it's better to think of evil as a social concept rather than a personal one, because these people don't actually think they're doing something evil in a long-term context-included sense.

I think conflation between some of the above types of evil is causing a lot of needless dispute in this thread.

(This is mostly from the Baumeister chapter in The Social Psychology of Good and Evil, which is a very well-edited collection of notable psychologists discussing this very topic, and I highly recommend it.)
Touché. I guess I'm speaking of the average middle-class American.
> And somehow most of the countries which went down that way have now humongous public debt problems to solve.

This is just ideology, and not factually accurate. (P.S. Cheers from Scandinavia.)
Give me some time to write something up. I will contact you via email, once I have it.
Most of the studies that showed rapid mental decline in old age have been debunked. A 70 year old with no actual problems (e.g., Alzheimer's) is very likely to function perfectly fine mentally.

A 2002 study (published in the Alzheimer's and Dementia Journal) found that ~91% of people 70 and older were capable of normal mental function.
We found a great DevOps guy from Stackoverflow.
Interesting in general. There are some sections that are just filled with "Lorem ipsum..." filler text, though.
The Verge Hires Writer Who Quit CNET in Protest
Not a spider, but how about C. elegans?

http://openworm.org/

https://github.com/openworm

http://nemaload.davidad.org/

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/nematodeuploadproject/
10 years ago people simulated a nematode, a type of worm, and got nematode like behavior from it.
Not just ideology, the size of government in Scandinavia is way smaller than in other developed countries. See the economist article last week about this subject.
You seem to be misunderstanding something. A post-labor has nothing to do with population and everything to do with automation. As it becomes more efficient to have robots and computers to do what was previously human work, we will eventually reach a point where just about every conceivable job that we currently employ people for could be automated.

Most likely, a post-labor world should be capable of arriving well before that. Once we can automate the production of basic necessities, working should become largely optional.
I agree with many of your points. Some of the StackExchange sites have degenerated into being virtually unusable unless you align yourself with the small group of people who viciously down-vote and close otherwise useful and relevant questions. The idea is/was great, but in some corners it seems to be starting to derail.
As a 26 year old, I can agree with his conclusion (or at least want his conclusion to be true). With 40-60 hour work weeks for both my girlfriend and I, it can be difficult sometimes. Similarly, new friendships can be hard to come by. With current job dynamics, moving can be an almost certainty, increasing the difficulty of maintaining friendships.

However, I have to wonder, would 25 hour work weeks actually increase the length of our employ-ability, allowing us to work until the age of 80? I thought part of today's current long term unemployment problem (in the US), is that finding employment for older, more skilled, adults was difficult, due to perceived overqualifications or lack of training in newer technologies. I thought part of the point of work hard while you're young, was to save enough money to allow you to survive the possibility of permanent unemployment in old age (either due to health or over qualification in unused technologies).
It's true that regulations are relatively low, in terms of invasive bureaucracy in the economy. Yet in Denmark we have a 37-hour maximum workweek, 8 weeks of vacation, and strong unemployment benefits, and all that doesn't seem to be ruining the country. Perhaps that can't be replicated elsewhere, but I don't see a solidly established relationship between working hours, unemployment benefits, and economic prosperity.
Costs of stuff like rent and cars are normalized to average income levels. (Though of course with cars there is a base cost of manufacture that makes them less flexible than something like rent).

Which is to say, if everyone works 25 hours a week, rents will go down (because if they don't, you have most properties sitting empty). If instead everyone works 60 hours a week, rents go up.

Of course, economics is really complicated and rarely works out this simply. But that's the idea. It's a little silly to post here presuming that someone in Mr. Vaupel's position has somehow not thought of the fact that when you work fewer hours your nominal earnings go down. (I think this qualifies for what pg was calling Middlebrow Dismissal). It's a more reasonable response to say, well, of course he has thought of that, but I wonder what the answer is?
25 hours is a good number for average people. I'd say 15-20, even.

Ambitious or highly dedicated people will always work more than that, and that's a good thing. What they should have is a lot more freedom in how they spend that time-- working two jobs, one job and school, side projects.

The problem is this bullshit conformist fiction in which everyone has to pretend to be ambitious (but only internally) and dedicated (despite mediocre social status and compensation, that fail to justify such dedication). I don't think that such a problem can be legislated away. The best that the law/government can do is to break up the collusions (e.g. among VCs) that keep talent trading at such a dog-low rate against property.

The other problem, and one of the main reasons why the 40-60 hour anachronism lives on, is that companies aren't really buying (as they see it) 40 hours of time. They're also buying (in their entitled view of the world) single-minded loyalty. That's why they demand hours at such a level that a person can't possibly hold two jobs, even if she is easily capable of the work. The goal isn't just to get some quantity of the person's work, but to take that person off the market so no one else can hire her.
Well one, getting to post-labor has nothing to do with raw population figures. No matter how many people you have, they want to eat, probably want comfortable living (housing + climate control), and in a modern context want Internet access and electricity.

You could have a hundred billion people and everyone would still want that. The difference is post-labor comes when you don't need human capital (or at the worst, a negligible amount) to produce the necessities for people to survive. We are approaching that, look at how manufacturing is returning to the US in 99% automated facilities. Once you can grow food (or fabricate it with molecular engineering) without requiring human labor to produce it, you can already distribute it with automated vehicles, and you can produce electricity via solar, hydro, or nuclear wtih very little human capital involvement after you set the system up.

The idea is you put systems in place that the fruits of them are effectively infinite without human engagement. Once you can do that, you have post-scarcity bounded on the limits of the planet and our ability to deploy infrastructure, not in how much labor we can produce. We are getting there, but the fundamental problem is we try to squeeze these no labor return systems into classic market capitalism and it isn't working (a concentrated wealthy class ends up owning these means of production, and power and wealth are concentrated as a result).
Yeah, I didn't see this one going over well.
And another sort of "data": humans take one or two decades to develop into sensible persons; how are you supposed to educate a computer simulation? To a large extend for humans it also holds that garbage in is garbage out. We don't need massive simulation, we need understanding of fundamentals.
Holy shit that's nice.
To add some context, this was one of a bunch of awesome hacks created during Sports Hack Day. You can check out the rest of them here:

https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/sports-hack-day/hack...
Show HN: Traileroo.com, a movie discovery tool
traileroo.com is a weekend project shows one movie trailer at a time. For each trailer you can skip it or view the associated movie in Netflix or iTunes. I made it because I found that frequently when I see a description or review of a movie I almost always go "meh" but when if I just see the trailer there's a much higher chance I'll want to watch it. I've already found several movies I would never have looked twice at before; maybe it will be useful for someone else.
Beautiful Mathematical Equations
still no skynet comments?
Note that there are drawbacks in several countries of not working "full time". You do not get the same rights towards a pension, you do not get the same rules for overtime, and other benefits do not apply. Therefore there is also a strong incentive, based on regulations, not to work less than 40 hours either.
>> It's important that someone control the medical procedures and control that the effectively work.

In most proposed treatments the discussion is not if they are more or less "effective", the problem is that they don't work, and some of them even have side effects. Terminal ill people are often desperate and would try whatever is trendy:
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-rise-and-fal... This was a very expensive, dangerous and ineffective treatment.
Incidentally, an enforced max number of hours per work week is a potential solution to the high unemployment a lot of countries have right now.
One other problem is that the whole 40 hour thing is also a farce in the presence of salaried positions - most places want you on site all day, under the assumption that they can keep you during crunch. If you are only working 4 days, unless you have infamous "come in on Sunday" talks with your boss, they have less opportunities to keep you for free overtime since you are salaried and they often put on weekly caps on extra hours before they have to pay overtime (or none at all, depends on the company).
When I worked as an employee, I learned to slow all my tasks down to finish them right on time. That way I wouldn't be assigned more tasks than my coworkers, in punishment for being efficient and fast.
Tested this a bit more. It seems to work on Adium "only some of the time." I am told it works for Colloquy. It does not work for the Google Chrome Browser, TextEdit or Mail.
As a 21 year old, I'd love to only work 25 hours a week. I'd just get involved with more FOSS projects and work on what I want to rather than what someone paying me wants me to do.
> We should all do whatever the fuck we want, until we die.

Yeah but we’re not allowed to. Most employers will demands you show up for 40 hours a week and then frown at you or, at least, never promote you if you don’t stay for a lot more.
The problem is that the Q&A format is a very bad to ask for list of things. A "wiki" would be a much better format to have list of things that everyone can contribute to. Q&A is also a very bad format for discussion. Traditional forum, Reddit or Quora are much better choice for discussion. It's a simple mater of using the best tools for the best job.
Out of interest, can you find out where the budget of the government in Denmark is spent in, and in what proportions ? On top of that, how much of welfare system relies on private actors instead of governmental/public ones?
The Economics of Netflix's $100 Million Show
> not paying is stealing

> that's not how the law works

You are a hypocrite, you're just frothing at the mouth claiming anything you'd like even if it's self-contradictory. Coupled with the ad hominem attacks, we all know it is you that is the "monumental prick".
But those startups are people basically willingly surrendering themselves to the ideology. The article isn't about the empassioned individuals who want to make it big, it is about Average Joe who works at any middle class company 40 hours a week without any desire to do it and no passion to continue.

If you have the drive to try to do something big, putting all your time into it is kind of mandatory. But if you just work for the money to survive on, you shouldn't need to put in such a significant portion of ones time.
> As far as I understand, we simply do not understand neuron activity at
> a low level enough to make such a thing feasible.

Henry Markram has always been adamant that there are enough details already discovered and put into the neurophysiology journals. Of course, now you have to fish that data out and into some usable format.

http://channelpedia.epfl.ch/ionchannels

http://www.neuroml.org/
You’re basing your whole attack on the author on having your feelings hurt because you, too, are a man in marketing, just like the people responsible for the awful sexism displayed.

Some women are sexist towards women, yes. But the idea that this kind of marketing “stunt” was <em>more</em> because of the women at the company in question than the men there, is absurd. Women don't tend to hold executive power anywhere near as much as men do, in almost every industry—marketing being among them. Furthermore, even the women that <em>are</em> sexist against other women tend not to come up with a marketing campaign featuring naked women to sell hard drives. Your belief that men had less to do with this campaign than women did is… I’m at a loss for the right word for it. “Naïeve” doesn’t cover it. Silly, too, because if that had been the case, their sexist piece-of-shit CEO would’ve used that as an argument trying to justify their disgraceful stunt. But he didn’t.

Lastly, as others have already pointed out, you’re being extremely hypocritical by blaming a woman for not blaming other women first, when the <strong>VAST</strong> majority of sexism in tech is committed by men. Men like yourself. So you should start by pointing the finger there, thus following your own advice.

Right now, you’re nothing but another man blaming a woman for the sexism being committed in tech, sexism in which women are the victim 9 times out of 10 (if not worse), and in which most of the perpetrators are men.
Thanks jhenkens,
I'll correct the tutorial.
Do you have a reference ?

Do these worms exhibit non-trivial behavior or is it at the level of say reflex attraction to light sources ?
But author didn't test it :( It's entirely possible that blob of solder is for mechanical, not electrical purposes.

The author's complaint about the pins being too close together on the cable end seems silly to me. If you have a good feeling for how solder works (and how it sticks to pads and avoids solder mask), you can tell by eye that those pins will be OK.
Even if you have robots you will still need a massive workforce to produce them, to get the resources to produce them, to check them, to maintain them, to repair them, to program them, to update them and so on. Or maybe you believe in a state of singularity in which all of this will happen at the same time? :)

Automation has already been happening in many industries, in case you have not noticed, and that did not result in lost job opportunities on the whole of the economy. Agriculture is also largely mechanized all around the world and you have only a very little portion of the population (5% or so) in developed countries to produce far enough for everyone.

Most jobs in developed countries are service related. These jobs will not disappear even if you automate the production part of the economy.
It's neither weird nor unexpected. Reserve accounts are a decades-old tool of the credit card processing industry for approving new or unusual businesses.

The bank is taking a considerable risk: whatever the merchant's expected transaction volume is, the bank could be on the hook for up to 6 months worth if that business were to go bankrupt or otherwise disappear without fulfilling its obligations to customers. They would all charge back their payments, and with the merchant gone, the bank underwriting the merchant account is on the hook for all that money. If they start out at $10k a month in revenue, that's $60k in risk for the bank.

If a company has no track record, poor or no credit, or a business model that doesn't fit well into a known risk model, the bank can mitigate the risk that it'll lose money by establishing a reserve account. It might be a fixed reserve (i.e. $3000 for a new company with low expected initial volume), or a rolling reserve (i.e. holding back 15% of your gross sales up to some limit for an existing account that has seen a jump in its chargeback rate).

The alternative is to deny the application altogether. Now, a bit of speculation... Stripe, PayPal Pro and other 3rd-party processors that act like first-party processors are able to take more risks (like letting you start taking payments right away without a formal application and underwriting) because they've negotiated permission with their underwriting bank to process payments on behalf of their customers with only one or a few real merchant accounts. By pooling many customers on one account, and charging a premium on the fees, they can absorb more losses and even handle merchants with >1% chargeback rates without the underlying merchant account reaching those risk barriers, which is all Visa/MasterCard/Amex care about... as long as on average, their customers are running legitimate, healthy businesses.
If I had to guess, I'd say better cache locality. It's tremendously more expensive to go to main memory for something than to go to the cache.
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Please no. More useless busybodies and paperwork. It would probably be cheaper to extend unemployment benefits.
While I share some of your misgivings about simulating brains, you do have to remember that giving lots of money to scientists for basic research is bound to come up with something useful and might as well lead to serendipitous results, regardless of hubris or wild ambitions. If only grant proposals that would very likely lead to something would be accepted, then there would be no basic research. The value of basic research is only cashed out much later, if at all.
App quality.
You could start your own company, be your own employer and work as much as you feel like.
Using meld with git diff
wasd is basically the standard for movement control in pc (as opposed to console) first person shooters
Quality seems to be the biggest complaint.

With availability it's usually just that Android plays second fiddle. For example, Madden Social is iOS and facebook, but not Android (it's like Words with Friends for the football crowd).
Love the idea! Thanks!
I think it would be better to not force users into watching the whole trailer by activating the controls so I can skip a boring/uninteresting scene or just quickly jump into the parts that interests me more in the trailer.
This is truly exciting - even if the project does not achieve the final goal of 'simulating' the human brain, the discoveries along the way will be invaluable.
Embracing Ideas is How New Things Happen
Such a limit exists within the EU already. The working-time directive[1] limits people to 48 hours work per week. High unemployment is unfortunately still about despite this. As to reducing this to a lower number, the UK already has 1 in 10 people 'underemployed'[2]. Fewer hours would of course be preferable, but housing and a disposable income does come first.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive
[2]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20526259
If you're wealthy, that's of course an option: your ability to do whatever the fuck you want is completely unconstrained by any need to eat or pay for shelter or healthcare. In other cases, you have to balance risks and material necessities, which sometimes (often) requires bending to external constraints and doing things you do not, in fact, want to do. And what your options are there strongly depends on prevailing economic/legal/social norms.
I think this is a bad idea on so many levels. But all those aside, just think of all the other research that’s not getting funded because of these assholes.
If gas is cheaper per watt than electricity, then you save money by heating with gas and lighting with high-efficiency light bulbs.
Cybersmart challenge
Credits to evasi0n jailbreak detailed in JS source code snippet
Apple's AppStore.com makes stealth Super Bowl debut
DRM is quite frequently a brilliant parody of itself.
Specialize in sex toys or adult product introduction
I heard a story, perhaps apocryphal, that the national government commissioned a study a few years back to investigate ways to curb this practice.

The committee was disbanded after a minor scandal when it was discovered that they were making everyone come in on Saturdays to work.
I for one welcome our new supercomputer overlords.
It seems to me that building a complete model of the human brain would necessarily be identical to creating a strong AI. If they build an incomplete model of a human brain then they have nonetheless created an (incomplete) strong AI.
We've tried this experiment - it's called XHTML. For a long time, adoption by authors of the strict error handling it offered was stymied by lack of support in MSIE. So it's not a full counter-factual. However, we have learned two things:

(1) Now that MSIE does support true XML parsing of XHTML, almost no one is choosing to use it over HTML.

(2) Of the few experts who conditionally served either text/html or application/xhtml+xml depending on the UA, or serve XML unconditionally now, almost all have bugs in their sites which can get them to produce ill-formed XML which then shows an error page in the browser (for instance, submitting comments with certain sorts of errors). This is evidence that the draconian error handling approach is too challenging even for experts and imposes the costs of small mistakes on users.
You are allow to do what ever the fuck you want until you die just don't expect me to give you money for doing what ever the fuck you want. As I too am doing what every the fuck I want, which happens to include only giving money to people who do something useful for me.