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I used to think all the fuss about women being treated differently was in large part an exaggeration in this day and age. But then a few months ago I woke up from a dream vision of Storm (from the X-Men movies) being 'strong'. Weird because I've never even seen the movies. But the "strength" was forced and farcical in the absence of actual depth of character.

What struck me was that that was a fairly subtle observation, nevermind examples of e.g. discrimination that is much more obvious. So that vision raised the question of what else had eluded my perception, and made clear that there is still a lot of progress to be made.
Demand isn't the only thing that sets a price. Competition keeps prices low.
We get weekends off -- so that's around ~100 days at least.
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I should add that these aren't primarily border control devices. Legitimate use-case would be searching a phone seized in an arrest after obtaining a wiretap order for it. They police end up using them to read your entire digital life as long as an officer says that, in his judgement, you may have been texting while driving.
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> A proper basic income is fucking trivial to implement. Give every member of society X amount of money per T time period.

Just like that, huh? Pray tell, where does the money come from? Magic money pixies just conjure up limitless amounts of money and sprinkle it everywhere, and the only effect that has is that now everyone has money!

> This has nothing to do with socialism. The means of production do NOT change ownership.

Oh, a Marxist.
What's the point of this article?

A fairly safe sentence: This article cost less to write than it will make in ad revenue.

Another fairly safe sentence: What is the point of any arbitrary article you find in a newspaper?

The dangerous sentence follows that one.
First, neither China nor Russia are capitalist. They have market-ish economics with strong authoritarian government management of the economy. 43% of China's industrial and business profit results from state owned companies.

Second, Russia is doing better now than it was at the tail end of the Soviet Union, but technologically it progressed far more during Soviet rule than it has since. Before the Soviet Union Russia was a total, agrarian, rural backwater. Chronically a hundred years behind the rest of Europe. The Soviets built all the technology and infrastructure that is keeping the country going to this day.
Not so naive. Read enough Soviet history, and you see how desperate the Communist leadership was to provide their citizenry with household goods comparable to those available in the West. It's as if one of Ronald Reagan's major policy struggles was ensuring every house had a microwave oven.

The inability to simulanteously fund a superpower-level military establishment while enabling a rich "lifestyle" for the people led Gorbachev into the economic and governmental reforms that ultimately undermined the regime.
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My favorite part is here: http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/#51.9004,4.5486,16

There's a building older than my country sitting right next to one built while I was in college. The casual blend of old and new is one of the things I love about European culture.

I'm sure it's found in many other places on our humble planet, but I've only been to Europe (so far!).
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One of the tenants of basic income is that you don' discriminate who gets it. The economic impact of everyone having some fraction (relative to their monthly checks) of demand met regardless of employment is something we have never seen. Additionally, all those unemployment / SSI projects are probably less popular because its discriminatory. With BI everyone from a homeless guy on the street to Bill Gates would get a check.
That is because of the load of the Uber server. Also afaik (the api doesn't explain) it only shows available cabs, i'm currently seeing around 20 in London.
> Education was still affordable, even if we couldn't put ourselves throu school like we did in the 90s.

Um. Education debt is now the single largest source of debt in the country, and it's rapidly expanding. A sector in which cumulative debt is consistently expanding is by definition "not affordable". In the last decade, prices at schools in my area have quintupled. I dare anyone to say that the value of the degree purchased has kept equivalent pace.
Maybe its the stuff that I watch, but I've just finished reviewing "Neon Genesis Evangelion" where Ritsuko describes the super-computer system that runs Nerv. The three computers are dubbed "Three Magi" (and named after the Biblical characters), and the whole base refers to their judgement in all things. The three computers were designed after Dr. Naoko Akagi's personality (Ritsuko's mother):

* She as a Scientist
* She as a Mother
* She as a Woman

It was Caspar, the supercomputer built after Dr. Naoko's personality as a "Woman" who defeated the 11th angel (with assistance of Dr. Ritsuko, the current maintainer of the supercomputers).

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In more recent games, Portal and Portal 2 are famous for the female character and female villain. GladOS, the evil supercomputer, is more than just cunning, she is meticulous, calculating, scientific. She is driven by experimentation and wants nothing more than to discover more about science.

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Saber, of the Fate series, is gender-crossed King Author who magically has teleported to the modern era. (In Fate series, King Author was always female, but history books have rewritten that fact). Cheezy, I know, but she's a great character. She is chivalrous, honorable, and a "fair fighter" above all. Though the series, she contemplates her miscalculations at the end of her reign. She was forced to kill her own child (Moldred), and her last memories of the era was her left dying on the battlefield (before magic teleported her into the modern era).

Ironic, because Saber is originally from a Japanese Visual Novel H-Game. But her character is deep, beyond just "strong". Granted, she is very very "strong". She is arguably the most powerful Servant who was summoned in the 5th War, and certainly stronger than the "Master" who summoned her. But her character goes far far deeper than just "I'm stronger than you".

Although, her interactions in the 4th War (Fate/Zero) were definitely better written. As Saber, the honorable king of knights, is forced to fight along side Kiritsugu (who is willing to use underhanded techniques, including ones that may kill and maim innocent bystanders).

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People tell me Laura Croft was a good character in the recent game. I haven't gone through it yet though, so I can't comment on it.

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I mean, yeah, fiction is filled with crappy _male_ heroes who are nothing but "strong". The article brings up Superman, and also brings up Buffy. (I argue Xena, Warrior Princess, is a better 90s example of a poorly written "strong" female character however). These are all shallow characters, be they female or male. It simply isn't fair to compare Sherlock Holmes against such crappy characters.

But entertainment is about finding and highlighting the best characters across all genres of fiction. It seems to me that the one who wrote this article just isn't familiar with any stories with interesting and unique female characters.

To which I respond: he's certainly not watching / reading the same stuff I've been seeing.
It may not be slavery but it sounds rather like a reinvention of the workhouse.
It really depends on the type of app you're building. If you're Twitter, a single-page app probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense, which I'm sure is why they backpedaled from that strategy. If you're Asana, then a single-page app makes a lot of sense. It has to do with just how many dynamic things you want happening on the page.
The whole article is about fictional characters, not real life female heroes.
And those without health care insurance can presently walk into any community health center to receive subsidized health care free of charge.
Even illegal aliens can get free health care right now, so how will the ACA affect those without health care insurance?
I grew up in a family that was receiving money from the government (Québec, Canada). My mother was very sick, you see? Thanks to that money, she saved enough to sent me and my brother to school.

Now, I make decent money. I pay lots of taxes. Every paycheck, I pay in tax what we would receive for a month when I was a kid.

Trust me from firsthand experience. You want to give money to poor people. Why? Because this money is used to send the kids to school. To put food on the table. To slowly get some education. Do you really believe that people will only buy drugs with the money you give them? That they will gamble it away? Bullshit. Go out, meet some people.
Thank you. People live in poverty because they don't know how to not live in poverty. We think we can buy our way out of the problem by providing housing, foodstamps, welfare (or, as proposed, scrapping all those things and providing a "basic income") but all this really does is make poverty a bit more comfortable without actually teaching those in poverty that everything they know about how to live is wrong and counterproductive and contrasting that with what works.

From the article: A Basic Income Guarantee would establish economic security as a universal right. It gives each of us the assurance that, no matter what happens, we won’t go hungry.

I don't see that it provides that guarantee at all. It doesn't mandate that the money be spent on food, housing, or anything sensible. One of the things that people in living in long-term (generational) poverty tend to do is to immediately spend any money they get on "escaping" the drudgery of their survival, e.g. on alcohol or drugs, flashy jewelry or clothing, gambling or other entertainment. It simply doesn't occur to them that money can be managed, invested, or saved. If you don't break this way of looking at life, then the money will be gone in a week or two (or less) and they'll struggle for the rest of the month until the next payday comes, and repeat the cycle again.

[Edit: Cite for my last paragraph: A Framework For Understanding Poverty, Ruby K. Payne]
I also find this online utility useful when I don't have c++filt (another program available to Linux distros) available:

http://pear.warosu.org/c++filtjs/

This can be used to demangle C++ names.
Glad you asked this, it's something we're constantly pondering. Right now the answer is yes, though we don't do it ruthlessly and our overall philosophy is to show that we truly care about everyone involved. We ask the team member if they feel it's appropriate, rather than forcing it. We've actually not lowered someone's salary in this way yet, though it seems sensible that it would happen.

The fact is that the living costs (largest chunk being accommodation) varies so drastically, that it feels hard to justify having the same salary and basing salary purely on skill, with the assumption that location truly is a choice and people have chosen to live somewhere cheaper. We have people who end up paying $2,500/mo rent and others where it is more like $800/mo or even less.

In addition, we always want to pay people more if they choose to move somewhere more expensive, it seems unfair if someone gets used to a salary in one place and suddenly they move somewhere much more expensive, and we don't help them out.

I'd love any more thoughts you have on this :)
Simple bashrc function

# go up X directories
up_dir() {
num_of_dirs=$1
for i in $(seq 1 $num_of_dirs)
do
cd ..
done
}
alias up=up_dir

Usage:

$ pwd
/home/user/svn/automation/puppet/trunk/modules/ossec/templates
$ up 4
$ pwd
/home/user/svn/automation/puppet
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"Beta" quality products would never have shipped back then, at least successfully. Something happened in the 10 years that has allowed companies to ship unfinished products, and for consumers to feel lucky to participate.
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Sure, but if we posit that we have a functioning capitalist system right now, then prices are already at a natural low due to the existence of competition. In markets where competition is actually healthy, prices should have already reached an economically viable minimum. If the government shows up and says "k, we're taking an extra 15% of your income to fund this program", then suddenly your net revenues are lower than you can afford for them to be, and you have to make up the difference somewhere. That means either improving the efficiency of production (which basically means firing workers and working your existing workers harder, barring some technological leap) or raising prices.

Competition keeps prices balanced; it doesn't drive them arbitrarily low. Nobody will sell at a price that doesn't allow them to sustain their business.
You misread the article. Todd, pictured with the short hair, is the one who previously lived in car and now has an apartment.
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Awesome. The ads are the best part. I loved finding the very Gateway 2000 model I was lucky enough to get that year. With the "Windows Programmer Pack"!
>Can someone please explain to me why a BI wouldn't simply result in higher prices, resulting in the need for a higher BI, resulting in higher prices, resulting in the need for a higher BI, etc?

Of course it would. But there is no reason to think that an equilibrium couldn't / wouldn't be reached.

>The endgame of the first option is Zimbabwe.

We can get Zimbabwe or Weimar Germany without BI.

> The endgame of the second option is Marxist communism; the point at which the system reaches stability is the point at which there is nobody left to extract extra money from to distribute.

For that to be necessarily true, we'd need to already be in a sort of Malthusian crisis, and/or have a resource scarcity. Sure, it might happen, but it is not a certainty.

>why would it be different here?

People still strive for wealth, why would they stop just because of all-you-can-eat-beans-and-rice buffet and health care?
Of course it's a valid complaint. Just because the US has a number of, lets call them unfortunate, stances on the definition on freedom doesn't mean they can't make complaints.
But you must admit that this does make them seem somewhat hypocritical?
Ohh, I see, array-of-structures/structure-of-arrays trouble.
This is very useful, thanks! I'd previously encountered the suboptimal behaviour of random sampling but was unaware of this technique. The results are aesthetically pleasing---especially Figure 11.
I have always thought that a lot of so called strong female characters in TV and movies are essentially, to a greater and lesser degree, a male submissive fantasy, and nothing to do with feminism or equal status.

The trick to getting it right might well be to just let decent female writers write female characters. Heh, at least then if we still get the same, it their fault!!!!
I don't understand what you are saying. Do you mean while Storm is "strong", she has no depth, whereas male X-Men character are both strong and having depth? Or what is the problem (apart from judging society by a Hollywood movie about superheroes)?
I can easily verify my phone is in a pouch, but I can't easily verify if my phone is really off.
The thing about luxury goods is that they are, well, luxuries. Nobody has to buy them.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-08-16/news/9301300112_...
The SFC is a bit bland, but not as annoying as the 'hotshot.' You know, the incredibly attractive yet unattached 30-something career woman who just happens to be the best damn pilot/hacker/narco/sniper/pathologist/demolition-expert on the team, and a convenient love interest for the maverick male lead.
Okay, I can accept that. Let's run some numbers: What are we going to set BI at? There are 228 million adults in the US. If we set BI at a nice round number, say $1,000/month (equivalent to a full-time $6.00/hour job with 2 weeks paid vacation per year), we have to come up with $228 billion dollars per month to fund it. How much of that is a luxury tax going to cover?
This could be an interesting experiment on a small scale. Maybe a small-medium US state could try it and see what happens. That's the Federalist approach, which we seem to have forgotten about (the article advocates doing it for the entire US, which would be a ridiculously reckless and disruptive thing to do without proving it on a smaller scale first).

One drawback that would really concern me is: can people borrow against their basic income? That could be bad in so many ways. In fact, I could see that destroying the entire system. You could have people back at the food bank, and you ask them where their $10K went, and they tell you they have $500/mo in debt service.

But to eliminate that, you'd basically have to prevent people from making any forward promises dependent on that money, which could include things like apartment leases. I guess you could try making a web of special-case exceptions and loopholes by which you could do long-term housing leases but not long-term TV leases; but that sounds like it's turning the simple system into an accounting mess.

There are also numerous other drawbacks. People will still make bad choices and still end up with serious problems, so we'll still need other programs.
Hollywood writes strong female characters because it can't write realistic women characters (something like 90% of produced scripts are written by men). All it can do is caricatures: Bella from twilight on one hand and the Kung-Fu princess on the other.

It's just the flip side of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test; http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/10-famous-films-th... http://thehathorlegacy.com/why-film-schools-teach-screenwrit....

One of the shows I really like is Orange and Black. By setting the show in a women's prison, the writers are forced to develop a range of female characters who don't just sit around talking about men.

Tilda Swinton's character in Michael Clsyton is also great. So is the female Israeli soldier in World War Z.
Edit: Downvotes for what? Is it really enough to select a few movie posters with more men than women on it to confirm a theory?

How many thousands of movies are there? Does this analysis really hold any water at all? I seem to remember movies with all kinds of female characters. So I suspect that article just picks some unfavorable movies and makes a fuss.

Apart from that, there may be real world reasons for less women being "heroes", that is, putting themselves into the line of fire. The simple reason being that they don't have to.
I think you're right! My mistake, thank you for correcting me.

So maybe that's not relevant statute in this case? What else could "obstruction of an agency proceeding" refer to?
I'm pretty heavy on voluntarism and libertarianism, but a counterargument here is that when people are given the choice, they allow poverty, because there has always been poverty.

It doesn't help that one of the major ways to get wealthy is to be very apathetic to the suffering of others. A lot of the runaway profit centers that can get people really wealthy depend on what is already borderline extortion (landlords abusing tenants, healthcare costs, credit cards that predate on the poor).

Also, the main argument about BI is that you don't pick winners or losers at all. From square one, you don't pick sides. You say "every citizen of adult age is authorized to get $2000 a month" the end. You eliminate all the other welfare, you could even possibly eliminate public healthcare, and just do a raw wealth redistribution.

While it would be nicer if we could get a 99% econonmically literate society of people who can't be taken advantage of who are eternally vigilent to protect their economic interests and behave rationally in all interactions, we can't pull that off. And I think the last 30 years have well demonstrated what happens when people who live to make money off others focus entirely on making money off people who aren't focusing on fighting that battle - they win. By a landslide. And they can crush an entire middle class by way of a cultural apathy to it.

And we can't easily fix it, at least not while people are destitute. If everyone was more prosperous, their heirarchy of needs was well taken care of, maybe over a hundred years you could transition to a culture of intellectualism and personal introspection so that you could dissolve violent theft of profits and let people interact as rational informed actors, but we don't have that right now, the problems are only getting much worse, and the worse they get the less likely you are to stand a chance to achieve a truly free society.
To me THIS is the crux of the problem. Basic Income is only needed IF there won't be enough jobs left. Which is an actual possibility. BUT history predicts otherwise. So the question is: Is this time different enough? Is this the moment that automation gets so good, people aren't needed anymore? ... I don't know.
Just installed 8.1 RTM ... it was bad.

First annoyance - you could not not create MS account and keep going on with local unless you pulled out the lan cable. No thanks.

Than comes the driver signing - it took me 3 hours to get my Cisco VPN working because the OS installed the drivers but refused to launch them (no object found).

On top of that I could not disable compatibility assistant (PCA) even if I stopped the service, Group Policy, from the registry etc. So it put hard block to install Comodo Firewall ... and no way to install it.

MS continue to lock down the platform. That is not nice. Lets hope that the after-Ballmer with move it in different direction.
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That's what I like about the mind of an entrepreneur- the ability & desire to innovate.

San Francisco has through the roof high rent? Well, why not innovate & live in an RV? An innovative way to overcome the problem of containing personal costs. Also, this is a way to actually own something that can open up some very cool travel possibilities as well.
Similarly, in zsh cd -n will take you to the nth-most-recent directory. 'dirs -v' will show the current state of the directory stack... you can do things like "dirs -v" + "cd -6" to figure out the number to use, then go to that directory.
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