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Brazil is not near as "maravilhoso" as we want it to be.

But it's far from the worse place you could have been born into. So have just a little gratitude. You could be living in Kenya or Haiti right now.

Disseminating false stereotypes will not help you, neither your country friends. So if you don't have anything useful to say, just stay quiet. It's not worth the karma.

I don't care if you have 10+ years experience with international payments, your word is not enough. Show me some source.

As even yourself pointed, it's not about money transfer/payment, is about draconian labour law. So don't make a fool of yourself.
you're defending the author for wishy washy terminology. This is no different than someone who writes a screed against socialism, or affirmative action, and then pivots around and says "not all of it is bad"
Who is going to determine what growth is good and which is bad. Is growth in food output bad? Growth in HackerNews readership? Growth in tablet or smartphone usage? Growth in the number of people on the internet?
You can't just rail against growth and then hand-wave an exit from the argument. Specifics are needed.
This argument happens so often there's a shorthand for it on WP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS (ie, WP:OSE).

The short answer is, those other articles without references should also be put up for AfD.

The intended outcome of the AfD process isn't deletion; it's "delete unless we can find better sources", and proponents of the article are asked to find those sources. Here, the only external source found was a conference presentation by the author of the language, who was himself not WP-notable, at a conference in which most of the other presentations were also about prima facie non-notable languages.
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Like nothing, there is no problem with it. Just leave it alone. This whole "oh god we're the sum of all human knowledge please give us money" tripe is a bit hard to swallow when there's more information getting deleted than being created.
Isn't this likely to be at least part of the point of Ingress in the first place?
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Wow, was that a nerve he hit?
Things aren't over-engineered, they're poorly engineered. It's supposed to be the art of taking away until nothing unnecessary left. The common practice is to replace things which are difficult to engineer or expensive to manufacture with electronics and _that_ is the failure.
It is elliptically mentioned, via the link to this wonderful pull request: https://github.com/bitly/dablooms/pull/19
I agree with most of this article except for the main point; I think that "Growthism" and capitalism are synonymous. Growthism seems to be a scapegoat for the very real short comings of capitalism. Fact is that capitalism requires constant growth or it will fail. The real issue is valuing private property over the sacred right of life and that is what CAPITALism means.
I would also like to see a more radical approach. E.g. one making use of graphic features. Why is my auto-completion completely text-based instead of being fully graphical like in a real browser? It's a waste of screen space having fixed row size.

Maybe evolution will also go the other way around: Nautilus and other file browsers have rudimentary shell-like use & feel, e.g. when searching for something. Extending that could create some interesting features.
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Curdling is a package installer for Python just like pip. However, its concurrent design makes it much much faster than pip.
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> Is EE shop sites you would have visited before the search?

No. I think you might be parsing his statement wrong - it's not "have searched" as in searched for previously, it's "have searched for a PRODUCT" as in, your search is for a product (something purchasable in a store, preferably an online store) as opposed to something else.

The Bloom filter figures out if your search is for a product, and if it is, puts that box w/ sponsored links to stores that sell that product up at the top of your results.
True or not, it's an interesting attack vector. Makes me wonder (again, assuming this is real) if it was designed that way or perhaps the manufacturer was compromised/firmware modified (although why would an iron need firmware?). I imagine we'll probably see more attacks using unconventional attack vectors in the future; the Chinese hackers using a thermostat to maintain persistence in the US Chamber of Commerce springs to mind [1]. Something that you bring in and connect willingly to your network would be devastating. Can you imagine buying a new TV, toy for your kids or some other high-tech wifi-enabled device and later discovering that it would periodically arp-poison your laptop?

[1] (see section titled "Lying in wait", about halfway down the article) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers...
Study aids. Flash cards I could make on my desktop & use from my mobile browser at the bus stop or whatever. Teachers might pay to create decks. Sharing decks might be popular. Featured curriculum specific decks might make money.
Interesting that iPad sales were flat year over year. I would have thought it would have contracted without new iPads launched.

Also the big increase in iPhone sales year over year jives with what Asymco has posted about Android peaking. The easy growth from feature phones being replaced by low-end Android devices is over.
There are problems with it.

The simplest problem is that the whole charter of WP is to cover notable topics with reliable sources; that's the idea behind the project and has been forever.

One practical problem with it is that when none of your sources are independent or notable, disinterested parties can't fact-check anything, and the encyclopedia is only as accurate as cliques of interested editors choose to make it.

Once again, your argument relitigates the whole concept of WP. You don't have to like the concept, but you can't pretend that their adherence to their own charter is somehow a sign of dysfunction.
The latter - probabilistic in the sense of having a defined error rate. In one of our use cases, the keys are simply kmers and the values are organism or gene IDs.
The world will keep spinning?

I think the assumption you're making is that humans only have sex because it feels good, and not for the explicit purpose or the creation of life. If people want children, they'll procreate regardless, even if it doesn't feel as good as robot sex.
I think you're mistaken. The author is very careful in his use of the term growthism versus growth. He doesn't at any point explicitly define what growthism is, but that's because the whole point of the essay is to introduce the concept to a new audience, so most of the essay is given over to (an admittedly diffuse) description of what, exactly it is.

your point that the essay seems ranting, is valid, and definitely a weak point.
I'll spend some time trying to come up with a fairer term than "clown", but it's hard when I come across gems like:

Goddammit I love rolling into hipster cafes at 7:30 am and making them burn with racist anger.
So you think they paid for a Microsoft OS Server, but then decided to use an open-source DB? I bet is that they're Microsoft-stack from top to bottom.
The important take-away from your statement, though, is that these people are still getting food. The fact that developed nations have the basic survival necessities taken care of to the point that everyone has time and money to spend on things as seemingly frivolous as smartphones (and the fact that something as insane as a smartphone is even affordable) is a testament to capitalism, not a point against it.
I'm not a iPhone (I have Nexus 4) user but looking at the screenshots of iOS 7 it looks way better than iOS 6, why are the people complaining? Have they made the usability worse, or are they used to the "old" (in my opinion ugly) look of iOS6?

I'm not a smartphone user at all, but I do have an iPad that I use frequently.

I find iOS 7 sterile, lifeless, joyless, and flat. I like colors and depth, and iOS 7 seems all about being colorless and flat.

That's just my opinion, though. Others, I'm sure, enjoy the iOS 7 look and feel.
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It seems like economic growth is the only variable being optimized in an uncertain world with many other important objectives and constraints. We could seek to maximize the median income of citizens, happiness, life expectancy, or many other factors. Yet, the goal of Government, Industry, and Academia is to maximize economic growth while mostly ignoring the human beings that should be served by the economy.
The nerve Umair Haque's writing touches in me is that it is handwavy ranting and raving. A lot of his arguments, when looked at closely, seem kind of hollow. They're ... intellectual junk food - they have some flavor when you're chewing them, but there's not much substance, and there are a lot of additives that aren't that good.
> Luckily, in this world of "skyrocketing" poverty, surely only the top 1% can afford such indulgences, right? It's not as if innovation and a growing economy have put them in the hands of more than a hundred million Americans.

American consumer debt is at $11.15 trillion [1]

and 76% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck [2]

By definition, the masses can't afford those indulgences, they're just putting themselves into servitude for the rest of their lives.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-usa-fed-consume...

[2]http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/
Good point, but evolution works on larger timescale. Are we any good at building bridges that can last more than millenia? How about two? How about twenty five?

I'm just saying humans tend to optimize for the short term.

Suffering is essential because without suffering, there is no empathy.

I'm reminded of the episode http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Masterpiece_Society_%28e... in which a technology created to help blind, helps crew to save the society, which couldn't conceive it because it was too perfect.
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My G4 Cube ran everything from OS9.0 to 10.5. That's a fairly big stretch too.
So I go to the website, and I can't see any "files"... Oh I have to login? Pff, whatever. Don't waste my time. Bye.
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This is a very prominent tool, thanks for it
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What are the different rendering modes referenced by the help text? I couldn't detect any difference after hitting the space bar.

Very cool effect!
I had the same reaction: to me they were contradicting themselves in no more than two sentences. Then I read on and followed links: http://zuckerbergfiles.org/?page_id=41

So this is indeed a copyright issue. Like all copyright issues, bittorrent is the answer.
See my other comment above/below. When I see his byline, I skip the article: I know it's just going to irritate me.
Markets are hammering AAPL. Down $15 (about 3%) after-hours.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=aapl
That causes a constant stream of Argentineans crossing the border. It's extremely profitable on both sides.

It's caused a major disruption of commerce here in Uruguay, lots of people go to Buenos Aires to buy stuff (mostly clothing, etc).

My girlfriend studies in Buenos Aires because it's cheaper to take the ferry and pay courses in Argentinean pesos than to pay the course in Uruguay ! (plus, Buenos Aires is a much larger city and has a better selection).
Here is an incomplete list of web emulators

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That something this mindless could clear not only the HBR, but race to the top of HN? You bet.
The Barter (Trueque) Markets in Argentina is also an interesting parallel economy. I'm not sure if they're still happening, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsn_cCXHAvE
> One could make the argument that free marketism inevitably brings about capitalism which inevitably turns into growthism.

I wouldn't make the first part of that argument, because I'm not convinced that "free marketism" is even a real thing, much less a precursor of capitalism. It seems to be position presented as a rhetorical defense of capitalism, but doesn't seem to exist independently.

But what this article calls "growthism" is one of the core features of capitalism called out by the people who named it. Capitalism doesn't inevitably turn into growthism, it is (or, at least, includes as an essential feature) growthism.

> Much like Benjamin Tucker's argument that Marxism inevitably ends in Stalinism (he made this argument as a contemporary of Marx, so this wasn't hindsight).

Stalinism -- or, more to the point, Leninism -- requires both Marxism and an environment that is unlike the ones described by the descriptive elements of Marxism in a particular way into which one attempts to translate the prescriptive elements. Given those ingredients, I'd agree that its pretty much inevitable that something like Leninism will at least be attempted.

Marxism itself doesn't inevitably become Leninism/Stalinism, but its existence makes the existence of such a system quite likely.

> I happen to actually believe Schumpeter's model better (that capitalism turns to gas and water socialism turns to growthism).

I would argue more that the empirical evidence is that capitalism plus the existence of socialist ideas leads fairly usually (even if not inevitably) to a variety of mixed systems that feature a basically capitalist structure with socialist elements (including growthism), of which "gas and water socialism" is an example.
Starbucks and mcdonalds has open wifi, Aa lot of cafes and food courts in malls. Private access points are usually WPA/WPA2
As a private company the financials are private of course, but take this as you will:

"Dropbox’s ascent has been just as stunning. The 50-million-user figure is up threefold from a year ago, and it has solved the “freemium” riddle, with revenue on track to hit $240 million in 2011 despite the fact that 96% of those users pay nothing. With only 70 staffers, mostly engineers, Dropbox grosses nearly three times more per employee than even the darling of business models, Google. Houston claims it’s already profitable but won’t reveal margins."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbo...

That's from 2 years ago, with 50M users. They now have 175M users. Extrapolate as you will.
I checked and yes. Which bugs me even more.

Come on, guys, put up or shut up. If you've made the kind of advance in machine learning that entitles you to talk about human-level cognition, take out a patent and then publish some freaking papers. Or take over the world.

There are accepted ways of proving claims like this, and founding company after company without releasing a product or publishing research isn't one of them.
Think about what happens to the stock price of a company once it stops growing. It falls through the floor. It could be making enough money to pay all of its employees, and making the world a better place, but if it doesn't grow, then if it has already gone public, the stock price sinks, and all of the employees who hold stock lose a lot of money. If it hasn't gone public, then the VC's get really upset. An example of such a company was Cygnus Support, which was in no danger of going out of business, and it was supporting a hundred or so engineers and their families, which were producing high quality open source code (such as GCC, gdb, etc.) so it was certainly making the world a better place. But it was considered a failure because it didn't give the VC's a lucrative exit. That's growthism. Fortunately for Cygnus's VC's, finally Cygnus got bought by Red Hat many years later.

But Red Hat is going to end up in a similar boat; as a public company, if it can't figure out a way to sustain an significant growth every year, forever, the stock price will get punished. And of course, the problem is that companies can't produce a sustained compounded growth forever, because sooner or later compounded growth will cause the company's required revenues to exceed the world's GDP. So the trick is to stay on the rocket ship as long as you can, and then sell the stock to a greater fool before it tips back towards earth. And that's growthism, too....
>We should be upset that our society has managed to put in our pockets supercomputers connected wirelessly to the world's knowledge?

Sure we should, if the tradeoff required to create a society that can produce such devices is that the vast majority of people have no say in the workings of the system, or spend their whole lives teetering on the edge of insolvency, or transfer huge environmental and economic burdens onto people either close to home or far away.

It's like watching the movie Soylent Green and coming away asking "we should be upset that their society managed to feed everybody consistently and inexpensively?" Ends can't be judged independently of the means used to achieve them.
The title is a bit misleading. A better title would be "Modern Design = Trust," per this quote:

"An up-to-date design tells you that the company is led by smart, modern people. They’re on top of things. They get it, and as a result, their customers trust them because they feel like the product or service will continue to evolve."
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First google result I found was in the .uk they're 5% of workers and almost 25% of worker deaths. So yeah pretty bad.
Everything you've mentioned except transportation, not counting the Interstate system, was done for national defense purposes, which are very much a duty of the Federal government.

Mercury through Apollo were political stunts. The sequence goes like this: Eisenhower let the Soviets orbit the earth first to let them establish an "Open Space" president; prior to that they were saying any satellites orbiting over their territory were illegitimate.

However at the same time we were competing for allies among the Third World, and our claims of technological superiority took a big hit. So the "space race" began. First was of course Mercury, put a man in orbit, then a couple of years later JFK committed us to "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth"

But it was just a stunt, leaving no infrastructure in place, heck, even finished Saturn Vs were left outside to rot (due to the inevitable delays, Nixon had to cancel the last planned Moon missions because of the sunspot cycle making them too dangerous).

The Interstate system was based on the German Autobahns, and President Eisenhower's experience trying to move on troops on our old system. However we've had a long and very mixed history of Federal involvement in transportation systems, such as the transcontinental railroad scams (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A9dit_Mobilier_of_America... or which went bankrupt (hint: the land grants were the real prize)).

The Internet was developed by/for/with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to allow the sharing of the then very expensive computers.

I trust we all know what pushed the initial development of atomic energy in the US, and as I understand it our first reactors developed to specifically produce power were for submarines, where they made a massive qualitative difference.
One incredible inconsistency is that credit card companies have to pay their clients'debts in dollars, but have to abide by the central's bank currency rate.

For a few months people were going to uruguay and get cash advances on their credit cards, then go back to argentina and sell those dollars. They could make 2-3k pesos per credit card that way, which is basically a minimum wage. In a single day.

Lots of restrictions were made to prevent this, but the issue still applies.

The saddest part of this office is their lack of understanding of economics and Gresham's law. At this pace it is unavoidable that dollars will flee the country because no-one that can keep dollars instead of pesos will.

Honestly, the dollar being 10 pesos is insane. 2 years ago the peso was 4.11 to the dollar. Not to mention that public officials know all the illegal market places and dont shut them down, pointing to a large corruption scheme.
Interestingly, the article appears behind a registration-required modal window, but you can read the whole article by scrolling down and leaving the window in place.
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Totally agree. Working on moving my life in the same direction.

I'll be spending a lot of time on your site, http://wikioverland.org Thanks for the resource!
Ok, I thought it was intended as a counter-measure to targeted bots.
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones. ”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
Is that demo widget custom, or did they use a tool to generate it? Do you know?
Don't make this mistake of confusing "being irritating" for "having a point". It is easy to be both irritating and very wrong.
I'm not sure more regulation is always the only solution. But, I'm willing to concede that in the market regulation has built, more and better regulation may be the fastest way to a fairer and more consumer-friendly market.

If there were actual competition in the telco market, we might have a better market without more regulation. But, the telcos were declared a "natural monopoly" and became enforced by law before any of us were born. There have been waves of "deregulation" since, and most stages have led to better treatment of consumers, but still the regulation in place obviously picks winners and makes it impossible to compete with them, thus insuring we remain with effective monopolies on the last mile.

I'm not an ideologue on this, or much of anything else, these days. I tend to like market solutions, if they can be made to work. But, sometimes we end up with the worst of all worlds, and only more regulation can provide some relief. Telcos are one example of this, in the US. Health care is another. Going to more regulated, more subsidized, health care was probably the only sane way forward, given how screwed up our health care and health insurance market is. It's not what I would want, if we were starting from scratch...but, we're pretty far down that rabbit hole. Going back up and starting over with a market solution would probably be even more disastrous than staying put and trying to build some reasonable services down here in the dark (that analogy isn' a very good one, I admit).

A level playing field could be achieved by not having the state elevate some players to an unattainable position above all others. Knocking them down after putting them up there is fine, too, I guess...but they've got a lot of power once they're up there. And, they're willing to lobby and fight tooth and nail to keep those advantages and that license to print money at the expense of everyone else. I'm arguing more for, "Hey, let's never let the state elevate some companies above others in the future." more than "Hey, let's let the most powerful companies set the rules forever, and not regulate their ability to 'compete'."