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some ideas i got while reading your interesting post, sketched them out and think are interesting and useful for someone to consider but not important enough for me to bother arranging into cohesive structure (and so potentially asis contain some nonsense, lol):

consider/distinguish/define innocence vs unawareness vs incompetence

innocent of what ?

is it ok to eat cows ? distinguish from unconscious / unaware / stupid / mentally challenged humans at a biological level - self reflection in another person ? empathy ? isn't that really selfish.. (is selfishness wrong anyways)

yes law | crime != justice | morality

however
internal sense of justice, morality - some forms of it (internalised socialism/communism) are a heavy burden and disadvantage, objectively wrong

because

thoroughly exploited by weak / lazy / unlucky people and groups, and various degrees of sociopaths
and most of all exploited by the great unaware masses - innocents ? - muppets ?

otoh social cooperation beneficial to all (if that is _the_ goal) only if driven by free will in a way that benefits each member according to his own estimate of his own needs & desires and willing sacrifices to trade .. (benefits vs costs)

is morality guided by relative quantity of beneficiaries/victims & 'quality' of some definitions and scopes of benefit vs harms
relative harm or good, does an objective 'detached' harm / goodness exist without context. (harm / goodness are not nouns, not objects, just results from actions) no 'cold' objective guidelines ..offtopic philosophising

self sacrifice without self benefit = self destruction for someone else's benefit, or no benefit at all - just stupid

re reputation - an external motive, essentially hunger for reward + fear of punishment, at a social level :. potentially a form of hypocrisy, not 'real' internal morality

re omnipresent monitoring - fucking creepy kafkaesque horror show... lol, i think population will creep out waay before it ever happens, privacy awareness is already entering mainstream (snowden, visible hackings, internet driven mainstreamising of countercultures)

..re soros et al: foregoing opportunities to appease the incompetent (or unaware, stupid) is a form of self sacrifice - for people who don't deserve it / appreciate it / fucked over by their own government and muppetry / there's really no reward / stupid and futile
The problems are real, just more diffuse and less immediate (no war to get conscripted off to for example). The big problem right now is the huge shift in the value of human labor resulting from by a whole series of causes (immigration, technological change, movement of capital, globalisation, etc).
Yeah this is a problem. I think a lot of it comes down to cultural value shifts. My wife asks her students why they choose major X or Y and they almost always answer that they think it will help them to get a job. She then asks why they want that job and they say that it's important to be stable and have steady income. These are 18-19 year old kids, mind you. They should not be worried about being stable, they should be plotting adventures and taking risks. But the US has become so crippled by fear (of terrorism, joblessness, the NSA whatever) that a whole generation of kids is growing up and simply being as safe as they can be. And because they don't seek out trouble, they don't get to feel the excitement of overcoming problems, and that's very dangerous in my mind.
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Did you read the grandparent's comment? Some redistribution of wealth is a solution if many people are so much in debt as a result of study loans and unemployment. Being able to survive on your own, rather than living in your parent's basement, gives dignity.

It has worked great for Western European and Scandinavian countries.
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The thing is that the current young ones are still of the belief that no-one has had it hard before; that it was cruisy and easy for everyone before (repeating the pattern of this thought - this isn't unique to gen Y, but to young gens). One gen Y person in my office repeated the mantra to me that "jobs were handed out like candy for the boomers"... yeah, if you were male... and liked working in a factory or other menial jobs. If you were female there was a stigma to working, options were pretty limited, and usually it was legal to be explicitly paid a lower hourly rate.

The Western world we live in is safer in most regards than previously, whether it's food or medical or military. Ten years of war in the middle east killed only a tenth of the US soldiers killed in Vietnam, and there was no conscription. Before the downfall of the USSR, there was a very palpable fear of nuclear war in the West (justified or not) or a sizeable military invasion. Civil and social rights for minorities and women were far, far behind where they are now. In the consumer world, shit is cheaper and more disposable than ever before. Much less need to put effort into maintaining things, just get another one. Hell, even going to the dentist is far easier today with improvements in pain control. What about support services for victims of domestic abuse? Or rape? At least now there are some systems in place where people can get support sometimes (if not always) and it's a recognised problem, rather than in the boomer's youth, when it was a taboo subject and there were no services.

So sure, complain about the current situation of Gen Y folks, but when people complain about how 'easy' previous generations had it, these kinds of things are why it sounds like self-indulgent whining - because they only focus on the good things the boomers had and never recognise the bad things. Not to mention the things that the Boomers did build and give to us.

Gen Y does have hurdles to face, but those hurdles don't have to be defined in how much worse it is than previous generations had it.
I realize that, and know my comment sounds naive - but.

We have people who study earthquakes, and gyroscopes, and nerve disorders. And we have the internet so they can all easily share ideas & research.

Is this idea REALLY so "un-obvious"?
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This is the result of the government being so "open minded" that they end up not looking out for the best interests of their own populous. By "open minded" I mean rapidly (this being the operative word) removing all cross-border controls with countries with wildly differing economies, resulting in wage deflation and joblessness for a huge number of people.

Of course the people hardest hit are those at the bottom of the income chart - the young. At the same time, the cost of living has rocketed as a result of the mishandling of the banking sector, resulting in a housing boom (that from a political perspective cannot be permitted now to be undone and has been subsequently propped up by a heavily indebted the government). Again the worst off have been non-homeowners (i.e. the young).

It's impossible to blame the current administration for all of it, you have to blame the entire political establishment (all 3 main parties have been in power within the last 15 years). Their worldview has to be questioned. Significant errors of judgement have been made repeatedly over the last 15 years - Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria (no action taken by a hairs breadth even after everything that had come before), the banking crisis, handling of the educational system (including higher education), rapidly opening borders to former eastern-bloc countries, limitless spying on UK citizens, no reform of an undemocratic (not elected, but "appointed") European Commission, and migration of law making powers to the EU without consultation and assent by the public (through referendum).
Do we have people who study all three?
Thanks I was really interested in reading their insights but its quite a long read.
We actually received advance warning of this some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7542920

After some consideration and the feedback here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7543196
I decided to inform one major antivirus vendor about it.
They offered their thanks for the warning, but also the opinion that false alerts would be strongly limited since the virus signatures are in files that would generally not be scanned.
The scope of this remains to be seen, but apparently at least Microsoft Security Essentials doesn't handle this entirely without problems.
Underemployment doesn't just come from inappropriate people going to college. I don't have the graphs in front of me, but if you look at jobs as a whole we have a mediocre recovery from the great recession but if you look at the types of jobs it's horrid. That is, white collar jobs where lost and service jobs where gained. So it's more than just people's perceptions.

This is compounded by the republican ideology of transferring risks from the state to the individual. My alma mater cost $3.2k/year in tuition in the late 90s, and now costs $9.4k/year (numbers not inflation adjusted). According to the cpi inflation calculator, tuition has roughly doubled [1]. But that's not all -- course loads are now heavy enough that it can be very difficult to get required classes when needed, and because of sequencing requirements for your major classes it's very easy to accidentally get stuck for an extra 1-2 semesters because you couldn't get the course you needed because of reduced course offerings. Assuming you spend $10/year for books + living expenses, leaving college with ~$40k in debt is significant.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
You've perhaps never been in the "damn, where am I...... Bollocks no signal, I still don't know", situation and that was just 30 miles from home. I bought a gps with the maps loaded at the first opportunity.
That's fascinating. I'd not heard of this before.
Exactly. I don't know how much is gained by playing the generation blame game. If we are going to solve problems we have to work together not spend all the time blaming each other.
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My FAV key combo is simple: FN + Backspace

Since I use the terminal ALOT, this key combo is the same behavior as delete on a full keyboard. It will delete text in front of the cursor.

Another helpful one I found out through trial and error is Fn + Shift + <- OR ->

The above moves the cursors placement to the beginning or end of a terminal prompt. Hope this helps someone else :)
I am happy to see the significant increase in stars, but I do wonder if the same rules apply to both US and non-US users. The report is vague regarding this.
Don't worry. If we continue to leave such a vast portion of our youth on the fringes of society, we'll have plenty of Real Problems again soon enough.
I just watched their demo video at the bottom of their blog post [1]. When making a purchase, they already show line items for Circle Fee and Bank Fee, they're just set to $0. My guess is that this is a promotion for growth, and at some point when they need to kick in a business model, these lines will stop showing $0.

Edit: Also, even if they are showing $0, they could be doing something sneaky like showing the price of bitcoin as higher than they are actually buying it for. If they are doing this, then you are actually paying a fee, it's just hidden.

[1] https://www.circle.com/2014/05/16/circle-update
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Cloud computing is a great theoretical idea, but extremely fragile in the face of serious crisis, like economic meltdown, wars, sanctions or even natural disasters.

All the websites, always-on apps, mobile operating systems, etc will be worthless if (when) the shit hits the fan. In case of global economic meltdown, the companies would be unable to pay for the huge data-centers, the providers will go belly up and it would be next to impossible to restore or recover the data stored in the 'cloud'.

Imagine waking up one day and not having access to the Internet. Try it and see how much you can do with your computer.

And with Russia under KGB dictatorship (read: insane, evil people), that shit can hit the fan as soon as this year.

That's why it is imperative to create an offline database of important things which would be available even when the clouds evaporate.

By 'important' things, I mean open source code (eg. offline github), wikipedia and other encyclopaedias, scientific works, books, music, movies.
From this angle, I consider thepiratebay to be the most important archive of art that humanity has collectively produced.
I've even started working on some sketches of a distributed read-only filesystem based partly on the concepts in the bitcoin blockchain, but I guess a simple solution using torrents plus a distributed offline index, can do the job just fine.
Anyone else thought about this ?
I would say that in a very self-aware, half-ironic, half-serious way, anti-capitalism is one of the few things that gives my life that fuzzy feeling of "meaning" these days.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can reconcile my software skills with lofty goals of a more just society, but it's pretty tough. I think it was the piratebay founder that said it was impossible.

In any case, yesteryear dreams like "starting a prosperous household" seem not only unattainable, but hollow as well, in 2014. It's definitely weird being a young adult these days.

ps. lmao @ "we don't have real problems". I guess massive underemployment, environmental wreckage, domestic espionage, corporate wage fixing, increasingly sophisticated advertising, etc. are all just a blip on the radar compared to the fights of old boys. It's just not as romantic as it used to be, it's the inter-generational equivalent to "poor people have refrigerators".
The are operating as "custodians of customers' digital currency assets" (their words). That means they are a bitcoin/fiat bank.

Commercial banks make money on 1) currency conversion and 2) loans. Circle could offer these services in the future. Not tremendously excited about the announcement today.

The mainstream consumer still has no compelling reason to purchase or use bitcoin over fiat.
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It isn't just the unemployed who suffer from this, it's endemic in our society.
Correlation is not causation. Sorry that was too easy ;P
Funny how "spiritualism" is brought up as a solution in what seems to be an economical crisis.
This could be extended to the ephemeral nature of digital formats and their co-dependence on certain execution environments. As much as I love this example I don't think it's DRM specific.
Could this be grounds for a class action?

> Adobe had categorically assured users and journalists, when replacing Creative Suite with Creative Cloud in May 2013, that apps only needed to check in with the server every 30 days, telling MacUser in a written reply that products would continue to work for 99 days in the absence of a server connection.
IF bitcoin takes of and IF they get a lot of usage, they can make money like banks (e.g. using the funds stored to do high volume trading) or by selling the buying patterns.
Well said. We're all in this shit together, and there aren't teams.
Note that this follows a massive reduction of Soros' gold investments last year: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-19/gold-bear-bets-reac...

Looks like he's simply playing the markets.
My view is we need to built a culture of larger shared visions.

Obvious ones are - 1) bring decent, sustainable standard of living to everyone in the world, 2) colonise space.

I'd quite like 3) understand all laws of physics, and 4) understand how the mind works, but they feel harder to get the whole of society behind.

Lots of marketing and populism chops needed, to sell missions at that level to society in general.
This headline seems to be missing the essential word "some" at the beginning.
It's interesting timing to post this, since the New Yorker explored the data available on hedge funds' returns just yesterday, and found them lacking...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/05/ho...
Step one: Study something & complete studies

Step two: Discover you actually hate all professions associated with your qualifications, or that your qualifications are useless in the job market and your career goals were utterly unrealistic

Step three: Mooch at home unwilling to retrain or do something menial, or with no relevance to your skill set to tide you over whilst you find something better

Step four, establish your new NEET identity and blame society, everyone and everything but yourself for your circumstance and the lack of a suitable high paying job served on a platter

I say this as someone that hasn't completed any education beyond GCSE level (I guess that's college in the US), and has never had any trouble finding paid work several within 10 days and something that I want to do within 60 days of that. I've worked throughout Europe, the UK and Southern Africa.

Apologies for the lack of empathy here, but it really isn't that hard.
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I am really curious what would have happened if the British Government bought DM as well during this period (and maybe not disclose it?) Then they would exit the ERM, and the pound would fall and they would exchange all their money back to sterling and would be rich... :/ I know my logic has a mistake in it... it can't be that simple :P
That's a far cry from "the only topic that matters."

Aside: burn karma burn, if that's the community I don't want to be a part of it
That Fez track seems reminiscent of Roygbiv by Boards of Canada:

http://youtu.be/zO0spqGwX1w
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I'm using Pinterest to collect pictures of watches, cars, retail shops, and many other things. Way better than using Google Images and saving the pics one by one.
You may imagine what it's like in Spain, where over 50% of young people are unemployed and for the most part doing nothing at all. Part of me hates them for not using that time to educate and prepare themselves, but hopelessness is extremely hard to overcome, especially in a society full of distracting elements like successful soccer teams, excellent weather or apparent friendliness.
Have humans always been so defined by their work? Honest question. I personally find a lot of fulfillment in my work. But I don't know how I could expect a janitor at a truck stop to feel the same way.

I feel like the answer to this conundrum -- and in general the long term trend of job obviation -- is to decouple an individual's worth from their economic value.

But what would a world without work look like? I can imagine it being heaven or hell.
Other companies have proven that subscription models work when you get it right.

I pay a yearly subscription for my IDE so I can get major updates.

If I stop paying the software doesn't stop working.

Adobe is just doing what adobe does best - extracting the most amount of money with the worst possible product they can.
Some very troubling trends for young people today:

1) Education has become much more expensive than just 10 years ago - you typically leave college with anywhere upto ~50K in debt

2) The Economy has changed - companies are making do with fewer people despite huge demand - (basically a jobless recovery)

3) Asinine trend of "you need to have a job to get a job" - basically some one already employed has 2-3 job offers but some one starting out has no one willing to take a risk on them

4) Some narrow sectors are indeed booming but most are locked out of them
It was almost certainly "Superoptimizer -- A Look at the Smallest Program" [1], authored by the ingenious Dr. Massalin.

Dr. Massalin is also responsible for "The Synthesis Kernel" [2], a kernel written around the idea of wringing out performance.

Definitely worth a look for speed demon-type programmers like compiler engineers.

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/superoptimizer...
[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/compsystems/1988/...
Whether or not immigration causes the increased unemployment, when there's more unemployed than there are jobs it's pretty hard to argue that immigration, which increases the labour pool, improves the situation.

Establishment EU politicians seem to generally support immigration, which makes sense if one's objective is to lower the cost of labour for business (and weaken the power of unions).
No, immigration filled the jobs that would otherwise stay unfilled and thus moved permanently to other countries because of no possibility to fill them domestically.

On the other side, lost jobs are lost because there's no more need for them. One robot caused one thousand of unemployed factory workers, and the need for this kind of jobs is not going to increase anymore.

Or are you trying to say that lowly skilled workers from closed factories would somehow successfully fill roles in finance or technology, but there are only immigrants staying in their way.
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> Sure, none of them are made by the mainstream brands that the entertainment industry has a hold over

Panasonic Viera E5 can play .MKV files used very commonly by pirates.
It is indeed a sad state of affairs when you have to read the title "Protecting Your Data From Government...".

It highlights the fact that government no longer works for us; that that majority of people either do not care about the issue, or they do care and democracy is a farce.

Of those options, I firmly believe that democracy is a farce.

My 90 year old Gran's father was one of the founder's of the British Labour Party. She says that if someone starts a revolution she she join in. She thinks she is too old to start it, and to be fair she is blind and deaf so she's doing pretty well. We need more people like her.
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>Immigration creating a surplus, or the economy itself hollowing out to eliminate jobs?

Or the economy hollowing out and immigration amplifying the problem. They're certainly not mutually exclusive.
what do you mean by ''an individual's worth''?
I don't agree that life now feels like "treadmill" — life is what you make of it, if you live just to score fancy abroad vacations, buy new phone every year and wear 10 pairs of Tommy Hillfiger jeans... well then your life is a treadmill ;-) It's a matter of perspective and focus in life
Apparently user gottebp did just that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753993
At one point in my life the IRS estimated my income to be a whopping -$500. I could barely feed myself and my wife, who was constantly sick because we couldn't afford insurance or medicine. There weren't any simple things in life back then, because literally every day was a struggle to survive. I would walk to work and she would drive to work. We pulled in a combined $1000 a month and rent alone was well over half that. And we were not living in a luxurious house. It was a roach infested hell hole.

Being poor is about a lot more than just not being able to afford an iPhone. And it's extremely offensive for someone to suggest otherwise.
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All things are empty. That counts doubly for things like patriotism, family life, and career success.

Maybe this realization is just quicker? Maybe this also means a higher ratio of people are happy because they embraced emptyness?
I live in Europe, where there is a lot more regulation on Telecom Companies. My house is in a small village in the woods (45min away from the next Autobahn!) and yet I can get 50Mbps down and 10Mbps up for 50€.

Regulation sets the market incentives. Having no regulation is just the choice to set the incentives to benefit those that control the natural monopoly.