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I moved to Asunción, Paraguay 6 years ago, after having been here twice for language-learning-vacations. It took about 3,5 month to feel fluent but I will learn more language and culture all my life. I came from central Europe and enjoy the warmer weather and the relaxed live style. I put all my stuff in a container and paid about 7.000 USD to including all the packing which I never could have done that well myself, I also could live back home normally until 2 days before I moved. One monitor crashed on the way but the insurance payed for it. I live in a nice apartment of about 2.000 square feet with 24 hours guards, janitor and gardener for 1.000 USD/month.

Good education is expensive here. I meet later today with some US embassy workers and will ask what they pay for their kids.

I want to stay here and planning a marriage, it is really difficult to get a Paraguayan girl to live far from family for a long time. People here are extremely family oriented.

I thought it would be easy to find a job here as a Java/Groovy/Smalltalk/C++ developer, but it was not. You can find work here if you are into M$ technologies or maybe PHP. You will work many hours on boring projects and get paid almost nothing. If you work with a cooler tech stack there is no market here. Since I am here I have learned Scala, object oriented databases, search engines like Lucene and Elasticsearch, node.js and Meteor. All of that is not in use in the country. Finding remote work has never worked for me and only once I found a project for two month in Berlin. A friend who a Java developer is still employed by a German company and moved to rural Paraguay, he is married here and plans to become old here.

Living costs easily doubled since I am here. The quality of life is higher in some areas and lower in others, it always comes down to the compromises one is willing to make.

Last week I helped a guy from Tennessee to get his residency. A friend met him on a flight from Miami to Sãu Paulo, he wanted to get a second passport as an insurance to the limitations on civil rights going on in the US. We ran around for 4 days to get all the papers and seals the government asks for and now he has to wait for 90 days to get his permanent residency. After that he still has to apply for an ID card which will probably take another month.
Thanks for sharing the code, it looks really nice. I can't wait to dig into it little bit more. Good job
No, a pile of floppy disks.

I cannot remember anylonger the exact version.

It was the last version of Slackware to use a.out executable format and IDE ATAPI had just recently been added. My CDROM IDE wasn't supported during boot time, only after installation, hence the workaround.
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is there an example picture w/ alt styles?
The issue to me is more that our education system is so shitty these authors don't even know what math is or that they're doing it every work day. We combine abstract symbols and attempt to logically reason about how that will affect what our programs do. That's math. It's not separable from programming. The only other option is these authors are proud of the fact they engage in some weird cargo cult attempt at programming.
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Ok, I understand the view point. But here are couple of questions to consider:

1. How do you know that CPCs are falling because of existing advertisers paying less vs. new advertisers in new markets/mobile are paying less ? I.e. what evidence suggests that existing high value auctions are depreciating in CPCs/Value ?

2. CPCs are a proxy for value only if they have reached equilibrium. Since it is an auction as you have explained, it takes time for different participants to converge to the right bid configuration. That can take months or years to mature. So if the mobile market is new, how do you know that it has already reached equilibrium ? Desktop CPCs rose for a long time until they established that for many verticals.
Does anyone know if there are similar laws in Canada?
The problem is the people who are in this profession just for the money are whose low quality code I have to keep rewriting at almost every job so far.
Yeah, the thing is, I don't consider myself to be part of my ISP's network. I consider my ISP to be "transit"ing packets from the internet to my network. :) But I guess that's not the accepted definition.
> turning sex into a commodity has real implications for the status of women in society as a whole

In a society in which a hefty part of the male population thinks that buying a woman drinks or even dinner entitles them to have a happy ending, this statement is very cynical.

Au contraire, I think that allowing people to pay for sex might actually de-blur some lines here. If you want quick sex for money go to a prostitute. If you want companionship that at some point get intimate enough to end in sex, date someone. If you buy someone dinner do that because you want to and not with an implicit expectation of getting something in return. Jeez.
I'm assuming that you deviate from this, but the reputation for FSO's in the Federal government is do-nothings who answer to nobody.

The security clearance process is a joke. Everything about DoD IT security is a joke. Polygraphing people and pretending its scientific is a joke. It's all just a bullshit machine to ensure left of center people are excluded from the Department of Defense and other agencies.

I'm done in 2 weeks. Can't wait to leave every FSO and Information Assurance manager behind me. A bunch of do-nothing paper pushers who conduct the security theater and hamstring decent software with paperwork while approving anything with Oracle or Microsoft written on it.
Satire with no trace of humor = evil.
Would it be possible to build a software-level mesh on top of these devices even though they don't officially support meshing? In other words, could someone build an iPhone app that implements some sort of decentralized DNS and routes messages, even though the hardware can't do that on it's own?
Any group of people is entitled to do anything, unless a bigger group of people can force their hand in the opposite direction.

That's a pointless question.
So why isn't your name on the paper? (not judging, just curious)
> legalizing prostitution would have a hugely detrimental effect on the fight against human trafficking and the status of women in general.

Why? There's no need to traffic humans for prostitution if prostitution is legal.

> The idea that women's bodies can be commodified and sold to men is the foundation of patriarchy

What about the idea that men can pass laws forbidding women to do certain things with their own bodies? If a woman can choose to have an abortion, why can't she choose to have sex for money?
Studies show that rapists are not, in general, men who can't get sex another way, but rather men who want to exert power over women. The uncomfortable hypothesis is that prostitution fulfills the same urge to exercise power.[1] It's uncomfortable because of what it implies about the nature of prostitution.

[1] The quote, usually attributed to Charlie Sheen, that "you don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterward" is illustrative of this hypothesis as well.
I'm curious your experience with TDD and other hip programming approaches? Because I've been long wondering if "web programmers are generally more vocal" has a lot to do with their popularity.

(Disclaimer: I love automated tests, particularly integration tests, and use them wherever it seems practical. But I cannot imagine developing the software I develop with a "unit tests first" strategy...)
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Personally I have the impression that many web programmers, especially those who has never worked with anything other than the web, are ignorant of the existence of other branches of programming.

In many aspects programming for the web is simpler. For example the quality requirements for a microwave oven firmware are much higher. You can't easily deploy a hotfix to production after shipping 100k units. I have a feeling that most of complexity in web programming is incidental. It's a result of how poorly the web is designed as a platform. Of course it's very successful commercially but from a technical standpoint it isn't good.

john_b, could you give an advice how to get into aerospace industry? It always seemed very challenging and I'd love to have a chance to work there.
That really depends on how libertarian you are and whether you believe that by definition selling sexual services for money will always make somebody worse off than being poor.
The definition of rape hinges upon the detail of consent. So the reality is that many rapes are not particularly violent. I realize people don't like hearing that but men are typically bigger than women and the socially expected thing is for men to be the pursuers. So in cases of, for example, date rape, men often do not realize they committed rape unless they are charged with it. There is often alcohol and miscommunication involved.

So it really doesn't help to understand the problem space to characterize rape as a "violent" crime and rapists as "violent criminals." That is often not how it happened at all.
I agree in principle – the signature of a new medium should become a key part of its visual toolset, and few directors or DOPs have genuinely embraced this (I'd add Coraline to the short list).

In practice, though, I don't think it's a compelling enough tool. Nintendo's 3DS handheld console is a case study in offering 3D to content creators as a guaranteed part of the user experience, and yet very few games for it have meaningfully used the tool of perceived depth.
Most FSOs I've met and worked with don't at all keep up with anything relevant to their jobs. Its known to be a complete dead-end job in the Federal Gov't, with exception of people employed at Defense Contractors who have the role of FSO on top of another role. For those folks, its just a task of assisting with clearances and the like on top of their normal duties.
No because latitude and longitude are infinitely precise only limited by the accuracy of the measuring instrument. With the binary search idea you proposed the dividing lines are more tightly packed longitudinally near the poles.
I've always thought employers telling employees not to discuss wages is similar to an adult giving candy to a child and saying "Don't tell anyone I gave you this".

In both cases, I'm forced to ask why the giver is actively trying to block others from finding out about the giving, or the amount of giving.

I believe, in both cases, they're trying to conceal something from someone.
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>> For the skeptic sibling comment -- there remains a non-negligible chance that aLIGO will see nothing. If it reaches its design specifications and sees nothing, it would force mainstream astrophysics to rethink a lot of widely-held beliefs regarding neutron star abundances and merger rates.

Thanks. I'm not so much a critic of LIGO, I just like science writing that doesn't obscure the facts (as a sober scientist would assess them). It's odd in any case to assert that a scientific instrument is on the verge of a history-making observation (that implies being able to see the future). A person with a genuine interest in scientific progress ought to be able to handle the truth: the inescapable lesson that LIGO and other projects have taught us so far is that gravity waves are difficult to detect by all known methods. Science is about accepting truth as we are able to observe it.
It doesn't have to make the prostitute always worse off, or worse off at all. Many other people might be impacted as a result of the changes in social dynamic from turning sex into a commodity.
The truth lies in the happy median: math is absolutely necessary for some programming applications, and helpful in the others - being able to distill a problem into easy-to-reason-about abstractions is helpful in any domain of programming, but a certain level of abstract thinking can be attained without formal mathematics.
I had some big issues with code completion in Swift in Xcode. The completion engine regularly crashed and all syntax highlighting and warnings/errors disappeared. A total nightmare when you're trying to learn a new language.
I don't think Blockchain was meant to be a defense against scams and incompetence in exchanging paper for bitcoins. It was meant by design to prevent the risk of participating in such scams to be transferred to other parties by force like it happens with paper money.
So, what do we do about the corresponding social norms?
I would think that if you pursued any job just with an attitude of "get yours and get out" where you were "entirely motivated by having a good paying job" you'd be... kind of miserable.

Sure, a girl who loves working at bakery might be struggling to make ends meet; but if she's also genuinely happy with her career then what does it matter? Work is where the average person will spend most of their time, so I just don't think it's worth it to go into a field you hate in the hope that you can retire early.
Selling organs is absolutely a victimless crime. Selling babies, depending on exactly what you mean by the phrase, sounds to me like the baby is the victim.

> As 'tedks points out below, turning sex into a commodity has real implications for the status of women in society as a whole.

The real implications would be that prostitutes would most likely be safer and more wealthy.

> Moreover, as with selling organs or selling babies, there's a strong belief that such transactions are usually only technically voluntary, and are driven by economic duress more than anything else.

A choice made out of economic interest is still "voluntary" under the definition used in this context. Your claim seems to be that if the only two choices are selling your kidney or starving to death, then selling the kidney is not "voluntary." But if those were really the only two choices, and you ban selling the kidney, then the only scenario remaining is that the person starves to death.
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You are right, I should not have used many but the nondescript "some". However my argument that this problem would be lessened by decriminalization does not depend on a specific percentage.
Telling startups "Don't be a jerk" is premature optimization or at least foolish. "Everyone is a jerk" seems like much better advice.
>I'm more than willing to shell out for a quality game upfront, and do so without hesitation.

clearly you are in the tiny minority

>Free game

no such thing. people need to make money, they don't just have time to make great games and give them away. I understand not wanting to "pay to win" but IAP isn't at fault here. Also, these games are very obvious. if you don't want to do it, just don't play those games.

>If your app/game is of high quality, let me try it for a few minutes and I'll buy it if I like it, no problem.

wait wait wait. you JUST said you were willing to shell out for a quality game upfront. After downloading it free and playing it is not in fact upfront.
Planet Money recently did a great episode on open salaries, called "When Salaries Aren't Secret": http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/07/02/327289264/episode-...
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For once, not sure whether to upvote this or leave it alone.
It looks really great! So bad it isn't available in Poland. Does anyone know when they will expand to other countries?
In equilibrium, people will still compete to avoid sharing the reward with others if they can avoid it. You don't need a full pool to have high expected reward. Anyway, stay tuned ;) (+ for getting rid of PoW altogether).
Even if there is no welfare state or any form of social safety net, it's still better to have the choice between prostitution and starving to death than for starving to death to be the only possible outcome.
If you have not used a model checker you don't have a proof. Please don't say that you have one. You are just hoping for the best.

See this to get yourself started: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/by...
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>Only in the same sense as selling organs or babies (or conspiring to fix prices) is a victimless crime.

Selling your own organs is definitely a victimless crime. Arguably the baby you are selling is the victim of a baby-selling scheme. The victim of a price-fixing conspiracy is the consumer (though every member of the conspiracy has an incentive to defect and sell at a lower price, so presumably the individual members of the conspiracy are also in some ways victims of the scheme, to the extent that the scheme is actually enforced upon them somehow).
It's also lacking an agreed upon definition of programming. It's even lacking an agreed upon definition if "is". (No, I'm not trying to go Bill Clinton on you. In this discussion, what do you mean by "is"? Do you mean "identical to, equals"? Or do you mean "part of, a subset of"? If you mean identical, do you mean identical in all respects, or just in some respects? If so, in which ones?)
> Why is it that two people can't agree to exchange sex for money?

It depends very heavily on the balance of power. You're talking about it like two people with equal bargaining power coming to a agreement they're both happy with. If that's the case then great, that's fine. I don't think that's universal though, or even particularly common.

However we have a large number of rules to stop exploitative working environments across all industries, and something as physical and emotional as sex should have similar or stronger guarantees around.

There should be ways of creating safe environments and regulations that allow prostitution, but saying that "prostitution is a victimless crime" seems very off. We can probably create situations where it is, at worst, no more objectionable than someone working an office job they hate. However, I hardly think that's a good explanation of the current situation in many countries.
Millions and Cray2x10 running right now doing nothing. Sad.
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Side note: I used to play a game called "New Horizon" (or known as the Uncharted Waters 2 [1]). One of the characters in the game goes by the name of Philly Reis, from Turkey. His level is off the chart (Sailing, Fighting, etc).

Didn't know there's actually someone by the name of Piri Reis from Turkey in the real world!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted_Waters#Uncharted_Wate...
Or women who pay for sex with men, or women who pay for sex with other women.
> Selling organs is absolutely a victimless crime.

I don't think there is anything wrong with making illegal, as unconscionable, transactions in which the poor give up their most basic human capital. It's "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer" at the most vulgar level.

> A choice made out of economic interest is still "voluntary" under the definition used in this context.

I think that's a very impoverished definition of "voluntary."
Everyone will have a different take on this based on the kind of software they write. The bottom line is that math is pervasive at all levels of software engineering but it impacts developers in different ways.

If you write video games or any other graphic related application, or if you work on jet engines or modelization or industrial engineering, you are obviously immersed in math on a daily basis. If you write servlets on a Java backend, you are probably not required to be as much versed in math, physics or chemistry.

Still, no matter how close to mathematics the software you write runs on, the bottom line is that you are using a programming language to do so, and all languages are rooted to various extents into math. Some are very closely connected, and sometimes based on, specific mathematical fields (e.g. Haskell and Category theory) while others are more loosely based on such principles.

I find that just like you don't need to know how an engine works in order to drive a car, you don't need to know a lot of math to be a decent developer, but it certainly doesn't hurt to read up on some of the theoretical foundations that underlie all of computer science.
Macedonia is actually much safer than anywhere you've been to in the US. It's also very laid back. It borders Greece and has very little to do with Russian politics.

So yeah, it is a very reasonable choice for some people.
The extent to which this is dismissive is quite offensive.
I don't think your analogy is particularly accurate.

If I was to sell one of my organs, it would A. have an immediate detrimental effect on my health and B. be permanent. Further, the state has a very high probability of paying for some or all of my medical care post-op.

If I sell a baby, I am selling something that is not my property. If I am the parent, I have some claim to the baby, but not one of direct ownership. So in truth I am selling something that is not mine. In reality, what you would be selling is your lack of action in defense of your paternal rights. That is, in fact, a victimless crime. However, the administration of those rights is not yours alone, but also your community's. You can't sell that, so you'd be lying to whoever you gave the child to if you implied that you could.

Lots of decisions and transactions are only technically voluntary and are driven by economic duress more than anything else. Working a dead end job, working a dangerous job, being a roofer or garbage man or flagger. Joining the military. Being a lumberjack. Hell, being a fisherman in many cases.

A lot of these jobs are dangerous. They're accepted, though. If I work as a lumberjack, it's not because I have a choice. It's because otherwise I would be homeless and this is a skill I can employ to feed and house myself.
> I think that's a very impoverished definition of "voluntary."

Are you suggesting that it's not voluntary if the choice makes the person better off? So is an action only voluntary if it makes the person worse off? That doesn't make much sense to me.
Would it necessarily have any impact outside of the people engaging in it? It won't turn all sex into a commodity.
Middle men are hated by those who see no value in human relationships. Otherwise the value is quite apparent.
> Why? There's no need to traffic humans for prostitution if prostitution is legal.

By this logic, there should be nobody brought to a country to do a job legal in that country. Are you happy making that equivalent claim, or changing your view given a counter example?
Who do you think is more guilty of playing with figures: the one who looks at temporary peaks and dips, or the one who looks at quarterly averages to find the overall macro trend? ;)

I once compiled datapoints showing the growth of BitPay (ie. customers spending bitcoins on real goods and services from real merchants). You will find it interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7974197
"Sure, a girl who loves working at bakery might be struggling to make ends meet; if she's also genuinely happy with her career then what does it matter?"

It matters because "struggling to make ends meet" is a lot of stress and can get in the way of a lot of things. It still might have been a better choice for her than taking an alternative path that would have exchanged that for a career she was miserable in, but it still matters.
>much of the initial conversation happened on twitter

where ? when ?
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Am I the only one who thought, given it's now 2014 and that the law was changed nearly 5 years ago, that we also now have an even more complete set of data with which to support the hypothesis? But they don't seem to go there at all?! The chart appears to show crimes rising again once it was outlawed but for the most part the article is written as though it's 2010.