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Eugenics was an attempt to subvert economics.

As humans, we reward those traits we collectively find most desirable with additional resources. Parents with additional resources may choose to grant them as seed capital for their children, to have more children themselves, or to promote traits they find desirable in other people's children.

Our species is currently directing its breeding efforts towards ruthless, unethical business managers and corrupt politicians.

If we wanted geniuses, we would be paying people just for being smarter than the median. Instead, tuition is rising faster than inflation, and our smartest folks are often tremendously burdened with debt during their prime reproductive years, to the point that any children they may have are bound by their available resources rather than by their potential.

We are selectively breeding ourselves. It just turns out that the rich assholes want humanity to be more like them. If smart people want to breed more geniuses, we're probably going to need to do it on a different planet, where intelligence will be more of a survival advantage.

Just watch out for Khan.
Partly because I'm self-taught, I don't know how much of your statement I agree with. I agree that the bootcamps thing is out of control, but I don't think that I agree that it's bad to code without learning computer science. It might make you more effective, but I've known people with CS degrees who were terrible at coding. Also, in college, I could design better relational databases than CS students in their last year of college (well, my roommate at least, who went on to work at Microsoft). But I don't know the difference between a binary tree and a b-tree, because it's never been necessary for me to implement one. Even then, I'm curious about CS and read up on it when I have free time, and I've been working on nand2tetris, but that's mostly because I'm curious, and while I think it's interesting I don't think it's made me a better programmer (yet). I've also had interviews for web dev that included algorithm/data structure (most don't!), one such place even wanted to hire me, but I didn't want to work there because given the nature of the job I find it unlikely that I would be writing most of the things they asked me about
Isn't that trading one number for one word? I've got to believe that intelligence is multi-dimensional. Its silly to correlate IQ points with genes. E.g. you can probably correlate genes with phone numbers too, but it doesn't mean anything about the individual. Its got more to do with the system that assigned them that IQ. E.g. taller people are perceived as smarter, for no good reason.
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I didn't find the actual content of the blog post particularly informative in itself, but there's plenty of indication that this is not just someone forking to submit a patch.

- https://github.com/node-forward is an organisation, not an individual and has put up various repositories centering around the forking effort.

- They have set up a website, http://nodeforward.org/ - which indicates (albeit with scant detail/background) that this is an independent effort to improve node.

- as zzmp pointed out, there is a fair bit of discussion around indicating some political discontent: https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/7
Spare me the pitch, please. Spare me the specious accusations. I'm well familiar with bootcamps, the people that go through them, and the results they provide. I'm linked to one myself.

The idea of teaching people a little bit of skill while selling them on the potential that comes with a lot of skill is a problem. That you implicitly accuse me of wanting to keep others out shows that you aren't really thinking about my objection.

Please, come back when you do. Pay close attention to what famousactress and others are saying.

EDIT: And no, learning a language is not a good place to start. But you have too much invested in that idea to seriously consider otherwise.
There are way more jobs in your industry here, partially because the US is so much bigger than the UK.

If you can't find a job in the UK, don't rule out staying until you can become more confident and desirable.
Depends what you do with the taxes. If you use them to decrease the financial burden of just surviving for the non-wealthy population, that frees up their wealth for consumption of more reasonable items, which increases demand for those items, which creates more jobs supplying those items. So really, wouldn't this just be a matter of shifting jobs from supplying exclusive luxury items to supplying more common quality of life improving amenities?

Of course, I'm just a tech nerd with zero finance/economy training, so let me know if I'm missing something obvious.
>Interesting argument, but surely you don't think the world needs less investment?

Right now it does. There is far too much money chasing too few investment opportunities. This is causing bubbles all over the place. Money that would have been productively invested were there demand is being funneled into property, gold, the equities market, fixed income & even bitcoin.

>Or do you think the state is a more efficient investor of capital?

Sometimes it is. It's a myth that the state is incapable of efficiently allocating capital and the private sector always does a better job. Sometimes the private sector does an atrocious job (e.g. see the massive overbuild of housing in the last decade).
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Our modern society exists because of accumulated wealth. Roads, buildings, computers, cars, refrigerators, factory equipment, power grids: those are accumulated wealth. (There are also intangible things that accumulate as well, but try landing on a desert island with a copy of Wikipedia and then attempting to build a computer.)

The American economy is over 70% consumption. This doesn't mean "increase consumption to increase the American economy." We will probably never get under 50% consumption, because we are a mature economy with creature comforts. But the more we invest, the more stuff our children will have.

Consumption is the easiest thing to gin up in the short term, so governments that are on rapid election cycles always can choose policies to bump them up. But, although I believe Keynesianism is correct when it says you should pump consumption to get out of a recession, I also believe Keynesianism is correct when it says you should not be encouraging consumption when not in a recession. You need to save when times are good and spend when times are bad.
I was surprised this only appeared here today.
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What competitor did Microsoft slap around?

Do you consider No-IP a competitor to Microsoft?
1)Your entire logical chain is premised off the fact that people don't make communal sacrifice in the generation of wealth. You pretend that only individual actors generate wealth.
Imagine a family running a small business or rental properties or whatever you can dream up, children are often employed and exert effort in overall progression of the business. Albeit some more than others, its not your place to demand that their efforts go unrecognized.

2) You can expand that mindset to indiviuals with healthy genes. It's an absolute lottery as to who will have a strong heart, full head of hair, great stature. Why not manage those factors too some day?

3) Your mindset will change with age and if your children grow to become functional members of society. You will desire to offer them an even greater opportunity to make a meaningful impact than you did or could.

Your mindset is that of a baby-boomer. I am wondering if you are one?

> Let the fruit of my efforts benefit society/humanity as a whole. It was my goal in life and ought to be in death.

And why do you get to decide how that is done? Why not offer up all of your wealth to be managed on your behalf in the most fair and equitable method?
It's interesting but not really that strange. How many buildings/campuses in the Bay Area do you think could house companies the size of Google, Facebook, Sun, or SGI?

Random guess: less than 50.
What about all the people who make the super-yatchs for the wealthy?

What, like all ten thousand of them, across the entire globe?

Or the all the contractors employed to make the luxury towers in downtowns across the world

What, like all the semi-legal immigrants and blue-collar workers? Those people often are barely getting by, and it's kind of feast-or-famine work.
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Ooooor... just give it to them before you die. Likewise the stocks. Likewise the 'approved' charities - the Charity Of Bob's Kids would be ideal I think.

More Polyanna thinking that anything you can make up in a minute, won't be gamed to death by anybody and everybody. Why? Because almost everybody wants to increase the chances of their children/heirs succeeding. Its built into the species.
Their political ideas aren't their own, and I highly doubt they would put so much of their resources into them if there wasn't a large base of support there already. Government spending in the US as a percentage of GDP has almost flatlined since the early 90s. There was a spike recently, but the previous growth wasn't really sustainable with the quasi-free-market economy everyone (at least in the US) seems to prefer. The Soros' and Kochs' of the world are everywhere and always influencing things in both directions. I don't think this is a valid concern given the balance of power in our governments.
The vulnerability has been there for four years. It's critical, but not widely exploited. As soon as you release an update, the exploits will be found and weaponized. It's 24 hours later and we're already clocking scripted attacks.

Coordinating a flawless release by a) not doing it during a major distraction event (DrupalCon) and b) allowing an embargo period for people within the security community to prepare is MUCH more important than rushing out the fix a few weeks earlier.

The response here is indicative of the professionalism of the Drupal security group IMHO.
I don't play a lot of games, so getting something with an onboard Intel GPU has made my life so much better. It just works.
he proposed progressive tax on consumption. His argument makes sense.
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When the government doesn't have a say in wealth distribution, it can't act to correct gross inequality.
That would look a lot slicker. I will explore that, thanks!
But consumption has a tighter feedback loop that ensures money spent on consumption is never truly wasted. If something is useless you stop buying it, and there's a limit to how much one person can waste - you can only eat so many meals, wear so many nice suits, take so many private jet flights. People who lose fortunes don't do so through consumption, they do so through bad investments.
Related: http://info.activeintime.com/news/2014/10/8/say-hello-to-hea...
I agree with you, but the folks who made this app clearly don't.

The fact that these devs put so much time and energy into making something that I cannot imagine wanting to use for the reasons you describe makes me think that I have a very different relationship to my mobile devices than some other people do. Another example in the same vein is typing emails or docs. I don't ever type anything longer than a couple of sentences unless it's extremely urgent. But there are many people who don't seem to mind one bit!
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Great story! I was in Madrid in 2011/2012 and met the founders at one of the Betabeers events. Very driven and resourceful guys.. one of the very few founders I personally was impressed with in Madrid.

Congrats!
Maybe a Brix Pro since it has the top Intel GPU.
He was an ardent atheist who underwent a deathbed conversion. The person who administered the last sacraments to him - Father Anselm Strittmatter - said that he was so terrified of dying that he did his best to distract himself from that prospect. Even spending time reciting Goethe's Faust to his brother.

He was a brilliant man and he was understandably terrified of the very mortal fate that awaits all of us.
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There is also a test http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/commit/?h=7.x&id=449c70287...
When I was in high school(7 years go) and doing a sim I invested all my money in Netflix....i'm rich....
Oh, I'll most certainly revisit this later.

I didn't reply to your question 8 days ago in part because at this point I simply cannot envision only ~2 deaths in America (not counting the medevaced from a hotspot, 4 patients so far).

But this is fantastically path dependent. I think we discussed that just before news of Duncan's death was released; in strict terms of impact on foreign importation, that obviously decreased "Ebola tourism".

Not that Duncan, or Nigeria's index case were precisely examples of that; I've just started reading Camus' 1948 The Plague because at every level in these situations a lot of human behavior seems to be universal.

Moving on, suppose the 2 nurses who who were infected by Duncan die, that'll change things in directions making it less likely others will die in the future (for the most part; there are results that could increase the death rate). We don't yet know if Dallas missed a contact who contracts it. And I can't imagine we won't get more Duncans until a travel ban significantly cuts the potential of them.

Unless, of course, we don't get any more Duncans, in which your hope likely becomes true and we don't implement a travel ban. But I don't think that's the way to bet right now.
Of course 'programming knowledge' covers a spectrum. At CareerFoundry we have never claimed to be training people to become Senior Full Stack Web Developers - like with many careers there is progression within the job. You start off at one level, you learn more, you progress and hopefully get promoted. We teach Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS and Javascript. With these coding languages under your belt, and the sufficient experience, you could get a job as a Junior Developer. Of course, like you said - and like with so many careers - reaching that next level takes real effort and dedication over a long time. But there is absolutely no reason why people can't get started in their careers at the bottom rung of the web development ladder with these skills, and work their way up by learning on the job and alongside their colleagues and peers.

Many thanks for your comment.
For whose definition of "better" and "superior"?
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And I blame myself can't read this.
This:

1.	Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 and 3, each Party shall make patents available for any invention, whether a product or process, in all fields of technology, provided that the invention is new, involves an inventive step, and is capable of industrial application.

which appears to mean software patents in the EU; and mathematical patents in the US (because MX specifically try to exclude that below)

Also this:

[CL/NZ/PE/MY/BN/VN/CA/MX oppose: Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, including Article QQ.G.8 (Berne 18/TRIPS 14.6),] a Party shall not be
required to restore protection to subject matter than on the date of entry into force of this Agreement has fallen into the public domain in its territory.

So the Govt's of CL/NZ/PE/MY/BN/VN/CA/MX appear to want to reprotect parts of the public domain?
I like this quote: "I'm not afraid of dying; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
I'm curious. What about this is provocative for you?
Reading the article I could only think of the past failures with eugenics, like Nazi Germany, or even some stuff that happened in the US. I think we should be wary of the consequences.
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As for the experiment, it would be much more interesting having a price $30-50 per posting instead of 0 for initial period ;)
The issue for me is that every app was modal. Even when playing around with Windows/Android split screen views, they just aren't as productive as a windowed system for me.
There absolutely are not millions of people with Einstein level intelligence around the world. That would imply that the probability of having Einstein level intelligence is on the order of one in a thousand, or as likely as having Down syndrome. This is manifestly not the case.
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- Linux: Added sudo save

- Windows: subl.exe command line helper accepts wildcards

- Improved handling of build systems that generate lots of output

- Build Systems may now declare a "keyfile" (e.g., 'Makefile' for the Make build system) to better auto detect which build system to use

- When opening a project with a build system, that build system is now selected by default

- New windows now always use the automatic build system, rather than the build system of the last used window

- Goto Anything supports :line:col syntax in addition to :line
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They weren't bad, but they weren't nearly as good as the first three.
With Azure they are more or less in the same business.
Hi,

Thanks for the question.

We realised that getting kids excited about the game is the first step to getting them to play it. Especially when they have blockbuster options like Subway Surfer, Plants vs. Zombies, Temple run or even 100s of well-crafted indie games, it's hard to get them to play math games if they are not fun. A lot of math games are also just flash cards or questions retrofitted into normal games.

Our main aim was to bridge this gap - we wanted to build something that is just as engaging, just as fun as a real game - but also something that helps kids practice arithmetic and actually enjoy it.

The game also (non-intrusively) tracks kids' progress so parents and teachers can know exactly what skills they are struggling with.

Monster Math also includes Scaffolding - it guides kids to the right answers when they struggle, or tells them what they got wrong.

We've seen kids getting a lot faster at mentally calculating basic arithmetic problems with just a week of game play. We have not done a formal benchmarking on this yet (so I can't prove it in numbers yet), but we plan to do one soon.

And yes, this is just the beginning - we want to add lots of learning content too; something that will help us take corrective action from right within the game with explanatory animations. We've already started chalking out some of those features, and there's just so much work to be done!
The parent was almost certainly referring to the publication the New Yorker.
One possible solution - add more representatives to make the power less consolidated.
It's 4k.
Getting this one:

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TapJoy has had their business models banned a couple of times, seems to just be updates that get rejected until the offending party's stuff is in compliance or removed.
>However, if you cut taxes across the board, not just for the wealthy

Another pretext/excuse for slashing taxes on the ultrawealthy.

>the concentration of wealth does tend to even out.

Except this was tried and that's not actually what happened.
I remember I tried Screencloud years ago and didn't like it. Unfortunately I don't remember why, but knowing myself it probably was a privacy issue. Shutter does everything right IMO and I'm still using it.
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Dell T20, Xeon ECC $500 no OS, RHEL support, up to 6 disks possible, up to 32 GB RAM.

Only downside is that it is targeted at lower-power server scenarios, so will not support add-on GPUs as it only has a 290W power supply.
The Cray guys had their own funny culture as well, though. Cray was incredibly process-based, whereas SGI was entirely seat-of-the-pants product driven. Merging those two cultures was incredibly painful; ultimately the Cray guys won out and SGI became process driven[1]. There's a really twisted article in Wired after Cray got spun out where they complained about all the money they got from SGI because it came with sandals and pets-at-work-allowed rules.

From the Cray culture (and some of the Cray employees) we got the IRIX release train, where we'd ship a new QA'd release every quarter. If a feature wasn't ready it just got pushed out to the next release, no big deal (sometimes this didn't work out; bizarrely one of the biggest screwups came from the CXFS guys who were working in the old Cray campus in Eagan, MN).

[1]: Though as I read Zero to One it's interesting to see Theil's perspective on process-vs-product outlook. Definitely the product-driven SGI was the more optimistic one.
Unluckily at least in Germany highly educated people often produce less children than low educated ones.
I would agree with this. I've often held the view that it hasn't been Democracy that has made our country great, but it has been the legal structure that has limited the concentration of power to any group or individual.

There have been a great many Democracies that have failed (although percentage-wise, I would guess they are on the whole more successful than other governing structures throughout history).

I agree that today the legal system today doesn't seem to apply fairly. I don't know history well enough to know if this was the case in the past.
Eh, typically, a private company shouldn't get the privilege the NSA enjoys regarding one-party secret warrants.
What's controversial about the document is that our leaders would like to keep it secret. For, you know, your own protection.
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I've never needed a degree to get a job as a developer. 15 years now. I have a degree in philosophy.

Someone with a CS degree is not a developer.

A subset of companies think you need a CS degree to be a developer. Yours is one. That you work somewhere that is so vehemently anti-autodidactic programmers means you are incapable of objectively judging.

In my experience good developers don't have to have degrees and there are many bad developers with degrees.

Basically, degrees are a poor indicator of developer skill.

In reality, programming is a vocation, not an academic subject and many academics are very poorly suited for programming.
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The conficker worm did cause significant harm for Microsoft's customers and Microsoft's direct or indirect costs associated in fighting the worm will have been considerable.
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Had this conversation at work recently...pointed out that I got more done in 35 hours than in 40, most of which has been cleaning up after people who put in 40+ hours.

In team software development, it is quite possible to generate 8+ hours of cleanup with 1 hour's worth of stupid work.
> "In fact, post-affair surveillance seems to be an increasingly popular counseling prescription."

...

> "The psychotherapist and syndicated columnist Barton Goldsmith says he often advocates virtual monitoring in the aftermath of an affair. Even if a spouse never exercises the option of checking up, having it makes him or her feel more secure. “It’s like a digital leash.”"

One must really wonder at the unrealistic expectations that get placed on marriages (lifelong monogamy among them) when surveillance akin to that which is applied to sexual predators [1] and potential terrorists is seen as the most practical way of enforcing those expectations.

[1] http://www.omnilink.com/tracking-sex-offenders/
My kids have to do math drills every night. Every week they need to study +4s then the next week +5s. I don't see an option for making everything the same addin. If so I would definitely buy it. A hard thing to do is get your kid interested in studying math facts. If they had this, they would think it's a game. It looks good.