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The OP said:

>>Guarantee all people access to cheap, government provided dormitory style living, with a kitchen and basic food staples, in return for 20 hours of very basic work (picking up trash, watching security cameras, etc.).

This is what slavery is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

They're not equal at all.

Now, there is another factor that perhaps you could have been clearer about that would help support your case. You could argue that there are dynamics in society that drive people into #1 without having any real choice. That's a different problem, but still not at the level of what slavery was.

e.g., the criminal system becomes easier and easier to fall into everyday and extremely hard to get out of.
The openssl 0.9.8 with Apache/2.2.3 combo only supports TLS 1.0. I couldn't setup TLS to get better than grade "B" on Qualys' SSL Server Test. I sacrificed MSIE on WinXP, used TLS 1.0 only, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA only, got a "B". I want Forward Secrecy only, AEAD only setup. Have to upgrade to RHEL6 for that.
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In 2007, Sony’s supply chain lessons, the network effect from the shift to Intel architecture, and a better OS X for developers combined to renew the Mac’s growth. The network effects of the Microsoft Wintel ecosystem that Rappaport explained 20 years ago are no longer a big advantage. By turning itself into a premium PC company with a proprietary OS, Apple has taken the best of PC ecosystem, but avoided taking on the disadvantages.
Well, they kind of have a point when the same company that lays off 18,000 people requests a doubling of the H1-B quota. (see: Microsoft)
>With slavery, the entire problem is you cannot leave your job, you are owned, and at the mercy of your owner.

1) + 2)

edit: shkkmo and VBprogrammer are right. 1) = dormitories w/mandatory unpaid labor; 2) = illegal to be homeless; 3) = restrictions on migration.
This is why something like Darkcoin should exist. It fixes one of Bitcoin's biggest issues, anonymity.
sVirt has an AppArmor backend as well, so it's the same thing. The SELinux implementation appears to be more polished, though.
3 is much like the medieval crime of wandering abroad, where the poor were effectively criminalised from trying to leave their parish of birth without permission.
The people of "Brave New World" (BNW) are not truly content, they are merely happy. The BNWers are terrified of being without their soma, because without the soma, they realize their lives are empty and unfulfilling. The soma is a way to escape the reality of their lives, and avoid any self-awareness or unpleasant truths. If you were to examine their lives under almost any metric, such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs, you would see that they are not leading good lives; in Maslow's terms, they have only satisfied their physiological and safety needs.

I would not describe this state as 'content and non-participant', it is more of a self-perpetuating drug-induced ignorance.
Which is the greater horror: oppressively managed lives imposed on the populace, or sought by the populace?

"Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from." - _The_Matrix_
A far more defensible position, since it is consistent :D

I would have no problems with, and likely endorse, a private city banning many forms of public solicitation. It gets a lot more complicated when we are talking about public land.
>If your concern is that the company is taking advantage of the paralegal environment to exploit these workers, you should be as against these ridiculous laws as me.

I am opposed to all immigration laws as a matter of principle. Immigration laws violate a fundamental democratic principle, which is that laws should affect those who have a say in making them. Laws made by insiders that only affect outsiders _and_ govern that exact same insider/outsider status have no democratic legitimacy whatsoever.

Immigration laws are also a severe distortion of markets. They are the worst form of protectionism because they protect the (relatively) rich against having to compete against the poor.

However, for me, markets are tools and just as every other tool they are imperfect. They don't replace goals or values, they are not equivalent to freedom, they represent but one particular freedom of many. Markets simply don't cover everything it means to be human.

If markets fail to achieve one of my goals, then I will look for other tools to fix that. One of my fundamental values is that poverty is wrong in a world that is capable of providing food, shelter, education and healthcare for everyone.

Markets don't fix that on their own, but in this particular case, more market would have helped those indian workers to protect themselves against a company that used immigration laws to exploit them.

(Another one of my convictions is that downvoting is a ridiculous way of having a debate)
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I remember reading the original article on cracking Apple's fingerprint ID and the crackers mentioned that, while definitely crackable, it requires a certain level of sophistication and thus they considered the addition very worthwhile as a way to protect against robbing, etc.
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There are over 200 seed accelerators mentoring entrepreneurs on finding business models and creating new tech companies every year. This is very much an apprenticeship program for entrepreneurs. There are countless existing tech companies and IT shops full of ineffective leaders at different levels of an organization.

So, I've been thinking about the concept of applying an apprenticeship model to leadership skill development for leaders at all levels in technical organizations from startups to IT. Topics would include teaching and applying skill sets and frameworks related to understanding people styles, applying various leadership styles, trust building, collaboration, innovation, etc. And most important, the program would push for on-the-job application of learned skills with mentoring from masters with both technical and leadership experience.

What are you thoughts on the need of such a program for you or others in your organization?

Would you be interested in participating in such a program if it was available?

Have you seen anything else out there like this?
One of the most positive political changes we could hope to see in the 21st century would be more free movement of people across borders. Not just for tourism. For work.

We're all better off if people can legitimately move to where their labor productivity is higher. The numbers are fairly clear on this. I've seen estimates that you could double global GDP just by letting people migrate to where there's more productive capital available.

Climate change makes this even more important. Mass migration is almost certainly going to happen -- we can let it happen in an orderly way, or we can let it be chaotic.
This explains > "Facebook’s Rooms App Is a Flashback to Internet Bulletin Boards"
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/facebooks-rooms-app...
This would make sense if the US had well-funded homeless shelters & mental health facilities, and a robust economy. We don't. Many of the places the homeless get referred to are not of any help for their circumstances, in some cases they can be more dangerous than the street.
> A world in which everybody is happy and content with who they are and the circumstances they live in, how is that dystopian?

Because being happy and content is by far not all what makes life worth living, and these people are stuck in eternal mental infancy. And they don't get a choice, either: they are conditioned to despise natural birth, not sleeping around, and deep affection -- and the caste system is proper for insects maybe, but not fully developed human beings. It is not what they eventually happened to agree on, it was engineered that way, they were born into it without even the ability to see what has been done to them, and all of this calculated. They are instant gratification junkies in an endless loop of mental stagnation, what's not to hate?

> but never really justified why they'd be necessary. All of them (and the 'orgy-porgies') were, I felt, added to be able to make the argument that the society he was portraying was morally wrong.

Do you think Huxley is making the argument that "being happy and content is bad", and the rest is just filler? If so, read his this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_%28Huxley_novel%29

Clearly, he's not against being happy and content. But it has to be real and come from within, not just from being deprived of the ability to grasp injustice or reasons to be sad, or reasons to love (which implies the possibility and eventual reality of loss, too).

If I injected you with drugs that made you a mindless, but very happy and healthy zombie, and hooked you up to IV everything-you-need -- "you" (there would not be much left of the former you) would love it, but how would your friends react? Badly. Does this then mean they are against happiness? Of course not.
I could support 1) if they are also paid minimum wage in addition to the free housing.

But only if we don't implement 2) and 3) because those will force people to have to choose to participate in 1) and not everybody can.
Proxmox has no support for sVirt. All qemu processes running as root, too.
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Typically security involves three things:

* Something you have (like an access card or badge)

* Something you know (like a password)

* Something you are (like a fingerprint, iris scan, or a simply a photo)

Fingerprints are bit weird as you do in fact leave them around everywhere. Like iris scans I would qualify them as better photographs.
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I'll give Cygwin another try. I like it.

My guys aren't going to want to know about all that just 'click some buttons and get passwords'.
The LC with the portrait black and white display was quite common among text-writers in the 90s.
Philip K. Dick, Sci-Fi Philosopher, Part 1
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@Sibling comment: The Linux Laptop resource websites can't keep pace with the short lifecycles of the typical laptop. It's either pay $400 for this outdated laptop I know will work out-of-the-box with *nix, or spend $300 on a machine that's 1.2x faster with unknown compatibility.
Thanks for demonstrating that linking Playgrounds to Swift was just a marketing gimmick. Apple could have easily (probably more easily) done playgrounds with Objective-C.
Another vote for Fusion 360, especially on the Mac. I settled on that for 3D printing and hopefully soon desktop CNC modeling. It seems to be the only affordable yet not dumbed-down packages for OS X.
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Thank you very much! I look forward to it!
I'm from Orlando, where the original hullabaloo over this sort of thing erupted a while back. Most of the time the people complaining about laws like these are (please forgive the stereotypes, but in my experience they've been accurate) white, upper class, white collar, with very little experience dealing with poverty or poverty related issues. They hear things that sound counter intuitive and the "white savior" complex goes into overdrive.

Since Orlando has weather (and an economy, look up 2008-present foreclosure rates in Central Florida for reference) that is very conducive to a large homeless population we have been dealing with the issue at a large scale for a long time, and a lot of caring, smart, experienced people all agree that there are very constructive ways of dealing with homelessness and very destructive ways of dealing with it. Time and time again, allowing the homeless to disperse geographically and survive in a "free for all" state creates enormous problems. You end up with exploitation, abuse, and harm to not only the homeless but those around them.

It's rare, but not unheard of, for stupid kids to give the homeless sandwiches laced with, say, exlax. It's rare, but not unheard of, for people to entice the homeless into essentially handyman jobs with the promise of a meal, or payment, only to "reconsider" at the last second once the job is done. It's rare, but not unheard of, for well meaning people to give out food that has gone bad, or can exacerbate terrible allergies or medical conditions.

Furthermore, encouraging the homeless to beg and subsist off of random passerby is an incredibly demeaning thing. It encourages the bad element of panhandling, begging, and lies to encourage donations. It creates an atmosphere where the most seriously poorly off end up being "out begged" by the devious looking to snag a quick meal, or beer money.

Last, but not least, it completely ruins standardized initiatives to solve the problem. The homeless are less likely to congregate in safe areas where organizations dedicated to help them are located. They're less likely to receive a steady, nutritious diet. They're less likely to be exposed to further job programs and mental health help. They're more likely to sleep in an alley somewhere instead of, at worst, gathering near a shelter, or at best, getting a bed in a shelter where they are safest and most secure. Keeping tabs on the homeless is one of the hardest things to do, but one of the most important. If you can't track progress on a community or individual scale you can't tell whether or not your efforts are working, and you can't develop the personal relationships and support groups that time and time again are proven to be, overwhelmingly, the most effective way to get people out of the vicious cycle.

It's hard to kind of shut off the automatic empathy that pops up, but you have to realize these are people just like you that ended up with a serious short stick in life. You need to treat them like that, instead of infantilizing them.
Not a big fan of the EU or centralisation either, but when it comes to matters of privacy and standing up to US interests, I'll take the EU over Sweden's recent track record.
> they all look like they're full of semi-corrupt liberals

What? Sweden and Finland and the Baltic states?
NSA’s Efforts to Secure Private-Sector Telecommunications Infrastructure [pdf]
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...while the Supreme Court protects the right of people and corporations (because of course they are persons too!) to feed politicians as much money as they want.
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In order to understand this you have to take a deep dive into the sometimes-murky world of electronic component sourcing. Even when buying from top tier distributors in the US there's potential for getting less-than-wholesome product. The legitimate product manufacturer would have no way of knowing who got what. The best anyone can do is issue a notice like auto manufacturers do for recalls advising you that fake chips may have gotten into the system.

Now think about how you might react to that.

Externally the chips look exactly the same. Depending on the nature of the organization you might choose to scrap your entire inventory or setup a testing system or. In the case of larger scale production you could very well have 100,000 units of your product manufactured before you can even consider reacting to the news.

Once the product is in the market your choices are greatly reduced. Scale is a huge factor. We can send engineers to every single one of our installations to manually swap chips. I did the math, it would probably cost somewhere in the order of five million dollars to do so (travel, time, tools, loss of business, etc.). Well, we can't do that. Few businesses can burn cash like that. And, of course, there's the issue that we might waste millions of dollars swapping out good chips. In this context it is far easier if devices with fake chips stop working and a normal process is used to fix them. You remove liability and quickly identify the clones.

In consumer land things are different. There is no sensible way to deal with 100,000 or 1,000,000 units of a product that may have some bad chips. Yes, you probably don't want those devices bricked on purpose. However, if you are operating at that scale you are also responsible for ensuring that your supply chain is not shoving fake or out-of-spec parts into your products. Easier said than done. This isn't the only fake electronic component made by crafty Chinese manufacturers. In that regard this isn't a revelation at all.
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>You could argue that there are dynamics in society that drive people into have no other choice

You could argue that suggestions 2) and 3) are an intentional plan to restrict people to a single choice.
I'm sure the homeless would also prefer living on the street to the option of stable housing and food.

What was that person thinking, offering me a voluntary position I can leave when I wish. The nerve of some people.
Using that logic the confirmation should be sent by whatsup or as a facebook message instead.
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And working at McDonald's isn't remotely sufficient to prevent homelessness.
Yes, this is now. Welcome to the ultimate revolution. Enjoy your stay.
walk down to a meeting - throw together a tweet.
wait for meeting to start.. wait for coffee.. throw out a tweet
> A Brave New World? That's simply distraction taken to the nth degree. Perfectly plausible.

Good point. Technology can help create newer, more engaging distractions. Magic Leap hopes to offer a new "magical" layer on top of reality, when their devices are "on", for instance.

> 1984 felt just too dystopian. It just tasted wrong; like someone would have stood up and said, "No thank you" well before the point the book stepped into.

This is part of why there's such a push towards punishing intelligence community whistleblowers. When the public is made aware of the mass surveillance programs, they do say "No thank you."

Both books examine a different facet of human nature, and they both remain relevant to this day.
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My lawyer told me that individual German states have individual privacy laws. This was in reference to my company and the user data of German citizens.
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Schelling:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal...

https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/06/30/advanced-contract-progr...
Sure. To be clear, I'm not saying that they are happy in BNW. BNW is deliberately an exaggeration of trends that Huxley feared in his present, though. And, as can be seen in other threads (see the comic someone linked to) is taken as a meaningful depiction of the current state of affairs.

So I'm here arguing about the idea that Huxley would see the state we're in now as being representative of his dystopic ideas in principle if not in fact. And given his own commentary on his and others' work, I think he probably would.

The question then is: is the contentedness of the masses right now reflective of a 'drug/distraction-induced ignorance' of a Huxleyan style? It's often asserted, but I don't think I've seen a compelling argument. People are largely free to be discontent, and what means the state actually seems to use to work against popular discontent look more like Orwell than Huxley to me.
BNW is a deeper book than 1984 because with BNW the first task is to say why that world is even bad to begin with. BNW represents the logical conclusion of a philosophy in which happiness is the top priority. In my opinion it shows that happiness can not be the top priority of life, contrary to the propaganda of marketers and psychologists over the past century. Life is not inherently happy and the attempt to make it that way destroys it. One of the many paradoxes is that if you accept unhappiness and just get on with the job, greater happiness can follow.
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I have a counter-proposal:

1) Universal basic income. You get paid like $10,000 no matter what.

2) Eliminate minimum wage. Anyone is free to earn extra if they so desire.

3) Outlaw rent control. Now you have more abundant housing.

That wouldn't take care of all of it, but it would sure help.
>For reference, my hypothetical response is a kind of DST (search for "DST LOL") that is common in some cultures, even if it is blatant DST.

How about you just tell us what the fuck "DST" means?
> The people are oblivious to all art and real achievement

Or, maybe the people in our real society are oblivious to the peace and happiness experienced in A Brave New World's society.

> they have no desires and no ambitions, they create nothing and have no desire to, they feel no real emotions and all sex is mechanical, and they happily march to their own deaths at a certain age.

Are any of those differences actually useful things inherently, or only in pursuit of happiness? If you've got your happiness from another source (a drug), why keep doing the things that were previously necessary to attain happiness?
Umm. The characterization of homelessness as a mental health issue is very convenient for not facing the ongoing changes in our society. While it may be true that some segment of the homeless population is mentally ill; that's the tip of the iceberg for the real problem.

Young, wealthy, privileged people like the majority of the audience of this site have no concept of how easy it is to fall through the cracks and lose everything.

And the problem of poverty and homelessness is only going to grow. The majority of Generation X has NO Savings for retirement [1] and what do you think will happen to them?

And in fact one of the cities having an epic and fairly invisible homelessness problem is San Francisco [2].

There may be a very small minority of people who choose to be unhoused; but they are generally not the problem.

1. http://rall.com/2014/10/13/syndicated-column-millions-of-gen...

2. http://www.vox.com/a/homeless-san-francisco-tech-boom
Tantalum capacitors are only "trivial to substitute" in some applications; as someone who works in electronic hardware, I can assure you that it is often impossible to use any other part, and achieve the same performance.
I find it really interesting that you say this. My perspective as an American was that it was more the other way around. For example, in my undergrad field (physics), people in the UK seem to take fewer courses outside of physics and closely related fields and have less choice in their courses. My understanding was that people there typically came out with a bit deeper specialized physics knowledge but less generalized education.

Do you happen to have any handy links to where I could read more about the British valuation of general education and how it differs from the American approach?
I actually agree with you 100%. My dorm living proposal was a simplification. There would have to be different forms of living based on what the individuals could handle. I should have said, there should be government funded, permanent living, appropriate for the individual. The homeless should be provided with cheap living, with a lock on the door, where there is security, and where the other people around them are semi-permanent residents, not transients. There would need to be different types of living for the mentally ill or for drug addicts versus those trying to go clean.