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Yes, educating workers makes them more valuable. I agree.

No, the fact that a worker is more valuable does not mean they will get paid more. "More valuable" only implies a larger upper bound for what the company would be willing to pay were the employee's skills very scarce. However, almost by definition this is not the case for the majority of the labor market: supply and demand have a much larger effect on wages than productivity. Note how productivity has been rising at the same time as wages have been falling in, IIRC, the lower 90% of US household incomes, so this isn't just a theoretical distinction. For most people in the US it's a harsh reality. It is indicative of our fortunate positioning wrt supply/demand that we can even entertain the thought of getting paid in proportion to the value we create.

Small changes in supply/demand can have disproportionate effects on price, so adding a seemingly modest number of educated people to the market could theoretically send aggregate wages tanking far below where they were originally even if each and every employee was individually more valuable to their employer. I don't think the effect will be that extreme, I'm just stating the possibility in order to highlight how dramatic the distinction between value and wages can get.
MGP makes lots of stuff, not just ethanol: http://www.mgpingredients.com/product-list/

Here's how it works with whiskey: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2014/07/mgp_whiskey...
Greece is running a primary surplus, so if they were given a clean slate they'd have a chance at a productive and growing economy, despite the damage that has been recklessly been caused.

If you choose to consider the Greeks deadbeats, I hope you hold the same contempt for Germans, who had a huge debt write off in 1953. Nor, indeed, have the Germans repaid the the forced loans that the Nazi extracted at gunpoint from Greece and other occupied countries.
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> Austerity in Greece (much as in America) is pure class warfare: an attempt to break the back of the working classes so that their wages and negotiating leverage will be pressured down.

Can you supply actual evidence for that claim? Because for those who don't agree with you (and there are many), the bare claim is not very persuasive.
There was also the scummy move of germany forcing greece to take some bailout money they don't wanted, and then striking a deal to sell some military equipment, that cost more or less the amount of money that greece didn't wanted.

Unfortunately I don't have sources now (I saw the explanation back when greek protests started, some years ago)
It looks like it would be illegal to market grain ethanol as rum in the US, no matter how downmarket

http://www.robsrum.com/RumBasics.html

I think the grandparent isn't right.
Quite a bit of MS's cloud stuff, especially Azure /is/ in fact open source. http://azure.github.io/ here, take a look and audit their azure source to start.
I don't understand why such a drop shipper would get any orders when pricing considerably above new. Do you have any insight as to why somebody would bother? Seems like a wasted effort.
Simpler and far less pretentious times. At least more innocent and without so much noise. Kevin Rose may be considered controversial by many but still his contribution must be acknowledged. The style seems ridiculous now but used to be in a weird way cool.
Their central government is not hostile to the United States; cartels and certain cartel-influenced local governments certainly are.
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I think it is possible, in principle, to find a number which you can be pretty sure is BB(n). The problem I think is being sure that this number really is BB(n).

Like you run all n-state Turing Machines for a super long time, and take the max of the output of all the ones that have halted. Now this might give you BB(n), but you can't be sure because you don't know whether the ones that haven't halted are ever going to halt.

In mathematics, we can just say "Well consider the set of all the ones that do halt, and take their max." In real life, it's not so easy to "consider the set".
Whales apparently also lost taste buds.

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/05/whales-cant-taste...
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A nice comeback when people equate Anglo-Saxon culture with suburban boredom
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Given that the unearthed program is a decade and a half old, I definitely get that feeling.
I don't have the full explanation now, some people explained and gave sources to me in 2011, but some legal moves were made abusing some contracts that made greece buy a bunch of military hardware for the same value as some unwanted bailout (that they also had to take, to get the bailout they actually wanted).

If I rembember correctly about 100 billion in total went in thsoe sort of deals.

The greek population then became very upset, because the hardware bought don't even work right (some subs that DO work, but float always tilted and are unstable, and some military planes that need an absurd amount of ground maintenance to fly just a little, something that to greece is useless, they need planes that can fly for longer time compared to the amount of time on ground).
Somewhat off-topic, but I've really enjoyed the "Bartender" manga over the years and its historical digressing into various mixed drinks.

I can't vouch for accuracy, but it's an entertaining read.

http://www.mangahere.co/manga/bartender/
None of this makes me sympathetic to Greece. It's an a) explanation for what transpired and b) a list of things that might help solve it, but is it actually being done?

For me, it boils down to: should reasonable people think that Greece can and will execute?
NLP's foundation is in statistics, so calling it "not maths" seems rather short-sighted. Mathematics, especially statistics, play a crucial role in all data interpretation when you get to any kind of scale and they seem to be the biggest of them all.....
They're the 1980's equivalent to hyperlinking to corporate webpages or Twitter feeds (or, often, some stock market information) in present-day news articles. It's amazing how things change so much yet so little all at the same time.
How about in terms of adoption, momentum, team, performance, etc? Any insights / predictions on how Famo.us might stack up _against_ react-canvas?
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Here is the break down ordered by approximate market share descending and the "country of origin":

* Microsoft - US
* Avast - Czech Republic
* AVG - Czech Republic
* ESET - Slovakia
* Symantec - US
* Avira - Germany
* Kaspersky - Russia
* Malwarebytes - US
* McAfee - US
* COMODO - US
* Bitdefender - Romania
* Panda - Spain

To be fair, Kaspersky does a pretty good job of reporting on even Russian originated banking trojans and the like.
Apparently changes in fashion also make a difference. When ladies stopped wearing full length gowns, their new, more revealing clothing, was much less absorptive.
I think there are extremely few cases when goto is justified in C++. Unlike C, C++ provides plenty of mechanisms to cleanup when exiting a function early. And as for breaking out of multiple loops, a "done" variable is not that bad.
The way to understand a program like that (and likely also the way it was written) is to draw a flowchart.

Having done a lot of work in Asm, in which the main control structure is essentially a goto, I think it's something you just get used to; and often, I find that some algorithm which I've designed on a flowchart requires one or more gotos to implement in an HLL and I can't eliminate them without introducing more complexity, so they stay. In particular, algorithms based on state machines and related techniques tend to be quite "gotoful".

It's a bit sad that flowcharting isn't taught more these days, since I think it can lead to some really elegant and efficient algorithms and is, after all, how the machine actually works.

Also worth noting that Knuth's TeX, which is widely considered to be an example of highly efficient and bug-free code, contains quite a few gotos.
AFAIK, there was no compulsion.

Instead, German wanted to lend to Greek banks / Greece because they got slightly more interest in return for debt that they believed (or, more accurately, hoped) had essentially the same implicit guarantees as the German equivalent. Given how the crisis has played out, that gamble paid off. It probably shouldn't have, but then there would have been downstream issues (German banks collapsing, etc.).
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In looking the table of contents of both editions, it seems that the only high level differences are in the exchange of sysvinit and systemd. Both serve the same purpose, but the implementation is different. If LFS made a BSD init version, then I would expect a forked edition as well. At first it feels more political than technical, but since the underlying configuration files are going to be vastly different, it makes complete sense. I don't even understand how this could be construed as an argument for either side.
Forced on the population.

Greek protests were the population pointing out that the deals would fuck them over.

The rulers of Greece ignored the population, and took the deal anyway, and France and Germany KNEW they would take the deal, because it would be profitable for them (Greek rulers then had lots of some bizarre derivatives in Switzerland that would appreciate if they had taken the bailout, thus a "legal" way to steal public money)
We only understand the absurdity of it because absurdity is a concept created by humanity - which if you think about it is quite absurd in itself.
But the super Turing machines busy beaver numbers vastly outgrow your iterated busy beaver very quickly. It doesn't take that many states to write a program that can do an iterated function application, and to a super Turing machine, it's easy to write the busy beaver function.
I've noticed a slight backlash against the IPA style and its overpowering bitterness lately. A lot of craft breweries are now selling lots of other styles, like Pilsners, subtler pale ales, wheat beers, and maltier red and brown ales, porters and stouts. Ninkasi is one of my favorite breweries, their oatmeal stout and double red ale are fantastic. They have a few good lager/pilsner styles too.

IPAs are relatively easy to get right, but subtler styles like pilsner require more precision in the brewing process.
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Because there is no "own router".
Great answer to a complex question.

Follow up question: if using the euro has tied the monetary hands of Greek policy makers (they cannot create currency), can they accomplish the same goals of currency devaluation using fiscal policy (taxes/spending)? (i.e. instead of everyone losing wealth through currency devaluation, everyone loses it through increased taxation). And I guess the obvious follow up to that is, is that basically what these austerity measures amount to?
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> Since I am not an economist or very experienced in these matters may I ask what would prevent the cost of goods simply going up due to basic income being supplied?

Prices of goods demanded by the group of people receiving a net benefit from basic income (which, even though BI itself is universal, isn't everyone, because its funded by progressive taxation, which makes it a net downward transfer of wealth) would almost certainly go up with a basic income. The thing that suggests that the increase in price would generally be restrained such that the quantity of goods the net beneficiaries could afford would still increase despite the price level increase is "elasticity".
Ah, good point. Wow.
Here's commentary on the Carlsen/Anand double-blunder: http://youtu.be/6K86f27uuP0?t=14m36s

It's not easy to see.
By the way, would you put a bunch of secret technology (maybe a new bomb) partially hidden in a manhole in the middle of the street, just in case a spy passing by needs to use it?
That is pretty much what they are doing here... code is easy to move around and to copy. Today (or in relatively short amount of time) who wants that code bad enough will be able to find it. That technology that took yeas and million of dollars to develop is now available to the bad guys. Face palm!
One of the images [0] in the article identifies a C&C server used by the attackers, technology-revealed.com. The script appears to embed an invisible iframe pointing to a page on that domain, which probably infects the machine using some zero-day exploit on the browser or one of its plugins. The domain is still registered, but appears not to be running an HTTP server anymore. Might be interesting to investigate if someone wants to look into that.

[0] http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/malici...
Daniel @ RethinkDB here

We're still optimizing the performance of certain operations. There are definitely still a few rough edges, especially with analytical queries as you'd pointed out.

As far as basic operations (inserts, updates, retrieving documents etc.) are concerned, RethinkDB already has competitive performance and we hope to publish official benchmark results soon. As you know, good, comparable benchmarks aren't easy, and we're currently spending most of our time on improving RethinkDB rather than working on those. But they're definitely coming.

This is just a guess, but a query involving COUNT(*) might execute faster with PostgreSQL since it can use an index for making the count basically a constant-time operation, while RethinkDB doesn' currently support this. That is definitely a missing feature on our end.

If you get a chance, I'd be very happy to hear from you about the specific queries and the data you'd been testing, so we can look into those specific performance problems. My email is daniel at rethinkdb.com .
I agree; The US should not share any of it's technological innovations with other countries, and establish a strict isolationism policy. Since we didn't see the rise of Nazi Germany, we shouldn't have allowed the Weimar Republic to use our technology or traded with them.

/s

I'm not entirely certain how so few people here get that massive revolutions and changes in political power can change the playing field of what foreign aid and technological assistance we should give to other countries. Perhaps we should be like France, and sell tanks to the highest bidder regardless of international sanctions.
But the pro-government shills ARE here. That's not paranoia, that's fact, unless you think they'd target Reddit only for some reason, which makes no sense. So why can't we talk about them? If we don't face up to the reality of this kind of propaganda, we won't be able to have proper discussions about important topics like this one.

As the other responder to me pointed out, this account had ONE post to its name almost a year ago before the post I responded to today. I don't think they got their money's worth out of this one due to how easy it was to spot, but all the other ones upvoting it are earning their pay.
This is a western individualistic philosophy that ignores the amazing accomplishments of the human species. In other more collective cultures bringing shame to your tribe is a moral reason to kill yourself because the individual is not the end all be all. We are ants in a giant, unimaginably successful ant colony. Focusing on the life of an individual ant is what is absurd.
Well... do you blame yourself, or my explanation? Message sent != message received, but the blame could be at my end.
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So, because many publishers have fake accounts that lie, I should give this one a pass? Pete, I encourage you to write a book. The world is far worse than you seem to think.
Both your links point to the same resource, when it appears you meant otherwise. Also, the Daily Mail is considered a tabloid at best. More reputable sources are generally preferred to them.
OSM is primarily a data project. There isn't currently any notion of providing centralized end user services.

The various services on openstreetmap.org don't have terribly strict usage policies, but they all pretty much ask heavy users to set up their own instance (or use other resources; for example, Mapquest has quite generous free usage, and there are lots of paid OSM tile hosters).

If you click the stack on the right tool bar, you get a layers menu, where 4 of the styles are rendered and served by other projects. So the routing is similar to that, showcasing how the data can be used.
Reminds me of the Catholic switch from Latin to local language, and from facing the altar to facing the assembly.
https://github.com/azure and http://github.com/microsoft are where a bunch of the OSS code is kept.
Devaluation was a more obvious thing in the days of fixed exchange rates; since the collapse of Breton Woods we tend to have floating rates, so it's all a bit more organic and flexible.

So, for example, consider Britain. In 2006 and 2007, the pound-euro rate was quite steady, with the pound buying somewhere between 1.45 and 1.50 euros. When the financial crisis hit, the pound dropped like a rock, buying only 1.05 euros at the worst point. Since then, it's steadily re-appreciated, but even as recently as the start of this year it only bought less than 1.30 euros.

Britain's devaluation was no accident; it was in fact one of the main goals of QE (or conversely, on of the main mechanisms by which QE was meant to work). Imagine if Greece could have knocked almost 1/3 off the value of their loans to Germany, their pensions, salaries, hotel rooms. Things might have been very different!

Krugman has a column on devaluations in history you may find interesting as as well, he mentions Britain in 1992, as well as Sweden and South Korea: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/devaluing-histor...

In the present day, really, anywhere that had some form of QE was undergoing devaluation (under a floating rate regime, the way you devalue is to print a boatload of currency; since the demand is staying relatively constant, as supply goes up, price goes down). (Although keep in mind; devaluation is relative to somewhere else. Everyone can't devalue at once!)
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I'm not sure that's fair. Laboring on construction projects, joining armies, digging minerals out of holes, seasonal work on farms, serving on ships, and so on have been ways for people to earn a living for millennia, selling their labor, not their produce. Having the capital to ply a trade or craft - money to buy raw materials, and tools to add value to them - would have been beyond the reach of most people for a lot of history. There's always been a labor market.

I guess what you mean is that the industrial revolution massively increased the amount of capital you needed to be able to produce goods competitively. Buying a set of tools and some raw materials to make things by hand stopped being a viable route out of the labor market into 'entrepreneurship' when mass machine-produced goods could be supplied more cheaply. Your option was to sell your labor to someone who owned some big machines, much like your ancestors sold theirs to people who owned a patch of fertile land, or a big pile of wood they wanted making into a ship.

So in a sense it created the modern labor market in that it locked a lot more people into it, and obviously diversified the kinds of jobs that existed. On the other hand, it was, as you say, a massive productivity multiplier which meant we were able to create more and more wonderful and complex goods for, in real terms, less and less cost, to the point where nowadays by exchanging your labor for cash, you can soon have enough money to afford a box of electronics that fits in your pocket and allows you to access all the world's information.
What time controls were you looking at? I'm half-jokingly wondering if the big dip of correct moves in the upper 2800 range is Nakamura's crazy opening style :) (He's rated upper 2800's in blitz and rapid)
> Ironically, from the code I've seen, I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually misuse goto, probably because the people who use it actually know what they're doing. That's just anecdotal on my part, but still.

I've misused goto at least once in the brave new world(tm) of structured programming. That said, once the cleaner way to do things occurred to me, I refactored it away immediately.
Learning to play an instrument taught me how to learn complex skills in general. There are similarities in the processes of learning almost anything - be it martial arts, glassblowing, flamenco dancing or web programming.

In the beginning, everything is new and it can be overwhelming. Humbleness and discipline or dedication is required in the beginning. Small successes lead to pride and enthusiasm, and gradually, over years, your skills grow. In playing guitar and glassblowing, i recall various times where I was satisfied and or pleased with my skills, and then looked back at those times years later and was amazed by how much more sophisticated my skills have become.

With that experience, I never felt frustrated learning Python, JavaScript or SQL because the process reminded me of my previous learning experiences and I knew then all I needed to do was put in time and seek information.

As an aside, I might note that there are mathematical aspects to creating, playing it and even appreciating music. Every system of music has rhythm and a set of tones that is based in someway on numbers – the 12 notes of the western octave, time signatures, 8th and 32nd notes and so forth. Learning the complex relationships of systems like jazz chords on the guitar or piano is very much a mental exercise as well as a physical one.
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ELO ratings are constructed such that skill differences are invariant across the entire scale. A person who plays someone 200 ELO points lower is expected to win 76% of the time.
> "Manuel Salazar, janitor. With three friends (also janitors), got extremely drunk on muscatel wine mixed with ethylene glycol (antifreeze). Died from ethylene glycol poisoning on January 29, 1945. Because deaths were not result of duty, descendants received no benefits of compensation."

Possible suicide-pact? Who in the world would mix wine with anti-freeze? Accidentally mixing such a cocktail seems fairly unlikely. Was this some sort of concoction mixed up by a researcher who was in the "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks" stage, which was tragically mistaken for unadulterated wine?
You're really bringing the Philosophy major in me out tonight!

First off, naturalism does not necessarily imply determinism. But even given physical determinism, the incompatibility of it and free will is not a certainty:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

The point I'm really trying to make is that there are a lot of smart people who have written on all these topics, and the answers are far from settled.
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One of my favorite articles... well worth the re-read even if (as I have) you have seen it before. You may notice something you had forgotten, as I had forgotten the existence of the "busy-beaver-like-function" for machines more powerful than Turing machines.
I'm going to blame myself. I wound up arguing against a strawman without realizing it.