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Precisely.

Markets (and capitalism) are great tools. They should not be seen as the end-all-be-all. Same with socialism, communism, as well as other socioeconomic -isms.

The failing of the markets is the lack of empathy for the fellow human. We know from the way the US looks how capitalism fails. Poor people are disempowered and marginalized from the system, because little money = little power over self. There is also a downward push to bring everyone into poverty.

The current gig economy and using mTurk are both ways to make previous corporate internalites to the public as externalities, whilst privatizing profit. Along with that, they also rely on having none of the protections of an employee, yet with all the requirements of one. It conveniently gets rid of the reforms we fought for in the '30s.

Are there solutions to the marginalization of the workforce, along with poverty working class? Yes.

1. Minimum income. Everybody gets it, regardless of a means test. This could be built up by the local level or state, where fees and fines and such could start the basis of a minimum income, even if it's $20/mo. Start small, look big.

2. Change laws to encourage worker cooperatives. Worker cooperatives, like Mondragon, have shown that they care for the fellow worker, because they all own the company as well as manage the company. It would also fit inside our current idea of ownership and contracts. The goal here is to enable political decisions to make company creation in this route easier. Thus the 3'rd...

3. Change unemployment law that allows you and 9 of your unemployed friends who want to start a cooperative to cash out of rest of unemployment to start a business: a worker cooperative. This has been a law in Italy since '85, and is greatly successful. And given how small businesses are celebrated, this should be a great law to pass regardless party.
>Seat Belts: If individuals wanted them, the car companies would have followed suit. You forget that not only were seat belts mandated to be installed, but people were FINED if they didn't put them on.

Not sure i see an issue here, we know that individuals did not particularly want them, just as i would prefer not to wear a seatbelt on an airplane because i'm not capable of understanding at any given time what the likelihood of danger is on a plane. Do you get mad at the government went the fasten seatbelt sign goes on during turbulence?

> If there wasn't a state, I'm sure you'd have safety organizations putting out reports/studies about effectiveness of air bags

You are "sure" are you? congratulations, no one else is. You can't use hand waving to dismiss this problem.

>Rich people would buy them in their cars, poor people wouldn't

In a country that absolutely necessitates the use of a car, do you think its morally acceptable to keep airbags out of reach of the poor?

>and they don't do that now anyways

Are you under the impression that poor people in the US drive around in cars without airbags and seat belts?

>Fuel efficiency: ... Let me know how that's working out.

Its working quite well, I lease cars and each of my last three cars (3 years each, current car is due next month) were cheaper than the previous and more fuel efficient. For the record i was not switching types of cars - previous cars where pontiac G6, Chevy Malibu, Mazda 3, all similarly sized/priced cars.

>Again, if people wanted it, you wouldn't have to force them to do it.

OK so i want a 99 MPG car. If i dont have to force an automaker to produce one, why arent they? Youre looking at the market as a abstraction of reality. In reality an automakers motivation is profit, not sales. There are other ways of increasing profit than determining and matching consumer demand. To ignore this is far from trivial.

>Racial discrimination: This was enforced and perpetuated by state laws. Some would argue it still happens today with certain mandatory sentencing laws, minimum wage, etc.

Whats your argument here? That we would be better off with no state laws at all? That we would be better off with no regulation on discrimination in any direction?

>The free-market is more democracy than democracy is right now, and people fundamentally can not accept that.

Its not that people can't accept it, it is that a direct democracy is universally accepted as a terrible organizational structure. Theres a reason the US is NOT a democracy. There is no disagreement, the free market would be a direct democracy, and that is not a positive thing to say.
Agree. Everything gets amplified, whether that be to the upside or the downside. George Soros has a book about this [1].

Also, one big issue in 2008 is that no one thought so many different asset classes would be correlated together and so many were caught out when the market devolved into just 2 meta asset classes : "risk-on" and "risk-off". Can the algorithms account for this?

Can they also account for the fact that we have never seen such a persistently low interest rate environment in so many major economies at the same time? Or is that off-model? Looking at their human counterparts, a recent article speculated that it has been going on for so long, and there has been so much turnover at the financial institutions, that there may be many young traders who literally have no experience of what happens when interest rates are put to more normal levels.

Things like the major dislocation from the Swiss franc devaluation show the fallibility of trend following models that fail to capture the known-unknowns:

"When the “off-model” event was the breakdown of parts of the wholesale money market in 2007, their surprise was just about forgivable: in the case of the Swiss revaluation [which even Goldman Sachs called a '20-plus standard deviation' occurrence], to have failed to visualise the possibility is rank incompetence [2]."

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[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4842282&page=1&singl...

[2] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5a06ef16-b5e4-11e4-a577-00144feab7...
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In my experience with OwnCloud it is a rather expensive thing to run. Running it on a $10 VPS regardless of the host, you're likely going to have a bad time.

With DigitalOcean, the SSD will definitely help, but I'd look at the $20 plan just for the RAM. However expect to have to tweak OwnCloud's environment a little to get the best out of it.
Could you be more specific about why a consumer 8-core CPU isn't the consumer 8-core CPU you wanted?
And yet, is that so bad?
>Yeah it sucks, but it's not really the language's fault.

Imagine a language were assignments were only done via := and comparisons with = or ==. A programmer would never encounter this error.
> Could it be the two parties are much the same when it comes to screwing the American people?

Perhaps (shock!) the TPP is actually a good idea and will be beneficial to the people of the USA
Good luck. I would really like to read a book about your transition in a couple of years.
Is there a lot of evidence that Twitter bans accounts based just on reports from these brigaders?
any idea what the soviet copyright policy is on these images? in the US NASA images are always in the public domain ...
Hey, sometimes rejoining the world means shedding the surly bonds of a reasonable caching layer.
If you send me 1000BTC I will tell you how to earn $100K month.
Yes you can...

Constructive proof: build a large suspended reflector (mirror), put you power source on it and pump heat from earth to a sphere of any material, which radiates heat into space.

No, this of course can't easily solve global warming due to enormous cost it would have and ludicrous efficiency. It's way cheaper to just absorb less heat from the sun (less CO2).
I'm fairly excited for season2! Season 1 did a pretty great job at capturing a lot of crazy behavior that the tech startup scene displays.
the Left had the House, Senate, and President and
could have passed anything they wanted for two years

You're forgetting about the filibuster. And the Democrats only had a filibuster proof Senate for less than half of only one of those two years. I don't remember the history exactly but I'm guessing that's when they passed Obamacare.
JSX is XML and it can cause some confusion. For instance the fact that you can only have one root node is not obvious.
Only in a fictional world where everyone uses bitcoin does it work.

Why "everyone"? Wouldn't it be enough if a shop that has something that you want to buy accepts it?

There's a great many shops accepting Bitcoin today already.
I wager that the PS4 and XBONE will benefit PCs more than previous consoles benefited PCs, specifically because they are slightly slower 8 core CPUs. Most games these days are optimized for quad cores at best, so to get more performance, additional threading is required. Due to everything being x86 and the prevalence of widely used game engines, everyone's performance goes up. Personally, I would like better AI.
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See my comment above: the number isn't just a gross simplification, it's journalistic malpractice.

And the issue isn't whether the companies are struggling. Nobody feels bad for Comcast's CEO's kids. The issue is the incentives to build telecom infrastructure relative to other opportunities in the economy for the billions of dollars needed.

There's no free lunch. If the writing is on the wall for wireline profitability, companies like Comcast will take their capital and buy companies like NBC instead of investing in their network. If you make it illegal for them to do so, their shareholders will force them to do stock buybacks with their capital, then take that money and invest in whoever does buy NBC.
You have to distinguish two questions:
1) what color(s) is the represented dress?
2) what absolute pigments are present in the physical image?

These are very different questions. Painters know this distinction, at least implicitly, since a big part of painting is producing illusions with the clever application of color. The checkershadow illusion is a similar demonstration of the distinction between medium and message (or sense and reference, to borrow Fregean language).

Phenomena like this reveal that color isn't something known purely by sense perception and that some reasoning is required to conclude what the color is. (A superficial analogy may be made with the theory-ladenness of observation perhaps, though that is a different phenomenon). I wouldn't be surprised if there is a relation between the differences in colors perceived and the ability to reason contextually. Indeed, autism and Asperger's have been characterized as entailing "context blindness".
I was amazed that they managed to beam a clear photo back from a probe they'd safely landed on the distant planet at all! Venus is incredibly inhospitable so I was very impressed at the engineering required to do this, particularly as it was the 1970s (and we think 1980s 8 bit computers are rubbish!)
Depends on what one does with the car, I guess...
There's no reason to deal with shared hosting providers anymore. VPSes are so incredibly cheap that it doesn't make any sense.

In order of price (low to high): DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS.

Take your pick. They're all good.
Your idea is fine, and looks useful. But as with any idea, the implementation is what matters.
Having been one of the first netbook owners, my guess is that the form factor novelty wore off.

It was great having something that portable, but the something that affected me maybe monthly at the most. Having a decent keyboard and screen is something that will affect you every day. Needless to say I am back using a normal sized laptop these days.
You need an active switch-off. "Relaxing" won't do it, you need to absorb yourself in something totally different
Looks like an interesting project. Will you guys be releasing it on a different or more public repo than Quay though? I feel it'll be difficult to get much traction (if that is your intent) behind trying it out if there's no easy way to give it a shot.
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Can anyone suggest a book based on something like this? I am a programmer myself and this kind of read felt really enjoyable.
Garbage in Garbage out. Algos directly caused the '08 crash (lot's of things where indirectly responsible though). Software Algorithms designed to model risks did not take into account a down economy which systemically undervalued risks leading to lots of over leveraged institutions to fail. Arguably, many of the people writing the software where instructed to 'tweak' their models to the point of uselessness.

One of the major failing of modern statistics instruction is 6+ sigma events don't look like 1-5 sigma events. Case in point global death totals per second probably fit a very well defined curve, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki where well outside that curve.
This seems the natural progression for programmers now. 10 year slog of hope decaying; relatively monotonous work, then a sudden urge to do something antithetical in pursuit of happiness. I guess I'll be in a log cabin in Iceland in 5 years time!
This article is very uplifting and easy to empathize with. However, I can only hope he ends up as happy as he might think he will. I've done farming when I was young as well as some manual labor jobs. It's not fun, you sweat a lot, your back hurts, the sunlight burns, at the end of the day you are physically burnt out so much that you can't actually think. I am much more happy to be closing tickets that are undoing previous tickets, while sipping white chocolate mocha. Good luck with everything :)
It's really sad how many of the comments in this thread boil down to 'a different problem might occur, so let's never change.'

It's a good thing that real entrepreneurs have abandoned this shithole and it's naysaying attitudes.
> This is headed for 2008 ... and your trend algorithms are useless.

Wrong. Trend followers did extremely well in 2008-2010. As the article says it was the years 2011-2013 that they struggled with.
This kind of mirrors my experience, I was writing a gpg keyserver in PHP at the time when 5.2 was current and was using an extension[1] that wrapped gpgme.
When 5.3 hit it stopped working and I had not enough time to fix it (I just saw it's gotten updates meanwhile) so I also moved to using the gpg binaries.

IIRC digging into the gpgme source and the ruby or python bindings didn't prove to be very reassuring though, but my memory might fail me there.

Good to know thought that gpgme is actively endorsed now, because at that point of time it didn't look like it.

[1]: http://pecl.php.net/package/gnupg
>In reality I need to go to an exchange, convert to bitcoin, then go back to either the same exchange or a different exchange and convert from bitcoin, all in all I've gone through two intermediaries and paid two fees.

The intermediaries are domestic exchanges in this case, meaning only domestic transfers of fiat need to be made. The international transfer occurs through Bitcoin. Fees for large Bitcoin exchanges range from 0.25% (Bitstamp) to 0.38% (BTCChina). Coinbase currently has no fees, but it's a temporary promotion. That means it's less than 0.8% in trading fees altogether, when using major exchanges. Assuming Bitcoin becomes a little more widely adopted, this situation will only get better.

I think the real opportunity is in the back end of the financial system. Banks can begin to use Bitcoin for international wire transfers, while enjoying much lower trading fees than retail clients when converting into and out of fiat currencies.
A WYSIWYG html or text editor with low latency is inbuilt in HTML5 called ContentEditable - though the implementation is in a sad state.
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Yikes, the banner picture on that page is a whopping 1.9MB in size. Crush your pngs or use JPG, kids.
You take an incredibly advanced and complex programming language,
and dumb it down to the absolute bare essentials in order to embark
on the journey of learning a new system.

The purpose of the "Hello, World!" program, at least as I've understood it, is to make sure that you can actually get code running with whatever language, frameworks, and build process you have. Printing out a simple phrase is sufficient to demonstrate that that all works and that you can start making more complicated things.
Fees? Shouldn't you be getting that amount back in loyalty points?
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I feel like we are unfortunately sitting on the tail end of the integrated circuit S-curve and are now waiting for the emergence of the next processing medium.
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Bah. Let trolls be trolls, being miserable enough that it drives you to try to make others as miserable as you is punition enough anyway.
the main difference from dokku is that paz is multi-host and has has a web user interface. i think the most succinct way to describe paz is kinda like a UI on top of CoreOS's Fleet.

i hadn't come across dokku-alt before, looks great!
Interesting, at 32 and already deciding this was it for you regarding programming where it was first a passion. Well, guess it's about what makes you happy. See you in a few years (if that) for yet another adventure, stop seeking greener pastures, it's all a lie.
What advantage does it give over pen and paper?

I can see a number of downsides - expense, the need to keep it charged, possible crashes....
Replace "stock market" with "MBS/CDO type derivatives" and "computer trading algorithms" with "risk models" and you will see the similarities. I probably should have been more clear but the idea is that all of the financial markets work basically the same way: find a trend, abstract it with algorithms/risk models, exploit that trend and then walk away when the trend inevitably breaks. Every 10 years we keep having "10,000 year floods" according to the latest whiz-bang model/algorithm. It's all the same thing in a different variety.
Core developer of Dokku here:

Dokku is very much a single-server solution. Though I have played with actual implementations (that work!), there are no plans to make the core support multi-hosts. Dokku also currently has no admin dashboard (there hasn't been a need, though this is something I'd like to address) and doesn't need as many requirements (you can install it via a deb package). It's written in bash, which can be a turnoff for whatever reason.

paz looks like it depends upon multiple services, which may be difficult to setup or maintain, but is solution to a completely different problem. I will say, Paz looks quite nice.
Likely they could, but consider instead doing a Venus Orbiter similar to the Mars orbiter. With some technology behind he perhaps it could deploy kite/sail like probes that slowly dip their way through the atmosphere.

We probably don't go back simply because the environment is so hostile the idea of landing man there is not possible and hence we concentrate on Mars which holds other allure aswell
That's actually the approach Mozilla's Bespin/Skywriter project took. It was shuttered when Cloud9/Ace (which render to DOM) supplanted most of its goals. I would be surprised if the performance delta of switching to canvas would actually be that large, given that using the DOM allows you to harness GPU acceleration for things like translation.
Is it though ? I always had a little voice in my head thinking this is just `a posteriori` justification.
Not really. US citizen makes 2 transactions per day. That's 1 kilobyte of data total.

That's really not a problem, centralized or decentralized, for bandwidth, storage or cpu to handle.

Fact of the matter is that a transaction costs some money, like 5 cents, which is in a way the price to transmit 500 bytes of data, verify it and store it. That's economical at any scale. And guess what, the marginal cost is only decreasing due to technology improvements. (moore's, kryder's and nielsen's laws)

The price of 1 gigabyte of storage is about 3 pennies today (retail), for example. And storage is not permanent either, you can prune old transactions (that's an innovation currently in development).

And again, that price is only dropping, in 1990 that price was a few thousand dollars by comparison.
>One of those is strictly worse and calling them equal does a disservice to the individual being bullied.

There's no justification for online bullying, but in one case the person is able to make a choice as to whether using Twitter is a positive or negative experience for them, and decide if they want to continue to use it. In the case of the false positive ban, they do not.

Now, I'm sure your argument would be, "Why should some internet bullies dictate whether I get to enjoy my Twitter experience?" And I wholeheartedly agree with that. They shouldn't. Why should those same bullies dictate my experience on Twitter by forcing a policy that gets me banned as a false positive?

This idea that "a few false positives are fine" is such an easy position to take, until you're one of the false positives.

>People can live without twitter and not suffer a lower quality of life.

That's precisely what I'm saying.
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There is an inspiration from synchronous reactive languages, which are in turn inspired by hardware design (not sure if they predate or post date vhdl); you can read the related work section of the essay-linked conference paper if you are interested about lineage.

Glitch is a bit weirder in that all statements execute at the same time within a tick, their order isn't just unfixed: they are guaranteed to see all of each other's effects (except event handlers, which execute more hardware-like discretely to do state transitions).
It's not feasible for any individual to validate the blockchain

Huh?

The above numbers are well within the reach of most western individuals even today. A rented server in the $50/mo range can trivially plow through ~100Mbit/s of SHA256 verifications.

250T of storage on spinning rust can be rented for ~$1000/mo from e.g. Hetzner (and obviously a fraction of that if you roll your own).

By the time a Bitcoin adoption of 7 billion users becomes anywhere near realistic you will probably have this kind of storage and CPU capacity in your Smartwatch.
UBS has a bit of a reputation for this. Same thing happened with their US Equities tech in the mid 2000s:

1) Bring in new blood to improve a legacy platform

2) The new blood decides to throw out everything and do a complete rewrite

3) The new system is super successful because it can focus on a much smaller subset of problems

4) The bank runs into profitability issues and can no longer pay developers well

5) The good developers leave en masse before everything is completely rewritten.

6) New developers come in and spends the entire time fighting fires and patching the system instead of building new stuff.
It is when it interferes with stuff you actually care about. Like when I'm supposed be having family dinner or playing with my daughter and I realize instead I've just spent the past several minutes staring into the distance thinking about a work problem.

Sometimes I really envy people who never get the urge to work (either actually or mentally) on work after leaving the office at 5 pm.