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It's hard to make a case for or against economic growth, when all the economic growth of the past 30 years has been shoveled into the gaping maw of the ruling class.

That said, I don't want a steady-state economy - not in the long term anyway (i.e. thousands of years). We should not exhaust our resources on Earth, of course, and could do a much better job there, but eventually our species should come to harness the power of galaxies, and that will require economic expansion.
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Wow that was way out of left field. Am I not allowed to not like Apple because there’s a war in the middle east? Maybe you're the one who needs to go back to tumblr and stop trying to push your political agenda on everyone you come into contact with.

From your comment history you seem to find any excuse you can to butt in with some lame comment about the middle east. I guess this is just an attempt to control the narrative and push your political agenda.

If anyone disagrees you paint them as some kind of supporter of rape.

This is something I expect from tumblr.
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Antimony does general implicit surfaces, not just CSG with Platonic primitives. So it has operations like "morph" https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony/blob/develop/py/fab/shap..., "blend" (for fillets!), and "shell", and it seems like it would be pretty easy to add metaballs, although Matt doesn't seem to have done them.
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Blame the accountants. We're engineers et al. We use SI.
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I agree that's it's simply too harsh. I share a bit of his Libertarian views, although as I've grown older I've realized that there's no way the Libertarian philosophy could ever form the paradise many of its practitioners describe.
oh hey they took down the paywall. nice.
His point is the original iPhone had its own polished apps out of the gate that demonstrated significant real world value: a much better touchscreen phone, iPod and mobile browser. They didn't just leave it up to 3rd party developers.

That's not to say developers can't add to that baseline, which obviously they have in a major, major way with the iPhone. His point is you have to make it useful out of the gate.
That dichotomy is clever, almost convincing, and plainly obvious in its manipulative structure.
I knew it wouldn't be a popular angle, but maybe some counterpoints along with those down votes please?
Like http://storj.io/ ? I think they have a lot of code to write though.
Eh, the evidence for it does seem pretty damning, even accounting for the fact that Ulbricht hasn't had the opportunity to defend himself (although, given the showing at the actual trial, perhaps he's better off). I would bet that he's guilty, though not even at 2:1 odds.

That's not to say that, strictly speaking, this isn't a miscarriage of justice - it is. No one should be in prison merely for selling drugs or facilitating the sale of drugs. But, Ross Ulbricht is likely a danger to society.
Almost an interesting except the author found it necessary to (attempt to) shoehorn it into a feminist narrative.

> "The dead hand of male domination is a problem for women, for society as a whole—and for men like those of Tallulah. Their ideas of the world and their place in it are shaped by old assumptions about the special role and status due to men in the workplace and in the family, but they live in circumstances where those assumptions no longer apply."

The author says this right after explaining what these men lost to time are jobs in factories and fields. They didn't lose a privileged place in society, they were at the bottom being worked to death and now they don't even have that. But right next to this is an infographic showing the male share of new billionaires which has nothing to do with the uneducated men the article is talking about. It only serves to help the reader keep in mind who the real victims are. (The infographic of the male share of prisoners appears later)

The author tries to give a balanced picture but to me this is a great example of how feminism struggles to talk about men's issues in a meaningful way. The first word of the article is a woman's name, the first statement is a woman calling men lazy. By the end of the second paragraph the author has painted a picture of the men the article is about as lazy, gambling and unemployed.

I can't imagine an article ostensibly about women's issues that opens up with a man explaining these particular women are good for nothing and then the author trotting out various ideas of why that's the case.

edit: This is just ridiculous. The author suggests that these men need to do more housework, like maybe that's their real problem, they just can't get with the program because they're clinging to pre-feminist revolution gender roles.

It's almost a dangerous view, mass unemployment is an economic problem and instead of discussing it frankly the (anonymous) author would have us focus on how backwards men are now that the patriarchy isn't showering them in privilege anymore. It's sad to see thinking this shallow appear in The Economist.
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How? The most common method I've seen is to put a ground plane behind the sense wires, but that would require 2 layers of fabric.
There was a relevant post about free ebooks recently and this link came up: http://hackershelf.com/
This doesn't send credentials in plain text.
This is clearly marked part 1, I'd maybe wait for part 2 before saying that everything is broken.
A total classic, and still awesome.
If free speech only applies to government suppression of speech, then what would be the problem with a movie studio refusing to hire actors or directors who had been involved in the Communist Party?

Let's assume that the studio is outside CA so the following law does not apply: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&gr...
I think you miss my point. The point isn't to circumvent the paywall, its to take my patronage to a site that doesn't employ those tactics.
Obvious parallel with food trucks versus bricks and mortar restaurants. Funnily enough, I see pro-free-market candidates (funded by commercial property owners and restaurant owners) suddenly talking about regulations when their slice of the pie is threatened.

If you're a fixed restaurant and you have the opportunity to start a food truck in addition to your established restaurant, then fair's fair.
Now is the time to make the concept of a basic minimum income mainstream.
The problem is what, in the end, we do with them? The options are, roughly:

A) Kill them - The current choice. It's disfavored because it's final and we've made plenty of mistakes after doing it enough times. Also, it's more expensive than (B) because we try harder to make sure we've got the right person.

B) Life in prison - Possibly a compromise option, but there are some who say this is equivalent to (A), or possibly even worse. Prison itself is rather detrimental to people, after all.

C) Free them after some time. This is great for lesser crimes (which probably shouldn't result in prison to begin with). But for major ones, we're no longer protecting the rest of society from the murderers and rapists we have locked up. We hope they've been reformed, but prison really doesn't do that very well.

And what do we do with the prisoners who have no reasonable prospects of life on the outside any more? You can expunge a criminal record, sure, but you can't make up for 20+ years in prison and a lack of marketable job skills overnight.

It would be good if we had better avenues for reform.
It's a fairly broad representation of what has happened in thousands of cities and thousands of industries in the past. The lobbying, the promise of self-regulation, the meagre efforts to improve, etc - anytime you see mention of any aspect of this, you can reasonably assume what's gone down. Self-interest is a powerful force.
I disagree. For a related piece of work, see https://panopticlick.eff.org

I'm running a browser with only two (what I believe are common) add ons installed and a fairly uninteresting system config on common hardware. This is enough (combined with other "safe" metadata) to uniquely identify me! Compare this to iPhones, which frequently have dozens of apps installed and expose comparable device metadata.
If anything should be open and free, it's art.

Oh hell no. Apart from the difficulty of making a living if there's no way to get paid - and don't go telling me you support basic income, because I can't pay my bills your support and I'm guessing that you don't have an action plan to redesign the economy on any sort of meaningful time horizon - I don't want Free Art. Free art isn't subject to any sort of quality control, and there simply aren't enough hours in the day to spend browsing all existing art. Putting a price on things, even if it's just a monthly Netflix subscription fee, promotes selectivity, and as an artist that's what I care about. I want you to be emotionally engaged with the art I make in some way (even if you dislike it; there's lots of art I dislike that I nevertheless consider to be Good Art), but if art is free then there's no incentive have strong preferences and so no real engagement occurs.

Of course, you might find a piece of my art and love it. But I would much rather sell it to you and see you express your interest albeit indirectly by buying a ticket or a copy of it. Think of how you donate to charity - you give some money to an organization or in response to a particular event or to someone on the street who seems sincerely needy to you. You could just throw a $10 bill in the air on a windy day every so often and the money would likely wind up helping someone, but that wouldn't be very rewarding for you, would it?

Free Art just says that art has no economic value and therefore the time spent on it doesn't either. It says some 3 year-old's finger paintings are no better or worse than the expression of someone's craft that took years to develop. It says that art isn't important enough that you should be willing to sacrifice anything to get it, and that anyone who chooses to spend their time producing it is being self-indulgent.

I realize this is far from what you intended, but I think that's because you haven't through through the ramifications. I get that you think art is great and that you'd like everyone to be able to educate, entertain and edify themselves by making it widely accessible. But you haven't figured out how this works for people who produce art, or what signal it sends to the general public about the value of the art. Your proposal doesn't say anything about subsidizing artists or how any such subsidy would be funded, and even if there were subsidies then you've put artists in the position of appealing to a few charitable gatekeepers, who are inevitably going to take it on themselves to decide what is or is not art, while simultaneously wrecking the marketplace. You wouldn't expect a chef to come to your house and cook a meal for free, and somehow I doubt you'd expect that chef to give away all her recipes for free. Why do you think that people who labor over paintings or music or literature or _________ should be required to forgo any economic interest in their output?
Great, so artists are reduced to "content producers" that learn to tailor their work - first and foremost - to the comfort level of advertisers.

That's not progress. That's a reversion to the medieval. It's like, "Sure, you can paint or write whatever you like - just as long as it doesn't run counter to the political agenda of the King or the Pope, and honestly, if you know what's good for you, you'll focus on who you're really working for, okay?"

I mean, the whole point of copyright was to get away from the suffocating effects of the patronage system, which was one in which a tiny handful of insanely rich and hugely self-serving players set the cultural agenda for everyone.

And by the way, if you think that advertisers are okay with having their brands associated with anything and everything that attracts audiences, you've clearly spent zero time dealing with advertisers.
I don't think FreeRTOS has an emphasis on security and privacy. It's strengths are portability, small footprint, and open source.
Just fix the code, and try and continue to try and educate him as to why your way is better. Quitting seems out of proportion, especially since you are a freelancer.

Also, try and understand where he's coming from. Just laziness? Hatred of ORMs? Something else?
The endpoint of low-interest driven inflation by central banks is always a disaster. How long it takes to cure merely depends on how long it takes to end central banking and its arbitrary powers. Whatever capital was destroyed through government waste and general consumption will take time to rebuild. The sooner we're free from the scourge of central banking, the sooner we can all re-start growing and thriving.
Film is 24/48 so 16/44.1 isn't what you'd call a studio master in general. A lot of music used in film originates from 44.1k CD's but then you have up sampling to add to the workflow. 16/44.1k is becoming something of an anachronism.
Maybe, but I'm a lot more concerned with tax-dodging American companies incorporating in Ireland and skipping out on millions, than I am about safety nets that help people to get by. I don't think that unhappy neighborhoods are caused by people sitting around feeling terrible about mooching. Put another way, I hear a lot more people trying to figure out how to pay their bills, than I do people feeling bad that they need help to do so.
They have a tendency to remove repos that they don't agree with ideologically.
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It's a shame you had to bring this down but it looks like you saw it coming and enjoyed the ride. I think the posts that characterize you as unethical are just not willing to cope with the disillusion that technology is a two sided coin. The information was there and you used it. I commend you on seizing on the opportunity and wish you best of luck in the future.
> The government take 8% or so of my paycheck every pay cycle, and when I retire I'll collect a pension because I paid for it.

You are actually paying for the pensions of current retirees. The expectation for almost all pension schemes is that future taxes will fund your retirement. That's the issue behind the Social Security shortfall and the dramatic cuts in retirement benefits as part of austerity measures post-Great Recession in EU member countries.

> That's a whole different world than paying someone because they don't want to work.

By definition retirees are people who could still be working but choose not to. How about the disabled and the infirm? Those between jobs?

The real issue you seem to have is the "I paid for it" part. Where in the economic cycle is this money extracted? Would you feel better if it came from taxes on corporate revenue? Out of sales tax on luxury yachts?

The issue has been framed by trickle down ideologues as "this money comes from your paycheck!" What is the logic behind getting rid of anything that looks like income guarantees when it comes to you as a worker as opposed to an owner of a business?

Step 1: Eliminate minimum wage/welfare/unemployment/whatever
Step 2: ...
Step 3: Your salary goes up!

How does step 3 follow from step 1? Increased supply of labor is only going to bring your salary down.
Unless you're talking about kilobytes, in which case k = 1024.

Unless you're a strict follower of the IEC standard, in which case k = 1000, and what I was talking about was a kibibyte.

Standards are hard. It's not just the Americans' fault
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I'm excited for Nintendo's new "Mario Maker". It's exactly what it sounds like: a game that lets you make Super Mario Bros. (or ~ 3, or ~ World, or New ~) levels!

That video you see, with the switching between games? Noticed that the blocks have a drop-shadow? That's because it's actually a Mario Maker level!
The company I'm interning at right now works on a chrome extension that helps teams manage projects in GitHub. https://www.zenhub.io
Goodbye childish recycle bin
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Option D) used to be really popular. Exile. The problem is there is no unclaimed land to drop them on anymore that makes sense.

Because really, the kind of extravagant violence to justify a death penalty is the kind that makes you want to do several things:

1. Not pay for their livelihood for the rest of their life. US prisoners cost somewhere in the ballpark of $150k a year to house, feed, etc. What a colossal waste of resources.
2. Not kill them, because thats barbaric and primitive. We are better than that. It even costs more to execute people than it does to imprison them forever, since the appeals and actual execution will run to the tune of millions.

So kicking them out of the club we call society seems like a the best option in my view.

The problem is, one, having somewhere to put them (I'm sure Australia would not be as much of a fan of having serial murderers dumped on their shores as they were two centuries ago) and two, keeping them out. But really, it seems to be like the moral / ethical maxima. If you break the most fundamental rules of society, to such a degree you are unfit to ever participate again, you are kicked out.
To be fair I think there is an easy workaround on blocking the javascript from reading computed CSS styles. I wrote a potential hack around that here: http://ckluis.com/black-hat-badassery/
Apple's Mac OS licensing worked so well that they... oh right, they scrapped that. Hmm.
Had the same reaction. How is this on the front page of HN?
Another huge problem that has occured for the past 6+ years is the low interest rates which has led to the lowest saving rates in decades. With talk of negative interests the savings problem becomes even more dire. Whats the point in keeping any cash on you when its losing purchasing power every second it's in your wallet? Consumption is not problem. We need real wages to rise and we need investment in things like infrastructure.
I'd greatly appreciate if you could elaborate, because I'm finding myself confused as to what you're getting at, and I have no idea which point you're addressing. I think I follow, but I'm not convinced my interpretation is correct.

Honestly, I can't tell if this block is because I'm conflating the context of the greater discussion (the Ulbricht trial) with the more nuanced points of timsally's comment.

Thanks!
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That's why it's a fun problem.
> It's disfavored because it's final and we've made plenty of mistakes after doing it enough times. Also, it's more expensive than (B) because we try harder to make sure we've got the right person.

It's also disfavored by many people because there are moral objections to state-sanctioned murder. For example, I don't believe it is acceptable to take life of anyone who doesn't pose a serious immediate threat.
But then those people wouldn’t get the normal upstream releases anymore, and we’d have to setup a branch for backports – not really great.
Hiring is cheaper, ever hear of H1B's?
Oh, downvoted! Love to you too.

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a genius and Google should not use his name without proper acknowledgement. Shame on Google, and on downvoters.
Re: edit

This is the irony of this. You are writing well thought out explanations, but since it's not leftist enough, you get downvoted at a community which spent non-trivial amount of time trying to raise "quality of discussion", and even more time talking about "quality of discussion".
Glass was just a demo/research product, the tech isn't there yet to support something like Glass. Give it a few years.
I'm currently learning and loving haskell. I, however, find it unlikely that this language will ever become mainstream.

Throwing a beginner head first into recursion and restricting all their programs to be a singular composite of expressions is the, unfortunately, best way to turn away a beginner.

But damn, it'd be an awesome future if I'm wrong.
Off topic I know, but what time is you talking about with "genius per capita"? I wonder how this have been measured.
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Helix, which I think they built as a competitor to the Surface Pro 2.

The battery life excellent, reasonably good performance, stays open on its own without needing to prop on something, touchscreen works great (to the point that I bought a 10-point touchscreen for my desktop because I missed it so), WiFi is always nice and strong (sometimes I can even get my condo's wifi from the outside park benches 3 stories down and 150 yards away), builtin bluetooth works flawlessly (have had problems on other machines), and $200 less than the comparable Surface Pro (at the time).

But it has some issues. There is a weird splotchiness to the backlight, it doesn't open past 100 degrees (so I'm often using it at weird angles, especially at conference tables), the 12" 1080p display is either hard to read or doesn't display enough text (I've tried all of the DPI and UI scaling settings and I've hit a middle ground that is marginally crap in all dimensions, without being complete garbage in any one), stylus is unusable, keyboard layout really sucks (Fn where Ctrl should be, so I have it swapped in the BIOS, but that breaks the End key, so I have to Fn+End to get regular End instead of Insert), detachable tablet feature is mostly just a novelty, the trackpad is really stiff and uncomfortable, and the touchpoint drifts on its own if you press it for very long.

Now, there are some obvious ways where the Surface line would do better than the Helix. The stylus is supposed to be beyond compare. That might actually make the tablet form more useful (and the Helix is not symmetrical in tablet form, which makes it a bit of a pain). And the quality of the display is much nicer. I wish I had just spent the extra $200 on the Surface Pro 2.

But even if I had, man, I think I've gotten over the 12" screen size. One more inch doesn't seem like a lot, but I find myself much more relaxed on 13" screens these days (I guess I'm getting old). It's also another inch of keyboard real estate, which again doesn't sound like a lot until you start switching back and forth between two machines sitting next to each other. I think 15" is probably my ideal, mostly just because I don't think anyone makes a 14".

I really wanted to like this form factor, but the Surface Pro 3 doesn't change the issues I have. After a year, I'm seriously considering replacing it. Almost did, until I realized just how large the 17" gaming laptop I bought actually was, and how terrifically awful NVidia Optimus is for the Oculus Rift.
I guess I'm just supposed to know what ATAP means.
When, whether talking about money or not, have you ever seen someone write 100M to mean "a hundred thousand"? That would be completely ridiculous. Roman numerals are not used for that.
Ah, but at that time, we have something to work with. Documented evidence of automated military responding with undue force to civilians can be assessed as deemed useful by the world. If guidelines are developed, and nations sign on to them, evidence of overly aggressive robot soldiers can be seen as similar to chemical weapons, or more likely, landmines. As such, sanctions can be imposed, etc.

At the point where we take humans out of the "in-the-moment" decision process, a lot of thorny issues about what's acceptable in specific situations can become less ambiguous. Agreeing on rules is much easier than agreeing on what's acceptable behavior for a person in every situation, because a lot of that depends on state of mind.
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