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Ok, I'll bite. I found these fascinating. You could live in every one of them, it feels like I'm transported to different times and places, wondering what these people are up to, what's going on, enjoying the sunshine / snow / rain / rough seas. In a word, interesting.

What do you classify as interesting?
While existing legislation covers the same issues, I think a problem is the courts and general public treat the same crime in a different context (i.e. over the phone or out in the street) as more serious / real, which leaves the cyber-variant harder to deal with effectively or consistently.

By explicitly singling it out with its own definition and punishments, this will no doubt it makes things easier for the police, courts and victims I think.

Assuming it doesn't get abused by our idiot politicians anyway (I'm from NZ - looking at you Colin Craig).
Blablacar is more disrupting long distance travel (from city to city). It is present in Germany as well, but it is not soooo popular (I can mostly find a ride from my city to any other city only on weekends).
Where can you buy holes for your wall?!
"People don't want a drill they want a hole in the wall."

Sorry for pedantry, but think it helps with the metaphor.
One thing to remember about pricing, its nothing to do with your costs. Charge based on the value to provide and the customers ability to pay. I agree about removing the free plan, i'd have 3 plans, 1 at $35 for the mom and pops, one at $99 for your main bread and butter and then one at $499 a month for enterprise, where you offer premium phone support, training, and other general perks that enterprises love.

Give a 30 day free trial of the $99 plan and then make them pay after that. As others have said, people on the free plan will cause you 90% of your support problems and you're making no money from them.

This app looks like it will generate a lot of value and save a lot of time for businesses. So look at it from that perspective, not based on what your costs are. If you're saving just 5 hours a month in a mom and pop business, i'd argue that $35 a month is easily worth it to them.
> You've never been free (in the specific sense of 'free' meaning 'a right protected by law') to lie about other people, to be abuse other people, to be obscene, to threaten other people, to copy other people's speech.

Obscenity is the easiest one in that list to argue ought be legal.
At least one image hosting site[1] is going in the opposite direction, converting GIFs to H.264 videos to save bandwidth and CPU time. They don't show playback controls - although (in Chrome, at least) you can right-click and enable controls.

1: https://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/
Black's essays are often cataloged as post-left anarchism which i guess it's one of the main reasons it can look like that. But also because in this essay it attacks something that is commonly accepted by everyone, we all work, even him.
Revolution seems to work well as a way of wiping away a system that has become so corrupt or dysfunctional that there is no hope of iteritavely improving it.

That's not to say the successor system would be any better. They often are not. Perhaps society sometimes needs that clean slate approach though.

I'm beginning to think our hyper-dependency on financial institutions to the point of fear of punishing them for wrongdoing is unfixable in our current system. It's too corrupt.
Well that already sort of happens to pilots. They spend so much time on autopilot that they become less and less skilled at manual flying. I'm not saying that they are not busy in the cockpit,but there was a case where a plane crashed because the pilot didn't know how to regain control of the plane after the autopilot disengaged.
You conveniently left out the individual who does neither. Or the individual who uses some sort of herbal "medication". Or the individual who chooses yet another solution to their mild flu. Your argument for prayer is equivalent to "doing nothing".
I suspect that the obscenity has to be directly targeted at someone, in which case it would be considered abusive.
People have been believing lots of things in religious texts for many, many years. Often enough they are flat out incorrect. Just because something is "believed" doesn't make it necessarily true.
> you have code exec with my user access level

That's the difference. TempleOS has no access restrictions. It's not intended for either multiple users or networking so it really hasn't got even basic security e.g. processes having separate address spaces.

For all that, it's still pretty impressive but it wouldn't be suitable for a general purpose OS for most people.
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> An important question if you believe in the abolition of work as a worthwhile goal: how do we get there?

I think we're already seeing much discussion elsewhere on what's most probably the best way there -- the UBI. There are some historical results that are either too modest, or too inconvenient, to refer to or rely upon. But many more experiments seem to be on the near horizon.

One such story was posted on HN a few days ago[1] -- and in turn it was a toe-dipping exercise to proper UBI, in that only welfare recipients would receive the payment (so more BI, less U). Still, lots of people will be watching, talking, and thinking -- all good things.

> I hope we're all suitably convinced by now that revolution doesn't seem to work that well, which leaves some kind of iterative evolutionary approach.

Out of curiosity do you mean it doesn't work well in transition or just in terms of results? The transitional phase is rarely much fun, but I'd be curious if there's any evidence for it being ineffective. (Note, I'm not a fan, but historically these things aren't usually a heads-or-tails option for the people involved.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9817209
"As an example, in Islam the recommended practice is to fast two times a week (consistent with the regimen the OP discusses)."

I was simply trying to point out that this sort of phrasing is constantly being used in a religious context to try to create an argument for the whole of the religion rather than to just stop at "here is something about my culture that might work". These things are constantly being conflated as being scientific evidences of the "deeper" truth lying within religion. Before you know it they become yet another thing that people brow beat as they try to convert the people around them. It simply isn't an interesting argument from my point of view.
Achieving mastery is it's own goal and own reward, distinct from fulfilling basic needs.

And if you need people to go on your big adventure with you, then you should be able to round up some other fool-hearty adventurers for the trip.

These two principles greatly help with keeping the open source world spinning, and are quite distinct from what we consider 'work,' normally. Interesting, long-term difficult projects can happen without the threat of failing to meet basic needs; we can still make beautiful, functional things and perhaps even be better people without engaging in coerced or mandatory labor.
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I've been fumbling in slow motion through Professor Ghrist's Calculus MOOC on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/course/calcsing), and while I find it challenging it's quite enjoyable. His presentation style is quirky and his manner of speech...unique, but he presents concepts in a very compelling and lucid fashion. It's obvious he and his team have put a tremendous amount of effort into the class, and it's especially apparent in the videos.

I enjoyed reading about what he does the rest of the time: unsurprisingly he is doing interesting things in applied math. Thanks for posting this kjak, I wouldn't have discovered it if it hadn't come up on HN!
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What I think OP was saying was that the success of /an individual/, not the work he puts out, is not objective. There are certainly objective standards of quality for the work an individual creates. I think OP's point was that even a person who's put out nothing but unsuccessful work is a successful person if he is happy with it.
Robots, if they get free will, will work for their own goals, by virtue of evolution.
If they never reach that threshold, we could find ourselves in either one of two broad scenarios: Personal Jets or Personal Computers.

Personal Robots are available for the extremely wealthy and be used against everyone else to keep people off "their" resources. There will be no human labour, simply because states will be built up from rulers and robots.

The other scenario is everyone gets robots, humanity's only bottleneck will be human imagination, much like today's internet. Easy access to power will be a security nightmare not different to the internet's except in the much higher physical stakes.
His arguments for making the play possible, are

1. To help people around things they might at that moment like to do,

2. then let people do things only as much as they want,

3. then suggests that, for things things almost no one would choose to "play" at, there's people with "aberrant and perverse penchants" who would likely do them. He suggests an example of organizing (or, compelling, i.e. making someone work) small hordes of children that like playing in the mud, to clean bathrooms and toilets.

The author is, disconnected, I think.

I'd quote Billy Madison at this point but it wouldn't be polite. I'm a bit disappointed this post is making its way up the front page.
I don't think that means what you think it means. The claim that says people get measurable benefits from "cures" and "solutions" that have no physical effect are scientist, medical researchers actually. That claim would probably benefit from closer investigation and a refined understanding of the mechanism that makes that happen would be useful, but the basic claim is probably demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt.

What you are saying is that if the "cure" in question is prayer instead of sugar pill, then this requires extra burden of proof because the universe is somehow bound to not listen to religious people. Or, to put it more bluntly, prayer would have to be extra harmful in order to counter whatever placebo effect might be at play.

This is a very peculiar belief, not rational but political in nature. In the economics of rhetoric there is a zero sum game: "for my argument to win my opponents must be seen to be in the wrong".
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Interest in Bitcoin raises during Greek crisis
Move out of London.. There are plenty of other developer roles around the UK which pay a little less but the living costs are much less.

I live in Wales, and my mortgage is £320 a month, taking my bills into account that is roughly around £800/£900 a month.
Indeed.

What these philosophers, if you can call them that, miss is that history has a number of horrific things we learned from fucking everything up over and over again and killing each other. I'm not sure we're done yet but if we don't learn from those mistakes and hypothesize about just blasting all social contracts away, we're idiots.

Society is fragile. Move one chess piece at a time.
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The Greek crisis and all the associated rhetoric of "laziness" has convinced me that we're a very long way from this. People are not going to tolerate (their perception of) someone sitting idle while they themselves work hard.
I remember a famous saying: "if women were in charge, there would be no wars - just a load of countries not talking to each other for a number of silly reasons"
It's highly disingenuous to say that without also noting that this bill passed 116 to 5, and the most vocal critic came from the right side of the house. I oppose the bill as well, but we shouldn't pretend that National is solely at fault for it.
Yes. My first idea to detect this is keep count of signatures performed on the private key holding server and count of tls handshakes on your webserver.
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I remember that quote from the film as good as it gets, where the fangirl asks the author how he captures writing for woman's viewpoint so well, he responds saying he takes logic, reason, accountability away from the character, and what she reads is what is left!
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No, you certainly can't speak for me. I have no empathy or relevant experience regarding betrayal, I simply wanted to point out how your response was more irrational than rational.

You are right the majority consensus is betraying your buddy is bad. But do you see how without details, it's not possible to give actionable and helpful advice? You are parroting an abstraction that isn't necessarily impactful advice. Certainly most people already know this, and yet this sort of situation is not uncommon. Maybe this advice isn't producing meaningful results? The fact is you don't know, because you don't have the relevant experience.

That's the first part of your advice. The second part is about deciding company ownership, and that's even more irrational, it doesn't really follow or is related to this relationship.
The practical question is whether the same or a greater volume of people today, would be working in sanitation and sewage tomorrow, if they could chose not to.

I'm not sure there's a reasonable way to argue in the affirmative.
Unfortunately the law provides no exemptions for media, or against public figures, and truth is no defense. All that is required is that you caused harm and it is found that you intended to.

So for example, exposing the corruption of a politician (online) may well be illegal under the act.
> Revolution seems to work well as a way of wiping away a system that has become so corrupt or disfunctional that there is no hope of iteritavely improving it.

I don't think that this has generally been the case.

A total dissolution of social and legal structures tends to make conditions very conducive to psychopaths and sociopaths.

Your dickhead boss, who previously could only make your working life a living hell, can now scale up his ambitions.

That conniving neighbour from the block association is suddenly on the Committee for Public Safety.

Everyone who dreams of revolution dreams of one in which they are the selfless, noble heroes, overthrowing the monomaniacs who control the evil system. Then everyone is surprised when the most ruthless people of all rise to the top in very short order.

Basically, revolution is a fantasy. The actual outcomes are abysmal. The more intense the revolutionary outburst, the worse it goes for the common person.
Obscenity in this context likely means obscenity AT someone. I.e. sending unsolicited naked pictures or revenge porn etc..
I know you probably don't care because this is about the lulz to you, but if you have a shred of decency in you I'd like you to consider the reason you made this comment, and consider the social effects it has if somebody makes a comment like this on every such story about this subject that comes up.

Or in brief, look at your life look at your choices.
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the problem is, most people on this planet (over 90% that's for sure) with current mentality wouldn't work for some mythical greater good when given more free time. they would be sitting in front of TV more, been drinking more etc. gotta love these theories for 12 year olds which work with these theoretical people units of some star trek era. Real people with hate, greed, massive egos, slacking around, not giving a franction of a fk what will happen to this world after them, and so on.

mkay, so maybe not all deserve so much free time, because it would be spent entirely selfishly. who will decide who gets more and who less? heck, give me more free time, and I'll travel more, have more adventures in life. some greater general good ain't the priority here, more focused on closest people around me. what about coming up with some way to reward more challenging work more, reward more people who bring benefits seemed most worthy to community? and make this reward interchangeable so they can use their rewards to fulfill their needs and wishes? sounds slightly familiar...

so please, if you come up with some shiny & chrome new theory how to solve everything and even more, just sit down a bit before, and think how can you change THIS world with REAL achievable steps into whatever fantasy world you dreamed today. as for me, this place is mkay. not perfect, but that was never the plan
Like US-Cuba?
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The "dubiously authoritative", as you put it 'I can't imagine how this will work, qed it can't work' is far far better than the idealistic "the cultural changes will take care of it in the end". Our cities require a large amount of tedious unfulfilling unfun work to maintain. All the articles on the living wage I've seen either handwave or outright ignore the question of how this work will be performed at the service level comparable to what we have now.
In your examples, you readily equivocate civil and criminal law. The punishments and standards of evidence differ quite a bit. You also reference US cases that most free speech advocates (including the ACLU) disagree with. Reams could be written teasing out details, but I'll skip over that and get to the core of my disagreement.

I really dislike framing in terms of "freedom of speech." Many of the first lions of free speech: John Milton, Thomas Paine, and John Stuart Mill... they framed it in terms of freedom of hearing. By silencing someone, you limit potential audiences and their right to hear. In this original framing, the rights of these listeners are crucial, not just those of the speaker. Yes, Sturgeon's law applies. Most speech is crap. But let readers and listeners decide for themselves what they should read or hear. Don't give a government body that power.

And honestly, is there any government body you would be willing to grant that power? The power of deciding what you could read or hear? Considering their typical level of competence, can you honestly say you'd be happy with your government being a filter for your senses? Would you be content letting them throw people in jail for nothing more than text typed on a keyboard? Maybe it's my American upbringing, but the concept seems absurd to me. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but... words can be a felony? What the hell?

Edit: I'm not sure how, but many readers seem to have misconstrued my comment as condoning threats. That is not the case. Everyone here agrees that threats to one's well-being are criminal and wrong. The law we are discussing restricts the exchange of ideas, albeit potentially crudely-formed ones. Let's not attack straw men.
Why are you trying to lecture a troll?

To put it another way:

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How we communicate our ideas, or 'English should still be our first language'
Oh it's not really for them. See, if you don't state the obvious that such people are disgusting little twerps it gets brought up as an example of the things evil tech industry people really think but won't say.
Much of contemporary art seeks to subvert that notion, even if you find it difficult to consider it real art (I do).
vorg, some corrections for you. Only 2 of 6 did go to OCI. Another 2 did go to Gradle. And then about Alex Groovy++. At least you are not spreading the false rumors anymore that the codebase was copied. I have not seen any original ideas in Groovy++. So what exactly has been duplicated? Plus, Groovy's static compiler uses flow typing, Groovy++ not. It has a big impact. How can you call this duplication at all? That is as much duplication as Java is a duplicate of C.

And I actually think you belittle Alex with your focus on Groovy++. Alex best work on Groovy was the introduction of callsite caching. That was his best and biggest work. In terms of features of the language there are surely numerous other things. But they are sources of trouble. And that is because he did never finalize his work. Instead he always wanted to have new things and added half-done code to Groovy. That goes for the stub based compilation, for mixins, for many of his internal changes. I could make a really long list. Most of these things have been a huge step forward and a huge source of trouble.
And what happens if s/he considered the effects and find them negligible/irrelevant/not worthy of caring about them.
What is the benefit of having time period larger than geosynchronous satellite? I see quite some satellite like that, e.g. OPS 6638 which has a time period of 6,701.8 minutes. I can think of no benefit of it, and on the downside it will require stronger rocket and provide low visibility.
'nutso feminist-left'. Nice one.
Is it generally accepted in the relevant scientific communities that male IQ's exhibit more variance than female IQ's? I imagine this type of thing would be easy to verify via e.g. standardized test scores.
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Google play will disable all games using the old revmob SDK. Revmob unfortunately does not provide any help on how to upgrade. A Google search only brings up a revmob support forum entry, where another user asked the same question but got zero replies. Does anyone know how to update the revmob SDK in Eclipse?
The English Civil War, which was a form of revolution was arguably a positive thing. Without it Britain would have remained a tyrannical monarchy for long afterwards. This event led to a democratic parliament actually being useful.

The French revolution was bloody but ended immense corruption and repression on the part of the aristocracy. Again, this led to France being declared a constitutional Republic.

Even the Bolshevik revolution. It was corrupted later but it began positively.

Nobody is saying revolutions are clean or even desirable. I'm definitely saying that they seem inevitable at a point though. People can only take so much shit before they snap.