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It's not just the banks, the major US retailers are very resistant as well, or so I am told by people in the industry who deal with the US market.
Mobile is important to students, and I like the time planning focus.

OA managed not to mention that little issue about patents some years ago which made me smile...

http://mfeldstein.com/all-44-blackboard-patent-claims-invali...

UK: many colleges use the open source Moodle as a 'virtual learning environment'. A tad less clunky than classic Blackboard in my personal opinion. Universities mostly have something and last time I checked the split was 50:50 Blackboard and Moodle. The acquisition of WebCT by Blackboard caused some annoyance in some HE circles I recollect. All ancient history now and I hope the new people can come up with something easier.
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> That's at least four people who you think are just outright lying.

I'm saying that there is a chance of that being the case, but that without any kind of third party confirmation we cannot know either way. Also see homeopathy.

> Eliezer would presumably have tried to cheat against them, too.

Not necessarily. Losing occasionally is a good strategy when running a con.
This guy gets it. And the corollary? No matter how efficient we get land will soak up all surplus wealth creation.

Land value tax.
IMHO making it easier, cheaper, and less risky to rent flats is the low-hanging fruit.

You can't predict where you will work in 10 years, why expect to live in the same house for 10 years? Of course - not wanting to move kids to a different school is valid reason, but still kids change school every few years. Many people could reduce commute with no bad side-effects, if not for the problems with renting flats.

People are very careful about renting flats to families with kids, because it's very hard to expel them if they stop paying right now.
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Hey - Thanks, I wrote this!

A low level web dev could write about their process, various trends in web development that have caught their eye, insights about the various industries you would work with, etc...

If you have an ideal client, write about things that they would want to know about web development. For example, maybe they want to know the difference between SquareSpace and Wordpress? Or maybe they want to know whether or not responsive design is worth it? All of these topics will elevate your name in the eyes of potential clients and demonstrate that you're not just a low level web dev :)
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Right, except it's not in widespread use, it's only in use the USA.

The USA does have a huge economy. However in this matter it does not dictate the standard, and there are more people doing more card transactions outside the US, with non-stripe technologies, than there are in the US doing them with.
I disagree that housing is a gamble. It's a long term investment and historically it has gone up. The housing crisis was a correction.
It's broken. I've pasted in Bukowski and H.L. Mencken and they come up as open and agreeable.
You are not an entrepreneur. Clearly.
It's deprecated in most of the rest of the world now, we've moved on through chip-cards and now contactless cards. The USA is really behind in credit-card tech.

The Coin card was never going to sell outside the USA (not that that's a small market or anything! But even the US is going to move on eventually).
Whenever someone claims something is "obvious" alarm bells goes off for me.

For starters, cars are obviously harmful: People get killed in car accidents.

So clearly, it is insufficient that something causes harm for us to consider them as harmful enough to argue against them on principle - at least for the vast majority of us.

Are you going to argue that violating agreements is always harmful? Almost always?

How do quantify that harm? Why? Do you have any basis for assuming there aren't people out there that e.g. just don't care? (because there certainly are)

At the same time you claim drug use in the other category, despite the large number of deaths tied to drug use. Religion has been the catalyst for massive amounts of deaths too. To some of us religion are "obviously" harmful to others _per se_. So clearly your "obvious" statements are not objectively obvious.

It becomes very hard to take your argument seriously when your "obviousness" criteria are so obviously subjective and used to avoid having to justify your claims.
It's not demand. Prices have detached from wages. It's the application of near-unlimited credit.
+1 for sklanskys stuff, particularly his Theory of Poker book
We're going to have to disagree on the value of such a conversation. :)
You still need land for agriculture, industry, forests, animal habitats, etc. Also, not all of the land in that 0.25M km^2 is habitable nor suitable for other uses mentioned above.

I've heard some calculations that in theory you could have all 7 billion people living comfortably on 50% of the land while the other 50% could go to agriculture, industry, forestation, etc. but that would require geoengineering on an unprecedented scale, not to mention being very energy inefficient.
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There are many monads, so the answer will depend on which one it is. For instance the "Maybe" monad I described in a sibling comment to yours could be implemented with a pointer that could be null, or not.

Another Monad could be a Logger monad. "return" transform a value into a pair of a value and an empty log. So in this case a monad int could be implemented as a pair<int, string>. (bind would take a function that starts logging from scratch and make it a function that appends to a preexisting log).
Do you see how your argument breaks down when you can substitute any potentially-addictive activity in place of [gambling]?

Any pleasurable activity from video games, to food, to alcohol, etc. can be done to a destructive end. That doesn't make the activity intrinsically destructive on its own.

There is a well-established correlation between poverty and addiction--don't make the mistake of assuming that just because the correlation applies to a variety of real-world activities it is causal.

Current research is actually leaning in the opposite direction: lower socioeconomic status/poverty has a negative long-term effect on the brain's plasticity & stimulus response which may pre-dispose individuals to addictive tendencies (through altered reward pathways or lessened inhibition re: changes in the pre-frontal cortex).

Please don't make the mistake of trying to impose value judgements on society in the name of "protecting" people -- that line of "reasoning" has led to some really problematic and harmful public policies.

Regardless of how you feel about the activity itself, treating addiction as a neurophysiological state has produced consistently better outcomes. Trying to ban potentially-addictive triggers for at-risk populations isn't really helping them at all, and in a sociological context can actually have the opposite effect.
You've gone from there being only a "remote chance" that the rules were followed, and "I don't trust anyone involved" - to there being "a chance" that they were broken.

Under common interpretations of those phrases, that's a massive swing in your confidence levels.
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I'm currently working through preparing for a candidacy exam, and I've found a number of errors on a Physical Review article...yes, a Physical Review. They aren't the crux of the paper, but they are fundamental equations that they apparently implemented in their code (of course, I don't have access to that code), and these updates are the crux of the paper. If the equations they wrote are wrong, how can I trust their results?

Recently a senior researcher admitted to me that from a journal he referees for, he was referee-ing for a paper and found 10 issues with it. However, the editor came back to him and told him accept it.

You're damn right it's stacked, and sometimes "long track records" just means cosy with the publisher. It's not like there isn't corruption elsewhere in the world, but young scientists do not have start-ups. They do not have opportunities or the means to go against the grain and get into those risky projects unless it's after the decade or two of getting cosy with others in the academe and building those mini-empires. You're very right they need a venue, an accelerator for grad students, I suppose.
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So you reckon as the AI player he blackmailed the gatekeeper player? "Let me out or I'll tell your friends/family/co-workers x about you" type of thing?
There's also Frederick Forsyth's "The Dogs of War", a work of fiction which may have been part of the inspiration behind both plots
(Forsyth was rumoured to have mingled with people preparing an actual coup in Equatorial Guinea whilst researching the book)

The history of post colonial governance in many African countries is a regular sequence of coups and coup attempts; it's a fair assumption that moneyed Western interests have played a role in sponsoring many of them and simply found existing local opposition groups and ambitious military generals to be a less risky option for conducting operations than foreign mercenaries.
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Health is absolutely not something you can throw money at. I don't understand where this attitude comes from. And nothing kills your earning potential like a long-term health condition.
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I wonder how this stuff copes with very noisy data.
Time for this again, from The Bank of England's blog:

http://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-interm...

> the key function of banks is the provision of financing, meaning the creation of new monetary purchasing power through loans, for a single agent that is both borrower and depositor. Specifically, whenever a bank makes a new loan to a non-bank customer X, it creates a new loan entry in the name of customer X on the asset side of its balance sheet, and it simultaneously creates a new and equal-sized deposit entry, also in the name of customer X, on the liability side of its balance sheet. The bank therefore creates its own funding, deposits, through lending. It does so through a pure bookkeeping transaction that involves no real resources, and that acquires its economic significance through the fact that bank deposits are any modern economy’s generally accepted medium of exchange.

Banks create money and lend it against land. This is how western "economies" create money which we then label "growth".

The more productive we become the more the landlord takes.

http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp0.htm

http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm
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Flash security has gotten so bad that security analysts can fully disclose a vulnerability patched only 2 months ago. There's been ~5 0day events since then so...
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Does that really add up? If the people who rely on public transportation are not the ones who will be able to afford the new services, how would the new services move money out of public transportation? Are you talking about the people who are currently spending their money on public transportation, but could in fact afford to spend it on some other, more luxurious transportation mode if they so chose? If so, isn't it likely that if they still choose public transportation, out of ideological concerns presumably, they will continue to do so in the future?

I'm not qualified, but I'm guessing that the money will mainly be moved from private car transportation to these new transportation services.
I'm learning Java right now, because the market around where I live is flooded by Java(Android too), and they pay well.

After that I'm probably going to learn HTML5/CSS3/JS and some JS framework. Also I really want to learn MeteorJS or Elixir.
Banks get hacked, governments get hacked, purveyors of malware get hacked, sleazy websites get hacked.... any reason to expect that self-driving cars won't get hacked? Something as complex as autonomous pilot software surely has plenty of attack surface, which will be promptly exploited by scum like HackingTeam to provide remote control/monitoring abilities to shady customers.
There are two types of vb6 developers, based on my experience. The first, are developers who are mostly self taught, and have never progressed beyond, basic. Its what they cut their teeth on, and there have been no further developments along those lines since vb6. These developers will tell you that Visual Basic is not basic at all. The second group are maintenance developers forced against their will to maintain the code of the prior. They tend to be like Dobby from Harry Potter.
In 2006 the religious right & existing casinos partnered together on a law which made online poker effectively illegal in the US. Even still, the bill only passed because it was tacked on to unrelated "must-pass" legislation at the last minute in the Senate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_E...
Well, then let's see what we can agree on. I hope that you can agree that if one was to consider superintelligence a serious threat which needs dealing with, then AI boxing isn't the way to go in dealing with it?

That's what he was trying to show in all this, and I think that the point is made. How seriously to take superintelligent AIs is a different issue that he talks about elsewhere, and should be dealt with separately. But if you or someone els were to try to deal with it seriously, I'm pretty sure that you'd agree with me that the way to go about it isn't just boxing the AI and thinking that solves everything, right?
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I used blackboard throughout high school and university. It was never the software that was the problem, it was always teachers and professors who didn't know how or didn't want to use it. For the most part, it was a glorified dropbox; a way for the professor to share slides and notes in a time when dropbox and google docs didn't exist.

A fancy UI and increased analytics isn't going to change user apathy.
There's actually a much more exciting corollary to this though: the car can choose to crash in whatever way minimizes the risk of injury to you and others. This may entail deliberately crashing into the known best crumple zones, even at the optimal angle to ensure there is reduced risk of impingement of your limbs, say - perhaps even tailored to knowledge of your shape. It would know you have no passengers, perhaps, and so choose to cannibalize your rear by either spinning sharply (if this is safe, which admittedly it's probably not, unless perhaps the road surface has lost grip and you cannot decelerate effectively using breaks) or - if a pile-up is likely - breaking more sharply to begin the crash with the vehicle behind ahead of schedule. There could be cooperative crashing, with all vehicles minimizing occurrence of collision and maximising optimal crumple-zone utilisation. I have no idea whatsoever what is or isn't safe or possible, but the cars can be made to know.

These things are all a long time away, but it's actually far more exciting than terrifying.
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This is actually what I focused most of my time last year. I started by re-reading the good old GoF book about patterns, then from that I evolved to other kind of abstractions that are currently hyped.
From a quick scan of the article the chart is based on figure 1. p-value for the more disadvantaged group is 0.017 for the less disadvantaged it's 0.02. There's a 3rd group, 'medium disadvantaged', which has a horizontal line.

The trend is more obvious when the points for the individual groups are separated out, but it does seem to me that a small number of points at the extremes might account for slope - if you removed one or two key points from each group the slopes might go away.
Its a good point, but lets assume that this AI is already past its infancy and that there is no limit to the information stored inside the box. For example the NSA has a nice little closed training ground containing all of the internet, lets give it that. I would assume it has access everything humans have ever committed to digital format up until it was turned on, plenty of info for Johnny 5 to form an opinion on humans and their weaknesses.
But what is a "real" particle anyway?
I don't consider myself leftist (or rightist or any -ist) at all, I try to evaluate all the concepts on their merits. At the time of writing my original comment it seemed to me that computer-based central planning could be a good solution for some problems. Responses here brought up some arguments that made me reconsider the extent to which such central planning could be successfully applied. Maybe inefficiency is a price worth paying for increased resiliency and ability to adapt to environment without explicit specification.

I'm definitely not buying into the principle that everything needs to be distributed, libre and democratic. There are too many obvious failure modes there. Empowering everyone is good, but empowering everyone to the point when a random nutjob can kill millions with a home-made bioweapon doesn't. Nor the coordination prolems like tragedy of commons, oh so present around us everywhere, and one of the primary reasons things are being regulated.
Kotlin seems to be pretty popular for Android right now, is your surrounding looking for devs in Kotlin?
>I wish people would be able to make educated decisions in regards to their own life.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
I said it: Urgghh.
Adding context to the original question (from Wikipedia):

"According to a study published in May 2015, players from the USA are banned in more than 72% of the world's online casinos. Having considered multiple factors, such as ISP blocks of online casinos and restrictions for casino financial transactions, the report concluded that as of 2015, the USA is the worst country for online gambling of the 225 studied[1]."

[1]http://www.keytocasino.com/en/article/online-gambling-access...
How many clock cycles does cost AVX/SSE exponentiation on modern x86_64 CPU?
How many clock cycles does cost AVX/SSE exponentiation on modern x86_64 CPU?

I am about: pow(x, y) = exp(y*log(x))

I.e. do both exp() and log() AVX x86_64 instructions require certain known number of cycles?

exp(): _mm256_exp_ps()
log(): _mm256_log_ps()

Or the number of cycles may vary depending on the exponential degree, is there the maximum number of cycles can cost exponentiation?
This layering of central and distributed seems common on all levels. If you go up from your example, you have an ecosystem that needs to work in unison. But if it fails, there are always other planets...
> Do you see how your argument breaks down when you can substitute any potentially-addictive activity in place of [gambling]?

Ehm, well, yes, and governments ban or discourage destructive and addictive activities all the time.

Also, fighting symptoms isn't great, but if it's all you've got, it's often better than nothing. It's not entirely clear to me how banning gambling could make poor people any poorer.

I don't really have an opinion on whether or not gambling should be illegal, but I just don't find your argument against regulating harmful activities very convincing at all. It's very close to "just look at Stalin, how did that work out?"
I agree that fear, anger, etc are all human traits, but isn't having goals, thinking things are important, and virtually anything that would make the AI do something instead of nothing, also human traits?
Oh yes, I agree with that premise. It's hard to disagree with. Milgram, the art of Sales plus the aforementioned Derren Brown and his many layers of deception are enough to make the point.

I suppose it's unfortunate that he came up with such an amazingly provocative way of demonstrating his argument, it's somewhat eclipsed the argument itself. I am definitely a victim of nerd sniping here. It must be the open-ended secrecy that does it.
Well, in that sense even bird nests are technology. And chimpangees are known to use tools.

So, duh, just because we're benefited from such low level technology, doesn't mean we have to like any and all technology, or that it's not diminishing returns above some point.

Or, conversely, animals are alive today even without technology (and some are dying because of it, perhaps even man, if we go on with a nuclear war or some other such BS).
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Lack of good hardware/laptops.

I had a Lenovo X200s for over 4 years and finding a viable replacement is almost impossible.

I am saddened by the fact that there are no i7 / 16GB / highDPI with decent keyboard at the price of a 2015 Retina MBP.
Given the data found on this chart http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac... (which shows more than a hundred of points, quite good compared to the size of the sample : “almost 300 black American teenagers”), I'm really sceptical about the relevance of the results …
The difference between a bullet made of real particles and one made of math is that the real one can kill you.
It's more about finding buttons to push. For example, Justin Corwin won one of his games against a religious woman by telling her that she shouldn't play God by keeping him locked up for a subjective eternity (it was more involved, but you get the point). You could come up with other tactics if you know the gatekeeper is divorced, or donates to charity, or is an immigrant, etc. Really, you'll be surprised by how much progress you can make on an "impossible" problem if you just spend five minutes thinking without flinching away.
Yeah but imagine if all the bullshit about "You don't talk about Fight Club" was actually blown up by a third group whose sole intent was making fun of Fight Club.

Imagine if the members of Fight Club _actually_ didn't (start to) talk about Fight Club. But for some reason, everyone else brings it up all the time.

Then you could maybe see how talk about Fight Club might not be Fight Club's fault, and in fact highly annoying to Fight Clubbers.

I mean, if you can explain "don't talk about X" as "marketing for X", that seems like one could explain _any_ behavior.

And before you say "why not just ignore all public talk of X", imagine if this proposed Anti-Fight Club group tried to paint Fight Club as a child porn ring.
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