ctolsen

You're being downvoted because it's a stupid assertion and it's "technically" not even the same craft at that point.

This is the an explosion of 5 gallons of petrol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C72bv2YhZ6A

Doesn't take that much to make an impressive bang.

Many people tend to think of BI as a solution to a world where scarcity is no longer that much of an issue. In a world where a lot of wealth is created by automation, the picture starts to look different, to the extent that BI becomes not just desirable, but inevitable. At that point, it shouldn't matter too much if those people choose to stay unproductive.

But even now, while those people may not produce, they would certainly still have to consume. So there is some economic activity created. The question, of course, is whether it's enough to support the greater economy and if the incentives to do extra work are good enough.

Also, I sincerely doubt that these people you talk about are the norm. As mentioned in the article, there's certainly evidence that people may tend to get more education, act more creatively, and pursue productivity at a higher rate when they are removed from the fear of poverty – likely because basic needs are met and aren't a primary source of stress.

"It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment run by utopian radicals."

I have absolutely no recollection of this. Wikipedia has had some trouble, just like any other successful project, but has in my view been widely regarded as a pretty successful project that everyone wants to have around (unless you sold encyclopedias).

Perhaps you'd like to get some actual numbers behind your claims?

And not stuff like "trains are very rarely entire full". Of course they're not. But cars are almost always entirely empty.

What's this deal with people having to learn Python 3? For most of the things you do there is literally no practical difference.

Using Python 3 in production with Flask here, and been doing so for at least a year now. Never had an issue whatsoever. The warning is frankly outdated.

Awaiting an official release (and my PR being merged), I made a Docker image which is simply an upgrade of the official one: https://hub.docker.com/r/ctolsen/python/

Also, pytest users might want to use their dev version for now until they fix a 3.5 issue.

It really isn't. Copyright is riddled with exceptions of many kinds, and the granting of it is completely in the hands of whatever a government wants to provide.

I don't see why you can't go on vacation even if you take a couple months off on a sabbatical every couple of years. It's mostly about financial priorities, especially for most people on HN.

Good for you, and maybe you're an outlier, but everything we know about work tells us that this is counterproductive.

It's good for productivity, health, and well-being if people get to disconnect completely from work. As a company, it doesn't even make sense to have people work like you do, because they are more creative and productive if they do take time off.

One study reported on here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2014/02/28/take-a-vaca... – and there are plenty of similar results elsewhere.

But, by all means, if this is how you enjoy life then go right ahead. I and many other people wouldn't like that lifestyle though.

You don't build a billion dollar business to cash out and retire. You would likely end up investing in new businesses and continue from there.

In that perspective, a billion is exactly a thousand times better than a million. Even more so, perhaps, because it enables you to never have to worry about losing your money and going broke, which you could easily do with a million or even ten.

I've been buying in continuously before the drop, and will continue to do so after. That's the best way of negating some of the risk.

You can't really know if things are going to go down further, or jump back up again soon.

Not suggesting that you're wrong, only that you're lucky: there is always a risk that things go in any direction.

If you're in it for the long haul, selling your ETFs a month ago isn't necessarily the best thing to do – at least by virtue of allowing yourself to sell your stocks when you feel it's the right time, which is mostly going to be dead wrong.

And selling them today is certainly a terrible idea.

Ember is fairly all-encompassing. Sure, if you compare it with JQuery, it's big. But if you compare it to the full stack of libraries you need in order to run a reasonable React app, it's not too shabby at all.

I definitely appreciate projects having Dockerfiles included, but yeah, that's not a good one. They should simply include instructions about how to link it to MySQL/Redis, or use something like docker-compose.

The way it's done now makes it inherently unscalable. Also, there are so many steps that it makes pushing an image to a Docker repository a massive pain.

Sweden isn't very densely populated.

Those who might want to migrate the other way, perhaps.

You don't have to learn anything, but it's a fairly big step to go straight for a long sit. See http://www.dhamma.org for info on intensive Vipassana courses.

For something a bit easier that you can do at home, check out this self guided course: http://palousemindfulness.com/selfguidedMBSR_week1.html

The article compared meditation to psychedelics because the author is misguided. They may produce remotely similar states of mind. That does not mean they are equal.

There is no claim of salvation in meditation. Only claims of personal benefit in terms of calm and compassion, plus an increasing body of scientific evidence of cognitive benefits.

Invisible men in the sky are the antithesis of Vipassana, and anyone who uses it to ensnare anyone are frauds. The only benefits are within yourself, and the teachings make that abundantly clear.

Also, implying that Vipassana and meditation can harm anyone is absolutely ridiculous. It cannot do that anymore than reading a book or eating breakfast can.

You're citing from one meta study out of plenty. Also, it's ten years old. Many things have happened since then, especially things to address those weaknesses – MBSR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduct...) has been developed further, and is a method of meditation that is in part designed so that you can do science on it.

Looking at a 2013 report (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23796855), results are quite different. Or this interview (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/05/...) showing potential physical changes in the brain.

Furthermore, meditation isn't about objective health gains to many people. It's about living in a different way, in a different state.

Except it doesn't. Vipassana courses are barely advertised, people come of their own volition, and participate for free. People are asked to try their method for ten days, not to change their lives without wanting to.

If they did advertise, they'd have scientific evidence that there are benefits from their methods. However, they don't use that, because meditation is not about proven benefits to them. It's about living a more compassionate and harmonious life.

Hardly a scam of any kind. I don't know why anyone would attempt to discredit it.

There's scientific evidence that meditation improves memory, cognition, grey matter, concentration, and so on.

The same is not true for surfing or generally relaxing. Just because people feel like there are similarities between experiences on psychedelics and meditation does not mean that they have equal outcomes.

Anyone interested in the topic should read the LSE report on the Economics of Drug Policy. The facts are staggering, especially on the human and fiscal cost of internal displacement. I bet not many know that Colombia just a few years ago was only beat by Sudan in terms of internal refugees, and it's all due to the drug war.

It also gives some perspective to the Western debate – we talk about decriminalisation and healthcare. That is a good step, but it won't help the atrocities committed in the rest of the world. We need to talk about legalisation.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/Projects/IDPP/The-Expert-Group-on...

It's not putting them above a constitution. There is a process in place to resolve constitutional issues. In this case it worked perfectly.

Punishing people merely for passing a law would itself be unconstitutional. There is no enumerated punishment nor is there any reasonable way to assert culpability.

Politicians can be forced out of office for anything. It's called elections. Most countries also have some kind of impeachment process.

Are you saying politicians shouldn't attempt to do what their constituents sent them to do, under the penalty of imprisonment? Minorities are protected not by politics, rather by judicial review, which worked great in this case.

Leaders who do unconstitutional things might be. If you trample on your citizens sufficiently, you might live to see the inside of the Hague.

But it would be completely ridiculous to imprison someone for passing a law. The process here did exactly what it's supposed to do. Politicians make a law. People are unhappy with said law and challenge it. People win in court. Law is no longer in force and the people get their redress.

Also, politicians might enact an unconstitutional law with popular support. And even if that doesn't happen, it is far from obvious what is constitutional and what is not. Should John McCain go to prison because of Citizens United? Should local politicians be incarcerated after the city lost McDonald v Chicago? That would be ridiculous.

Lastly it would mean punishing people for something that doesn't have an enumerated punishment. We don't do that in the modern world.

1) It's the other way around. Higher standard of living means longer lifespans via better resources and more room in the economy for healthcare and research.

2) I'm not sure what this means. We already have an inflation-controlled money supply, and the patterns of both acquiring and printing money has changed vastly over the past century or so.

3) That article tells you straight up that those parts of Africa are missing out on the important parts of economic development that lead to lower birth rates, namely physical safety and access to family planning.

The marginal cost of a single dose is probably never very high, unless precursors required are extremely scarce. Still, it wouldn't be in the hundreds of thousands.

The cost lies in the development of the drug, plus the ten other drugs that didn't make it to market where R&D costs need to be recouped. And small scale production is naturally more labour-intensive.

I'm honestly curious here – not being an FE developer, but I've wired up Angular in a few projects in the recent past.

I've felt like it's easy to use and to get the job done, not any harder to debug than JS in general, that it wasn't that hard to fiddle with it to a point where I could use my old plain-JS knowledge fairly well, that the documentation wasn't excellent but not bad, and that the online error generation (whatever it's name is) was quite handy.

What haven't I seen yet? I mean, it seems to have its quirks and difficulties that make me go halfway insane, but that's a characteristic of JS development in general.