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> (also note that we have a name for cells that refuse to coordinate with the rest of the organism and instead decide to grow as much as they like - they're called cancer).

Right, like the government, which is always growing (like cancer) and never dwindling, always passing new laws and regulations but never deprecating any, all the while refusing to coordinate with the rest of the organism since it claims to be exempt from the laws and regulations to which it subjects its cells/people.

Just like all the cells in the body go by one rule (don't grow unchecked), and cancer doesn't (it grows unchecked), so is everyone under government forced by it to go by one rule (do not initiate force) that government doesn't need to (it may initiate force unchecked).

Do you really not see the similarities?

I am not against a formalized set of rules and governance, I am for it. You are the one who seems to be against it since you are for an actor that does not abide by those rules and governance, namely the government. I am for everyone, without exception, abiding by a set of rules and governance, and the first rule is the one we all agree on so much that the government enforces on us, namely, do not initiate force.

Roads in the US were started by cyclists and war veterans:

http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/the-petition-that-pa...

Walter Block (philosopher) has a free book (all his books are free, as he has irrefutable arguments against intellectual property) on the problem of roads: https://mises.org/sites/default/files/The%20Privatization%20...

The problem of schools and police are not as hard (the government of South Africa uses only private police, non-Prussian school models do not require teachers, etc) as that of roads, so I leave them to you as an exercise.
All the cars added a marginal [ O(10ft) ] amount of braking distance at wide open throttle; with the exception of a very powerful, heavily tuned sports car which was the only one able to overwhelm its brakes.

If we convert MPH to FPS we can look at the data as follows:

70 MPH: 102.667 fps
100 MPH: 146.667 fps

CAMRY, V6, 70-0: delta 16 feet, .15sec
CAMRY, V6, 100-0: delta 88 feet, .60sec

INFINITY 70-0: delta 9 feet, .08sec
INFINITY 100-0: delta 6 feet, .04sec

We're talking tenths or hundredths of a second of unintended acceleration. A cursory search tells me reaction time to visual stimuli is about ~250ms.[1][2]

This means that in all but the Camry 100-0 case your reaction time is a larger factor in braking distance than the presence of wide open throttle.

[1]: http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/statistics

[2]: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/26/15/3981.full.pdf
> Except social security cap -- social security was supposed to be a benefit, not a tax. You don't get paid more after that cap is reached.

There is a social security benefit cap, but its on final benefits based on lifetime social security qualified earnings adjusted to account for wage inflation from the year earned. Capping annual social security qualified wages and tax liability isn't actually essential to maintain the integrity of that scheme (and it arguably is unfair treatment to income earners based on degree of annual income volatility.)

Further, the benefit formula already has bend points where aggregate qualified wages past a certain point contribute less in benefits per dollar of wages than below that point, so there's no reason that couldn't be extended and the benefit cap removed, possibly with another bend point.

> And capital gains tax is a stupid example

Asserting that is not an argument. Capital gains are income, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to treat them more favorably than other income in taxation, except that you want to favor capital holders over those deriving income from other sources. (It may make sense to excluded them from the kind of SS/Medicare taxes and qualification calculations, though arguably this is unfair to minor capitalists who must actively manage their own capital to derive income from it, and face similar issues to actual workers when it comes to loss of their own ability to do so; it would makes ense to include individually-received capital gains in both the tax and benefit calculations for SS & Medicare).

Favorable treatment of long-term capital gains is sometimes justified, in a progressive tax system, by the fact that not giving some favorable consideration overtaxes the capital gains as they are not earned over a single year, but progressive tax is based on the presumption that the income received in that year is earned in that year. But when you have enough capital that you can structure it such that you are consistently rotating holdings so that you are regularly realizing "long term" gains, that's less sensible. A more sensible approach to addressing this problem -- which also addresses labor income that has volatility, where the peaks are enabled by the choice to work in a domain where the troughs are also an occurrence, is to simply set up a system for all income where income can be recognized for tax purposes in advance of being realized (and thus, taxed) without limit, and also, with some limits on time and amounts, deferred after realization for tax purposes, giving tax payers with irregular income from whatever source the ability to smooth those irregularities within the structure of a progressive income tax system, without structurally favoring those with large, consistent, capital income streams.
It doesn't work very well by itself as a chelating agent. But it does have an amine group and a thiol group, and can form complexes with heavier metals. Having only two ligands, that aren't positioned very advantageously relative to each other, it just doesn't "stick" very well.

It's primary usefulness would be to replace the raw materials that the body uses to make the larger peptide molecules that it uses to detoxify heavy metals. Most of these require cysteine or glutathione, for the thiol.

I think NAC is mostly known to broscience as a hangover remedy, as it helps clear acetaldehyde in the liver.
Yet, the author specific said, in his experience, that level of personalization made little difference.
Ok, we put that in the title.
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> some people do consider using the same code point for apostrophe and citations problematic (it's definitely annoying when doing word segmentation)

And those people are a menace. "Ball bearings" is a single word with a space in the middle. The only way you're going to get reliable word segmentation is with a natural language parser and a lexicon with an entry for "ball bearing". At that point, you're already recognizing "aren't" as a word; the punctuation isn't really relevant.

On the other hand, if you're not particularly upset about messing up space-including words, there's no real reason to be upset about apostrophe-including ones either.
Very good point! But for a text talking about how long-winded, somewhat rambling and hard to skim press releases are, I found it quite long-winded, somewhat rambling and hard to skim.
You've hit on a really key point. Life is easier when you have more money.

Not trying to be callous, but it's going to come out that way -- maybe the answer is to try to make some more of it.

Because trying to redesign society to eliminate this basic fact of the world has so far led to disastrous results. Like, hundreds of millions dead kind of results. With nothing to show for it, because there were still haves and have nots.

"But I'm not advocating Stalinism!" you'd say. But remember, Lenin and Trotsky and Stalin came from good intentions, too. So did Mao and Pol Pot and Ho and Kim. Everyone wanted to solve the problem you're describing.
There are also plenty of variations in calligraphy that make some store signs nearly impossible to read (for me). There are differences but many of them come from computers not being able to properly render pictographs.

Compare 人 with: http://i.imgur.com/ZpFMQoU.png for one of the most obvious differences.

For Japanese there is: 篆書、隷書、楷書、行書、草書.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_script

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_script

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-cursive_script

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_script_(East_Asia)

Can see more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calligraphy
I made these same points below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440046

It's all about knowing the reporters. Form emails can't address that.
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This limited access to IPOs in the U.S. has always seemed very…limiting and also kind of unfair.

In India, IPOs approved by SEBI (the equivalent of SEC in the U.S.) have been available to all retail investors for a very long time and has improved a lot with online brokerages over the last 15+ years. You just need to have a demat account, which you could also open along side the application for the IPO. I don't understand why companies going public in the U.S. wouldn't want a wider reach for IPOs, which can easily come by getting retail investors to participate.
It probably varies by city whether Uber is breaking the law. In my city Uber argued they were considered a limousine service rather than a taxi company, which falls under different regulations. The difference being that a taxi is hailed from the street while a limo is not. You could argue that using an app is the same as hailing, but you could also use your phone to call a limo service to send a car to you, which is not considered hailing. So, it's a bit of a technicality.

Customers do know one important thing. Uber is beneficial to them and taxi regulations are not. The taxi regulations were set up to protect the taxi companies, not the customers.

I don't think it's likely that any business is going to start flouting regulations that actually protect customers from something, because harming your customers is not a good business model (tobacco industry aside).
I'm thinking that there is quite a bit of cost saved by posting a sheet of paper explaining the Heimlich maneuver instead of installing one of these devices. Give out free smoke detectors with the saved money.
I know of very few libertarians who support private prisons. The private prison movement is definitely part of the crony capitalism/fascism trend here that most libertarians hate with a passion.

Don't believe me? Check out this discussion on /r/Libertarian, featuring comments from many /r/Libertarian habitues:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/rn2re/what_do_...

As a rule of thumb, if a "capitalist" business depends on the largesse of and/or connections/bribes to the government, it's not really engaging in capitalism, at least not the capitalism that the libertarians I know promote.

I think many people who disdain libertarianism view it as a more extreme version of free market conservatism. But the two are in fact very different.
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Obviously, I don't support the rioters.

And the riots have put me in an awkward position. I can say I don't support the rioters while still supporting and pushing for what the rioters want. However, if I do this, any successes can and will be treated as successes by the rioters. The predictable result will be more riots, because people will conclude that riots get them what they want. Alternately, I can refuse to advocate for policies called for by rioters, because under no circumstances do I want to encourage riots.

That's the bind I'm in. I'm erring on the side of personal safety, because I'm not real interested in having my face smashed in with a crowbar for the cause of today's riot.
But the modern measures about locking down the hardware itself, which are the subject of this discussion, have nothing to do with app sandboxing and app stores...
One thing I don't think gets hammered on enough is that if your organization is not large microservices will create a lot of overhead for little gain.

If you have few developers most of the time it's a lot more efficient to have a modular monolith than it is to have 50 entirely different rocks.

Decentralizing teams, decision making, and allowing increased independence of agency within a larger org is great. Trying to do the same thing when you only have 5 people is usually borderline crazy.
Are there any technologies that use an electric field to sense the location of objects similar to what an eel does?

It seems like it might make a good input device for vr?
sure: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9302... and http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1989083_21...

reminds me of Woody Allen's "Bananas", and Goldie Hawn as the detached from reality liberal do-gooder who'd visit a prison and lecture bewildered staff about how she thinks inmates should "decorate their own cells... with their own personal decorators" and so on

even Allen - not exactly a conservative - thought it as a joke back then :) but life surpasses fiction
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Ask HN: How do you send schedule/recurring emails?
I'm working on a site that needs to send regular reminder emails to our clients. I was shocked to find that no one seems to be selling this as a service. You can get "email as a service" (Mailgun, Mail Grid, Mandrill, etc) and you can get "cron as a service", but not the two married with each other. Also, there are a few wrinkles that make it harder than just using both services together.

So I'm testing out the idea of offering this as a server: timelyemail.com. It's essentially Mailgun and cron together, but in a much more developer friendly way so you can push or pull both content and recipients, and easily modify your scheduled emails.

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated... thanks in advance!
Anyone using Dkron? http://dkron.io/

What I really need is a "distributed cron", first and foremost, with the additional requirements of: it being lightweight on resources, and it being multiplatform. Dkron seems to fit the description pretty well, I'm looking for any feedback from users.
And what happened after that?
It's basically an admission that the big investors got "preferences" on the previous rounds that nobody wants to deal with. So, they'll try to sucker the general public.
I find Medium interesting because in most respects it doesn't feel any different from Wordpress to me. I write a blog on Wordpress.com and a couple years ago I got an email from Medium inviting me to write on it. I ignored the email because I figured, "One platform, another platform... it doesn't matter much." Plus, on Wordpress I can still go self-hosted if I want or need to.

Yet despite my initial reaction, it seems like Medium is succeeding. I can't entirely figure out why. In the interview Williams notes, "I started Medium with the intention that there’s a better way to support quality ideas, thinking, stories we don’t yet have on the internet." In important ways he's obviously right and I'm obviously wrong, but I still don't get the advantage of Medium over Wordpress or similar alternatives.
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Power tripping carries over into their personal lives. Their families have a much higher rate of domestic violence than the general population.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-o...
This is simply not true. Some do. Most already get too many pitches. And the crucial point that we're not addressing here is: Pitched about what? A lot of work has to be done to target and tailor pitches, and that can't really be done at scale. You have to pick a few and focus on them.
>the riots

Be careful as you judge the quality of the issues based upon what the news and local police call "riots" and "rioters". The media hasn't always been reliable or objective in applying those labels, and law enforcement officials have also been unable to resist editorializing or even telling outright lies. Police as well have been caught instigating disturbances and antagonizing protesters.

>Anything those people want and advocate now makes me think "Fuck you, more $$$ for da popo".

There are many more people who are opposed to injustice, and who deserve fair treatment than the group of opportunistic assholes who take advantage of these situations for criminal ends.
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No kidding. I was trying to watch some soccer games in England last month, and it was an exercise in having to fight through the flashing+animated ads around the entire field. I don't think I will ever try watching one of those matches again.
If "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" is not guaranteed for these rioters by the state, then there is no social contract. In the absence of a social contract, the rioters are justified in raping, pillaging, and murdering to their heart's content.

How do you not see that the rioters are justified?
Or the profits of it should be legally required to be only spent on helping the poor.
Then I would say that building software that runs exclusively on MS is a bad idea.

That's the reason I don't use .NET and I have never poked inside a metro app.

And it is a reason for the explosion of the Appstores for mobile and webapps in general, startups want to bet on something that's not MS.

I guess not a single one of the YC companies writes exclusively windows software.

Multiplatform software for the win.
And now we've come full circle on how libertarianism is co-opted into arguing that it isn't the Government's role to protect the poor.
Not entirely - I just think that the concept of a "master password" is still quite a bit broken. I would love if there were more biometric ways of me proving my identity to some system that maintained all these secure tokens that was also somehow revoke-able. I realize that may relate to mental memory.

For now, I guess it looks like a master password, which yes this paper elucidates methods for. But as long as you're memorizing 1 password (not 400), then how you manage to memorize it is of fairly small systemic gain.
Yeah, that paragraph was really just a couple of examples to point out the fact that reporters are just people at the end of the day. This was written a few years ago and was recently ported over to Medium, where it started taking off, hence mentioning Scoble and Tsotsis. I should update, but I wouldn't read too much into it.

The process definitely works, I've used it for a dozen companies when I used to work in marketing, and it has worked for my company as well.
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Yeah, the whole problem here is that there is a pipeline from non-criminal traffic violations to jail. Traffic tickets are one of those things that poor people should be able to get dismissed out of hand if they show an inability to pay. But in many departments, the fines have changed from a punitive measure to a revenue generator. So they prey on people who don't have enough money to get out of the system by trapping them inside it.

IMO police departments should only be able to acquire revenue from the city/state budget. Any money collected as fines should go directly into a national victims compensation fund (used to pay for medical bills and property damage done by poor criminals to innocent people). That would fix a lot of this mess -- like anything else, it's all about the money.
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I don't see how microservices makes that overhead go away. That overhead is really a matter of proper systems engineering. With well-defined interfaces and properly-sectioned functional components teams can work just as independently on a monolithic application as they can on a microservice application. Similarly, a poorly-sectioned application with bad or nebulous interfaces will be a planning and coordination nightmare regardless of the architecture.

What I think the microservice architecture does is force some measure of good systems engineering on a team. You can't design a microservice application without putting effort into deciding how to divide the functionality and defining how those functional blocks will work with each other. You can get away with not doing that (until it's too late) when designing a monolithic application.
There's a pretty direct line between libertarian political ideology and government officials who subscribe to it privatizing portions of the justice system and pushing for police departments to be self funding. Seems to me like a rhetorical klutz could get there easily.
> People with 1990 skills now are not employable today in many/most fields.

There has been a shift in the US from businesses providing training for workers to the expectation that workers will train themselves in advance of seeking employment.

I suspect this is the most untenable modern development in the US going forward. It shifts a significant amount of cost and risk to workers: you both have to pay for your own education (instead of getting paid while training) and take on a substantial risk that the skills you are training in will be relevant to an employer when you complete your training. It creates a large pool of people who have training no one needs (they guessed wrong on which skills a future employer needs in the future) and in too much debt to survive off of the income from unskilled labor. It's unsustainable.

If this doesn't shift back, to employers accepting the cost of training employees and the risk that they may train employees they don't need five years from now, we end up with yet another way for government to subsidize big business: government picks up the tab for training employees (through its educational spending) and for misjudging training needs (through unemployment spending). It's no different than Walmart paying their employees so little they are eligible for SNAP.
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That makes sense. I do want to make sure I'm not just memorizing strategies though. I want to be able to figure things out independently, with my own logical thought.

I'll continue learning. Getting problems right and watching those tests light up green on Codingbat is a very nice feeling. I do get genuinely upset and frustrated when I can't figure out a problem, though. I'm not sure whether that means I hate coding or like it deep down.
Of course you made this about the Southern states.
He was fine as far as we all knew. He ended up leaving to go back home a few months after, and I wasn't close so we didn't stay in touch. I can't give a long-term prognosis, but I imagine the human body probably has mechanisms to deal with that sort of thing.

He didn't feel concerned enough about it to go to the hospital afterwards, and we were just college students so we didn't feel we had any reason to override his decision.
I was thinking about robotics and consumer electronics mostly. I see that in the news a lot. There's even a wiki page about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Japa...
That's reasonable when deciding whether to get one for your house. Not so much when deciding whether it's generally a good value compared to other ways of saving lives. Then we're talking about ($150 x n)/(lives saved compared to the alternatives). Before you advocate it, maybe you should get an idea what n and the denominator are.