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>People irrationally overvalue benefits

People giving their own opinions irrationally undervalue citations.

>Plus many benefits are tax advantaged aUnd they are also easier for big players to provide.

I guess that explains why Uber is fighting tooth and nail not to provide any benefits at all rather than embracing a new competitive advantage. Oh wait.

>If they were allowed to provide limited benefits without being obligated to provide full benefits, it would provide a barrier to entry for competitors.

As opposed to the regulatory arbitrage they do where their early entrance to new markets depends upon the vast amount of cash they spend on lobbying and unchallenged legal loopholes.

>Economics >> moral posturing.

What passes for supposedly objective economics these days is mostly disguised moral posturing. Some entire schools including Monetarism and Chicago pretty much only do that which is why they have a horrible prediction record.

Other supposedly objective economic reasoning leads to bizarre conclusions like the idea that Uber would lobby hard against legal reforms that would give them a competitive advantage.
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I think people are significantly more likely to choose to live near a train than they are to choose to live near someone who works near where they work. Among other things, it's a much more concrete consideration when house hunting.
>We can bomb Daesh, which only encourages more to join their cause.

I disagree. If they have a unfettered region to recruit from, they can and will recruit. For one thing, recruits have a place to go. More than that, they also have a place to trade and traffic weapons, drugs and oil from. They have a place to plan global attacks from.

Taking away a safe heaven makes it harder for them to do business. Right?
Excuse the over-simplification, but is the Japanese government's reluctance to proactively stimulate their economy built partially on a desire to secure the pension for a few more years (both as a product of cultural expectations and the appeasing mostly elderly voter-base)?
> POST action="add" is not RESTful. It's procedural.

Can you expand on what you mean by this? In particular, how could HTTP catching mechanism work with POST requests, if the purpose of POST is to change something on the server (so the request should always reach the server)? And in what way is PUT handled differently (by browsers, by proxies, by servers)?
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The problem with supporting dictators is that this is a powerful recruiting argument for Isis.

"Look at the West, they claim to be democracies and defend human rights, but they are supporting mass-murders here"

...which makes the West looks like a bunch of hypocrites. And this is an argument that is factually hard to counter.

Frankly, I don't know what we should be doing. I don't see a solution without a long political roadmap with likely a partition of Syria & Irak, to have an Alawite state, next to a Sunni state, next to a Shia Iraq.
So is life, what do you do when 2 basic rights clash? It's definitely a tricky question, and I certainly don't have the answer.
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Tribalism is human nature. It's not rational. In a tribe, being rejected is pretty much a death sentence, so I can see why humans have a strong motivation to be in one. It turns irrational when that tribe is coke vs pepsi, xbox vs playstation, vim vs emacs, etc.
I agree and it is ironic as journalism depends upon free speech.
i'm strongly agree with your girlfriend.
there were many upsets in many Muslims countries i thinks since 4 years ago. among others it was a sign of "yeah, we surly don't care about stuff was done 50 years ago" and importer a sign about change in the demographic "balance".
in some places it was used to overthrow a dictator, in some places it was already done.
You seem to be overlooking the obvious argument that if a small group of people use encryption, then you greatly reduce the number of messages that you need to flag. Furthermore, if someone on a Watch List starts using encryption then perhaps you have an imminent problem.

I'm not on the side of reading messages but you missed the real argument being made.

Typical HN. How about someone answering the argument that will really be made by governments instead of the pointless one the NSA, etc have already answered. You can downvote me but you don't get a downvote in governments around the world when they outlaw real encryption.
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Whilst I'm not the OP I'll happily give my thoughts as a not very good Anglican - who embodies the "great Anglican fudge".

1. Offended no. I'll think you're rather rude, the same as if I wrote $manifestDestiny = false. If you know someone you can have banter with them.

2. IT has all sorts of articles of faith. vi versus emacs, I'm weird as I like nano. Religion is a way of living your life, my code is in no way affected by it. How I interact with my colleagues is, for instance I'd hope that having a nice easy rationale for being a good person makes me a decent co-worker. I'd rather not work with a hedonist who doesn't give a fig for anything other than their own happiness, and with the internet we're exposed to plenty of those.

3. I don't view evolution, the big bang etc as contradicting my religious views. Genesis has been viewed as a metaphor since the 4th century BC. Creationism and biblical literalism are relatively recent "innovations" in some Christian traditions. It isn't about the "God of the gaps", it is about science revealing more of the complex creation we inhabit whilst being incapable of answering what the prime first mover was.
That said science only shows us what we can measure from the construct of our own perspective. It cannot, and does not claim to be able, to answer everything.

4. Being a member of the Church of England you have to be pretty aware of the historical context of religion! I'm not a biblical literalist and my church is not solely guided by what is in the bible. One of the reasons theology exists is to take all that knowledge and use that context to look at what we can actually divine from the bible.

Being religious doesn't make you automatically not a jerk. Neither does being "scientific" provide an alternative, science isn't a set of ethics. Up until the 1970s academic philosophy was viciously atheist (the only thing worse than a theist was an agnostic). However since then theism has enjoyed a resurgence and disciplines like epistemology have taken on the challenges raised by atheist philosophers.

As a counter-point let me ask a non-religious person, what makes an act good? Be wary of associating it with something which makes you feel "warm and fuzzy" about having done it, because then would you expect someone who did not get that same feeling to do it.
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As soon as you think Vice is starting to get their tech content in order they polish a turd like this..
Why would you want to "cancel" a request, instead of just ignore the response from the server? I feel like I'm missing a use-case here.
I thought I had seen that code snippet before, it was also quoted as a bad example in a more recent article on the Dolphin dev blog regarding the Zelda HLE (this one is about the AX HLE): https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/08/19/new-era-hle-audio/
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"A July 2014 poll by ICM Research suggested that more than one in four French youth of all creeds between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four have a favorable or very favorable opinion of ISIS. Even if these estimates are high, in our own interviews with young people in the vast and soulless housing projects of the Paris banlieues we found surprisingly wide tolerance or support for ISIS among young people"

Despite these astonishing numbers, it still has nothing to do with religion, right? Downvote me to hell, but if a quarter of certain group openly supports mass-killers, I have a very serious reason to be afraid of them and avoid at all cost.

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It is likely a major piece of the puzzle and will also be due to reverence of their elderly.
A lot of questions like this (how to get dates, rise up the ladder, find friends, etc.) have the same answer (well essentially). All you got to do is -

1. Get out there
2. Be yourself

I wrote a whole essay a minute ago, but really it could be a whole course. Like the theme of YCombinator with startups, do things that don't scale.

Find a purpose that you can bring to the table. Can you code well, play a sport, sing, draw? If you have a skill or a hobby then pursue that. I find friends for every activity I do. Its not that I'm trying, but people are everywhere doing everything.

Those people you find in bars aren't always friends since forever either. Life experience tends to make people more emphatic towards each other, right? We all have gone through schools, jobs, and relationships. Had ups and downs. Sometimes its just nice to sit down with anyone who's listening to talk/rant/laugh about those moments.

I'm 31 and work 1hr and a half from home. My house is in a town 2 hours from where I grew up. I knew no one when I arrived but now know plenty of people. And not just in my town, but all over. Some of my favorite people I have met the past couple of years. I tend to see them only once or twice a year. When we do meet up, we can spend all night talking as if we grew up with each other.

If you're open to be a little transparent and also are interested in hearing other people's stories you'll do fine. You'll find it get much easier the more you allow yourself to chill out.

Try this -
If you're really having problems meeting folks try the following.
1. Find any gathering where people would be active in your favorite hobby
2. Give yourself only 10 minutes (you can stay the entire night, but 10 minutes from when you arrive to when you leave is enough)
3. Listen in on a conversation (or join the activity for a session) and add a couple of knowledge here and there
4. Leave

What have you learned? You learned how to find people! You may also have found a couple of people who you ended up hanging out with for the duration of the 10 minutes. You might have even stayed the entire night having fun. You may even have had a few FB invites coming your way.

Remember, most people are usually game for new experiences. You are that new experience. Get out there and have some fun!
"I don't see anti-immigration people and Christians being asked to apologize for Breivik"

Seriously, you don't? I've seen lots of comments where this and that politician or Christian leader is required to apologize "for their involvement" in the Breivik mass murder, which is nuts. All they've done is doubt whether the removal of border controls in Europe is a good idea. That's supposed to be enough for a guilt-by-association to Breivik's crimes as "incitement".
Don't you think that the September 11 attacks produced fear? May be you are different but this is the normal feeling if you are seeing the Twin Towers collapsing while you take your children to preschool.
Lots of countries have sedition acts, including the US, which would punish you for speaking out against them.

Many countries also have hate-speech laws, including France, which would punish you for speaking out against protected groups.

Being vengeful against those that are disloyal to you is a common human ethos.
French authorities did not put him on trial, several islamic organisations and one human rights organisation did. And they lost, as it was requested by the prosecutor, who represents French authorities.
Building SPA using Siren, it can be really useful for disabling parts of UI - when you have complex rules on whether user can list/edit/create resource, you just check if such action is in response and use its options.

Yes, you can do same with bool flags in response, but if you structure all your decision making like this (around Resources and actions) it's quite easy and natural to make all your components react to un/availability of resource/action, thus accomodating even more complex scenarios - user can list, edit (only some), but can't create new.
Ah yes, that's what I meant by "cultural expectations," but "reverence" is certainly a far more succinct way to describe it.
Awesome application of graph theory visualization tools. Here are two articles introducing these tools and other free software for networks, graphs, and flowcharts:

http://lwn.net/Articles/639998/

http://lwn.net/Articles/640302/
Good point. Sadly that's pretty much how all adblockers keep up-to-date (albeit at least with TLS). Though pragmatically even if the update was manual, you still need to place some trust in the site when dealing with files of that size. Granted it would be better if those resources served TLS, but that would only prevent MITM and not the file being dodgy from source (eg site hacked).

Thinking a little more about the problem you raised, I guess you could grep it for IPs that aren't localhost (ie exit the shell script before writing the new hosts if `grep` returns a zero exit code). Aside that, I'd genuinely be interested in any ideas you have for keeping the file updated in a secure way (if at all possible).
For a country like Japan which has a declining workforce and population. Maybe it would give a clearer picture to look at GDP pr. worker or GDP pr. populus?

I am not so sure it would look so bad then.

PS: The tourism section surely is booming. :-)
A -0.008 rate of GDP growth in a country with a -0.009 rate of working age labor force growth is actually positive growth, albeit slow. It is not in any realistic sense a recession.

Japan continues to be the first world nation with the best long term prospects for its citizens. The present standard of living is not clearly exceeded anywhere in the world.

Of course, adjustment to and recovery from severe overpopulation is going to create some difficulties over the next half century. It's nothing the country can't adjust to.
Yes. Some people have even put it very poignantly https://vimeo.com/50531435
I am sure that the description of how the sensor works is correct, but I can't reconcile this with the fact that there is one point near the center of the screen that will always register a hit. I used to aim for the tree branch and hit ducks every time.
The Soviet Union also launched an anti-SDI laser test satellite via the Energia heavy lifter, casually demonstrating the highest payload capacity since the Saturn V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_%28spacecraft%29

Thankfully, it failed to reach orbit due to a software bug.

(Said Energia rocket would then launch the Soviet space shuttle, Buran, on a completely unmanned mission, including autopiloted runway landing – something the US STS never could, because astronauts lobbied against any and every automation for fear of being made redundant.)
Significant numbers of non-Islam subscribers hold ideas that are incompatible with an open society too

If that's your contention then you'd need to account for the high terrorist attack output of Islamists vs other non-Islam subscribers.
> You can find pretty horrific stuff in the Bible too

Yes indeed, but you don't find too many people trying to actually behead or stone people to death based on the Old Testament.

You might find a few, but the problem is rather small compared to Islamism.
I dare to go OT and possibly in bad HN form, but I want to mention that I found your two comments to be an excellent example of good etiquette.

You made a strong point without being harsh, and answered a more heated rebuttal with an even stronger but nevertheless respectful comment.

I'm not sure I agree with you, but thanks sincerely for contributing a point of view in this manner.
The Islamic State are different from AQ in that they have territorial ambitions, the clue is in the name. Their PR success is buoyed by their successes. France has the expeditionary capability to assist in driving the IS out of the territory it currently occupies.

If France doesn't care about who takes control of the territory afterwards, as long as they aren't terrorist supporting Islamists then it does have the capacity to seriously damage IS. Will it lead to world peace and happiness, no. Will it lead to an awful lot of Syrians continuing to die, yes. Will it marginally improve the lives of those suffering under IS rule, I believe so. Will it degrade IS' ability to recruit and inspire terror attacks abroad in the long run, yes.

Given a lot of poor choices you need to find the best one. Doing nothing is a conscious choice that may not be the best option.
A lot of places offer buying services as well, USAA offers one through Truecar, there's also Carvana as well. Truecar was close to what we paid though a little higher. It was a good jumping off point when comparing real life to MSRP/listing prices. If you haven't bought before, focus on the out the door price.
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But do they clash in this case?
I think you are mistaking two types of open society:

Open inside (market place of ideas, secularity, people generally subscribing to the live and let live) and open outside - welcoming, letting people join or willing to help people that are not from that society.

Wanting liberal, secular and socially oriented Europe inside and sealing the borders and isolating oneself from the human suffering outside is definitely lacking empathy, but not incoherent position.
Or to put it another way,

"If you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will have encryption"
It's worked before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
Would it matter if one of your requirements is price?

I guess there is always the question of trust. ie Would you trust him to you the car you want if she is being paid by the dealership?
Wow, I read this article on Sunday, and had I not seen this post I never would have realized the Times no longer stood by what they said.
It's because Europe doesn't do suburbs and parking lots the same way that America does. Densified development around transit services will result in more people taking those services. Less and/or more costly parking in the city centre will result in fewer people driving. This is how Europe does things.

Basically, the mix of vehicles (cars, trains, driverless cars, whatever) is far less deterministic than the urban development patterns. Build suburbs with homogeneous lot sizes and city centres with a lot of free parking, and the mode choice is more or less a foregone conclusion.
My country (Uruguay) tried integrating Syrian refugees, and it really didn´t work out.

They had the usual integration problems (veil at school), there were big problems with domestic violence (they're used to hitting women and children), and they complained about salaries (which, to be fair, are very bad for non-trained people), they said they wanted to go to Europe specifically.

http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/09/150908_refugiados_...

http://www.elpais.com.uy/que-pasa/refugiados-guerra-siria-de...
I'm not religious, but I should point out that IT isn't the most 'scientific accepting' as some might think it is.

For example: Is IT/open source/tech/programming a meritocracy? If so, how do you explain the massive gender skew? How do you explain how there are scientific studies showing people can be sexist in science (which should be as 'science-based' as IT)?

Many people in tech, confronted with this, will double down. They'll claim tech is a total meritocracy, that women must just be studier at tech etc. etc.

Atheist IT people can be just as closed minded as some bible thumper.
OK,so don't panic. The more difficult question is what do we do, not what we don't do. The terrorists have to be made to appear to be irrelevant losers, an unromantic option for young Muslims with empty lives. Not sure how.
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Wow, how brave he is. Once a long time a go I was in Aleppo. Such a nice town. Terrible how much destruction has happened.

'Normal countries' should help. I.e. fight a war against ISIS, kill them and rebuild Syria. Including new government (under UN stewardship).
True, we do not. However, divisions between Christians in this day and age are not such deep or, let's say, unreasonable like between Muslims, obviously. All recent conflicts that may actually have religious elements (like the old SFRY) are much deeper than plain religion. Same goes for the constant tensions between Russia and western countries, not really much religion there.
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Well, not anymore, but Holy Inquisition did exactly that for centuries. Protestants burned witches. Buddhist, Jews or Hindus all did the same at some point. So it's not about some religions being good while others are evil, it's about narrow minded people gaining enough power at some point so that they can go with their crazy ideas unpunished. It's not a coincidence that all this started to happen with the collapse of modern Arab society and states, which unfortunately has a lot to do with US and British political ambitions.
Grandparent makes a clear argument: The Qur'an is fundamentally evil. Islam is based on the Qur'an. Islam is therefore not a peaceful religion, but is a fundamentally evil religion.

I'm glad that most people practicing the religion have the decency to do whatever mental gymnastics they have to do in order to simultaneously believe that the Qur'an is the source of their morality and that killing non-Islams is immoral. But wouldn't it be better for everyone if this disgusting text were not even a purported basis of anyone's belief system?

A similar argument can be made for Christianity, although, as bad as the Bible is, it's not nearly as vile as the Qur'an.
You seem to be ignoring the "all creeds" portion of that quote.
You could plan terrorist activity using postcards. Should we ban the Post Office? You could use phone calls from pay phones (where they still exist) and people used to do that all the time to plan crimes. You could go on vacation together and plan something. You could use voice or text chat in an online game to plan stuff. The people in charge of these organizations are not the suicide bombers; the head folks know full well what to use to avoid getting caught.
Just for perspective, more people die on the roads of France every two weeks than have died in this attack.

(By the way, if you think I'm diminishing the tragedy of these deaths, aren't you diminishing the tragedy that are road fatalities?)
I wasn't referring to special seats without a recline in front of them, even though those exists due to other constraints. I was referring to flying a carrier that doesn't have reclining seats at all.

I fly Delta a lot and their economy comfort is not 300x the price. It's a fraction of the ticket price. You could turn it around and demand the reclining passenger move to economy comfort. Fair enough, but what of the passenger directly behind their row?

In the end it comes back to what the airline is offering the passenger. If they didn't want/expect passengers to recline they would remove reclinable seats.

I'll say this again like I say in every discussion about reclining seats. Most Delta flights I've been on lately use a different recline system. The seat recline pivot seems to be near the arm rest and the seat bottom slides forward. I usually have MORE knee room if people recline. Sure, I lose space from the waist up, but I can live with that.

In the end, I'm also tall and the knee room is important to me but the recline is more important.
Preemptive killing like that is murder.
Try suggesting that Americans give up their guns, and you'll hear a lot about culture. Suggest that some places in USA don't fly a CSA flag and you'll hear about culture. Tell some christians that they need to teach their kids that's it's OK to be gay, and you'll hear a lot about religion and freedom of religion.