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> If governments are going to charge high and involuntary taxes on things, we shouldn't be surprised when people shop around where they are able.

Presumably they would still like to benefit from our IP and Law enforcement, our medicare subsidies, our healthcare professionals. Will a standard invoice to the shareholders be OK?
> Just lower the corporate tax rate to an acceptable level.

Since the acceptable level is 0, this is a stupid suggestion.
> But we can all agree that a hamburger with actual shit in it is worse than a hamburger from Smashburger

I'm sure that out of the 7 billion people living on our planet, at least one person genuinely likes the taste of shit. To them, this wouldn't necessarily be true (I've never had a Smashburger and I don't like the taste of shit, so I couldn't possibly make this comparison myself). Which is why it's not objectively worse. It's all based on the person eating the burger, because everyone has different likes and tastes. That's why there's never one burger option; everyone shockingly doesn't like the same things.
From the article:
"Work as if each word you eventually publish or send will cost you $10."

Food for thought.
I'm a grad student (already have my masters, 3rd year into PhD). I've only had one CS prof make a gender-related disparaging comment, and he was talked to privately, and his contract was not renewed at the end of the semester (that was not his only indiscretion). I have never seen anyone question (publicly or privately) a student's or professor's abilities and achievements, regardless of gender, unless they were otherwise underperforming. Furthermore, in those situations, sexual activity was never implied, but nepotism was.

As for these "women" conferences, I have a colleague who has attended 3 conferences in the past year (on the University's dime) just because of her gender (she was not presenting). I have attended 0 conferences. I was not even able to attend a conference in which my paper was accepted (my advisor presented in my place) because there was not enough funds for travel.

And yet, when I speak out, I'm the bad guy...
Thanks for this and your replies, you just pried my mind open and gave me something new to learn about.

Cheers
I don't think Jonathan Haidt is an astroturfer.
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It doesn't have to look like Hong Kong. Paris isn't as dense as Manhattan, but it's something like 2/3rds as dense despite relatively few tall buildings. SF could allow mid-rise European style development and grow quite a bit denser.

If SF had Parisian density, it could fit something like 2.5 million people. Other places in the bay could also not make suburban living mandatory.

Housing affordability and environmental problems are a national issue. IMO the best solution is a Federal law that makes it impossible for cities to mandate suburban living. That avoids the problem where one city liberalizes land use and then sees huge development while others keep their doors closed.
I've owned Macbooks consistently for about 6 years now, I always use that little loop technique when winding the cord. I've never had a charger fray or fail on me.
> Most citizens never chose to join the country 'club', so there is no moral justification for a membership fee.

Then they can leave. It's actually really easy.
Why is it necessary to "come down hard" on people who express morally wreak (or even stupid) viewpoints?

Surely, putting forth a better argument or, at least, ignoring them is a far more morally superior response than suppressing their speech?

I've recently read about Bobby Sands (who was a IRA member who starved himself to death) and am reminded of that monk who lit themself on fire in protest.

I think an interesting question about these two people is why did their action have any impact? The authorities were against them and killing themselves doesn't "oppress" those authorities.

I think the opening paragraph of this book http://www.jstor.org/stable/3750951 is an interesting angle: martyrs against a cause illegitimize a cause.

If that is true, as I think it is, then it is crucially important to not victimize people no matter how wrong they may be. I think that the way to do that is, as I said above, to tolerate wrong viewpoints but respond to them or ignore them.
>I don't think we should rush out and needlessly murder dolphins, but the average person may notice that label, but removing it would likely have little to no bearing on consumer selection which is driven primarily by advertising.

So you're discounting the advertising advantage of saying "We don't kill dolphins like the other guys"? That's strange. I'm old enough to remember when dolphin-safe tuna was a cause celeb. Advertising you were dolphin-safe had big time marketing push. I think even Charlie the Tuna got in on the act. For a more contemporary example, we can look at GMOs and "organic" food. There's no science saying that GMOs are dangerous or that "organic" food is healthier or safer, but that doesn't stop them from being a market differentiator that drives sales.
Meta: In the last few weeks I've noticed that articles about the recent college protests trending up on HN, only to be flagged and vanish.

I'm struggling to understand why these articles should be flagged and removed, rather than downvoted or debated in the comments. Thoughts?
I'm sure that there are lots of scientists that can easily explain p-values.

"Some scientists can not easily explain p-values" should be a more accurate, and much better, title.
>"Elitist" connotes a passive enjoyment of privilege

Any student on an Ivy League campus is among the most privileged human beings in the world (regardless of where they came from).
That's mostly what happens to me. And then I travel, or I go to a cafe, or I commute. And either because I don't have internet, or because I am in a different setting, I open Pocket. And then I read, I read, ... only the good content I knew I would want to read given the right moment, the right amount of attention.

Pocket it's just awesome.
Nope. I'm just a man with beliefs that most people today would call antiquated.
..thanks, this thought anti-pattern has become a cultural virus - having a name helps combat it.
But the video is somewhat first person.
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There may be some state that belongs in the URL and some that doesn't. The threat currently read should certainly be in the URL to facilitate sharing/bookmarking etc. But, for example, the state of some checkboxes or a dropdown or values in input element – while being part of state – don't feel like they belong in the URL.

I've actually been struggling with some of these. For example, whether a dropdown is expanded or not is state, but it just doesn't feel 'big' enough to even be in the reflux store. Plus it turns out to be a major hassle to implement such a dropdown, with actions firing the new state all the way up to the store and the state then being passed down the whole chain of components.

Following redux orthodoxy here also precludes you from using existing libraries (bootstrap/jquery) and kinda leads to reinventing the wheel. I had no idea how much consideration a simple dropdown takes until I looked at the bootstrap/jquery source for it.
I'm surprised the sentences stack, I would have expected that if you have 5 jail-terms assigned to you, you would serve until the longest one.

American law sure favours punishment.
It's difficult for me to twist my head around this as I plow through it. "The Yale problem" - like most people of the world, I can't conceived of what a Yale problem is, other than that Yale attendees are too privileged. Apparently the author feels they're not privileged enough. I'll get to that...our victims, according to the author, are heirs who go to presumably some $40,000 a year high school, "an elite private high school".

Then he goes on "I had a conversation with some boys who attend one of the nation’s top prep schools, in New England. They reported the same thing: as white males, they are constantly on eggshells".

Oh the humanity! Born to the manor white boys can't hear this sleazebags speech, the response to which were according to him "so you think rape is OK?"

The people who put these teachers in are the parents. Because they don't want their kids who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths to be complete insufferable brats incapable of holding together the family dynasty.

The attitude of most people in the world (including myself) is those of the Bolshevik soldiers who emptied their guns into the Tsar and his family. This is what we think of these parasites. This guy is doing battle against the last modicums of self-restraint this class of people have imposed on themselves.

I also see the majority of HN is going for this born to the manor white boy as victim turn. Well, most of the founders like Gates, Zuckerberg, Systrom etc. went to these elite private prep schools, we're just the programmers slogging dozens of hours a week of work to enrich them and their investors. And the horrors they had to hear someone talk about the rights of women, and blacks and such back in their school days.

These things turn around, thank god. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with blood, and hopefully I will still be alive to witness that.
You're smart not to work there. Lousy place for someone who wants a decent wage and a 40-hour week.

As for their ignoring your problem... I'm afraid I might do it too. This comes from a formerly idealistic person. If they admit to a problem, they open themselves up to lawsuits. I have been sued before and I learned that telling the truth was not in my favor. Feel a little bad to admit this, but there you are.
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> Poor whites and poor blacks are both subject to mass incarceration; though poor blacks are incarcerated at even higher rates.

Yes, good to point that out.

My argument (implicitly) was that this is a really huge factor which gives poor whites a "net advantage."
I'd say that the BLM people have almost no humility or open-mindedness.
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Reliability: it's not only about connectors or components, the second picture in the article clearly shows a cat (probably) had a bite on the cable. ;)

I have a bunch of (non-Apple) chargers and cables that lost it to our feline overlords.
Right. I just think rape is talked about too lightly, and when people do so it reflects poorly on them.

Some things simply aren't appropriate to do in a public space, like nose-picking. It's not that they should be forbidden, but it won't win you many friends.
I use the loop technique. I've had two cords self-destroy.

I'd need some persuading that the rubbery sleeving was chosen for purely engineering reasons, and not mostly "it feels nice".
You claimed that "most citizens never chose to join the club". I pointed out that your parents made the decision for you, as they were your legal custodians from birth to the age of majority.

As for the lack of stateless land that an anarchist may emigrate to, the lack of such land does not mean that the country of your citizenship is no longer valid. If you chose to renounce your citizenship and end your involvement in the social contract that your parents entered into on your behalf, where you go is up to you and no longer has anything to do with your former country.

Also, trying to compare me to the KKK? Really? Come on, you can be better than that.

I'm not even sure how to respond to the rest of this; it's difficult to make sense of it.

EDIT: It is so uncool to edit your remarks instead of replying! But I guess in the independent nation-state of nickfftopia you can do what you want, eh?
well, when you use redux to manage the router state, you get the best of both worlds.

"current thread" doesn't need to be stored in the state in an explicit way. rather, you just need to be able to derive the "current thread" (or whatever) from the state.

so, your state contains the current route, and you use that to derive the "current thread" and then if redux has any state corresponding to that thread (or whatever) you can get that, too.
Einstein's general theory of relativity at 100
any explanation on that?
For what it's worth, Apple machines come secure out of the box, without any of this BS. They even prompt you to set up full disk encryption, and because it's well designed, almost anyone can figure it out.
Eating a burger with shit in it will likely kill you. Should I have said cyanide instead to get the point across? The point is that there are some burgers that are clearly worse than others (use your own imagination if cyanide doesn't work for you), just as there are certain actions that are clearly morally worse than others.
I have a talking SETI. God.

God says...
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I think a history class that can't make a strong argument that the holocaust wasn't a hoax and a law class that can't make the argument that rape victims exist are in VERY serious trouble.

Being able to debunk such looney claims is very valuable for students so they should develop these skills not be shielded from exposure to them.
That is the text version of finger snapping.
I'm certainly not 100% onboard with current tax policy, but it makes some sense when much of the value of the product being sold worldwide is created by US-based designers. Apple, for example - a huge portion of their value is created by their design teams in CA, but they make a huge fraction of their profits from those products by selling overseas.
What movies/tv shows are you watching? Try Supernatural. Try the old movies from the 90's like Hackers and The Net. Even the Matrix. All of them featured women hackers as well as men.

I was not given "the focus" by default. My Jr. High and High School did not have a CS program at all. I taught myself how to program (Pascal and Assembly) by READING BOOKS, because we lived in a rural area and dial-up internet is slow!

Is it so wrong to believe that if I can do it, so can others, regardless of their gender? Maybe I have a higher confidence in women than they do!
Wow, thanks. That brought a whole bunch of client vs server issues into focus for me.
More appropriate title: Idiots get in the way of government environmental sustainability engineers. Those engineers are removing a pest. Let them do their job.
Under what moral framework are you judging Eich? I can think of many ways what Eich did could be construed as morally neutral and/or morally positive.

Not that I think gays shouldn't have the right to marry. It's just that your idea of what makes something moral is horribly naive and self-serving.
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Sorry, but I am really bad at following written instruction like origami... without visual instructions.. Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWRcszmX_p0 what you tried to demonstrate?
I'm unfamiliar with what finger snapping means. Can you explain that to me?
They want help in finding samples from divers. I bet there's a way to make a site and app to help with this process. And I'm wondering if they wouldn't do well with a good crowdfunding campaign.

'“Before we dive anywhere, we always talk to the local divers to find out about what’s out there,” he said. “Some of these guys spend more time underwater than on land. So we had the idea, why don’t we get them to collect the sponges and specimens growing in these lakes and send them back to us?”'
So the essence of your argument is: 'if you don't like it, leave, and if you can't leave, it's not my problem'?

The power for parents to make decisions is relatively broad, but a decision made on behalf of a child is not the same as a decision made by the latter (for example, selling a child into slavery does not imply the child wanted to be a slave, or is obligated to continue in servitude).

The abduction/shanghai-ed example of the captive on a ship is a relatively common one, if you do not know how to address it, I suggest you ponder it for a while.

In addition, you never addressed what gave the state any authority at all, and why I can't just claim to be a legitimate independent state.
In most states, the criminal laws are influenced by the Model Penal Code (MPC). The MPC punishes attempts as severely as completed crimes.

The MPC approach is logical. Criminal law punishes moral culpability, not bad outcomes. That's why the act of killing another human may be anything from murder to no crime at all depending on the killer's intent. A would-be murderer's moral culpability is not lessened by the fact that he is thwarted from actually accomplishing his objective.
So "tough luck if you're the little guy" basically? Seems a little unfair no?
From what I understand (which is not much) the relationship is fairly complicated. For example, with interest rates this low, it changes whether investors want to buy bonds and instead move their money somewhere else... such as real estate.
I think you're missing the point of the story. The point is, that unless you're tolerating something that you consider morally wrong or unethical, you can't really claim you're tolerant.
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Look at your upvotes, HN will not ostracize you. People here are predominately male and white. No need to have a victim complex.

However, I encourage you to understand why women attend these conferences. It's easy to write off everyone else as being irrational, but that just makes us narrow minded.
Movies about hackers came after hackers had existed for a while. They were mostly male and so it makes sense that that is who would be cast to play those roles.

Anyway, Acid Burn and Trinity are iconic Hollywood hacker characters.
Discussing nursing isn't relevant, and even if it is two wrongs don't make a right, which is the logical fallacy you keep making here. But if you want to hear me say it: there's a shortage of nurses and the fact that men aren't going into it due to social pressures is an issue.

>You know what we need more of in tech? People

Lowest hanging fruit: actively do something about the fact that half the population isn't going into tech. And this is what you're arguing against, even though you may not realize it. Those conferences and reach-out efforts are explicitly active attempts at solving the problem in a positive way. They aren't meant to exclude men (I was a member of the women in tech club in college), they're usually meant to undo harmful biases in society.
Are you suggesting that people should be marginalized because they are white and male? How is this not hate speech?
"... when preventing scientists from sharing their research with the greater scientific community ..."

There was no such prevention.
If you get me the actual paper, I might change my mind.
Without more information from the actual whole paper, I'm not going to update my reasoning.

I've seen it numerous times in psychology and sociological papers. I've even seen biologists mistake correlation and causation in their own experiment. As being part of the scientific community, I was forced to read tons and tons of retraction papers by my PI (principal investigator).So again I'm holding out until I get the actual paper, and I standby my skepticism.
Sooooo... what we should do is take some of our own blood when we're teenagers, freeze it, and reacquaint ourselves with it at an older age?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
Well you got half a laptop, so you got half a charger!

But in all seriousness, if you consider the charging experience is very similar to an iPad (complete with the sound it makes when you plug it in), you start to see how they justified it.
I bought one of these about a year ago because I got sick of paying $80 for new Macbook chargers, and it has worked really well so far: http://pythoncords.com/

The idea is to reinforce the place that usually breaks. I'm not affiliated with this company in any way, just a happy customer.
Does Hugo do any of the more advanced build tasks, like image compression&inlining, sass/less/postcss conversion (and minification)? How does it fare wrt to adding javascript behavior to pages (e.g. React components), do I have to setup a separate build system for that stuff?
Anyone care sharing why I keep getting downvoted for this one? By all means feel free but this one was more than a little puzzling to me : )
>> Why do credit unions bother to satisfy the legal requirements of being credit unions?

> Because the legal requirements for starting a bank are pretty hard, too

So then the point of being a credit union, ultimately, is just to avoid the legal requirements of starting a bank? And it really has little to do with tax-exempt status? Elsewhere in this thread people have said the opposite. rayiner, above:

> You're ignoring a very important part of the story: credit unions, unlike banks, are tax-exempt: http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Document.... (see page 2). Those "mutuality" restrictions you note are the trade-off for tax-exempt status. Otherwise, the regulations applicable to credit unions and banks are more or less the same (see pages 1-2).")
> Ugh

Congratulations, you just lowered the value of the rest of your comment significantly.

Do there exist any social circles where the use of the term "Ugh" is reflected positively?
I've always thought that people in power tended to invest in real estate, and the obsession with increasing housing prices (not only a US thing) was those people simply protecting their interests.
>FIRE, a right leaning think tank.

Okay, I am sorry for the language, but this is absolute horseshit. They're a civil liberties advocacy group, similar to the EFF, or the ACLU.

Here is a talk given by Steven Pinker about FIRE, what they do, and why freedom of speech is important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcdFI6Sda0k
Disclosure: I'm related to the OP.

You should put on the front page that your app is for location-aware live-streaming video from a mobile device.

What makes your app different than Meerkat, Periscope, or Twitch?
I've tried this approach and one thing that I couldn't fit in my workflow was consuming HN comments. Many times I find the comments as valuable as the article, but no read it later app will

A) format the comments section sanely AND

B) update the comments so if I save an article when it has 5 comments I can browse the comments later when it has 100 comments.
Not to mention (this is going offtopic): no usb-c to mini display port for Target Display Mode with an iMac, although it is technically feasible and a matter of having a passive cable. They just wont create the usb-c versions of most of the peripherals during an unspecified amount of time. Because Apple.