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Actually Israel has a long history of state sponsored terrorism, see Irgun and their incorporation into the IDF at the dawn of Israeli statehood.

In fact they haven't just supported terrorism, they've used direct military action to intentionally kill civilians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibya_massacre

And they even currently support terrorist organizations that specifically target civilians: http://rockcenter.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/02/08/10354553-isra...
> Stuxnet was Israeli with US cooperation, iirc.
Yes, and they targeted the Iranian computers that control their cetrifuges, to sabotage them.
Invasion + nation building is sexy, but highly ineffective.

Is it? There have been some very successful examples: Japan, Germany, South Korea....
Prior to the sanctions, Iran had billions of dollars invested in foreign banks and infrastructure. Their access to this money was cut off when the sanctions were put into place and we're slowly allowing them access. Here's an article from 2014 with more detail:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-assets-usa-idUSBREA0G...
Does anyone think we can all agree on which social science headlines are misleading, and which ones are unbiased summaries of the facts?
I really appreciate your sharing these sources.

For anyone else interested, I found the BBC series Iran and the West is currently available on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka-Wu1jYY9U
Complete disagree.

1. You have no idea what will be under it.

2. Most people don't explore.

3. Most won't memorize what they saw at any point.

4. It never has text underneath it, so you don't even know what it is.

5. The icon represents many solutions for many tasks, but you only have one task at a time. A pause button is the opposite: it's pureness of direct manipulation means you can find what you're looking for when you need it.

6. Pause buttons are even better when they have 'Pause' written underneath the symbol.
> This blames poor people for being poor.

Huh? He said all the people at the top are not lazy. "All people at the bottom are lazy" doesn't follow from his statement.
Throwaway to vent. Ignoring the current technical positions (there's less than meets the eye). WASM is a vanity project by consummate politician working the promo committees. I'm tired of these types ruining the company I've worked for over a decade. Bourbon at the desk for peer massaging cocktails. Flying around for face team with people in nice places. Blowing smoke on standards committee BS. It's not about delivering for the company it's about the next grant.
I didn't know one had to know how to build a PC to use a PC.
What transactions are you making where you have to produce ID? Unless you're constantly buying alcohol or tobacco, it really shouldn't come up. I always carry mine, but not because I typically need it.

In any case, this is all beside the point. No matter how much you think people should carry ID, it's not a legal requirement and certainly not a justification to beat someone so badly you put them in the hospital.
I was not unaware of that amusing coincidence as I left the comment ;)
Would you accept that most Americans believe what their government tells them?

I mean, politicians on the campaign trail can't be trusted, but when the head honchos of the US "defence" forces, the Secretary of State, and the President of the United States stands in front of the nations media and talk about the foreign bogeymen who're out to get them, would you accept that most Americans believe them?

Then you have the Fox News and dozens of right wing radio talk shows pounding on the same drums... creating more fear about these foreign evils who hate them "for their freedoms" and who "want to impose sharia law on the world.

The propaganda machine in the US is extremely efficient... so well oiled that most people don't see it. Even the moving parts of the machine believe that they're doing good and aren't out to fool anyone.

This type of brainwashing is less the Pyongyang brand, and more of the type that the beauty product companies use to tell women they're too fat.
Throughout China, the chengguan have a reputation for brutality. If you meant to say "Asia (except for China)", is it possible you stated your point too flippantly?
If that happened to today's kids, they could just look up lock picking on Youtube and fix the problem.

The internet makes life better. Again.
You are missing the difference between a necessary and a sufficient condition. PG's argument is that being driven is necessary, not sufficient. You have to be driven to get rich doing a startup, but being driven on its own is not enough. Thus, you can be driven and poor.

He then weakens his claim even further, as quoted in the parent: "Variation in productivity is far from the only source of economic inequality" such that he admits doing something really productive is not the only source of inequality. So, there is really nothing in there that implies either of things you suggest.
Out of 12 bulbs, I've had three of the CREE LED bulbs from Home Depot fail in a "disco strobe" mode in less than six months :(
Thanks very much. It seems that the downvotes have now been outnumbered, and I'm sure that's in part thanks to your comment.

In all honesty, when I was last online and saw the downvotes, I was a little disappointed, as it felt that perhaps the reasonable, thoughtful comments threads that I've grown to love on HN were perhaps being lost to reddit-style political populism. While one batch of downvotes or upvotes will not sway me to or away from HN, I'm happy to see HN users live up to my expectations of them. I hope this doesn't sound pompous.

Likewise, I hope you also take care and stay safe, wherever you are, toni.
The downside to "don't wait to do the things that matter" is what to do when you empty that bucket list early. I've covered the geeky bucket list stuff. (making video games, blogging, open source contribution, IT jobs, BS in CS, ect.) I've covered the more stereotypical bucket list stuff too. (Skydiving, performing onstage, time with friends, writing the novel, marrying the right girl, ect.)

At this point in my life, there's nothing new that interests me that hasn't already been done. It's made life pretty boring at this juncture. I've lived out all my dreams and now it's all just like "Okay, now what?"
It's so much simpler than all the comments say. And as much as I said, during my childhood, that I'd never deign to repeat the same tired cliches my parents spouted off, I now find myself, as I have many times in my adult life, going back on that youthful assertion.

"Life's a journey, not a destination."
Love your website. Keep up the good fight. Thanks.
Sure, but "I usually camp at the bottom, waiting for the crowd to disperse, then grab the powerup and use it efficiently." optimizes for neither.
Great piece. This may be the first pg piece I share with my non technical friends and family
Because thinking of uses for computers now costs at least 1,000x more than the computers themselves.
Plenty of examples and resources in the Awesome Swift repository:

https://github.com/matteocrippa/awesome-swift
Do you mean browser/user-agent spoofing? I can understand how it might help to maintain some privacy but unsure how it blocks ads specifically?

For most ad networks this also starts to look more like fraudulent bot traffic which is another major problem in the industry. Several network security providers do have analysis techniques to figure out normal traffic patterns and http headers and determine if a user is spoofing/hiding.
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Well, I agree that Saudi Arabia's regime is more autocratic and less democratic than Iran, given that SA is one of the world's last absolute monarchies. However, I think Pollack accurately depicts SA as largely reactionary to Iran's external meddling, which is highly disruptive to the region and the world. Pollack didn't really touch upon the issue of Iran as a revolutionary power, but I think it's worth noting. The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to act as a movement, rather than a status-quo power, as it continuously acts to export its revolution and remake itself as the dominant hegemon in the region and beyond.
Update is from 2014 that his conviction was overturned.
I actually gave up and bought a bunch of incandescent bulbs at a clearance sale.

Even accounting for wasted energy, financially I'll be in the black for 5-7 years based on my experience with CFL/LED fail.
Historically there have been very few people who are both qualified and willing to work on Bitcoin Core.
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I understand where you're coming from. I don't usually use hyperbole, but sometimes we type as we talk, and I'm no exception.
Rust, no debate.
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart."

Ecclesiastes 3:11
Yep. It's basically debugging assembly code and also designing black and white box tests to figure out how the code works.
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I was going to have a similar reply. The first part anyway. Clearly farting around is something that matters to Kurt.

But that makes me think on what actually matters. Doesn't everything we do in our free time matter? If it didn't, why would we do it?

And then we do things that don't matter all the time at work, PG used meetings an example. Usually, they don't matter, but we do them... it seems there's a bit of give and take. I suppose we could ignore some of the meetings but too many missed meetings might piss the boss off. Then we lose the income source and makes it really hard to do what matters.

This piece hit me pretty hard. My dad's in the hospital again, one of the many times over the years. I never know when might be the last. I live hundreds of miles away... it sucks.
CFLs and some LED lamps are very heat sensitive. Some are engineered to only operate in an upright position.

If you have fixtures other than table lamps, like wall sconces, CFLs usually suck.
As I mentioned in another post, I'm not trying to convince anyone. I'm just saying I have confidence.

Even so, security is a road, not a destination. If people want to argue that you should put your data anywhere, I'll buy it. But of the places your data can go, right now I think good is the best steward. And that certainly includes just keeping it yourself.
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According to cell, he did disclose it and they chose not to use it because he didn't have a personal financial stake [1]. As a note, Doudna's review also had no conflict of interest despite her personal stake.

1. https://twitter.com/stephenfloor/status/688466159021064192
Thanks for your considered reply. HN decided my reply was too long to post here, so instead it's on my blog: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/01/stop-working-so-hard...
Because it's completely pointless in most cases. The "Internet of Shit" Twitter account[1] may be satire but it highlights this unnecessary use of technology.

1: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Regardless of my personal perspective, this is unfair. He stated a position which is not only widely disputed, but the dispute over which has an entire field of media and academics devoted to it, and which routinely splits the population roughly half and half (look at basically any election result in the western world). And he disagreed with your side. He's in the other 50% of the population from you.

To claim that being in the other 50% makes somebody "laughably wrong" or a "bully" is not a fair statement. (To say that there is "wide disagreement" is entirely reasonable, but to be fair one should also point out that there is also wide agreement)

This argument has been going on for centuries, with countless millions of people chipping in, without anybody really winning it. It is quite unlikely that this thread, or indeed this year, will be the place where somebody wins it. I think it is reasonable for PG to acknowledge this and bow out of the argument, and that's how I interpret what he's doing.

Life's too short to argue red vs blue.
Do you have a link to "direct approval" regulation? I'm curious as I haven't seen outright legislation regarding how server-side analytics would be limited.

As far as JS tracking, you're right that it does allow for more fidelity in the information retrieved but the server also receives plenty of data that it can use. Many of the device fingerprinting techniques are actually workarounds due to the blocking of 3rd party cookies, but if the site you're visiting is collecting information server-side, then they can just set 1st party cookies which aren't blocked and track you that way. No need for fingerprinting. Even easier if sites have a registration system.
Wait... then why are you taking the subway instead of running up on the surface?
I'm assuming by the same mechanism that offers to save previously-entered passwords. It's always sniffing anything you type into a password field.
Yes, but also canvas, accepted file types, etc. I was also thinking that blocking ads would also cover how content such ads are delivered as well since advertisers could still end up wasting a lot of money?
So then he's back to saying that inequality would arise because some people are "more driven" than others. Another way to phrase that would be to say that those with less money are simply less driven. Put in uncharitable terms, they would be poor because they were lazy.

It really sounds like he believes this to be the cause of real world inequality, too:

"Most people who get rich tend to be fairly driven. Whatever their other flaws, laziness is usually not one of them. Suppose new policies make it hard to make a fortune in finance. Does it seem plausible that the people who currently go into finance to make their fortunes will continue to do so but be content to work for ordinary salaries? The reason they go into finance is not because they love finance but because they want to get rich. If the only way left to get rich is to start startups, they'll start startups. They'll do well at it too, because determination is the main factor in the success of a startup."
There are a couple of books in German for teaching Python using the turtle module. One of the authors presented at a EuroPython conference some years back, to argue for some updates to the module for better usability. Turns out that a lot of schools lock down the hardware, so putting the basics in Python itself make it easier to get the school IT to set it up - "install Python" rather than "install Python plus learn how to install Python packages."
PG strongly implies that wealth can be created by anyone with enough drive and determination. Put another way, if you are not creating and amassing wealth, it's because you don't want it hard enough. To quote from his essay:

"Most people who get rich tend to be fairly driven. Whatever their other flaws, laziness is usually not one of them. Suppose new policies make it hard to make a fortune in finance. Does it seem plausible that the people who currently go into finance to make their fortunes will continue to do so but be content to work for ordinary salaries? The reason they go into finance is not because they love finance but because they want to get rich. If the only way left to get rich is to start startups, they'll start startups. They'll do well at it too, because determination is the main factor in the success of a startup."
A terrorist nation from the very beginning.
Why does dang bully me?
I want to ask why dang bullies me so much.
It just seems like he singles me out of everyone else and is always trying to find an excuse to ban me.
Though, what I find odd is that for me (and yes that is an extremely small sample) I barely heard of D until people started wondering why rust was being picked over D.
Possibly both. Either way, tons of people always get left out.
LA has a huge problem with racism. Rodney King is an old story, but the issue is still relevant. I also know that Seattle has the same issue.
Never go full E17.
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>When you strip away the usual political rhetoric an other distractions, the primary reason the Oregon stand-off didn't turn into a (possibly Waco-style) raid immediately is because the militia members are both white and conservative.

I don't believe that for a second. The government certainly didn't hold back at Waco or Ruby Ridge.
That would be fun to watch. What goes around comes around, EU.
Yeah. I don't consider playing video games for an hour or so to wind down "bullshit", provided they do not stop me from achieving my daily goals.

Not only are "unproductive" activities like film, video games, socializing/hanging out very enjoyable for me, but the most interesting people I've met do a lot of them. All in moderation.
I am not sure that this is true. This guy was in jail for six years just because of blogging http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blog... (this was also featured on the HN front page, happy down voting). Also Iran is not that far from Saudi Arabia - with a very strict and literal interpretation of Islam serving as the ruling ideology.
My understanding is that the Shah nominated him and he was approved by the elected Majlis. By the time of the coup, though, Mosaddegh had dissolved parliament and was able to unilaterally declare laws by fiat.
They guide my present.

"A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong." -- from Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau

That something I have to do is learning to write shell scripts at the moment.
Yes, of course all "gamers" should be judged by the actions of a small, vocal faction of wackos. We should do the same for all groups really whether based on religion, race, nationality, sex, gender, height, weight, etc.
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What kind of team would brian tracy love to join in?
It certainly doesn't seem like a radical idea. Most of the responses started out with some variation of "well, we didn't mean literally all income inequality is bad. Obviously some income inequality is good. We just have too much. No one actually wants perfect income equality. pg is arguing against a strawman". In that sense, he successfully pointed out that the shorthand phrase "income inequality" causes equivocation when taken literally, where both sides of it are using to mean different things.

Unfortunately, most of the responses never made it much past identifying this confusion between the literal meaning of income inequality and what they meant, by saying we have "too much" income inequality. This is a tautology, and most responses failed to address the important question of "how much is too much?".

Most responses instead then focused on inventing or imagining a lot of things pg didn't say, things they thought he might be implying. pg responds by simplifying his essay, so that there is less stuff to read into it. People still try to read too much into it. pg gives up at responding to things he didn't say, no time for BS.

I think he added to the conversation a good point, that many people are sloppy when they refer to income inequality, and that it is not all bad, and that we need to be more precise when we talk about what the real problems are. However, people mostly ignored that...despite actually agreeing with what he actually said, they wanted to disagree with what they thought he said...
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Hard to describe these as invasions, at least in the sense Iraq was.
You as pg's wife have vested interest in pg's reputation as your well-being is intrinsically tied with his reputation and well-being through marriage. Your words are not totally empty though as it is still supporting evidence, it is just not solid evidence and it is not something I will totally accept, unlike the op.

The probability for this essay to pop-up right after PG started a fire with his economic essay is just to small for there to be no connection. Could be, that this essay is in itself bullshit. People lie to themselves to hide truths that are painful but self evident. I think this essay could be such a lie.
The level of evidence here is not really believable in my opinion. It seems to essentially consist of two kind-of blurry sets of before and after pictures.

I'm not a stem cell biologist by any means, but I'm also surprised their IRB approved this... IV mesenchymal stem cells for supranuclear palsy? Hope they are following them for neoplasms...
I have two kids under two, and I've built two PCs in that time. It takes a few hours, but I enjoy it. It's relaxing to do stuff like that at the end of the day. My alternatives are watching TV or reading Hacker News, and I don't see how that's any better :).
What an unnecessarily long article. Scroll down to the second photo to see what it's about and skip the text.
While it's possible that that caused pg to write this essay when he did, the position articulated in it is completely consistent with what he's been saying for a long time. And a glance at his Twitter feed makes it clear that he finds joy in being a dad and makes it a real priority.
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> In the U.S., despite what officers tell you, you do not have to identify yourself when asked.

This varies state to state. In many states you must identify yourself at the level of providing your name and address, but you are not required to produce any documentation.
If you had watched the video you would see the parts where he addresses your critiques. He explores the everyday life of many different Iranians, particularly those in the urban areas, and makes efforts to highlight the positive and negative attitudes towards the West.

You don't have to have a doctorate in Iranian studies to learn and understand for yourself that Western media's portrayal of Iran is deeply biased. Of course, Iran's portrayal of the West is equally biased. The key is to listen to the grievances of both sides within the context of a historical understanding and form judgments from there. This is exactly what Rick Steves has done.

Steves mentions in his video that every schoolboy and girl know of the 1953 coup and the CIA's involvement. The vast majority of Americans are entirely oblivious of this event when forming opinions of Iran. Isn't this valuable information for Steves to communicate with his Western audience?
Atom uses node so there is no hope of running it in a browser. An atom forum thread: https://discuss.atom.io/t/running-atom-in-the-browser/8925
Rent collecting or rent-seeking behavior has a special meaning in economics. It's different from investing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

A an example of rent collecting would be if he used his wealth to lobby for a law requiring all start-ups to have a license which an organization he controlled granted (and charged for).
PG claimed that some rich people "create wealth" and are thus entitled to it. He further argued that they're extra entitled to it because even if you eliminated all other sources of inequality, you couldn't stop them from creating more wealth for themselves: "creating wealth, as a source of economic inequality, is different from taking it—not just morally, but also practically, in the sense that it is harder to eradicate."

This is not a hostile but a literal interpretation of the essay and is the same viewpoint advanced by Atlas Shrugged.
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He became Prime Minister in 1951 after his party, the National Front, won a majority in the Iranian Parliament (the Majlis).
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Mossadeagh was about to be booted by his own people. There were mass protests as he had become very unpopular. Claims the US had a hand in his downfall is being very generous.
The North Korean government is being propped up by China. If China withdrew support their government would collapse.
Possibly, but it wouldn't solve the current question, because we'd still have the problem with replies to [flagged] and [dead] comments.