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The protests against Mossadegh included tens of thousands of Iranians. Is it possible to create that kind of unpopularity out of thin air using money?[1]

"A startled CIA reported to the White House that "an unexpectedly strong surge of popular and military reaction to Prime Minister Mossadeq's government has resulted, according to the latest dispatches from Tehran, in the virtual occupation of the city by forces professing their loyalty to the Shah and to his appointed Prime Minister Zahedi."

I'm not saying US didn't get it's hands dirty, but to assume that Iran would be a peaceful, democratic country otherwise is being naive.

[1]http://www.cfr.org/iran/myth-american-coup/p30900
The Problem with Superluminal Communication
DIVA Android – Damn Insecure and Vulnerable App
One time an Atom user posted a question on the Atom editor forum. He said he loved Atom and wanted to donate. It was a bit complex to explain that they would be contributing to a large corporation, GitHub. I thought this was symbolic of the confusing relationship GitHub has with open software.
> I am concerned that scientific and technological advancements are happening faster than intellectual and moral progress.

I couldn't agree more.
>Trying to inspect all real estate transactions would be incredibly expensive and cumbersome for the state.

And the titles companies on whom executing this regulation will fall... It's not like they all have the resources to hunt down shell companies all over the map.
as there are now two powers in the region to work with

This agreement is a minor deescalation of tensions. I wouldn't go as far as to say the US has another friend in the Middle East.
Sure. What is productive or nonproductive is your opinion and I can partly agree with your opinion. However, I'm not on HN to be productive (who is?). I'm just here to introduce my thoughts in a way that I perceive logical.

Also please note that although I was obviously disagreeing with paul on economic inequality I was not explicitly debating the topic. I was simply pointing out potential bias of a post made by a biased source and the possible validity that this recent essay was in response to the backlash caused by pg's economic article.

Additionally, I spent deliberate effort to craft my post in a way to avoid aggression as much as possible. I specifically stated that jl's statement can be classified as supporting evidence but it's still biased evidence and that it needs to be taken into account.

>I am no fan of pg's worldview but I think there are less conspiratorial and more good-faith ways to attack it

Your OP was a conspiratorial attack. I am just defending your original opinion.
> this hard to code 2 GUI/Themes

You realize they're more than just themes. Aero and Metro are more different than QT and GTK in my opinion. Sure, old apps look okay with the metro UI theme, but Metro is also a design paradigm similar to material design which expects a fundamentally different layout and design.

Windows is still themable, but it's not the theme that people are complaining about, it's the fundamental UI changes. Those are hard to switch between, and it's difficult for both developers and customers to deal with that.

> put in a checkbox to disable all spyware

The definition of spyware is subjective. The fact that google stores your search queries for later suggestion is spyware to some and convenience to others.

There are a set of checkboxes under advanced options in the Windows 10 install to "disable spyware" and, it turns out, having those checkboxes didn't stop people from complaining. Even though it can be turned out, the fact that it's there and on by default (where spyware is mostly "send info to microsoft so that they can attempt to improve the product presumably. Which has no value if it's opt in because no one will do that).

Neither of those is as easy to address as you make it out to be.
It was a web-based game in Hungary called Virtual Box.
> In lieu of actual people, a hologram customer service operative will remind people to stand on both sides.

Is this some sort of British slang thing, or did somebody make enormous strides in hologram technology when I wasn't looking?
I remember when XP shipped and people bemoaned the Tinker Toy GUI that it came with. Years later people are still complaining about change in the UI of operating systems by Microsoft. At least with Windows 10 they seem to be dedicated to sticking with something for a while as they plan to continuously update the same OS for a long while.
> Do you want to support two major versions of your software for years? No? Well neither does Microsoft.

Well, if they hadn't made both Vista and Windows 8 such piles of fail perhaps Microsoft wouldn't have had this problem.

Lots of people stayed with XP for a very good reason ... drivers for hardware that worked reliably for better than a decade simply wouldn't work with Vista.

Similarly lots of people are staying with Windows 7 for very good reasons ... Windows 7 was actually decent, Windows 8 sucks, and Windows 10 is a resource pig which someone who hasn't upgraded a computer in 3-5 years can't run.
Thanks for spitting this out. I compeletely agree with you.
Oh, it could be. I'll keep an eye next time. Tbanks!
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Not sure this will accomplish much. The people sheltering this wealth have attorneys and 'henchmen' who are more than willing to put the assets in their name. Its a massive thing here in Miami Beach (I think half the sales here are all cash and of those, half are from foreign investors)
You can transfer as little as you wish, but you're right, there's a minimum to open and hold the account.
No this is true. Many British airports have hologram people giving you instructions before the security gate and also when arriving.
In Manhattan, you can't really do much more development. So what happens is the foreign investments basically buy out a large portion of available apartments and the people have to move elsewhere. To other boroughs mostly.

Sometimes this results in very inefficient transportation/location for actual legitimate companies that operate there and people who live there because of the dead weight real estate.
I feel like its going too far to point at TCP/IP as a or the root issue behind growing inequality (especially inequality between 3rd world countries and 1st world countries).

To look at the larger historical perspective, we're still headed in the right direction. How much did it cost to copy a book by hand? How much did it cost to print a copy with Gutenberg style printer? How much does it cost to distribute a book's worth if internet in the day and age of the Pony Express?

Even within the digital age, we have a lot of alternative methods when issues arise... just look at the growth of community owned ISPs or network end points. And things like P2P transfers, Tor network, or the ad-hoc, informal cuban data sharing network.

My point is other factors seem to be significantly higher impact than cost to distribute, or technical limitations behind the access to information. Devices and access are getting cheaper (despite what most of those monopolies would wish) and with that comes expansion. Will pure access to the internet solve all of the problems? Of course not, but I think we'd all agree it will help. And if TCP/IP isn't cost effective (or has another issue) in serving the 3rd world, something else will pop up to fill the gap.
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There are actually plenty of good (and legitimate) reasons to buy property in such a way the keeps the owner relatively private.

1. Keep your asset from appearing in a quick asset search.
2. Keep John Q. Public from finding your address via Spokeo, or similar data aggregators.
3. ..?

Same applies to a lease, be it commercial or residential. Most of the cheap background checks used by property managers are cheap because the company (say Experian, etc) receive your information for their product in return. The way around that, is to rent the property through a shell, or to a trust.
It's not my list.

In no particular order, that's the vast majority of the richest, most well off, and highest GDP per capita countries on earth. Your list so far has Singapore and Hong Kong, now try to match my group - you can't get even remotely close.

I don't understand what you are trying to say. The countries you have listed include countries like Italy and Spain that rank well below the non-democratic countries I listed (Singapore and Hong Kong). Indeed, they score (0.876, 0.873) closer to Saudi Arabia (0.837) and UAE (0.835) than to countries at the top of the list (Norway: 0.944).

The point is that I can find features that correspond to those lists better than "are democratic".

For example, there's very good correlation between the Corruption Perceptions Index[1] and the list from the Human Development Index[2].

I think Democracy is great. But I also think facts are great, and the fact is that there do appear to be other ways to good outcomes.

[1] http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_D...
They're cardboard cutouts with rear projection. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UarWbumn240
i like to go up escalators doing two steps at once because it makes me feel like john cleese taking giant strides up like 10 feet.
Studies show that such press releases are then further twisted by the media, experts say.
Really, for the masses.
23 points explaining India's new policy on Startups
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I love Go and use it daily but the sentiment that it somehow makes multithreaded programming "easy" is greatly over-stated. Channels are easy to deadlock or leave dangling in goroutines and any usage of more standard synchronization primitives have all the same issues as any other language.

That said, built in race condition checking is a great feature and tests should always be run with it. Unfortunately this library would not gain any benefit from it without tests that actually execute code concurrently.
Two good articles - One a long form and one One-pager:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreign...

One-pager - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/26/real-estate-goe...
Your argument does nothing other than distract away from my point. Your statements about Iran are opinionated at best, and misinformed at worst (Iran has never threatened to attack anyone with nuclear weapons). You are not countering the fact that Israel is the elephant in the room, the only nuclear weapons holder in the middle east (confirmed by their own former Prime Minister[0]) and flagrantly dismisses signing the NPT while condemning and threatening other nations for exercising their right to nuclear energy. The pot is calling the kettle black.

0. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/13/israel
Confusing title. I was expecting an article about a race to deliver a burrito between a courier and a police car. What I found was a shocking story about the abuse of police authority.

I know how this will sound, but I'm going to say it anyway; if this had happened in almost any other western country there would be genuine surprise. But this is the US, so although people are upset there is no real sense of surprise. The US really needs to get its law and order officers to respect the people they are paid to serve.
Lead developer quits Bitcoin saying it ‘has failed’
True, but those are really annoying to program and are mostly meant for hard real-time rather than maximum speed.

The speed on the BBB for GPIO's is okay (I can get to about 12.5MHz with some care). It's more annoying that you actually have to be in supervisor mode to change the I/O direction of a GPIO pin.
LLCs in particular are a very convenient minimal-fuss-required way to get "an entity the system knows how to interface with" spun up abroad. The US economy welcomes investment by foreigners and foreign corporations. The simplest way to do so is to establish an LLC. These LLCs are often established by lawyers. Breathless reports to the contrary, this is actually very common and not in itself indicative of money laundering. This gives you an entity which can trivially (trivially -- fill out a form online, get emailed it in a minute) get a US tax ID issued and be used to fill in any boxes required by a bank, secretary of state, county office, etc etc etc.
Iran Sanctions lifted
> It's also fast, anonymous, and egalitarian

It's not egalitarian. People who are tech savvy enough to use ad blockers are subsidised by the less technology literate. Those people are also the ones most likely to fall for the malware adverts which make up a huge proportion of online ads. Just about every software download site is full of ads with fake download buttons. Google searches for software often return ads leading to malware as the top result. That's all very lucrative for the scammers and ad networks and sites, but it's not egalitarian. It's a tax on ignorance and inexperience.

A lot of the people enjoying 'free content' on the internet are doing so only because that content was indirectly paid for by a 70 year old with a computer full of malware.
With better materials and improving construction tech there's always an opportunity to demolish and build higher, latest example being https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue
I don't think we need governments to address this problem except for guaranteed basic income or a negative income tax. Technology can be used to address many of the problems created by technology. What I don't understand is why technology hasn't been used to help unskilled workers negotiate?

Tech is a lever and it looks like only one side is using it effectively. The only explanation I can think of is that anyone who spends the time to learn how to use that lever effectively, simply moves to supporting the other side of the issue because they feel entitled to the rewards that come from their effort learning their newfound power.

One of the most maddening things we have yet to use technology to solve is eliminating all the middle men in the banking industry. Banks borrow at ridiculously low rates, but tack on a significant amount of interest when lending to final consumers. I don't see why we couldn't reasonably automate lending directly from the government at a few percentage points above the risk-free rate. Obviously, such lending would have to begin with the lowest risk loans with land as collateral.
Space Travel technology that allow humans to explore any part of the universe. Right now we are the frog in the well.
You've not been to London have you? Talking to strangers on public transport is a capital offense.
How does eliminating a massive portion of the demand not reduce the price?
This API mostly shows just how badly Go needs generics. Would you really not want any data into those events ?

But you can't design an API like that in Go, it just wouldn't work.
But does the page even need to get you to enter it? Could it be possible to set up a hidden password field for LastPass to monitor, and then run a dictionary attack in the background, waiting for the notification?

(I don't use LastPass, so I don't know anything about how this feature is designed.)
>Banks borrow at ridiculously low rates, but tack on a significant amount of interest when lending to final consumers

A large chunk of that is governed by risk. That's to say you need to make up for defaults.
> nearly half of homes nationwide worth at least $5 million are purchased using shell companies

If one does not need a mortgage, this is actually the recommended way to transact on a high-value property. It makes estate planning easier, it somewhat protects privacy, and when it's time to sell, one simply sells the underlying LLC, which ironically is a much simpler business transaction in most states than selling a piece of real estate.
> Waco

I should have included "mainstream xian" in that list.

> didn't hold back

I don't mean to imply that it's a perfect shield. There are numerous cases where the government has gone after more or less every subgroup. The point is that framing affects how people perceive a situation, which in turn affects how they respond.

What framing? Just look at the media. An example from today:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-oregon-mil...

"The armed activists occupying a national wildlife refuge ..."
^^^^^^^^^

"... took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to protest ..."
^^^^^^^

Do you really the same framing would be used if the people involved were black? If liberals took over a similar federal building as with firearms, do you really think they would still be called "activists" by the media? If they were Muslim, do you really think they would be getting the same low-key treatment by the FBI?
We banned this account for trolling and detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10918078 and marked it off-topic.
Wow, you are actually justifying this? HN should remove this story submission... I didn't realize people could even submit their own articles let alone their own ads here.
I resonated with the article as well, for similar reasons. I think trimming the fat from you life, so to speak, frees up so much time for meaningful endeavors.

> The next step was to kill a lot of tv/movies, and most of my free time internet usage.

So I actually figured out that TV was the devil in early high school and stopped watching it almost entirely. There are very particular shows that I will follow and if that show isn't playing, the TV is off.

I also don't watch movies to kill time. I pretty much only watch movies with friends or if it's a movie that I suspect will be thought provoking.

I'm still working on the internet distraction piece. I'd love to hear strategies for wasting less time on the internet.

> Finally, I started steadily filling in the new time gainings with things I really care about

I was very fortunate that I've had this mentality from the start. I pursue what interests me. Whatever that is. Don't care if it's weird, or if I'm the oddball. I just go for it. That has led me to have the most random diverse group of hobbies/skills/life pursuits. I'm a programmer. All-American football player (and national champion). Football coach. Gamer. I'm darn good at drawing/illustration. Pretty good cook as well. I like to sew. Now I'm in med school.

I look back at everything I've accomplished, the skills I've developed, the friends I've made along the way, and the future ahead of me, and I feel like I've had a full 25 years. Like I could die tomorrow and not be too upset about how I spent my time.

I often look at other people's lives and wonder who they would be if they simply went after the things they enjoyed.
"The basis of framing theory is that the media focuses attention on certain events and then places them within a field of meaning." source: http://masscommtheory.com/theory-overviews/framing-theory/
Media twists these findings to frame them either in their own interest or to have more visits with polemic titles. But rankings based in scientific measurements might also make use of that to get their results published in the media. I don't mean to undervalue scientific work at all. But the instrumentation of it not for purposes other than scientific.
I used to get my daily exercise walking the ~150 stairs at Goodge Street, and I hadn't ever thought to do the maths to turn that into a building. Strangely I'd never even consider climbing a building that tall, but as a single flight of stairs it was fine.
We banned this account for trolling and detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10917656 and marked it off-topic.
> [pg is] not going to wake up tomorrow, admit that nobody is asking for 100% income equality and that he was a dishonest sack of shit for pretending otherwise

pg did not make the claim that anyone is arguing for "100% income equality"; he did not posture as if that was the position he was arguing against. You're making things up and are being appropriately downvoted for it.

The topic of this essay was:

"[E]conomic inequality is not just one thing. It consists of some things that are very bad, like kids with no chance of reaching their potential, and others that are good, like Larry Page and Sergey Brin starting the company you use to find things online. If you want to understand economic inequality—and more importantly, if you actually want to fix the bad aspects of it—you have to tease apart the components. And yet the trend in nearly everything written about the subject is to do the opposite: to squash together all the aspects of economic inequality as if it were a single phenomenon."

If he oversimplifies his opposition at all, it's to characterize their position as "economic inequality is bad and should be decreased". He positions that argument as the one in opposition to his. It sounds like you've misunderstood what he's written and are attributing positions to him that he did not write.
I remember when XP shipped and people bemoaned the Tinker Toy GUI that it came with.

One that could easily be turned back into the look of the previous version, with the Windows Classic theme. Because it was bitmap-based, it also enabled a lot of interesting theming possibilities. Not so with Win10.

At least with Windows 10 they seem to be dedicated to sticking with something for a while as they plan to continuously update the same OS for a long while.

It won't be "the same OS" for long if they "continuously update" it... that and the forced updates mean that MS can effectively completely change the UI any time they want, and there's very little users most users can/will do about it. Even the fact that it will still called "Windows 10" means it gets a lot harder to refer to what exactly the OS is. It's a new era of learned helplessness and corporate control.
For me personally, support for W7&8 has ended months ago when they tried to sneak in the same privacy invading updates that infest windows 10. Windows update has been disabled since then, can't even install updates manually since I can no longer trust that the package does what the wiki page says.
Probably because HN threads are supposed to be conversations and that kind of summary interrupts a conversation.
Life is too short for us individually. But I think it is interesting that life is probably just the right amount of time for us as a species, that is if evolution has successfully selected our proper genetic lifespan. If individuals live longer then the species evolves slower and it can not adapt as well. Evolution is measured in generations, not absolute years.

Of course the optimal lifespan will change over time. Today we aren't really facing so many physical survival challenges, but if we extend life longer then we may slow down our speed of innovation.
>Why not accept that reality is different for different people?

There is a consistent physical reality that exists outside the human experience. When people communicate in almost any language, they are referring to this external reality. This is why people constantly choose to "invalidate" someone else's experience.

They are essentially saying "Your description of the shared fabric of reality in which humanity dwells is completely invalid!" rather than "Your reality is your opinion and my reality is my opinion, let's sing kumbaya."

The truth of the world is that there is only one shared reality that exists for humanity and only one description of it that is correct. However, we as homosapiens can only perceive this reality through the human experience. Hence the endless debates about which reality is valid or invalid.