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"The Trouble with the TPP" series by Michael Geist [0] is an excellent view of some of the issues with it, and demonstrates how the huge nature of the TPP makes it difficult to create short (digestible) but powerful arguments against it. It was very much written from Canada's point of view, so it isn't the most convincing argument for why the US, or any other country, shouldn't ratify the treaty.

[0] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/tech-law-topics/tpp/
> Building software for novices with simple ui is much harder than building software for experts with a gazillion settings.

IME, people advocating for simple UI end up advocating for the removal of features. That's often fine, but it's also why people like Torvalds bounce between desktop environments as things are Simplified with no secret handshake to undo them.

Even the research suggests that over 50 percent of Apache config setting points can be removed without affecting more than 1 percent of the customer base. I'm not clear if that means each feature is 1 percent or 1 percent total. It's also not clear how they can feasibly disentangle people who use obscure features and don't need help with it. (Also, I'd love to see concrete suggestions for improvement from that pool to better understand what counts as obscure here.)

That said, the Apache config has plenty of room for improvement. Why do we have to write chef scripts to calculate MPM settings and avoid OOM'ing the machine?
News about street maintenance in my neighborhood is more important to me than some serial killer on the other side of the world.

How would the serial killer affect my life? Would my life even be better after having read details of his grisly crimes (probably not)?. On the other hand if parking will be forbidden on near my house for a day while they re-surface the street it is something that will actually affect me.
>It might be unpopular here, and I feel slightly guilty saying it, but I like suburbia.

Sounds like it is time for an HN poll.

How much property do you own?

* I prefer to make payments to my landlord (you insensitive clod!).

* Greater than 1000 sq. ft.

* more than 10,000 sq. ft.

* more than an acre (43,560 s.f.)

* more than 5 acres

* more than 80 acres

* more than a section (640 acres)

* I only do metric and forgot how to Google
How do you propose that I personally reach agreements with corporations on storage of my medical records? I've visited a hospital once in my life, which involved doing business with dozens of different "businesses", from the hospital to the anesthesiologist, all of whom collected records, and none of whom I was in a condition to negotiate with on an individual basis (nor would they have been interested in negotiating with me regarding their data-protection policies anyway). And I don't have any faith in corporations determining where data can be safely stored; I think they will primarily go with where it can be most profitably stored, which is not necessarily the same question. I would feel much more comfortable if the hospital, anesthesiologist, and everyone else were required to store my data in accordance with a regulator's oversight. And preferably in the USA or a friendly western country. The companies can of course exercise additional caution if they feel it warranted, but I'd like the government to legislate some minimums.
Incidentally, does anyone have a list of reliable mechanic finder sites / apps (aside from the title example)?

I know the only reason I sometimes go to dealerships for maintanence is consistence. A bad mechanic is bad.
L4.sec is already formally verified. So the microkernel is already done. You need the user land services to provide POSIX compatibility, and that you can possibly do in Rust.
lol you actually believe a Republican would be against free trade?

There's a reason he ran as a Republican in the first place.
By rusting away, the car will turn into iron oxide, which is "natural" and thus helps the environment. They should have made the paint an energy source for microorganisms, then they could claim to have a biodegradable car.
> The US already has such a ban, but putting it in a treaty makes it worse (harder to repeal)

The TPP would not, in US law terms, be a treaty, but a regular federal statute.
There's essentially no enforcement of copyright law in many of the signatory states. Yes DRM kind of sucks, but rampant piracy also kind of sucks. The way the US does it I think is closer to optimal than the way Vietnam does it. That's why Google calls the provisions "balanced copyright enforcement."
Many of suburbia's problems do not originate from the free market or individual choices. Many come from top-down mandates. For example, until recently, all the state and federal road design guidelines were completely about 'Level of Service' (read: how fast cars move), and thus car throughput was optimized over safety, or the use of streets by other modes of transportation.
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Hoping for the day I can use Service Workers in all mobile browsers.
Not the entire population, only a small majority, and I'm being generous.
> And just today, Google was accused of whitewashing Hillary Clinton's record and not showing negative autocomplete terms.

That was a pretty silly accusation. It was mostly based on comparing Google autocomplete terms to Bing and Yahoo autocomplete terms. To show a pro-Clinton bias on the part of Google what you need to concentrate on is comparing Google autocomplete terms for Clinton searches to Google autocomplete terms for other people.

Do that experiment and you find that the kind of things that appear to be removed from Clinton autocomplete are also removed from the autocomplete of many other people, including many politicians, current and past celebrities, and criminals.

There is a good discussion of how Google tries to avoid autocompletes that could be seen as disparaging here [1].

[1] http://www.clayburn.wtf/2016/06/google-probably-isnt-manipul...
Indian Laws are bonkers and any government servants and pervasive powers.

Here is my favorite Indian Law.

Right to Education Law (Indeed who does not want Education and Baby Pandas as rights ?)

Features:

1. The law is applicable only to Hindu run schools. Aided or Unaided. The law has blanket exemption to any school run by a Christian or Muslim. (Aided or Unaided).

2. All private schools even those who do not take a penny from government must keep 25% of their seats reserved to the "needy".

Needy is defined by government and the list is defined by government. This is often a function of caste and bribes offered to government to get your kid's name on the right list.

3. Government will decide all the admission criteria as and when it pleases for these private schools. So if you want to start a school that will cater only to say "IQ > 140" that is illegal Or a school that would focus on children with great artistic ability that is illegal.

4. All private schools must meet various criteria such as "X area per child" else they will have to shut down.

5. It is a criminal offense to run a school that is not approved by this law.

Coming up with a dark and horrible regulation would only reduce school supply. Secondly, applying it only to "Hindu" run schools is like handicapping a the majority community in one particular sector. All this when Indian's private education was expanding rapidly, performing better than government's free education and was actually targeting more and more poor people than ever.
To be fair, Ada has a lot of library cruft for dynamically sized structures that you don't have to deal with in C. It can be pretty annoying.
It's an awesome idea and one that is actually not too hard to implement, at least partially. Problem is browser support of the APIs, with Safari lagging behind.
It's sad to see that most of the commenters here decided to discuss it as a news tweet ("Google endorses TPP which, as we know, is terrible") instead of a text that makes some points on the matter. Seems like most don't even address the text in any way — which means people don't stop for a second to doubt their opinion on TPP, or even discuss arguments of the "enemy camp".
Guess I am fortunate to be terrified of heights, no chance of any jealousy or envy on my part.

I do have to ask with regards to that 453 sq ft apartment, whats the point of having a window that opens at its height?

on a side note, the gated communities of suburbia are nothing but shallow imitations of the these vertical communities which are even more exclusive
Well then pick business relations that do so, that's what private contracts are for.
We can debate the "he said she said" until the cows come home. It is no mystery that HRC supports and champions oligarchic policies. The TPP is being pushed by the Obama administration who have added their support to her presumptive nomination. There's no fooling anyone here about what may very well happen.

The timing of this is peculiar, but if it has nothing to do with HRC, we'll simply have to wait and see if that is the case.
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Yep, but I do believe this script does some searches for info on terrorists, and that would be problematic with the search you describe.
Probably not a good answer, but if you use Webpack, Service Worker support is a plugin away:

https://github.com/NekR/offline-plugin
I am pretty sure the childhood telescope was then found at some custom officer's home.
Yes, which you can specify in your vendor agreement (and will be able to after TPP).
Try typing in 'crooked h' and see how that autocompletes. Keep adding letters...

Guess what? A week and a half ago you got 'crooked Hilllary' now you don't, and it's nowhere to bed found....

They censored the results in her favor, no doubt about it.
What about allegories and thought experiments?

Two examples on the top of my head:

1. The strange cave of Ali Baba (or how to explain Zero-Knowledge protocols to your children) - Jean-Jacques Quisquater - Advances in Cryptology - 1990.

2. The fable of the Tyrant Dragon - Nick Bostrom - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2005¹.
This is a work of fiction designed to make a statement about the stance of society towards fighting aging.

¹ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mkowalcz/628.pdf

² http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
It's like how the US is slightly less likely to unilaterally legalize marijuana at the federal level, it is signatory to several UN treaties which forbid it from doing so.
And endless arguments about what caliber and kind of round has the best stopping power come up every day on gun forums. It's their vim vs. emacs.
It's not that cars are bad overall. It's that cars are usually mindlessly chosen as the 'default' or assumed mode of transportation, even when they are poorly suited and very expensive to support. Parking minimums are a good example of this. If people want to choose cars, that's fine, but parking minimums mandate that we reserve large portions of cities for people to park their private property on, thus heavily subsidizing that choice. Maybe that's okay in rural areas, but it makes little sense for denser urban or even suburban areas.

Similarly, roads usually prioritize speed of cars over safety of everyone, particularly people walking or on bikes.
I agree. I have lived in cities and in the suburbs, and I greatly prefer the suburbs. I also feel that many of the points in the article make unwarranted assumptions about priorities, or are based on opinion. European cities feel “cozy” and “charming” is because they provide a feeling of enclosure, which humans want because it gives them with a coherent sense of place, like rooms in a house. You may want the feeling of enclosure, but I don't. Again, I've lived in both. I don't feel more "cozy" or comfortable in an urban setting. This is just one of several examples.

My biggest frustration about articles on this topic is how much they assume we all want the same thing, or agree on what is good and bad. Fact-based arguments like environmental impacts are great. But treating "ugly," "soul crushing" and "isolating" as absolutes isn't very productive.
Are you on the extreme ends of mmr? I have a high rating and rarely get people that don't get along. On the other hand, with the introduction of international ranked, maybe they shelved this for a consolidated pool.
"Rural areas are superior to urban areas by nearly every possible measure"

No, they aren't. I value access to culture and having many different types of restaurants available to me, so I can eat many different types of food. Rural areas absolutely fail at that.
Hillary's emails include back and forth with Jared Cohen, a former State department employee who now heads a Google subsidiary called Jigsaw (formerly 'Google Ideas'). That should be enough to figure out what search terms to use. :)
The only problem I have with Toyotas (and I'm in a new Camry rental after a Rav4 got totalled) is that the suspension, handling, and styling seemed to be designed by people who hate driving.
A complete aside, but the photography of Jimmy Chin is amazing, and the top photo in this article is no exception. His technical skills, both with his camera and his outdoorsmanship, lead to some of the most remarkable and unique images that have ever been captured. And I've lost count of the number of times I've seen a picture that I thought was fabulous only to discover that it was he who took it.

Anyone who's interested in photography or enthralled by nature and action sports should take a web journey through his images. He'll take you around the world and to places you could never visit yourself.
To help categorize and understand: I'd characterize your argument as the "Stallman" argument, where the simplicity of copying justifies the moral argument against copyright.

There is a alternate vein which doesn't have to do with value or scarcity, but which has to do with rivalrousness (that is a very subtle distinction):

http://blog.ninapaley.com/2011/07/09/culture-is-anti-rivalro...

You may find it interesting.
As a person with a polar opposite background - grew up on 7 acres in the middle of nowhere - I completely agree. I enjoy living close to employment and services without being completely immersed in humanity 24/7.

This whole piece is an exercise in bias. I'm disappointed with Quartz.
Because it's no longer as simple as repealing/passing a domestic law but in addition to that becomes an issue of reneging on an agreement with other nations. In practice maybe we don't respect treaties very much, but it does seem to be an additional barrier, at least in the public discourse about what laws to repeal/pass.
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oh yes, please don't ever restrain a dog with a neck leash in a car. It's better to have the dog fly off the car and take their chances, than to risk a broken neck.

I bought a new harness, with the largest contact area I could find, specifically for car usage.
Obviously the point is not about questioning whether it is the job of a spy agency to spy on other people.

Following the same reasoning, it would similarly be exactly military's job to kill people, with every other world country having a similar military with various capabilities... This is just semantics.

It is about questioning the very legitimacy of the exact jobs of those institutions, along with their very existence. What makes their activities so normal that we even respond, "it is their job, everybody knows that", based on definitions?

So my answer to this question of legitimacy was that, "they just legitimize it themselves, with their rhetoric on 'terrors'".
> The timing of this is peculiar, but if it has nothing to do with HRC

If it had to do with HRC, they could wait; if anything connected to the election, it has to do with their actual support for TPP and concern that no successor to Obama will approve it, so their best chance is for it to get passed and signed this year (given the statements already made by Republican leaders that that isn't going to happen before the general election, probably in the lame duck session after the election.)
Not American, but the Hogan story wasn't under trial. The sex tape was. The jury made the right choice.
Downtown Baltimore
...To give whites a place to go to git away from them coloreds.

Racism, or more broadly classism -- the refusal to come together in community and the tendency to draw bright lines between self and other, and order society so as to only have to deal with people like self while avoiding other -- is at the very heart of American social structure, at all levels.
You're right that the suburban unsustainability will eventually solve the issue, but it'll cause a lot of misery in the meantime. Better to have avoided the problem in the first place.
I was waiting in line at the rental car facility last year at Detroit airport. A guy kept letting people go in front of him since he "had to have a GM". I suppose it didn't bode well to visit some business in a non GM car.
So, in this case, you were young and irrational and didn't understand the cost of replacing a good developer?

I'm still processing your upstream comments, but anecdotally, when I got to spend about a year on the street, Imma gonna to say that in central Texas, there were a lot of people with mental challenges (which is sad) and a whole lot more with drug issues (which is a different problem, and separately sad), and either of them would have swung any way you asked for their next hit. I am not going to claim that this experience is representative in any way.
I somewhat agree with you, but I'm trying to propose a reasonable compromise. Let Disney keep the mouse copyrighted forever, but give us scientific works that have lots of value being public. Maybe we should try to get fictional works freed later, but at least everyone can agree on this.
Actually, both Sci-Hub and LibGen are mentioned in the article. Perhaps your ctrl+f failed because the page only loads the next section when you scroll down near the bottom of the page.
I saw an unofficial automobile brand slogans meme at some point. The ones I remember were "Toyota: for people who love white kitchen appliances" & "Honda: resting on our laurels."
It doesn't. I'm not sure why that would affect this debate at all?
Why it's always 1977 in the world of tech punditry
I think you're confusing highways and freeways, the Interstate Highway System has nothing to do with suburbs, it connects cities to each other. And cities build freeways because locals demand them, because they don't want to live in the city. That's not government creating suburbs, that's government responding to the desire for suburbs. Suburban sprawl tends to happen first, and then freeways are built to connect them to the city faster.
I'm not going to tell you what to do, but if you want to convince other people of your opinion I suggest writing up your argument into a well-cited article.

Personally, I'm skeptical, but I'm willing to consider what you have to say. Specifically, you have twice mentioned the environmental impact of low vs high density living and I'm curious to know more about that.
> if they take any measures that they can claim hurts their business?

This is just flat-out false. The second link you provided clearly lays out the criteria for resolution of a conflict via the ISDS:

> the dispute settlement provisions of this Chapter shall apply...wherever a Party considers that an actualor proposed measure of another Party is or would be inconsistent with the obligations of this Agreement or that another Party has otherwise failed to carry out its obligations under this Agreement; or wherever a Party considers thata benefit it could reasonably have expected to accrue to it under [this agreement] is being nullified or impaired as a result of the application of a measure of another Party that is not inconsistent with this Agreement.

That is, the ISDS is for resolution of conflicts which are alleged to be in violation the the treaty, not for "any measures that they can claim hurts their business". The Phillip-Morris case you cite is because PM alleges that the Australian government expropriated their intellectual property without due compensation. This post[0] has a very nice breakdown of ISDS cases, rationale, and outcomes.

Also give this thread[1] a read - SavannaJeff is a well-known professional trade economist, and has a lot of very valuable expert insight on the TPP that's worth reading.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/390p5l/over_2000000...

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/2srn0u/trade_sec...
Of course it's a gigantic pile of economic concessions. But mostly that's in the form of tariffs which aren't struck down as quickly as others. Some countries really really want to keep their little pet tariff, like Japan taxing automobile imports. They get to keep those taxes for 30+ years instead of reducing them to zero as quickly as we want. So no it's not perfect, but at least they agreed to move toward freer trade eventually.
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> Fiction and nonfiction seems like a very natural way to categorize works.

But what about

- popular scientific books

- popular scientific books that embed the science into a nice story

or

- science fiction books

- "hard" science fiction books, which are strongly oriented on physical theories

- a description of a highly experimental physical theory embedded in a nice framework of how alien civilizations might take use of technology that this theory enables

or

- Books about historical facts

- Novels that are strongly based on historical facts and even interviews with contemporary witnesses, that nevertheless use some little literary license (for example The Gulag Archipelago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago).

- Novels that are based on historical facts that nevertheless take some literary license to make the story more exciting

- Fictional story that is occured in some concrete non-fictional historic time

or

- A scientific description of some ethical thought experiment

- A novel that is based on some ethical thought experiment, where in the story some academic person gives a quite scientifically accurate description of the thought experiment

- A novel that is based on some ethical thought experiment
Nothing of value was lost. Good riddance.

Of course, they may very well just end up under a new owner, which might change things... a little... hopefully.
>> fannkuch-redux why? SIMD

Look how many other programs, written in various languages, are shown ahead of the fannkuch-redux Rust #2 program.

Maybe you can write a better Rust fannkuch-redux program (even without SIMD).
It's only cheaper because it's heavily subsidized by the rest of us. Imagine if you only had toll roads, and there was no subsidy on gas. If you like suburban living, more power to you, but don't pretend that it's inherently cheaper when your lifestyle is being subsidized.
> I do have to ask with regards to that 453 sq ft apartment, whats the point of having a window that opens at its height?

The same purpose of a window in any tower--fresh air.
> Would you prefer we have a small membership fee and open up all the features?

Yes.
Scrolls fine in Firefox, Edge, and IE11, so yeah. It's Safari.
> Perhaps your ctrl+f failed because the page only loads the next section when you scroll down near the bottom of the page.

Exactly that happened.
Compilers routinely inline code, even between source files. Programmers don't need to stress about that.

And I don't think REP is ever the fastest, although it's sometimes the shortest code.