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>> Russia is currently under sanctions after its Crimea annexation.

Aye. And who's going to sanction the US for Iraq and Afghanistan? Russia?

The fact that sanctions are imposed one-sidedly, only to the designated adversaries of the US is a testament to the fact that "international law" is just the will of whoever can enforce it (currently the US, duh).
I assume that the DAO hack involved some signed operations.
High end restaurants don't get their ingredients from the same place you do or McDonald's does. The quality there is above and beyond.
> If it's a choice between your human rights and someone else's life — obviously.

So if I unjustly imprison you, and the only way for you to escape is by killing me, will you willingly stay imprisoned forever? It's an... admirable stance, although so unpopular that you'll likely find not even Gandhi on your side.

(honestly, historical trivia is relatively irrelevant to the whole Israel/Palestine debate, which has great moral issues to argue -- if your people suffered apartheid and holocaust, are you justified in doing the same to others "in self-defence"? How long does it take for populations to forego ethnic grievances and land claims? Will nations ever renounce ultimate sovereignty to the UN? etc etc)
And Jordan.
EU != Europe.

I live in Europe yet I'm not part of the European Union. Also, measuring by "budget", what's up with that? At least use population number or something that's semi reasonable.

It's roughly the same as thinking that the US == Continent America, and that Canada, Argentina and Mexico should be responsible for the actions of the US.
My old neighbor died some time ago. He was bedridden for several years and his
wife dedicated all her time and money to provide care at home.
When she had to get him to the hospital for a routine checkup,
she had to call an ambulance because there was no other way to get him there.
The ambulance drivers couldn't guarantee her that she wouldn't have to pay
the bills for his transport.
Two people who paid taxes their whole life, two people who paid health insurance
their whole life.

Meanwhile ten thousands of refugees get these transports for free plus the state
pays for interpreters during their hospital visit... tell me how this is fair
without using your wishy washy talk about "entitledness" and "winning the birth lottery".
> Only exploring stuff related to your interests can trap people within a detached state with respect to reality.

That's something I've been casually interested in in the last few months, simply because I have, rather lately, come to understand that I won't ever be able to read all the books I want to read, or see the movies I want to see, etc.

However, it seems to me the "problem" or the situation is a little more complex than that. The information you consume will always be a subset of "reality", and how detached you are from "reality" based on what information you consume seems like a quantity that will be hard to measure.

For the sake of being somewhat contrarian here, I'm just going to repeat something I've mentioned a couple times: I think that contrary to popular belief, all attempts at giving people a more "balanced" view of reality with a balanced "information diet", all attempts at avoiding the "filter bubble" are completely misguided.

The value is precisely in creating bubbles that are as valuable as possible for individuals, by filtering, curating, optimizing the information they consume to maximize the utility they get from it. That possibility seems to me to be largely unexplored today in places where you would expect to see it (information aggregation platforms, recommender systems that are still quite primitive, etc.).
Some animals are domesticated in ways that they wouldn't survive without humans, and there are species which are held just for the amusement of humans like a fish in a home aquarium. Chickens and cattle are special because they're predominantly single purpose branches of the original species and would most likely not survive in the wild. Dogs and cats can survive, and there are different breeds of those which have a higher or much lower chance of survival.

The absurdity comes in with dog species that were bred to be small or look a certain way and are riddled with diseases or low survival chances on their own. The same kind of dog breed wouldn't survive in nature and propagate, but we believe it's acceptable to breed tiny dogs for purses or mean looking terriers that have genetic disadvantages leading to life-long ailments.

This may sound controversial, but before we protest the farming of animals whose single purpose is making furry clothes or food for humans, where those animals (like cattle, fish) wouldn't exist otherwise, we might want to fix the cruelty that's going on in some parts of the pet industry first.

To answer your question, yes, most domestication of fish falls into the same unnatural cruel captivation like caging birds, but most cat and dog domestication evolved naturally. One has to recall that domestic dogs are the result of selective breeding human friendly branches through ages. Even with those, we have dogs like German shepherd that have built-in physical conditions which are unlikely to have existed with human-intervention-free natural selection.
That's no justification for acts of terrorism. The fault is with the individual terrorists, not the French en masse.
Not to be rude, but this question is rude.
He can try to sue (in the US)

Next thing the IRS will go after him for the corresponding taxes on millions of dollars of crypto currency
While your former is true your latter is just horribly false. I worked in the DoD space for many years and the overwhelming amount of work you're most likely to do doesn't involve killing people even indirectly. More likely you're working on systems to go keep our people safe.

For example I worked on software that helped soldiers look at patterns of IED placements to hopefully help them figure out where others were. I wouldn't consider what I worked on even indirectly supporting any type of killing but helping out people stay safer.
Wow incredible pictures. Also, 4200km is in the exosphere: I think you mean 4200m :)
http://www.ibtimes.com/turkish-town-isis-crosshairs-kilis-re...
You're on the right track but it must also be remembered the time of year affects this along with seniority of the waiter (how many hours they get) and their own availability. Waiters can have great days and weeks followed by poor ones but waiters at good restaurants can make decent money on tips. Too many bad stories are from IHOP.
'Hack the Pentagon' program reveals 138 security flaws
Thanks. I'll admit that this is way over my head. Is there a concise summary of what's contained in the "smart contract code" at 0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413?
I tongue in cheek predict the disposable diaper industry will be the first to make the breakthrough discovery how to manufacture Drexlerian nanotechnology.

Behold, the ultimate diaper: DRM-protected encrypted software-driven, subscription-licensed nanotech mites turn your precious ones' pee and poo into pleasant, copyright-protected scents by the FLAG (FebrezeLysolAirwickGlade) conglomerate.
I'm not trying to justify terrorism but highlight motivations for it.
I thought that was because Saudi Arabia doesn't call them refugees but "Arab brothers and sisters in distress". The number of such people is quite contentious, if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Saudi_Arabia is any evidence. There may be 500K such people "in distress."

FWIW, unlike the EU countries, Saudi Arabia isn't signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention.
You're missing the point of how refugees naturally select the country that's best able to deal with the issue.

Germany has an army, Greece does not. Turkey had an army, but the outcome of Turkey using it's army to end the war is not the one the refugees want. Point is to make refugees a natural point of pain as quickly as possible so that those impacted deal with the issue, not allow it to go on and on and on.

Even worse, if allowing countries to send refugees for a fee to another country becomes a thing, it might quickly turn into sending any unwanted individuals to a secured location in another country; which clearly is a horrible solution.
It's not that simple.

Fleeing to a nearby country is one thing.

Being able to move all the way to Germany, Denmark or Sweden isn't exactly being fleeing war anymore.

The irony is that it's those with most money who can afford to move the furthest away from the refugee camps and many of those who do are men, leaving their family behind hoping to be able to get them to the country they end up in.

https://www.rt.com/news/330284-economic-migrants-eu-refugees...
What is constantly ignored by the media is the fact that most people coming to the EU illegally at the moment are not refugees but migrants that come because their countries economy is in bad shape.

For example in Austria only about 20% of refugees are given asylum status, the others are simply found to be illegal immigrants.

Though I can understand the motivation for these people to come we can't take in everyone from Africa or the Middle East that would like to come.

On top of that their cultural values are incompatible with ours and this leads to major issues between immigrants and the local population.

That's why I really don't care for this kind of activism by Doctors without Borders. We have borders and laws that should be enforced, our politicians can't just ignore our laws because they personally don't like them or have a different view.

EDIT: Sorry I can't reply to thesimon below in a comment, that's why I'll put my reply in here:

See my comment regarding Germany: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11928358

This data again doesn't reflect the situation. It says that we had 20.000 submitted asylum requests in 2015, even though we had 90.000 registered refugees (who didn't formally seek asylum)

Everyone is free to guess why the other 70.000 did not submit an asylum request.
You're right but you can't sign a message from a contract, only from an external account. The ECDSA at the bottom is not valid. Valid ECDSA signatures are 65 bytes ending with 0x00 or 0x01. This one ends with 0x20.
The fact that an apparently civilised country can't work out how to provide free ambulances is completely orthogonal from whether or not we should meet our international obligations to care for and protect refugees.
Many in the government space can go higher than that through special exceptions, projects and various other reasons. So I'm not convinced you can simply conclude that he's making $160k.
And I'm saying that's a horrible childish responses to a situation like this.
So by the same logic they won't be taking money from the US, Australia and so on?
Thanks for the downvotes! Theory confirmed two days after I posted this:

http://www.recode.net/2016/6/16/11958588/salesforce-also-mad...
Microsoft does not get 25$ a month from most people, they just have a billion+ customers. Google is in a similar situation and your probably vastly more profitable than their average customer.
While video has the ability to communicate certain things more efficiently than text, it is far inferior in other ways.

For example, video is great at showing the physical relationship between car parts - what they look like, where they go - so if I'm trying to figure out how to get to that sixth spark plug on a 1990 Bronco II, I'm going to look for a video.

Video is also good at pacing the timing of emotional reactions. If it weren't, no one would watch movies.

If, on the other hand, I'm trying to learn or experience something complicated, like how to code in a new language, or an overview of the history of the idea of revolution, or any kind of theology, I'm going to read about it. I'm not going to watch some talking head give me far fewer words in the same amount of time, even if the video has some nice music and pans across a few pictures of cathedrals while the narrator speaks.

Words are the fundamental unit of thinking, and video is piss-poor at communicating words, especially when compared to writing.
Of course legal challenge won't be fruitful. In the eyes of the law using an exploit on an vulnerability found in a contract will still be interpreted as malicious or even criminal and thus illegal,
So, I know next to nothing about the DAO and Ether, but could some please explain this to me? The way I read this is that someone just proved that all code has bugs and if you use code as a contract, people will inevitably find ways to exploit its bugs and take your money (or, whatever, ether).

Is that what just happened?
You don't understand. When you wait tables, you are in a little fiefdom of your own that you are responsible for and no one else's. Helping others takes time away from your space and, potentially, your own income. When your income isn't based on helping yourself alone, then you can form a team to help each other when they run into problems.

Note that I am not saying waiters never help each other out.
With all that being said, some instances of us trying to preserve species which leads to survival only under human controlled institutions, is probably more to appease the guilt of humans having done things which led to their extinction. If there's no reasonable chance of, say, releasing a panda into the wilderness, then I'm afraid it's only for preserving fresh genetic material and reducing humanity's feeling of guilt. If we were serious about all of it, we would take measures to not invade on their homes, but look at LA, where wild cats visit parts of the LA hills settlements or bears in Alaska or Canada or boars in Europe. We rule the geography and want to build cities in all kinds of places all the while trying to preserve the population of fauna and flora. Something has to give if we keep using the same mechanisms.
I assume you're referring to earthquakes. I live in San Mateo, have lived in California for 25 years, and floods, fires, droughts, and traffic all seem like more immediate risks.
Microsoft gets much less money from my family. My wife and I spend $99/year for Office 365 (mostly for the cloud storage, less for the office apps).
The UN is not stopping nuclear proliferation in friendless countries, which really undermines the entire purpose of the UN.
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Canada Has Been Experimenting with a Digital Fiat Currency Called CAD-COIN
I can't figure out what this would tell you. Would it tell you that initial ideas were often better or worse than subsequent ideas? The sensitivity of teams to how product market fit occurred? I can't figure out how it would be actionable, due to the wide gamut of ideas and execution.
Saying "20%+" makes it sound higher than it is. In Germany, it's 19% (7% for food), UK 20% (5%), France 20% (5.5% / 10%). Of course that's a lot higher than the usual US sales taxes (I remember 8.875% in NYC and 10.25% in Chicago, both of which are on the high end of the spectrum - DC was 5.75%)
But the British are part of the EU as well...
They're not called refugees over here - they're "migrants". The press and our governments insist that most of them are economic migrants, here to make a quick buck, take your job, claim your benefits, rape your wife and daughter. The rest are apparently IS fighters.

In the uk we now have people so filled with hate and fear of immigration that they're murdering politicians. Many will argue that this isn't the case, mostly those who believe the above paragraph - I don't know but "death to traitors, freedom for Britain" when shooting an mp who is pro migrant rights probably means something.

If there's a future to look back from, this period will be looked upon with shame.

Or more likely just written out of history, and anyone who talks about it is called a revisionist or terror apologist.
It's not that simple.

Fleeing to a nearby country is one thing.

Being able to move all the way to Germany, Denmark or Sweden isn't exactly being fleeing war anymore.

The irony is that it's those with most money who can afford to move the furthest away from the refugee camps and many of those who do are men, leaving their family behind hoping to be able to get them to the country they end up in

60% according to some are migrants not refugees.

The problem is that the outer borders doesn't work and so once you are inside it's very easy to move around as there have been practically no border control inside the EU.

This is changing now.
The Satoshi Affair
Thank you for posting this. I am baffled at how some people just ignore reality and post (and believe in?) lies, even here on HN where most of us work with data.

It's amazing that fact checking and critical thinking is so low in this internet age where information is freely available for everyone.
Which is why the tax is printed clearly on the receipt.
Personally I do not like the American way of not including the tax into the listed price because it makes it harder to shop with a limited amount of cash on hand.
Tor torpedoed Tesco Bank app won't run with privacy tool installed
It might be because richer people can take more time out of their daily routine to complain, but I'm not actually sure it is fair to say that the situation in South Africa is stable. I've read about lots of lynchings, forced deportations and other difficulties for refugees, many of which are not officially recognised.

Syrians who make it to Western Europe and achieve refugee status can probably expect to be treated very well.

But there are also far fewer of them than South Africa has had to accommodate.

There are no easy comparisons.
why, would you prefer there not to be a search engine that can find (almost) anything you need in less than a second for (almost) no cost to you and then takes the money it earns from you and pours it into major projects with no promise of revenue?

Comments like these seem to suggest that Google or Facebook are the worst and one spends their time better somewhere other than IT. I really just don't see it.
Are you guys living in the same world that I am?

Nerdy geek-type intellectuals are at the BOTTOM of the totem pole in terms of respect and human worth in the 21st century. They are ostracized, bullied in school, most are awkward virgins (intellect is the anti-thesis when it comes to being a "womanizer" or "stud") and it's only getting worse as society progresses.
But how much does each user earn them now (with ads only)?

If they make $16 billion a quarter, then assuming they have about 1 billion users, that's about $5 per month per user.

I just wish I could pay that to get rid of all the ads, and the creepy user-tracking.
Most tech people make less than 100k.
I am not so sure that Facebook is in a better position. Aren't most of their revenue also primarily tied to advertising?
SQRL stops the Internet's reliance on passwords today
JavaScript in one picture
Yeah. And it proves that ether is valuable. And that it is important to debug and beta test in small scale.
EEE Integer Factorization RSA Security
Yes, but taking pitch calls in Coupa is going to be hard if you live in Spain. Being able to just walk down the street to your pitch calls is the point of living in Palo Alto.
This data is incomplete. For Germany it says that they had 440.000 asylum applications in 2015 even though Merkel herself said that they took in over a million in 2015.

Apparently it was 1.1 million registered refugees for Germany alone in 2015. Of these only 476.649 submitted a formal asylum request. Edit: And you can bet that there's a large number of migrants that didn't even register, the minister of interior in Germany even said that there's an issue with a large number of refugees of whom no one knows who they are, where they are and what they are doing here.

Who knows what the rest of them is doing here if they do not even bother to submit an asylum request.

So please don't tell me how 60% of asylum seekers are real refugees, the majority doesn't even try because they are probably smart enough to know that there's no chance that they'll be accepted.

Source: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/fluechtlingskrise/deutsch... (German, sorry - but this is one of the largest pro government online media)
Not to mention, You have to go out of the country to get your visa stamped every 3 yrs. Its nerve-racking to say the least. The guy in front of me at the line in american consulate in Ottawa was begging "visa officer" saying 'I have a house. I need to go back and sell all of it and move my kids', not quite sure what exactly transpired but I got a feeling this was not an uncommon occurrence. I had friends you were stuck in Mexico for 3 months for some kind of 'verification' and consequently lost their jobs.

What decent person would put up with this humiliation uless you are from a really horrid country that you don't want to go back to.
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And this is what's wrong with the law profession generally. It's seen as "lucrative" instead of as "a calling." No modern law school will ever create an Oliver Wendell Holmes or inspire a fictional Atticus Finch.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to have case sensitive function names where the names are allowed to be identical but not identical in function?

Major fuck-up there.

That should have never passed the concept stage, nor the review stage.

Function names should describe what a function does.
Thanks for pointing that out. It's clearly been very heavily politicised.
They even inspired a fire protectant foam:

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9810/16/t_t/pampering.fire/i...

http://firegel.com/
yompers888 wrote:

> Doesn't Tibet lack a certain penchant for poorly aimed rockets and human shields in a way that detracts from this analogy?

Tibetians have tried various tactics, including violence, to oppose Chinese rule but none of them have been effective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_and_uprisings_in_Tibe...

This gets back to what I say in my original post, slow and steady achievement of the stronger ethnic groups goals over a period of decades in the face of ineffective resistance by the weaker ethnic group.
Newyork state senate passes anti-airbnb bill
In Sweden it's 25% but some goods have a special VAT of 12.5% instead.
So the government should ignore the concerns and wishes of the people (or "people" as you refer to them), because they know what is just better than anyone. When, for instance, the government decides to engage in war despite lacking public support, you would of course approve of that. Or should they only concern themselves with democratic principles when you disagree with their decision?
I share your concern, but how else does radical change on this level happen without a wave of rockstars (as seen with UK's GDS)? One or two isolated rockstars, or even a team of a-bit-above-average engineers, have a negligible impact when faced with a bureaucracy. Their efforts are hampered and their results can easily be dismissed as noise.

Is a team of rockstars alone sufficient? No. It still needs the kind of empathetic engineers who want genuine improvement and will work to permeate their efforts through the organisation. Rockstars by definition are outstanding technically, but their mindsets can vary widely. Rockstars of the precocious, arrogant, variety aren't suited for this, but others (like Matt Cutts imo) are.
While you could say that the invasions of Afganistan and Iraq were misguided or detrimental, they are in a different legal category than outright annexation or territory, which also violated a specific clause in an agreement signed between Ukriane and Russia.
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If I understood it correctly the letter claims Ethereum wrote in the end user contract that anything ammissible by the contract is the contract. So not upholding that would be breach of contract.