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Because Google and Facebook waste too many resources on keeping their market share.

For instance, if Google search took 2 seconds per search instead of 100ms, they would lose their market share. But that difference in performance is what is keeping 95% of their highly educated workforce busy.

It is just a worthless arms race, and I hope that people start to realize this.
" I do believe this is a big part of why they call us millennials the entitled generation. We literally expect everything for free. From our game of thrones TV shows to our favorite blogs, podcasts and websites. They all exist to entertain us and fuck them for wanting to make a dollar off their hard work. How dare they... "

Wow, you took the words right out of my mouth. I wholeheartedly agree.

I remember talking with a non-technical friend of mine about Bandcamp and how he was annoyed that his popular free album had hit the limit of free downloads on the site. He would have to either pay Bandcamp or start charging for the album. Presumably Bandcamp does this because the cost of their infrastructure and work is not free and this is a way to get some revenue. But all my friend could say was "how greedy they are!" as if one spent their life acquiring a hard skill just to do free work for you and your band.

Its a more nuanced entitlement, where we millenials understand that it took hard work to make something, but after all, doesn't Google, Facebook, etc. do it "for free" as far as the end user is concerned?
What a shitshow. These people don't need "advanced static analysis tools" [1], they need a big old bag of clue.

1:
Developers, cryptographers and computer scientists should note that any high-level tools (including IDEs, formal verification, debuggers, symbolic execution) that make it easy to write safe smart contracts on Ethereum are prime candidates for DevGrants, Blockchain Labs grants and String’s autonomous finance grants.
Modelling financial contracts in an imperative event-driven paradigm just seems like an accident waiting to happen.

EDIT: To the downvoters, if you disagree, I would very much like to understand why, please reply with a comment.

EDIT2: My position is that it is very difficult to reason about correctness and maintain invariants in a highly imperative setting. IMHO, it would be more desirable to use a declarative, or functional language. There are many successful commercial applications of functional programming to financial contracts, e.g. Lexifi, which is based on a subset of OCaml and various in-house solutions developed by banks. Using a functional programming language would also mean the code is far more amenable to formal methods and static verification. One new startup I was very impressed with, aestheticintegration.com, has had success rewriting financial algorithms in a functional programming language in order to prove and verify numerous correctness properties about them. It is a huge shame that folk do not reach straight for the functional programming toolbox when faced with these types of problems.
It is easy to mostly avoid tracking: use a separate web browser for using Google services. I use Chrome for Google, Facebook, and Twitter. For everything else on my laptop I like Firefox with Privacy Badger, and I discard cookies when the browser closes. For iPad and phone, use private browser windows.
Especially in code that supposedly describes contracts.
And then air ?
Now, China is not in war, but, unluckily, as a Chinese, I have a lower living standard than a European, do I automatically get a chance to be let in Europe and enjoy whatever benefit the Europeans have? Since when has economics stopped working in Euroupe?
You say "refugees" but I only saw one such refugee mentioned in your link. I certainly didn't see enough to know if it was 0.1% of the refugees or 10% or some other number.

Now, suppose you are a refugee, a mechanical engineer fluent in Arabic and professionally competent in English.

Would you have a preference for a country like Sweden or Germany where you are more likely to get a job with your skills? Or would you equally accept being told to move to some other "safe country" where there is high unemployment, little demand for mechanical engineering jobs, and few English speakers?

How do you express that preference without your refugee status being questioned?
I see where you're coming from, but most people work for a paycheck rather out of higher level motives (like "I was meant to be doing this"). By the same measure, all professions would be "wrong".
The cost of ingredients for coffee are a small fraction of the cost, whether you charge $2 or $5 for it. There is a student-run café at my university, all staff are unpaid volunteers, they serve really good coffee for 50 euro-cents (~55¢ US). The beans are from a high-end local roasting house, and it's in a real cup. Milk (whole/soy) is included. Coffee is cheap.
I use such washable diapers for my kid since day one. he's two year old, and I've probably saved a ton of landfill (800 days * 5 per-day * 250gr (??) = 1 Ton (!!!).

What's scarier is how plastic diapers are pushed in the developing world, specifically India - where there is no proper landfills, which escalates this problem considerably.

Modern washable diapers aren't what you parents used, they are slick and simple to use. highly recommended.
You are absolutely correct. The ones that get the most worth and respect are actually the middlemen who are good communicators between the "geeky" types and the zero knowledge "corporate" types. Whether the middlemen deserve it or not, I don't know but such are the things in the real world.

In an IT company, for instance, you will always find the project managers and even supervisors getting all the glory and respect whereas the programmers and architects are shunned on the side.
>60% according to some are migrants not refugees.

"according to some"

Wow, I was never convinced more.
Yet another article to beat procrastination. I like the idea of rewiring the limbic system though.
As a programmer, the idea of a VR headset with infinite space for my windows is very appealing. Mix this with gesture based input devices and a pinch of voice control and you have something awesome.
That's more tricky, ethereum claims anything permitted by the code is the contract.
You buy the propaganda line then? Are the other 40% IS in your book?

By your argument we should just let them all sleep in a ditch next to the border of the country they fled, because that's good enough? That is more or less what is happening now.

Tell me. If Britain were engaged in a shooting war, would you consider the Isle of Man safe? Or would you go further?
>It's a funny thing with monks. Quite a few are former businessman who want to try something more spiritual for a change but still are wealthy.

So mostly phonies being tourists in spiritual-land?
Also, disposable diapers delayed potty training 1 year; cloth diapers help to deal better with it: http://www.thirstiesbaby.com/blog/how-disposable-diapers-hav...
>> Words are the fundamental unit of thinking,

Woa. Biig assumption.

I totally agree that text is "fundamental" indeed to our ability to communicate our mind-state, but text is not our mind state and it's a huge leap from "I can communicate with text" to "I'm thinking in text". You might as well assume video frames are fundamental units of thinking.
Chutlu(?) near Antarctica. At least 50 meters long
A 25% increase in 10 years is not double digit inflation / year. It's around 2% / year.
>So if I unjustly imprison you, and the only way for you to escape is by killing me

Completely wrong analogy. The killing doesn't help you escape at all, it just angers the jailer (who you can't touch anyway).
The same legitimacy every other large government has. At least they only piss in their own pool -- not mess with peoples all around the world.
I foresee large-ish autonomous battery packs in the form of cars, rather than trucks, simply because they can go to more places at once.
I think you must be referring to base pay, not bonus or equity, which is a very large part of total compensation.
This was the exact reason why I applied for a Canadian PR and moved to Canada. The PR process on "express entry" takes roughly 6 to 8 months. The only issue is that the job market and pay in Canada is not as hot (compared to the US market). This is a small price to pay for peace of mind and having the ability to start your own company without any kind of immigration hassle.
And share the energy from regenerative breaking downhill, and much more.
You are advocating non-violent means, I think that is great. The main way to channel your energies into non-violent means of ending the situation in Israel-Palestine is to support the BDS movement. You can find out more here: https://bdsmovement.net/ It is based on the similar non-violent campaign against South Africa apartheid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Afric...

Be warned those that the BDS movement is under attack though because it is viewed as a bigger threat to Israel's occupation than terrorism. Israel actually bars the top non-violent pro-Palestinian activist from leaving Israel recently as the BDS movement has had too much success.

Great interview by Glenn Greenwald:

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/13/interview-with-bds-advoc...
What exactly did Dishero do? I don't understand from the article.
1. Visual feedback on the assigned weights would probably be helpful.

2. Not sure how well bounded absolute weighting would work over the long term. If I complete a 20% weight task, If I have a 25% task existing tasks have to be juggled.

3. It's not clear what happens after all the values are entered.

4. Good luck.
So instead of doing medical research yourself, you do IT work for a big company, so that its money can buy medical research?
>Your point of view, the powerful ethnic groups win and the weak lose and that is how the world works, justifies slavery, South African apartheid

Or a legal system, where blacks are hugely over-represented, the takeover of native american land, Puerto Rico, etc.

"Universal human rights" take usually less precedence to "my country, right or wrong".
How does it prove any value?
>For example in Austria only about 20% of refugees are given asylum status, the others are simply found to be illegal immigrants.

[citation needed]

Official stats of May [0] saying 75% of the applications for asylum are granted.

[0]: http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Asylwesen/statistik/files/2016/...
Are you living in the same world as the rest of us? Sure, there are people who fulfill the stereotype that you've repeated here. But among the nerdy people I've known you'll find some great people with rich, full lives. People who spend their work lives searching for evidence of dark matter can also climb mountains and have great family lives. Telemetry engineers who spend their days working on RF systems can spend their lunch breaks learning sign language or brushing up on their knowledge of Korean.

Those are just two of the people I've worked with.

And look around. The most popular movies are based on comics. The most popular books are fantasy (Harry Potter) or science fiction dystopia (Hunger Games). Video games often have budgets on par with blockbuster films. Where is the social stigma on being a "nerd"? Largely gone, or at least it seems to me.
"More than half of those fleeing to Europe from the Middle East and Africa are economic migrants and not asylum seekers fleeing the horrors of war in Iraq or Syria, according to first vice-president of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans.

Quoting what he said were new, unpublished, figures from the EU border agency, Frontex, Mr Timmermans said: “More than half of the people now coming to Europe come from countries where you can assume they have no reason whatsoever to ask for refugee status … more than half, 60 percent.”

Those 60 percent were predominantly from north Africa, mainly Moroccans or Tunisians who were leaving their own countries for “economic reasons” and attempting to travel to Europe through Turkey, the former Netherlands foreign minister told the Dutch national broadcaster, NOS."

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/most-fleeing-to...
"Being able to move all the way to Germany, Denmark or Sweden isn't exactly being fleeing war anymore."

That is because of how international travel works. Many of those people would love to hop on a plane, land in country X, and request refugee status. But the flight system is set up to prevent that. Only those with a visa (or visa waiver) are allowed on the plane.

It used to be that refugees could travel by passenger ship. Look at the refugees from Germany who came to the US because of the second world war. Including the MS St. Louis where the refugees were denied entry to Cuba, Canada, and the United States.

We have no real passenger fleets, so that is no longer possible.

The only option left is to travel by land.

"60% according to some are migrants not refugees."

Do you have any references for that statement? Even if true, millions of people are refugees.
As i'm sure I'm not the first one to observe, a (better?) more accurate statement: "American society increasingly mistakes corporate heads of (tech?) companies and/or large amounts of money for intelligence..."
Well if the clause is not to take them to court, and they want to take them to court, then yes they do want to go to court to find out. But I do see your point.
So, you think, if dropped into, say, Uzbekistan, you would immediately understand their language and bureaucratic processes? Because that seems to be your expectation of migrants.

By any chance, do you support pegida? Or are they too left wing?
I am saying that because they are very specific in what country they apply for asylum. Only tiny fraction of people who pass through Greece applied for asylum here. Not even Hungaria and Austria(!) are good enough. Most people want to Germany, Sweden or similar country.

And somehow Turkey is not considered safe country. But Ukraine with actual war is just fine and EU does not take refugees from there.
I have no stake in this so perhaps it is easy for me to make comments but here it is: if nobody agrees that there is any value in this currency then there is no value even if real money is involved. I could have written this a little bit better, I know.

So a hard fork is in essence the community saying that they do not accept that there is any value for them beyond a certain point. Nobody breaks any laws. The "attacker" can retain what they gained. Nothing changes. The community simply moves on to another island - it is as simple as that.

I am not a lawyer but I cannot see how someone can sue you for not wanting to do business with them purely from value perspective. Perhaps this is a bit of an extreme example but it is also as if I start suing everyone because they do not accept doing business with me while I pay them with seashells (once perhaps considered a valid tender).
Once they arrive in Turkey or Greece their lives are not threatened anymore. Where does it say that refugees can pick and choose wherever they'd like to live.

Why don't you import them to San Francisco? I guess life is even better there than in some small German town. Or how about Monaco or Disney Land?
"Camps" in Europe do exist (for all the bad imagery from the last century of European history that the word evokes), but they're chronically overwhelmed. Authorities don't want to fund them, local population often goes NIMBY for the same reasons they don't want them in the country altogether. Like prison, camps tend to amplify and reinforce bad behaviour from all sides.

> and also solve the issue of economic immigration

Yeah, like that was easy :) most immigrants actually come from failed states like Eritrea, which you just can't "fix" in any easy way. I do agree that economic migrants should be treated differently from war refugees; as in, we should find ways to power economic and social programs that would directly allow economic migrants to return. Pay them to dig holes over there, if necessary. It won't fix the country, but it should stem the flow.

War refugees should be hosted and treated humanly though. Their conflicts are often "our" direct fault and we have an obligation to treat them fairly. US/UK/France are particularly bad in this, constantly getting involved in all sorts of international diatribes while rarely (if ever) actually picking up the tab when things go to hell.
I would say the information density of text is much higher than that of video, at least for my purposes.
It looks amazing, but it's still a slum. Unsafe structures, little to no policing, no sanitation or hygiene.

Rebuilding would destroy the history, but probably be better overall for the people living there.
So much for confidence in future smart contracts in ethereum.

You have invested in an experimental 'organization' that is defined by the contract that is its code. The code supersedes any other interpretation of the contract. You have agreed to this. Now something didn't go the way you wanted it to, yet fully in line with the code, and you want to fork the entire currency to steal this 'attacker's' property.

Good luck with your fork, it will mark the official end of ethereum.
>attacks targeting civilians that go on non-stop for the last hundred years

Those go on non-stop from BOTH sides.

And statistically the side you seem to be siding with has caused 100 times the casualties --doing those "brutal attacks targeting civilians" with full military force, not ad-hoc weaponry (plus they have amassed all this land areas they didn't use to have). Or is that just a minor detail?
I took impute the US credit card agency's taking forever to deliver the US a safer card alternative like Europe's "chip and pin(EMV)" system to just plain laziness and a lack of desire to invest.

I believe Europe has had this chip and pin technology for something like 20 years so we just finally upgraded to 20 year old technology.

For some reason the credit card cabal decided that after all this time that instead giving the US "the chip and pin which would be compatible with the EU system they gave us "chip and pin" which incidentally takes much longer to process a card, and I am almost never asked to actually sing my transaction. You have to ask WTF on all this?

The rational I hear about why the US went with "chip and sign" rather than "chip and pin" is that they feared that US card holders if they have to memorize pin numbers they would likely stop using there other credit cards(lots of people in the US have 3 or 4) and just use the single one they decided to memorize. Memorizing pins was at odd with encouraging maximal credit card use.
Legally this all seems very esoteric and shaky.

Philosophically I wonder about this "the exact code defines the semantics of the DAO" clause because, well, nobody's suggesting to change the code; the fork proposals would just change how the code is interpreted.

Kind of like "this exact Java code defines the terms of the contract" but then a new version of Java makes that code behave differently...

So the clause depends not only on the Solidity code but also on the Ethereum virtual machine's interpretation of that code, and the question now is whether that interpretation is constant or mutable.

And, like, what's even the legal status of the https://daohub.org/explainer.html document? It has a list of things to which anyone who interacts with "The DAO" supposedly agrees, which seems like a typical groundless EULA and anyone who "invested" could just say "uh, I didn't agree to any of that stuff".

I'm not really making an argument, I just find it bewildering to even imagine how any of this stuff would be interpreted by lawyers.
Ah, I see. So you differentiate between the deserving poor and the undeserving poor?

Tell me, how do you tell them apart? Do they wear badges?
I think this is a really fascinating and smart argument.

But I think it loses some power when the currency is still called "ethereum", and administered by some of the same individuals who created the DAO.

Who knows what a court would think
Coffee is cheap

Rent isn't. I bet those students pay a lot less in rent every month (and quite possibly they don't pay anything at all) than what it costs a nice restaurant to rent a centrally located place.
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Why? The DAO is implicitly referencing how ethereum works, it's not specifying that directly. So changing how ethereum works should be perfectly valid, and the DAOs terms would be valid, and yet refuse to run because ethereum changed to prevent it from running.

Also, strictly speaking it's not all the same people who might be bound by the contract as those who would do the forking.
I was just using an example to refute the claim that it's possible to indemnify software creators and users against 'any consequences' via a EULA. A EULA can not indemnify you against tort.

I think your example is convoluted. Free open source software has no contract. For a contract to be legally binding it must have consideration (exchange of goods / services / promises). This is not met.

EULAs and 'Software licences' (like MIT) are't the same thing. A EULA is a legal contract between the copyright holder and the end user, containing consideration, to which the user must agree. An open source licence such as MIT is just a declaration of permissions of use, and has no consideration.

So above it seems to me you are comparing having 'no contract' to 'a contract'.

But the DAO definitively has a contract, not a licence agreement.

Now, the DAO contract basically says 'no one can be held responsible for anything' - which in my opinion is a legal fantasy, contracts can not supersede the law. Regardless of the technological hoops in between, there are real people, with a binding contract - thus there can be tort.

I do accept when ever something new comes along and case law hasn't yet settled any technical loop holes there will always be debate, but I do think this looks pretty clean cut.
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I admit that these numbers do not include people who did not apply for asylum.

But in your own source theres a chart showing the distribution of all 1.0919M registered entries.

39.2% Syrian
14.1% Afganistan
11.1% Irak

I'd say even though not all of the 1.1M register as asylum seekers (or have not yet registered). Their distribution is quite similar to that of the people who registered.
>What does ownership have to do with it, you fucking moron?

I'd say "you fucking moron" besides rude, is grounds for killing your account.

As to the question, rules on any property, including a website, are usually imposed by the owner.

That's what "ownership" has to do with it.

There are moderators, and comment and submission rules in places. Maybe you conflated HN with some kind of self-governing collective?

>That does not make him more right than any other human being. Ownership means one can impose ones will, it does not mean you are omniscient.

You wrote that again and I already answered. Nobody cares about PG being omniscient. He can impose ANY arbitrary will (right or wrong), because it's his site. He can even close it if he gets bored with it. Whether you or I find any particular rule "right" is inconsequential, as we're guests here, not even customers.
Maybe it's possible to do ad-targeting on the client.