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> But at some point it becomes too much

Yes you are correct, the point it usually becomes too much is when you, as an individual, have to begin paying it. Or in this case when a business feels it's paycheck is being affected.
Are you implying that awful poets are in fact not human?
All bets are off when we're talking about blatant violations of the law. Who's to say that "transparency" is even really transparent? What good are stricter controls when the people who are in charge of creating and enforcing them are the same people who are violating them?

My point is that this could happen with any company and is part of the risk of investing, but to imply that the shareholders should have just "demanded companies to uphold legal and moral obligations" is assigning more stupidity on the shareholders than deserved.

It usually goes without saying that shareholders expect the companies they're investing in to obey the law and not lie to them.

Like I said, this is part of the risk of investing. There's always a chance the company you are investing in is cooking their books, lying, etc..., but the risk exists with any company and there's not much you can really do to mitigate it.
Popular != Populous

More people have kostabis than have picassos. Does that make kostabi more popular?
Group punishment for the actions of a few? Pretty indefensible.

If you think it is defensible perhaps you could explain why it's just that an assembly line worker should lose his livelihood because a few folks implemented this scheme? The worker had no actual or theoretical knowledge of the "crime". Further, the worker had no way of even spotting that a "crime" was taking place.

Group punishment just adds victims.
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I was referring to the fact that the word terrorist seems to have expanded to mean "whoever I have decided to fight currently" whenever the government uses it
It's the first two words of that response I appreciate most.

The proposal was considerd. Rejected, but considered.
I wonder if hardware restraints might actually improve software. Instead of "what the hardware giveth, the software taketh away," the industry will instead begin to say, "well, this is all the performance we've got so let's make the code half the size it is right now and eliminate 50% of the bugs."
Extensive recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11929396
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Agreed on emergency fund. I'd probably even add that, once you get to 6 months, shoot for 9 or 12. Still don't have FU money, but have had periods where I've had 2 years of minimal expenses saved up, which I'd never had before (and don't now, but that's a different story). It will give you a different perspective and some mental freedom. I still stressed about work/projects, but never like I had before.

Part of that, for me, is being > 40, the notion of "3 months of savings" just doesn't feel like anywhere near enough. If I needed to go get a new job... most of my >40 yo colleagues who have looked for jobs... it's taken most of them far more than 3 months. In one case it took a friend more than 9 months, and there were moving expenses involved as well. If he'd had "3 months" and that was it... I'm not sure what situation he'd have been in by that point.
Their biggest problem is by far the US because the emissions standards are much higher in the US. But yes, they are going to need more cash.
Related but at a tangent - after a lifetime of interest in karate I came to realise that most of the stuff taught at karate is not practical.

Katas and karate punches and kicks - most of this better thought of more as dancing or ceremonial. A bit like Tai Chi - except that Tai Chi claims no real world martial value.

The myth remains however of karate being great self defence training.

Our local karate club is packed with ever more kids going every week to learn pointless moves, with parents thinking the kids are learning to defend themselves.
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Like you said, depends on the market.

Here in Seattle, whenever one of my intern friends would move in, we would first tell them to look for apartments with wave/condo internet. 60$ a month, no contract or installation fees for 100 Mbit per second internet. It hasn't gone down once in that past 4 months nor ever slowed from that speed (I can also spend an extra 20$ a month to get 1 gbit per second).
Very large groups of people are already on the other side. They are ready and have been for a while. If you can't feel the squeeze, you consider yourself extremely lucky.
1. I am not an expert here, but unless you are too I wouldn't refute claims made by peer-reviewed publications without at least offering an argument against the analysis made.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/11...
If you agree that the environment is worse off and that the environment being worse off causes more deaths, then you agree that they caused deaths. Then it becomes a question of magnitude, which they tried as best as possible to estimate.

2. There is a confidence interval around 59 in the study which doesn't include 0, so it is statistically significant according to the analysis they did. Not sure what sort of analysis would say that 59 deaths is statistically insignificant unless it was a difference between two groups, but that's not the case here.

3. There's a problem here with news articles boiling down an estimate with a wide confidence interval to a single number. There needs to be a way for the public to start understanding statistical conclusions and confidence intervals.
> that I'll be made a scapegoat if the project fails.

Not trying to be rude here, but what is the worst outcome here? What does being made a scapegoat actually mean? Will you be fired? Deported? Or just... have people at work making you feel worse than you already do? Honest question - not trying to trivialize your situation at all.
I think automated updates are fine but require user's intervention to restart. Don't restart automatically on their behalf.
I've been thinking a lot about this problem. I have at least an analogy for it.

Imagine that you have a high resolution, high fps camera. To record its feed requires a memory card that is capable of handling the data rate that the camera produces. Otherwise, the events captured by the camera are lost forever as they are flushed away by the forthgoing frames. Essentially, the problem boils down to the ability to encode the information at least as quickly as the lifetime of the information.

I believe the same thing happens in thought. We have a state of mind, an idea, that we want to share. Because we can't simply transfer whole brain states between each of us, we first need to serialize our ideas in writing or speech. That process is lossy, and possibly lengthy (or at least longer than your train of thought). In the mean time, a variety of new thoughts come to your mind, flushing the original idea.

So following this analogy, a solution to the problem of lost ideas would be to have higher bandwidth means of expressing and recording ideas. Personally this problem annoys me quite a lot in a variety of incarnations, and I think advances in Human Computer Interactions will directly address this.

For instance, consider a program. Sometimes I have a full blown picture of the program I want to build in mind. Then along the many hours it takes to serialize this into a programming language, I battle myself, attempting to keep the idea fresh. There many steps along the way that contribute to the serialization cost:

- The abstractions of the programming language.
- The step from "programming language" to "abstract syntax tree".
- The letters I have to type.
- The movement of my fingers on the keyboard.
- The translation of my brain from program construct, to
structure, to sentences, to words, to tokens, to letters,
to movement of my fingers, to keypresses.

There's many steps in this process that could potentially be removed to reduce the cost of serialization.

* * *

So yes, I think this is a real problem, and I think that it can be addressed with better tools and techniques.
I like equality before the law, but why do people always want to raise punishments to the maximum level?

Why not lower instead? Abolish the fairly newly invented crime of lying to police while not under oath instead?

Then again, when we're all imprisoned for life, we will undeniably have achieved some kind of equality...
Actually yes, a carbon tax that priced in externalities such as excess deaths would be a great idea and many people in this thread would support it.
You're conflating religious persecution with your neighbors running a hotel. There's a difference. Zoning laws have existed for a long time, and unless you're pretty far towards the libertarian extreme, nobody really has a problem with them existing (they could be better, but that's a subtle point not a blunt hammer like you're trying to use)
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The method for the paper that is quoted in the Wikipedia article can be found starting on page 2 (the full text is available for free): http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/11.... It's three and a half pages long and includes many citations to other published articles.
Do you have a definition of culture? The argument for, or against, preserving it depends heavily on that definition.

I am from India. Millennia of foreign trade and coexistence with other religions yet preserved a cultural identity within most subgroups of Hinduism. This cultural identity relates to seasonal festivals, religious festivals, ceremonies related to events of life (such as birth of a child and marriage), etc.

During the last three decades, or so, we have been experiencing a new wave of globalisation. It has resulted in a growing trend of identity and relationships getting determined solely based on economic factors. This relentless drive for financial growth has largely relegated the cultural legacy to the fringes.

One of the most visible social consequences is that of alienation. Common gatherings and celebrations are rare except in the cases of two or three high-profile festivals. Neighbours do not know one another; they do not talk to one another except for a mechanical "Hello"; they do not have a few moments for one another's needs.

Culturally, these people have - if at all - erred on the side of being "nosy", not alien. But, that is the new reality.

Similarly, those parts of culture that relate to the softer or the subtler aspects of Nature are dying a rapid death. Examples include the harvest festival (makara sankranti) and celebrating Sun (ratha saptami). A natural consequence of this is that people are losing touch with Nature, an appreciation for it, and spend most of their time indoors. There is little to no physical exercise outdoors.

It can be argued that gyms and other exercise regimen should be followed, etc. However, I see more value in having a culture that seamlessly integrates them into everyday life.

Finally, I am at a loss to understand how exactly this relates to racism. Any such connotations have to be tacked on; they are not intrinsic to culture.
NYC has a population density of 10,831 people/km^2.

San Francisco has a population density of 7,124 people/km^2.

I'm not sure what point you were trying to make, but I don't think anybody really wants to plan the rural areas of the US in the image of Hong Kong.
I think the end goal is to get more programmers out there so they can bring hiring costs down. That's what happened to other well paid professions (ie law and pharmacy). The other strategy is to bring in more immigrants.
I was immediately very interested by one of the references, which extensively compares five different versions of Nitobe's book: the original (English) and 4 translations (in Spanish, French and Japanese). They study the overall texts as well as side-by-side passages in detail, and show how the seemingly innocuous translations are each tainted by the motives and environment of each translator and author. I'm always fond of translation studies and this one is captivating.

English version here (the original is in Spanish... we'll have to trust the (apparently uncredited) translator on this one)

http://www.erudit.org/revue/ttr/2010/v23/n2/1009160ar.html
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Under your theory of the crime it was some form of negligent homicide? And you want to hold all the receptionists accountable (lose of job) because they negligently did/failed to do what exactly?
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This argument will seem a bit more empathetic if you don't consider it as killing 59 people outright, but increasing risk factors so that on average 59 additional deaths occurred(unclear over what timeframe and what the methodology is). Spread out over the world population (we share the same air) that is a relatively short amount of lifetime.

On the other hand, consuming more fuel, making car ownership more expensive etc also carries real costs. People can't get work done, spend more of that lifetime tAking less efficient means of transportation, doing less enjoyable things like waiting on a greyhound bus, etc.

The sensationalist 'caused x deaths' headlights are very hard to reason With and usually one sided. That being said, car emissions are still a problem and there is a reason for these(and other public health) rules -- the response should perhaps be a little bit less emotional though. ( there are plenty of scandals that are probably more worthy of this emotional response, e.g. Illegal dumping or contamination, unhealthy foods, antibiotic overuse, etc.)
"the world has enjoyed an unprecedented run of peace, prosperity and cooperation the last 25 years"

and publications wonder why their readers are running. i can't even run fast enough from utter shit like that. or am i wrong and the world only consists of a few states in europe?!

you just cannot make this up.
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>I'm asking people to consider the fundamental rights of others and to notice that they're at risk.

This may come as a shock but you'd be surprised at how little anyone cares about the "fundamental rights of others" when their own livelihood and the well being of their families are at risk regardless of what part of the political spectrum they're on.

This is not an attack on you nor sarcasm, just a blunt statement of fact. The left (of which I am a part) cannot, can not, ask people to "put up with the status quo for a bit more" in the current political environment. That will lead to Brexits, President Trump, and whatever lies beyond. Instead of berating them for being "uneducated" and "voting against their own interests", we on the left must remember our role as champions of the working class and relieve their economic suffering _now_, "fundamental rights of others" be damned, or we will all pay the price.
Exterior walls are common areas owned by the landlord:

"OTARD rules do not apply to common areas that are owned by a landlord, a community association or jointly by condominium owners. These common areas may include the roof or exterior walls of a multiple dwelling unit."
I'm genuinely conflicted about this. On the one hand, I'm all for more housing. It can drive prices down (although not a lot I've seen has ever driven prices down in Manhattan) but at the same time, were I a property owner, I'd want to be able to do with that property as I wish. They're obviously income properties, so why are we mad about them making income in this way?

I guess I'm asking whether or not income properties either a) are already regulated as such (and laws are
being flaunted) or b) the desire here is to create laws that tightly scope what a property owner can do with their non-primary residentially-zoned property?

I can't seem to form an opinion yet, so I'm mostly asking for yours, I guess. I suppose I need a bit more education on the debate.

Edit: this isn't where I meant to put this reply. But it's here now, so, if it's slightly out-of-thread, apologies.

Edit 2: if it's easier, can someone point me to a cogent and not-lopsided explanation of the debate?
It's the hosts they're talking about, not the guests, which would need licenses.

I'm fairly sure you have to have a license to serve breakfast as a business. You also have to be inspected by the health department. Same goes for running a hotel. That stuff all costs money, and it's not up to a private business (AirBnB) to determine how to enforce such laws, even though their existence does change the landscape.
> In this case, it was very hard to detect

Was it? The researches who detected it didn't seem like they were doing anything that special. My impression is that nobody had bothered to check before.
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My so called vision is not based on notions of anti corporatism. It is a method to actually fund such a massive undertaking of a new city, without turning it into a huge shopping mall dystopia owned by the top 1%.

Im sure the research will confirm that its a bad idea to put walmart, mcdonalds, and starbucks on a spaceship. The research will also confirm that if xyz company wants a spot on this (spaceship city?) The price will be the same as in my vision.

To conclude, it is a waste of resources if they dont realize the need for distributed power, wealth, and health amongst the people. A huge waste. But its not wasteful if we colonize space one day..youre kidding me.
Using laws to bias housing stock towards owner-occupancy is explicit economic segregation. Owning a home requires wealth that many families don't have, and they should have an equal right to all neighborhoods.

Segregation is the default in American housing policy to the point that most people treat segregation laws as normal, justifiable things. Every time we make a decision about homes, we should consider the impact it has on different kinds of people.
Man Silicon Valley companies are living in a parallel dimension!

They collectively think they have the LUXURY to hire employees that are in love with their random idea

And they collectively think that the employees have the LUXURY to play russian roulette with the compensation terms

Let's address that, because these factors have are completely disjointed with the success of the company and the employees' INTEGRITY (instead of "aligned incentive") to deliver amazing products and code
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Not really.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/realestate/priced-out-o...
And your argument degenerated to stupidity. Do you think there's no difference in effort it takes to do well for your employees when you have to argue with an employee unfriendly person on your board, rather than having employee neutral or employee friendly people on your board? What you said is not grounded in reality, and this topic is super important for people considering different employers.
Yes, that was my implicit point. We can go to extremes, but we don't have to. We can be reasonable about things. (I am, by the way, such a renter).
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VW did something in the US that's explicitly illegal under US federal law (employ a "defeat device" to disable emissions equipment outside of testing). For the most part the other auto manufacturers seem to be tuning/optimizing their emissions equipment specifically to pass the test cycles but are not going so far as to outright disable it outside of them like VW did.
Wow. If only people knew. Just get a better job and save for four years. Goes back to my original point, doesn't it?

You are essentially agreeing with me, because these are the exact measures most must go through -- only things don't always work out like that. Your computer breaks. You lose a job. You have to pay for other crap. Trade off after trade off for a game that cost the same as a big budget film. It's ludicrous.
Something that also doesn't help with a lot of intersections is dense street parking (blocks line of sight for approaching traffic). It's problematic in cities and getting worse in suburbs. The street I grew up on, was generally empty of parked cars making it a great place to ride or skate in the 1980s. Now, that same street has loads of parked cars - people have second cars, use the street instead of their garage, or their adult children have cars.

Roundabouts would also drastically help many US cities currently relying on all-way stops.
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Clarifications of data and interpretations of studies like this which have political ramifications, this takes time. It takes time to track down and read original studies to compare the conclusions (and sometimes worse, the headline) of the journalist.

This is why I read HN's political content.

Thank you!
Loved this and I completely agree with most of the points you're making. What happened to wonder and boredom?
What's your current system? Do you use a smartphone? Intentionally disconnect for periods of time?
ES clusters will fail on the loss of a single node if you aren't running any replicas on your shards, but that's not really ES's fault. I've occasionally had a node just wig out and need to be restarted, but that's like a once-a-year thing, and I'm working on a ~TB cluster that processes a ridiculous number of writes - this isn't an underworked cluster by any means. As long as your cluster discovery mechanism is set up properly, adding and removing nodes from the cluster is about as easy as it gets. I'm certainly not saying that your experience wasn't valid, but my own experience with it has been that it's remarkably easy to manage.

ES was pretty brittle in the pre-1.x days, but from 1.0 onward it's quite easy to work with. The logging is dense, but that's because it's thorough - a feature I really quite appreciate.
I am from Brazil. Here around 1950 the government deliberately gave priority to roads over railroads and rivers as a way to attract car factories, hoping to get their taxes and create employment.

Currently in Brazil the laws about import cars are extremely draconian, and taxes are overall sky high, crappy local made cars are frequently 2 times the EU or US price of the same, but higher quality model.

People still get in terrible debts, paying sometimes interest that totals several times the principal, to buy cars anyway, not because they are useful, but because frequently they are the only choice. For example in Rio de Janeiro, because of the Olympics, the government deliberately canceled public transportation routes connecting poor areas to the touristic areas, forcing people of poor areas to use cars, specially because parts of the route are impossible to cross on foot (mountains with no hiking trails, with the passage being road tunnels)

Or that for the world cup, the government declined several train proposals in favour of making "light train over road" routes, where you just build gigantic roads on pillars and place buses on them.
There's nothing that stops setting the speed limit on a highway to 25 MPH and allowing non-motorized transit. In San Francisco they did that to a highway along the waterfront, and vehicular traffic still moves fine.
> Do you think shareholders of a company like VW, which includes pretty much everyone with a retirement plan, shoulder _all_ the responsibility?

No. That's why I said "a degree of culpability".
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David Campos' poor analogy has pretty much zero relevance to the case at hand.