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Short answer, almost no country allows working unless you have a work permit. People working remotely are usually on a tourist visa or maybe a retirement or marriage visa. Available visas and enforcement vary by country. Sitting in a hotel room or apartment or coffee shop working is not likely to attract attention from immigration authorities, the laws are to prevent foreigners taking jobs from locals. Keep your business to yourself and don't blab to everyone that you are doing online work, no one will know.

I've heard from a few people who have had their papers and laptop examined at immigration for evidence that they are working but this seems to be rare. The reports I heard were Canada, UK, and Thailand. The more computer stuff you cart around the more suspicious it might look. Everyone travels with a laptop these days. Keep your work stuff in the cloud, look like another tourist posting to Facebook, you'll be fine.
Looking for Matrix vs Jabber. Is there any comparison document?

Also I was just trying to implement our own Telegram Server to take advantage of Free Telegram Clients available.

Can anyone compare Telegram with Matrix. (Except the Federated part).
How about recycling it? We won't need another wind turbine if people stop looking for excuses to keep old and less power efficient devices up & running.
The closure compiler is one of these engineering secrets that I wish more people knew about. The advanced compilation with dead code elimination [0] is insane. It needs a bit of extra work on top to fully utilise but you get a payoff that you can't achieve with other minifiers.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tuto...
> ...we fight, it's in our nature.

Do we perform any action that is not "in our nature"? Do you feel the same way about slavery which, until relatively recently, was the natural order of things?
The appropriate course of action is to get a refund for the defective goods and move on with your life.
Here's the thing. Chaotic systems with no negative feedback always diverge. If you put a microphone in a room full of speakers, with no one to turn down the volume and nothing to switch off the microphone, the white noise will always blow the speakers.

Filter bubbles are exactly that. They are the social equivalent of a microphone pointing straight at the speakers.

I'll be honest, when I look at Brexit, Trump, and all of the countless loudness that has somehow eclipsed the quiet majority, I don't ask myself "What responsibility do we have to prevent a Trump presidency?", I ask myself, "How much of this is our fault?"
Google also has consumer-facing customer service reps all around the globe. I am part of the team that builds their tools.
I'm not surprised; I'd be more surprised if it actually went to /dev/null at this point (as opposed to being screened and possibly forwarded for a response.)

As late as 2011, Steve Jobs kept the same public email address: sjobs@apple.com. (There's a collection at http://stevemail.tumblr.com) Some of the replies came within minutes of the originating message, so I wouldn't be surprised if he mostly dealt with the incoming mail himself, as opposed to having it pre-screened. None of those messages are near the length of the Bill Gates replies.
Does it really matter what their motivations were if they did it, though? They now have the ability to target ads/content, and they use it. The fact that they would've before if they could doesn't really change that they didn't and now they do.
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Pakistan has tumbled so down, that its impossible to apologise for, but author did commit sin of comparing india as if the situation in both countries were similar. India has as many muslims as pakistan, yet there hasn't been a single incidence of large scale sectarian violence directed against them in last decade, in Pakistan its a monthly occurrence.

Regarding vote. What vote? The sham vote pulled by an outgoing congress MP in a parliament session that was obstructed by his own party members. The ones who refused a vote (and haven't still) on important economic & tax legislations. It was his own party with him as a minister that was in power for several years when the initial supreme court decision was made. And that the biggest obstacle to indian parliament passing any gay rights legislation would not be BJP but rather from smaller parties which are trying to appease minority religious groups. While section 377 gets all the attention, the Indian parliament is also working on a transgender rights bill, which given indian context and historical discrimination faced by them is of higher a importance. Indian politics due to the fact that its a functioning democracy is complicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Transgender_Persons_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_rate
Exactly, nothing about this was "new", it takes trust to be a leader. WOW! This was a plug for a book.
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What's strange about this at all? The pro-growth mentality is consistent: anyone can come, if they can afford it.

The anti-growth mentality is incoherent: it was fine for me to move here 20 years ago, but how dare tech workers try to do the same thing!
That's nice, but is Matrix going anywhere? There are so many of these federated social systems now (Diaspora, Urbit, Gnu Social etc.) with few users. (And they don't interoperate with each other, which is a lack.)

Maybe we just need some federated system that's a directory only. All it does is help you find people and resources, after which they speak end to end.
Personal attacks are not welcome here. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12027155 and marked it off-topic.
My first thought was, "oh, reminds me of the SEAL's 40% rule... so if they're trained to ignore that limit, why don't they get hurt?" Then, in first google result [1], I read this:

“I first met “SEAL” at a 100-mile run in San Diego and I was running this race as part of a six-person relay team with friends and he was running the entire race by himself,” Itzler said.

“Who is this guy? I’ve never seen anything like it. And during the race, I kept an eye on him and around mile 70 — he weighed probably 260 pounds, which is quite large for an ultra runner — he had broken all the small bones in both of his feet and had kidney damage and he finished the race.”

So... yeah, this makes
Me think maybe I'll try harder at listening to my body (fwiw, I've screwed up arms/hands twice in past decade by pushing through fatigue).

[1] http://thehustle.co/40-percent-rule-navy-seal-secret-mental-...
> The trick is to make urban areas attractive ...

Other people can be a source of comfort, education, assistance and enrichment. But, other people can also prove to be a great source of annoyance, stress, competition, and fear.

Maybe an even more important trick than making things attractive in shared urban spaces is making all the new arrivals get along with and trust the existing people in the city, and vice versa.

But it doesn't look like the law gives cities what they need to ensure such an outcome. In order to promote urban productivity and tranquility in a nation where people are free to settle anywhere, there's a case to be made for giving local communities more, not less, control.
Far as I remember, that Audi had pedals that were narrower than usual and closer than usual. So it's not about the customers being histrionic, more like somebody in engineering not really understanding what he was doing.
> But that doesn't mean I can't be mad as hell about it.

You can, but please don't do it here. Tirades are destructive to thoughtful, reflective conversation, which is what the site is for.

If you're hot under the collar, please wait until you cool down before posting. That goes for all of us. We have to stop being reflexive before we can become reflective.
> Apartments and other attached units are now so expensive, and prices rising so steadily, that the logical thing to do is let them sit empty.

I highly doubt this is going on over any long period of time. If there's a bubble like this, it'll pop.

Why do you think these new apartments are luxury apartments? It's because living in your city is a luxury that people with enough money are paying for. If they didn't exist, people would be paying even more for living spaces that do exist. So, build new apartments and prices go up. But don't build new apartments, and prices go up more.

The most reliable way to get affordable housing (besides a lottery or waiting list, which doesn't solve the problem) is to have built new housing 30 years ago.
Taxing land is ideal. It's easy to collect, mostly held by already rich people, and there's zero economic deadweight loss.

(Actually, there's even an economic benefit to a land tax, as the tax encourages more efficient use. A _negative_ deadweight loss.)
Or he was just wrong.

Maybe the simplest understanding of his statements is that he simply didn't know of what he spoke. Or maybe he was telling a fib. Either of those two options seem more likely than some convoluted debate as to the common understanding of the word "secure".
You mention Florida, California, Arizona, and Colorado.

The only two acceptable places from that list (that don't have absolutely loony laws in my opinion) are Florida and Arizona.

California is one of the worst places in the world for firearms ownership. Colorado has those silly magazine capacity bans.

For anything remote with a decent amount of land (~5 acre) you'll easily pay >50k in Arizona. You won't find of anything like that in Florida.

So that leaves Arizona and unfortunately I'd rather not cook while sitting on a tar road. It's just crazy hot.

I'd much rather look into a place like Alaska (which is currently the most obvious place for me to look into moving). That's my current "plan" for when I'm finally going to retire.....

First things first, I'm going to try and get through college!

But in general, yes I already know of a great in United States place to go: Alaska. That being said all of my life training up from now has told me something about planning. Being in an "engineering" field I live by "one is none, two is one" and not having a backup plan for if something goes wrong with (all of) Alaska... it just seems wrong to me.

That's why I wish that there were more places like that. I feel really sick to the core without a fallback.
These things are not so simple. Even in that places where they build baby, build! There is inequality. Brazil, China, etc. Brazil is diverse, China is pretty homogenous, both have large inequalities. It's not a one dimensional problem.
Also take a look at the feminist movement. A large chunk of them assume that anyone who calls themselves "anti-SJW" is batshit insane and also wants ridiculous things like "muslim-free zones". I doubt such a movement could have popped up without the filter bubble artificially dividing people on the internet. The filter bubble silently manipulates how people think, in a very destructive manner.

I agree with you that filter bubbles are a huge problem. I also feel like I see more and more arguments about ... not the facts, but what opinions each named group actually has or endorses. There's so much "THIS ONE IDIOT SHOWS WHAT FEMINISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE" and "TRUMP SUPPORTERS LITERALLY WANT TO <bla>". I don't know how much that's been the case historically and whether it's an increasing trend, but it seems like it happens a lot. My experience has been that there's a lot of reasonable people in most groups, and then a few idiots that ruin it for everyone.

How do we mend that gap? How do you persuade people to hang out with people from a group they believe are "batshit insane" or "inherently aggressive" or other rubbish like that?
Reminded me of Julie Snyder's ten month battle with MCI over immense charges she never incurred. Agents seemed to make up new offices and procedures to assure her that her issue had been elevated and this time it would be different.

It was only fully resolved after she put the story on This American Life.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/t...
> Auckland is in New Zealand

Well I guess it's good I'll be staying America. Gives me the right to being ignorant about geography!

> Sure, in the wops. Anywhere near a city is very expensive.

Great! I don't want to be next to a major city. Maybe a 2hr drive to a small town with a post office and a store or two.

> I'd say on average land and housing (building materials especially) is far cheaper in the US.

In some places yes, like in Alaska which is one of the main places I'm looking into moving to.
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> Perhaps drivers overestimate the capabilities of autopilots in aircraft?

Of course they do, which is why it's such brilliant and irresponsible marketing.
Jabber (XMPP) has two fundamental differences from Matrix, as I see it: XMPP is a spec for a system for exchanging messages. It has very small, granular "extensions," most of which are optional. Matrix is a spec for a system that stores arbitrary data ("events") and a way to synchronize and resolve conflict across federated servers. It doesn't have extension specifications like XMPP does, and includes a much more complete set of features in its core, to ensure that all client implementations have compatible features. This is a problem in XMPP, where many features can't be used effectively because the servers cannot assume that all clients understand many of the extensions.

More detail in Matrix's FAQ: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-differen...
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Even Google Fiber, which is a direct competitor with the terribly rated cable companies, has excellent customer service (if you actually need to call them). I needed to migrate an account from my wife's gmail to mine and they had it changed within a few minutes. Since then the service has had 99.9% uptime (the one time it did go down was during the World Series, and they comped the entire city 2 days).
If you're willing to part with it you should consider giving it to someone that doesn't have a computer. Otherwise, just save the computer and run another operating system on it for testing or hold on to it until you find a need for it in your life.
Where does this come from in the larger culture? I can see why people who are soldiers or ... athletes at the varsity or pro level might be interested in it but why would anyone want to basically injure themselves as a ... hobby?

I've worked with runners who had serious injury, soccer players who came in with bruises that you'd associate with a severe beating... I'm thinking "geez, it's gonna suck when you're 62." Because when you lose some amount of basic mobility, you lose a lot of the ability to stay healthy when you're older.

Is this because of Mountain Dew commercials and 1980s GI Joe body image stuff?
> Singapore corporate taxes are probably lower than where he's from, so it would likely be better to do that anyway.

Wouldn't Americans still pay Uncle Sam?
I'll just throw in Amazon Prime video as well.

Why do all these companies have such horrible UI?
The process I describe of installing a translation method in seconds, bringing about instant understanding, doesn't work with natural languages.
It goes back way before Facebook and Google. Remember Usenet after Eternal September? And before that, CompuServe and AOL. And really, filter bubbles have always been a problem, especially in large cities.

The Internet makes it very easy for like-minded people to find each other. For the most part, that's a great thing.
I think this is being a bit sensationalist. I often see articles posted by friends, and under the article there are automatic suggestions of further articles that counter the article in question. E.g. a link to an article about a UFO might have under it an auto-suggested link to an article on Snopes about how the UFO sighting was a hoax.
Does that say more about Paris than Madrid or London?
When I throw darts at marketing, I mean marketing, not advertising. I know the difference. Nice try though, marketing guy.
What you're asking is pretty hard to answer, since you're essentially asking if a particular technology will become popular. If anyone had the ability to answer such a question, they'd make a lot of money. :} Matrix is still a new technology and most of its specifications are not yet stable. Most of the implementations of Matrix clients and servers are very young, too. Even Vector, the feature-rich web client, which is developed by the Matrix team, only recently entered public beta. The development of the spec and of the tools must come first before the system can be used by the masses. But that's what's happening now. I'd call that "going somewhere!"
If it has an HDMI port, you can install Kodi[1] on it and plug it to your TV to create a really cool media center.

[1] https://kodi.tv/
Luxury has some scientific definitions. Top of the list is size for a single-family dwelling. My city has liberalized zoning for size, but kept limits on number of occupants and such for fear of impacting infrastructure. The result is ever-larger units. New houses seem less like houses and more like diagrams of local building codes. Property line minus ten feet, there's your wall.

Luxury apartments can also be defined during zoning as units that the city assumes will rarely be occupied. It is often easier to get a permit if you can claim that the people in your development aren't going to contribute to traffic problems. I've even seen the pre-selling to overseas investors trotted out as justification for not upgrading traffic connections to a development. So-called "elder living" units also fit this scheme.

As for rents, the standard has always been that yearly rent should be around 1/20th of the unit's value, the "20-year" rule. But with property prices rising so quickly, some units are renting out at 1/50th their value. Once you get into those areas, rent becomes irrelevant and you run into the paradox that many units (houses and condos) are worth significantly more without tenants. You don;t want to bother asking tenants to clear out so you can show the unit. So investors planning to flip something in the next couple years don't bother with rent. Only when they think that they may have to hold on for a while do they consider.
It's not. It's just that most people do extremely simple searches. They experimented with more complex interfaces and while they please a minority of power-users, they reduce overall engagement by confusing the masses.
>I did my best to make it clear that these two things are intricately linked.

Where? You haven't once mentioned the return to becoming a doctor, nor compared the two, nor given a reply that suggests you recognized the distinction between the two.

>>you have not provided substantiation to address the point (that lucrative businesses can't be bottlenecked by subsidy caps), and at this point I don't think you understand the criticism, but prefer instead to dismiss any clarification of the relevant dynamics with "oh that's regulated"

>I've stated pretty clearly that medical practico is not a particularly lucrative business (hence why private practices have been going bankrupt and being bought out by hospitals and insurers, and why so many hospitals have negative gross profit margins). That's not a 'dismissal' of your criticism; it's a refutation of the underlying premise.

Then I was correct that you misunderstood the argument. The "lucrative businesses" referred to here, two which I was drawing an analogy, would be 1) the hypothetical airline business, and 2) the "business" of training to be a doctor; it was explicitly NOT referring to that of a medical practice!

Just as superprofitable airlines don't depend on government subsidies, superlucrative becoming-a-doctor shouldn't depend on government funding of residencies. See the dynamic there?

Now, after reading your last post, it sound like you're saying that Medicare has monopsony power over all doctor services and therefore is the major determinant of all doctor compensation, even those that eg work for rich people as their personal doctor.

If that's what you meant, I don't see why you couldn't have just said that the first time around, given your deep domain knowledge. Then, the appropriate reply would be "the return to becoming a doctor is no higher than other training, so it would be pointless to become a doctor if you had to also bear the cost of the residency". Note the length is less than 500 words.

But then, seen so clearly, it would depend on very questionable claims.

If that's not what you meant, then I stand by my claim that you're not responding to my point, because that's the only way that government-paid residency slot caps could hold up the correction of doctor undersupply.
> You don't seem to have any rebuttal to the actual content of the essay.

What would you like to argue about? There's nothing for me to rebut. Steven's experience is his own, he's free to interpret the world however he wants. If he's scared of environmentalism and wants to rant about it, that's his choice. He forfeits any reasonable discussion automatically by comparing a general desire to have clean air and water with religious fundamentalism. It's an ad hominem that doesn't deserve any response.

> This doesn't make me a kind of naive environmentalists as described in Landsburg's essay.

Sounds like we're getting somewhere now. Let's talk about the good environmentalists like you, not the naive ones. What makes you a better environmentalist than the kind Landsburg talks about? What is your improved plan for keeping the air and water clean and available forever, without needing to recycle? Will your plan be cost and energy effective?

I didn't see Landsburg drawing a line between naive environmentalists and other kinds, did I miss something? He seemed to draw a blanket conclusion that all environmentalism is nothing more than faith. I know you don't agree with that.

> I understand that you personally prefer recycling though (for religious/aesthetic reasons). I respect your choice.

I haven't stated a preference for recycling, nor given any religious or aesthetic reasons for said preference, so I'm not convinced you understand. Calling it religious is pretty disrespectful, which you already know. But you don't know me, nor my preferences on recycling, so all I can do is return the favor and say I respect your choices too.
If it isn't too old, there are some charities in the US that take laptops and give them to veterans. Goodwill is also a good place.

Other ideas might be to purpose it for your car, or somewhere else, but that depends on how old / large / power hungry it is.
Interesting. I've trained with many Seals - they have ungodly cardio. I've never seen any that big, as the extra muscle kills their cardio.
Actually, the impact that standardized language education has had on dialect variation isn't quite clear. It appears to have had some impact, but not as much as laypeople usually think. In fact, standard written American-English has undergone quite a few changes over the last 100 years and things that were non-standard have become standard. Likewise with mass media. There is no evidence that mass media has had any effect on the rate of linguistic change and variation in America. The biggest impact has probably been the increase in ease and speed of modern transportation. Regardless, there is likely more dialect variation in America today than there was 1-200 years ago, though geographic variation may be slightly diminishing (at least intraregionally) and socioeconomic variation may be more important.

The biggest factor in dialect development is time, which is why you see a large variety of dialects in England as compared to the USA. England is much smaller, but has had much longer for dialects to develop.
Orange has been very handy on occasion, is great for introductory walkthroughs and presentations. I wish more people understood how important the visualization aspect is.