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But the watchmen can still see you connect to the IP address of yourfavoritelinux.org or its mirror. And then they can see you transfer approximately a distro image sized chunk of data. Perhaps you just downloaded your favorite linux distro?

I argue that the privacy provided is minimal, and for real privacy, you'll have to find something like tor (not an endorsement of it) or alternative, anonymous channels...

As for authentication, yes, it is quite minimal.

So HTTPS doesn't solve any problem well (meanwhile introducing some of its own problems). The better solutions to these problems make HTTPS wholly unnecessary.

I find the fixation on HTTPS bizarre, even concerning. Would the author have written this piece if all distros ticked all the three HTTPS boxes? Would he then no longer consider the state of things sad? That would be dangerous. That would be alarming. I hate the "false sense of security" argument that people apply to just about anything these days.. but this would be it.
Yeah, it's not about saving characters to me, it's about clarity.
The question is what the opportunity cost of your investment is.

How much money have you invested and how much time have you spent on the rental property? What would your returns have been had you invested that money and the money gained from using that time at some job in a stock portfolio instead?

Now, it's possible, depending on where you are, that you got lucky and your real estate investments outperformed the market. But that's not always going to be the case, and it no more makes real estate a "good investment" than any other undiversified portfolio.
Here is a good essay which discusses why social class is a distinct concept to economic class: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/30/staying-classy/

I think it's a very useful distinction. I've seen similar things in demographic statistics. Where e.g. parents education was more predictive of their child's outcome than their income. Career choice and success is somewhat noisy and random.
Reincarnated luxury car company Karma hiring dozens of Detroit engineers
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That's very common, yes. But it's also idiotic for general VoIP providers to allow access to such numbers. There's no reason they need to do that, and they hurt themselves and customers. Many of their US customers don't even need international dialing for the most part.

While you can make some money off fraud on normal-priced international calling it certainly makes it much more difficult and noticeable.
I can imagine. When I was in Uzbekistan I met a local man who had studied in the UK and he explained to me how hard it was to travel. I was amazed you needed exit visas for your own country. I thought that stuff died long ago (with the exception of North Korea or so).
>> I really wished there were that did it with this level of simplicity.

The desktop version of YNAB was pretty much like this.
It seems way more to me, that the linker shouldn't merge different implementations of a function.

On the other hand the compiler maybe should rename the function when it does inter-procedural optimization on it.
Fitting more units in the same space would drive up value, but a large increase in available units would have the opposite affect.
And Coase theorem says it doesn't matter who gets the credits--they'll eventually find their way to the most efficient allocation.
And it's Cloudflare's decision to expose the endpoint as HTTPS, suggesting to visitors that it's a secure endpoint when Cloudflare knows that it is not.
YouTube video of start of TH 2014 coup.

Was rather brilliant to be honest.

https://youtu.be/BWoKTEPF5nk
Of course the goal isn't to punish polluters. It's to convince them to pollute less. This is why tax things and behaviors we don't want - to make it more expensive, so that there's less of it.
Doesn't the person using the word flâner suffer just as much as someone using a language that doesn't have that word?

If I'm sauntering, enjoying a constitutional, taking some air, or what have you then perhaps these are the things that the French person is trying to express but flâner is the closest that comes to mind [sorry, perhaps ironically, my French is not good enough to realise this analogy precisely].

Somewhat aside to the main point:

>the lack of a word to describe extensively this experience makes it quite absurd for non-French speakers //

In the past, and I'm struggling for an example, people have said things like there's no word for "such-and-such" in English and it's simply been that they don't know that word. This makes it still a limit of vocabulary but not a limit of the particular language: why isn't there a word in English for "bottom shaped", well of course there is, just most people don't know it.
No? It has a lock-free stack though.
The problem with the first two is how would you communicate that to the user? You could make it a configurable option in a settings menu somewhere, but most people don't bother with those. Even those that do bother with the settings probably only think of changing it when they're actively getting directions, not after they've reached their destination, and so the setting never gets changed. That leaves making it an option while you're trying to follow the directions, which is also a bad idea since you're busy trying to drive.

I do agree that GPS apps should be more user friendly. Maybe an app with voice commands so you can ask questions? Like "Am I still going the right way?" or "When's the next turn?" or "Update me every mile"

As for the last one: there are dozens of tab management extensions for chrome. I'm sure you can find one that does what you're looking for.
Give a man a fish and he'll be satisfied for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he'll not be hungry for the rest of his life.

Force a man and his friends to catch fish for you in big fish farms for your cronies back home to enjoy, but don't teach them how to run fish farms, instead make them dependent on your farm destroying their previous way of life, create some wars and kill a couple of millions, then exit leaving behind a vacuum and you get to write smug, pseudo-provocative pieces in time magazine bemoaning the white man's burden.
The two big reasons are incomplete accounting of holding costs, which you touched on, and ignoring inflation. Note that the article specifically talked about real returns, ie after factoring out inflation.

For example, if somebody had bought a house for $100K in 1986, and sold it yesterday for $219K, they would probably be crowing about their great investment on Facebook. But in fact the cost increased by slightly under inflation, and they probably spent tens of thousands on taxes, insurance and repairs in that time.

Now, they may have derived enough utility from using it as a home that it was still a good idea. But ignoring that and examining it solely as an investment, it's a money loser.
How right you are! Unfortunately the developers in my city (Houston) have a lock on city council. We have zero zoning laws and very little power to preserve architecturally interesting areas.

In fact modern architects and builders here have a really negative attitude towards Craftsmen and similar styles: as far as they're concerned it's all old and boring. The result is predictable; neighborhoods are razed flat for profitable high density dwellings which frankly are one notch above Soviet Brutalist style, usually clad in the least durable and cheapest exterior possible.

Houston has incredibly low urban density and I'm not above improving that in places. But it should done with an eye towards a beautiful legacy. The only thing beautiful about block upon block of stucco and aluminum siding townhomes is the builder's bank balance.
The RIN scheme makes sense. It allows a 10-percent industry wide requirement without requiring every company to mix 10% in its gas.
I would read Hett's analysis of the fire and subsequent investigation; there's excellent reason to think that van der Lubbe was not acting alone -- or perhaps not even involved in setting the fires themselves -- and plenty of circumstantial and physical evidence tying the SA and Goebbels to the fire. And, regardless of who set the fire, the Nazis had planned for the institution of emergency rule upon the first pretext; the key elements of what would become the Reichstag Fire Decree were set out weeks before the fire, as Göring would later acknowledge.
Land and Homes should not suck useful capital out of our economies. Where could you spend more money and benefit less people per dollar? Our capital is better deployed in businesses where many more people benefit from many less dollar input.

This is why the SP500 craps on real estate. Because it should. Hell, the only reason real estate has had the peaks it has, is because it was subsidized by the financial sector. And as you can see, that blip of misvaluation did much more harm than good.

Business make the world better than houses do. Businesses are where you get people the best benefits. More expensive houses, to the point of unaffordable are the enemy. If you have allocated a huge portion of your assets into a non productive asset (a house), then you are part of what is wrong with the world. Stop expecting your "only benefits you house" to pay the same as "benefits 10x + more people" businesses.

P.S. liquidity, capital surplus recycling, less bid/ask spread, less fees, less counterparty risk (eviction, destruction). The capital markets pretty much crap on the real estate markets. And they should.
It doesn't cease to amaze me how stupid IP laws can get. Better said, how much power money can buy you. As the parent is saying, this is nothing new. See here [1] how F1 cars have adapted to reduce drag. I simply cannot see how this is patentable given the prior art.

[1]http://www.caranddriverthef1.com/formula1/blogs/angelesf1/ae... (ES, but look at the pictures)
>To call yourself middle class when you're making 5x the media household income is kinda silly. And yes, I know many live in HCOL areas.

Cost of living matters a whole lot, though. You'd have a higher standard of living in Cleveland at $100k than in San Francisco at $250k.
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That's only true if you just let the property sit there without taking advantage of the potential ways it could produce income for you (e.g. rent). On the flip side, you also need to consider property taxes, maintenance, insurance, etc.
I think the author used this as an example to highlight and bolster the importance of open data:

"The fact that this amount of money made it through the budget process presumably mislabeled makes the case for Open Data even stronger. Open Data is not just about “transparency”. Our government officials are only human and our agencies have limited resources. Budgets are far too large and complex to be understood end-to-end by our legislators. As more data gets out to the public, we’ll start to see that our citizens can help improve the way government operates - even if it’s sometimes proof reading! "
Which is where property based testing really shines. Still requires the implementer to be a good citizen and write those tests though.
You're high if you think that The Atlantic is some Demand Media/About.com/wikihow content spoo.
Not necessarily true because you are covering your need for housing at the same time as paying the mortgage. So even if it appreciated exactly at the same speed as inflation(as one would expect if housing prices were flat) you are only paying the interest rate but gaining an asset at the end of the mortgage. Also, that asset theoretically allows you to cover your housing needs for the rest of your life(with appropriate maintenance), so it should be valued as potential sale price + the value of owner's equivalent rent for the rest of your natural life.
Which parts are offtopic?
Maybe the word "traipse" is a better fit.
Silicon Valley's Peter Pan Syndrome vs. The Aging of Aquarius
Is it possible for a contended concurrent stack accessed by an arbitrary number of threads to have guaranteed constant-time operations? I wouldn't think that was a realistic expectation.
I'd throw real estate in the mix (probably ahead of others), and think education has the least to do with it.
Privatize natural resources and make random citizens undeservedly wealthy.

Allow the state to own and manage natural resources and make African dictators undeservedly wealthy (and their citizens poor and unproductive).
How an iPhone defeated the tanks in Turkey
Language helps me express what is in my head without an actual human or machine language. I think in objects that are not words, so i always translate to human language when expressing my thoughts. Learning a new language helps me understand culture and the people mostly using it and as importantly the vocabulary of the already known languages. i am a poliglot. When I converse in one language i never translate to another it just flows.
How is this so difficult to imagine being games?

I "sell" you 10,000 barrels of fuel. Then I give you back 99% of your money. Rinse and repeat, you've generated lots of RINs with little capacity for anyone to catch you downstream. Contrast this with a carbon tax, where in order to legally generate revenue one must pay the tax.
This concept is often used to expand storage space, where the storage shelves slide sideways. While there are electrically powered systems for long aisles, here's a much simpler system from Uline.[1]

If you wanted to build something like Ori, minus the "robotic" part, you could just order the track and rollers from Uline, and build cabinetry out of Ikea parts atop a Uline base.

Business opportunity: write an app to design such things, visualize them, and order the parts. Like Autodesk Kitchen Designer, which does kitchen cabinet planning.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moumo_m5G_8
Ask HN: What wakes you up when on call?
Email and SMS notifications are just not strong enough for me.

What do you use?
I largely agree with your statements. and especially with your overall tone and thesism. However, everyone needs a home. And it's foolish to believe that only businesses should own homes. How much "useful capital" should one expend on such a critical, life sustaining thing?
Reliability and fail-safe are important considerations at sea. Glass windows still work when electrical power is lost. Warships take the concept further, placing the navigation bridge where it's most effective but having a completely redundant alternate control centre deep inside the ship where it's best protected.
This is how you can cultivate grass for grazing
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>"if your language doesn't have separate words for blue and green then you're incapable of seeing a difference between blue and green", which is conclusively disproven

Well yeah, of course. Your eye has blue color receptors that send signals to the brain well below the level of language. Animals don't have language and can distinguish colors, after all. That's just like saying because English doesn't have good words to describe different textures, we can't distinguish the difference.

But the explanation of SW I've always heard is nowhere near that strong. E.g. that because English doesn't have good words for different textures, that information isn't making it to the conscious mind. E.g. we are much more likely to forget texture, not notice it, or not use it to describe things, etc. I don't' see how that's a tautology.

I know I grew up without a really conscious separation between the different tastes. E.g. sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. Obviously I could taste the difference. But I couldn't describe the type of food I felt hungry for, or explain why something tasted good. As an adult I've found distinguishing these categories consciously is very useful.
I was just comparing the pattern matching from FP languages with the more primitive C-like switch statement. The big advantage comes from the algebraic data types (tagged unions), which let you model data with many "cases" in a type-safe manner. For example, in Haskell we don't have null pointers because we can use the Maybe type instead.

The case-expression vs function-definition difference you mentioned from Haskell is just syntactic sugar. In both situations you are doing exactly the same pattern matching under the hood.
> That's not what he's proposing at all.

Of course. But it's almost certainly the end result.
Normally it is not patentable if it's obvious to a person skilled in the topic, if there is prior art, or if there is no business application. I would say this fails two out of three.
Land is valued according to the surrounding economic activity. Land on average is not valuable (just look down the next time you're on an airplane).

Land in fast-growing cities goes up in value quickly. Land in dying cities goes down in value. Investing in land (and any associated cash-producing activities like buildings) is primarily a bet on the outlook for economic activity in the surrounding area.

Long term farm prices is a poor proxy for real estate investing generally.
It's each website's decision to use (or not use) Cloudflare. It's thus also by extension each website's decision to expose the site over HTTPS.
A Marine Ecologist on Swimming with Sharks and What ‘Jaws’ Got Wrong
Okay, but the system isn't going to be abandoned based on one case of fraud. It's gotta be a lot more widespread than that.

It's similar to how we don't see stores abandoning credit cards despite the impressive amount of fraud we see reported on Krebs. Instead the holes get fixed (eventually, with lots of foot-dragging).

The article reports an interesting story but it doesn't seem big enough to have that kind of impact.
You just made my day with that comment. Just thinking about applying static analysis to the law makes me happy.
this from the same paper that trumpets the government banning end to end encryption. the EU gave us more data protection than the UK government ever did.
I've lived a while in a sub-par country. The incompetence at every level of society is staggering. Even corruption isn't as big a deal as incompetence.

Plenty of people I talk to agree that having the US or Germany or someone just run the government completely would be a huge step up. Honestly I can't find any realistic objection. Just hopeful stuff about educating them, making it better, etc. Approaches that have been tried a long time and simply aren't working. Apart from pride (which doesn't cure infections, get kids in schools, or feed people), there really isn't a reason for those people to object.

The problems of colonialism tended to be human rights, eh? Are we really concerned that Belgium would start cutting hands off in the 21st century? (It's also sort of funny. China's getting big in Africa. No way they're going to treat people there very well. Can't imagine a 21st century British empire in Africa ending up worse than Chinese business domination.)
Counterpoint:

10-year REIT returns: 7.59% annually

10-year US stock market returns: 7.54% annually

Looks similar, except that remember: 2006 was the peak of the real estate bubble. This would be like judging 10-year US stock returns by starting at the year 2000 - it'd be negative.

Since its inception in 2004, VNQ has returned an annual return of 10.04%, approximately 3% higher annual return than the stock market.

I don't think this should be the case - buying property and sitting on it shouldn't give you a higher return than investing in the real economy. But, with our anti-development government policies, this is what ends up happening.

Sources:
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundIntExt=I...
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundIntExt=I...
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Sweden had a period in the 1960s and 1970s of providing gratis aid[0] to many African countries, particularly those who were emerging from colonial rule. In the same period there were many West German advisors 'competing' for influence against their Eastern colleagues. Yugoslavia and China similarly.

[0] the SA and Rhodesian forces frequently intercepted insurgents carrying Swedish-origin provisions
I agree with you. Which is why we need more affordable houses, and less unaffordable houses. Because many in this world have more than they need, you can get the important, shelter by renting, lucky us! We can affordably live in things that took thousands of man hours of labor, and more capital, for a low monthly fee.

One day, when robots build houses, owning can replace renting. Or when everyone stops the cargo cult of HOUSES MUST GO UP IN PRICE OR LIFE SUXORZ!!!

It's funny how owning something distorts ones perception. What else in the world MUST GO UP IN PRICE! Notice I say price and not value, for it is truly only the price going up. Their utility remains static, or decreases as the view is blocked by high rises.

Paperclips must go up in price! I own some!
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There are meaningful qualitative and cultural differences between, say, late-career professionals with owned homes and 401ks sufficient to maintain standard of living in retirement vs. people who could maintain that lifestyle or better without even working.

That's kind of why we use the term upper middle class - to distinguish true average incomes from educated professionals (law/engineering/accounting/teaching/ middle management and formerly journalism) from landed aristocracy and CEOs of Fortune 100s.
Baton Rouge shooting: 3 officers killed, hunt on for shooters
As with most historical events the truth lies somewhere between the extreme narratives. Conquests have brought suffering and suppression since the dawn of time, but it has also brought new ideas, technologies and development. While Europeans were exploited by the Romans, we also gained a lot of advantages from the Roman empire. Napoleons conquest of Europe also ultimately brought benefits like modern standards for measurement, modern set of laws and administration.

Colonial Africa is no different. It is a mixed bag. It was exploitative but it also brought development, not because European necessarily wanted to help Africans but because getting hold of resources required building ports, roads, railroad etc. They could not exploit agricultural resources without actually building farms and hiring locals. And of course there was always people with different ideas. Some wanted to help Africans and brought modern medicine e.g.

The chief error the western powers did when they left Africa was to not allow for any transition period. They left countries were whites had managed everything and no African had experience or education in managing operations from the top level. They should have given Africans education in white institutions and let them work with the white administration to learn how things were managed.

We see the same disaster in South Africa. Suddenly blacks are put in power but they have no previous experience in having power since they were never given a chance. White rule should not have ended abruptly. There should have been a gradual winding down.
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What is it with South American countries not being able to lay out things properly? Peru looks like someone forgot centre everything and by the time they noticed they had already printed hundreds of thousands of passport covers so they just went with it.
I would not apply the same methodology. I would prefer that anyone building on this apply sane methodology. Otherwise people will get the wrong idea.
> ...does not mean you can't express the same content through a combination of words and sentences.

Why was it important for same sex couples to be married and not have legally indistinguishable 'civil unions'?

Then why does Orwellian language bother us so much?

I think language matters a lot.
Isn't the bridge usually at the stern on container ships? I thought that's because the engines are in the back, and you don't want to make the controls travel a lot. Wonder how this is solved here?