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I'm totally lost on why this got downvoted. I absolutely back this up by experience. Cheers from an argentinean living in Brazil suffering 3 decades of populist governments and they political clientelism created exactly with this recipe. Two times this completely collapsed Argentina's economy and alienated people against entrepreneurship culture. It's a complete shame, a country that in the '30s was one of the top ten economies, and now almost converted it in Venezuela except people voted Macri last november saving themselves of repeating collective socialist-ish suicide that is being bringing a rich country to ruin for the last 8 decades. PS: Argentina 1853 constitution was written by J.B. Alberdi with was an admirer of Thomas Jefferson. http://www.businessinsider.com/argentina-is-doing-the-opposi...
Assuming the $68k in DC / $50k in MS is the benchmark, my point was that while it's much cheaper to reach that benchmark in MS, you're probably much more likely to reach it in DC. So a random person in DC is probably more likely to earn $68k or more than a random person in MS is to earn $50k or more.
The big thing you're missing is how the separation of powers in the US prevents what you describe as a "monarchy" from ruling as a monarchy. Besides in your own comment you admit that Trump goes against this idea. We don't have even close to a monarchial society.
Honest question: How is it that GMail is perceived faster than a locally running MUA like mu4e which is quoted in the article?

I'm actually using mu4e for exactly this reason: It's so much faster than any web client could ever be. And I'm saying this as a professional web dev^^ And yeah, I know GMail - I was an early adopter and have seen two companies migrate to it in the last five
years.

Of course, running mail within Emacs has its additional awesome benefits, but that's a different kind of argument I'll leave out for now. I'm honestly curious why people think/believe/know that GMail is faster than a well engineered locally indexed app. It just doesn't seem to be the case for me, but I hear this time and time again.
You could rent. Rental prices in Vancouver are fairly reasonable relative to purchase prices.
Lately I've been looking at some paid email options as I'm not happy with the offering over at Yahoo, Google, Microsoft or AOL. I wonder why they're all quite expensive. Fastmail is $40 a year, and that's for 15 GB. I would need at least 20 GB (which means I'm looking at $120 a year).

15 GB is free over at Google. Does that mean my data is really worth $40 a year to them. I do realize this is oversimplifying things...

One option would be to "self host" at Digital Ocean. For the same $120 I would get 30 GB storage and I could use the VPS for some other things. But even DO themselves try to dissuade you from doing that (on reasonable grounds I believe)[1].

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may...
I should have said "want" or "find value in" rather than "need". Of course you don't need it but I get hung up on what benefits a smart refrigerator is actually providing. Maybe I've reached curmudgeon-status but I don't see the benefit in a fridge telling me I need milk. I can generally tell if I need milk based on the last time I used the milk.
You could use the excellent Chrome add-on Resource Override[1] to make this change yourself if you really want to.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/resource-override/...
Reality doesn't prioritize fear over respect. That's your sociopathy distorting your view.
well their means to score countries is contrived enough to be "we knew the results before we knew the facts". As in any strong economy is bad
When there's an economic advantage to be gained, people at work can be fake. You can either get bummed out about that, or accept it as their issue and not yours. I found that if I treat people like friends (and having good intent) it usually works out for the best, though I've been backstabbed here and there.
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sounds like you guys should dump as many of these properties on these fool heads as possible. you can buy them back in a few years for a lot less.
That's a beautiful analogy. I wonder if we would still use small salt shakers if they cost 1000x a large salt container.

Edit: Cunningham's Law in action! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
I got my first programming job, while still in college (as part of a co-op/internship program) in 1992, for the U.S. department of defense. As you can imagine, everything was BDUF there. It was very frustrating and the most annoying part was the massive disconnect between what the users expected, which was that they could suggest a change and see it on their desktop an hour later, and the reality of change and release management, regression testing, unexpected side effects, code entropy, etc. etc. Some time around 1999, I started to hear about "extreme programming" (XP), and when I looked into it, I breathed a huge sigh of relief, because here were people whose opinions people seemed to be paying attention to making the same observations that I was, but far more eloquently than I ever could, in a way that seemed to be resonating with users and project managers. I guess I'm too much of a "glass is half full" type, though, because it didn't take too long before XP gave way to "agile methodologies" which became "scrum" which is really BDUF with micromanaging daily standups.
With the tiniest possible anecdotal data, I might also be seeing this. Had a customer say the site was loading fine when clicking links to it from emails, but sometimes if they search for it google and clicked the link -- it would just spin on a white page. Have not been able to track it down, but the symptoms match at least.
Opposite to the armchair analyst opinions last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218654
That's why I sometimes say at my workplace that we should make our projects in Flash. Faster to make an interactive UI this way and get the approval of the management/customer, no time wasted on useless things like having the program actually work in an efficient, useful and secure way.
France seems to be doing a little bit better than the rest of Europe. Is that because of their nuclear plants?
I'm old enough now to know what I do to annoy other people. I actively work on those things, so people who _are_ around me at least do not want to run away :)

I'm also old enough not to care if someone does not like me. Life is too short to be fake friendly, and some people just do not get along. I'm okay with that.
We would still have the same capitalist economy we have right now with private property, profits, working for money and profit, private ownership of capital and the means of production, ect.

It's not socialism at all, unless you are saying that every income transfer program (such as social security) is socialism (in which case you are saying that politicians like President Obama and Hillary Clinton are socialists).
FWIW, this is a repost from 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212981
The problem with GCM is that there's no real replacement for it. It's just too absurdly efficient.
That book appears to be very interesting, I'll definitely have a look. Thanks for the tip.
Closer. Easier to repair (parts are not billions of miles/months away) and resupply.

As a destination Mars is less hospitable than say the top of Mt Everest. And far harder to get to. For an easier visualization, imagine an orbiting space habitat vs a Mt Everest peak habitat.
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> The problem with your argument is that it assumes technical progress continuing eternally.

And it assumes ERORI stays at a sustainable level. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_in...
Shouldn't one not version-control the build-output?
But you would admit that Democracy and Republics are far superior in almost every way?
Yep. And then at the third sprint into this path you realize that the way the backend has been built during the first two sprints makes it impossible to deliver some essential or just very desirable feature that nobody took in consideration because it was outside the scope of the first two sprints.
Seen it happen multiple times.
Canada is the fifth most popular country with Chinese property investors who is interested in purchasing condos for their children near universities. As a result, single-detached homes move further into luxury budget territory leaving first-time buyers with funds enough for a condo. Source https://tranio.com/canada,new_zealand,australia,united-kingd...
gotcha! noone can guarantee fastmail wont be doing the same thing.

We get what we pay for. Free email is not free. The price is the security that we give up. Gmail and Fastmail are equivalent to me. Both own your privacy that you consciously give up for free...
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Fiat currency is printed by taxing you via inflation. So, yeah, receiving fake money makes you poorer. And if you think it works, ask a venezuelan how that plan is working or not.
Why is it reported as a bug rather than a power outage?? There is a huge difference.
>Love is good, respect is great, but fear is the one that gets results!

The whole idea of having a good friend is that there are no "results". Its someone you know, that knows you, that you can feel comfortable hanging out with and spending time with, that you want nothing from and that wants nothing from you.
< "4-year moodswings"

AKA the will of the people. It amazes me that after all the evil we have seen come out of authoritarian rule we still get people bashing democracy.
> time scaling approximately linearly as the storage doubles in size.

scratches head...

... so.. logarithmic scaling with storage size?
The usual skirt around a lot of real-estate law. Also a common way people (and companies) avoid triggering a revaluation for California Prop-13 purposes when selling property: the property is owned by a holding company, and people buy and sell stakes in the holding company, being careful to never buy/sell a >50% stake in any individual transaction. (The latter part is because California does make an effort to close this loophole: sales of a majority stake in an LLC imply the property it owns has changed hands. But then people just never do that, sometimes aoviding it in fairly brazen ways, e.g. Michael Dell bought a holding company without buying more than 50% of it by splitting the purchase between himself, his wife, and one of his business partners: http://www.santamonicadispatch.com/2013/05/prop-13-gives-edg...).
Every metadata file, including those that specify delegations, have an expiration. There are also higher-level expirations in the snapshot and timestamp files (a delegation won't be trusted if it's referenced by an out-of-date snapshot or timestamp)

I.e. there are multiple time-based controls in place
Have been using tutanota (free). Servers are in Germany and have been quite happy but would like them to add a few features. Am going to upgrade anyway I think.

Did you delete the Gmail account?
About the last part: isn't the Google Apps model the same?
I get far more spam at fastmail than I do at gmail.
They have not reduced their ecological footprint. They are relying increasingly on coal, especially as new bioenergy installations are slowing down and demand is only growing.

They have never burnt as much coal as nowadays. It accounted to 45% of their power in 2014 (couldn't find a more recent figure).

They are still building new coal plants and they need so much coal these days that they raze whole villages to dig it out.

I'm having trouble finding comprehensive sources but their CO2 emissions have been on the rise from 2012 to 2014 at least and they are set to miss their CO2 reduction goals of 2020 and 2030.

At this point in time, they are the biggest CO2 source of Europe.
Caring more about getting things from people more than the actual people in your life (ie, using fear to get what you want) is the very definition of a sociopath.

What amazes me is that you are open about it. Most sociopaths try to hide that fact, because once people realize they are being manipulated you lose control.
It's interesting to see the term neoliberal become such an insult for so many people.

To oversimplify, neoliberal means 'socially left, fiscally right'. The difference between a libertarian and a neoliberal is that a libertarian believes that markets and property rights (aka capitalism) are the end goal, and a neoliberal believes that those are powerful tools to achieve the goals of the social left.

I suspect that most Hacker News readers are actually neoliberals.

The strong support for Universal Basic Income on Hacker News is evidence of such, since UBI is a very neoliberal platform. In that sense the article is very correct.

https://medium.com/@s8mb/im-a-neoliberal-maybe-you-are-too-b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
If I were experiencing this sort of issue in the US, I would expect it to be something with the ISP/hotspot like injecting advertising or MTM'ing an HTTPS connection or other foolishness. My workaround is to always tether using my phone away from my home or other "known good" network.

Might want to put "Ask HN:" in the title?
Uses the word "neoliberal" you know that is cultural marxist propaganda.
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8pPbrbJJQs
The aha moment for my team which changed us from a mindset of dealing with scrum to enjoying it was when we moved from aiming towards a number of story points to complete towards committing to the stories that we could individually complete in a sprint, without a concern for the associated story points.

All of a sudden story points disassociated with time. They just became a number. a combination of complexity and understanding.

A lesser, but still important shift, came with our changes to backlog grooming. When part of that grooming included poker planning to estimate points. This Spread that chore out, and our Sprint planning is now approximately half an hour as the team goes down the prioritized list and commits to stories.
Are we talking about fear of people or fear of the consequences? Because those two are completely different topics.
fastmail is not free
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This is very true though. My wife and I moved across the country, and making new friends was hard. We do not have kids, and are older so meeting other people our age without kids was tough. I was mostly okay with it, because I have always been fine being alone, but my wife struggled.

After 2 years we moved back. The friend issue was not the only reason, but was a big driver.
What's the difference between social ownership/control of the means of production and very very high taxation that unconditionally funnels money from the (rich) owners of the means of production to the public?
I'm pretty sick of all that hype around Tesla for example, pretending to be the real solution for independence of oil and gas. That is simply not the case. Tesla hasn't solved any of those issues so far, they only shifted the problem once again. Of course they design very beautiful electronic cars, but this isn't a solution for our energy and resource problem either.
freelance developer these days.

That's what I meant by "right under my nose". I still loved what I DID, I just wasn't in the right place or right industry.

To be more specific - I was writing code, but in advertising. Being a programmer in advertising is a brutal, thankless, experience. When I figured that out and left for software consulting, it got better.
That was exactly my initial thought and then I read " after receiving an email from Google asking me to indicate how exactly I would like them to use my data to customise adverts around the web, and after thinking for a bit about what kind of machine learning tricks I would be able to pull on you with 12 years of your email, I decided that I really had to make alternative plans for my little email empire."
My experience mirrors yours on this front. I have several macs, one of which is an older mac mini with a traditional hard drive, which has become less usable as OS updates come in. However, the moment you replace the traditional drive with an SSD, the OS becomes responsive again.
Just wanted to say congrats. When I used it for another job back in the day it solved some real problems for us. The community forums were immensely helpful as well. I'm glad to see the project is still around and actively developed!
Why would you use FastMail when hosting your own mail server has a much higher privacy level? It seems no better than gmail in this respect.
> Keep in mind that Scrum was designed by consultants working for organizations that don't understand software development.

Scrum was "designed" by Ken Schwaber, a software project manager at the time looking for a better way to control software development processes.

Schwaber discovered he could use an empirical process, rather than a defined one, to control software projects. He created Scrum following this principles.
The tech didn't make us dishonest. It only made it easier.
"Cultural Marxist"... irony?
5 years? Don't see any chance for extinction.

There are tons of non-HTTPS websites out there. A myriad of forsaken ones that are still running because no one had remembered to do anything to them, and a myriad of ones whose sysadmins just don't care about TLS at all.

A non-obtrusive "insecure connection" warning is probably going to happen quite soon, but I just don't see any chance of mass HTTPS migration besides the high-profile sites, newborn sites and geeks that would stand for the cause.

Otherwise, a pretty large fraction of the WWW is going to be lost.
Doctors are a minuscule part of society. I still benefit from their existence because I benefit from having access to the services they provide.

This law's still bullshit, of course.
> The backends don't matter. It's the password-changing frontend that has both passwords at change time and makes the call.

I asked about the backend to see if you know of one that supports more than just the current password. You can assume you have the current one as it's required to confirm your current identity. What you wouldn't have is the plaintext of the prior N passwords (N>1).

A custom backend could save the previous N hashes and either check for exact matches or check permutations against it. I'm just not aware of any off the shelf system that does so.

> This isn't about setting the characteristics of a single password, it's about setting the allowed editing distance between them during a password change.

Sure but I meant across more than just one previous password. In the system you describe if I have "FooBar1" and "BazQuz7" as both being acceptable, I can hop between them endlessly.
Interesting concept. Wondering if the OP could share sample size...the only thing mentioned is that it is small and manually curated.

Would also love to see this over time.
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Fastmail is paid service.
While demand for shelter remains constant, the supply of money increases, pushing prices higher.
Yes.

Edit: I forgot to mention we have French Guiana which is essentially untouched forest and which offsets most comparison maps (biodiversity is a famous example).
> One thing people (myself included!) often missed though is that Metropolis is extremely prone to flicker.

Doing PCA across frames basically eliminates that. IIRC Pixar did a paper on the technique.
> [...] I moved all of my data out of the US and of course [...]

I don't think you can move your data out of Google right? They will keep it even if it looks like deleted to you.

Google (Alphabet now right?) has changed their TOS so many times can someone actually educate me on how long they keep my deleted emails and then if they truly ever delete those, or there is some 160TB compressed tape archived in their basements so that if they truly want to, they can open it and read my emails from today in year 2056 ??
I checked out FastMail but it's too bad that while they promote privacy, they require a mobile number to sign up. I understand it's probably used to prevent abuse, but if I'm truly in it for privacy I would imagine this is a non-starter
You may think you understand your specification but unless you used a model checker or proof assistant there will be bugs in your implementation. Unit tests are not a specification (or are, at best, incomplete). Get used to predicate calculus, temporal logic, and writing proofs. If you cannot express a design with a model or proof that can be verified you're purposefully leaving bugs in your system.

They may be buried > 40 steps deep in some code path where the stars have to align just right to trigger it. At the scale where Gustafson's law makes the trade-offs acceptable you will find that such errors are no longer, "highly improbable."

Don't accept, "battle-tested," as the hallmark of a reliable system or algorithm -- all that means is that people willing to tolerate the risk did so and paid for it for a few years. There are still bugs in that system and they will affect you or your users (and often both).
Interestingly, 10 flights were canceled on Allegiant today. Including one I'm booked on.

But apparently it is a normal mode of operations for Allegiant. Absolutely horrid airline. https://www.allegiantair.com/travel-alerts
How does this work with Google Docs? I have a Google Apps account and I don't want to lose all my documents.

Is it possible to have my email usage through FastMail but keep my email address to log in to google so I can still access all my docs?

Or do I need to create a gmail address and move my docs over, then move my email over?
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> With some of the fastmail servers in US jurisdiction your email is just as safe as with gmail.

That's not really true. The servers themselves and their provider may be under US jurisdiction, but not FastMail itself, which means they can take measures against unauthorized access (e.g. encryption) and they can detect breaches and take steps.

Nothing will be foolproof, of course, since the NSA is the worst enemy you could have and if they have physical access to those servers, you simply can't claim you're 100% protected, but it's much better than nothing.

See: https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html

Furthermore, there are actual trade agreements between countries and if the NSA would access the servers of foreign companies on simple whims, the US can lose a lot of money if customers find out. I know of at least one big German multinational company that banned the usage of several US-based services and tightened security, after the Snowden revelations, for fear of industrial espionage.

In other words, the price for breaching users' privacy is significantly higher, because in Google's case, they just have to ask for it and Google can't even disclose such breaches to their customers even if they wanted.
Probably yes. Nuclear energy is in fact very friendly while in operation, but the aftermath has to be finally solved. God damnit.
It's worth mentioning a somewhat dated post "Thoughts on Scrum" [0] by Jethro Villegas [1] who works on Mozilla Firefox and earlier managed engineering for Flash Player.

[0] http://junglecode.net/thoughts-on-scrum/

[1] http://junglecode.net/about/
If your team is competent and solid engineering techniques are being used, you already have a well working process. Forcing any methodology on this will likely result in a deterioration.

All those methodologies are for the less stellar programming teams, to get consistent results from those (also to a lesser degree to make good and bad programmers work well along each other). Because you can't always get the best programmers.

If Scrum would only work well with good programmers, it would be next to useless.