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That doesn't seem so bad. It would be valid to say that the top charioteer's share of the total wealth of the world is comparable to someone with $15 billion today. As long as you think of it as wealth relative to peers, the comparison stands. By your logic, inflation adjusted numbers for say, box office hits like Star Wars and Gone with the Wind are meaningless because people couldn't use the money to buy cell phones or laptop computers.
Way to brush over the severe problems with inequality. There were plenty of countries poorer than France during the French revolution. It was not poverty which caused it but inequality. In all societies high levels of inequality coincides with political instability. All that wealth and prosperity is easily lost if you end up with revolution and civil war. Look at America today. It has not been as unequal and politically polarized in decades.

The author champions Adam Smith, but can not possibly have read him. He did in fact speak at length about the dangers of inequality. He specifically said that poverty was not an absolute phenomenon. It is not about how many calories you get per day and the size of your dwelling. He understood hundreds of years ago that poverty is a relative phenomenon.

The author also mentioned Picketty but elegantly ignored his reasoning for why inequality is a big problem. One of the things Picketty pointed out is that with rising inequality, inherited wealth starts dominating the economy. This means the ability to get rich fast will most efficiently be accomplished with strategic marriages rather than starting your own businesses. This is what the world of Jane Austin was about. Everything came down to strategic marriage. That was the obsession of the day. A society of high inequality over a long time can not be a society of "the self made man".

That ought to be recognized as a problem.
I think because the comment is confusing. Are the question marks a text encoding error?
> a == 1 || a != 2 needs a warning

Yes, it needs a warning because it's kind of obvious that there is something amiss about this expression. Only the author could tell what was specifically wrong.
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I feel smell of leftism from keywords "equality" and "justice".

You don't need machine learning to automatically spot social democrats (they have almost the same rhetoric as socialists), a simple python script is more than enough.

By the way, what this article is doing on HN?
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Assuming no fault is something you want in a lot of places. For example the general rule for all emergency services (that is police, fire brigade etc.) is that unless you deliberately place a fake call, you're generally not held liable. The reasoning is that all emergency services would prefer to be notified earlier rather than later (for example for smoke rather than a full blown fire) and holding the caller liable for false alarms provides a strong incentive against that. So all in all, false alarms are considered something that the community/society needs to bear in return for peoples willingness to help/notify.
"Amazon should try giving away paperwhites for free."

It would make sense in a lot of cases. Personally, I buy many times more books than I did before I got a Kindle but, I guess, they have calculated that this won't be the case for the majority?

The problem is that it's hard for them to compel people to keep buying content - unlike the way mobile operators give phones away in exchange for a binding, fixed term contract?
I reckon people find it uninformative. If not, then I'd guess the exact opposite. You should know which.
Whether or not you want to ignore it, Windows 8.1 is still in the full mainstream support phase until January 2018. This is the equivalent of Red Hat's hardware enablement phase, and totally ridiculous that _at least_ that version is not getting support for the newer hardware platforms.
One item that doesn't seem to have entered into anyone's calculations, including the pilot's: the deposit of (ahem) raw sewage on the floor of the plane. If I were a passenger I think I would have wanted the pilot to divert even if the original patient was fully stabilized.
> It just means you are allowed to tinker, share, and learn about the software on your computer.

You say tinker, I read "everything broken for non-expert users that can't compile their own kernel modules".

Tinkering is fun when all the subsystems are working flawlessly and you're just fiddling with a couple variables.

Example: "to get a complex project to compile on Windows requires a lot of tinkering".
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True. I've had reading glasses for the past couple of years now and, aside from ingredients/cooking directions on food packets, I can manage just fine without them.
Child education comes from 1) parents & 2) society. (1) should not exclude (2) and vice versa.

If the patriarchy family understood the idea of education better, maybe they would've thought their children that the law > father word.

If they do understand that idea, but don't like it. Well they should vote on their next election for someone that doesn't support it.

What they should not do is go against the law and do something on their own. Because that's what makes us all citizens.
cool list, thanks for putting together and sharing
I think taking a loan could be better in terms of risk management and growth rate. Let's say you have a business with a steady, growing revenue, currently with $50k MRR, $10k profit, and you want to invest $100k for expansion over the next year (hire another dev, marketing, whatever). You can do this from your own revenues, but then you're at zero profit, and every decrease in revenue puts you into loss. Not a good place to go to. On the other hand, you take the $100k loan, and now you're operating with a financial cushion, have enough time to recover from a decrease in revenues, and in case of a disaster someone else takes part of the risk. You could of course start putting $10k/month a side, and start expanding in a year, but you'll lose a year of growth.
What's the alternative? Old MacOS versions also don't support newer hardware, old Linux kernels neither. By your reasoning, no operating system should ever be considered for anything designed to outlast a 7 year period (which is windows' 7 age).
As the sister comment says, it's because your comment doesn't make sense. What does "test????/photo????" mean?
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Aw, it's C-3P-Lowe.

Questions for the Designers...

- In that awkward "will there be anything else?" moment, after it's led me to the hard-to-find screws, what font size will the "fuck off" button have?

- Is it going to hover just off-camera, watching me with TSA level scanners, to make sure any screws don't go "missing"?

- Couldn't this be replaced with an In-store Map app I'll never download? (Unless the paint section is a Pokemon Stop.)

- Where's the off switch?
My guess is that these are ROMs and the weaving pattern determines its contents. In the second video, there's an excerpt from how the modules were made in the factory, and while the address wire is weaved systematically through all cores by two people, the programming part was done with the help of an automatic guiding arm: https://youtu.be/-BlivdwXRZU?t=57s
It means it's untested. In reality it should be option d) but they're saying that if a) to c) eventually happen then you were warned. Also don't ever expect chipset drivers for those OSs.
You do have automatic copyright on things you create under the Berne convention.
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Yes, but the Romans didn't have robots and automation. It will cancel out the decrease in population.
That is a lot of Ad Hominem attacks in one comment. For a personal computer one might care. For a work computer? Nobody gives a crap unless handling private information of other people. No personal stuff touches my work W10 installation. Worst case scenario: corporate espionage. I am not that paranoid.
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Publishers of technical books usually publish DRM-free ebooks, like O'Reilly and Manning. And so for technical books I prefer them in eBook format, though for such books many people prefer them in print for other reasons.

I was complaining about fiction.
This probably isn't surprising to most people.

Ebooks are great when you need to occasionally reference random parts or if you're performing a search for specific content.

But with physical books... It just feels better. I don't even know how to describe it. I think I just perform the action with different expectations.

On top of that, and this is probably a silly point, I love the sense of ownership you get when you hold the real book. It's hard for me to feel a strong sense of ownership over a PDF.

I don't know if this is a common sentiment or not, but I believe that upon purchasing a physical book you should be entitled to a digital copy as well.

I wonder how audiobooks stack up. I know that a couple friends of mine love listening to audiobooks, and I listen to around ~100 hours per month. Audiobooks are great when you have to commute, when you don't have anyone to share your meal with, or just when you're out for a run.

Something I've noticed is that I find it hard to consume certain kinds of books using specific mediums, depending on the scenario. For example, I would never be able to pick up a technical or serious topic with an audiobook, I basically only listen to scifi and fantasy. With technical books, if it's a topic where I'll be interacting heavily with the computer (e.g. by writing and trying lots of examples), it ends up feeling better to use a digital book. I think physical books are the best for when I'm reading about a topic that requires me to just sit and think about the specific topic.

Although, interestingly enough, my main method of consumption of random research papers is digital. I wonder if my retention and understanding would improve if I printed em out instead of reading off my laptop.

Luckily, I think all mediums can co-exists. I think they fill different niches.
> What happens when you build your business on YouTube or Amazon and they change fees? Or Apple drops your content because the Premier of China thought your comedy went too far? Only LBRY consists of a known, promised set of rules that no one can unilaterally change. LBRY provides this by doing something unique: leaving the users in control rather than demanding that control for itself.

> It is also worth noting that in the event that LBRY received notice that either name contained an illegitimate copy of Spider Man, LBRY would dutifully and quickly put that content id on a blacklist, blocking discovery or purchase via any legal services. LBRY and users of LBRY are still subject to the DMCA and other relevant laws of their respective countries.

These two goals -- being subject to the DMCA (and similar laws), and promising a predetermined, immutable set of rules -- are incompatible.

As long as you intend to abide by $LEGAL_CODE, the set of laws you follow is not fixed since it is subject to changes in $LEGAL_CODE. What happens if the Premier of China, to use the example from the page, decides to make it illegal for some content to be viewed in China?

Of course, this is in addition to the whole problem of the bidding system being flawed since there is (apparently?) no concept of ownership, as opposed to a continuously running auction where the highest bidder as of some time controls an address. The idea is unquestionably elegant, but leaves open the potential of some evil party with significant funds taking control of your address, where you need to buy the address back, causing, e.g. some sort of Gawker-esque financial ruin. The only way to avoid this kind of thing is to have some kind of judicial arbitration. I suppose people still remember the whole Ethereum fiasco.

Besides, there may be two "reasonable" addresses for some content, or more. I find it highly unlikely that there is some kind of economics-assured "existence and uniqueness" theorem that assures otherwise. How about "/wonderfullife" vs. "/itsawonderfullife"? You will need some kind of signing or cryptographically robust identification system to ensure authenticity, because you risk not being able to keep up with a stream of DMCA takedown orders against YouTube-style indiscriminate uploading of copyrighted material.
Why is this "homework/task" so rampant these days?
Isn't it better for employer to filter persons first and skills later?
Part of the problem is more that she might not have had grounds for a green card. Study gets her through school, but afterwards? She'd have to have a job or marry or something similar to be in the programs. And things can go wrong with all of this. The system just doesn't have much to deal with this sort of situation.

And sometimes, these sentiments are easy to say when you are 30, but not so easy to see these things when one is 18, not so easy during the next 4 years as they are in college... and suddenly, crisis.
I think they are highly moral - they deliver, honor their contracts, have very good support and have very good reputation. They also follow the laws of their land.

What UAE sovereign does in its own territory is his own business. It is not the other parties' job to interfere in its internal dealings.
Your first dead tree advantage is fascinating. What might help - in part, definitely not totally - would be a compromise between the naff skeuomorphism of yesterday and the minimalist 'flat' design of today. You need a visual (obviously, not as good as visual and tactile) representation of your location within the book that doesn't get in your way: challenging.
Not particularly. Besides the fact that was only one of many possible delivery vectors available, e.g. XSS, direct compromise of a visited site etc, it's one with quite a high chance of succeeding* in the wild.

* when the target isn't already paranoid due to previous attacks and the bait isn't quite so pathetic in its construction...

Edit: I imagine they went with the SMS method due to its high accuracy and low risk of detection from third parties.
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I absolutely agree, but just to provide a counterpoint - Windows(literally all editions, from 2000 all the way to 10) has a bug, where sometimes when you right click on something and click one of the options (say "paste") that button will stay on screen, no matter what you do. The only fix is to either change your resolution temporarily or restart. MS knew about this for years, probably more than a decade now, but says the bug is somewhere in the kernel and can't fix it.

http://superuser.com/questions/57016/menu-select-item-stuck-...
It also depends on whether you're the fall guy or not.
Those who want. I posted that link because of the bullshit in the comment i replied to.
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Isn't there a limit on how many licenses I can get? I have a few laptops and VMs around, it can go up pretty quickly.
In the US, before deregulation FAA Rule 240 [1] covered this scenario. Now the specifics between airlines, but the place to look is the 'Conditions of Carriage' contract that each airline is required to abide by.

This Consumerist article [2] is out of date (2007), but it covers every airline's contract and I believe it remains mostly correct.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_240
[2] https://consumerist.com/2007/04/06/dont-fly-without-a-copy-o...
Never ever get a loan with such a high interest rate.
Yes

I would advocate for the maintenance of both expressions if the comparison is tricky

If this is a hot path that must absolutely be optimized then a comment explaining the conditions is needed

And of course, the != 2 question might change (either because of a bug or logic change) but the == 1 might still be valid, however, if you took the first one your change will break the code
You're forgetting about all the other Apollo landing missions. The later ones have fantastic color video footage, remastered in full HD for episode 4 of the fantastic documentary series When We Left Earth.

The whole 6 part documentary series are worth watching for anyone remotely interested in space, but here's a small sample of the quality of the moon landing video footage: https://kristofferR.com/files/moonlanding_footage_HD.mkv
Actually it has everything in common with the Nazis. The Nazis were the law-and-order party of their day. Very nearly everything they did was legal. That is why they documented everything so meticulously. They really believed they were the good guys. The main reason the Nazis are the iconic villains is not because what they did was that much worse than other atrocities that humans have committed through the ages, but because they lost the war. Stalin killed vastly more civilians than Hitler, but you don't hear as much about that because Stalin was a Winner.
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I hadn't considered that, but it's probably true. A Disney movie turning revenue of $10 million with a sequel is probably more valuable than a no-name company turing revenue of $10 million with a surprise hit. So $10 million isn't even the same amount as $10 million, because the banks or potential investors won't necessarily assume that you could repeat it. Or if you found $100 million in a briefcase and asked Donald Trump to build you a skyscraper, it would go further than if you tried to do it yourself, because he could stick his name on it and get more funding.

This doesn't really apply to small amounts of money(less than $1k), because all you can buy there are consumer goods(i.e. commodities). So to a consumer, $50 is as good as any other $50. And cost-of-living estimates for ancient Rome are probably reasonably accurate when translated.

I guess what I'm saying is that wealth is dependent on what you can actually do with it. So descriptions like, "The charioteer had enough money to buy a quarter of all the farmland in Rome" is a better description of his wealth than "The charioteer had the equivalent of $x billion in USD", which doesn't convey how he could spend it.
Diceware is great for passphrases.

Passphrases are not passwords and I think they shouldn't be recommended for use as passwords.

Passphrases are fantastic for encryption keys, where trying to otherwise memorise a suitable amount of entropy to match the required strength would be almost impossible.

But passwords don't need to be 256 bit. If you're using a password manager it doesn't hurt to keep passwords as strong as each service will allow, but Diceware isn't the right tool for the job for passwords, because while it's great for memorizing one or two high entropy phrases, there's no way someone could be expected to memorize the dozens of passwords they use on a daily basis.

At which point you're back to bad solutions such as writing it down, using the same phrase everywhere or cheating on the lengths.

The only sane way to manage dozens of services in a way that doesn't bleed risk from one service compromise to the next is password managers.

At which point a 16-20 character password of random characters is more suitable than a passphase. It's harder to memorize if anyone happens to see it due to a miss-paste or whatever, it's easier to type in if you need to and it's less likely to suffer from "silent truncation" effects.

So use a password manager, use a diceware phrase to secure the master password (encryption) there, but allow the password managers to generate passwords which are short and random.
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Perhaps IBM could have made the same argument in the 1930s.
Wow. Is the author really telling me my mom should hunt down errors in log files, search for them in bug trackers and provide "vital feedback to developers"? And she receives back some "freedom"? Then he is completely missing the point for the "normal" user and what he said just boils down to: "Don't try this at home if you're just a desktop user."
After reading the article I am very angry at that flight attendant.
He compares Rome's military wages to the US. How many militairs where there in Rome?

Probably not that much as the author compares it to
> taking from the rich and giving to the poor helps only a little — and anyway expropriation is a one-time trick.

It is not explained why it helps only a little or why it has to be a one-time trick.

And why is the author talking about "expropriation" instead of "taxing"?
How do you arrive at this number?
I'm actually really surprised that QR didn't top up your frequent flyer account with something -- I've seen them do it on multiple occasions.

(Source: spend way too much time flying back and forth between Doha and the US)
When I was forced to use OS X (for about 2 years), my homebrew stopped working (just partially wiped out and required 'doctor' or whatever) twice due to major OS updates. Not exactly breaking the system, but breaking all the tools I cared about. It also randomly broke on other occasions. Not being a first-class citizen on the OS does matter.

Been using Xubuntu 14.04 + i3 (and recently, Qubes OS) full time for 3 years now. Never faced a problem with apt, and I have a sane wm instead of the "drag this window out of the way to see the other window" hell (and not having to use my mouse is an added bonus). I loathe booting into a different OS.

There are certainly ways to emulate the Linux experience on OS X. But increasingly I found that OS X wasn't delivering any value in itself (I mostly stuck to iTerm + browser), and the less-than-perfect emulation of the Linux environment became infuriating.

Using Arch as a comparison for ease-of-use probably isn't terribly indicative of Linux distros generally. It's "bleeding edge".

My experience is as a person who mostly writes software for Linux and admins Linux systems. OS X is just an unambiguous productivity drop for me, but I can appreciate that it is probably not the case for casual use.
This is why some people go for more manual and minimal distros and desktops ... fewer bugs.

I use mostly Arch Linux, with the core components of the Mate desktop environment. But I've used Ubuntu a lot in the past (and even a bit currently). Even though it often rolled out newer major versions of packages sooner, Arch always seemed to be less buggy than Ubuntu, because it didn't try to make everything "just work" by auto-configuring stuff or applying integration patches etc. You might not want to do the rather manual Arch install/setup/configuration thing, but if you do go through it, you're rewarded with a less bloated and less buggy system, and a better understanding of what all the parts are.
> It makes perfect sense to add additional verification challenges for Tor users.

I’m actually perfectly fine with that. The issue is how Cloudflare does it. They should just offer something like X-Cloudflare-Fraud-Score header or even <x-cloudflare-protected-frame /> tag (they’re already doing SSI), but instead they just nuke the hell out of everything.

The way they do ‘protection’ is openly hostile to open web, or even neutral web. Whether this affects Tor disproportionately or not is a minor point.
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i think theres a place for a library like this, i love these little libraries, and sometimes would rather use this to query my data.