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> So, you will turn down Medicare when it comes time that you can utilize it?

No, and I feel morally justified because I've more than paid into it with taxes. The healthcare isn't free. You just get to pick who pays for it.

Insurance as a way to reduce risk is a great idea. Doesn't mean the government has to do it, though.
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>If tech companies were breaking the law, someone would be suing.

I wasn't referring to tech companies, but individuals calling themselves an engineer, so I don't think that applies.
Safari 10 showed up in my downloads list for my El Capitan system this morning.
eh, Google Labs is still very obviously Google though. the idea would be, for each new product, to create an entirely new brand with no obvious connection to Google, that Google could later bring on full time if they decide they're ready to commit

for example, "Google Allo" could have just been released as "Allo", separate website and everything, and if Google feels it's working out and is the future of their messaging platform, eventually officially bring it in to the Google ecosystem. sort of like a buyout
We now have a good rhythm - wife lets me sleep through the night and I get up at 5:30am with Felix and let her sleep for another couple hours. Didn't really work great at the beginning.
Paraphrasing this thread:

seibelj: Corporate taxes are regressive.
Roboprog: Stop taxing income. Tax property and imports.
RUG3Y: Flat tax, because property tax is evil.
twblalock: Property deserves to be taxed, because gov't services.
logfromblammo: Gov't services are not sufficient justification for any tax.
See also: every libertarian ever.
twblalock: I have already rejected libertarian arguments.

Then why bother responding at all?

I, like RUG3Y, think that levying taxes based on the value of owned property is worse than other methods of taxation, particularly when failure to pay the tax may lead to seizure of the property.

The fact is that property does not enjoy the benefit of government-provided services. People do. So you tax the people, in proportion to the cost of providing them with those services, not in proportion to how much their house is worth, as it is a poor proxy for the former. Just as the Window Tax led people to wall themselves off from natural sunlight, property tax discourages people from purchasing and improving property for the long term.

Also, property tax just feels like a protection racket shakedown to me. "Nice lawn. It'd be a shame if someone took it from you and sold it just because you didn't pay me to not do exactly that." It's one of the reasons why I can't stand Georgists/geoists: property taxation is one of their foundation stones.

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If the cost of a road does not scale to the number of users, please explain why a single-lane gravel road costs the same as a 6-lane elevated highway. Sparsely populated areas get reduced services. One guy living in the middle of a 16 sq.mi. ranch does not get city water and a sewer connection. He digs his own well and uses a septic field. He doesn't get fiber to the home; he uses a satellite dish. On the other side, city dwellers get city services because they live at high density, and it is therefore cost effective to do so.
I thought that was the punchline to all the cures. :)
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Both, probably.

I've heard the argument that because health care (or insurance) is a necessity of life so it should be provided by the government. Why doesn't the same principle apply to food?
I've been going through the same motions. You end up with Thinkpads as the only viable alternative (esp with the numeric keyboards, which I like); but once if you get decent specs, they become as pricey as mbp's, plus there is the lottery of quality you randomly get. I'll wait a month, see if Apple does an event.
Glad that worked for you, but bed or not, there's a ton of fussing that's going to happen. Maybe your kids were different, but in my experience the bed just means they fall asleep faster (which is nice, not going to argue that), it doesn't prevent your baby from waking up every 2 hours all night.
This is why I use Telegram, and why I don't use Signal. I love the desktop client.

My hands are big, and I've always hated writing on phones. On my computer I can blast away messages on my glorious mechanical keyboard.
> So why are we looking at Google to scrub the record of factual information

Europe likes to try and bully Google; it makes them feel better about their distinct lack of web tech
Yeah, sure, Microsoft is now all white and fluffy. Best friends forever.

How about we pay some attention to the second part of:

Lenovo's firmware defaults to "RAID" mode and
** doesn't allow you to change that **

Power savings or not, but locking down storage controller to a mode that just happens to be supported by exactly one OS has NO obvious rational explanation. Either Lenovo does that or Windows does. This has nothing to do with Intel.
Are certification, accountability, and unions really the defining characteristics of engineering?

Directly from wikipedia:
In 1960, the Conference of Engineering Societies of Western Europe and the United States of America defined "professional engineer" as follows:

A professional engineer is competent by virtue of his/her fundamental education and training to apply the scientific method and outlook to the analysis and solution of engineering problems. He/she is able to assume personal responsibility for the development and application of engineering science and knowledge, notably in research, design, construction, manufacturing, superintending, managing and in the education of the engineer. His/her work is predominantly intellectual and varied and not of a routine mental or physical character. It requires the exercise of original thought and judgement and the ability to supervise the technical and administrative work of others. His/her education will have been such as to make him/her capable of closely and continuously following progress in his/her branch of engineering science by consulting newly published works on a worldwide basis, assimilating such information and applying it independently. He/she is thus placed in a position to make contributions to the development of engineering science or its applications. His/her education and training will have been such that he/she will have acquired a broad and general appreciation of the engineering sciences as well as thorough insight into the special features of his/her own branch. In due time he/she will be able to give authoritative technical advice and to assume responsibility for the direction of important tasks in his/her branch.

I don't see anything about unions in there
You should of course do what you believe is best for your situation.

Patrick's observations are still useful, though. The semantics aren't ridiculous. They're a very real distinction, and they matter...especially if you're looking to move into contracting/consulting. If you find yourself doing that, it helps if you can position yourself farther up the value chain. In this situation, it helps to be able to describe yourself who understands business, communicates well, and can talk to a customer, understand their problem, and solve it. Having the ability to understand a business's problems and create software to solve those problems can give you a pretty significant advantage.
I only know this because Barry Bonds rides a $20k McLaren Tarmac:

https://www.strava.com/athletes/8976
Makes sense. Each news outlet is a platform in itself (if they choose to be one). They should "own" their own platform, instead of relying on others. It is one thing to not set the stage for the world to interact on your platform, but it is another to not own your own thing.

Speaking of NPR. I got tired of their non-stop coverage of one particular presidential nominee. I thought NPR should be the last news outlet in the world to be going for the rating wars, but they did.
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If only my infant daughter would agree to this plan....
> QM can only be completed within the constraints of SR.

This is not true. QM theory in general (without talking about particular Hamiltonians, field or otherwise or not) has no reliance on special relativity; it doesn't even have a reliance on positions in three-dimensional space (physicists who work in quantum information routinely work with QM at this level)! So again, you're already specifying QFT (e.g. by something like the Wightman axioms), which includes special relativity as an assumption.

> The impossibility of FTL is a direct logical consequence of the fact that there exists a universal speed reference in space-time.

This is what special and general relativity say. Not only are you begging the question again, but GR doesn't rule out violations of causality: there's a bunch of known models within GR that violate it[1]. Since GR is in fact more certain than SR (in that SR has strictly less explanatory power than GR since it's a special case of it), you must believe that it is as certain as anything else in science that causality violations are real!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve
edit: the truth has been censored because I spoke harshly of those looking to perpetuate evil.
Is it not? There are other sources, e.g. BBC[1], but I haven't seen any trustworthy sources that would state otherwise.

[1] - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
Anyone else who finished the quiz think that the comment moderation process is bonkers in terms of work load? 11,000 comments a day. I got 2 out of 5 and it took me 46 seconds, which means it would take me more than 28.1 hours to do a day's work.

Even split across a few staff members that's insane. But this is something they needlessly put on themselves by making comments hidden by default. An editor has to read every comment before approving it. This could easily be fixed by having it show-by-default, queue-after-flags/downvotes (which is how I assume HN mods act so quickly)

There are a few "trusted" users who are auto-approved. I complained that there doesn't seem to be any automated filters or heuristics. If they know "Repugnican" is a word used in name-calling, why isn't it blacklisted so that all such comments either get thrown out or just thrown to the bottom of the queue?

I've subscribed to the NYT paper edition for several years, which means I've paid at least $1000, nevermind the ad revenue they get form my page visits to the site. And yet I have to wait in the queue, usually 15 minutes to an hour, before my comment is approved, like any of the free registered users. I believe they have a million subscribers. I think it is a logical courtesy and efficiency to give paying members the benefit of the doubt. Not many people pay 3x a Netflix subscription just to be an asshole on the comment boards.

edit: Made it clear that even longtime paying subscribers are treated as untrusted commenters.
Or the uncritical tech press or the rubes on reddit, etc. Its obvious to me that we're living in a time where rumors, falsehoods, and purposeful misdirection are easily monetized and that's what our tech press has degenerated into. Critical voices just get downvoted away for being "shills" or somesuch.

We live in a time where likes and upvotes control what we see and informed criticism being censored away by downvotes and flagging. As someone who often goes against the grain, its god damn obvious our communication infrastructure has degenerated into something horrible where only echo chambers and groupthink rule. Stuff like this will continue to rise to the top until there's some kind of reform. I don't see reddit, HN, or Facebook changing how they rank items up to encourage dissenting opinions, because ultimately dissenting opinions aren't as profitable or 'community minded.'
> For elected officials Congress (specifically the Senate) has the option of initiating an impeachment trial.

No, it doesn't.

(Impeachment trials in the Senate are neither restricted to elected officials nor do they extend to all elected officials, and in any case the Senate does not have the "option" to initiate such a trial, an impeachment trial happens only after impeachment by the House of Representatives.)
If you're in the US and want to be extremely pedantic/annoying, then no. ABET (the engineering accreditation society in the US), doesn't have "Software Engineering" as a valid discipline.
I believe pretty strongly that commenting on articles is generally a waste of time and doesn't add much value for the reader, or the discourse in general. And no, I can't reconcile that with what I am doing at the present moment.
True. they have to monetize their acquisition somehow. I could now see many angry people getting a bunch of unwanted calls. This should be fun to see unravel.
Make it only available to the government. Your average citizen shouldn't have access to so much information; only the government should.
You wonder why, yet these billionaires aren't wondering, they're doing.
Maybe some mathematicians think like that, but many don't.
Well, yes; you have to look at the set difference between the CS math courses, and the common ones that all science students have to take.

That said, nobody in a STEM field should go without knowing at least univariate calculus. Without calculus, you can have only a poor intuition for situation involving rates of change, or little deltas being applied in one place resulting in other little deltas elsewhere. It's also necessary for stats, because you're dealing with oh, integrals such as the area under sections of a probability density function.

Part of computer science is numerical analysis, too. Once upon a time, numerical analysis constituted the bulk of "computer science".

CS undergrads arguably need some exposure to numerical analysis, and in such a course, the knowledge from other math courses provides support.
Definitely - the manufacturing that Apple outsources to Foxconn is a cost center for Apple, and a profit center for Foxconn.
What the Lenovo rep said wasn't accurate, and I'm not that surprised. So I wouldn't really trust them either.

The actual reason, some technical firmware/driver minutiae, is exactly the kind of reason that both makes sense and I would not expect a PR rep to know or be able to explain.

That may even be what happened here. They were told "It's happening because we're using Windows X and this makes it runs better". That becomes "It was because that's what Windows needs" or "That's what Microsoft has us do".

The first one is accurate but misleading, the second inaccurate. But I could see either one resulting from that conversation.

Now if the Lenovo rep could cite the rule that MS (supposedly) gave that says "Do things way X" then I would believe them. But "because Windows" alone isn't very compelling.
It's the sarcasm tied to apparent lack of desire to discover or communicate actual information.

There are entire organizations devoted to assessing the effectiveness of various kinds of charity and measuring how many lives they save (e.g. http://www.givewell.org/ and https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/), and their reports can be found within 20 seconds of googling, less time than it took for you to type your based-on-no-actual-information sarcastic judgement.

Sarcasm plus knowledge would be fine.
The nice thing about at-will employment is that you can always re-roll, and usually keep the max of the two (or three, or five).
The uneducated but not stupid developer would not write her own password storage system.
That is part of the basis for this whole exercise (that they're augmenting their moderation efforts via automated means).
It's not that he made Office overpriced, just to eradicate polio.
Well, when a Lenovo rep says: "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft," it doesn't exactly require a bomb-throwing partisan to reach the conclusion.
Usually called 'window screen' in American English or just 'screen' if the context is clear.

I doubt 'mosquito screen' would be unclear to any English speaker so it's fine to say.

If a screen is on a door you call it a 'screen door' if you have a full enclosurer to protect you from bugs it's a 'screen house.'
It's a bit expensive, but you can get adapter kits that let you hook a sodastream machine up to a standard CGA 320 CO2 tank, and then you can hook up a 5 or 10 pound CO2 tank. You'd probably be looking at $10~30 for a refill on one of those, which is GREAT considering the standard sodastream tank is only a 1 pounder.

Edit: also, forgot to mention. While your average sports shop paintball gun CO2 refill is dirty as crap, it's really common to have someplace around that has beverage quality CO2 (check breweries, they usually capture the excess from the brewing), and surprise surprise even though the beverage companies make a big fuss about their CO2, your average industrial CO2 supplier is giving you the same CO2 you'd get for food grade. Also look for kegerator suppliers, as they'd be another place to get CO2.
Exactly. If I had been born 100 years earlier (maybe even 25 years earlier) I would have had a low paying menial job. I'm blessed to be in the job that I am, with the pay that I receive, and I am grateful for that every day.

I don't use "software engineer" as an ego thing, but because it communicates better the variety of knowledge I have to people that barely understand how to turn their computer on. I get better pay, my employer is happy, everybody wins.
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Mis-pricing your offerings, high or low, can ruin your chances in a market. There shouldn't be any particular connection between a company's pricing strategy and philanthropy, especially for a company selling something that isn't essential for people to live.
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Yeah, I had to stop reading after "But we have to let all voices be heard. The right to free speech is protected by The First Amendment of the United States Constitution."

Nothing in the first amendment says you are guaranteed an audience, government or not. If you can't make that simple distinction maybe you're not getting picked up and published because you're just writing drivel.
Because groups can't do anything badly (e.g. statistically significant percentages of their members or in their core ideology is they are something like a political part, a religious sect etc), and shouldn't be criticised and/or made fun for that?
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I used to work with someone who would turn the water on, not wash his hands, and walk out. Could never figure that one out.
The flagging solution does not necessarily work for a biased readership. Valid comments that go against the echo chamber will be flagged more often than those that don't, and will rise to the top. This will bury inappropriate comments that go along with the echo chamber to the bottom.
so youtube is going to start to have thought police... unfortunately there are no other viable alternatives

on the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_1966vaIA

> Comments are disabled for this video.

hmm I wonder why
Any context why this is suddenly trending? libjpeg-turbo is awesome, but hardly new.
That opening picture did it for me. It reminded me of the loss of one of our dogs last year. We have a camera to keep an eye on the dogs (mainly to make sure our female doesn't chew something). At work a day or two after the dog was put down I was constantly bugged by the camera alerts, as the camera was picking up noise. That noise turned out to be our female howling away...for hours. I left work early, and worked from home the rest of that week. Few things break my heart, and that was one of them.
I would really love to see more commentary from high-level systems people on how suitable SEL4 is as the basis for a general purpose OS. It seems like it's security guarantees would be driving a lot more outside investment than it has received.
It's a "me first" attitude, once folks get what they want, then they'll consider others. Pretty normal unfortunately.
Hi everyone, this is the second installment of our series. The first one was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12455274. You'll notice a lot of the considerations discussed in this post apply to everyone, not just women, so there’s no need for the discussion to specifically focus on the “female engineer” part, though talking about that is fine too
Humans are definitely not universally susceptible to stream addiction.

However, the rate of adoption described in the article[0] is worrisome.

0: Actually, you might just look out a window to get the same data.
Our doc (in India) asked us to just use soft cotton and water. That worked really well. I have always found it quite difficult to clean properly with wipes and we use wipes only if we were stepping out. I'm curious as to why wipes are used especially something with juice.
Why doesn't Linux support it? Is "RAID" mode based on some spec that was only provided to Microsoft and kept secret from everyone else?
Lenovo may have set power saving standards for the laptop based on what they want to market. It's Intel that dropped the ball here. They need to submit patches for RAID to upstream Linux. Or it could just be a firmware bug.
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If you look at pharma company R&D, they know where their bread is buttered: people who are at risk of death are much bigger spenders than brunettes wanting to be blondes. 70%+ of pharma R&D goes towards life-prolonging research.
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Except engineers who have PEs and FEs don't exactly have massive salaries. "Software Engineers" are paid EXTRAORDINARILY well, especially compared to the amount of effort needed for that salary.
Quote from the article:

Why not offer the option to disable it? A user who does would end up with a machine that doesn't boot, and if they managed to figure that out they'd have worse power management. That increases support costs. For a consumer device, why would you want to? The number of people buying these laptops to run anything other than Windows is miniscule
Never.

There is no Mac OS X anymore. Now it is called macOS.
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The table I posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12551250 contradicts them "jumping in". Other major donors have continued to make large contributions to polio intervention over the period where the Gates foundation has made their contributions, the period on your graph where it is nearly gone.
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It isn't hard to figure out what's happening if you read everything that went on. Windows itself doesn't install on these computers unless you have special drivers in the boot medium that aren't included with Windows 10. Why would Microsoft sabotage their own OS like that if this were something done to stymie other OSes?
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I'm also seriously considering moving away from macOS after a decade.

The hardware situation is ridiculous and macOS isn't as stable and streamlined as it used to be.
I doubt Microsoft knows the spec to it, all they care about is that the manufacturer provides a working driver.
> certification [...] accountability [...] unions

Basically, what defines a "real engineer" has pretty much nothing to do with engineering? I'd rather define engineers as people who have the skill and know how to engineer.
You choose not to, but you could if you wanted to, right? He apparently wanted to, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to Apple in the first place, but he just doesn't know how to work in a corporate environment. In fact, he says as much in this tweet: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/773574683518119936
because Pharma doesn't partner with academia??
learn tricks, tips, etc on how to write code that is easy to understand and maintain.

It is said that we spend 10 times as long reading code as we do writing code. If you can optimize for that, it saves lots of effort over the long term.