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Nowadays you can have reality your way with relatively little work. In fact, you have to work hard to get other perspectives. You can even lie to yourself about your own viewpoint. You could be a left leaning liberal ready to say all of the right things on all of the right topics and then feel uncomfortable when a person of color enters the room. Or joke with your friends in "Ebonics" when everyone in the room looks the same. Ever done a triple take when an interracial couple sits near you at a restaurant? I see it all of the time.

This country is out of touch with itself and we are out of touch with ourselves. We worry about what others think of our opinions and bury the parts of us that don't align with the right opinions. But they stay there, latent until they are triggered by something that is outside of the script that we prepared for. As one of my friends put it, "I'd rather know who is racist than not know and have people pretend they are not". It starts there. By knowing who we are and who others are. By being honest with ourselves. And then looking outside of the bubble we created for ourselves and understanding the other perspectives that exist and why they exist.

Personally, I listen to a wide range of podcasts from far left to far right. I am uncomfortable with the intolerance I hear on both sides of the spectrum but I would rather know what the perspectives are than not know and be surprised and completely unable to understand when someone like Trump wins.
What's the deal with that? Do the car companies try to say that you are only licensing the car (just like software companies only sell you a license, not actually software you can own)?
Its augmented with C macros that are not only rarely seen elsewhere, but considered bad practice in most other C projects.

Augmented to the point where it feels very much like an Object Oriented language.
To really create the scarcity the scalper must continue to buy all of the items that come out. That is not going to happen, because they never created the scarcity in the first place. Nintendo released too few items to start, and possibly charged too low of price.

The customer is also not forced to pay anything. There is typically a short timeframe where the items are out of stock.

I personally find tons of value in scalping. I've done it myself with tickets, and bought tickets in the same manner. It lets me trade time (waiting at a website or in line) for money.
The fact that the NES Classic Mini runs Android means that sooner or later someone on XDA will port the emulator to everything that runs Android.

Not that there wasn't any emulator on Android before, but having one more good choice doesn't hurt.
It also mentions “lakh” for the amount of compensation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system
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Instant Runoff Voting (and the Single Transferable Vote) wouldn't really help: Australia has those, and if anything, there electoral system is even worse than Britain and the US---eg they don't have a single non-white MP.
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Does uber pay less than Pizza delivery drivers? People have been wearing out their cars for many many years for peanuts to get pizza to your door.

Plus, in 10 years we have robot cars and the economics totally shift.
At my company we pay for LogMeIn and TeamViewer. I prefer both of them over any stock VNC client. They also come with the ability to just do remote file sharing and chat if you need to.
So free market for commodities but throw out the common man trying to make a better life for himself?

Everyone here arguing against H1b saying that US companies should prefer American citizens first are forgetting that most multi-nationals or even American companies earn their money globally. IBM,Apple, Microsoft, Google all earn as much money out of US as inside. Yelling "dey tuk er jerbs" is going to drive them away to where they will find more programmers to do their jobs. You guys don't understand that companies are not tied to national borders.

And plenty of these companies: Microsoft, Google, Pepsi, Mastercard etc have Indian CEOs who are/were on their H1b. Kick them out too?

51% of billion dollar silicon valley companies were founded by immigrants. If you are asking to shut down legal migration and build a wall for illegal immigration you are either deluded about the market or have no idea how economy works.

You live by free market, you die by it.
It's the downvoting your comment because I disagree with an opinion you don't hold, but recognize as being held by some people of media commentary.
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What is the going rate for 2 hours of uber? I have only ever used it for 15 minutes or less.
I very much recommend the short story the movie is based on, The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. I can tell from the trailer they've built upon it but they'd certainly need to do so to make a feature length film.
You can't prove that. The parent can however make the decision to not hide behind a throwaway account, give their company name, suggest how they found out Google employees were in the audience, document the dates they were ranked highly vs low, tell us what area Google is comically bad in, detail what if any SEO practises they were using at the time. Link the site if nothing else so we can all have a look into back links dodgy practises, archive.org copies.

You can't prove how a black box algo ranks you, but you can do a damn sight more than a throwaway comment accusing Google of cooking their algorithm out of spite.
I find it amazing that there is now 200 banknote and then only 2000. And there is only a moderate amount of the 200s not the crazy amount that is required for giving 9 200s as change when you buys something worth 200 with a 2000.
Stuff related to "solar" [energy] and any variation of that. 4 letters words are always popular ^^

You can't judge by the first page of results anymore. Google is tweaking the results individually, as per your "programmer profile". Try doing a search on someone else computer.
That is a theory I had not heard.

And the economy will not be missed, even when trying to fix the ships that are Greece and Italy and Spain?

At some point it seems like Germany can't have the only economy propping up the rest of the EU
I remember seeing this on Facebook and looking in to it. Turns out some fish do climb trees!

Also no evidence that Einstein said it. Indeed he seems to contradict the general idea behind it.

Not everyone is a genius. Being amazing at woodwork or running is not "genius", it's admirable but different. Some people are [intellectual/intelligent] geniuses, period. Not everyone is.

The best way to take this aphorism IMO is "don't stress out if you're a fish and you're no good at climbing trees, if your thing is swimming that's good too".
Google results are not like, hand-curated. Why would the google ranking of a site on a given search term be reflective of whether or not they consider ProtonMail a serious competitor?
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You can deliver pizza in a worn-out old car. 'Duper has standards for their vehicles.

The taxi company I drove for also lobbied to force 'duper's vehicles to be inspected by mechanics... Semi-annually, iirc.

Edit: the inspections were probably mandated every 3 months (quarterly); the taxi company inspected its version of ride-share vehicles bi-monthly (iirc), which just cost their drivers time (because the mechanics were already employed by the taxi company), whereas an inspection was another cost for 'duper drivers.
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Your comment was fine. Too many people do not like scalping because it 'feels' unfair. Unfair is defined as buying said limited quantity item when they want at the price they want. It also touches into the very present class warfare undertone that is so prevalent right now. "Some rich person can go get one for $500 without (waiting in line|getting up at 4am|etc...), but I can't."

Personally I like scalping because I can almost always buy what I want as opposed to no option. It has always worked out well for tickets and items.
The article fails to mention few points.

The govt pushed everyone to create an account in any bank with any govt id card. This account operates/comes at free cost if you are operating under 50k rupees per year. This has been asked for almost 2yrs and public made aware of it. They clearly advertised that any govt benefits or subsidy will come through bank account only and its made mandatory for benefitting.

Now if those people are blaming govt for banning those notes, i find it funny.

If they are business people who are trading in lakhs, they must file Income Tax which in turn require bank account

If they are poor people who earns less than 1 lakh, i dont find a reason why they cant directly go to bank account and exchange money in next 1 month.
I myself went to a high school which functioned this way. We started the week in our groups for a 30 min meeting where we set the goals for the week. After that we studied what we wanted. There were workshops all day with english, math etc that you could go to if you had any questions. But mainly you sat with your friends in small groups and studied.

And yes, you were alone responsible for when you took breaks etc. This way of studying were in my opinion much more effective. Sure I perhaps didn't put in as much time studying as people who went to traditional schools did. But once i studied I were much more focused and to be honest. When you sit in a class and the teacher ramps on about something that is of no interest to you, how much are you able to recollect?

Also another positive side of it were that if I had it easy for some topics I could focus others which I had a hard time for. I remember that I didn't study either swedish or math at all in 6th and 7th grade.
Most developers will refuse, mostly out of fear, to read existing code, never mind modifying it. It is the hardest thing we do, and yet it's the skill that is most needed in bigger projects.

Give them small, extremely well defined tasks in pieces of the codebase they're probably not familiar with and gradually lower the exactness and well definedness of the tasks, increasing the scope. Use code review to help them BUT make sure they submit things. Do not raise their level of frustration to the point they give up. Worst thing to do is to do it for them. It is important for it to be understood that they will not be blamed, no matter what happens. That means you may need to stand between them and the boss and take flak. And frankly it's a great general idea to never blame anyone for anything short of willful sabotage.

This will mean, for you, to not fix obvious bugs and instead getting this person to do it for you. The first time be ready for something to take a week that you could do in 30 minutes.
For macOS, there's Vienna:

http://www.vienna-rss.org/

I'm in a similar situation regarding use case - some busy news feeds, where I'll just scan the titles and read a few articles of interest, and plenty of comics that aren't updated daily, and thus can't slot conveniently into an OmniWeb workspace.
Sharing economy is certainly a lot more catchy and friendly than more accurate descriptions of airbnb or uber like "monetising surplus capacity".
If they say nothing, it’s even more likely to be used against them.

And I personally think that’s actually good. Open all the antitrust cases against Google at once, so it can be broken up.
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But only a few students will actually be motivated enough by classroom math to learn enough to later program games or drones. Most students develop an allergic reaction to anything that even reminds them of the horrors of school math.
So words for 5 zeros and 7 zeros. Nothing for 6 zeros? I guess you would just call it 20 lakh for 2 million?
You can always find someone in a sea of 100 million that acts against their own self interest.
I remember my father, who was in the RAF in WW2, pointing out that a lot of people in the UK hated Churchill - they respected him as a war leader but didn't want him running the country after the war as it would mean a return to the pre-war status quo. This perhaps explains who he wasn't elected as PM in the 1945 general election - picking a Labour government under Clement Attlee that delivered things like the NHS.
About ₹10,000-20,000 would be enough for a middle class family (say, about 5 members) to live for a month. How about USD required when in US?
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All EU countries have it.
>I'm wondering if it pushes things up based on time of day. //

What do you mean by that? I don't think HN sniffs location so hour would it even work with a global audience?
> or he just wanted to really win the argument. I don't know the motivation, but anyone could have told him that trying to blackmail Apple was not going to end well,

So you’d also say someone should never sue Apple for doing something bad, because they might abuse their monopoly power against you if you try to win?
> Uber pays drivers peanuts; we should call it "Goober", or rather "Guber".

Drivers are free to not drive for Uber. Uber operates within a free market. Obviously, the economic incentives are enough for many.

Amusing that the godfather of free software has so little understanding of the free market.
If you want to put it that way, you can think of information in the user's brain as being stored in peripheral memory at the end of a horribly slow, high-latency, unreliable bus. :)
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Cryonics could be made pretty cheap if lots more people signed up. It's only expensive because it's an extremely niche market. It's really a tragedy that cryonics isn't the default option. Even if you think it's unlikely to work, even a small chance at saving so many lives is worth it.

Cryonics almost certainly works. They use chemicals which prevent the formation of ice crystals. Which is like 90% of the reason most animals can't survive being frozen. They've demonstrated certain organs can be revived from cryopreservation - a rabbit kidney was frozen and then successfully revived. Which is incredible. And even if we don't have the technology to revive everything today, I do believe it will be possible in the future. The point of cryopreservation is that everything is preserved completely. The information in your brain - what makes you you, is preserved.
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> I guess you would just call it 20 lakh for 2 million?

Yeah.
Well ranking is a blackbox. Perhaps one of the mods took a bung /jk.
Not condoning any shoddy move by google, but have you noticed how the ProtonMail UI is a shameless ripoff of gmail?

See these screenshots from ProtonMail:

https://protonmail.com/images/slider/compose.jpg

https://protonmail.com/images/slider/inbox.jpg

https://protonmail.com/images/slider/column-labels.jpg
I had the chance to buy one yesterday morning and I didn't take it up. That was my first hearing about it and I gotta say, beyond resell value I don't see the appeal of this thing.

You can make a smaller NES with a Pi Zero and rented time on a 3D printer. I don't think people would have a problem trading use of cartridges for a much larger, cross platform selection.

Is this a business opportunity?
This kind of post is full of short term thinking and poor arguments. At no point is any data shared, any argument justified. It's just full of complaint.

It is just silly to compare the US to Russia as well.
Under every post we can find all the range of opinions, all fundamentally equivalent without a debate. In reality, we as persons are who we are because of our history, heritage, body and culture so for me, from my country and in my own skin, it is pretty difficult not considering stupid a muslim immigrant woman voting Trump.
Considering how large Microsoft is I can't believe they can't organize the company better. You need a product manager that have the whole vision about their different offerings.
"Uber plans to do away with human cab drivers.
It would be easy for a non-plutocratic government to prohibit this, and that's what every country ought to do, unless/until every person gets an adequate basic income so people don't need to be employed."

To me this point is extremely valid, call it progress if you like, but to me this is just going to screw a lot of people over for the benefit of a few. Especially since big tech companies don't seem to like paying tax to help with matters of welfare.

Also, taxi drivers aren't always perfect but I've seen them do more than robotically take people from A to B. There can be other value provided by human interaction.
My favorite modification to its software would be some controller button combination shortcut to the reset button. Having to reach to the actual device to switch games is so annoying.

Surely Nintendo could have come up with a combination that was not used in any of the included 30 games? For a company that was so focused on user experience early on, they really dropped the ball with that button design, btw. Start, Select and a primary action button ("A")? Anyway, that mishap meant there was room for a rescue now in 2016, to use some unused combination of those peculiar buttons to do the reset. But alas, no.

Other nice things to have that would hopefully be doable:

- putting the game manuals on the actual device for viewing on the TV

- the audio is a bit harsh; it sounds like it needs some filtering, maybe just some dead simple high-pass (edit: err, low-pass) filter would do it
Please try a bit harder to really internalize that you don't have perfect comprehension of this extremely complex situation. And that it is impossible to know what the future holds.
The relevant bit:

>The revelations of multimillion-dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation from Qatar and Saudi Arabia killed my support for Clinton
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934034
> Google is not required to provide you search results.

Yes, they are, if they want to access the market at all, they have to provide results to everyone, and can’t discriminate.

> And they should be expected to market their own products.

No. They have > 90% of the market, which is used by > 50% of the population, meaning they’re automatically a public utility, and can not provide any positive or negative discrimination to their own or other services.

Any treatment has to be completely fair and equal, and if their own services can get integration, so any competitors have to be able to do. (For a fair price, of course).
They stole the data!? What did the phone company do when it no longer had the data for their phone books?! ooooh, you mean they made a copy which the court ruled was ok to do.

Your post is good (but your link is broken, please go steal a better copypaste) and informative, but the point I'm making is that it's easier for people learning about this to see the underlying issues that courts grapple with if we stick to less loaded terms.
You weren't unclear, I was.
Indeed.

Or Google might be broken up – there’s also antitrust cases against them in the US.

With more than half of the population using them, and them holding > 90% in multiple such markets, they fall into the category of monopoly that automatically becomes a public utility – they’re supposed to be just a dumb pipe.
I don't think the instinct to rename things in a suggestive way is a wrong one -- consider the success of Frank Luntz -- but he hasn't got an ear for it, that's for sure.
This is what she says:
"Yes, I want equal pay. No, I reject Trump’s “locker room” banter, the idea of a “wall” between the United States and Mexico and a plan to “ban” Muslims. But I trust the United States and don’t buy the political hyperbole — agenda-driven identity politics of its own — that demonized Trump and his supporters."

Trump’s “locker room” banter ?
I don't buy the political hyperbole ?

I'm neutral on the election, but the theme I repeatedly see in a lot of Trump supporters is how they assume he does not mean what he says.

Personally I would hate if my manager said things that he did not want me to understand.
And if they don't have the choice to not drive for Uber? Maybe b/c higher paying taxis have been unable to compete? - Rather unamusing that Uber is (still) allowed to shift much of the risk to their drivers. Glad that in Germany the politics works better in this regard!
Found the guy that has never tried emulation on a Pi.
Which is greater: His desire for us to have a "free" (liberty) society, or his resentment of those are trying to earn a living and simply can't afford to stand up for his principles?
I don't tweet or blog sorry.
Urgh.

> But I am a single mother who can’t afford health insurance under Obamacare. The president’s mortgage-loan modification program, “HOPE NOW,” didn’t help me. Tuesday, I drove into Virginia from my hometown of Morgantown, W.Va., where I see rural America and ordinary Americans, like me, still struggling to make ends meet, after eight years of the Obama administration.

"So... I voted for a party whose battle cry since Obamacare has been to make sure no one can afford it, and whose policies are proven to do nothing for rural america - unlike the other side, whose policies are well intentioned but not as effective as I'd like."

> Finally, as a liberal Muslim who has experienced, first-hand, Islamic extremism in this world, I have been opposed to the decision by President Obama and the Democratic Party to tap dance around the “Islam” in Islamic State. Of course, Trump’s rhetoric has been far more than indelicate and folks can have policy differences with his recommendations, but, to me, it has been exaggerated and demonized by the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, their media channels, such as Al Jazeera, and their proxies in the West, in a convenient distraction from the issue that most worries me as a human being on this earth: extremist Islam of the kind that has spilled blood from the hallways of the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai to the dance floor of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.

"So I voted for the guy whose blundering about will do more to swell the ranks of Radical Islamic Terrorism, by removing the grey zone and therefore playing directly into ISIS's stated strategy, than any over-caution the other side may have been guilty of displaying."

> By mid-October, it was one Aug. 17, 2014, email from the WikiLeaks treasure trove of Clinton emails that poisoned the well for me. In it, Clinton told aide John Podesta: “We need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL,” the politically correct name for the Islamic State, “and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

It took all the spin of RT, Assange, Wikileaks and the right-wing side of the press to turn Clinton's attempt to use existing ties to pressure foreign governments to reduce their support for terrorism, into its opposite.

I'm sorry but my only conclusion from reading this article is that this woman has a fatally flawed understanding of how the world works. She voted for the opposite of what she wants, because she let herself be bamboozled by the decadent press and Trump's bombastic con-man spiel.

Final kicker:

> No, I reject Trump’s “locker room” banter, the idea of a “wall” between the United States and Mexico and a plan to “ban” Muslims. But I trust the United States and don’t buy the political hyperbole — agenda-driven identity politics of its own — that demonized Trump and his supporters.

Hannah Arendt, a highly intelligent thinker, on the topic, points out that when politicians are allowed to say one thing and do the opposite, totalitarianism is not far behind.
"a steamroller to any nuanced discourse"