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So $3mm is basically retirement money, right? So why isn't everyone just selling and moving somewhere else?

This sounds to me like real Vancouver residents who bought years ago have just won the lottery. Boohoo my house is worth 10x what I paid?! Tell me more about your problems!

Seriously, cash in the chips and enjoy life until the crash and then move back in a few years, own your house outright, and, continue to enjoy life.

I mean, I don't want to be rude but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this...

Hey man, my house is worth like $4 million on Zillow.
Yeah, that totally sucks, how are relatable people supposed to move in next door?
Those Ferraris really have loud engines. It's a menace!
How are we going to *fix* this?!
We need the value of our homes to plummet back to equal or less than what we paid. I need noisy neighbors who can't afford landscaping, not just this eerie silence all up and down the street.
For sure.

Please can you tell me how we can get these Chinese investors interested in some nice New England properties?!
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Given the choice between Thiel (favors reconstitution of our political establishment and believes in science and technology) and the rest of the Trump hangers-on (are ambivalent towards reconstitution of the establishment and are anti-science), this is a decent outcome.
It's not built-in syntax, not even a macro. Just a binary function.
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I personally loved outpost 2. There is a fan maintained version of the game which is still fun to play. http://outpost2.net/
Easily one of the greatest songwriters of the generation. As Dylan said, ‘As far as I’m concerned, Leonard, you’re Number 1. I’m Number Zero.’

His songs are dark and poetic and really keep you entranced. I'm glad he released his last effort (Leaving the Table is a great one for the occasion) and seemed totally at peace in his New Yorker feature.
Primary rules aren't decided on a case-by-case, election by election basis, and they're not a strategic tool for positioning oneself for the general campaign. They're an internal process that is supposed to be consistent and knowable beforehand--and the reason Obama was able to upset Hillary in 2008 was because his campaign bothered to learn the rules for all 50 primaries/caucuses, while hers didn't.
what's the plural noun for assholes? because they flock together.
He's not a big fan of democracy either: "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
The radio, print, and television media have laws concerning what they can publish. I don't think it's so incredibly impossible to imagine that the new technology which is replacing those old forms, might also have something in the spirit of those older laws. Also consider: Facebook is already censoring what you see, it's just censoring to show you things you will like.
You pay capital gains tax on all capital assets you sell, with the notable exception of your primary residence. There is no reason to call it a "penalty".
Great read. Thanks for this.
Of course it does. But in that case you were the US company's customer - they absolutely should bend over backwards to accommodate you.

In most cases bosses are hoping to externalize a cost to their local employees - if their outsourced labour has to wake up early for a call, they'll probably do it happily but then charge him for it. He's happier trying to make his salaried US employees 'stretch' a bit to help him out and make the cost savings work for him.
This really great, brings me back to my childhood - I used to love to draw islands.
Nice, I'll play with it again. :) Thanks.
Also, there is the fact that Trump isn't Pinochet. At this stage, he's not even Bill Clinton (pushed the party hard to the right, locked up hundreds of thousands of poor black people to court skittish suburbanites). He'll get there but he's a pure virgin soul compared to pretty much any modern President besides Carter.
The "nuclear waste is.. nuclear waste" bit is a thoughtless, easy jab that plays on the unfounded fear of nuclear energy. Safely stored nuclear waste isn't a danger to anybody.

I also don't like how the rest of the video continues to try to put nuclear in a bad light, going as far as implying it's not "clean energy".
I really hope that's the case. More so because that will kick out the awful Megan Smith from her current position.

I had to sit through the most excruciating long presentation from her about how white men are basically the devil incarnate and how women essentially invented tech but its because they're totally oppressed that we are just discovering this now.

Good riddance!
The executable runs on Windows because Windows loads it and runs it. The executable doesn't force itself on Windows.
He doesn't believe in global warming, for one.
"extra syntax or macros" refers to OP's example of "?". That ">>=" is not magic is exactly what I said (meant to say).
OR you could take the money from property tax and use it to pay for private police! And private firefighters! And you could build/maintain your own private road!

Imagine how much time and money you'd save.
New land can't be manufactured.
That's not the problem. The problem is there isn't one included with the charger. It doesn't need to be sold only included or only separately.
I've noticed the president switches between "omnipotent tyrant" and "powerless figurehead" depending whether or not I agree with his party.

When he's in my own party, he's a lame duck, unable to effect the slightest change without congressional approval.

When he's the opposite party, he's a monarch whose word is law and who answers to no-one.

This is extremely convenient as it allows me to avoid all kinds of cognitive dissonance :)
There is tolerance and then there are things that are not open to discussion. The line tends to shift as society progresses.

Not so long ago it was a perfectly valid opinion that there should be slaves. Try that today.

(Incidentally that same level of society would have seen Thiel stoned to death, he is openly gay after all)
"It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us"

Emphasis added, but his exact words. You are being absurd.
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"humble-struck" - can't agree more, lol.
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"But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone

I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song"

One of the greats.
That's not true: false, viral stories were the very lifeblood of this election.
Nothing in that post explains why Thiel is a climate change denier. The only thing I see that could be construed that way is that he said it hasn't gotten warmer the last 15 years. It depends on when Thiel made that statement whether it was true or not at the time. The warming that occurred over the last year meant that there was statistically significant warming, but before about February the warming over the last 15 years was not statistically significant.

At worst getting the facts wrong by a few months doesn't make Thiel a climate change denier.
Are they out of stock, or just can't bring yourself to buy 18mo old hardware?

I feel like mid-summer next year we're going to start seeing signs of a new Pixel for the Andromeda merging of Android/ChromeOS.
Independent here from California. I absolutely voted for Clinton over Sanders, and I assure you my conscience is clear about it.
There are many other large companies other than Amazon and Google.

Just because Google and Amazon don't have QA team doesn't mean the occupation doesn't exist.
"believes in science and technology"

Not really, since he denies global warming: https://youtu.be/CoxxGhLFbw4?t=2m25s
Start with marriage equality then fight for marriage deregulation
I agree that it's not great, but I think it's still necessary, given all the infrastructure and public services there are. My question is whether there are better ways to do it than as a percentage of property value. Is there a fairer way to do it so that the family with the view pays as much for public services as their neighbor without one? Would that be fairer?
This is so awesome! I now am a lover of islands :D
I am not a Trump supporter, as far as his anti-Muslim stance is concerned. But I do support some of his economic stances which are labeled as "protectionist" by mainstream media. I may be wrong as I am not an economic expert also his take on immigration is certainly a thing of significance.

A related note regarding Facebook here: AFAIK, Facebook's curators were very biased and were always removing anything to do support what "mainstream vocal leftists" find objectionable. e.g. Be it to do with the shameless suppression of news related to people like Geert Wilders or Pamella Geller who are not by any means right wing fanatics. Geert Wilders is a staunch supporter of homosexuals. Just because he criticizes the barbaric ideology of Islam he is labeled as a "right-wing nut" by leftists with covert/overt Islam-apologetic stances.

It is well known that Saudi kingdom has large investments in mainstream US media, that's what Trump drew people's attention to. Who knows how much of Facebook is controlled by Saudi and the likes. [1]

It's no surprise that mainstream media got the prediction about Trump wrong. I guess, there predictions and poll-results were in fact propaganda against Trump. I felt it that way, many people I know felt it and I am sure many more people must also have felt it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9ldUHSgjs
>>Your attitude is disgusting on a number of levels, but my favorite one is how it leads to nothing useful at all.

And yet half of America voted for a guy who has said far worse than me and you are disgusted by me? I'm offended.
After having spent 20+ years in IT (11 of which was in government) I find it very disturbing when someone says fall in line or get out. No one likes to hide who they really are.
Very little, Obama didn't have the advantage of a friendly congress.
I'm sorry, what?!
This is based on the assumption that understanding someone is enough to accept them. I disagree, cannibalism is just one example of things people do where understanding and accepting are very different.

PS: Some people really don't care about safety others don't care about love.
That blog post could pretty much apply the same arguments to itself. And who knows if Bob's experience is simply correlation not causation. Perhaps Bob is just a smart, meticulous engineer, and it wouldn't matter how he went about his dev work, the quality may be good regardless.
Tolerance would still mean that if Nazi neighbor needs help with his lawnmower, that you don't have a problem giving him a hand.

Don't throw away people's humanity because of one aspect you don't like about them. Even if they're your enemy. Seriously, differences are being treated like kindergarten cooties here. You don't catch Naziism by being civil to your neighbor, and we need civility overall.

But here's a problem: Everybody is labeling everybody else as effectively Nazis for any minor or major difference, thus justifying all civility being withdrawn.

Plus, people can change.
I was being a bit facetious with the first part. I was also curious about why only New York and was thinking they would institute it elsewhere.

For example, in Madrid we were often being told having toddlers in taxis was a big issue, as the law isn't very clear on the legality of it. You'd think that type of market would be ripe for providing a competitive edge.
I'm not sure what he promised or where the contradiction is, but Jamie Dimon would be a very strong advisor. I think he's considered one of the smartest of the leaders of the wall street banks, and JP Morgan was one of the few banks that was strong going into 2008. I wasn't a Trump supporter, but that at least shows good judgment to me.
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This! I couldn't agree more. I try to end my day at work with a challenging problem that I won't be able to complete. I think about it a bit on the train ride home, and then it slowly dissipates throughout my night. I eat some dinnner, relax with my fiance and go to bed. By the time I get to work the next day, 90% of the time I'll come up with a solution in 5-10 minutes that I couldn't get to the day before. Also, doing this gives me a clear entry point into the day and that 'winning' feeling you get whenever you solve a tough problem. I highly recommend it.
It is now objectively true that Clinton could not beat Trump; it is time to accept that the candidate you backed was not a winning choice.
As a freelancer you will have to identify and solve business problems. OSS and hobby projects may be good practice but no one pays for those, and most businesses don't care about side work.

Focus on identifying a business need or niche where you can add value. Java, Scala, React, etc. are tools, they are not solutions to business problems. Learn to listen to what potential clients say and ask questions, don't think just in terms of code and software. An example business problem is "My e-commerce site loses about 25% of customers at checkout" or "We'd like to use promotion codes for holiday sales." You will never hear a business say their problem is they need 2,000 lines of Python by next month.

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It's obviously off topic; the topic is the news described in the title.

Veering into most-controversial-generic-thing-associated-with-controversial-thing-X is hands down the worst direction politicized threads can take on HN, and they're borderline to begin with. Whimsical or unpredictable tangents are ok, but generic ideological tangents are always off-topic. They're black holes: they suck everything in, including all the oxygen of thoughtful discussion.

Because these things are so generic you can always make a case for their relevance to a specific story, but the proof is in the pudding: what happens when discussions veer off this way? The pudding sucks. This one in particular is embarrassingly terrible. This pudding needs to stop forthwith.
Um, yes I do realize that. But think about what his employer is asking of him. Is the wellbeing of these offshore workers his charity? Why should clifanatic EVER be put in the position of saving the offshore workers that his boss hired?

Clifanatic's boss can ask those offshore workers to stay late, and then he can damn well shell out for them to take a taxi home. Maybe he can even let them come in late, given what an amazing savings he's realizing in labour costs.
The justification is that people are hoarding limited resources from others and not consuming them. They can still exercise whatever property rights they want. They just have to pay a fee for taking up space and not using it. If they want to participate in a real-estate pump and dump, that's fine, but the voters have decided to penalize such activity.

> You don't own the market and the extent to which you have a right to influence it is limited to whatever influence your own offers, bids, purchases and sales have.

...and to the extent that the government can influence it with taxes and tariffs, which is a perfectly acceptable form of market intervention.
do you think no one in germany opposed hitler?

hitler was seen to be pretty crazy to most "moderate" germans too and he wasn't voted in as the führer with absolute power. he slowly worked his way up in popularity until he became chancellor. then he worked to slowly build up members of the NSDAP into positions of power until no one could oppose him. then he began suppressing the opposition.

the lesson about hitler in germany is not, "don't vote in an extreme dictator" the lesson about hitler is that a person can assume power legally and still end up with total control without the will of the people.

you "promise" to stand up to trump if he becomes this. but by the time you realize what's going on. it'll be too late.

now i'm not saying trump is going to become hitler. the reason everyone is scared now is because he is following similar blueprints to hitler or other fascists. most of the time these type of leaders just become any other "normal" leader and do their term and let power go democratically and i honestly hope that happens because that's the best case.

but if he goes through with everything he promises. it'll be very scary. trumps call to south korea president assuring her that us forces would remain was very assuring for the stability of asia, so i have some hope.

this is almost a version of the boy who cried wolf. too many people have cried hitler and now no one believes it or just dismisses it outright.
That would be statistically inaccurate seeing as how Trump lost the popular vote.
This sort of emotional nibbling around the edges of something to cause resonance is one of my least favorite forms of persuasion. It's so hamhanded.
Your replies echo everything that is wrong within the DNC.

Get off your high horse and give some respect to the electorate, and accept that you backed a loser.
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If the discrepancy is primarily due to the shy tory effect and not the polls being rigged, this should be easy to see from the data because robopolls should be vastly more accurate than live polls. Is this the pattern that actually exists?

edit: "The study found only a slight impact by moving poll respondents from the internet to a phone call with a live interviewer — with larger effects among college-educated white voters."[1][2]

So while I think it's likely there was a shy tory effect, the evidence suggests it was small enough that there must have been other factors at play.

[1] http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/polling-election-what-...

[2] http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/poll-shy-voters-trump-...
Libertarians have no qualms with peer pressure to encourage you to act a certain way. Their problem is with the state using their monopoly on violence for that purpose. Boycotting Grubhub, or offering to poach their employees with quick hiring turnaround, are both fair game.
Agreed. This appears to advocate to fight propaganda with more propaganda. I don't trust anyone at Facebook to determine "facts."
and THATS why we pay the 40% margin.

the choices are: buy a desktop OS that sucks immensely from from a vendor who sucks, or pay a mere 40% extra.

feels cheap to me.
"The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics."

I wonder if he doesn't know or if he doesn't care how that might sound to people who were legally denied basic citizenship rights in the 1920s, or the descendants of those people. The 1920s were politically bleak for quite a few Americans.
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>He lied, as many on the left said he was

And many on the right.
He's certainly said more interesting things than you. The world does not need more boring people.
Not all voting systems are easy to compromise or standardized across states. Simply crashing the machines to create long lines is some areas is enough to tip a close election.

Sure this might not be a denial of service attack but map long lines with party preferences and well...
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Polling-Problems-New-Yo...
Correct. I think it's an understatement, considering how much crap he got for joining what looked like a sinking ship.
I think that's the whole idea behind these being puzzles --- someone who uses syntax highlighting as a sort of crutch will stumble over these, while those who are actually looking at the characters won't. One of the other ones does something similar with a comment, and it made me giggle a little as I caught it immediately. It's somewhat similar to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect experiment.

I bet even more would be confused if the 'defa1ut' one said 'defau1t' --- showing how font choice can also be very important to readability.
I think it still stands he's about to become considered a SV villain if not considered one already.
Voting is more of a democratic action and the protesters seem to have a problem with the results of democracy.
I still stand by my earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915345

TL;DR; It's probably a good thing for Silicon Valley, considering the alternative outcome (all other things equal): Trump still winning the election without a single Silicon Valley influencer.
Yes. Many states have explicit laws. Additionally "sex" has been interpreted to include sexual orientation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_employment_discriminati...
When.
I imagine it means making smart decisions. I think it's an understatement in this case.
He thinks women shouldn't be able to vote. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democr...
Obviously choices have to be made, I don't understand how you can begrudge the guy his living. It's certainly better than random hot developer tool startup that takes VC funding, grows like crazy, then either implodes, gets purchased, or changes their policies so you get screwed by depending on them. With Sidekiq I feel pretty good about relying on it compared to a lot of stuff out there.
And it's not like we don't have an example of a candidate that rode popular outrage to a comfortable nomination victory with the entire weight of the party elites trying to sink him. It's clearly not that hard if you find the right message and the time is right.

But then nobody hacked the RNC's emails. Who knows what's in those.
My point is that if voting for the Iraq war can be forgiven, anything can be forgiven.
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It is quite possible that most of the new inventions will be coming from China, and also most of China's scientific production will be rubbish. China has been great with scaling up its scientific community, but the problem of establishing an academic culture of scientific honesty is harder.
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Many people complaining that "1% is nothing to Chinese millionaires" are missing the point. These people didn't get rich by throwing their money away. Yes, they can easily afford an extra $10k or $20k or even more a year, but this combined with the recent 15% tax makes Vancouver a lot less attractive. After that last tax, foreign investors are already getting spooked and starting to flood Toronto's housing market instead - this too will have an effect. It's a great start, and I hope to see it in Toronto and other cities as well.
Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoxxGhLFbw4&feature=youtu.be...
How does this work in practice? This is something I've been thinking about and am struggling with. What if people don't agree with you and feel the same way about things not being open to discussion? Compromise? Split off into smaller and smaller groups that agree with each other? Refuse to work together? Shun? Shame? Resort to violence?

I'm serious. I don't have a good answer. I think it depends on the issue, but I know people are going to draw their lines differently. Thoughts?