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Was most interested in this point:

> According to KISSMetrics, every additional second of load time for a page will increase its bounce rate by 7%.

Awesome, actionable metric. However, all I can find in the linked page is this, which is a totally different metric:

> A 1 second delay in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions.
> Regulations are issued by the executive branch

Sounds like the meaning of the executive's order to 'repeal two for every one new' could be decided within the executive branch, then. And since everyone within the executive branch is responsible to the chief executive … maybe it could even work.
> You don't believe that the creator should have rights over their creation, perhaps because their creation came to you over a medium that allows for easy duplication.

That "easy duplication" is entirely the point. The concept of property is based on the limited nature of physical objects. Land, food, books, player piano roles, and DVDs are scarce resources[1]. The zero-sum nature of scarce objects is where concepts like "theft" and "property" apply. We invented the concept of property to manage scarcity.

When dealing with anything that isn't scarce, the entire concept of "property" doesn't apply. Math, for example - those "ones and zeros" - is non-scarce. Teaching someone that 1+2 is 3 doesn't deprive the teacher future use of addition or the numerals 1, 2, or 3. Most reasonable people would agree that nobody gets to claim property rights over math, because it's a non-scarce idea.

> but that's all it is, a justification.

The unwarranted justification is claiming that unlimited ideas are a scarce resource that requires property rights.

> results in less original content.

Do you also complain that teaching algebra - where ideas are copied from teacher to student - results in fewer novel discoveries in mathematics? Just as teaching math tends to lead to more math discoveries, freely using non-scare stories, sounds, music, images, etc, often leads to more content creation. This is so common we invented terms like "remix" and "cover band" to describe some of the ways media is reused.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity
Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern
border with the full understanding that the country of
Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a two-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a five-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions

How Mexico will be forced to pay for a wall built by the US will make for a good TV show.

Private prisons are about to make a killing with the 2- and 5-year mandatory prison terms.
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The longer they are there, the more sold out they become.

Career politicians are the worst.

Completely disconnected from the people because the only thing they know is how to get elected and work the system for personal enrichment and job security.

They help pass laws which affect people and the economy they've never participated in. The bad ones are hard to get rid of. Kind of like tenured professors. So you might lose an exceptional one from time to time but they can switch houses or branches in that case.

If you like no term limits, why do we have one for the President?
Yes, sometime around 1992 I got a Turbo Pascal unit as shareware, that could handle them.

Indexes were some form of B+ Trees.

Back in those days I toyed with the idea of porting it to Turbo Pascal for Windows, but then never got to do it actually.
This is already the case in several cities like NYC and SF:

https://www.airbnbaction.com/one-host-one-home-san-francisco...
https://www.airbnbaction.com/one-host-one-home-new-york-city...
I agree that career politicians aren't inherently bad and was more just stating plain reasoning to the parent's question.

"Career politicians" and term limits are an easy thing to point to that don't actually deal with the problem which in my mind has more to do with each individual representative carrying too much importance because there are so few of them. Also one person cannot reasonably represent the views of 1M constituents.
what would the email server have to do with policy on technology like net neutrality and infrastructure and a lot more? how come trump supporters reasoning for anything doesn't go to past the word 'emails'? It's her versus mister 'cyber'. perhaps he'll appoint baron as head of 'the security aspect of cyber'.
Isn't that the life of any C-level exec anywhere? At most mature, post-growth companies, leaving is part of the job.
Every source I can find has her winning by around 200k. When you are talking about 120M votes that is rather insignificant.
My major question is: how do you write reusable code without type classes?

It's not really possible, as far as I can tell.
Most of those laws are very useful and are there for a clear reason. Fingers crossed that Donald Trump and Paul Ryan are more thoughtful about which regulations to throw out.
The internet creates a very strong platform that makes it possible to reach many people in the USA (previously not possible without massive amounts of media and advertising).

What's needed are sites filled with accurate information and that allows people to explore issues (which will be actual issues, actual things that need to be thought out and address, and actual things that need to get done or that should possibly get done) to see where they personally stand. Also, being burnt into the public eye for many years (launch in 2017 in preparation for the 2020 elections) will give it time to grow to maturity as the next generation rolls in.

The sites would have to be well-done to be able to uncover good insights in a way that's not easily gamed. I think many want to be informed on the issues and who to elect, etc, as they aren't totally aware of what's going on, and will probably be open to accurate/relevant information, or will believe whatever they are told by Fox (which will net the same outcome if it's accurate/worthwhile, rather than the hodgepodge of crap that's usually spammed). Also, while many want to vote well with good information, they don't really want to spend much time sorting through everything or even thinking about these things. That is, they just want everything to work (which some turn their nose up at, but it doesn't matter unless it affects the accuracy of their vote).

Also, the electoral college, house seats, congress, etc, all need to be turned upside down, thrown out, thoroughly reassessed, etc, to see if there's anything there. There's a lot more data, intelligence, capable people, and accumulation of knowledge and experience now than there was in the 1700s when a handful of people sat in a room and quickly scraped something together one night. How can something be expected to blindly stand the test of time in general, much less when it was just hastily pieced together? Things need to be generally done correctly in order for them to be better over time, but as that hasn't ever usually been the case, things need to be revisited from time-to-time to ensure they are what's needed.

The problem with the revisits (and everything else) are those that are always trying to break the system or game it to get more of what they want. There are always those people/groups, but it's important to separate that concern from the issue of correctness/precision/accuracy. That is, malintent shouldn't be used to get in the way of doing something properly (or from someone trying to do so), it should mainly serve as perspective such that the solution can be properly Engineered to be buffered/resistant to attacks, while still doing what's necessary. If the attacks are such that it sets the system to neutral or mediocre, then you can't just settle on that. You have to figure something out to ensure what's actually needed makes it through.

In any event, time has shown that nothing that's actually needed is out of reach or impossible, it's that the "powers that be" didn't want to do it or didn't know how.
> while being labeled racist and bigot for wanting to maintain their own.

Could you give a specific example here, as others have asked?

I don't doubt that you feel this way. As an immigrant into the US I initially felt there is too much political correctness going on, which prevented some people from expressing their thoughts clearly, which is never good.

But in terms of culture, I am surrounded by, and happily participate in the celebration of American culture. For instance, just to name a few things:

- trick or treating in costume with my kids on Halloween
- pumpkin carving
- lots of bbq-ing in the summer
- incredible amount of decoration, shopping and eating during the holidays, Christmas trees
- meeting extended family in thanksgiving, eating turkey
- wearing green on St Patty's day (not sure if that counts)

I also don't meet any Americans who are apologetic about any of these types of cultural expressions. I could argue that diversity and celebration of foreign culture is also a distinctively American trait, but that is a separate point.

So my question again would be - can you give an example of a cultural expression or tradition which you would like to see continued, but is disappearing, perhaps due to media pressure from the left?
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I think you've got the wrong politically-active Silicon Valley wunderkind.
Another one is that its "master" based pricing really relies on you using it their way, as a CDN with few files read many times.

For example for the price of their $10/mo minimum service, you can get 2 droplets + 2TB bw from DigitalOcean or 2000 "master images" + 50GB bw from imgix. If you need to process each image once (maybe for a machine learning task) and it takes say 5s (pngcrush can take a while), you can process 518k images in a month on DigitalOcean vs. only 2000 on imgix. Even if you're doing a lot of processing, the fact that they require you to bundle a CDN makes it prohibitively expensive.

It'd be really nice if they dropped the CDN.
State level actions.
the polls are rigged! he actually won by more!
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915233

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915171
That, and the delegation of rulemaking by lawmakers to "unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats" within state agencies. Term limits will accomplish the opposite of the stated intent.
Google "What jobs did Obama have". At least Trump ran a company and built things like hotels, which shows some organizational skill. If he runs the goverment as efficiently as he did his campagin (less than $5/vote) he might get some where -- we should at least give him the benefit of the doubt.
> Since everyone knew, it's just the worst kind of monday-morning quarterbacking.

To be fair, it's not like this only gets brought up after the election. The last 3-6 months have been filled with people complaining about how our voting system works, different systems and their own problems, etc.
I don't think calling someone a liar is the same as saying they don't know what they're talking about
This is the fundamental disagreement on this issue: whether mental creations can be owned. The idea of property is an idea too; it can apply if we wish it to apply.

We can go down this rathole again, or agree to disagree. Btw the law does recognize ownership today.
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I'm just shaking my head at all the Hacker News armchair law professors who fervently believe each and every one of these is critical to the functioning of civilized society.

And that's why we have so much red tape. Apparently there's a type of person who can't abide not having all possible minutia of life legislated.
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Serious question - how are you able to modify an application binary and not have the OS refuse to run it?

Is spotify shipping an unsigned binary?
Maybe you should offer more than a tantalizing hint for why we should discount 150 years of scientific work establishing that it is, in fact, caused by our cars.
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You were wrong.
Maybe there's room for a 'file write filter' that avoids writing identical data back to the same file. To save SSD lifetime. Sounds like it would have application.
>Also, apparently has no problem with the incendiary and hateful speech of Trump

That's probably because that has been overplayed. The President, whatever his beliefs doesn't change America's racism (or lack thereof), in the same way there was a record of police shootings of blacks etc. under Obama.

A president's economic platform is more important, and Hillary, as did most pundits, mostly retold the old wives tales that globalization necessarily means giving up factories, or that somehow having jobs and motives for building stuff in one's country is obsolete, etc.

That approach might maximize enterprise profits, but not necessarily help middle and lower classes, and general societal wealth. A country can have huge companies, but not get out of them but minimal local jobs and infrastructure (because they outsource those), and not even taxes on their profits (since they use globalized subsidies and other schemes to avoid paying any).

I don't believe that Trump will actually fix that, but he at least (as did Bernie Sanders) paid lip service to the notion, and that counted to a lot of people.

There's also the foreign policy issues. Trump might be a "loose canon" or whatever, but Hillary has been constantly and vehemently pro war / invasion etc. She has threatened Russia and Iran, helped destabilize Syria, Libya, etc.

The very real potential for wars and tons of deaths (on both sides) is more important than whether Trump made misogynistic comments, or spoke against illegal immigration, etc.
I haven't followed this deal that closely - but I believe it had significant antitrust headwinds before Trump said anything. Generally, if ATT wants to buy anything thats large - I would be concerned about a decrease in competition.
I take it you don't have a daughter.
I continue to be mystified by this take. The S&P 500 index is usually the benchmark cited here. But the S&P 500 is tremendously diversified over sectors, factors, you name it. Trump managed to create actual wealth in our economic system at a rate slightly less than the S&P 500. If anything the people who invest in index funds are freeloaders on the economic engine that Trump is part of (full disclosure: I use index funds without exception for my investments)

Another thing bothers me: you're supposed to look at risk/return, not simply return, in evaluating investment strategy.
A new finance paradigm
Safari has improved dramatically in the past couple years. Give it a shot.
Intersectionality
Banks that make money (fees) from such international money transfers are not gonna be very happy with Trump.
CO2 harm to human health involves a more complex chain of causality than merely breathing it in and being poisoned by it. But it is real nonetheless.
I also voted for Trump. Valley startup expat with a masters degree now working for a Fortune 50 on the East Coast. Quarter Filipino. Supported Trump since the primaries.
Simple thermodynamics.

We get energy from coal by burning it then extracting some of the heat. The waste products are basically carbon dioxide and heat.

Clean coal is about capturing that carbon dioxide, which means spending energy to separate the CO2 from other gasses, then liquefy it.

This sequestration process costs about 30% of the energy originally extracted from the coal.

I fully support clean coal since it increases the price of coal fired electricity, meaning coal plants will become uneconomical sooner.
Fees for what? The only bank fee I've ever paid is a £1 fee for paying by card in a non GBP currency.
PP said there was no evidence that the preponderance of the voters hold those views, and you respond with what PP called "the mainstream narrative", so you two aren't really talking about the same things; it's as if his comment is actually in response to yours, your comment was the "3. repeat, 1. lather" to his "2. rinse".

I think in your mind, if a candidate says things that egregious, nobody could vote for him who didn't agree, amirite? I don't think the middle sees it like that. These campaigns seem to be about people on the two ends of the bell curve yelling extremities about each other, and they can't seem to grasp that people in the middle are interested in the same topics but don't see everything as so black and white.
I won't quote myself at length[0], but the motivating quote at that startup was "pictures go to SD cards to die".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511905
It will just lead to lawmakers getting more creative about merging laws together into monstrosities that meets the "quota" without actually achieving any real change and/or that uses the oportunity to expand the reach.
IRV is better but not perfect. If third parties actually start to become viable, then they would start to steal first votes away from the moderate parties. Eventually they would steal enough votes to cause them to be eliminated. So you are still better off selecting the two major parties as your first vote, even if you don't really like them. If you have full tactical voting, it ends up exactly the same as plurality voting. And you get only 2 viable parties.

The best system seems to be approval voting. You just are allowed to vote multiple times if you want. And the candidate with the most votes wins like normal. See http://rangevoting.org
> And what are the repercussions if he does NOT achieve all these within the first 100 days?

He will claim that he did indeed achieve them despite all evidence to the contrary.

If you manage to corner him on the argument, he will blame you for the failure.

* edit. Not sure what the downvote is for. Trump has used both tactics outlined above. He was always against the Iraq war despite evidence to the contrary. When he was under the impression that he would lose the election he cast blame elsewhere (election rigging).
>You do realize that Clinton won the popular vote, right?

Just barely. So? Besides, nobody would have complained is she had won against the popular vote (which most pundits expected her to).
This is going to rapidly become an image problem for the Bay Area and the tech industry as workers in other places and industries become obsolete. So it may well be in our own best interest to take the initiative.

Is it possible for the tech world to seize the issue of worker retraining and a general safety net like it did with net neutrality? Brand and promote the hell out of it? I don't think the existing strategy of trying to fly under the radar will work for long.
Isn't 70% or more of the Earth's surface covered in water and thus, quite difficult to build a terrestrial structure upon?

Asking for a friend.
And building our stuff without our EPA regs. I'm not sure how they can "clean up their own mess" while basically being an outsourcing arm for all our emissions. It's like we have this magical factory with a really long smokestack. Don't shut down the factory just tell someone else to fix the smoke.
Sure, that's totally fair. I don't even particularly like the electoral college system personally.
very detailed breakdown of what just happened...
What is not easy is finding good solutions that increase efficiency.
Something around $20/year sounds about right to me. I'd prefer a subscription model to be honest, seems more sustainable and I don't want the service to be gone in a year.
Actually, even that's not true. Mountaintop removal mining is mechanized and automated.
Because they disagree. Seems obvious enough.
Javascript is dynamically typed though.

And Typescript has generics or circumventing the type system with :any to enable reusability.
(A year ago)
> Indirect democracy ensure a certain amount of resistance to the people's will in case they decide to sink the ship. Do I understand you correctly ?

Yep. But, as it can be seen with Trump (with the fact that Republicans control the legislative (Senate, Congress), the judicial (because they have at least one open Supreme Court post to fill, with potential for three more, and they're life-long!) and executive by way of "elected sheriffs, who came up with that nonsense anyway?!) and before with the Obama deadlock!, even a carefully crafted system of checks-and-balances cannot ensure that the ship "democracy" won't sink.

> We need more educated people (better education is easily possible) that can organize more, understand and decide more,

I fully agree with you, however from an outside POV the US education system looks totally broken (homeschooling?! 7-figure-levels of debt upon graduation?! segregated schools?! vastly different quality of education depending on if the public school district has money or not?!). Germany isn't that much better, and a load of other countries also have massive problems in education. When I look at what happened to people in the "poor-ish" hood I grew up, all I can say is that I was fucking lucky. A tiny bit less luck and I'd probably doing drugs now instead of working in IT.

> even if it means move their ass more, but at least they'll have real power, not just a ballot.

That's yet another can of worms. Back when I was young and went to school, we had MASSIVE school strikes to protest an "education reform" (aka clueless politicians listening to elitist "concerned parents"). Fascist marches/demonstrations were met with massive opposition of all kinds - from peaceful demonstrations to open riots in the streets. Most of the opposition were young(ish) people. Today, I'm happy when I'm out on the streets if there are 50 people on the road to oppose fascists. The youth has gone lethargic, and the "middle-aged" mostly spend their time and energy in internal debates instead of progressing society.
Being Venezuelan I am familiar with the whole "pay attention what he does instead of what it says", and that didn't work well for us.

The problem with authoritarian governments is that they can delay plans but never forget about them.

If Thiel really think that, then he is not only an opportunist but also a fool.
Hmm... good idea. Added bonus, if he has to Google it to explain it, he'll learn how it works. :D
But is it a "crime" (one that gets you a criminal record) as opposed to something like a parking ticket? This is what I thought we were arguing about but IANAL and might have misunderstood what OP meant.
What's funny about this is that health savings accounts are really just a discount program based on your tax bracket. The higher your tax bracket the bigger the discount. So in other words, the richer you are the more you'll save with a health savings account.

So if Trump pulls off his "huge tax cuts" he'll be undermining his plan for health savings accounts. Classic Trump cognitive dissonance.
The Fed buys it instead -- they have infinity money.

The Treasury doesn't care if other banks won't lend them money, so long as the Fed will, and the Fed always will.
I think i found a way for you to get free music and artists get paid. win win
> the majority of Americans agree with her policies and voted for her.

No, not actually. Clinton was a lot closer to Trump's vote count than 50%.
> 5. Avoid Non-RESTful Routes

Every "large" project gets to a point where some routes aren't totally RESTful. It happens. But it's not great advice to say that non-RESTful routes are always a code smell.