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A wonderful critique of capitalist ideology... and so on and so on. sniff --Slavoj Zizek
>unanimous approval of economists*

* economists who were completely blindsided by the largest financial crisis of our time.

In the UK there was near unanimous 'expert' support for the idea that Brexit would immediately trigger a level of uncertainty pre-article 50 that would crater the economy and employment.

Growth and employment are now ever so slightly up.

>experts universally or near-universally agree on, convincing voters of these policies can be a hard sell.

Because voters are suspicious about the supposed expertise of elite economists and they have pretty good reason. They've been sold on a lot of policies over the last 30 years that have fucked them.
Almost every large consumer facing company has a huge advertising budget.

And they have for a very good reason.

People are easily manipulated, and advertising is subconscious manipulation.

I abhor all ads, and I never get how Americans actually willingly watch TV with the constant garbage thats stuffed into your brain. (it's not nearly as bad in most of Europe)

But then again, our economic model is dependent on driving demand (aka on people continuing to buy stuff, always more stuff), so it all works out.

Just see advertising as the necessary grease in the economic engine that is endless consumption.
I think he'd be vilified by quite a few of his own people if they could do it without ending up in jail.
It's what the market wants, apparently. The digging will continue while the market exists. I thinks it's brilliant performance art and provides some introspection to a part of capitalism.

CAH's black Friday stunts have consistently shown that people will spend money on stupid shit they don't need. Maybe there's a deeper lesson in there on the nature of people?
protein shakes are the opposite of what you want if you are trying to gain weight.
I've been working on http://www.indeals.co.uk for a couple of years now, a side project that lists food & drink deals for independent venues in 3 cities. We're UK only at the moment but want to keep on growing to cover more places soon!
Honestly, your best first step might be a university library. You want to look for retired authors, people that had very successful careers and are no longer incentivized to keep a lid on their accumulated wisdom. Be wary of academic authors; I suspect there are exceptions but logically, if they could practice what they preached they probably wouldn't be in academics any more.
I'm from an Argentine family, and I'll be blunt: the people of las Malvidas are Britons. Period. The people of Israel are Israelis, the people of the Gaza Strip and the west bank are Palestinian, the people of North Iraq are Kurds, etc.

Letting historical arguments about borders override the basic question if the culture of the people living there right now is stupid, 18th-century thinking.

I'm sympathetic to Argentina's arguments about resource rights to the water surrounding the island, but the nationality of the island itself is not in question, and Thatcher was right to protect British people.
Yep. I tried Atom for a little while last year until I tried using it while running on battery. It dramatically reduced how long I could run on a charge (15-inch Mid 2012 MBP).
No, this is also the law in North Korea.
Show HN: How much local?
That's overly hyperbolic. Nobody is saying the phone should be completely disabled, just that they should design things so you need to interact with them less. Voice control is a fantastic tool here IMO.

But also, would it be that crazy for them to disable these restrictions in the case of an accident? Like how current cars unlock doors, shut off the engine, and put on flashers in the case of an accident now.
Anesthesiologists, surgeons and other doctors dose multiple local anesthetics each day. Different ones have different uses. For trainees, this information can be hard to find. Now it's a little easier.

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Gonna assume yes. Is there a reason it wouldn't be legal?
I am frankly shocked by the reaction to this on HN. It seems like I am in the Breitbart forums.

If you think Breitbart is a news organisation, then you have either never read any of their articles or are kidding yourself. It is a propaganda organisation. It doesn't report news, it serves opinions. Here is an extract from a recent article[0] about Justin Trudeau mourning the death of Fidel Castro.

"Castro’s Cuban regime was notorious for imprisoning dissenters, including homosexuals, journalists, and political opponents, and nearly brought nuclear war to the United States, one of Canada’s closest allies."

The problem with that statement is that it is written like either of those things were against the US ideology. US has still not completely accepted homosexuality and it brought nuclear war upon itself by taking its weapons to Russia's neighbourhood.

Here's another absolute rubbish article[1] about why there should be a cap on the number of women who are allowed to take up STEM majors.

Breitbart's whole history is like this. In 2009, Andrew Breitbart heavily pushed the ACORN Video Scandal[2] which later turned out to be a series of heavily edited and misleading videos which lead to the closure of ACORN, an NGO which helped people from low to middle income groups.

Another one was the "Friends of Hamas" story that turned out to be a case of complete and utter bullshit but Breitbart couldn't own up to it.[3]

Breitbart has never been a media organisation and I for one am extremely happy to see it being boycotted like this. The headlines I have outlined are not even the more horrific ones they post. Go have a look yourself if you want.

They purposefully spread misinformation and decline to accept their fault when proven wrong while always being on their toes to point out the slip ups in the more liberal media coverage of events. In my part of the world, we call it hypocrisy.

[0] http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/26/canadian-pm-trude...

[1] http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/15/heres-why...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_c...

[3] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/friends-of-hamas-and...
Next time they should take donations for a deep learning system. They will promise to train the machine with data from CaH, Reddit, and 4chan. It will then output the next set of Cards Against Humanity. Their bullshit will be at the level of some tech companies posted here often. Whereas, fans might actually get something back for their money later. :)
This is Cards Against Humanity, if it's anything other then just a hole in the ground, it'll be very much outside of their usual black-friday offerings.
If it's a win-win, then it should be okay - even good! - for the banks+government to do it again. After all, everyone made money and the economy only almost collapsed, not actually.

Regardless of the actual dollar amounts changed hands, what the US Federal government demonstrated was that risky - even illegal - behavior will be covered and some losses will be covered. It means that next time (and there will be one), we should assume the risks and losses will be even bigger.
It is despicable to me that citizens can be denied their right to access legal remedy by companies that won't deliver services to individuals without them agreeing to binding arbitration. Access to courts seems like it should be the cornerstone of society and should not be allowed to be removed so easily.

The appeal of arbitration for a pair of similarly sophisticated entities that have the ability to vet the clauses of the contract is obvious. But the potential for abuse with one large organization picking the arbiter and a lot of unsophisticated individuals trying their luck against them is pretty obvious too.
I did read this whole article because I was really curious which arguments would be used. And everything I could find was this BS.
Are you really positing that most holes that have been dug are illegal holes?
thanks, for that. but as a pun would work out way better :)
More like a critique of the distorted "keynesianism" governments around the world seem to love.
The original PR stunt that worked to lower capital gains was to present retirees as human shields in front of capital holders whose income came primarily or even exclusively from capital gains. The entreaty was: capital gains would force your grandparents into eating cat food by taxing them twice in their twilight years!

There is a grain of truth to that, but for various American-specific reasons, it is difficult to apply a ceiling income level beyond which all capital gains income is treated as plain income. I believe one pernicious issue that must be addressed is treating corporations as people: lots of legal and tax accounting maneuvers absolutely depend upon this treatment, and a lot of tax-shielded income falls apart without it. Another pernicious issue is actual versus legal control of organizations: again, lots of legal and tax accounting maneuvers depend upon legally on paper showing no or minority control (especially fiscal disbursement) over an organization, yet actual control resides with real-world fiscal beneficiaries. It is highly unlikely these will ever be addressed in the foreseeable future, as many retirement structures among many other kinds of organizations are built around these issues.
Imagine if we lived in a world in which all forms of discrimination based on circumstances at birth was considered beyond the pale. Or conversely, a world in which it was okay to say about blacks what we say about foreigners. For instance, would this be okay?

"Hey, you know that lazy generation of kids coming through college right now without any experience actually holding a job? What if, bear with me here, what if, instead of black people from all over the country who can work for less than minimum wage (because they're already breaking the law by working in whites only jobs in the first place), what if instead of black people taking those jobs, white youth actually held jobs and got experience working? Wouldn't that be nuts? Oh you probably think white people don't want those jobs, right? They don't. At least, not for less than minimum wage, because that's illegal and nobody wants to have that on their record. But white teenagers definitely want money. Everybody does.
Imagine a world where there is ZERO black workers in whites only occupations. Teenagers actually might learn the value of hard work. They might go to college with a strong work ethic and marketable skills. We might just be able to dig ourselves out of this massive college debt crisis."

If it were illegal for blacks to work some jobs (as it once was in a not-too distant past in a not-so-far-away place) wouldn't the appropriate response be to make it legal for them to compete with whites for said jobs
It does. It emphasizes that this particular guide encourages use of Python3, instead of holding onto legacy, which means that the author understands programming languages basics or at lest knows which semantic unification has been done to make the language less inconsistent, hence more beautiful.
"From the widest gulley to the deepest trench, holes define who we are and where we are going." - Rainier Wolfcastle
Assuming you based this off their financial statements, then everything you are saying is pretty much 100% on the ball with regard to interpreting their cash flow.

> That doesn't make me very optimistic.

I would say that the market is "on your side" at least for now, as people on here have been starting to compare them to Amazon which is, in terms of market cap, 100x higher valued than Shopify and really not a fair comparison. However, let's not forget that the reason Shopify is a 3.5bil company (and not worth say "only" 500mil) is because they have eyeballs on them right now, and quite a few at that. The market isn't sure how they plan to use those eyeballs, but there's enough visibility to give them a chance at being a strong market player in the future. Also yes, despite being publicly traded, most investors would consider them still to be startup based on where they are at with their business model.
Don't forget that Google is one of the founding members of openpower: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/06...

They are looking at power PC as an alternative to Xeon.
Awe, hey we end up with more than a empty hole! What about all of the dead code!
That sounds like it is itself a ripoff of the game Mafia [1] which is ubiquitous in the US. Unless it came first, I guess.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
> I chose the maxed out “standard” model for $2,799 at the local Apple store: 15" i7/2.7/16gb/512gb

I might be nit picking, but maxed out normally means you've picked the very best config (2.9/2T/Radeon 460), not that you picked one of the standard configuration.

PS: Also, they are selling better configuration than the author's at local Apple stores, no need to order necessarily online.
I'd say it draws more from The Resistance/Avalon Resistance than Werewolf, since it focuses on voting and scoring points more than killing players and eliminating them from the game.
One estimate I heard on the required size of a donation able to save one life was around $4k. So yeah right now the collective have given enough money to save 20 lives into digging a massive hole in the ground.
Have to be careful with definitions. There are some fringe groups of white supremacists and their ilk which pretty much everyone (including Trump) wants to crawl back to their cave. There is also a diverse group of people of all backgrounds who want political change and are tired of both dems and reps. The latter group is magnitudes larger, and yet the former group seems to get all the attention. Why?
That would be depressing if that was the only $77k out there, in the grand scheme of finances that amount is ridiculously small.

Existing startups won't get any less money and research won't get any less grants because some folks take donations to dig a hole :)
Looks more like a critique to government spending money on unproductive shit as a measure to "improve the economy". The difference is that you are forced to finance that through taxation, whereas the hole digging is voluntary.
I cant even fathom why someone convinces himself that taxes are moral and that paying more taxes is better for you.

You pay taxes because if you dont, the police deprives you of your freedom. Not because you want to, and the argument that taxes are the best ROI is financially insane, otherwise you would just donate all your money to government institutions and you would become wealthier.

In a perfect futuristing plentiful society, taxes would not exist: the goal is to make taxes as low as possible, not as high as possible!
This is an excellent resource ,, thanks for taking the time to make it.

I would request/suggest an option to have one-per-page display of attributes - currently there's a lot of scrolling if you want to move between things.
Right, but the barrier to entry is lower. I bet I can start a popular fake news site.
Actually being an evil dictator who murdered thousands usually tops everything else a person has done in his life.
good chance the hole diggers are ex-google or ex-facebook or ex-something with boatloads of money.
Well note that they are using it for cheap advertising
And medieval peasants were orders of magnitude better off than people living in the stone-age. You can always find comparisons showing anything, the question is how relevant they are.

In this case I'd argue your comparisons are apparently not relevant for a lot of people - or else, if everything is so wonderful, how do you explain trump?
Funny, I'm watching two different fundraisers progress. One for election integrity and one for digging a hole.
I would love to see a comparison of the performance of compiled programs.

If zappcc creates slower executables but spitting them out faster, it could be used during development to speed up iterations. And if the executables are faster, I'm very curious as to how they achieved both faster compilation and faster runtimes.
Ask HN: What legal knowledge is important for entrepreneurs?
What legal areas have you found relevant to you as an entrepreneur? How did you learn about it and how deep should you go? Book recommendations of course are also highly welcome. Thank you all in advance!
You are using an article written by a Jew, published on a news site founded by and named after a Jew, as an evidence of racism and antisemitism.

It's so illogical to do that I bet you didn't know these facts. You are totally uninformed on the topic, but still feel confident enough to comment on it. All you do is echoing a (false) media narration. So OP was right. You are kind of a bot. A human one.
Small economies often tend to be leechers off of the global system. This applies to the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, various tropical islands, etc.

The Netherlands is one of the countries significantly facilitating tax avoidance, and this is (obviously) by design. Hundreds of billions in royalty payments flow through the country every year to tax havens.
We're talking about someone pulling ads.
In a state like Wyoming there are about 190,000 people per elector. In California or Texas it's more like 700,000. The fundamental unit of a democracy should be the citizen, not the square mile. (Cue responses that it's not at all a democracy)
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Reading this just made me sad, as I see this over and over in the tech scene: the author is too obsessed about success and not enough about solving fundamental problems or being any good at them. Esp in tech, there's no value for being half-assed.
I'd say it is a net gain. The money went to pay the company that dug the hole who used the money to pay their contractors working on the project, equipment leases, gasoline, etc. It will also end up being mentioned on the various blog and news outlets all selling ads against the story of the hole. CAH will also sell more product because of the hole & subsequent publicity. It looks like an increase in GDP (aka net gain for the economy) to me.
Linking just to save others the search.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDONJhEo0RI
That parable is misleading. If his window wasn't broken then the shopowner would've invested it in some improvement to the store or as a safety cushion which would also trickle through to the relevant suppliers. We'd actually all be better off if the window wasn't broken because we should have some other investment that was equally valuable without having to lose the asset of the window.
Also susceptible to hackers who get access to the voter's private key. It's not "a flawless system for ensuring 100% accurate voting results".
>they want corporations to reinvest profits and prefer to shift the taxes to shareholders/income

Which is dumb because the tax incidence of corporate tax already lands on shareholders and corporations aren't reinvesting profits because of anemic demand.
"The cost of corporate taxes are usually split between the companies and the customers."

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/econ101e.html
If they realise capital gains and they live in the US. E.g. Belgian stockholders of Apple don't pay any taxes (not in Belgium, not in the US) on capital gains.
The economic relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union was not entirely subsidy, nor entirely trade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_rela...

The United States subsidizes many government within its sphere of influence, too. In turn it also trades with them and gains significant sway over the economic affairs of those countries for the benefit of US markets. Cuba had none of this for the last 25 or so years.
Middle class Americans do not in fact routinely spend $80,000 on their lawns.
I'm a developer, and I still call things by the first thing I heard them called.

I don't think he's obligated to use the "proper" terminology unless he was a software engineer /sarcasm.

Snarkiness aside though, I really don't think using the original term decreases his credibility at all.
Which will result in people digging deeper underground and in more tools being developed to allow that.
I think this will also results in safe-heavens developing here and there around the world, just as the Dutch republic was for printing/publishing in the XVII/XVIIIth century. And immensely profited, on all levels, from it.
Japanese was first written in kanji (borrowed Chinese characters), with the syllabaries created hundreds of years later. Though you could say modern Japanese is encoded as a syllabary.
That seems super low
Do an image search for "subduction zone", you will get some images that show you what is going on, schematically in cross section.

A simplified summary:
New oceanic crust is created at mid ocean ridges, but since the earth is not expanding, when you create new crust, subduction must occur elsewhere. For instance, new crust is created in the pacific, and subduction is occurring beneath Japan in the east and the west coast of north america in the west. Once the oceanic crust subducts far enough into the mantle, minerals that make the oceanic crust change to more dense forms in response to the increased pressure, (basalt to eclogite transition) and the resulting rock is more dense than the surrounding mantle, meaning it wants to sink further and further, providing a "slab pull" component to subduction (as opposed to "ridge push" due to new crust formation at the mid ocean ridge). Oceanic crust will almost universally subduct beneath continental crust due to density (~2.3 g/cc for continental, 2.7 for oceanic, >3 for mantle). Continental crust is too low density to subduct into the mantle, so you make mountain ranges like the Himalaya when continents colide.

After new oceanic crust is erupted at mid ocean ridges, it remains hot, and experiences sustained interaction with seawater forming new minerals with structural water/OH- (i.e. chlorite), as well as accumulating a veneer of sediment that includes clay minerals also with structural water. When that oceanic crust then subducts back into the mantle, it heats up, the hydrous minerals are no longer stable, and they release their H2O into the overlying mantle. This addition of water lowers the melting point of the mantle such that it will melt under the ambient temperature conditions, this melting is ultimately manifest as volcanic arcs, such as that that extends from the andes, north through central america, mexico, the cascades, the aleutians , kuriles, japan, philippines, indonesia, new guinea, solomons, fiji, down to new zealand. These volcanoes are characterised by high H2O contents, leading to explosive eruptions, in contrast to the style of eruption seen in places like Hawaii.

Not all the water (structural OH-) is released when from the subducting slab, and makes its way deeper into the mantle, and aspects of the ultimate fate of this is the subject of the article.
Look into Axis aligned Bounding Box Tree algorithms
Go and attend local events where VC people are expected to attend. Reach to your network and if you don't have one either hire a CEO/chairman who can help (literally somebody who had done it before and knows lots of people) or try to build your own network (more hard work required).

You need your investor deck polished into the finest details. Once you get your slot you won't be able to waste any time. Be sure to include all details about capitalisation and projected revenue. You need to have a strong backing to all those numbers. Most VC's will come back to you even if they don't invest and advice what went wrong - so this is an ongoing process and you'll get better in time.

We got our investment via our founder (he did not have any contacts, he made them and then he was very good at pitching his vision). He definitely had not emailed random people :-)
Pretty sure the one who decided wasn't a geek/programmer/etc.