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>> "On the contrary, it's dangerous not to call out evil for what it is."

Judging on the comments on this thread most people (I'm not specifically referring to you) are making statements based on what they've heard, not by what they've personally researched, and unfortunately a lot of that information is biased or propaganda.

I'm not coming down one way or the other but something I found very interesting was comparing the comments in this thread to those of world leaders. The vast majority of world leaders, including those in modern, developer, western states, are praising Castro for helping bring down apartheid, providing good health care and education to his citizens etc.

My point really is that on this issue as persons views are clearly shaped by the propaganda they are exposed to and their personal political opinions (e.g. socialism is evil, socialism is fair and good). Like most people Castro did good and bad. Some of the things he did may be construed as evil but he also did quite a lot of good things so brandishing the person as evil rather than considering all of the factors is foolish.
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It seems everyone I know uses Digital Ocean, so I was wondering if you use any other VPS provider and recommend them.

There are many Black Friday deals floating around, so I wanted to try something else other than DO.
The article is wrong. Wells fargo says customers gave up their right to sue by signing up for an account, which is far more defendable from a legal point of view.

Unfortunately, this is common practice and it also shows one of the biggest problems of the western world. It is quite profitable for a company to screw over customers. Just discourage them as much as possible to go to court by letting them sign a large page of legal gibberish, and don't screw them over too much, and the company will probably be fine.
Some one mentioned on twitter how ironic Fidel castro died on black friday. His death has multiple dimensions of irony!
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I once had a secretary who - whenever she saw I was about to sneeze - yelled: "I bet you can't do it, bet you can't do it", in a childish, daring voice. Totally worked every time.
You can do it in plain C, but it will be quite slow.

It isn't only written in Assembly, it is written in clever optimised Assembly fine tuned across several compiler releases, to minimise as much as possible the impact of dynamic dispatch.
Same here: a gig of mine, as a contractor, just ended prematurely because the client asked why I didn't seem motivated, and I answered truthfully: the tools forced on us were the worst I have ever seen in my career (we were using Rational Rhapsody as an IDE, on Windows, for Linux development).

The only alternative I saw was lying: it will pass, I'll re-motivate myself… Instead I merely promised to do my best, which no longer included motivation or commitment.

Didn't go so well.
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I don't think assassinating the leader of a foreign power is particularly easy. I'm not sure the CIA ever managed it?
>> "Why are cubans in miami celebrating his death?"

Because they didn't like him and got out. There were people who celebrated Margaret Thatcher's death. There would be people who would celebrate the death of some current world leaders. On the other hand there would be people who would mourn those deaths.
This was my experience also. Do you think things will change now or stay more or less the same?
>wouldn't it need some kind of VM for macros and memory management and such?

Not a VM: it's compiled. It needs to bind to libchicken, and it needs to do some things that native C programs wouldn't.

Also, you wouldn't need a VM for macros: they're a compile-time feature, and don't even exist at runtime.

Yeah, it's not humanly noticable.
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Google search on HP domain yields this:

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Which in turn credits this as the original source:

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where would I learn more about this type of thing? Like a more detailed overview?
ARM had that early on, all instructions were conditional, but with many more condition codes:

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So who was responsible for the other 600?
Something a bit stronger than the Egg of Columbus, I think. With the Egg, anybody can do it once they see how it is done. Here, anybody can do it once they see that it can be done.
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>>"Sad, this criminal didn't die a lot earlier."

Expected a higher level of discourse on HN. Wishful thinking.
I actually wrote a whole long post lamenting the users failure to read the post they were replying to. However, it seemed ridiculous, given that they couldn't even correctly contextualise the part of the post they were quoting. So I put in terms that couldn't easily be misconstrued. Then let them either see their error, or point it in a subsequent post if they really struggle.

Also, I didn't ask if they had read the article, I asked if they had read the very post they were quoting (to quote kinda implies that you read and understood). The article posted by the OP is irrelevant by this stage in this micro-discussion. If you had read the parent comments, you obviously wouldn't be playing HN rent-a-cop for nothing.

Likewise you'll also realize that the guideline simply refers to OP articles, and doesn't try and tell people how to conduct a reasonable conversation when one of the participants just decides to put words in the mouth of another.

Bloody busybody.
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In the Netherlands a bank got destroyed a few years ago by a single person starting a media campaign for a bank-run. This was done in response to "shady practices" on the mortgage side of the bank.

He got people to withdraw over 600 million from DSB Bank in a few days, which caused the bank to run out of liquidity and forced them to freeze accounts. This meant they lost all trust in the market and needed to ask other banks for emergency financing. All other banks declined (with good reasons, a bank falling apart combined with pending legal action on the mortgage side is a very high risk for them to take).

So within three weeks DSB was bankrupt. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSB_Bank

I can imaging some disgruntled customers going after Wells Fargo in the same way. They have severe legal action pending (which makes them risky for others to save) and have destroyed their image by their reactions to this (which makes it easier to motivate customers to take action). All ingredients that killed DSB are there... The only difference is that DSB was one of the smaller banks and Wells Fargo is huge.
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> If there's a country where people would be genuinely putting up barricades over privacy issues, that's Germany.

Really, why would you think that?

Because of Stasi? That was quarter a century ago. Almost forgotten. Ask representative sample of Germans what was Stasi and, I strongly assume, most wouldn't know anything about it. Especially the younger generation. Sadly.

Or because of Nazi time? Despite Hitler (and Hitler-related) documentaries being constantly shown in German TV, most Germans are still not aware of the methods being used by the Nazis to keep Germans under surveillance during that time. Sadly.

And, if lots of people do go out and do demonstrate/voice their discontent?

In October 2015 250,000 people demonstrated in Berlin against TTIP (for US friends: EU-USA TPP) [1] and what did "das Merkel" do? Nothing, it's TTIP full steam ahead!

Then 1.6 million Germans (together with 3.3 million EU citizens in total) signed a petition against TTIP. Government spokeperson: "Merkel will not receive a petition". [2]

Recently, "over 300,000" people have demonstrated against TTIP and CETA (for US friends: EU-Canada TPP) and what was the reaction of the Government? "It's their right to demonstrate". [3]

Has anything changed in the policy of the German government after all these democratic means? I think you can answer this question yourself.

This system we live in doesn't work. It probably never did, but we didn't notice it.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/berlin-anti-tt...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQykeaSC3Dk

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOEWkH8RpgM
>> today's children will die sooner than their parents

> Citations please?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

> > and earn less than their grand parents

> What does that have to do with being healthier and living longer?

Really ?
I know you are replying to the Stripe vs BrainTree question but a question of my own for clarity/certainty. If you were to move your business where would you go? To BrainTree or some other provider and why?
He was also a politician, and their expectation of privacy is less than ordinary people anyway (e.g. sex life, earnings, people they meet, donations they do, etc.). So I'm happy he made a case of himself for privacy, demonstrating in parallel that he's not ashamed of his whereabouts.
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Because they are descendants of the middle and upper classes who benefited from the previous regime and lost everything when Castro came to power.
Observing that most high profile modern innovations rely on computation is about as good a point of evidence in favour of technological stagnation today as somebody in the 1850s positing stagnation on the basis that nearly all high profile innovations in recent years had relied on steam power or somebody in the 1930s noting that nearly all high profile innovations in recent years had relied on electricity.
His enemies claim he was a king without a crown, mistaking unity for unanimity.

And in that his enemies were right.

His enemies say if Napoleon had had a newspaper similar to the «Granma», no french would have ever heard about Waterloo.

And in that his enemies were right.

His enemies say he used power by talking and not listening, because he was more comfortable with echoes than with voices.

And in that his enemies were right.

But his enemies won't say that he didn't just stood by while history moved forward that he faced the bullets when the USA invasion arrived, that he faced hurricanes with equal fury as the wind, that he survived 637 attemps on his life, that his energy was decisive to turn a colony into homeland and that it wasn't by any spell or miracle that that homeland was able to survive 10 US presidents.

And his enemies won't say Cuba is one of those countries that won't compete in the International World Cup as to whom is the most servient.

And they won't say this revolution, grown in punishment, is what could be and not what it wanted to be. Nor they say that the division between the wish and the reality grew taller and wider thanks to the imperial blockade, that drowned the development of a cuban democracy, forced militarization of society and granted bureaucracy, which for every solution has a problem, the alibies it needed to justify and perpetuate itself.

And they won't say that despite all of the problems, despite the agressions from outside and arbitrariness from inside, this small island, suffered but stubbornly happy, has created the least unjust latin american society.

And they won't say that this achievement was because of the sacrifice of their people, but also because of the stubborn will and outdated sense of honor of this gentleman who always fought for the losers, much like that renowned colleague from the fields of Castilla.

Eduardo Galeano.

(apologies in advance for any mistakes I may have made while translating this from spanish)
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What a terrible mistake it was not to annex Cuba in 1898.
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You moved them from Stripe to where and why? I'm about to launch a product in a few months and trying to decide which company to go with. So far Stripe seems to be most favorable for the development team. But maybe there are some business things that make Stripe less desirable. Thanks for any insight.
I guess we hate their freedom.
Yeh, I haven't tried Shenzen I/O yet, though I intend to. But I've played TIS-100 and I actually got into it because I saw people on IRC competing via leaderboards with one another. It's quite fun.
Mods, I think the submission title should be reverted to that of the article: "Fidel Castro, Communist Former Leader of Cuba, Dies at 90". The current submission title ("Fidel Castro survived at least eight assassination plots by the CIA") is one of the bulleted points at the top of the article, but the main focus of the article is not the CIA's assassination attempts.

This should probably be marked as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886
I guess they'll have to start paying them more. Maybe it will approach a decent living wage?

What a tragedy.
That sounds similar to an XY problem. You actually need help with X, but you think you already know how to go about it so you ask about your approach, Y, instead... resulting in whatever answers you get being much worse than if you had actually clearly explained what you were doing in the first place.
There are some controversy about definitions of isolation levels in SQL standard. For example absence of mentioned phenomenas doesn't guarantees serialisability, as it shown in Berenson paper [1]. Implementation independent description of weak isolation levels can be found in Adya phd thesis [2] (and that's a tough read). Also nice evaluation of modern databases in terms of [2] can be found in Martin Kleppmann's github [3].

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/a-criti...
[2] http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/adya-phd.pdf
[3] https://github.com/ept/hermitage
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Dictatorship is not a concept that is synonymous with evil. Fabius Maximus was not evil. Coriolanus was not evil. Abraham Lincoln or George Washington, who were effectively dictators during war time, were not particularly evil.
> Including everything that's bad about Paypal

Not everything that's bad. A sucky API and UI isn't because of regulations.
Wait are you suggesting that something tied together with shell scripts is great?
The problem with small business is that the way the economy is set up most of the money is available at the medium to big business side of things. Small business does not have the capital to pay employees properly. So really it should not exist in the way the economy is structured. So it won't exist if you take cheap labour out of the picture. It's not as if small business robber barons are making bank on the back of poor workers. They are not. They are barely surviving.
Shouldn't you have to disprove the obvious explanation (that it's calories consumed that leads to obesity) before we should jump on board with wilder theories?

I read the link you posted about the keto diet, and it seems to all be about how it's better for you with regards to cholesterol and glucose levels. It doesn't seem to negate the idea that weight is still simply related to calories consumed.

(I recognise there are exceptions, i.e. thyroid/hormonal problems).
How quickly things change:

“Donald Trump refused to say that he’d respect the results of this election. By doing that, he’s threatening our democracy.” - Hillary Clinton

“When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people’s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines our democracy,” - Barack Obama

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"Anyone with children knows that whining about imaginary cheating is the last refuge of the sore loser, @realDonaldTrump." - Elizabeth Warren

https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/788743064009388032...
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I'd think that assassinating any human being is particularly easy. They are flimsy creatures.

Unless Castro is living secluded in a bunker all day with only 3 servants, he'd be seeing hundreds of other humans everyday, any one of which could kill him.
There are a lot of institutions in America that look really good on film, but the reality doesn't match the ideal.
I think it's not true that there is no more work to be done. We are just stuck with the idea that jobs come with growth, and that only jobs that yield growth should be paying salaries.
I believe if we sat down and talked we could find hundreds of jobs around us, it's just the money that is lacking, if we could access even a little percentage of the huge money spent in wars, entertainment, gambling,...
Many cities, forests, beaches need cleaning, people and animals that need care, understaffed hospitals, etc... These jobs just don't pay. I'd be happy to hear your opinions on this.
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A tax on income means throwing those who refuse to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade in prison, where they are kept in small enclosures, and where they often develop mental illnesses, and suffer physical and sexual abuse.

An income tax uses the threat of imprisonment to force people to surrender their privacy rights, in disclosing how much income one received in private trade, and from what sources, and their private property rights. It's a violation of human rights.
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Thanks for taking a look and for your feedback. The default starting loan for first-time borrowers without a track record is very small (around $10). If a first-time borrower opts to start with the small default amount, there is no Members Loan Fund deposit required. But if a first-time borrower is confident they can repay larger amounts, we offer the option of depositing the difference between the ~$10 default first-time loan amount and the desired starting credit limit into the Members Loan Fund upon joining Zidisha. The net amount received for the first loan is still $10, but after successful repayment of the first loan, the borrower may take out larger loans commensurate with the starting loan they have repaid.

The Members Loan Fund deposit may be withdrawn at any time the borrower does not have an outstanding loan. It may also be used to pay off the remaining balance of an outstanding loan, if the borrower requests it. If the loan goes into arrears, it is used to reimburse lenders for the amount they had lent.

The lifetime membership fee is currently zero, but at the time this borrower joined, it was 10% of the starting credit limit chosen by the applicant. (So someone choosing the default starting credit limit of $10 would pay a lifetime membership fee of $1.)

The above costs are only paid once, at the time a borrower first joins Zidisha, and entitle the borrower to lifetime access to raise loans. You can learn more about why we developed a lending model that front-loads costs here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-kurnia/the-story-of-zidi...

The 5% service fee is a flat percentage of each loan amount, and is independent of the loan term. If Ms. Mwangi opts to hold the loan for two years, she would still pay only $25.47.

We'll aim to make this clearer in the cost breakdown explanation. Thanks again!
Very interesting blog.
Trying not to go too much off-topic here, I read in one of your posts that "Awk and shell are similar in an interesting way: they lack garbage collection. This leads to arrays that can neither be nested nor returned from functions."
Would you be willing to explain why that is the case? I'm a CS enthusiast without any formal CS education.
So his exiling of over a million cubans is acceptable, then?
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I find it helpful to imagine the plates are flexible and not rigid. They have forces acting on them that cause them to want to move in a direction, whether or not they're capable of actual doing so. When they can't, pressure builds up until something gives and… you have an earthquake.

This, plus plates deforming, I believe should solve your confusion. They are locked up against one another (in the case of strike-slip faults, moving past one another). There are also have other fault types, like subduction zones where one plate gets pushed beneath another (plate tectonics are 3D, not just 2D!). All this twisting and squeezing and pushing with nowhere to go until something fails.

If this is a bad mental model, someone please correct me.
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It's a good question. What about the network transmission? What's the carbon footprint of transmitting a 50k image to thousands of visitors vs a handful of bytes in css? I agree it does push more energy usage to the client, but I'm not sure how total energy usage adds up.

In any event I don't like it because it kills my battery.
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That's consistent with my view.

I'm flabbergasted by how difficult it is to train a new employee that is remote. It's not even worth trying.
Same thing here. From msyeui.
All of them? There was no poverty in cuba after Castro? Those that spoke out were capitalist pigs and deserved their punishment?

Right after obama came to cuba there was a large influx of cubans who made the journey through the carribean to the us to gain the guarenteed citizenship [0]. Why would people risk their lives to leave? Are these individuals also upper class escaping slaughter?

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/05/cuban-immigr...
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Yes small businesses employ a lot of low skill labor and therefore are hit in the short term the hardest with a lack of labor surplus.

In the long term, this is necessary for wages to rise. When all restaurants have to compete for a diminishing labor pool, they'll have have to raise their prices to pay people decently.

This is a good thing.
Scarcity of building contractors will push up contract values until supply meets demand - and people actually get paid more. This is how the market is supposed to work.
Somewhat depressing to combine the insight of that video with the future of AI and widespread automation. Dictatorships here we come.
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I have been taught that because of moving plates mountains can rise, besides that one plate may be slowly moving under another - confirming your hypothesis that plates do change shape, but shape change is not required to move.