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Imagine if your town took the savings from the automated trash collection and just gave them directly to the people who had to do those jobs manually. It costs the town exactly the same amount of money, and frees up those people to do whatever they want with their time. Instead, they made the system more inefficient on purpose, so that people had to perform an unnecessary manual task in order to get money.
It's rare but presidents to occasionally not sign laws or defer it to the constitutional court. Horst Köhler famously did this with the law that was supposed to allow the Luftwaffe to shoot down civilian airplanes in case of a 9/11 scenario. The court of course ruled against the law.
How much does it cost to stop being an American citizen? How many poor American people can afford that cost?
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It doesn't have to be like that. Personally, I work for a small company that manufactures a physical product (shoes actually) and manages a few retail stores, but also develops most of its internal software (CRM, ERP, BI), tools, website and shop in-house, which results in the fact that development and software engineering is just one of many areas the company focuses on.

I can't remember the last time I couldn't leave 4 pm sharp with the rest of the colleagues from manufacturing, sales, design or accounting. It's certainly long ago and rarely happens.

Plus, being a two man dev operation we enjoy a lot of freedom and are able to chose technologies and tools we see fit for the task. Furthermore you are confronted with all kinds of real world problems, interact with people of all trades (as opposed to living in a SV startup bubble) and colleagues value our work, actually perceive it as some kind of magic (in contrast to being code monkeys). To me this is a very enjoyable work environment, that combines the best parts of a 9-5 job and exciting startup atmosphere.
I must have missed that war.
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It's time for ending the Cuban orwellian nightmare.
Tangentially:

I wonder how far we are from peak entertainment (in developed countries, I mean). With a fixed population size and a fixed number of hours in the day for each person, there is a hard limit on the number of hours of entertainment that can be delivered by industry.

And I'm not even sure I would spend anything more than I do now on entertainment even if all my working hours suddenly became leisure time (unless you're going to start counting activities like home improvement and amateur science and engineering projects as entertainment).
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I'm a big fan of Vipassana meditation, having attended a ten day
retreat some years ago partly because of post on HN describing it as a
defrag for your mind. The claim by the author that it purports to
be the "one true path" is perplexing, but sounds like it may have been
her interpretation of the instructions to participants not to combine
it with other techniques or practices for the duration of their stay
as an experiment. I was impressed on the contrary by the invitation
to take what one likes about it and leave the rest.
I bet you've spent a lot of time in some of the estates in Tottenham, Harlesden or Haringey.

You went on a tourists' visit of poverty. Try doing the same in London, and let's see how you do there, bruv.
And once you file a complaint against the cops for violence, you end up targeted. Either for harrassment (as happened to me) or for frivolous counter-suits ("Widerstand",happened to a couple of friends).

Filing complaints against police is pretty much pointless, as evidenced by the numbers (of 2138 cases, only 33 ended up in court, see https://correctiv.org/blog/2016/02/12/polizeigewalt-zahlen-f...) or by the sheer time scale. The poor old man who had his eyes shot out by a water cannon at S21 had to wait SIX YEARS for an offer of compensation (http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/umstrittene-polizeiaktion...).

And even if a state like Berlin requires numbered cops, if there are supporting units from other states these do NOT have to carry numbers. Witnessed this first hand when beaten up in Berlin by cops from Dresden.
China had to abandon the economics of Communism in order to produce an economic boom finally after decades of extreme failure. They had to adopt systems of the market economy: private property, stock exchanges & stock ownership, real estate ownership, privatization of the means of production, wealth accumulation, business formation, etc. etc.

They hold on to the politics of the Communist party dictatorship as a means to continue their power and wealth extraction (China's political elites are by far the wealthiest politicians on earth, they make the US Congress look like paupers).
Older cars can be prohibited from using, first, HOV-style "automatic" lanes, then highways in rush hour, then highways altogether, much sooner than that.
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No, it's quite alright – I should be writing in English. I do manage to, in general. But these "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike my native language"-words sometimes trip me up.
First UK now Germany? What is happening? Why do people let this slide?
>I know what you’re thinking – we can’t afford this! But yeah, we can, very easily. We raise the arbitrary lid on the Social Security contribution, which now stands at $127,200, and we raise taxes on corporate income, reversing the Reagan Revolution.

In other words, we massively increase the scope of human-rights-violating income taxation, while chasing capital out of the country.

The problem here is that the author is not making the link between this:

>Those jobs that disappeared in the Great Recession just aren’t coming back, regardless of what the unemployment rate tells you – the net gain in jobs since 2000 still stands at zero

And this:

>The fastest growing component of household income since 1959 has been ‘transfer payments’ from government. By the turn of the 21st century, 20 per cent of all household income came from this source – from what is otherwise known as welfare or ‘entitlements’.

The increase in social spending is the most likely cause of the decline in the labor participation rate and the less-than-stellar wage/productivity growth.

>But, wait, isn’t our present dilemma just a passing phase of the business cycle? What about the job market of the future? Haven’t the doomsayers, those damn Malthusians, always been proved wrong by rising productivity, new fields of enterprise, new economic opportunities? Well, yeah – until now, these times. The measurable trends of the past half-century, and the plausible projections for the next half-century, are just too empirically grounded to dismiss as dismal science or ideological hokum. They look like the data on climate change – you can deny them if you like, but you’ll sound like a moron when you do.

The author is lying. The empirical data does not confirm his technological unemployment hypothesis. The demand for labor globally has grown over the last half century, and it has accelerated over the last couple of decades. Wages have grown faster over the last 20 years than in any period of history:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-glo...

Another leftist demagogue looking for government money.

If you want to understand how automation affects the demand for labor, I strongly recommend this article over the submitted post:

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/10/24/13327014/productivit...
I don't know if the GPU integration is actually a negative, though - Intel's doing the same thing these days and doing well enough, and they both don't waste die space on integrated GPUs for their server lines.

I think they just needed to have the next major line with enough time to try to respond to the P-M/Core switch to really knock it out of the park...and we got Bulldozer instead, where they bet big on trying to partition resources and a different notion of distinct "cores", and didn't come out ahead.
I thought so as well – considering they have largely changed to using Regulations. But, to quote the article:

> The law - which aims to implement European Union data protection directives, set to come into force in 2018 - was roundly condemned [...]
Wouldn't unbound's requests out to the net get caught by this proxying?
What a bizarrely hostile-feeling response. I'm not sure the person you were responding to was making the point that we are building for 100+ years of use, simply that most properties where he lives were easily as old as that and experienced little in the way of issues.

None of the 100/200+ year old houses and flats I have lived in - both within the UK and other older European cities - have had any major defects beyond what some of my other acquaintances living in modern buildings have experienced. They have all been perfectly "comfortable" as a 'new build' property.
How its artificial scarcity if it is possible to tell man made vs natre made diamond, they are two different this then!

Purity of man made stuff is why it sucks, pure iron will rust the fuck away, u need add carbon and some metals to make good steel, same pure diamonds dont break light passing trough in such beautiful way as natural diamonds, and those impurities so far were not recreated by man.
>My ISP poisons DNS with random crap like state sponsored censorship

Silly question - if you're in this kind of environment, is it safe to do something like messing with DNS requests? This would make you "stand out" from a traffic analysis point of view.
" In Canada we always had a softer tone with Cuba."

Partly because we are not the US and did not have a direct confrontation.

But partly because Trudeau Sr. was a communist-revolutionary apologist, in the French intellectual sense - and chilled with Fidel to boost is 'socialist hipster' cred and to thumb the eye of the Americans.

As a young man, I found it admirable. Now that I know many ex-Cubans, I find it utterly repulsive and a stain on our history. It's one thing to have 'relations' or 'diplomacy' with another nation - it's altogether another to chum around with a thug. If it was in the name of getting Fidel to let his people off the island, or encourage democracy... sure ... but it was not that.
She presented numerous historical documents as evidence that the holocaust as we know it did not happen, and that the United States viewed the German people as a threat far prior to WWII and planned to exterminate them, for example via the "Hooton Plan" to use mass immigration of non-Europeans to breed native Germans out of existence. Does this sound familiar?

For saying this, an elderly woman in her late 80s has been repeatedly imprisoned. Sounds like thoughtcrime to me.
He came to power supported by people who were fed up (in part) with the atrocities combined by Batista the right wing dictator supported by the US. As is usual there is a heavy influence of the US on this site so Castries is generally reviled but he was no different to any number of dictators save that the US did not support him and the US propaganda machine worked against him. He did bad things but so did many others with the implicit or explicit support of the US. Most Americans dislike him due to the 50 years of negative US press not because of specifics actions they could detail.
The result of the popular vote reflected the media's interpretation of pre-election polls: she won by a strong margin, millions of votes. Trump still won the presidency thanks to the peculiar American system that emphasizes the mostly arbitrary state lines over popular representation.

Because the results of a single state can swing the total so wildly out of proportion with the state's population, doing recounts against the paper trail (which otherwise would never get looked at) seems like a reasonable thing to do.
There are indeed places in the US without running water right now (see Flint as an example). I also don't think comparing with in development countries is relevant.
To be honest, if you're willing to make arguments that sending troops 4000km to protect your own citizens from Galtieri's invading military junta was a more dictatorial act than, say, rounding up homosexuals, hippies and clergy and incarcerating them in UMAP forced labour camps - something even Castro conceded was a "great injustice" - then there's literally no reasoning with you...
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Your error seems to be that you insist on seeing a big-bang overnight solution that works for Everyone(tm). That never happens.

There are millions of people in Europe who has a private garage/carport/parking spot and can afford to install a charger there, and who lives within round trip battery capacity of where they need to go. Millions more who don't, but whose employers can be convinced to install chargers. That's more than enough for the kind of critical mass where apartment block landlords, employers and shopping centre parking lots will start to install chargers, not for novelty or green credentials, but for naked self interest. It's not overnight, but it will be very quick.
I was hoping for $999 cpu but twice as fast as example Intel cpu...
The GPU integration as such isn't a problem but they threw together two teams who had a vastly different approach. That is an organizational problem. With AMD I think that the influence of the GPU team grew too big.

Now AMD has better GPUs while intel struggles in that area.

Yes, I almost forgot the resulting Bulldozer fiasco. I believe that was a result of applying GPU thinking to CPUs.
Interesting, but I think it makes a pretty bad argument in favor of privacy if you publish your whereabouts of a whole year in a newspaper.
Definitely.

If ever I have a hosed Linux machine, the wrangling with systemd, initramfs, grub2, mdraid and all the associated shenanigans fills me with dread. Sometimes it's easier just to reimage and restore.

Free/OpenBSD get this 100% on the mark.
Castro wasn't a Communist, he was a Socialist. But the Americans didn't knew the difference and they probably never will. Castro didn't hate the US and he wasn't the one who cut the ties.

The blockade of Cuba began before Castro nationalized the American-owned oil refineries by Eisenhower drastically reducing the amount of sugar Cuba could export to the US. As the Cuban economy was dependent on sugar exports they didn't have much choice when the Soviet Union stepped in and offered to buy their sugar.

The rest is history. Cuba aligning with the Soviet Union was by force, not by choice. That's why the blockade was such a cluster-fuck from the beginning.
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It's tricky to talk about what is objectively harmful in a world where people's interests are less than perfectly aligned.

Those jobs exist because someone finds them beneficial.
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Western nations have not 'done worse' in modern times.

The logical fallacy I think is yours for trying to compare Cuba to the USA in a tit-for-tat comparison of misrepresented facts and issues.

Dropping a nuclear bomb seems 'bad' until you put it in the context of what the Japanese were doing, and the costs otherwise.

The North Vietnamese that the Americans & South Vietnamese were fighting against were 10x worse than Castro (they executed 100's of thousands in the streets - and put millions in concentration camps after the Americans withdrew) - and using 'agent Orange' was an act of reasonable desperation on the part of the Americans as it was used only to clear foliage near American firebases, the casualties were mostly American and of course it was not done with the knowledge people would be hurt - the author of the note makes it seem like it was used on purpose to hurt Vietnamese which is a gross misrepresentation.

Americas role in the world is fundamentally different than that of Cuba (and of course there is the issue of scale) which makes it futile to compare the USA to Cuba, tit-for-tat in terms of 'things done'.

But the comparison is resolved rather more pragmatically:

People literally risk everything, including their lives to flee Cuba to get to America.

Never the other way around.
> So they are counting CC processing fees towards revenues. I suspect that CC payment processing fees shopify pays are approximately equal to what they are charging, so this is just a revenue game where they charge 3% to customers, pay almost 3% to the CC companies, and book revenue that can never be profitable.

You don't understand the meaning of the word revenue.
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On the contrary, it's dangerous not to call out evil for what it is. Of course it might be wise to try to analyze what genetic/family/social/economic/political factors shape people like Castro, Gaddafi, Franco etc. — but if you think you're dealing with people like you and me you fail to grasp the phenomenon.

Dictators that prosecute and murder their opponents, like Castro did, share a very predictable set of psychopathic/narcissistic/paranoid personality characteristics. They are, by definition, not normal.
> From what I've heard, Germany has some very strong privacy laws. It keeps them from being able to use products that many others around the world can use.

> And I'm not talking about social media- it affects basic things like timekeeping software. And German workers expect that level of privacy; they don't think it's excessive.

Time tracking (Stechuhren) is commonplace, so I rather doubt this.

So I would really like to know what services are actually inhibited by these "very strong" privacy laws. The only related example that comes to mind would be Google Street View. Mind you, it wasn't forbidden or anything, Google just didn't feel like providing the necessary opt-out possibilities to residents.

> While I'm all for privacy, when much of the rest of the world isn't like that, it makes it significantly harder to do business with other countries.

And again I ask you to provide actual examples here.

Your post sounds heavily influenced by the public out speak of lobbyists in Germany who mainly work on behalf of data dealers and related companies. Actual industry isn't affected at all.
I invite you to step back and think that you are free to share your filomarxisms here where you have freedoms instead of promoting a genocidal system that is at heart and soul of totalitarian people like Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and Castro. Hasta la liberty siempre! Enjoy
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It's easy to forget the cost of prosperity to those who were not prosperous. Pre-Castro Cuba was rife with racism and inequality, extreme and abject poverty, a segregated society, under violently repressive and corrupt governments.

I can't say anything about your experience, but I can share something about my childhood in Brazil. A middle-class home, private school, private health-care family under a brutal US-sponsored military dictatorship. I never even suspected people were getting arrested and murdered for criticizing the government. I enjoyed the military parades. It never occurred to me that public school was really bad, that not every kid had access to it (most didn't), that unless you had a stable job (and, once labeled a subversive, that was mostly impossible), you had absolutely no health care. The cost of my happy childhood completely eluded me until I was an adult.
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Yeah, I guess I've made it tricky by not matching the name and the URL.
And now Zen comes out of forming an entirely new round of people. The amount of money lost from that particular issue, if that was the cause, boggles the mind.

(It's too bad that AMD didn't wind up on top so far in the GPGPU area - if they had, all that GPU influence being a problem probably would be much easier to write off.)

Intel struggles in that area?

AFAIK the only problem Intel struggles with, GPU-wise, is that they appear to loathe the idea of making discrete GPUs, so they're constantly trying to figure out how to make a fast GPU in an acceptable on-package area.

I was under the impression that AMD's on-die GPUs, while (possibly? I haven't tested their on-die GPUs in a few generations) nicer than Intel's, were still not something to write home about.
Best case where Godwin becomes a non-antiargument because you are talking about a socialist totalitarian in both cases right?
Ha, really? What made it not obvious? Genuinely curious so I can improve the discoverability etc.
I do not agree, oil wealth moved Russia miles ahead of 80s USSR experience (I see this first-hand).
There is already something called Straw Poll:

http://www.strawpoll.me/
> Germany has no thoughtcrime laws.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/19/head-of-german...

https://boingboing.net/2016/04/23/german-political-leader-ar...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-springs-...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7371/facebook-freedom-of-...
The extreme poverty in the US can honestly be worse than Cuban poverty.
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The majority in the US hold an unfavorable view of Castro, but that's not the case worldwide. Even in Canada for instance, the more people think Castro was good for Cuba than not [1]. Asia generally holds him in high regard, and Europe has mixed feelings.

For some objectivity, we could look at some stats. PPP adjusted GDP per capita is much lower than the US, but way better than China. Education is excellent [2] because they spend 10% of their budget on it. Life expectancy (~79, gasp!) is higher than the United States. All of this with a near total embargo from the next-door global economic super power.

Western record on human rights is equally bad. In Castro's time, the Vietnam war resulted in 1.3 million deaths. More recently, the invasion of Iraq has resulted in 125,000 non-combatant deaths. Western allies today like Saudi have the most egregious human rights records.

I hate communism, but even with unrestrained exaggeration, Castro isn't Hitler. Such a claim is either a result of media manipulation of history or a flawed history curriculum.

[1] http://www.pewglobal.org/2008/02/19/global-views-on-castro-a...

[2] https://novakdjokovicfoundation.org/education-system-of-cuba...
Oh, yes this does sound familiar, it sounds like you're a holocaust denier and a nazi as well, I should have guessed.
Exactly. Communist propaganda and cultural war was so good and effective that many will miss the part that we are talking about a socialist totalitarian in both regimes so appealing to Godwin is a non-antiargument and a fail to reason itself
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Not sure why people are morning Fidel Castro's death by watching a Western video probably made about 10 years ago. Don't bother, read the comments
In favor of his own privacy yes. He exposed his location history to inform others that big brother knows this about them too.
It is a shortcoming, but not one that can be addressed any time soon
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If you have never seen the movie Before Night Falls I recommend it. While I agree that 20th century politics in Latin America was complicated, it's also true that the Castro regime committed a lot of human rights violations in ways that now seem really unjustified. I am not saying the United States was innocent. I am saying that a lot of people suffered under the regime needlessly and that should be acknowledged honestly.
Taxes are not related to human rights. Unless you can point to cases where taxes have been so high in the past that people starved from it? But in any case, that's not on the table. Don't pretend that it is.