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I'm not looking forward to people buying experimental cancer drugs from their local homeopath...

I'm not an expert here, but the notion that dismantling the FDA would unleash medical innovation seems to ignore that there are already many countries around the world with much less stringent drug review than the United States. If that were a significant advantage, wouldn't these countries be showing measurable gains in life expectancy or some other metric?
Fun fact: the æ ligature was only introduced to Latin during the early modern era.

Classical Latin just wrote out AE (and it was always in capitals because minuscule hadn't been invented yet). In the middle ages, after sound changes resulted in AE being pronounced just like E, they switched to ę (called e caudata, the little tail at the bottom being called a cauda). In the early modern era, scribal abbreviations fell out of fashion and they went back to writing the a... but they ligatured it with the e as æ in order to make it clear it was a single sound.
I'm paraphrasing a little bit, due to imperfect memory, but I've always been inspired by something Bob Parsons (of Godaddy fame) said:

"Never be afraid to enter a crowded market. Just be better than everybody else".

So yeah, if you're confident enough if your ability to execute at a high(er) level, then I think it can make sense to do something that's fundamentally similar to an existing business.

OTOH, it you want to make big money, it might be better to pursue something in line with Peter Thiel's ideas about wanting a "monopoly" and having something that's 10x better instead of being an incremental improvement.

I think either model can work though, depending on your goals and on your ability to execute.

See also: discussion of "fast follower strategy".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/avaseave/2014/10/14/fast-followe...

https://hbr.org/2012/06/first-mover-or-fast-follower

http://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2016/06/02/why-fast-follo...
I think this analysis fails to consider the effects of timelines of development, population and history.

The chinese revolution led to complete overhaul of the property system, land ownership and land reform from the 50s.

Being developed countries a lot of development happened in a different era in most western countries when the rules, environmental awareness and current standards just didn't exist. China is doing it now. It's a completely different ball game.

China is a huge country compared to most european countries and has more than 1.3 billion people. Its unlikely the things that apply to Europe or the US will apply here.
I don't know, some random anonymous reviewer on the internet said this was pretty good! I'll take it and see what happens!
How about Yelp for politicians? No need for elections.
The parent post was about French high speed rail. Your rebuttal was about a specialty link (the Eurostar) between London and Paris. That's 2 different countries and a massively expensive 35mi long undersea tunnel.

You're not wrong that French rail is relatively expensive, but I think a specialty link was not really a "normal" rail ticket to use to compare.
Trump claims he has a plan. Basically the only specific thing mentioned is letting Medicare and Medicaid negotiate drug prices which, by law, they're forbidden to do. That would help with affordability. "Insurance for everybody" and "lower numbers, much lower deductibles" sounds good but he also says it's not single-payer (of course). I'm concerned that it will be really shitty insurance for everybody, it won't cost a lot but you're get very little from it and will have to fight every time to get what you're entitled to.
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Example: See "anti-vax" movement.
"guaranteeing identical family treatment and automatic labor market access"

There's a winning move. You can bring your spouse and your spouse can work. That's a dealmaker, right there.
I agree, intimacy covers a broad spectrum, of which sex is just one part.
It will frown on fake reviews, but there will be an option to pay to remove bad reviews posted by the widows of the deceased stating that their loved ones died from complications of a foodborne illness at that establishment. The widows were more "adventurous" and thus survived.

When do I get my board seat?
Try it, test it, see if it works.
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I second this. David's site opened my eyes to the importance of colour correcting the light coming out of your (off-camera) flashes for artistic effect, and a rough understanding of colour theory is what helps give images that extra "pop"
First, thank you for changing the overall tone of your comment.

You assume that the state is always right. I agree it is right in most cases, but not always. And calling arguments like "public safety", like "fighting terrorism", is a way for a government to have more power than it ought to (at least from the point of view of its libertarian citizen).

Voting a law should not necessarily close the debate around it. Societal truths may change: "false information" may just be opposite opinions. Saying it is false is not enough to discard it. A non-issue for you (e.g. abortion) may be an issue for the guy or girl next door.

Activists should not be banned from having strange opinions as it is the root of democratic debates. Let them be ashamed in society, but do not jail them. Today's fundamental rights may be revoked tomorrow because society may someday realize that it was, in the end, not such a good idea.

This is basically a political tradeoff between public safety and free speech/freedom in general. I personnally and currently support more free speech. You look like rather supporting public safety. I'd be happy to read your opinion on that topic.
By getting sick and dying I suppose, but you before me, so I won't make the same mistake. I honestly can't think of any other alternative.

A ratings website is not a replacement for controlled experiment. The FDA and the current Pharma industry have problems, but this is in no way an intelligent alternative.
Yes, that is my point. There are almost no jobs in the private sector, especially the computer industry, analogous to a "tenure track research job." Possibly some corporate research labs like HP Labs, which have nearly all been downsized heavily or completely eliminated since the 1990s, have positions like this. The vast majority of Ph.D. physicists who move on to industry are getting some type of software development job which are "at will full time" jobs with no future prospect of something like tenure.
Are you trying to imply that Syrians and Tunisians have NO positive economic impact?
They have much cheaper cost of health care.
How is the notion that "the vast majority of curriculum (quantum, EM, mechanics) are things THAT HAVE BARELY CHANGED IN THE PAST 50 YEARS" relevant to this discussion?
Other than GDP (which frankly benefits 5% of US population), everything is better in France. Better roads, better public transportation, high speed rails, healthcare, education. Even small and remote villages in France have high quality roads, rail connections etc. and doesn't look run down and entrenched in poverty.
Doctors, like lawyers, accountants, pharmacists and so on have professional associations with existing and quite strict ethics regulations about this sort of thing.
If by "due to their existing regulations" you mean not being able to fire any employee overnight after they pass their renewable 3-month trial period, then yeah, it sucks. (But let's be honest: you seriously need more than 6 months to figure out if someone's a good fit?) If you meant anything else it's mostly an urban legend IMO: speaking for myself, I found the administration to be more streamlined than most I've interacted with (including that of the US).

Startup friendly capital is scarcer in FR than in the UK or the US, but there's still some and you can always head to London (which you can reach by TGV) to meet startup friendly VCs.

And yes, the tax rate is high, blah blah blah. But try other EU countries for even worse. You're covered for healthcare, retirement, get 5-7 weeks of paid vacation, etc., and public services, good infrastructure, etc. all of which come at a cost indeed.
It should be abundantly clear by now that many of the incoming administration's cabinet/agency picks are aimed at dismantling the federal administrative structure, regardless of any scientific or practical reasons for how the structure got to be that way to begin with. Good times for snake oil salespersons, bad times for anyone else.
Heathrow is pretty convenient to London with both tube and Heathrow Express service but train is generally more convenient than air if you're going to either downtown Paris or Brussels. Personally, I'd probably never fly those routes unless they were legs on a longer trip.

In general, I've found that in Europe there are pretty consistent large savings to booking rail well in advance, which is not nearly so much the case in the US. This can be the case with flying but air prices tend to be all over the map without an easily identifiable pattern.
All of that is correct, but I was thinking more of the Shakespearean era after the modern use of uppercase/lowercase arose but before V and U split into different letters. So back then you had, for example, "love" written as loue.
I know you jest but it's being tried http://www.politicalbank.com
The debugging experience still requires thinking in javascript (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz3IhEqTy9ioZWQ1T24tSzVwaW8...). It's not that big a deal from a day to day. Obviously still worth it, clojurescript is amazing and no other language comes even close. I dont use a ClojureScript repl these days either but I know some are and I need to revisit it.
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Yelp for everything, then we won't need anything!
Could you link?
I suppose it's a small blessing that he didn't pick Martin Shkreli. Or Elizabeth Holmes.
Right now, not much. The internet and academia both lack a good solution to information manipulation.

A robust decentralized reputation system would go a very long way in solving a huge number of problems. I don't think anyone is that close though. I feel like we are just one major breakthrough away, but that breakthrough is likely to take a form that nobody is expecting.
Wait, testing?

These so-called “naughty strings” expose implementation errors in code that processes widely used formal languages such as numeric literals, URLs, HTML, JSON, SQL, etc. These languages are so widely used that it's criminal not to have formal specifications for them. And the mathematical techniques for constructing programs that meet their formal specifications are very well known.
"The other reviewers saying you can't drink while taking Tylenol have no idea what they are talking about. I do it all the time and it's totally safe."
Startups =\= Government
Labor laws are not favorable ; french like to feel protected by their state.
"At-will employment" doesn't exists but since 10 years we have an easy-to-get freelance status ("auto entrepreneur") with low tax for under 36 K€/year.
> I think your expression of "greater freedom and autonomy" is in line with UBI

While this is a reasonable argument, and why I would prefer UBI to existing welfare schemes, my definition of "freedom" doesn't include anything that you force someone else to pay for, and my definition of "autonomy" doesn't include living off the sweat of other people. They're almost antonymous, in fact.
I don't want to be too negative but I have been in a similar situation. Once money starts flowing it's very unlikely that you will get more. If you being underpaid and have no serious equity you are being disrespected and that won't change.
Fake reviews are part of the innovation.
Have you thought of writing a guide to help people submit higher quality content? Might prove useful. :)
American life expectancy is decreasing.
Seems pretty unlikely. Back in the early 2000's the freelance sites often had prices that were 1/10 or 1/20th of US rates. Unless these places are getting cheaper--and they're not, because the rates in a location mainly tend to increase--there's not much to fear.
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Well, when you put it like that, yes, all of them.
That is literally if you do nothing to shield yourself from taxes AND you are single. Do you plan on being single your entire life? and never investing in any tax advantage accounts?, never tax loss harvesting?, never being semi-serious about FIRE? You are so out of touch it is beyond unreal. There are people that live and work in every single one of those locales on 1/3rd and less just fine.
Interesting! I like racket...just wish it was faster. Anybody know if there will be a successor to "Realm of Racket"?

Edit:
Now I remember it uses LGPL as the license. I understand the reasoning, but I've always viewed the freedoms as giving the user freedom over the implementer...kind of just trading power.
You can workaround it somewhat by using groups and join both of your devices. The cryptographic primitives for multi user messaging are there.
Thank you for your thoughtful response, I have a much better understanding of where you're coming from now, and regarding...

>"I'm not sure of her role for maintaining the romance; she doesn't get into it. But they both play parts in the success or failure of romance, regardless of their definition."

..., I agree.

Glad you liked the video too.
Clearly not in start up environments. What do bother some shopkeepers or restaurants owners for example, is when tourists speak english to them very fast and naturally assuming everybody speaks english. But then if you ask first politely "i'm sorry i don't speak french", then you'll only receive warm welcomes.
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Oh because people who have MDs are incorruptible? Be realistic, lots of doctors take illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. As a Euro I can't believe that pharma companies are still allowed to advertise direct to consumers on television. They claim first amendment protection, but advertising is not the press and commercial speech should not be subject to the same legal protections as that of individuals.
To be fair only failed countries have poor drug regulations. There is no advanced country (able to do quality medical research) without strict regulations.
Say you're implementing a field-specific solution, do you use the US English term or the term that's written on the users know? (specs, documentation, etc)

If another developer comes on board, will their English be fluent enough to know those terms? There's also a huge risk in having a translation error. We're programmers, not translators.

For general variable names, I agree. On the other hand, in my experience, when the programmers aren't fluent enough in English, if English is imposed, they tend to choose really bad variable names and not comment their code properly. So I tend to impose clear names/doc over imposing a specific language.
English doesn't quite meet the criteria of being a creole, though.

Superstratum/substratum theory applies here. English has an Ingvaeonic superstratum and multiple substrata, from Old Norse and Norman French at least, if not more.
Stats for European schools can also be different. I know of some that have short PhD programs but require you complete a masters before applying.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13408852 and marked it off-topic.
That hasn't stopped "buying expensive stuff for doctors to sway them" from being a thing, even now!

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873246951045784145...
Domain fronting helps prevent network-level blocking. It does nothing in the face of a court order directly to Signal.
I guess the justification for not scaling it back would be that it makes it more palatable for the people paying for it. If someone received $10,000 in UBI and payed $10,000 in tax it would be neutral but their attitude to other recipients might be different.
> When Slack is bought by Google and merged with Hangouts

Hah, Google, have multiple messaging systems and bother to merge them?
That looks a little more like GoFundMe for politics, than Yelp.
These would be my concerns about potential differences between Signal and an 'Easy XMPP' client; would someone who knows Signal say whether these are accurate?:

* Signal users are not anonymous; Signal requires users' phone numbers.

* Signal is centralized. Is there a way to run your own Signal server?

* Signal uses Google Chrome on the desktop (and Android?) and Google Play Services (or some part of them) on Android (I don't know about iOS). Whatever you think of Google's intentions, they are one of the leading surveillance organizations in the world. Signal users must trust Google.

* Is Signal's system (not user data) fully open and transparent, end-to-end?

* Would I need to trust Signal more than I would need to trust Jabber?

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EDIT: I came across this comment from Moxie in late 2015 which addresses some of these issues and provides a broader view:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665520

If we were going to rank our priorities, they would be in this order:

1) Make mass surveillance impossible.

2) Stop targeted attacks against crypto nerds.

It's not that we don't find #2 laudable, but optimizing for #1 takes precedence when we're making decisions.

If you don't want to use your phone number, don't use it. You can register with any GV, Twilio, Voicepulse, or other throwaway VoIP number.

If you don't want to run Chrome, use Chromium instead.

If you don't want to use Google Play Services, use GcmCore.

The world you want this software for is not the world that everyone else lives in. You can certainly make it work in that world with a little effort, but because of how we've prioritized our objectives, that's not the default experience.
Looking forward to a Yelp for Yelp Clones, where I can rate yelp-for-X sites on how trustworthy the ratings are.
Why would you replace research into its effects with a star rating from MDs based on what? Their gut feeling? Them testing it in the wild with no controls?
These are human lives we're gambling with now.
solution to your visa problems: just pretend to be a refugee
The Snowden disclosures did not suggest that Internet companies like Google were coordinating with NSA. The disclosures suggested that NSA was wiretapping all traffic across the Internet, and then parsing it, storing it, and indexing it so as to be able to make sense of what traffic represented e.g. a Google web search, and then search that semantically later.

Because at the time Google did not use encryption in their network links between data centers, NSA was able to siphon up a whole lot of information that way - maybe more than just interaction between users and Google services, potentially as much as interaction between internal components of Google.

Anyway, Google and other companies responded by employing encryption in these links, and promoting the use of encryption across a number of other protocols. The Snowden disclosures were in my perspective a catalyst for Google's promotion of HTTPS in the Chrome browser, and TLS in Gmail, and probably Certificate Transparency. The fact that these initiatives such as encryption between data centers started after the disclosures suggests that they were a response from Google to thwart this kind of surveillance.
> It looks great in italics, especially when using a font that gives it a descender... looks more like the integral symbol than 'f'.

It looks like the integral symbol for much the same reason uppercase sigma looks like the sum symbol.
Here's the same exact same free education logic applied to the US system:

US universities are free. The money you don't pay in taxes covers the cost.

What evidence would you hold up to suggest the French fraternal economy system is the one to mimic? As opposed to Sweden, Germany, or the UK, which have all produced superior results the last few decades with different approaches from that of France.
Oh, I misunderstood what you were saying. My apologies.

Anyway addressing that point, putting aside the humanitarian issues of "if you aren't going to behave the way we want you to, you get thrown out of society and are left to presumably starve and die" the simple fact is that walling them off is going to be exceptionally difficult to do, just for the logistics and the construction required. Not to mention, even if you make the laws pretty permissive, I have a feeling you'd have a lot more have-nots than haves, and at the end of the day, numbers do matter...
And in the US you have federal and state taxes.

For a family with child you will probably pay less taxes in France than in San Francisco.

Bonus point: all your taxes are prefilled by governement you just need to confirm on the website.
I have only three years of experience as a software engineer. I made over $200,000 in 2016. This is more than the Prime Minister and President make in France. I also have health insurance provided by my employer.

Granted, I only get four weeks of paid leave, which is less than would be typical for a French person, but not by a dramatic amount.

I would understand your point if the raw salaries were closer with France's only slightly lower. But the difference (for people working at top tech jobs) is so extreme that no amount of free university and pensions can make up for it.

Even if I have to save for my retirement, save for my hypothetical children's future education, and so on, I'm still making a lot more in the US than I would in France.
I'm always surprised how bad ads are on some systems. I usually like ads in specialty paper publications. It is nice to know what vendors are around, what new products they have. And you can skip an ad in a fraction of a second.

Before I installed Privacy Badger, my experience was usually ads for stuff I really didn't care about, unrelated to the subject of the website. Then I start searching for something, find what I want to buy and buy it. Then for months I get ads everywhere for the product I just bought. Never for example for accessories.

Of course, ads have to be as obnoxious as possible. Not just being there if you want to give them some attention, no they have to destroy your reading experience.

I once gave a news site a nice donation. By sheer coincidence right after that they changed the layout to the point I stopped visiting. Of course, my donation could easily be seen as a reward for the articles I read there before, but it didn't feel right.
If you go straight from undergrad into a PhD track four years is a reasonable minimum, yes. You can at some institutions at least opt to take an MS along the way (as I did) after your two years of graduate level course work is completed, and then continue to complete the PhD.
> we should write off the leaders of all the other failed entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley as well?

For running government agencies? Yes. Such risk-taking does not belong there.
How about a Meta-Yelp for Meta-Yelps that don't Meta-Yelp themselves?
And also she get healtcare even if she doesn't work
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I cited this below:

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/07/10/co...

"Laying track on viaducts is often preferred in China to minimize resettlement and the use of fertile land"

I rode across a lot of the country on HSR in 2013 and it was obvious that huge swathes (perhaps most) of the network is on viaducts.

Either China is about 40% "physical constraints" (which would make this high speed rail network an even more impressive and our lack of one an even greater failure) or they're actually there to be "nice" (i.e. avoid the need for resettlement/compulsory land purchase).
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There's a difference between giving an honest try and failing, and coming up with THIS:

https://www.amazon.com/21-INC-21BC1-Bitcoin-Computer/dp/B014...

(Yes, that IS a Raspberry Pi that they're selling for $150)