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> Of course. In this world, companies don't need to compete with the "stay home and watch TV and get free money" option, so they can pay less. Your "subsidy" is actually directly harmful to the people you claim it benefits.

So if companies can pay people less, that will then lead them to... pay people more?

> Yet somehow I'm surrounded by about 1 billion living people with a GDP growth rate double that of the United States.

When your per capita GDP catches up to the US's, tell me again about your growth rate.
> The increase in Desktop emory power usage will be offset by Kabylake's power saving.

While doing anything real, it will offset, but you will lose at the very low end (staring at an unmoving webpage or picture) and the sleep times will be very different.
>Greece could have exited the EU, but there really wasn't the public appetite for it.

"As a result of the referendum, the bailout conditions were rejected by a majority of over 61% to 39% approving, with the "No" vote winning in all of Greece's regions."[0]

"Further, the European Commission signaled that the referendum question, to which they would recommend a "Yes", from its viewpoint should be understood as whether or not Greece wanted to remain part of Europe and the Eurozone, which at the present state included acceptance of receiving conditional bailout help on a set of mutually negotiated and agreed terms."[0]

I think it would be more accurate to say that the political and economic leadership operating within greece didn't have an appetite for it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015
This is not true in many industries, due to supranational regulation. MAT insurance (a huge financial product the UK exports to the EU) is exempt from this rule due to WTO regulation.

Furthermore, 'main base of operation' is pretty vague, and I don't believe it accurately reflects EU requirements. A subsidiary can be based in an EU country and provide you with all the access you would like. This isn't an option for smaller companies, but for larger ones its just an extra cost.
It, and it's effects, will definitely kill projects.
>I am yet to understand how the EU makes it easier for bigger countries to step on the small ones. Do you think Germany wouldn't be able to throw its weight around to push Poland, Czechia or Slovakia to do whatever they want to? Who would legally put an opposition to that?

Those countries themselves -- and any other state actor, that is not tied by a bureaucracy they don't control but Germany does.

>The lack of an existing legal framework agreed upon all actors would mean there's no deterrent for an escalation if, let's say, France or UK decided to side with their Eastern colleagues and get serious about it.

Only then it would mean war or close, and the aggression and control would be evident (and costly).

Whereas within a "existing legal framework" under your control (including controlling several lesser states to always vote for your interests), and with you controlling the centralized "purse" of Europe as well as its monetary policy, you get to push your agenda more effectively.
Or too much technical debt, so they couldn't dogfood and actually change anything substantial towards the end of the development phase. Or a mixture.
Indian FMCG sector's highest paid CEO is a 94-year-old school drop-out
Sounds a lot like my approach. I've been in business for over 8 years.
Rodale is a non-profit.

Many conventional farms live off subsidies. They're not necessarily any more sustainable.

(I'm not from the US so can only speak of local farms. I believe its the same in the US, based on stuff I've heard and read, but don't believe random internet comments)
Agree completely. An ambiguous referendum that gave no guidance. An unelected PM who has taken it upon herself to define the most egregious future path. The only ethical stance is to set out definite terms (which I guess she is now doing) and hold a general election (which I am 100% sure she will not).
As a proponent of the Fiduciary Rule, this is actually one of the best critiques against it. A lot of unintended consequences are highlighted, one of them: ex post judgment of whether an investment was in the client interest or not.
Many countries are "demanding" that, because it's probably the easiest way for politicians to get more popular (right after "being tough on crime"). There's literally no need for inner border checks, as long as the outer borders are secure.
I don't understand how we got here. I understand that the media picked up a massive campaign to leave, because the various super-rich owners of the popular press decided Brexit was the thing to support. I understand that there were a lot of lies told and that people believed enough of those told by the Leave side that they decided to vote that way.

I don't understand how a slender majority in favour of leaving ended up with a government of people who are supposed to look out for our best interests going full-on for just about the worst possible outcome.
>The opposite is usually lamented in the heavier countries, e.g. here in Germany it is often lamented that a German voters vote is less important than that of a voter in a small country like Luxembourg due to the way EU representation is structured.

All sides can lament, but the numbers speak for themselves.
"Killed" as in "That was the reason it was ultimately replaced by a green field project, after ten years in the market" or "Killed" as in "It never shipped because it was so bogged down in technical debt we could not ship it"?

The former has happened to every project I know, which doesn't die for another reason (market disappearing, etc). The latter I have not experienced.
The problem is not about the different VAT rates in different countries. The problem is the process for claiming VAT paid in another EU country. That process is so ridiculously complex that up to a certain amount even accountants have largely given up on it because it's not worth the bother.
Here's a video of him presenting these slides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_-VXz9E-w
Consider; just because it hasn't worked out perfectly doesn't mean that the issues that lead to the formation of EU didn't exist, or don't exist now.

Is breaking apart so that each little insignificantly economic nobody can be bullied by the rest of the world a better solution?

What's your solution to the problem?

It's pretty easy to complain, but coming up with actual solutions is way way harder.
Northern Ireland is set to lower its rates to 12.5% [1] to compete with the Republic, I can see the entire UK following suit at some point during May's term with abolishing all corporate tax rates before 2025.

[1] - http://www.arthurcox.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Projecte...
And while you're learning, your attitude and world understanding constantly changes so much that you trash the plans of naive older self almost yearly, no?
You'd be surprised, most of the time for consumer apps the value isn't in the tech anyways.
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Yes there was a vote. But it was a vote on a very ambiguous set of terms that was also an advisory vote, not a binding vote. This vote has been taken by an unelected Prime Minister serving out a term won on a mandate to protect UK interests in Europe. The current PM's actions are quite illegitimate.
I don't understand why you would compare "having a shared set of values" and "bitching about contribution and payback". Yes, the feeling of "being a European" has gotten weaker every year, especially since the financial crisis, but this is not what I was talking about.

The shared attachement to democracy, peace, to solidarity versus exacerbated nationalism, refusing death penalty, of some version of social democracy in the broad sense of the term, is much stronger than what divides us.
I'm a fan of continuous refactoring, making small improvements to code and environments constantly, rather than trying to do everything all at once. It might not be as satisfying, but it's less risky and a lot more realistic in most work environments.
You may take from the story what you wish, but afaik, the collaboration you're referring to was informal engineering discussion, not required permission. I can't charitably get to your interpretation from the blog posts or public comments by those at CF.
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I used to work on Pootle:

https://github.com/translate/pootle/

It's on-premises, open source, has a web UI, supports many formats and comes with a REST API. I'm sure you must have seen it - any reason you didn't go that route?

Aside: I see you're shipping with nginx and have a whole ssl setup. Take a look at Caddy, your life may get simpler :) https://caddyserver.com/
The point is, while you may personally know a single cow or few farmers, majority of the stuff entering your mouth is uncontrolled.

THe best way to combat toxins is from the inside, rather then outside IMO - take care of your liver/kidnies/skin with adequate food and supplement choices. Avoid obvious toxins such as cigarete smoke.
Does it? I just tried switching the interface to English (there is a dropdown in the menu) and it worked exactly like the UK or US version of Amazon, just with the German product catalogue.
I think not zero sum in the sense that currently a good battle between two rivals could stir up more attention for both VR companies and lead to increased sales for either than they would have if they weren't competing.

People don't have to buy both they just have to be more likely to buy either due to the presence of competition.
Honestly,/b/ might seems mild when you compare it to /pol/ which is little less anonymous
Ooh Germany the "big bad bully boohoo"

The funny thing is Germany is more contained inside the EU than outside it.
Either way, the car owner is responsible, not the programmer.
Hopefully this time everyone will remember how difficult bad things are.
Same thing, back in the first dotcom boom. I think the company would have died anyway, but they burned whatever runway they had by undertaking a complete rewrite of a working ASP/SQL web app (full stack Microsoft). The new version was to run on Linux and use a variety of custom code, sourceforge and/or freshmeat projects, and several different data storage tiers. An explosion of architectural complexity. As far as I could tell the main reason was that the CTO and his top architects were all Unix zealots and hated Microsoft.
FWIW I find Photoshop more intimidating and confusing than GIMP, because I never learned to use Photoshop.

If you're looking at GIMP as something to attract Photoshop users, sure, the UI is bad because it's not the same as Photoshop. Sure, there are places you can look at Photoshop and say "wow, that's so much better for productive use" (ignoring feature differences where we know Photoshop is ahead of course). But this thing about GIMP having a UI that's _objectively_ bad is just unsupportable IMO.
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Assuming that they're implicitly comparing Sweden to the US, I would like clarification on how Sweden is less business-friendly. From my quick search, it seems like their corporate tax is around 17% lower than that of the US. Perhaps they have other taxes that make up for the difference?
Just size and a few really minor API nitpicks. If you're writing for Node, just use the built-in one.
So if you want to drop off the grid for a while

Is this just trash talking a hometown you were glad to leave for the glamor of a big city, or do people actually think like this?

I've lived in big cites, and rural Maine, so I understand the fear of missing out that comes with it. But it's possible to have a social life anywhere, and we work online. Is there some startup culture thing that I'm not exposed to where zero commute and physically rubbing elbows is paradoxically more important than in fields less conductive to remote work?
How did you arrive at this conclusion other than pure conjecture? The in-out vote was a binary choice, as I remember?
>We just allowed for easy border access

Do you realize you used 'just', talking about countries that were at war with each other for their entire history? When I said "we don't realize", I was talking about you
Shinkansen is actually quite weather dependent.

All trains will stop at the first safe opportunity in the event of heavy rain, winds, or snow. It's one of the reasons (no level crossings is another) there has never been a fatal accident involving HSR in Japan.
All I will say is that you should close Wikipedia, go learn French in Southern France for 3 months and then comeback and reread what you wrote.

Just because other countries have different systems, does not mean it is not working out for them, or that we need to start doing silly number comparisons that say nothing about the culture of each country.

France is doing pretty good in the engineering department, naval, nuclear and aeronautics are top notch. I would guess that the university system is not that bad eh?

The US has a great learning system for higher education, and the expensive part is covered with the high salaries you get afterwards. Plus the best part of being in America, always be in the front row for new movies, videogames, etc (well, Japan sometimes gets the games first, but oh well)

So don't be a hater, just go out and explore stuff. Diversity is what makes us great.
>Imagine combining Canada and the USA into a single country.

this is not very hard to imagine
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Are these the same financial analysts that said there was going to be an immediate meltdown post-brexit?
Are you a Gentleman Coder?
The EU is going to slaughter the UK. That's basically their public position, and there's little reason to suspect they hold different private positions. It's the only thing that makes political sense.

An agreement needs to be reached about EU citizens already living in the UK, and UK citizens in the EU. That's maybe the only critical issue where they have common ground. In every other respect, the UK is going to take decades to recover from radical economic upheaval. It's a ludicrous self-imposed crisis.
A general election in the near future isn't going to pose any practical obstacle to May, since the opposition parties (except in Scotland) are in total disarray and the public has very little information to judge whether May's vague aspirations are actually realistic and desirable. And all the available evidence suggests they actually trust her more than the PM whose government they reelected.

A post-negotiation referendum might be more of a mandate, but pitching the idea that "the referendum obliges the government to attempt to negotiate the best Leave settlement it can; it doesn't guarantee the outcome of those negotations will actually be more popular than the EU so that deal shoud also be put to referendum" required considerably more unity and political skill on the part of the remains of the Remain campaign to make the idea stick.
Minor reasons but a) it looks untidy (to me), and b) for example if I want to change:

foo = {
"bar": true,
"baz": false
}

to:

foo.bar = true;
foo.baz = false;

then I have extra quotes to delete. Those half seconds add up over a year!

I guess you could argue the opposite though, that this looks messy:

let headers = {
Expires: 0,
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

Which leads me to believe it's a matter of personal preference, and you should just pick one and stick to it :) And look, there's even an eslint rule for it: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/quote-props
27.8% chose not to have a say in it then. Leaving the EU means leaving the single market, and a majority voted for that.

It's not too late for the UK - if you do have a general election, and one party promises to not follow the Brexit referendum, and they win, I guess the EU will stay. But then people will moan about government not following the voice of the people, as expressed by the referendum.
Content marketing is remarkably similar to writing code
The same way a slender minority forced just about the worst possible President on the American people.
> Theresa May was not voted into government.

She was voted into government by her party, just like the leaders of every UK government.
Many bitter flavors and flavors of spicy foods actually arise from chemical compounds that are lethal to large classes of animals. The human metabolic process is very good at handling things that are poisonous to most animals, and the process of cooking is also a very effective way to combat most poisons.

Just because something is poisonous to an insect doesn't mean it's poisonous to humans, especially at the same concentrations. This is even more the case for synthetic pesticides, since companies optimize the design of synthetic pesticides for "healthy for humans, poison for pests."
indeed, I simply stopped selling services to the rest of the EU as it was not worth the effort in dealing with the new EU VAT regime, even though my small operation is below the threshold for VAT registration in my home country
Yeah, for me personally Pixelmator is even better than Photoshop because (besides not having an astronomical price if you don't want a subscription) they have figured out the perfect sweetspot between too much and too few features (for a prosumer).
You can twist and turn it any way you like, there WAS a vote, it was democratic, and you just keep complaining and whining about democracy when you don't like the outcome.

The current PM's actions are quite illegitimate.

If that is so go to the courts. Otherwise whatever you say is just an empty bag of hot air.

Of course, you won't do that - because you know very well the current UK government is perfectly legitimate.

And "brexit" was voted for by the people. People like you only start complaining when they dislike the result - or please show me your similar complains when the result was to your liking, because there always are people who abstain. Only votes from people who vote count, what a huge surprise.
Which election had "I want David Cameron as PM" on the ballot?

I only remember having the option to vote in parliamentary elections for my local MP.
This is a good post.

I was just having a discussion with someone on HN who considered $200k pre-tax to be affluent, and suggested that if you couldn't save $80k post-tax annually, you're doing it wrong. Having lived at $30k, $200k, and now more, I know that $200k isn't as lofty as it sounds. The dollars never seem long enough.

It's all about living a life worth living. Part of that is buying time by paying for services - from remodeling, to plumbing and electrical, to landscaping and tree maintenance, to cleaning.

Once you have a family and sufficient means, the projects that you used to DIY to save money become tasks that you hire out to save time. Do I want to spend the next six to eight weekends building a massive Ipe deck, saving thousands of dollars, or do I want to pay someone to build it in two weeks so that I have weekends devoted to family, friends, and hobbies? Do I want to spend several hours a week cleaning the entire house, or do I want to pay someone to clean it while I am at work?

This can also be applied to subjective enjoyment. Do I want to drive an A-to-B economy car, or do I want to drive a high performance vehicle which I subjectively enjoy driving?

I usually choose buying time and buying enjoyment.
Except for one measure: Netscape died as a company. The huge rewrite contributed to killing it. If you don't ship a product (for like 4-6 years?) you're gonna die. Mozilla originally chose the name phoenix, (then firebird to avoid trademark problems, then finally firefox) was chosen because it was a phoenix rising from Netscape's ashes. Its major innovation: It was 'blazing fast' when compared to ie 5.5 / 6. Tabbed browsing was also pretty cool.

You can learn a lot of lessons from Netscape, but this isn't one of them. Servo is a great example of how a rewrite should / can work. Mozilla hasn't devoted 100% of resources to Servo, but instead is letting servo build all on its own, and someday unclearly defined in the future, the two could merge. (but might not!) It's a separate product, and nobody is pinning all their hopes and dreams on it.
You could say this about a lot of businesses; AAA game companies, supermarkets etc all can have horrible work culture. But when you are spending millions, and can hire as many people as you want, and work them hard, results will come.
Ask HN: Recommendations for ML training 2h a week
The company where I work has allowed me to pick up training up to 2h a week on a subject I like. I would like to pick up AI, probably more the ML part and I'm wondering what would be the best way to make the most of my time.

Just researching on myself is not out of the question, but something a bit more structured would be better. Still, 2h a week might be a bit too little to spend following a proper AI class online.

Also, I'm not new to the subject, but I haven't really done much in it in over 10 years. Therefore, a normal introductory course might be somewhat useless in some points but required in other points. As such, something that I can choose the pace would be the most appropriate.

Any recommendations would be very much appreciated...
The crazy thing is that AMP is open source and this is still happening. I've been tracking their GitHub and what is happening is that while yes, the source is open, they won't let you add anything they don't like.

Oh, and if you try to fork AMP you fail the official validators and suddenly your site isn't AMP anymore. What is happening in this case is that open source is doing nothing to stop AMP from being proprietary because it's worthless unless you have the "blessed" version.

Take for example the most obvious change, to make the original URL visible in the banner. There's tens maybe hundreds of GitHub issues on this and it's still languishing. In the rare case anyone official replies it's some bs about how it will affect the user experience or "interfere with Google's cache" in some roundabout and unspecified way. They leave a few of these issues open so that whenever you start another they can close it as a duplicate. Otherwise their repo would be overrun with them.

Open source doesn't matter if someone holds the keys to the kingdom and "validates" your sources. A dark pattern indeed.

AMP in its current form is certainly evil. The only way that could be changed is if Google opens up the ability to cache the page by a different provider with different validators.

I smell antitrust
Well, it's a marketing prop that tries to refocus the attention on a conceivably positive aspect.
Well, it's a marketing prop that tries to refocus the attention on a conceivably positive aspect.

I don't think any new imperial ambitions will go over well.
This is my main problem with it. I don't mind too much that it loads an AMP page (well, I don't know, I go back and forth on it), it's the fact that if I want to share the page afterwards, I want the page to be shared to be the original site, not the AMP site, and finding a non-AMP version of the link is damn near impossible.
Isn't that just the fundamental problem with financial analysts? If they were always right they could be really rich really quick. But I've never heard of that..