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> until terrorism ceases to be a force in the world

I think you're basically implying this, but I think it's worth elaborating: there is no particular reason for terrorism to cease being a force in the world if things stay grossly similar to the way they are today.

Unlike, say, war, which requires state actors to maintain aggression, terrorism requires just one individual with an idea. Even addressing root causes won't eliminate terrorism entirely. Unless people cease to be afraid (perhaps due to improved numeracy / statistical thinking), the threat of terrorism will forever loom.
Thank you for the recommendation - I will add it to my reading list since I've been curious to learn from other's experiences trying the same thing.
> breaking the cycle of addiction to apps

Apple works hard to make their devices and apps addictive.
> many retirees on Social Security do return to teaching, many consider it a way to "give back".

Just my five cents: If they recorded their lectures and put them on YouTube (or a similar site) much more people could profit from their teaching - thus they would give back to many more people.
You're doing a lot of hand waving that is not only not backed by the evidence but smells strongly of drinking the kool aid of alternative medicine.

Modern medicine not having tools to fix chronic disease says more about the second law of thermodynamics than it does about the state of modern medicine, and thinking that alternative modalities (which have been tried and tested ad nauseum) will do any better is complete madness. But you're welcome to waste your money if you wish.

Now when you get to the price of cancer treatments, fortunately I live and practice medicine in a western country with a universal health system - i don't have to have discussions with patients about whether they will be able to afford a treatment - everyone gets everything they need. The US would do well to introduce a good system here, but apparently that smells too much like communism... even if it does create the horrible situations you allude to
My hope is built on nothing less,
than Jesus blood and righteousness!
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus name!

On Christ the solid rock I stand,
all other ground is sinking sand.
All other ground is sinking sand!
>I don't understand those that think boxing out Russia and China from the rest of Europe and Asia is a good thing.

The idea is that if you can connect the economies of small regional powers (Korea, Japan, Vietnam or Poland, Romania, Hungary) more than they're connected to the regional hegemon, and you connect those powers to the US, then you will have a balance of power in the region that makes war impossible.
This is a great idea. I find that there is a spectrum between planning, routine and impulse in my life. This moves impulsive action to planned action. When I move toward planning and away from impulse I am less of an automaton and a pavlovian dog. Being able to implement long-range planning is one of the things that makes us human after all.
The purchasing power arbitrage is disappearing as Chinese wages increase, the yuan appreciates, and real American wages stagnate or decrease together with the dollar.

I think this, along with augmented production systems requiring fewer workers, is why this factory is being contemplated.
> While everyone in the U.S. I think would agree that securing jobs for Americans would be great, you just can't bend the math enough to make it economical.

Why? Everything in that plant is going to be automated anyway.

Quoting a number of jobs at "30,000" is laughable. The only reason Foxconn would employ 30,000 people is because labor is so pathetically cheap in China. In reality, they will probably employ 300-500 so there is zero reason why they couldn't pay $18+ per hour.

The idea that Foxconn would be automated less than a steel mill is absurd:

http://triblive.com/business/headlines/9409484-74/ati-worker...
"Only 32 workers are needed to operate Allegheny Technologies Inc.'s new $1.2 billion hot-rolling mill in Harrison, company officials say."

I am all for Foxconn having a plant here. We need to pull some of the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing back to the US for many reasons (keeping the knowledge, lower transport costs, quicker turnaround, etc.).

Unfortunately, large numbers of jobs really isn't one of reasons.
In my school, it was Alegebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, AB Calculus.

The only benefit of Algebra in Middle School was that it set you up for BC Calculus senior year.
Everyone is talking about gaps, manufacturing limitations, etc..

Growing up in the Detroit area where literally everyone works for the big 3 or a molding plant for them, I guess I could give a little more insight...

The answer is a lot simpler. Car companies have a pre-defined set of models. A lot of work and planning goes into new models. Part of that planning is a pre-determined quota of estimated cars sold during 6 months, 12, 24, etc. if they don't feel they can hit this rather large quota, the project is scrapped.

So..to answer the question: It's because cars are built to favor the mass general public, both visually and on price-point. People have so many different tastes that it turns out this task is rather quite hard. Ferraris are a niche product, even if they were sold for $20k the Impala would still outsell it by leaps and bound (assuming a Ferrari and Impala were both sold by chevy and that Ferrari didn't have a huge luxury reputation behind it).

It's simply to appeal to the masses to sell millions of cars.
On the other hand, the fact that a blowhard troll like Dinesh D'Souza passes for an intellectual in the modern Republican party is more evidence that they're definitely not elitists.
Yes, their language parallelism recommendation is bit off. Parallelism is more about organizing data and algorithm than what a language can offer.
If there's not sensitive data, then there's no password field (passwords are by definition sensitive), and Chrome won't show a warning. So what's the problem?
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Building on this comment as a mech eng who works in metal construction of heavy industry, it's also to do with the economies of scale and profit margins.

As you reduce the purchase price, you need to increase volume to ensure profits. Similarly, you want to absolutely minimise construction cost to maximise said profit.

As you increase volume and minimise construction cost, you rapidly reduce the scope of possible manufacturing techniques. You narrow down to tried and true methods of fabrication and assembly. Now the parts must be readily handled by robots, reproducably accurate between the same parts, parts must be able to swap between mating parts without bespoke tailoring (ie: the opposite to Apple's vision system to pick the right set of parts to assemble together), it must reliably assemble and stay assembled, it must be easily and quickly maintainable by cheaper labour for aftermarket cost minimisation, it must perform well in the battery of safety tests yet not become structurally complex to pass them, it must be light to minimse raw material costs, etc. etc. Deviating from this essentially adds cost, and even a small additional cost adds significant burden due to volumes and small margins.

With all of those constraints in place, you then consider a middle-of-the-park design that isn't polarising in its appearance or function to maximise market share. Thus, you converge towards a relatively inoffensive sedan shape that Just Works for all parties and still satisfies that litany of constraints on the design, manufacture and maintenance.
A Ferrari is not a terribly comfortable car to drive. Tuned well, it's got a hard suspension and you feel the road in order to drive it properly. It can be unforgiving if you make a mistake. It's got no room for the crap a mother or a father needs to haul around. Difficult to put a car seat in there.

Middle class cars don't look like a Ferrari because the Ferrari body and look enforces some decisions on the designers and the drivers of that car. No hauling around of crap for you. Even if you manage a child car seat, the kid will be screaming the entire time when it feels every hard bounce in the road. Your body is jarred as well. It's a sensitive car that requires an alert driver. Will you enjoy having that alertness day after day drive to work and back in congestion? Probably not... You want an easy driving car with a comfortable ride and room for crap. And voila you have a modern sedan.

Edit: voila and not viola. I've got orchestra on the brain.
United Grounds all flights again due to a computer issue
I think Smalltalk machines did it, and so maybe did Lisp machines. Intersystems is doing something similar, partially, with M (their version of Mumps).
> On a personal note, I've always been troubled by the over-representation of unnecessary services and useless gadgets in the US economy. Luxury ski resorts and $400 cookie baking devices (with connected smartphone app) are not noble products, and they demoralize the workers who provide/build them.

mining coal on the other hand -- a truly noble pursuit. "A lump of coal placed in a cart embiggens the smallest man ..."
>A lot of blue collar people can't imagine what they'd do if they could no longer get a job in their current industry.

I work in tech. I can't imagine what I would do if I could no longer get a job in our industry. My wife left biotech and has struggled to find work.

Weirdly enough, we live in a city in Massachusetts, so the entire local, state, and federal government apparatus doesn't get mobilized to help us, because we're second-class citizens nowadays.
> Conservatives have a uniquely American small-government ideology.

No. Unless you think that defense spending is not part of the government. This is per capita spending by year:

https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/Chart1-Spending...

Actually, George W Bush signed the spending bills for 2009. But the central point remains that conservatives (Republicans) hold no claim to fiscal conservatism.
> a medium where identity is irrelevant

I find it baffling that this sentence could have been written in earnest at the present historical moment.
Well I'm fairly certain it will go like this for me.

Pm - "why is this page insecure"

Developer - "chrome labels password fields as insecure over http"

Pm - "we'll need to setup encryption. It will need to be FIPS-140 certified or it's not secure"

Developer - "But you didn't care when there was no encryption"

Pm - "We don't need to certify plaintext, that should be obvious. You need to learn more about security".
This seems to be the message fron most of the comments
Terrorism is a reaction to policies conducted in foreign lands for the most part. If one wants less of it, one has to reduce their agressive behavior overseas. This is true for the US but also France, the UK and the like.
I feel that GraphQL is a lost cause for any sort of mass adoption, especially outside of dynamic languages. Working with it using statically typed languages is incredibly tedious. Also, security scopes/boundaries are also challenging to enforce (restriction certain relationships).
So you don't use purescript for writing code according to your definition? Ok. Anyway, that aside the haskell pushers out there really need to address why there's so very little in the way of application written in haskell. The article notes that haskell is used very successfully for compilers. The number of successes elsewhere is very, very much smaller.

Why? It's important not to just yell "rah rah" but actually analyse it as a problem and maybe, just maybe, you know, solve it.
He could work to give Apple a better deal repatriating their cash horde. But the 10% tax he offered up during his campaign seems more than reasonable.
Both sides don't think the government should pick winners, except when they are in power.
This article discusses a happening from 2015, but this is happening again.
What exactly does it do?

>Space loads a Moments of Zen before apps you need space from.
This short-circuits instant gratification and puts you in charge again.

So if I hit an app icon, it launches your app instead? I don't understand the details entirely, but I can see why they wouldn't want that.
It's literally very ineffective to keep burning coal, dilute the CO2 to the atmosphere and then fantasize about collecting the 400 ppm ambient later.

It would be easier to replace as much coal as possible with other forms of energy as soon as possible.
So don't put the "set new password" field right in the employee's details page, use an extra page or popup for that.
>This is not a problem for the individual doctors to solve, but it should be something addressed by medicine in general as well as government policy (and consequently a lot more money than is currently being invested into it it seems). Otherwise what you are doing is the same thing as we call 'firefighting' in IT - constantly fixing up the symptoms and not fixing the root cause of the issue.

I agree with you here, you need to incentivise people who would otherwise not plan ahead. We need to design our cities better, we need to get people more active, we need to improve social supports and interactions so that people's mental health is better. Sadly it doesn't look like much of the world is in a hurry to fix these problems.

I do however completely disagree with you in regard to Chinese medicine, which is, from the position of efficacy, utterly worthless.

Show me a well designed study that proves otherwise and I'll eat my hat, but in my years of study and investigation of alternative medicine the only study I am aware of that showed usefulness of Chinese medicine proved that it was 'time with practitioner' that resulted in the improvement, ie. talking to them about your problems, having a sympathetic ear.

This makes sense because so many problems and hospital admissions are psychogenically driven - people derive great comfort from being able to externalise their existential angst. But Chinese medicine is not medicine. Strip the bullshit and hand waving from it and call them therapists, and go to your Chinese therapist - but don't call it medicine because they aren't treating shit
Same deal here, closed Facebook, as well as various Twitter accounts I never used, and lastly no more Reddit. Which was a big one.
Auth0's business model is a race to zero. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Oracle and others (for example Okta, Onelogin in the startup arena) are going to force their prices down to practically nothing. The per user pricing model in the identity space is loved by insipid venture capitalists who like simple "back of the envelope" math, but customers hate it. You are penalizing customers for using your service--rewarding them for putting as few users as possible in the system. Also, there is no one-size fits all value for users--some users are more valuable then others (for example, an employee versus a one-time ecommerce customer who buys a t-shirt). So you end up trying to price users differently, which undermines your value story. What's more likely to happen is that open standards will increase competition and centralized service providers who add very little value, and are big targets for hackers, will be lucky to get out alive.
I keep seeing the "platform" error issue time and time again. It has become very hard to believe this is a mistake. When I speak to the staff at these networks they basically refuse to comment.

They all stick to the script which usually goes along the line of "unfortunately we can't help with the tracking on your website, all I can say is that those user have definitely clicked".

Which sounds a lot like "yeah we tracked a click somewhere, we don't really care if it was accidental and despite having the ability to see if these people end up on your website we don't want to do that"

I have noticed that I personally click on several ads per day by accident and in fact these ads are more and more commonly being put in places where an accidental click is more likely or worse they pop up an ad and hide the close button.

You can imagine a future where our colleagues say to us "so you really believed that every click the ad network sent you was a real person because 'they said it was'. Did you never get any actual evidence? Were there no independent inspectors? Do you think that was a bit naive?"
Bullshit. Not if you have shared hosting. Or 1000 over different situations that you clearly have not thought about.
States don't take enough autonomy from the 10th and should be taking substantially more, especially when the federal government takes blatant over-steps.
Indeed. I once temped at a car plant where I wore chain mail gloves to manually remove body panels coming out of the die, place them on a cart, and spot check a random sample for defects.
A very good resource for C++ developers is Nick Cameron's r4cppp tutorials https://github.com/nrc/r4cppp
Disgusting appropriation of language to punch up a business headline
An answer to how this is different is provided in literally the next sentence of the article.

>Federal Election Commission rules are unclear when it comes to Facebook posts, but even if they do apply and the facts are skewed and the dog whistles loud, the already weakening power of social opprobrium is gone when no one else sees the ad you see — and no one else sees “I’m Donald Trump, and I approved this message.”
No, you need special permissions to access it, and the barrier to getting these permissions is very high.
> hold no claim to fiscal conservatism.

You can say they act inconsistently with their claims but it's another thing to say they never even claim it. I think they do often claim this.
These contracts are really hard to enforce, and is essentially selling equity in yourself. If you sell 100% of your own equity, that'd be pretty much slavery right? Some people (maybe justifiably) feel very uncomfortable with the idea of selling their own future equity. For one thing, it reduces the incentives for someone to work hard.

Yale did something like this in the 70s and finally killed it because of issues with how it was structured. Also it felt really unfair to high wage earners that they were sometimes paying multiples of what their tuition originally was.

Oregon is trying this out now [2].

[1] http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2001/03/27/70s-debt-program-fi...

[2] http://www.salon.com/2015/03/26/two_years_after_signing_of_l...
No one is against occupational and speech therapy. What we're against is shocking children to make them obey, forced expose to adverse textures and other techniques frequently used to try to prevent harmless behaviors.
> Higher structures require deeper and more complex foundations, more reinforced concrete and steel, extra precautions for strong winds and earthquakes. Setting up proper elevator systems, plumbing, air venting, noise isolation, electrical wiring and natural gas hookups is also subject to more restrictive building code (and for a good reason). This is before we get into the costs of underground/overground parking, which has additional weight and reinforcement requirements of its own.

None of which is insurmountable, as evidenced by the fact that such buildings actually exist. Now compare the rent in a high rise in Chicago with the same style of building in San Francisco or NYC. The cost difference isn't because of the cost of the building.
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It can indeed take some time to switch over, but why would you intentionally suppress a correct warning in the meantime? There is no good reason to mislead users here.
"insecure", "huge red flag." For a banking site, an e-commerce site, a webmail, sure. Must an aquarium enthusiast forum be resistant to Man-in-the-Middle attacks? What about weak ciphers? Should every site be resistant to offline decryption by a state actor?
I agree with the title. However, a political opinion piece has no place on HN.
One reason that leaders as diametrically opposed as Obama and Trump can be aligned on surveillance is simple: The majority of Americans don’t care.

The reason why this keeps getting worse and worse.
As someone who grew up in far north Sweden, a few caveats:

1. Clear skies are not very common. Ours is a cloudy land.

2. You also need a firmly set sun. This rules out ~6 months.

3. The clear arctic winter nights that often provide a spectacular show are really cold.

4. Ideally, you'd be outside of city lights.

That said, the Northern Lights are among the coolest things you can ever see. Photos don't do justice. I would definitely recommend it over Midnight Sun, which at the end of the day look exactly like any other sun.
Great perspective. I wasn't aware of the Gobi problem either
Since the TSA was formed, TSA workers have been arrested for theft at a rate of approximately 1 per week.
Githost.io
You know, I've used a related rule from time to time: I turned the bandwidth limit for my browser down to a only a handful of kilobytes/second. When clicking on that stupid link was 15-second wait, the rabbit holes broke and I found that I put a lot more time into what I actually was there for.

This blazing fast "have what you want and have it right now"-type mentality with information that the internet has given us sometimes caters more to stupid curiosity than it does to real learning.
Ah.. it could be because it is cold.
> No, my default is to look at the statistical evidence around me.

No, you're going by anecdote and perception, which is why you fell back to "well I think it looks racist".

> The statistics are showing that we treat other races worse than we treat white people.

Who is we in this scenario? Keep in mind that you're trying to prove that the US is majority racist.

> Nothing I'm saying is a lie, so I'm not even sure how your expression applies.

You stated "if it acts like a duck... (it's probably a duck)" to sidestep having to prove that the US is systematically racist. To you, it's not a lie and you've constructed a fallacy in which the onus would be to convince you, personally to change your perception.

The expression applies because if everything and everyone is slated as racist, when actual racism happens, reports of it will just be lost in the noise.
> As far as models currently on sale go, I think the prize for the best-looking economy car easily goes to the Honda CR-Z

That and the Toyota/Subaru FRS/GT86/BRZ. At least a few times my heart rate has increased a bit seeing those cars at a distance (from the front). Nice to have Honda and Toyota making such good-looking cars
A sibling comment points out that back in the carboniferous period, no organisms had enzymes to break down wood. Nowadays, dead wood rots, releasing co2 back into the atmosphere.
What’s in an Inauguration Speech? A Lexical Analysis via Empath
A question from someone largely ignorant of Stoicism, generated by the last clause in your quote from The Enchiridion:

How does a Stoic change his/her lot in life, given that Stoicism assigns choice of that lot to an externality? Or does that question lack meaning within Stoicism?
Of course nobody can be easily promoted if he/she is a single parent, as it takes a lot of time to achieve more than other people (you have to put in more time than the average). All successful people I know work on weekends as well for example.

But this has nothing to do being a female or male. Having a child is a choice.
Land transportation accounts for the majority of liquid fuel use, and much of that can be replaced by battery power assuming that battery costs continue to drop. I'd guess that battery powered airliners and long distance cargo ships will not become practical. Those and other transport applications particularly demanding of energy density account for a large enough residual of liquid fuel use that it's worth thinking about how to avoid fossil emissions from them. Synthetic liquid fuels made from non-fossil energy sources is one way to do it. (Biofuels are an option too, but plants are a lot less energetically efficient than solar farms, so you need a lot more production area for biofuel than synthetic fuel.)