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>That's not true; all corporations make moral choices, probably even Uber.

Morality is a human construct, Corporations are not people as such can not have Morality.

People make moral choices.

>>What's wrong with legislation? It's knee-jerk to reject it, but I like the democratic way of solving problems.

There is soo much wrong here.

First off, legislation often makes situation worse, and rarely improves things. After all Uber is a direct reaction to regulation of Taxi's, People wanted a less regulation more convenient service for their transportation needs, Regulation of Uber will just result in something else as people attempt to get out from under the government thumb.

Further the call for regulation is a itself a knee jerk emotional reaction to a perceived injustice.

Finally I do not like the "democratic way". I believe in individuality, not collectivism, I do not believe 51% of the population gets to dictate what the other 49% do or cant do.

>The 'free market' assumes people will act in their own interests; where that invisible hand fails to deliver,

I do not believe it is failing to deliver, clearly the people the drive for Uber believe driving for Uber is better than the other options they have, better than other jobs that are open to them. Simple because you do not like their choice or because you perceive it as "unfair" does not mean the people are not acting in their own interests. Shitty choices are still choices

Where laws and regulation should come into play is for Fraud, false advertisement, and contract violations. All of which Uber has been accused of and it should be investigated.

I also believe we should have strong Truth in Advertising laws to prevent companies like Uber from inflating income numbers, or getting people to sign terrible leasing programs like the ones Uber has. This would be good use of government regulation

Requiring all kind of Employment regulations and other types of regulation people call for is not.

>we use laws and regulations to correct the situation.

We should not, nor is it effect

Law and regulations should only be there to prevent direct physical harm, theft and fraud. Nothing else. They should not protect people from their own stupidity, they should not attempt to make the world subjectivity "fair" which is impossible as every person has a different definition of what is "fair"

The only proper role of government is to ensure people are honestly transacting with each free from coercive threats of violence, or actual violence between persons.

Beyond that any action by government ceases to be defensive in nature and becomes Aggressive and is IMO unethical
It is not true that AMP does not accept contributions. What is your data to back that up?

Here is actual data: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/graphs/contributors
AMP currently has 275 contributors (people whose code was merged) on its open source project. Lets aim high and say 50 of them work for Google (probably a bit less), that leaves about 225 other contributors.
I suggest that they visit all the time. The first thing a truly intelligent species would do is discard the physical form since it's inefficient and it decays over time. Think of the movie 'Lucy' where, at the end, she discards the body and just disappears. This could be the answer to the Fermi paradox since a civilisation would get to the point where this is possible and would basically disappear from the universe. Once the 'being' is part of the fabric of the universe then they could do anything and could 'exist' right in front of our noses.
Read the .net framework standard library annotated reference for some commentary by the original framework devs to understand what they would have changed.
Thinking Machines = Old Algorithms on Faster Computers
>healthiest

How about "less harmful" ? I think that's a better way to describe it.
I disagree. The goals are actually quite similar. It's the vision of the framework that achieves those goals that's in conflict.
I find that subscribing to the marketing slack channel is a better way of staying informed than running into marketing folks in the hallway.
I don't know if you consider factory work "unskilled work" or not, but as I mentioned above, my dad was a factory worker for 30 years before he retired at 55, my mom was a high school math teacher, before she retired.

My mom came home, graded papers, took phone calls from parents and teachers (these days teachers do the same and respond to emails after hours), had to attend after school functions, and had to deal with politics, paper work, parents of spoiled children etc. and never got paid extra for it.

My dad went to work at 8, came home at 5 and left the job at work. If he did have to work extra he got paid for it. He has a degree in accounting but said he couldn't imagine sitting behind a desk all day.

I on the other hand, besides a few stints at contracting, have mostly been in the same boat - not getting paid overtime. I'm not complaining, I also get paid well, can work from home when needed/wanted and get paid to do work I would be doing as a hobby any way.
If I'm reading that right, both House and Senate approved almost the exact version that went into law, but some of them expected there to be more rounds of edits that didn't happen.

So they avoided filibuster by suddenly being more cooperative than expected and not having more rounds of edits? I might be deeply misunderstanding, but that trick seems okay. Don't pass a bill if you don't want the bill becoming a law...
> "It's basically done, but I haven't added Y or Z yet" is always the prelude to receiving something he's been "working on" for three months and actually put in, charitably, two or three days of actual work.

I am familiar with this one as well.
Free Time and the Pressures of Employability (2016)
The problem is that their framework is too big and bloated. Your suggestion is to have them add another layer on top of that, rather than remove the bloat?
Read also: The Lucky Ones[1]

Everytime I read it I can't stop myself to compare it with the popular The Crazy Ones Apple ad.

[1]: https://bukowski.net/poems/the_lucky_ones.php
Facebook is a great tool for many uses.

The most empowering thing I can personally think of, it lets small organizations/businesses reach a lot of people without spenind any money. Anyone who can't afford a website can still put content out there and reach their audience.

It's great for advertisers. While with AdWords from my experience clicks rarely convert, Facebook works generally well.

Like Whatsapp, Messenger is an awesome free chat that most people will have already installed and that makes communicating with new people extremely easy.

People who complain about Facebook seem to be those who use it improperly, such as not being able to ignore notifications for more than 30 seconds, or sharing private things irresponsibly.
Based on the article, it's much simpler than that:

"Fraudsters offering fake prizes and job opportunities swindled tens of thousands of U.S. consumers, giving Western Union agents a cut in return for processing the payments, authorities said."

In other words, it's not that they are "allowing anyone to send money anywhere"; they didn't discipline their agents for taking a cut of known fraudulent transactions.
Does anyone claim that HD plans make people more savvy consumers? I've always thought it was a transparent way to make people of moderate means think twice about any care that could be considered elective. Whether it's a good idea or not, paying out of pocket for a $3000 procedure might make you question the need for a CAT scan.

High deductible plans definitely don't make anyone smarter consumers. The market is opaque and your options are limited to in-network in the best case.
> Net neutrality advocates want very limited technological progress

Untrue of any of the net neutrality advocates I know.

Net neutrality advocates don't see the oligopolistic (and often regionally monopolistic) market for internet access as one that positions ISPs in the US to be agents of rapid technology change in any circumstances.

Assuming that those who disagree with you about policy must agree with you about facts (e.g., what would happen in the absence of their preferred policy) is a good way to assure that your inferences about their motivation will be wildly incorrect.
Indeed, therapy / psychology / psychiatry are the closest analogs to modern-day shamanism -- and there's a lot of room for improvement.

Unfortunately, those fields are bound by professional regulations that prevent "experimentation". Which makes the difference between diagnosis & treatment -vs- research pretty clearly defined. The latter has vastly different requirements (eg. double-blind studies, IRB approvals, etc, etc).

I think it's a perfectly reasonable state of affairs to have psychiatrists sit somewhere on the "practice <---> research" spectrum. Don't like that your psychiatrist sits on the practice part of the scale? Find a different provider.
Not exactly, there are a few ways to establish a call and have your GV number be the "from" number

1) Use the app on your phone which will transparently create a temporary number that your device calls that then connects you to the other party.
2) Use the website/apps/apis to do a "Callback" where your GV number calls you, and once you answer, calls the other party
3) Call your own gv number, hit a key, enter your pin, then enter the number you want to dial (no internet required)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13461387
I think that's part of the current trend though, and at some point just calling Postmates or UberEats from a fancy restaurant could become the norm. Who knows?!

I do know that during my parents generation, cooking in front of people was considered unclassy. People were to hang out in the living room and the move to the dining room when it was time to eat. shrug
After announcing the project back in September, we have now learned that Tesla and Southern California Edison (SCE) have completed the massive 80 MWh energy storage station using Tesla’s new Powerpack 2 at the Mira Loma substation.

...

While Tesla and SCE haven’t officially launched the new substation yet, sources familiar with the new Powerpack installation told Electrek that it was completed a few weeks back – late December – and brought online so that the electric utility can start using it to manage peak demand.

Deploying this project in only 3 months is really impressive.

I think there's a pattern here: energy systems built from repeating small modules have systematically lower risks of cost/schedule escalation.

See for example "Construction Cost Overruns and Electricity Infrastructure: An Unavoidable Risk?"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262304928_Construct...

Look at Figures 2 and 3 in particular. The mean overrun by project type goes solar < wind < thermal (fossil) < nuclear < hydroelectric. That's basically the same ordering as "minimum viable project size." Coincidence? I don't think so. A small solar project can be a handful of panels. If you want to scale up to hundreds of megawatts, just tile a much larger area using the same panels and basic repeating structures. A lot of work can execute in parallel and sections can start generating output/revenue rapidly as they're completed, sometimes years before the project's last panel is installed. No such luck with a nuclear or hydro project: you can be on year 7 of an 8 year schedule and it's still generating zero watts because so little can happen in parallel. (This is also why I consider small modular reactors the last, best hope for a nuclear renaissance, but the latency for nuclear R&D is so high that renewables might "eat the world" first.)

I rather expect that this Tesla installation, despite its impressive speed, was not particularly cheap. But if battery costs keep declining, in 5 years it could still be lightning quick to build another installation like this and cheaper than gas/diesel peakers. If that happens then storage-backed renewables become the very cheapest electricity source across large swaths of the Earth, threatening huge chunks of coal and natural gas demand. There may be a parallel risk to oil demand if Tesla and other auto makers execute well on their EV plans currently in the pipeline. I think Tesla faces some significant risks from the SolarCity acquisition, and execution risks on the Model 3, but I sure can't fault the ambition.
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I hear this a lot, but whenever I search for something common like lyrics or weather, I get only large bloated webpages, while the lightweight and simple ones are nowhere to be found. Unless Google opens up their reasoning for ranking, I genuinely don't believe they add enough weight to load-times.
You're joking, but the weather can really be an issue for some people. For me and my family, it's not so much the rain as the appalling lack of sunshine year round and the early nightfall in winter. And the "Seattle Freeze" is not a myth, either.
If someone's choosing that then it means the alternative is even worse. I don't see how you can blame Uber for that.
The weakest link in most goal systems is ourselves. Changing behavior is incredibly difficult because we get sidetracked, forget, and rationalize our failures. A good system should not rely on our memory or willpower to keep our goal top-of-mind.

So putting it up on Trello is a good idea, as is any other way to ensure your system stays in focus, especially for the first 45-60 days. I built an app for that purpose. It makes it easy to consistently do the small things that lead to results (reviewing your goal; assessing your progress; tracking habits; doing deep work; brainstorming), by reminding you via a browser extension. Check out Focal Point (focal.pt).
I've often wanted something like this! Too bad it's unsupported for production use, but definitely a valid use case :)
A doctor should be quite curious about a something that might alleviate a common and serious ailment. Other things to do might be having a look in recent literature if 'nicotine' and 'schizophrenia' show up in the same paper, ping a colleague in research, or alternatively, explain the error of OP's reasoning in simple terms.

More fundamentally, an educated person should be able to have two different ideas in their head at the same time without having to suppress or reject one or the other:

a) nicotine is unhealthy

b) nicotine can be a cure
Really? Sqrrl and Cloudera offer support.
Yes, the MacBook is the future air. I just wish they had put another port on the opposite side.

I use a 2013 15" rMBP as my laptop. The only port I use is the magsafe. You notice them missing on the occasion you need them though.
Which was a machine coping as best it could with contradictory objectives.
Unfortunately scammers will just use something else, until there will be nothing safe to use and they'll have to resort to bitcoins.

Still, this is a step forward.
As another commenter alluded to I was referring to the crash or hangover.

As for withdrawal I don't think I have ever felt it with nicotine but it might be because I just don't ever do enough (the most pieces of gum I have had in one day is 40mg of nicotine.. ie 10 pieces). I have had a nicotine hangover with cigars but this is usually because alcohol is involved as well as I believe cigars lower intake of oxygen (just a theory.. probably wrong).

Caffeine withdrawal is awful.. absolutely awful for me. Headaches for days. I usually give up and pound 4 ibuprofen with a large cup of coffee.
What else do you expect when the vast majority of a medical curriculum is based off of rote memorization with little to no critical thinking?

Undergrad:

Memorize bio terms

Memorize chem structures

Memorize organic chem structures

Then in med school:

Memorize biochem terms

Memorize anatomy

Memorize pathology

Memorize medications

Memorize histology

Memorize more anatomy this time in sections

Then in residency:

Memorize my teacher's conception of, say, Anesthesiology

Memorize the attending's heuristics of Anesthesiology

Memorize more techniques of Anesthesiology to lessen risk

And so on and so forth, practicing until one dies...

Where in all this is an opportunity to reflect and critically think?

It seems, to me, that Doctors are glorified algorithmic machines and will probably be replaced by machines in the next century or two given their process of diagnosis can and will be programmatically designed. If not that, the bulk of the process will be facilitated by machines, with Doctors doing what amounts to clerical work. I am obviously speculating, but my hunch is that with such an emphasis on memorization (and processing of it)...the only thing we have to tackle is the process component as any medical-AI could theoretically record every medical case presented in history and provide a high-accuracy diagnosis rate.

In fact, I think there are some machines that have already beaten fully-trained Cardiologists in determining risk for a Stroke, so ...we're not there yet, but it's certainly possible.
> At some point you have to ask yourself: If this "decomposition" hammer is the only tool we have to use in the world, it's no surprise that everything looks like a nail.

Agreed! I think this is why it was not intuitive to me. I was (reasonably) good at math in school, but I never tried to decompose the problem. I always tried to get a feel of the problem by looking at it from various angles and get the crux of the problem. That's the best I can say about my thinking method then.
Would you mind educating me as to when "we as a society" made the decision to shift away from valuing the privacy of an individual to the point that it is a foregone conclusion that we should eschew those liberties and implicitly throw away the protections of due process rather than improve and reform the judicial system whose inefficiency is the real bottleneck?

Yes, there are tradeoffs to be made, but existing due process, including warrants, is the legal manifestation of those very tradeoffs.
Inhaling cigarette smoke is an almost instant intake of nicotine. Vaping it is not nearly so. It’s still an open question as to why, but the current thought is because the atomized liquid droplets are much, much larger than the smoke particulates that come from burning tobacco. The atomized liquid doesn’t make it into the alveoli where it directly enters the bloodstream. Instead, the vapor coats the bronchial and nasal passages and is slowly absorbed that way.

There’s still debate as to whether the bulk of the nicotine is even absorbed in the lungs vs. deposited vapor in the nasal and oral mucosa. But whatever the route, vaping is significantly slower than smoking—something that a lot of “switchers” don’t appreciate. (They don’t get the instant gratification that they did when taking that first drag off of a cigarette.)

I don’t mean to refute your point. The hierarchy of drug intake is legitimate. But vaping is more like “inhalation*” with an asterisk. Maybe faster than a lozenge or patch, but definitely slower than smoking it.
here's the idea: give pages amp ratings purely based on full-load page-speed. amp pages get it, vanilla hackernews gets it too.
> Then you need to trust the authorities to have all transaction data and use it responsibly.

They do have that data.

Most Western nations have financial intelligence agencies that require all bank transactions or money wires (if they're over $10,000) to be reported to them. I forget the American equivalent, but Canada has FINTRAC, where I interned a decade ago.

They have all the data. When you move any large sum of money anywhere, they get a report with your name, driver's license number, everything the bank knows about you basically. They can (and do) keep it for up to five years. Ever bought a house or car? A report is in their database, being scrutinized by analysts.

It's been like that for nearly two decades now. FINTRAC at least has seen some success and did major damage to the Montreal Mafia.

From the article, "wiring the money in smaller increments to avoid federal reporting requirements" means they knew why the customers were wiring $9999 twenty times rather then $200,000. They didn't care. That's why they're paying the fine.
I've been a Google Voice user since 2009, when it was initially launched. I absolutely love the product. It is perhaps the only Google product, beside Gmail, that I have been using on a daily basis since the past ~8 years. Initially I only used it for its voicemail functionality and later started using it as my secondary phone number and for international calling (Google Voice's international calling pricing is decent).

All these years, even though the product has had an outdated UI, I didn't mind using it, since, it has been functional and served it's purpose. Now that Google is starting to invest more resources into Google Voice, my only hope is that they don't kill any of the existing wonderful features. I love the product and it would be awesome if they don't add any kind of "social" aspect to a very functional and useful product.

I haven't received the iOS update yet, but, I'm really looking forward to it.
Nice to meet you too :)
> It should be so that everyone pay to go to the doctor for minor things but no one go broke if they happen to be sick.

> Why this balance can't be found baffles my mind.

Because paying for a doctor visit for a minor infection is the cheap part of healthcare. "Being sick too long" is extremely expensive. Getting a shot of penicillin costs a couple hundred dollars. Treating cancer can cost tens of thousands.
If you don't need cell level access control, you probably wouldn't be looking for it. I guess hbase now offers this too.
Exactly. If you don't have passion to do something, it's really hard to get better at it.

Obligatory Randall Monroe quote that hits the nail on the head: "I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at."

If you're not passionate or enjoying what you're doing, you're probably wasting your time.
The article clearly identifies this as a Republican issue in both SD and ND?
Isn't this what the Firefox Hello demo was for -- to prove that it's possible?

Multi-user screen sharing (I didn't realise this), video conferencing, chat and audio. From your browser.

It's since been discontinued but the ideas (and means to do this) live on in other projects; some listed here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hello-status
Simplicity. And when you think you have a good simple plan of attack, simplify more.

I have rarely had problems from being too simple, and when you do they are easy to fix, but over complication (over generifying) is always a beast to fix.
Have you tried reducing carb intake? Particularly in the later part of the day. I've gone "keto" 3 times for about 6 months each, and my sleep is always excellent during those periods. When I looked into it I found that elevated insulin levels throughout the night can disrupt sleep.
I'm confused why they would position this as a donation type support. It's a premium feature and should be positioned as such.

I don't think there would be anyone in the community who thinks they're being greedy for charging for premium, but it strikes as weird saying "support discord by paying ...", especially when you know they've raised bunch of money from VCs.

The first question comes to mind is: so VCs take equity from you guys for "supporting", but the customers who do don't get any? Of course this an unfair comparison, but just saying that the wording made me think of that.

Just own the premium pricing 100% and charge, don't sugar coat it as some kickstarter type donation campaign.
Medical care is a cost center for insurers.
So I can write a linked list and call it a database?
Actually, it has saved Americans trillions of dollars:

http://fortune.com/2016/06/21/us-health-care-costs/
I haven't done it in a while, but when working for yourself exclusively, you feel more in control of your destiny. Even if you have n bosses and 1 fires you, you still have n-1 paychecks. If you have 1 boss and he fires you, you have 0 paychecks until you find another boss.