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>you agree not to try to dissuade or inhibit your customers from using PayPal

so charging extra fees or not giving a discount to paypal customers is also not okay?
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Well, to be fair, Korea's protests have been going on for several months now. Even the impeachment hearings(?) have been going on for almost two months. So there's not much news that would interest foreigners: "In another news, Koreans gathered for 12th straight time this weekend, two more officers were jailed, and Choi Soonsil denied every allegation for the upteenth time. Next..."
I'm not even downvoting this because I agree/disagree, but because this argument has been brought up and discussed so many times now, it can't live alone anymore. Don't mention this without addressing the litany of counterpoints that have been raised over the past decades.

Heck, it's so overdone that even the burden of finding the counter arguments lies with you.

I'm just tired of seeing this conversation turn in circles.
This is akin to my bank freezing my accounts because I gave them a bad review online.

I would love to see them try to enforce this. *If a brick and mortar bank tried this there would be a run on their accounts so fast it would make Usain Bolt blush.
(Full-time co-founder of a healthcare startup here): W/r/t the US specifically: it seems there is no shortage of inefficiencies and obvious solutions to the inefficiencies in the US healthcare system. To me, the real problem seems to be a system that has almost diabolically evolved to create competing interests that deadlock all sides into a sub-optimal solution. Specifically-- patients, payers, physicians, pharma, facilities and insurers almost all have indirect but competing interests much like the Dining Philosopher's problem we're familiar with in Computer Science.

I'm not sure what the solution is short of a total swamp draining, but our startup went overseas to develop/trial our product in a country with a single payer system. Not perfect, but much more amenable to finding efficiencies.
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> I hate writing react.

Out of curiosity, what was the straw that broke the camel's back?
Uh.... can we go over what you mean here?
Doesn't this say that even when PayPal provides a sub-par service, you as a seller offering PayPal checkout, must treat and advertise them as equivalently as companies that provide a better/cheaper service?
Graduated in 2008 with an Economics degree. Couldn't get a job for about 8 months and finally got a job because my future father-in-law pulled some strings. I did data entry and I hated it. As of now, I've been a professional developer for 5 years.
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It's entirely possible I'm wrong since I didn't read through things in great detail, but this is what I'm thinking.

// time = [wall, mono], just ints for simplicity
t1 = time.Now() = [10, 10]
t2 = time.Now() = [19, 20] // wall clock lags slightly on second measure
diff = t2.Sub(t1) = (20 - 10) == 10 // Sub only operates on mono-time
t1.Add(diff) == [20, 20] // Add adds `diff` to both wall and mono
[20, 20] ==?== [19, 20]

I'd expect those to be different, since they represent different wall-clock times.
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Not that wikipedia is a definitive source [1], but I think you could make the case by its definition that data gathered by the government on our behalf should be provided to us as easily as possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
There should be a SaaS API that let's you file, track and access data from your FOIA requests.
Most scholars agree that the gospels were independent works written by different authors. Many scholars believe that Mark was written first, and that Matthew and Luke both drew from Mark and a non-surviving source called Q. Almost everyone believes that John was an independent work.

I'm not aware of any scholars who believe that the Gospels are just differing branches--the results of various edits.
There also must be a play on words in original (untranslated) joke. "You don't have any meat?" in russian can be understood as "Do you have any meat?" and as "Is it your shop that has no meat?".
I believe humans will work out of intellectual interest and goodness of their hearts. But, I have heard many argument similar to the one posted above, against basic income but this is the first I am hearing about this with respect to basic health care, and would like to hear different perspectives on why that would not be the case.

An argument from my side would be that basic income and health may give a person means to give a dignified life, but are not going to let him buy a Ferrari.

I have heard from friends that in Northern European countries, there are people who live their whole lives on welfare. But, we also have very productive people from these societies.
I stay late sometimes without expecting extra pay. My commitment to my clients and the products I have created is what drives me.

Maybe you only care about money so that clouds your understanding of human behavior.
FWIW Mnuchin wants to boost funding for the IRS: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/steven-mnuchin-makes-a-we...
Nice hypothesis! You should try to test it empirically sometime.

Or wait- other people already have!

Skim through this paper and let me know what you think.

https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Universal-Health-Cov...
consultant = charge > £600 a day to bring Docker to the company. Yet doesn't care when shit hits the fan 3 months later because he's already gone. In fact, he will never known about it.

By the way, How to have 100 customers => leave right after the design phase every single time. Clients add up quickly.
This is a cool idea but I would really like my car at the destination so I don't have to rely on uber or buses and light rail. Surely there could be an efficient way to load you and your car onto a train?
People seek out info to confirm their beliefs, it's not a friendly world to other Hans Roslings out there trying to stand up for objective truth.
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I find this [1] one quite amazing as well.

1: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...
You're correct that it defeats one of the points of multiprocess, but you still get parallel performance gains trivially that will scale well as more cores are added as well as isolation of crashes where it doesn't kill your whole session.
If anything, you're proving my point.

Since PSD was voted by so many people and is in the right, why isn't there any significant counter-protest?

If PSD would've governed by sticking to their political principles, their proposed agenda and within reason, there would've never been any protests. Sure, people would be upset because they have different political views, but you would've never seen 600k people on the streets.

Democracy is not a blank cheque and your argument of "they won fair and square" does not allow them to send us back into the dark ages ESPECIALLY for their own very specific interests.

If you think there's anything wrong with my logic above, then you're probably a lost case.
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As a seller, you don't have a choice. You can:

* Accept PayPal, and play ball with their policies.

* Disparage them, and get your account seized.

* Not accept PayPal, and lose out on millions of customers.

Please don't say BitCoin is an alternative. Unless you're selling heroin, or your entire customer base consists of crypto-anarcho-libertarians, it's not.
You want to make your site fast?

Generate the markup on the server and send it down to the client! It's post-modern web development. Back to black.

You don't need 100 KB of code to spit down a table of data or show someone a directory listing of their github project. You don't even need an SPA, bunny.

And for goodness sake, when you do need to do anything in javascript, you can use document.createElement and document.createDocumentFragment. These are perfect 1:1 browser APIs that allow you to do everything you've ever wanted, there's no magic, they call directly into the browser engine to give you what you need.

If you want to increase performance, start first by measuring everything. Time to first byte. Time to DOMContentLoaded. The page onload event. window.performance timings; do real user monitoring, not TODO app benchmarks on the latest framework flavor of the week.

The entire web community needs a healthy dose of pragmatism. But it's okay, it gives me extra work. I really enjoy doing freelance performance work and telling everyone which code/library/framework is to blame for performance issues and rewriting everything so simply. Show people what works and you'll find they shut up real quick.
Rethinkdb is still the new database on the block, and never really found it's feet. Look up Postgres, Cassandra, Kafka, Riak, MySQL/Mariadb or MSSQL. (Or dare I say it, oracle). All of those tools have a long history of reliability and solid engineering.
Where's the evidence of that removal, then? The most extensive "evidence" of this is maybe 5 accounts getting removed and for every 5 on the right that got removed, there are 5 on the left. Anecdotes are not evidence.
No, it's to stop you saying 'i accept paypal and _____, but I prefer _____.'
its a mix of both, although he has never said "turn-of-the-century industries" and that looks to be a bit of bias on OP's part.

here is his speech specifically about jobs from his campaign [1]. long story short, he wants to focus on reducing taxes, reducing regulations, energy reform, and renegotiating trade deals. So its a bit more nuanced than what you probably think his positions are.

[1] https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-delivers-s...
They will come back in the long tail of manufacturing.

You'll buy a standard Toyota made by robots in Nevada for $8,000. But if you want to spend $50,000 you can get a custom car, with lots of parts manufactured in house.

There will be single humans who build a car from scratch using a couple of robot "helping hands". There will be a car company that uses no robotic tools, using only carefully designed winches, with a car designed specifically for ease of human construction. There will be a competition to build a complete car from scratch as fast as possible.

There will be cars that are unique to Paris, cars that are unique to Arkansas, and cars that are unique Long Beach.

Teenagers will make cars as a science fair project.

There are all kinds of interesting opportunities for things to flip flop. Robots take away easy work, but they make many more kinds of new work easy. I know it is easy to think "what's happening now will be the trend forever!" and robot manufacturing is in fact a major trend, but history is complicated and after robiticization the next phase will look very different again.
I think the rate hikes are more interesting. They also recently removed the volume discounts from Paypal Pro...they used to be significantly cheaper than Stripe (2.2% vs 2.9%, assuming reasonable volume). This is no longer the case.

The change will affect some vendors though. Internet.bs, a popular domain registrar, currently hides Paypal behind a "more payment options" button. This will force them to stop that.
You're forgetting the network effects, my friend. They can get away with this because they already have people locked in.
dupe

discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13590123
Crimeans just asked for the same right against Ukraine as Ukrainians asked against Russia.

They didn't "just ask", of course. A visit by 3,000 or so "vacationing" soldiers from a certain large, neighboring country had something to do with it also.
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> Unless you remove people out of the equation, universal healthcare will never work.

Every OECD nation except the US has universal healthcare; many have generally comparable outcomes and all have lower costs (both per capita and as a share of GDP) when compared to the US.

So, I'm not sure what your binary standard of "work/not work" is, but universal healthcare can and often does work better than what we have in the US.
There could certainly be a base level of care, with private insurance for additional levels. That's how it works in Taiwan.

Calling all universal healthcare non-competitive is like calling building roads non-competitive. We have government roads and private toll roads. The same goes for many services we take for granted.

A more advanced basic level of healthcare is something we are able to achieve because of our wealth and success. We already have sanitary toilets, housing, heating, clean water. Every generation has built upon what we can join together as a society to provide in order to promote our health.

In my opinion, Buffet, Gates etc. are the heroes of our time for standing up as rich folks to advocate giving back more to society. They don't view government as the enemy; rather, it is the result of our working together.
A database that doesn't need to guarantee data integrity will always be faster.

How is the performance with the new v1 protocol? (still faster, I'm sure)
BeyondCompare springs to mind. Holy crap, I love that tool.
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* Use alternative payment systems.
Let us pray.
Curious if Clojure for CLR has tail call optimization given the CLR supports it?
This is what legislation is for. There's always a bigger fish.
The Crimeans had no problem with it.

The mafia-run local government (and a good chunk of the Russian-speaking population) had no problem with it, you mean.
Bravo to Github!

Hopefully this initiative will expand to other strong statements with corresponding $$ and action ideas to back them up.
> > devs have an easier life using JS

> I think that is willfully missing the point.

How is GP missing the point, when you go on to illustrate the point? Or, is your counter-point to GP that "design is special, so cut us some slack"?
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It doesn't help that we're constantly bombarded with advertising for food that has been scientifically formulated for 'maximum bliss' which poisons our mind towards trying and eventually becoming addicted to said foods...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)

So it's not entirely our fault.
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Primary goal was not achieved. They patched the original buggy law with another buggy law. When the second law will be invalidated, the first will take effect.
I use hostgator for my business and it's ok. I bought a 5 year plan so it was quite expensive but I don't know what their month to month plans cost.

If you are looking for fast, cheap hosting you should look at the free tiers of Azure, AWS, etc. Depending on how much traffic you get you should be able to host for free for at least a small period of time.
> Reagan surely knew to carry himself in a presidential manner.

He was a good actor.
MuckRock does a lot of this.
So, why did the author make such a point of using GNU Emacs everywhere? I feel like I just read an article where the author says, "Apple's OS X" or "Microsoft Excel" over and over.

Edit: Confused about downvotes too. My question comes from a genuine place of not understanding.
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I bet making structural changes so that cost of care is more visible to patients would help a lot in the US. Of course this means disincentivizing health care as a benefit rather than incentivizing it, so it will never happen. It is kind of happening with things like HSAs, but not really.

We should also work on removing arbitrary barriers to entering the supply side of the market. Not just for individuals that want to be a doctor or other sort of provider, but certificates of need and such too. Currently, lots of states dictate who can operate a CT scanner.
> > you agree not to try to dissuade or inhibit your customers from using PayPal
The hypervisor has processes inside the VMs. It has limited control but it is far from blind.
Do you have sources for this claim?
I host one for an open source tool (although most replies come from the maintainer). It's mostly technical/support in nature and I really locked down the board (no signatures, no PM etc etc) because we're not really trying to build a community - but the tool really does make a big difference to some peoples lives.

It made enough of a difference to mine to want to give back and start the forum in the first place, such is the power of these things!

Little stories come up now and then through the questions people ask and it's possible to see how they're using the tool. It's like forums just bring life to the surface even if you fight to stop it, it's a genuinely compelling form of social interaction.

Aside from the spam.

The thanks that comes along is infrequent but very nice to receive.
Is individual travel time so important that we should spend our limited environmental capital and build supersonic passenger jets? The Concorde was cool and sexy and destructive. Today's passenger jets, much improved over past aircraft, are still destructive and damaging.

* http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/average-us-family-des...

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...
Don't forget farm subsidies dumping cheap corn syrup into the bellies of our entire populace. Health care in the USA must deal with the reality of our obese and overweight masses (no pun intended).

Mental health in this country is similarly crippled by rapid societal changes, but that would take longer to explain in detail.
that idea is an old idea predating Rosling, that the automation or labor-saving in the home and, more or less at the same time, women working in factories while the men fought WWII, was what led to women being recognized as "economically capable" and having a lot of free time as soon as they were done baby booming.

Also, with the shifting and opening of roles for women, education of children plummeted because "teacher" used to be the most acceptable role for an educated woman, and quality dropped dramatically when the most talented women funelled into the economy to become scientists, doctors, lawyers, etc. It's a serious question, this is a real "technical debt" style tradeoff, and it's not a question of "pay teachers better" or "treat them differently", it's a quality question (this view is not popular within teachers' organizations)
That's not very responsive. Reaktor's primary purpose is to produce audio, but it also allows one to build sequencers, user interfaces, graphics (eg spectrograms, from DSP primitives by build your own FFT modules) and all sorts of other tools. Besides, why is audio somehow an inferior sort of data processing?
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Meaning it's not done, it's work in progress, that will take a while.
Maybe. Maybe not. Internet.bs may choose to remove Paypal altogether if they have better methods.
Wait, what does this do about the case where you have to purge the data permanently, e.g. if someone's private medical records get added accidentally[1]? Then you lose the benefit of independent streaming/views as you have to force an update to the later cached representation (which is what you have to do when you purge something from git's commit history, which is the same model).

[1] plus, the "right to be forgotten"
There are little to no rant against apt, yet there are a lot about Docker.

Trends always have an explanation...
word2vec is a naive technique, which relies only on the colocation of words. Yes, it misses many things - word order, grammar (e.g. negations), words with many distinct meanings (lead (Pb) vs (to) lead), synonyms vs antonyms etc.

What's interesting is that it works at all. My blog post on that: http://p.migdal.pl/2017/01/06/king-man-woman-queen-why.html
Combining the mendeley plugin with the automatic .bib generator and LyX means I can cite stuff pretty much as quickly as looking at the page.
Equivalent to #3. There are a lot of people who only use PayPal online. In the HN space? Probably not that many. If you're selling shirts or random widgets online? The GP is not exaggerating by saying that literally millions of people will get to payment, see they have to type in a CC number and that PP is not an option, and they will leave.
The AIDS epidemic literally almost swallowed the whole country.

I appreciate your input overall, but you're making more than a slight exaggeration, here. Even countries with the world's highest HIV infection rates were never "almost literally swallowed" by the epidemic.
He actually had a green badge for a while. That's normally associated with interns, but it's also given to visiting scientists. Something about that was just funny.

I only waved hello to him, but was very lucky to spend time with the Gapminder/Trendalyzer folks in B41 (his son Ola, Anna and Henrik), before they moved back to Stockholm. My thoughts go out to Ola and Anna. :-(
>This comment in particular seems to imply that government agencies can break e2e encryption.

I don't know about that, there is much speculation on all sides. However, I would say that if the FBI/NSA/CIA decides that you, specifically and in particular, are someone they want to surveil, there's probably not much the average person could do about it. Once you're finding yourself having to take photos of your desktops motherboard to make sure no one is replacing chips on it while you're at work, it's probably only a matter of time until you lose that fight.

The main point of wide-spread e2e encryption is to force such agencies to actually make those choices. The reason they're doing dragnet surveillance is basically because they can. We're handing them a buffet, no one should be surprised they're digging in.

The good news is that if we act en masse, we don't have to raise the standard of security by very much to make dragnet surveillance impractical. The HTTPS everywhere initiative is a great example of this. End users are having to do basically nothing, and yet we're cutting off a whole category of the dragnet in one go. If we can pull a similar coup in email, we'll have made real progress.
I imagine they will discover that many efficiencies correlate with individuals as much as with processes and then run out of funding.
I'd say given inflation, cost of living etc, that pay back in the day was on average, over average for upper figure salaries. There are more devs/techies/IT literate people about these days so although there are sought after roles, positions are easier to fill these days. IMHO, Obvs.
SpaceX also doesn't have the track record NASA does, and cannot be compared.

In 50 years when they've been working alongside each other, maybe, but not right now.
It happens if b() returns an owned value that c() returns a reference to. In that case,

a.b().c()

b here is temporary, and so is freed at the end of the line, making the return of c dangling

let temp = a.b();
temp.c();

Now that the return of b() is not temporary, it will last to the end of the scope and so c is fine.
That is magical. I love it.