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I think you just helped my argument.

The EU does not maintain operational competence over these areas, just as the Canadian federal government and the US federal government do not maintain competence over most areas either.

But just as in USA/Canada - the EU laws reign supreme, they create regulations, they coordinate policy.

So - not only are EU laws and court rulings override national laws and rulings - the EU does in fact regulate and manage those 'very large budgetary' elements, just as in other federal states, like the US and Canada.

The EU interdicts on Healthcare:

https://europa.eu/european-union/topics/health_en

The EU interdicts on Social Welfare:

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=750

The EU interdicts on education:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/school_en

The EU has made several rulings with respect to services and access that have overridden national policy.

The EU will determine who can, and who cannot receive services, if services don't meet a minimum 'humanitarian' requirement, etc. etc.

If the UK for exampled tried to privatize it's healthcare system (not suggesting they should) - and make a US-style 'pay for it' type model - the EU would step in a major way.

Same thing for schooling and other services.

I'm sorry but I don't think you can say that since the 'EU does not maintain competence' in these areas, that they don't act like a federal state.

They still 'own' the show at the end of the day.

And to boot: the level of interdiction is only increasing. Within 30 years, many of those systems will be federalized at the EU level - or at least - have enough regulatory elements such that they de-facto run the show.

Markel and others have already called for an EU Army.
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Visa holders are legal immigrants too, and it appears they've been entirely banned.
Mozilla closes Connected Devices division, lays off 50
Couple of megabytes without a run-time is huge. What's hiding in there; a VirtualBox image with a Linux kernel + initrd? Or maybe a high definition splash screen in PNG form?
Here's one small change to macOS that drives me nuts. At some point they changed how application hiding works.

It used to be that cmd-h hid an application and moved it to the end of the application stack. If you wanted it back you could use cmd-shift-tab.

Some suit, in their wisdom, decided to change that so cmd-h now only hides the app.

It's a tiny change ...that's a stone in my shoe every single day. IMHO that change is was completely unnecessary and breaks my workflow.
In my experience, people are all equally bad at math. There are just people who have spent longer with the problem(s)/domain(s) and have developed a skill set around it. They start from the same beginnings, though. If you take them out of their usual 'watering hole' they go straight back to beginner status (and of course the degree of it varies by how far it is from their usual routine).
This is awesome! I'd love to do a story on it if possible. Can we connect and chat. I work at CBS. Thanks, Craig
I've heard many express that many voted for Trump because they felt they weren't being heard. A large part of the problem in my opinion is that conversations aren't being had. Even if people are reluctant or not willing to have engage right now I think we all need to be willing to and attempt to talk with each other.
There's no way to delete cubes in Safari. Control-click just adds a cube like regular click does.
And yet the market is near an all time high. What gives?
Executive Compensation

Name and Principal Position
Year Salary Bonus(1) Stock Awards(2) All Other Total
Evan Spiegel
2016 $ 503,205 $ 1,000,000 $ — $ 901,635 $ 2,404,840
2015 363,715 1,000,000 — 344,756 1,708,471
Imran Khan
2016 241,539 5,239,460 — 14,658 5,495,657
2015 230,000 — 145,292,145 348 145,522,493
Timothy Sehn(6)
2016 400,152 1,000,000 40,000,020 8,348 41,408,520
They are who you're replying to

> I'm the CEO of GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/ More information about me is on http://sytse.com
Focus on making forward progress. Report on what is blocking you from doing your job, and propose alternatives rather than just state that you are stuck.
The fact that you see the world in terms of people signalling virtue and not sincerely believing in virtue says more about you than it does about them.
Then something is wrong with your hardware. My brother runs it on a 10 year old (!) laptop with 2GB RAM and an Intel Dual Core CPU (these were before Core 2 Duos)

Windows runs okay, but scrolling lags like hell on more complex sites and you cant play more than 720p videos.
> There is nobody, anywhere along the political spectrum, that decided Trump was good because Kalanick was an advisor

The parent comment made that up. Kalanick lends him credibility; I've actually had people tell me 'important people are working for Trump, so how bad can he be?'

> "Normalization" is the angry mob's buzzword. It has no basis in reality, only in "you're either with us or against us" hysteria.

In fact, research says that social norms are a/the leading determinants of people's behavior. As one researcher put it, 'humans are hard wired to follow social norms'. Most people don't want to be the sole dissenter in a meeting or do something 'uncool', much less stand up to massive social pressure.
Why does Elon Musk get a pass but not Uber's CEO?
Having experience with Java, I'd advise him to take two or three months to learn Android programming. Then, either earn enough money selling is own Android applications on the Play Store, or he'll find employment as senior Android developer or project manager. If he has a little more time, he could also learn iOS where they's also a lot of traction and job offers.
googleapps.com is registerd to google ;) Google isn't just anyone, they aren't going to pay 40$ per year per domain.
If I have inherited both, I cannot use the symbol DRAW to refer to both; at most one of them can be just DRAW.
At work, if I see a product that offers a commercial licence and an copyleft licence, I immediately buy it.

The licence costs are always trivial compared to the department's revenue and budget, and it completely avoids any hashing over "will we violate copyleft if we do X". Now the answer is always "we bought it, its ours".

At home, I just use the copyleft version. My personal blog engine is open source, and on github Anything else I make, I don't mind open sourcing if it comes to it.

700 Euro a year is trivial. We've spent more money on drinks while talking about licensing our own product.
I question whether it's genuinely possible for a corporation to engage in civil disobedience, even insofar as the government considers corporations to be the same as people in certain circumstances.
I run a T520 Lenovo on Ubuntu and had similar challenges until I started to manually turn my GPU on and off. Windows and Mac have excellent drivers which automatically control GPU while Linux does not.

At least on Ubuntu if you have a Nvidia GPU there is a handy widget you can install so simply toggle the GPU but it requires a logout/login each and every time.

Just not the same experience as Windows but in terms of battery life it does the job. I get about 3x battery life when in Intel Graphics vs my Nvidia.
Except that if I recall correctly Tesla has also stated that they expect to upgrading the hardware yearly as well (e.g. sensors). So an apt analogy may be an iPhone. iOS still get updates (which is great) but eventually you are going to need to get a new phone (/car).
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What gives is that people are forgetting that the Dow 20K thing was already super close toward the end of Obama's term, and that the DJIA stood at 8279.63 on the day of Obama's first inauguration.

If you're riding what are basically daily fluctuations of the massive high achieved in your predecessor's term, it's hard to claim the market likes you.
There's a lot in the Control Panel. The more you move to the new Settings app, the more complicated Settings gets. And if Microsoft didn't provide all those settings, or dropped the whole Control Panel, there would be a tornado of criticism.

Life is hard when you have 1.5 billion users, especially when a lot of them resist attempts to modernise or even update the system.

Do it all at once, they'll complain bitterly. Do it gradually, they'll complain bitterly. Don't do it at all, they'll complain bitterly. Which complaint would you like to make today> ;-)

On the good side, ordinary users have few problems with the Settings app, and it seems to do all they need -- or at least it comes close.

And the people who are resistant to change and are already familiar with the Control Panel can still use it.
Business isn't figuring that out, it's just good publicity. There's a difference
How does your pricing work? Do you have a free tier?
> Note that each level you've selected makes it more likely that they're sympathetic to you. Nation: shared culture. State: shared local culture. Town: shared understanding of what's considered acceptable here

Is that true? What if everyone in your town thinks you're kind of a jerk?
A nice thing about this trend is that it means if you buy an EV today and replace the battery in, say, five years, the new battery will probably cost much less and also have much greater range. So you will have a car that gets better as it gets older, at least in some important ways.
The site does not support the back button and there is not right click on the stories. the site is very annoying to use.
I think the last sentence is the meat of the post.

The biggest credential of some expert witnesses is the number of trials for which they have been an expert witness.

Put your testimony out there for the public and let other experts critique it. Stake your reputation and your career on it.
I've also had a hard time understanding why Uber's been singled out so strongly on this issue. How is Tesla and everyone else managing to not get the same PR backlash?
They last. I have a 2-year-old electric Ford Focus and have noticed nearly zero battery degradation; the range has been consistent since day 1. Recycling the batteries is undoubtably less of an impact than even the recycling of engine oil from an ICE car over the same timespan.
It is one of those things, but not like heroin is.
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Can you be more specific on how Swift doubles/triples your performance? Are you using a Swift backend framework for web serving?
I once made a kind of "package Swiss Army Knife" reader macro for Common Lisp which lets you do cool things. It's reasonably well documented in a header comment.

It might be up your alley, since you're working on a package-related reader macro:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/lisp-snippets/tree/pkg.lisp
First week as a network engineer, still on probation. I was given the simple task of provisioning a new VLAN onto a few switches, one of which was a fairly large and important aggregation switch.

Everything was going ok, then I get to the big switch and move over to one of it's port channels and start adding the vlan there;

switchport trunk allowed vlan 123

Shortly after my telnet session dropped. How weird, I thought. I tried re-connecting, no dice. Tried pinging it, nothing.

Then I hear a loud "What the fuck?" from the other side of room, and I look up to see about 30 bright red alerts on our board and a huge flood of red from our GLTail monitoring board showing a very large number of PPPoE session ending suddenly.

I'd missed the word "add" in my command and had wiped the other 200+ vlan's from that interface which had in turn killed the Internet, Phone, and IPTV of about 30,000 customers.

After restarting the switch to get it back to it's startup config, I returned to my desk to find the golden pineapple already displayed prominently on my desk. I also had to wear a cowboy hat for the next 10 changes I made in production.

I'd say lesson learned, but then my co-worker did the exact same thing 2 months later while drunk and on call so I don't think we really learned anything there.
Arguably, because Uber is in the spotlight as a result of breaking the taxi worker strike at JFK. Don't think Musk is getting a pass per se, as much as he hasn't attracted attention to himself.
Only the verbatim design documents are copyrighted. The ideas in them are protected as free speech.
That's a pretty uncharitable reading of his reasoning. A better description would be "companies are profiting off my unpaid work without upholding their end of the social bargain, whether that's money or maintainer hours or whatever". A better reading would be that he feels the current situation is unfair, rather than suddenly wanting to monetise.
That's a great point, along the lines of, "When you borrow $100 the bank owns you; when you borrow $1,000,000 you own the bank"
About a year ago I leased a Nissan Leaf base model which has a rated range a little under 100 miles. I got a pretty good deal, but it was still a new car purchased from a dealership.

Total cost of ownership per month of the lease is $136. This is not counting KWHs or insurance, but includes all dealer costs, maintenance, and taxes. That's really hard to beat, other than buying some used vehicles. Lots of people spend more than that on fuel. These things are becoming affordable fast.

In my case, it's a 2nd car as my wife has a longer-range vehicle, so I'm fine that I can only use it for commutes and short trips.
If you prefer, it's the humans behind Uber who are engaging in civil disobedience. I prefer to support these humans.

The corporate person is just a simpler way to speak about the same topic.
This is a lot of fear-mongering, relativist nonsense.
Very first thing I did was block the gifs with the ad blocker, they are insufferable.
It's not an important point because it doesn't affect the crux of his post but I feel the need to argue because you've clearly grossly misunderstood the meaning of a sentence that's easily understood by most.

He's not saying they can't be or shouldn't be judged on anything else. He's saying that, in practice, the person they're reporting to judges their work solely based on how it looks.

It doesn't matter whether or not this is true anyway. It's just a made up example to illustrate the idea.
Peter Thiel is a billionaire. In the words of Killer Mike, 'who's gonna bully me if I got a billy?'
In this case, scale counts as a specialization IMO.
Pandora's Box opened on its own.

http://www.dbms2.com/2017/02/02/theres-no-escape-from-politi...

-- Privacy/surveillance issues are huge in tech.

-- Immigration issues are a big deal, at least in the US.

-- Censorship is huge in many countries.

-- The internet is a key enabler of globalism.

-- Automation of jobs is a big deal.

Etc.
Don't browsers have built-in native H.264 support?
Article is from 2016, and had extensive discussion last year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11731890
You have 20 seconds to comply!
One difference between Linux and Windows is that Linux will allocate pretty much as much RAM as the machine makes available and use it to avoid swapping pages to the swap disk versus Windows which performs similarly when a bunch of RAM is reported as free. Or to put it another way, Linux using all the RAM is a good thing for the same reasons that Windows not using all the RAM is...it means the system is running more or less optimally.

None of which directly relates to battery life. That's mostly a measure of Microsoft being the target platform of system designers and Linux not being the target. Linux power management will probably never be as good.
I thought it was for sexting..?
As someone who did a fair amount of hacking in vimL, evil-mode is a drastically improved vim. It gets basically everything right, out of the box, and extending it isnt nearly as painful as using vimL or interacting with vim's Python API.
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I believe that behavior is going to change with the new big update.
Because Musk didn't draw attention to himself the way Kalanick did during the NYC cab driver strike. Also Kalanick tends toward the image of someone trying to do away with labor unions whereas Musk is seen as someone trying to save the planet.
That's okay though. Only way to learn is by getting something out there. You're way ahead of the game compared to most people dealing with scaling issues first hand :)

Keep up the good work!
Trump isn't clay waiting to be molded; he has clear ideas on what he wants to do, he's been talking about them since mid-2015 and has been acting on them, extremely aggressively, since November. It's past time to believe that he means what he says.

In the last week:

* He acted to ban immigration by many Muslims

* He issued a statement on the Holocaust, and then defended it, using the language of Holocaust deniers.

* He said immigration would favor Christians.

How far does he have to go before you say, 'enough'?
thanks for help, I found.. way how to solve it (thanks to help in IRC). I'll take pause before publicly sharing my emotions about this update.
What I can't figure out is why Oracle didn't start down this road 10-20 years ago. They more than anyone should have some ideas about scaling infrastructure for databases.
Seems like Snapchat is growing faster though
I'm saying that you can teach the average person to swim if you teach them all the proper techniques, in the proper order, before the competition.

I'm not saying that you can do the average person perform like a world-class champion.
TBH, if you want to protect against an adversarial nation-state, don't use email. Full stop.
Ah yes, civil disobedience like testing out their self-driving vehicle -- which can't recognize red lights and doesn't understand bicycle lanes -- in a dense urban area, in noble and glorious disobedience to the parasitic leeching government communist over-regulators who'd prefer they get it closer to, y'know, safe before unleashing it in a place where there are lots of squishy meatbags it could kill.
I feel like CNBC did it particularly well [1].

> "Our understanding is that this is not the start of sanctions easing," said Ian Bremmer, a widely respected political scientist and president of consulting firm Eurasia Group.

> "It's a rule change clearing up a problem with the sanctions regime that prevented U.S. exporters of non-sanctioned electronic devices from complying with both U.S. and Russian law. The problem was identified by the Obama administration, and this appears to be the response to address it."

> Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a Russia hawk who has called for more sanctions on Moscow, told NBC News that Thursday's move looks like "largely a technical fix."

The sanctions brought against Russia for the proxy war in Ukraine and secondarily the sanctions for information war between the two countries specifically target particular people (individual officials enumerated by the Department of Treasury, under so called "smart sanctions") and particular sectors of the Russian economy (military moderization and acquisition sectors as well as parts of Russia's Defense Industrial Base).

The restrictions eased on software transfers were not a lifting of sanctions in any meaningful way. Unfortunately the way these headlines are being written is causing a public panic.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/02/us-treasury-eases-some-sancti...
Donations for open source projects have notoriously low participation rates - to the point where popular and critical infrastructure projects can't afford to maintain a fulltime employee or two - so don't take it personally.

If you want companies to pay you, then ask them to pay you. Keep it as a simple license (not one that has devs asking wtf it is), but offer a commercial bundle with email and dev support, LTS, backwards compat and perhaps authentication modules (for LDAP/AD, OAuth) and I think you'd be surprised by just how many companies make these purchases (I make them all the time).

Also, on price - $100-300 is "no-brainer i'll put it on my credit card and expense it at the end of the month" while €800 is approaching purchasing decision territory for a lot of companies.
No, I wasn't being sarcastic. I've never used BSD, of any flavor, but I recall that was was focused obsessively on security.

Absent evidence to the contrary, I presume that OpenBSD is more secure than any Windows, even Windows 10, but has considerably fewer features. Do you know of actual evidence?
Is that a no I won't support my claims?
He came in with a business-friendly agenda after eight years of stability had erased the memories of 2008. Nobody wants to be the first to decide he's an unhinged mess, just like nobody will want to be the last to decide.
Musk's defenders are actively going after people who say negative things about the Dear Leader.
Interestingly, Israelis were actually fundamental in the founding of Singapore's military. At the request of the Singaporean government, Israel sent many advisors. It was pretty much an organization copy of Israel's, IIRC.

For those who haven't read Startup Nation, the authors don't argue that the bonds formed in the military are sufficient for Israel startup culture. Rather, the military's unique culture and relatively flat hierarchy in which subordinates can and do challenge superiors (at a frequency unique among militaries) are other important factors in creating the startup nation. But of course, there's yet more discussed, which do indeed fill up the book's pages.
Aside from already having a bad reputation, they screwed themselves over by breaking the JFK strike and proceeded to mess up their PR around it even worse.

Elon Musk has a lot more social capital, but I imagine a few snafus like this could land him in the same position.
The Chinese also have a superstition about never drinking anything 'cold'. They have to boil everything first, which was definitely good in ancient times and in places with bad water purification; but it has also led to strange things in the modern era such serving Coke hot.
Why would it tank based on numbers available BEFORE it IPO's? I know there are idiots out there but surely the big investors are going to take figures available in the filing into account.
Part of marketing is associating yourself with good things; that is, things your customers like or at worst don't care too much about. This is why most companies avoid controversy when they can.

It seems naive to think that if you associate yourself with something some of your customers especially hate, it won't have any effect. Sometimes you gotta take a stand, but it has costs.

(It's kind of weird to apply this to Uber though, since they're hardly a company that avoids controversy.)
> Both his base and the people calling him a fascist are angry, hysterical mobs.

Why? Because you say so? Because you repeat it?. Because it's an equivalency?
I'm looking forward to reading this, but my first impression is that calling a scam "amoral" is bizarre.
Then if you have a big enough problem, forego the benefits of index funds.

A liberal, globalist politics really IS best for Google, Apple, Microsoft and many others, and thus it is correct for their leaders to say so. If you on the other hand dislike liberal globalism, then you have the choice to divest from/not profit from those companies. (Alternatively, you could invest in them as a kind of personal diversification.)
The number of people who can afford to use Uber is much greater than those that can reasonably buy a Tesla, at this point.

Also, many younger politically activist liberals live in urban areas where they might not have a car at all, but may use Uber on a regular basis.
As a programmer I'd be really interested in knowing what kind of coding skills are useful to marketers. Could you give me examples of use cases and useful tools / languages ?