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> And what do you mean by "s-expressions just too simple"? Isn't simplicity something to strive for?

I should stress "a bit". Actually, looking closer at s-expressions right now (I was writing based on what I remembered), I'd like to flip that statement. S-expressions are just a bit more complex than what I have in mind. Or alternately: they're equivalent under some trivial transformation.

It depends on how you look at things - there are supposedly many different implementations of s-expressions, which support different fundamental data types. The basic idea is simpler. There are no fundamental data types, just nodes. For example a 'bit' is a node which can contain one of two child nodes ('one' or 'zero'). Any tree which represents data in memory on a computer can be expanded down to a collection of bits. Though in a text representation or tree editor the user will generally have collapsed the tree such that they don't see individual bits.

What I have in mind could look more complex than s-expression in a different context though: the text file representation of the trees may have more syntactic sugar than s-expressions in lisp.

The representation isn't significantly different, but the focus is. I'm focusing more on things related to type theory, schemas, how to represent patches/diffs, standardizing parsing/generation and other transforms, etc.
I honestly haven't heard of anyone using Perl for anything new. Sure there is a lot of legacy Perl 5 being used and maintained, but Perl 6? For a new project? I've never even seen it on a short list.
To add to this: not all companies have a stellar engineering team that is capable of dividing the code base in such a way that some could be open sourced while other remains private. The legal team for said companies know full well the technical debt and as a result everything remains private.
If we accept that neutrality regulation is unnecessary in the UK due to the effectiveness of the market that exists here, we should remember that this market itself exists because of other forms of regulation which have been imposed, including: the ease with which customers can switch ISPs, publishing official figures of the frequency of complaints about ISPs, the incumbent telco being required to provide wholesale internet access (with price controls) which can be resold by any company who wish to set themselves up as an ISP.

It seems to me to have done reasonably well at encouraging suppliers to compete on price, and on customer service quality (provided you don't take the ISP's word for it).

It hasn't been great at hastening the widespread availability of > 20Mbit broadband, and that is probably in part because of a particular technological and financial internet access model becoming somewhat entrenched, due to the very same regulation.

I tend to be of the opinion that net neutrality is a useful tactic where a functioning competitive market doesn't exist, and is beyond hope of being made to exist. Outside of that, I'm much less certain of how valuable it is.

(I'm not going to address the whole UK internet censorship and data logging thing, because it's orthogonal to the structure of the market. And also because it's really fucking depressing.)
That's just a subset of tax and law (/regulations) avoidance isn't it?
Thank you! This helped hugely
Ah, great info - thanks for the heads up. I'll dig into that and look into alternatives
"Dangerously wrong" may be incorrect, but it tends to ignore things like thermic effects of food sources, intake vs. absorption, nutrient timing, and efficient gut microbes.
Well, that means that AirBNB should be charging more that an equivalent hotel room, doesn't it? At least to the market segment that values the same things that you do.

I am wondering how many segments there are in the "accomodations" industry. We have the homely/warm/cozy opinioned root kind of segment CalRobert has exemplified; then we have the dirt-cheap hobo-shelter-minus-stabbing that people on a tight budget seem to value, etc.

Any thoughts.
Looking at the graphs in the article, the "Ivy plus" line is at about 70% for the "top 5% parental income" bucket on the "top 20% income" graph.

I will claim that every single student in that bucket (a fairly small number of people, when you stop and count them, adding up to well less than 5% of the population of the US) in fact had perfectly reasonable opportunity to end up in the top 20% of the income distribution. And just to be clear, from looking at page 17 of the original paper at <http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/papers/coll_mrc_paper..., "top 20% of the income distribution" in this case means an individual income of $58,000/year by age 34.

The 30% that did not end up there almost certainly prioritized other things over income. But that does not take away the fact that they had the opportunity.

So it might be more correct to say that opportunity is the probability distribution over outcomes, conditional on goals. That statement I might be willing to accept.
> it's just [when] the casino cottons on that you're doing it

And maybe not even then. With the incomplete mitigations that casinos already put in for card-counting (multiple decks, etc.), card-counting is tricky and has a very small edge. Consequently, just as casinos know they make money from people with "strategies" with no statistical validity, they know they make money from people who think they can count cards well enough to get an edge but who can't.
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To be fair in my POV you are all just immigrants.

That argument gets us no where.

If you go back far enough, everyone is an immigrant everywhere in the world except for a small group of sub-saharan africans. And even in that case, they probably migrated.

It's adds nothing to the conversation.
Except Casinos design the distribution of gains so that you're manipulated into believing it'll be worth, even though you rationnaly know that it's no true.
That was also Victor Hugo's idea in his description of the "United States of Europe":

> "A day will come when the only fields of battle will be markets opening up to trade and minds opening up to ideas."

http://www.ellopos.net/politics/hugo-addresses-europe.asp
He's implying that Trump is right but only inadvertently.
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It means OP can't fathom that the man might have some idea of how business leaders think and operate.
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Every country is different. You will have to specify what country you are a citizen to, and where you plan on going.

I know that being an American citizen can make it very difficult to live abroad. I am an accidental American and I have to report all of my money that I earn and keep abroad. That means if I have a job and earn a salary, keep a pension fund, have investments, work as a contractor for 1 job and have my spouse's bank account under both our names, I have to report all of that. Seeing as no free software offers a way to do all that I have to pay a yearly I-am-an-American "tax" to an accountant to make sure that everything is filed properly. If any mistake is made I could be fined up to half of the money that I own (not the money that I have in America, but all of the money that I own). If I want to open a bank account, I better hope that my bank in my country decides to bother with all of the liability involved with having an American customer. If not, they can (and some have) simply close my account and tell me to withdraw everything. If I want to start investing through a company such as Schwab, I must declare exactly how I earned all of the money, be limited in the funds that I can buy, and receive less perks.

If anyone else is an American living abroad or who wants to live abroad, feel free to contact me. On the bright side, we still are allowed to vote. That means that I periodically call my representative and let them know that I don't care whether they are Democrat / Republican, Pro-Life / Pro-Choice, like Trump / hate Trump, if they want to repeal these laws preventing Americans living abroad from living a normal life, I will vote for them.

If you are and American who is interested in leaving America or if you already have, feel free to read more here: https://aaro.org/position-papers-2015/taxation-and-financial...
My gears are turning.. an app that tells you the viability of solving a given problem using an app. It would be powered by AWS array on the back end using google's latest AI, TensorFlow, and it would also be community driven like Yelp. We'd make our profits by taking advantage of platform network advantage to connect cofounders, investors, and customers for the startups who use us and move forwards.
> 1. Must meet minimum continuous income requirement

As I understand, you can be a "temporary" resident until you get a job and then apply for the permanent residence, presenting in that moment the evidence of incoming (minimum wage will be enough)

> 2. Have no criminal record

I didn't know about it, but probably yes. Unless you ask for a political refugee. This is probably to (try to) avoid human and drugs trafficking.

> 3. Have acceptable health

This is a 30 minutes check for less than 5 american dollars. Everybody pass the test. (bureaucracy)

> 4. Naturalisation officials apply subjective criteria for granting citizenship even after meeting the in-country residency requirements.

Sounds strange... I know lot of Spanish, Venezuelans, Cubans, and others nationalities, living and working legally here. Some of them agree and others disagree with political parties that are 'friends' of the current Uruguayan government. There are also some Iranians doctors working in the public health and Indians working in IT.

If you are in IT, you'll get a job in a week.

Here's some official information about the topic (sadly just in spanish): http://www.impo.com.uy/migracion/
That seems like a great deal to me. Nice work by both parties.
It depends on the threat model I guess. Whether or not such a system would work in a casino environment, I don't know.
CloudFlare doesn't allow this kind of use of their service. Once you start pushing enough bandwidth they will ask you to go away. And since you offer free unlimited CDN bandwidth, when that happens and you move to a different CDN provider your bill could increase 50 times over a day.
Sadly as a consequence of this, it can only report file size, not disk usage. If you have a lot of folders with NTFS compression enabled, Wiztree becomes almost useless.
Yeah, that is a good idea. The Google Vision API actually makes it pretty easy to do. It is pretty amazing that this kind of thing is now possible. You can chain together a bunch of transformations into one like [find face] + [crop photo]. Here's one example of that implemented https://www.filestack.com/docs/image-transformations/facial-...
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What if you have 10 slot machines and they are designed in a random way? You can be pretty sure that you are going to win money in the middle-long run and everyone can be sure that this is a proper 'game/bet'. If they are somehow manipulated/designed that is blatant robbery. I don't think that the regular Joe knows this fact. What do you think?
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> Their lobbyists claim there is a “talent shortage” among Americans and thus that the industry needs more of such work visas. This is patently false

There is no way SV would have grown to what it is now without foreign talent. So the shortage has been real for the last 30+ years. Not sure why this point is still controversial.

> most Silicon Valley firms sponsor their H-1B workers, who hold a temporary visa, for U.S. permanent residency (green card) [...] sponsorship renders the workers de facto indentured servants; though they have the right to move to another employer, they do not dare do so, as it would mean starting the lengthy green card process all over again.

Then the problem might be with how long the gov takes to process these things, and not with the H1B visas?

> the H-1B program is an enabler of rampant age discrimination in the tech industry [...] Almost all the H-1Bs are young

Younger people are more willing to move to another country. Also, many students apply for an H1b after their F1 runs out, so of course you get younger people.

And this is just from the first page. I feel like the author is just throwing every possible argument against the H1B, instead of making one good coherent point. =/
While the CNCF helped front the funds to get the this going, RethinkDB is totally under the Linux Foundation and not a CNCF project for now.
> If you can’t read a generalisation without exploding in a rage of counter-examples, stop reading now…!

What is the magic number of counter-examples at which we can safely reject the generalisation? The warning at the top could read more briefly: 'The following is clever, but wrong.'
There is little uncertainty -- the terms are in plain language. OP implied that the GNU Affero GPLv3 is an updated GPLv3 "in spirit" to reflect how today a lot of software is run on the backend, instead of distributed to clients directly. I believe this is an accurate characterization. Compare the GNU GPLv3 and the GNU Affero GPLv3 yourself [1].

[1] https://www.diffchecker.com/1J4xEohZ
They adhere to the laws to maintain their licensing to attract the consumers that demand that. As with now, customers pay a premium to have a certain standard certified for them, which benefits the service provider through higher incomes.

As I touched on a above, the thing about restricted markets is that price is able to rise artificially due to the unnaturally constrained supply. This ends up being a government subsidy; one that is disproportionally paid for by the poorest people. If you are already comfortable with subsidizing licensed businesses, why not continue to subsidize the marginal ones? Perhaps even in a way that is less impactful to the poorest people?
Cloudflare actually doesn't have any uptime guarantees until you're on the enterprise plan, afaik. If Cloudflare were to have an outage which caused downtime of Scaley then the guarantee would cover that outage.
Yet somehow we have unprecedented relative peace since the rise of global capitalism that can only be explained via the long tail of trade policies being a disincentive to conflict and an incentive to working things out peacefully.

Worse, Trump supporters have followed nothing but a narrative of appeasement for Russia. Its amusing to see their hypocrisy with China. The bias here is obvious.

> giving a shit about its working class

The idea that the Trump administration is fighting for the middle class is asinine. From repealing Frank-Dodd, to putting in Goldman Sachs employees into cabinet positions, putting in billionaires into cabinet positions, removing regulations that protect workers, raising mortgages on FHA loans, etc its obvious that the middle class worker can only lose under Trump.
When I was renting apartments in Cambridge, MA, there was always a clause inserted that the tenant was responsible for tax increases, to ensure that tenants also carefully considered the costs of potential tax increases against the possible upside of the increased spending.

I thought that was fairly clever, and should I ever become a landlord, you can be sure that I'll include that clause if legal in the area I'm renting. (The reality is that the tenant is the one bringing the money that pays the property tax anyway; this clause just makes it explicit and helps align the landlord and tenant's interests.)

Language was similar to this (found on the web):

However, if in any tax year commencing with the fiscal year ____________ the real
estate taxes on the land and buildings, of which the leased premises are a part, are in
excess of the amount of the real estate taxes thereon for the fiscal year ____________,
(herein called the “Base Year”, and being the most recent year in which the Lessor has
actually received a real estate tax bill for the leased premises) Lessee will pay to Lessor
as additional rent hereunder, when and as designated by notice in writing by Lessor,
___________ per cent of such excess that may occur in each year of the term of this
Lease or any extension or renewal thereof and proportionately for any part of a fiscal
year. The Lessor represents to the Lessee that the term rent set forth in the immediately
preceding paragraph (A) does not reflect any real estate tax increase subsequent to the
said Base Year. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Lessee
shall be obligated to pay only that proportion of such increased tax as the unit leased him
bears to the whole of the real estate so taxed, and if the Lessor obtains an abatement of
the real estate tax levied on the whole of the real estate of which the unit leased by
Lessee is a part, a proportionate share of such abatement, less reasonable attorney’s
fees, if any, shall be refunded to said Lessee.
USA basically has the cheapest housing in the world https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...
> Especially considering what they want would rather be specified as a parser for generating URLs from user input, and not to simply demand every tool interacting with URLs to be able to parse malformed URLs.

The goal of the URL standard isn't to generate URLs from user input (for example, the browser address bar is out-of-scope), but instead define how <a href="foo"> in HTML (or, rather, more generally, {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a@href from the DOM), url("foo") in CSS, Location: foo in HTTP, and similar get parsed. There are large parts of this that the web relies on undefined error handling around this, which makes it worth standardising somewhere (as browsers cannot practically drop it, and most web content is targeted primarily at browsers, hence if you want to be compatible with the web you need to be compatible with browsers).

I'll also point out that the WHATWG scarcely exists: as a venue there's almost no formal organisation or high-level plan, it largely working on some shared values, and as a result there's a fair bit of variety between different groups of people working on different specifications where some take those values to further extremes than others.
Relevant short video from the Documentary "FatHead" that talks a little bit about what Gary Taubes is talking about in his book. The effects of carb/sugar and the insulin response that causes fat storage.
https://youtu.be/mNYlIcXynwE

It's free on Amazon Prime Video if anyone wants to watch it. I'm still only halfway through it though, so if he suddenly says we should just eat helium at the end I'm sorry. :P
Seems like using a radioactive decay RNG would also help, no?
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I agree we would clearly win, but it would still be a worse outcome by far, even in winning, than the status quo, or virtually any othe non-war situation (even a trade war or Cold War).
If you do #3, you'll just have people forming companies for the sole purpose of buying a home and getting the same exact deduction, since interest on debt is not taxable for companies (it's a business expense like any other, and taxes are levied on profits, not revenue). This will be especially easy for people who are not on a salary (contractors, etc) to start with.
Might be because Boeing only is seen as a tech company in the DC area, if at all. ;)
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TreeSheets is really awesome, and I say this after having tried my own share of outliners and mind-mapping tools.
I had to RTFM a bit to understand this example, so here's a more explicit description of this case for those playing along at home:

AFAICT the idiom for Result<i32, i32> is a pair of "numerical-result-if-success"/"errno-if-failure". Seems like a great idea, allows us to not overload a simple integer result and end up ignoring the failure path by accident. "Ok(n)" would get assigned to the "numerical-result-if-success" and "Err(m)" would get assigned to the "errno-if-failure". I think this means that "v.unwrap()" would panic if it had been assigned "Err(m)", which is what most people would want/expect.

AFAICT std::variant can't do overload resolution correctly when both of the union types are the same. I'll wager that if you use an aliased type it will still choke on this ambiguity. So if you wanted something similar in C++ maybe you'd have to wrap it so it's not POD?
Theoretically, ATP could be harvested from plants or bacteria. They could also be modified to produce the ammonia directly via this reaction. That wouldn't actually reduce the energy cost, but it could reduce the economic cost by making it logistically easier to produce. Maybe instead of making ammonia in complicated chemical plants, we could "grow" it on farms.
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Why pretend we're a representative republic with strong ties into democracy (CIA world factbook)? We're an oligopolstic, corporcrato-plutarchy.

Welfare for the rich, and capitalism for the poor.

Companies get numerous socialist programs to help fund their bottom line, yet average and poor receive little and are berated for it.

Drug test welfare recipients? Can't do that to the CEO, can we?

You're more "equal" rich again, and good luck with that public defender if you're poor.

Kill someone? Poor = eChair. Rich = affluenza, "treatment program".

Just accept the idea that this country now espouses that "More Money = More access to being a citizen". We are not equal. The past had that mythic "equal" part; but that time is done and gone.

In the end, the following is now what this country stands for:

1$ = 1 Vote
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damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Want/have to move into ig cities for work->you want to live bourgeois style city center.

want to stay in the boonies for cheap housing/nature/lifestyle-> you think you are entitled to a job here, jos aren't coming to you, you have to move to big job centers...
This sort of statement is useless without context.

What would be the objective of such a war? Regime change? Iraq and Afghanistan are both much smaller, yet the US wasn't too good with that.

Sure, the US could probably protect itself from any nation's military. But there's no universe where a successful incursion into China leads to anything apart from massive pain for everyone involved
How does that encryption work? Is like those sha-256 circuits used in Bitcoin mining? Is it possible to modify the affected machines to allow encryption?
In any all-out war between two nuclear nations there will be no winner, just two losers.
This. I've talked to several people who work in casino surveillance. They all said that if they think you're counting, the very first thing they'll do is assign an agent (or maybe a computer, these days) to count along with you.

Make an error or two (vs. perfect counting strategy), and they'll let you keep going, because long-term they'll still have an edge. Count/play perfectly and you'll get backed off or 86'ed.
I use perl for new code all the time. It's not a trendy language, so it won't get much coverage on HN, but the language and libraries are great IMO.

Also, perl 6 is effectively a completely different language from 'normal' perl (i.e. perl 5.x). The difference between the two is far far bigger than say python 2 -> 3.

As a perl programmer, I see no obvious benefit from switching from perl 5 -> 6, it would be the same as switching from perl to a completely different language. You're not going to be able to take your existing code and familiar libraries with you.
"macOS ... privacy is usually given more consideration"

Definitely not my feeling last time I upgraded macOs: I had to give my full name, address, * phone number * and * * bank details * * while the upgrade is free of cost.

I don't like having these details hanging on server somewhere on Internet when it is not needed.

I felt like my profile was given a lost of consideration by Apple, not my privacy.
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