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You aren't getting it.

You keep repeating that the wealthy don't matter, I suppose because you are saying that on your own you can be wealthy. Then you provide an example of an individual who did.

Again, you are incorrect, vastly so. Firstly, measuring people who succeed is absolutely incorrect because it ignores the survivor bias. For that one guy who made it on shark tank, there are many others who failed on a per episode basis.

Similar patterns appear in real life, and are possibly more stark.

Secondly, not everyone is going to be an owner or an entrepreneur - some are not cut out for it, some are more interested in being professionals or doctor.

You are arguing that it's possible, and that looking at failure is being defeatist.

What me, science, and the rest of HN is saying is: " sure it's posisble. That's not what everyone is talking about."

Most people don't and won't make it. Most people will not, even after a good effort reach an average standard of living and retirement similar to what America once promised.

Social mobility has decreased, your examples are influenced by a survivor bias. The point of showing the wealth distribution is not to show what the wealthy are doing, but just how few people manage to even make it to comfortable and well to do standards.

Todd: Most of society is never going to make it. Even the ones who try won't. A very small number will get lucky enough to cross that barrier.
Just because you got money from eBay instead of a jobby-job doesn't not make it income. I think there's exceptions on this sort of stuff, though.
Except when they collude:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...

and collude:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/apple-450...

...and collude:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6590827/apple-music-m...
The entirety of economic entities is not conveniently split between "employees" and "businesses paying employees". Even aside from disabled, burnouts, unemployable, trust funders, criminals, barterers, and simple parasites, there exist sole proprietors, partners, and individual contractors, whose income never gets distributed to any employees.

Your hypothetical "fair system" will have to have policies and regulations in place to deal with all of these situations.

As far as I can see, the only opportunity for real fundamental simplification is to completely drop all taxes on income, and substitute consumption-based taxes. And even that is not as simple as it sounds (how does it deal with barter, for example?).
> Good urban schools exist, but there aren't enough of them

It's not just that — due to desegregation (itself a good thing!) one can't ensure that one's kids will go to either a good school or one nearby. Parents want the best for their kids, and will do their best to ensure their kids' success (note that Mr. Obama's kids went to Sidwell Friends, not to a public DC school).
Thank you for releasing https://github.com/RunestoneInteractive/RunestoneServer under a permissive, MIT license.

Any reason to keep https://github.com/RunestoneInteractive/RunestoneComponents GPL?
That would be all well and good if they didn't collude with the local authorities against competition and collect "universal service" funds from the government in exchange for, at most, the barest minimum effort. Either be a benevolent monopoly (no such thing IMHO) or compete in a free market.
There has been some interesting discoveries related to sudden onset red meat allergies in eastern Australia due to tick bite:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/02/25/3951271.ht...

When the ticks bite, they inject a small amount of blood from their previous host. If the host was a non-ape mammal, then that blood will also contain a sugar, alpha-galactose, that humans lack. Sometimes the immune system misidentifies this sugar as a foreign body and develops antibodies. Now when the bitten person eats red meat their immune system ramps up to attack the alpha-galactose, resulting in a delayed onset allergic reaction.

Having read the article, the appearance of the rash in Vietnam followed by the onset of symptoms suggests something similar make be the cause in the author's case. Her body may have developed antibodies to something food in common foods. This might explain the headaches she experienced when she ate.
Multiple cursor plugin adds the "select random places" which there are more powerful ways to do this in vim specifically search/replace or edit + n + .. will get what you want using a simple search query.
I mean discrete.
Good overview. Someone else in the thread mentioned a disk encryption solution that works with hibernation.

To step back for those who aren't familiar, disk encryption is not at all like Apple's remote locking feature and does not require you to activate it remotely or something like that. It just means that the data on your hard drive is stored encrypted ("scrambled") so that it cannot be read without a password that decrypts it. When you power on the computer, you provide the password, but a thief who doesn't know that password can't decrypt it.

Also there is no need for a remote erasing feature because the encrypted data is as good as erased for someone without the password. (This all assumes you use a secure enough password.)

This is actually more secure than Apple's remote lock in many ways because the remote lock can be avoided by preventing the device from ever accessing the internet or possibly bypassed by removing the hard drive and accessing it using some other computer. (There are protections that prevent this in the iPhone case but I don't know about Mac laptops, don't think so).
"they said they would send me an email with where to provide the info to"

If you have promises in writing, then quote those in future emails and remind them of the problem you faced in resolution center. Don't say "bug", but just that you need an alternative way to send proof of delivery.

I wouldn't mind seeing a screenshot of that email they sent to you promising to send you a future email. It's odd they would promise but not do it, considering they also made promises over the phone.

Perhaps throw together a blog page with screenshots and a timeline to illustrate more substantially their incompetence and your innocence! Let us know how you go!
I really like the (JS) code for the Turing Drawings art app.

https://github.com/maximecb/Turing-Drawings
That's a separate issue though, and something I am quite strongly against. The article was about "discriminating" specifically against the poor, and unless you'd like to argue that their collusion is willfully and knowingly done specifically to discriminate against poor people, I don't think it applies.
I think the implication is that countries that espouse their "free market"-ness end up with a lot of regulatory capture. This, telecoms, healthcare.

A bunch of people with a lot of money have been able to lock in their positions. It sure feels like pulling out of the church of laissez-faire economics would let us, say, pass laws with things like price controls (or just nationalizing the whole industry!).

An aside: complicated taxes aren't the opposite of "free market". For example, giving tax incentives to new companies can help make a market more free by reducing the cost of entry.
All the other industries have capital. Why doesn't capital tell the younger workers in all those other industries the same seductive lie?
Isn't that functionally just a down round?
Yes, and it's illegal. Having a monopoly isn't illegal. Anyway, your statement is completely unrelated to the subject of whether these companies would be innovating more if the market was less consolidated and I don't believe so.
Yeah, no kidding. Think of how every time unionization comes up here, you'll see dozens of people chiming in with "but we're really well-paid already!" or "I can negotiate for myself!" or whatever. Never even thinking about how much better they could be paid if they worked together to demand a larger slice of that sweet, sweet tech pie.

It's crab bucket is what it is.
Noticed those too, also I don't personally like camelCase in C however I still like the code because of how it is laid out and solves the problem. It has the right amount of comments (too many of those is also bad), some functions are large but overall has the a good balance there too.

Also for an example it is also the right sized project. It i not too small and not huge (like Linux kernel) and the overall structure can be understood in a few hours of browsing through.
Government waste and inefficiency? Crony capitalism?
I believe you might be an exception to the rule here, simply because you're a HN reader :)

Try getting your Spouse, Accountant, Mom, Uncle etc to make the move.
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Are there good new formats for giving talks?
I might be willing to buy a few acres in the countryside just to plant a few hundred chestnuts.
Minimum System Requirements tool
I highly recommend reading this book: https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Ruby-Jay-Fields/dp/032198...

Not only does it contain great code snippets but it also covers repeatable techniques that will ease your life as a ROR programmer immensely.
Customer Reps of any kind almost certainly have no idea about security. At best they'll ask their manager/helpdesk, who'll say "Just reply that it's based on industry standards" or something like that.
If you equate jail with solitude, I have to wonder what country you're from. In the US, jail is the exact opposite of solitude.
Very cool, many thanks!
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Roads are the go-to argument for the value of taxes. But it's a dumb point to make because there are a ton of programs which we fund but do not benefit from. In fact, the vast majority of every dollar we pay in taxes does absolutely nothing to benefit us directly. No one argues against true infrastructure investments, it's all the other b.s. that we hate (immigrants and non-immigrants alike).

Being a dick to someone for seeing what's wrong with the taxes here is awfully small of you.
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I seriously considered getting an IEEE membership for a long time, but decided after several long conversations with people in the field who had one that it was not worth it.
Why precisely is having the worlds largest military bad? Do you think it doesnt add any value? It seems theres a lot of people outside of America who'd like to see it shrunk for very bad reasons.

Why not keep the military and solve our problems without it? We need it to be safe now, and until we've already solved our problems, we'll still need it.

Obviously it doesn't always work well and it definitely causes problems, doesn't mean we should get rid of or even reduce it.
I suspect old systems like Multics did.

But, this is the sort of thing that Richard Gabriel is talking about in worse is better[1]

[1]: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
> The only problem with that approach is how to bootstrap the value of such an alternative currency

The problem of "bootstrapping the value" of a centralized, digital currency is that no one wants it, because of the reason I mentioned (too easy to change history). Working hard in order to earn an entry in some database, that can be deleted in a second, makes little sense for people.

Bitcoin had no bootstrapping problem because it can be used tustlessly (deleting past transactions is simply not possible), while your solution is just another type of credit. Why would I ever, voluntarily, start using your credit as money? It makes no sense from my perspective; hence the "bootstrapping problem".

In short: reducing the energy consumption of Bitcoin while reducing security is easy (use credit). It's keeping the trustless property while reducing energy usage that's the challenge.
I want to use this but I'm afraid it circumvents Twitter's advertising and they'll surely shut it down. I guess $5 for now until shutdown is still worth it.
I'm not sure. You could ask Brad Miller (@bnmnetp on twitter) to find out. Runestone is his creation.
I believe the trends the author has pointed out are not just the failings of the tech industry but are part of a larger cultural backlash against expertise.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-0...
It isn't just a lie - they're more impressionable.

Tell them they're smart, they're critical! and then work them to the bone until you can replace them with the next batch of the bright-eyed and bushy tailed.
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Something like that, as long as they know how to perform the specific procedure and how to deal with all the things that can go wrong.

The coding equivalent of doctors training would be a) taking a general bachelor's degree b) taking a 4 year computer science degree c) specific training in programming in 24 different languages and 400 frameworks d) get a job programming in Java and eventually forgetting most of the other stuff.
That was the Sheriff's statement only one officer involved was a Sheriff Deputy. The others were cops.
Brain has 100x higher computational capacity than previously thought
Maturity. Not every industry can sustain a "move fast and break things" mentality. Software is fairly young in terms of capital investment growth. Wait till it becomes as boring and grave as manufacturing.
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This web server just won't have it.
Im sure people who are making their decisions about what they value the way you describe are not really so concerned without how much its actually costing them.
Well, I'm glad _that's_ settled.
I would say there's certain segments of markets that will violate the law. I think this fits within the "bad egg" characterization I made before. New laws are often targeted directly at these segments, it changes the fabric of the market.
Couldnt upvote you more.

Its called "chain of numbness". Chasing doesn't murder innocent Iraq children; he is far from it but by aiding financially the army that does murder, are his hands truly clean?
Really, "infinite wisdom"? Is that really necessary? I never claimed to have a better name, just that I remain unconvinced that it is a good example.

Next time you are writing such a comment, consider cutting it off after the first line.
There is a difference though when it is something custom and new (say if this code defined or parsed a new protocol) vs parsing an existing protocol. Notice https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791#section-3.1 section diagram. That code is basically an almost perfect translation of the RFC diagram, down to the bits involved. That is the beauty here: minimal impedance mismatch between the specification and code.
Some kinds of monopoly are illegal. That first case was an antitrust case which has some connection to anti-monopoly, yeah?

Those companies have had a decade at the top with all the money and talent in the world. Has tech gotten that much better since 2007? Has Apple's hardware gotten better relative to the competition? Has your web experience gotten remarkably better? Do we prefer Allo or Hangouts or x, y, or z to Google Talk?

With the clout they have you have to innovate some and they certainly have. The question is whether they have innovated substantially. It doesn't seem like it.
I find this kind of learned helplessness to be fascinating. Do you think big companies need apologists? Do you think there would be more or less innovation with more smaller firms?
Perimetr, the Russian system, is one solution. The USSR decided not to go for launch on warning. Their plan is that, when things get tense, they activate Perimeter. This is sometimes called "The Dead Hand". If the system was enabled, detected nuclear explosions, and there was no way to communicate with higher authority, it would automatically release weapons control to some lower level of authority. Even then, it's not auto launch; there are people in bunkers somewhere who have to make that decision.

Part of the rationale is that this didn't give the leadership of the USSR direct launch authority. They could enable the system, but that didn't cause a launch. It took H-bombs on Moscow plus an enabled system to do that. This provided a safeguard against the leadership going nuts.

The US should have an interlock like that.
The problem is that the management can't tell who's any good. They see "the guru" struggle for several months on a "very difficult project" and then finally come through (with an added bonus that only the guru can understand the system afterwards so it MUST be very complicated) and just assume that he's been walking on water. He's young and went to a very good school... But then you find out it's a simple inventory control merging with the UPS API to ship widgets.

They took that old saw about only the grandkids being able to make the VCR stop blinking 12 and applied it to the entire frikkin world and they are unable to tell that it isn't even remotely true.
"Best" is perhaps not the right word but it's certainly a common practice. Several years back I asked my coworkers to test their banks and report back -- about two thirds of all banks and brokerages appear to flatten case in passwords.
The worst part is that if you're employed, it's probably a job requirement to use at least one of these surveillance capitalism platforms.

Most people I know in tech have to be on Slack. Most people I know in advertising and PR have to be on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. For some jobs, like journalism, even the "troops on the ground" are required to post and tweet. Even for jobs without the social media taint, a lot of companies use corporate gmail, so now Google is way up in your business.

In 2007, you could probably just chalk it all up to poor personal choices. In 2017, I don't know if that's entirely true. We're in a situation that cries out for regulation, although that will probably not happen in the US until after a calamity, since regulation is seen as one of the heads of the beast in our money religion.

edit: Slightly off-topic, but both mainstream mobile platforms have chilling surveillance and control aspects that make most of the web seem benign in comparison.
Signal is too difficult to be used by my relatives, but do not underestimate the issue. Dad uses the app to work and has not uninstalled, while mom, did the upgrade, came to ask "why the gardener of the nearby sends me pictures while he's kissing his girlfriend?", and then uninstalled the whole, she's now using sms again.
Which is why technology churn and cultivating ageism are so useful. It's a fabulous cover for the con. That person didn't get death marched into burning out in his closet sized apartment. He turned 30 and couldn't hack React. Hey, check out this Ayn Rand novel...
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It is clear to me from reading your previous comment that you've made an effort to understand the arguments made. That's a breath of fresh air.

>Not scream at the author's speaking engagements until he leaves the room.

Student politics just suck. But, I don't think they're representative of some of the underlying ideas they are based on. I've met some incredibly intelligent and well-read anarchists - but I wouldn't think anarchy was a system with that thought behind it if all I'd met was the loudest proponents of anarchy.

I think one of the problems currently we have in discourse-at-large is its really easy to find the egregious and ridiculous arguments people make, and paint the rest of the whole ideology with it. Perhaps the only partisan movement in politics today? :)

>I just think that when we suspect something might be pseudoscientific, we ought to read and study it really carefully, explore the arguments, and discredit it by formulating and publicizing well-reasoned counterarguments.

>We don't need to throw out science to deal with bad ideas put forth by scientists. Science itself has the mechanisms for this. We just need to do it better.

I think the problem has been that in the past (and still today) women and PoC were hampered by their inability to even get stuff published. If people begin in a position where suspicion is immediate, its harder for them to get a foot in the door, even if the gatekeepers hypothetically would allow in a person they are suspicious of.

As a result, some people still feel like one of the few levers they can successfully pull is the protest lever. Some protests suck.

>And since the demographics that traditionally practice this sort of thing have some gaping blindspots, we ought to be actively recruiting a broader set of perspectives into this pursuit, so that we can generate more good ideas and discredit more of the bad ones.

I think we agree on this - and I think we agree that there's the possibility of bias in science as it stands.

Where I'm going next with this: The idea then is that science internally sucks at making choices to correct this bias. Therefore establishment science needs to be externally influenced. That's not a dismissal of the scientific method, that's a claim that the scientific method never existed in an unbiased form in the first place.
The biggest is that employers can give you health insurance without paying taxes on it. There are a variety of Obamacare and other such rules which insist on low deductibles for certain categories of events. And of course, medicare/medicaid.
I agree that we shouldn't be too quick to label every potentially unfair situation as discrimination. But part of the original intent (Ajit Pai notwithstanding) of the USF was to bring quality service to rural and low income areas, so AT&T should be careful to fulfill their obligation and, ideally, the government should hold them to it.
Having the largest military in reserve? No problem with that, personally.

Having them used as they are now and deployments in the recent past, not so much.
You can't downvote a reply on your own post on HN.

Maybe I was a bit snarky, but if I left it to the first line what would the point be? If it's not a good example, then what is a better version of that example? How can you criticize something if you can't compare it to an alternative?
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Great analysis. One thing to add though - some of these people have to also file state returns. Which in TurboTax pretty much automatic, but without it it'd be separate return which has to be filed separately - which means same work as for Federal, so people would still need something like TurboTax - unless also each state that has income tax makes their own system too.
I agree completely, AT&T should absolutely honor their legal obligations.
Short time frames and code quality being less visible to customers than construction or build quality of physical goods. It's a lot easier to build a (really shitty underneath the hood) app without experience than to design or build an airplane without experience. In most cases you can dump a good chunk of your stake for a massive profit before the poor infrastructure and maintenance costs become an issue (the Twitter "fail whale" and rewrites are the outlier here, I think, where the scale came much faster than the payoffs).
One difficulty is that it's easier to pass a tax break through a budget process than to pass an equivalent "handout" through a separate one.

For example, in France if you have more than 3(?) kids, you get 70% off all train rides. That required this whole process to get set up (I imagine it was more through regulation than law but you at least need the budget to the SNCF).

The easiest way to get an equivalent thing through the US legal bureaucracy would be to do: "If you send us receipts of your train tickets and have over 3 kids, we'll deduct them from your taxes at 70%".

It "pays for itself" in the sense that the government doesn't have to give money to Amtrack, just give back money that was just given to it by the taxpayer. It doesn't require intergovernmental coordination, just the IRS. It can be passed through the huge budget process. Much easier than many other regulatory schemes.