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That's how it is in Brazil where I work, unions are mandatory. If you don't "voluntarily" contribute to one, your employer is required by law to withold a day's pay every year, and give it to the default union for your category. Obviously not anyone can start a union that counts.

It's controversial, but, IMO, it's not good at all. Unions here are very political, and often detached from what the workers actually want.

I once "participated" in a nationwide protest I hadn't heard about until the very day. Union thugs stopped the corporate buses full of workers from reaching the factory, got in bus by bus and instructed us to remain on the bus "for our own safety" - seriously, direct quote - so we were "deliberately" late for work.
Lesson of the day, don't work in a clean room naked.
The problem is that it isn't. You need insurance for catastrophic loss, not for everyday expenses -- that's the problem with existing medical insurance.

Suppose you needed a new garage door opener for your house. If fire insurance was medical insurance then you would have the insurance company buy you one because it would be dangerous to not be able to get out of your garage if there was a fire. Then garage door openers and plumbing and doorknobs and smoke alarms would all cost ten times as much because people aren't price conscious when the insurance is paying for something, and fire insurance premiums would get completely out of hand.
Show HN: Lunacy – We hacked Sketch file and created a viewer on Windows
I'm pretty new here, so take this with a grain of salt. My impression of this place is that it's a pretty highly regulated forum. In particular, it's designed to serve the needs of YC, and is not particularly free. That's the good and the bad of HN. It's a walled garden essentially, but instead of a wall it has very busy gardeners.

Honestly, it's why I like it, but I also recognize that behind all of this is a business, not a chatroom.

Edit: To clarify: there are so many places online to speak whatever is on your mind. What's lacking are places to have a decent conversation, any conversation, that can remain a conversation. How many places like this, with this many users, exist? I can't think of many.
It's not so much the content, it's the tone. People don't like being talked down to, even if the points are relevant.
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Then you'll just see more aggressive versions of the tactics the rich already use, like setting up charities that employ their children, etc. And the middle class will get screwed again.
UK GDP growth is almost entirely due to financial services and legal sectors in London, who just received the official notification that London is no longer the banking center of Europe.
Iirc there were some changes to usage reporting (additional data reported), so users were prompted to enable usage reporting again.
Thanks for your work.

Is there any way to get additional information about why a phone and a desktop client on the same LAN can't see each other? (or take 10+ minutes to sync?)
No, adblockers also use things like div ids, and potentially even heuristics like image shape.
> But this, not so much. x86 is way too power hungry (especially for EVs) and way too expensive for automotive use.

When you're running a electric motor that pulls power on the magnitude of 1 * 10^5 W (i.e. 100 kW+) I doubt you care about a few extra watts total power load if you have an inefficient processor. Similarly for conventional fuel, an extra few watts on the load is hardly going to worry the alternator.
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Start loading essential content via AJAX?
Tahoe-LAFS ( https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs ) then?
Today we are very excited to announce the release of Icons8 Lunacy 2.0: Free viewer for Sketch files on Windows

Over the past month Igor, developer of Lunacy, has been working on fixing bugs reported by the community, implementing new features, and introducing new UI for the application.

In Alpha version you could:

- Open .sketch files

- Export images

- Inspect layers, measurements, styles, fonts, colors, etc.

- Generate CSS for layers

In the new release we added:

- Symbols support

- Fonts auto search in Google Fonts

- Shadows/Blur effect support

- Offsets between the objects are now displayed

- Selection of multiple elements

- Complete UI design overhaul

Icons8 Lunacy doesn't require internet connection, thus you can work from anywhere. And have we mentioned it is completely free? :)

We want to know what you think of Lunacy. We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback and to answering your questions!
This man speaks the truth, downvoters.

Anyone who has ever done any significant renovations on an old house knows the problems with aging housing stock.

I would go even further and say 1950s is still a pain in the neck.

It's really nice to work on a house built after 1985, for the simple fact you can sand door and window trim down to a nice smooth finish without having to worry about unleashing the lead kraken.

Next time I buy an old house I'm going to do a full gut renovation. Take it down to the frame and build anew. It's the only way to go in my opinion.

Drywall is very easy to repair. Old walls covered in decrepit wallpaper with who knows what underneath, not so much.

It is difficult to get insurance for a house with knob and tube wiring, and this is just the start.

Anything built in the 50's has the potential to contain asbestos as well.

In regards to density, I have found that .15-.25 acre single family lots with some three story apartment complexes sprinkled in make a very nice compromise that gives most of the benefits of suburbia while allowing for a nice walkable to bikeable town.
Don't you think CEO compensations will be even higher to compensate for higher taxes?
American here, can confirm and will admit. Not only that but there is a lot of discouragement for developers to take time off, like a sabbatical, to learn and try new things, or to do consulting or contract work. Being able to count on healthcare equates to being employed. It doesn't suck as badly because there is an overall shortage of talent.

Things are going to be even worse IMO with the new adminstration.
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In fact, this is an excellent requirements document. Clear user stories with prioritization and notes. I also appreciate the Questions section at the bottom.

Good requirements documents are a rare find in my experience.
Doesn't sound too far fetched to me, I'm actually using floppies at work to move data from old equipment (mainly old oscilloscopes and other measurement systems). If it ain't broke...
All of which anyone else could do, and many companies already are. Meanwhile Snap is burning huge quantities of money faster than ever on seriously unprofitable core businesses. It's own investors prospectus says it "may never achieve or maintain profitability,".

Good luck with that.
I can't see what to do, how to search, how to browse, or, in short, how to make use of this.

It needs something more - it feels like it's seriously lacking in discoverability. It's currently also failing to load:

https://my.mindnode.com/83qmKgoATj8TyKzprzsPfoirxa2g9WmFGx3x...

I've bookmarked it, but I don't know what to do with it.
You really wouldn't want them on google.com/something since restricting cookies to sub-uris is a painful mess. Subdomains is slightly easier, but also easier to block.
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"Really old tech" is everywhere. For example Germany's high speed trains' reservation system runs on floppy disks.
Every time I'm faced with a decision, I close my eyes and see the same picture. Whenever I consider an action, I ask myself, will this action help to make this picture a reality? Pull it out of my mind and into the world? And I only act if the answer is yes.

- Little Finger

Deliberately add your to-dos. Before adding a to-do (to asana / on paper) ask this question: Does this to-do get you closer to what you want to accomplish? If no, do not add it. If yes, prioritize first (no two to-dos are equal, choose the ones with the most impact) and then bucket it according to Eisenhower Decision Matrix.

As your morning routine, review your matrix to stay on track.
The fact that "3 million in cash and 20 million equity" is considered a "conservative cash payment for that scenario" is basically the point: failure on a large scale is rewarded with grotesquely obscene riches while the peons are told to eat cake (or, rather, to stop buying iPhones so they can afford health care).
I guess that's democracy for you if you let people a vote on it. I wouldn't be surprised if California left Trumpland if it was on the ballot.
I think that's nonsense. The GERS figures were accepted beforehand by the SNP themselves, and they're the best available. Even if they're out by 10% that's still a massive financial hole Scotland is looking at. Of course nationalists will now decide that the figures are inconvenient and so must be wrong, but their track record on economics isn't great - their prior plan involved building their fairer, kinder Scotland on the back of oil revenues which are now gone (and they ignored the decommissioning costs anyway).

The UK is not "a few Daily Mail stories" away from burning down Pakistani corner shops, Pakistani immigration having nothing to do with Brexit whatsoever of course. That's the kind of ridiculously over the top drama that lost the referendum, and it boils down to a form of racism itself: a belief that white English people are just horrible and ignorant, in defiance of all the facts (the UK is one of the most racially diverse countries in Europe).

Finally, I don't know what kind of independence campaign you remember, but the SNP I know practically defines itself through racist hatred of the English. Their entire argument for an independent Scotland seems to boil down to "we hate the awful Tory voting English".
Everything old sucks, but there's fixable and unfixable suckage.

IMO stuff like old PHP sites are fixable suckage. Usually minimal layers of abstraction and no crazy hooks affecting the vanilla behavior of the browser and HTTP. If they used libraries, it's usually for small stuff and they can be replaced without rewriting swaths of code. I can generally add new widgets to existing pages without fucking with what's there.

Webforms is a good example of unfixable suckage. The abstraction away from how the page and HTTP works is so thick that it's impossible to refactor slowly. Like angular, webforms takes over the page lifecycle. Client side code and MVC patterns just don't work nicely with it. I can't add anything to webforms pages outside of webforms because all these page reloads happen at unpredictable times and I can't stop them without breaking everything.

Every time I work on a webforms site with user complaints the most reasonable solution is to scrap it and start over. At least with other old shit that doesn't try to reinvent the wheel I can cordon off the really bad stuff and refactor
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yes, that's the joke.
That's interesting: why the middle class? What about classes below the middle?
Management is such a weird thing since nobody wants to hire you for it if you've never done it. But it feels like if you've done it once, you're on that track automatically.

I'd gladly head that way. Pure software engineering is gradually becoming less interesting to me over the course of my career - the people problems are the ones I like.

However... I'm older than you and have never gotten a "you're too old" vibe from anyone. In fact, if I have a complaint it's the opposite, it's that some companies want to treat me the same as someone 10 years younger - i.e. they don't see much difference between 2 and 10 years of experience, and you're a "Software Engineer" either way.
When I tried pi-hole I often noted some urls were added 'automagically' to the whitelist, they will show up a few days after I removed them. All of them were weird domains.
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Isn't that against federal law?
An article comes out about how Hacker News has been censored, and Hacker News censors the post... because of "meta crack effect."

Without sounding too snide, it sounds like what's happening is that we do all of the work by posting articles and comments, and hacker news controls the narrative.
Northern Ireland is a very tricky issue. Despite the majority in vote against Brexit, there is an almost 50/50 divide between pro-british unionists and pro-irish nationalists. As far as I understand it, the government in Belfast has been a close cooperation between both sides since 1998. If that cooperation breaks down no one knows what is about to happen, but many fear that the violence of the 'Troubles' might return, a prospect no one but the extreme hardliners really want.

So, I don't think it is as simple as: 'Northern Ireland is quite likely to join Ireland'.
True but that's been known for a while - and afaik there hasn't been a definitive "oil will run out in 20xx" answer. Main thing hurting right now is the global slump in oil price hammering the North East - to be fair all of this does suggest that Scotland needs to focus on diversifying into renewables and tech but that was always the plan. It's just kinda irritating that this has come up now as it's a convenient stick to beat the pro-EU left with.
Liking grapes doesn't mean you therefore must hate oranges.
My problem with the article is that it's extremely hard for humans in general, and critics in particular, to accurately model the alternative.

The lack of a visible solution does not make all criticism less valid. Criticism can be an expression of flaws without including a drubbing for not doing better. It's often made public as combination of the two, but the later can be disqualified without impeaching the validity of the former.

Even if the criticized thing is the best possible expression of the goal(s) given all the other constraints, it is still right to accept and express that limitations exist. -- Pretending they don't is just an ugly attempt to prevent the critic from refining their criticism to include the goals and self-imposed constants they view as causing the flaw.
You're going to burn through company coffers quickly if the top tax rate is 90% at some income threshold around 7 figures ($1-9 million/year).

Precedent: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/...

"In 1944-45, during World War II, couples making more than $200,000 faced an all-time high of 94 percent. Sanders said income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent. A look through the records shows that top earners in the eight years of Eisenhower's presidency paid a top income tax rate of 91 percent."
Businesses would pay workers better if there were less artificial barriers to hiring--employer mandate--and more competition for resources--limiting H1B abuse. Of course, this is only up to a point where it is economically viable to remain a going concern.
> All income is distributed among all mothers, since the price of land is direct consequence of the number of children/people in a country.

Isn't an inherent flaw in this that it encourages people to have as many children as possible?

I'm under the impression that at a point when your population is established you want something like a 1.2 birth rate, or just a little more than enough to cover your unexpected deaths.
I developed a chrome extension, Hey Habit (bit.ly/heyHabit), to help me with this. I add my long term goals as projects and then set up reoccurring tasks to make them happen.

There's also a web version at heyhabit.com.
One need not be a socialist to point out that businesses are making short-sighted decisions.
LOL buddy where I come from you don't disclose an extremely profitable niche on a public forum online where the majority of the community is familiar with ecommerce and business online is general. I'm not saying what I sell because I don't need 10 more competitors. What I sell is 100% legit, it's been approved on Paypal, it sells by the thousands daily on both Amazon and Ebay.
Except that most "peons" get their healthcare from their work and pay little to oftentimes no premiums. Yet, being self employed I pay full retail price ($500 a month) because I'm susbsizing others.
Flagging should be much less effective.

There's no reason why a few people clicking 'flag' should ruin the experience for everyone else.
Even without inheritance, not everybody would have the same start, because of how they are raised.
For instance, rich parents can afford more expensive toys and tutoring.

To make education more equal, you would have to separate children from parents and give them all the same quality of education.
But radical changes to society would be required to do that.
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You're more likely to look at an ad if you have an ad blocker. That makes you a prime target.
>isn't that key though? you have to go to many other shops which and play the game of best price combined with shipping.

So? Instead of visiting ONE website, you might need to visit 5 or so.

We visit 100s of sites everyday for pleasure, and in any case, when you buy you also usually check all kinds of reviews and competing products to come up to one.

Plus, there are well known established websites in all categories Amazon competes -- e.g. Best Buy for electronics, Applestore for Apple stuff, Barnes and Noble (I'd guess, not American) for books, etc, so it's not like one is directly into some huge large web market of rip-off sites if they stray off of Amazon.

You also don't have to "play the game of best price" -- just go for any website/price that looks legit even if it's not the absolute best (unless you're penny pinching). After all just shopping at Amazon doesn't guarantee the best price either.

All of those given that you are, as you said, a casual buyer. If you were heavy into Amazon and buying stuff every week or so, that advise might change, but seeing that you're a casual Amazon customer, switching to a third party web shops is at best a marginal first world problem.
I don't even like Python (Ruby guy myself) but the various stuff Peter Norvig has done (typically in Python) for demonstrating coding problem solutions. I think you benefit the most if you try doing the problem yourself (like the Advent of Code series), and then compare your solution to his.

What I've often found is that Peter is just great at isolating the minimum required model/data structure. More often than not, when I notice his solution has half the code of mine, it's because I used the wrong model.
Except that the victim of the harassment would also have union representation. Assuming that both the perpetrator and the victim started out equal, the union hasn't changed the balance of power at all. However, in most cases of harassment, the perpetrator is someone with more power than the victim, so the union shifts power towards the victim.
This is propaganda at worst. Misguided idealism at best.
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> You realize that your search results are topped by people who pay Google right?

What do you mean? Do you mean ads? Or do you mean "natural" results are influenced by people who buy ads?

I almost never see any ad because I use uBlock both on the desktop (90% of my browsing time) and on Firefox Android.

I really don't think there's a connection between buying ads and getting top ranks on "natural" results; I could be wrong about that but I would need proof, not a simple assertion.
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I used to like my union when I was still working there. They always managed to negotiate higher and fairer raises for us every year.

That said, some things were unpleasant. For example, they wouldn't let you switch from a 40h to a 30h contract, no matter how many times you told them you actually wanted that, because they would always take the stance that the employer was forcing the employee to do that so they could pay them less.
You're assuming the EU will want it.

Germans are going to face a large hike in their contributions to the EU in the next few years as the UK leaves, as the EU appears to be utterly incapable of actually spending less (despite now having diminished responsibility). That's just not in its nature.

So then Scotland comes along. The best available data says it's an economic basket case significantly worse than Greece. The UK subsidises it to a great extent for historical and cultural reasons that don't apply to Germany. Meanwhile, 40% of Scotland voted out of the EU as well.

If you're German and already questioning whether you should be subsidising lots of low productivity high debt Mediterranean countries, does the thought of waiving the entry requirements and then paying even more taxes to subsidise a new Greece appeal to you?
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> the SNP I know practically defines itself through racist hatred of the English

This is in direct contradiction of my experience of being English (RP accent and all) at Indyref events and the SNP conference itself. There's maybe one or two fringe old guys who are actually anti-English and everyone else finds it embarrasing and is genuinely friendly.

Everyone does hate the Tories though.
I'll just be upfront, I'm a total pessimist on the near-term possibility of autonomous driving.

>I don't believe we're headed into any kind of AI trough.

Why? AI winter is a well-known phenomenon, AI hype has permeated tech, now business and is starting to push into the layman's consciousness. Does it not seem that a bust is near? The laymans perception of autonomous driving is a magic box that will drive them around while they read their phones and that it will be here in 5/10 years. I think that's just unsustainable. A car which can handle northern snow, midwestern winds, country potholes, city traffic, unpredictiable/aggressive drivers and which can do that with a lower accident rate than humans is our generations cold fusion. Fundamental breakthroughs are needed.

What strikes me is that we think because we can describe "driving" in one word, we think it is a specific task, but it seems much more general and AI developments on general learning are notoriously fraught. Your thoughts?
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> so it's possible (probable even) that more established companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, etc. are recruiting for the same people.

You're hiring for the same skills as the big companies are in the same field in the same geographical region. I bet you're even using a similar interview process. I also bet you don't pay as much as they do. You either need to pay more or play programmer moneyball[0].

[0]: https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/
I think everyone here has a poor view of Tory voters, regardless of national origin.
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They should also document their GPU firmware, so there would be an option to write an open alternative.
Esper[1] was the go-to solution for these problems, in the last generation - the reason there are alternatives is primarily because that was GPLv2.

And even from the same stable as Kafka, there's Samza[2]

[1] - http://www.espertech.com/esper/
[2] - https://speakerdeck.com/ept/turning-the-database-inside-out-...
What kind of developer are you looking for (what skills), and where are you located?