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>The Democrats are just as culpable as Republicans

A Democratic president put these protections in place.
This may or may not be helpful but I had an idea a couple years ago that was basically cliff notes for news. The program would read articles and parse the facts using keywords like "did,was,is, etc" which would by itself create a summary. Let me know if you want to work on that
37 Signals isn't really a startup in the traditional sense in that it isn't designed to scale up. It's more like a "small business" or "lifestyle business". And there's nothing wrong with that but it's a different type of organization.
We are seeing the very top engineers making close (or over $1M a year)... just that the percentage is quite small. Like a handful of people at big 5 tech, and a few in finance.
Are these the same bullshitters that one finds in the "recruiter" population?

"Slave mentality" is a term I often use as well.
You may be exaggerating, but if you really are buying $20 jeans every month I think you've fallen into the trap of cheap boots that Vimes described. A decent pair of jeans may cost several times more, but will last you for years.
Not at all. The discussion of whether a person is a senior or mid level developer can be completely separate from a discussion of whether the company pays fairly for those positions.
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Clearly, government ordained rights is the only way to stop data from being sold to evil marketing companies! To believe other viable options exist is crazy, you must be a troll! /s

That's how partisan worldviews work, my ideology is good, to believe otherwise is unfathomable / malicious / the agenda of a conspiratorial paid shill. There's some great literature on this subject, the left is particularly susceptible as their worldview tends to start from a smug all-knowing-esque position. But the right is hardly immune to this either.

45% of the top websites online have TLS by default and growing. Most home internet is shared among various people and most valuable data (ie, identifying data) is almost always encrypted these days. I can't imagine it's very valuable as it is and clearly the value is diminishing as privacy activists like myself push for TLS adoption and better OS defaults.

Yet despite previous ISP privacy laws, there's still a massive billion dollar marketing data industry collected from ads, rewards cards, credit card usage, etc, etc. This is like creating a huge fuss about a fly while a jumbo jet gets let through.
Oh? Am I a supervillain because I want people to be wealthier and happier?
What other game dev tools can a user on a Chromebook use? Or an Android device?

Another thing, it enables us to rapidly iterate and deploy through one code base. Maintaining code bases for multiple platforms will be like a ball and chain on our feet. End user will get a better product.
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Read over UL's history [0]. It was started by a private individual, and is a for-profit company with huge reach and sets safety standards for devices in many, many industries.

So, while I can't speak to how these things _normally_ come about, this is a compelling example of self-regulation entirely outside of the scope of the government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL_(safety_organization)#Histo...
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There are a lot of factors leading to the current lack of competition in most markets, but I'm not convinced that a monopoly is an entirely natural market condition in this instance. If it were, providers wouldn't demand franchise agreements before entering markets.

https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/one-big-reason-we-l...

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-fcc-cant-help...

https://consumerist.com/2015/05/26/why-your-cable-company-do...

Government regulation contributes much to the cost of investing in infrastructure and starting an ISP business in most areas. I think it would be interesting to see what would happen if that cost could be brought down.
The reason the EU always wanted to have the UK on board had more to do with marketing than with necessity: Europe is France, England and Germany; if the EU was to be Europe, it needed those three in it or it isn't going to happen. It's also Spain and Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. The more the merrier. Open a history book and if a country playing a major role on the European continent is in it, it should probably be on that list.

But the EU now already exists and the UK has been so insistent on having a special status that Europeans have gotten used to the idea of the UK not "really" being in it despite being just another European country like the rest of us.

It's okay.

You can leave.

We no longer need you for the EU to be able to exist.

We tried to accommodate you and make it work but we've understood that the feelings aren't mutual.

We'll still keep in touch with your extended family, though, and maybe over the next two years we can find a way that you can still come over to party sometimes, or y'know, just hang out if you feel like it.

No hard feelings.

Don't be a stranger.
It is not about how big the brain is. It is about the number of neurons, latency, signal reliability and number of connections.

Voltage-gated ion channels are non-deterministic. Meaning they don't always open (or not open) when they should. In order to stuff more neurons into the same volume of space, you have to shrink them. The problem is, those ion-channels become more and more unreliable as the size decreases. I would argue that they're already too unreliable in many humans.

Second problem, as the size of the axon and myelin sheath decrease, signal reliability and latency will suffer. Yes, the current can die out part-way to its destination. As the brain is less globally connected due to the sheer lack of space, poor signal reliability and increased latency, it will begin to favor local connections over global ones. In other words, specialization and usage of signal superhighways to compensate, just like a crowded city. The problem with a crowded city is, even with great public transport, many people never leave their neighborhoods.

So what to do about it? You can leave neurons the same size and make more room instead of trying to shrink them.

First problem with this, difficulty of childbirth due to skull size. Second, increased development time, it's already too long as it is.
Third, latency and signal reliability will still suffer due to increased distance.
Fourth, increased use of resource. You also need to support those neurons and that support system will eat up more and more space.

If you try to blow up the size of the axon and myelin sheath to fix the latency and reliability problems, it will eat up even more space. In other words, less room for neurons and you're back to square one. Another problem is, you need a bigger body to support that huge brain. More neurons will be dedicated to processing touch instead of higher-level abstract thoughts.

One last thing you can try is, decrease body size, increase brain volume slightly. The lower level of violence, abundance of food, modern healthcare (c-section) and longer lifespan (more time to mature) in modern human societies allow us to do this already. Dedicate more resource to higher levels of the brain associated with abstract thoughts, planning, reasoning, etc. Over-myelinate those areas to increase signal speed and reliability.

At the end of the day, there's not much more mother nature can do without deep structural and material change.
Reengineer the myelin materials to increase their insulating property and decrease the size. Make the ion-channels more reliable so you can shrink neurons even more, although you still have to worry about quantum tunneling. Or better yet, do away with ions completely and switch to photonic computing.
sounds like postgres would be fine
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I don't see docs related to service discovery. If that's part of the package, sounds like it's more front-page worthy, even.
That is income / corporate depending on your company legal form.
There is a similar tax break for startup as well, it is called startersaftrek.
There are R&D credit / subsidies as well.
> It was a test that separated the virtuous from the lazy, weak, and sinful. When such hardships are made optional by technological or social progress, most find new challenges to conquer but many regret their loss.

And it used to be that, in order to eat food, you had to work 12 hours a day under the hot sun, which was great because only the righteous could be fed.

Now anyone, even those born to a weakling family, can get a job as a software developer and spend time chatting on Hacker News, and still feed a family. It's shameful.
I think the parent is trying to make the case that startups by nature can't provide competitive healthcare, which hurts the economy when small business can't attract top people.

It's much different than a 401k, free meals, foosball table, vacation policy, etc, in that once you experience a major health problem you are compromising your health or face prohibitive costs if you are on a mediocre healthcare plan.
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Me too. The failure mode of pre-contraceptive society (unwanted children) was terrible. But human nature is what it is, and many people are willing to accept terrible externalities in order to have a means to display their comparative virtue. The recent attack on universal health care in the US is an example. Many voters seem to desire a world where people who have their financial shit together will live, and others will die.

For a clear-eyed view of these less inspiring aspects of human nature, read Sapiens and Homo Deus by Harari.
When there's a gold rush, the money is in selling shovels.
I don't think I don't deserve them tbh, I was being super glib/lazy. I interpreted the parent as implying that was going to be "job done" for getting a child prepared and it struck me as odd.

Personally I would preach Condoms over pills (although I freely acknowledge they can fail, and indeed suspect it's even more likely when teens are the ones using them).
Didn't need a 2/3 majority to join the EU, so why would it need a 2/3 majority to leave?
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Thanks kbyatnal. I'm always looking for ways to help me maintain engagement with old friends in other parts of the world. It's amazing when a few months go by and you realize you haven't heard from one, even though you're just a quick chat message away.
Some evidence for the interpretation that construction and cost problems are the root is that even France has been having these problems with recent construction projects. France doesn't have the same NIMBY or regulatory problems as the U.S. with nuclear. It's a national priority, and the legal landscape is different, you can't sue to stop projects the way you can in the U.S., because direct authorizing laws are passed by Parliament, vs. it being up to a patchwork of agency decisions (which can be challenged in court), state regulations, etc. And yet their next-gen reactor project in Flamanville is going badly, with huge cost overruns and manufacturing problems, to the point where the contractor (Areva) is seeking some kind of bailout or state buy-out of its nuclear construction business.

This is also somewhat surprising because the previous-gen projects in France are usually seen as an example of a fairly well managed nuclear industry, with construction coming in reasonably close to budgeted cost, and a good safety record.
No. People see the EU as undemocratic because Parliament is neither the main policy-making body nor the main executive power. It is more of a supervisory body, akin to the role of Congress or the House of Lords. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament#Control_of...
I slowly transitioned over several years. I first stopped eating pork, then started doing a meatless day once per week, then twice per week.

There were a lot of factors involved in moving over fully, but the precipitating event was joining a farm share for the summer. I got a huge box of vegetables every week and it just didn't make sense to keep buying meat on top of that.

I had serious (and strange!) meat cravings about 6 weeks in, but those stopped after a week. I tried a few meat dishes after the summer ended but they didn't taste good to me any more. And I noticed after a couple of months that I felt physically better than I could ever remember. So it was easy to not go back.
Your comparison is nonsensical. Pollution is a violation of a shared resource, and can even be an aggression to someone's property. Even the most libertarian minded individual will make a case against it, see for instance Rothbard[1]. Selling user supplied data to advertisers is exactly what Google and Facebook do. The problem is that there is a monopoly in the ISP business. You can use Searx, Startpage, DDG, or other privacy-focused solutions instead of Google directly, and Facebook is really superfluous, if you don't want don't use it, or just create a fake profile. When it comes to ISPs you don't really have a choice if they all decide to turtle up and do the same (the freer the market the greater the incentive to one of them to turn or for another to start in business by answering to the demand for a more private browsing experience, even if locally at a certain city at first).

[1] "The eruption of Mt. St. Helens should have alerted everyone to the ever-present processes of natural pollution (...) In sum, no one has a right to clean air, but one does have a right to not have his air invaded by pollutants generated by an aggressor (...) such aggression may take the form of pollution of someone else's air, including his owned effective airspace, injury against his person, or a nuisance interfering with his possession or use of his land (...) this is the case, provided that (...) while visible pollutants or noxious odors are per se aggression, in the case of invisible and insensible pollutants the plaintiff must prove actual harm; the burden of proof of such aggression rests upon the plaintiff; the plaintiff must prove strict causality from the actions of the defendant to the victimization of the plaintiff; the plaintiff must prove such causality and aggression beyond a reasonable doubt; and there is no vicarious liability, but only liability for those who actually commit the deed." https://mises.org/library/law-property-rights-and-air-pollut...
If people don't shun companies that use sweatshop labor, which can border on slave labor (if not actually being such) then I doubt they would shun robot labor.
There are VPN services that let you pay in a way that can be anonymized -- like Bitcoin. You can take it one step further by using a VPN provider that does not reside in a country that is a member of Five Eyes (a spy alliance comprising of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US).
This is I think where the voting public gets played by both sides. On the "free market" side people are told all regulation is bad, just let the market operate. Which ignores that some regulation is needed to keep a level playing field. Then on the other side we are told we need to strictly regulate to control for safety and shared resources, but both sides just impose regulation that benefit established firms and sell out consumers.
Exactly! While both parties do bad things and are undermining this country, it helps nobody to blame both parties for something specific that one party is doing without the support of the other. The vote was along party lines and in this case, one is right and one is wrong.
The pound has been 20% overvalued for 30 years?

I'm struggling to see why being outside of a large trading bloc is better than being inside a large trading bloc. You've said it is better off long term so there must be advantages to being outside.

EDIT

Just to clarify the UK exports much more in services to the EU than it imports from the EU. Services are exactly the type of thing that the EU is different from other trade deals. The UK loses what it has a surplus on and has to pay more for all the goods that it has to import.
Didn't you read the "Big Book of Internet Rules"? All you have to do is say the words "Virtual Private Network" 3-times-fast in the bathroom mirror of The Courthouse, with the lights off. The judge is then required to let you go and drop any pending charges. Those are the rules!

That's right folks: the overwhelming power of the state to enact actual policy that can impact millions of lives? It crumbles before the power of my 1ghz Atom router. It has AES-NI, after all. That's, like, impossible to beat.
The EU should treat this like America treated secessionist states - the UK should be compelled to stay by force. Obviously there should not be any actual war, since the Brtis should just say, "well, all right."

Afterward they should be full, normal participants, just as every state is a normal participant in the United States and has equal and fair votes in the Senate and House of Representatives.

Why should this be done:

1 - America shows that it is great that there is a unified country, which benefits from huge economies of scale.

2 - Can you imagine how much money is saved by not having to have border control, separate visas and citizenships in the United States? The same applies to the EU.

3 - The EU should directly compete with the United States as the second of three world poles (Asia being the third).

4 - The good of the Union outweighs the UK's selfish and shortsighted act.

Why shouldn't history repeat?

Would America be better-off if it were split into two countries?

Would America be the world's leading economy (by far)?

Citing the close historical precedent I have mentioned, I do not think that the UK should be allowed to leave the EU. Its request should be denied.
Research before you write. Audi is part of the Volkswagen Group, which consists of VW, Audi, Porsche, Skoda, Seat, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Scania, MAN and Ducati.
So they all produce for different niches of the Market. The cheap small electrical Vehicle is currently produced by VW, with the e-up!. You must not forget, that the institutional knowledge from the Hybrid Systems used in the LMP1 Class in Le Mans won by Porsche and Audi is huge.
There is a large difference between charging from 70-100% regularly vs 5%-100% regularly. However, while the battery pack seems like a maintenance issue, it's really a question of fuel. In most places your saving 5+k on gas to refuel with electricity, so getting a 5k bill to replace your battery just means there is no real fuel savings.
From the Google Maps & Earth Help Forum[1]:

> Why does Google maps use the inaccurate, ancient and distorted Mercator Projection?

> Maps uses Mercator because it preserves angles. The first launch of Maps actually did not use Mercator, and streets in high latitude places like Stockholm did not meet at right angles on the map the way they do in reality. While this distorts a 'zoomed-out view' of the map, it allows close-ups (street level) to appear more like reality. The majority of our users are looking down at the street level for businesses, directions, etc... so we're sticking with this projection for now.

[1]: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/A2ygEJ5e...
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Isps already have an obligation to run lines to low income areas and are required to offer lowered income / lower speed tiers. This just subsidises it so that they make more money from another source.
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QML should be a relatively easy pickup for JS/HTML devs.

https://github.com/Esri/arcgis-appstudio-samples/wiki/Unders...
Why would you want all of the replicas to be able to fail over and become master?

A common pattern is to separate writes from reads. Writes go to a small pool, reads get replicated into everywhere. Your read-only replicas will only ever be slaves, and do not need persistence.
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> the public is too science illiterate to understand that nuclear isn't anywhere as big of a deal by comparison.

Science illiteracy has nothing to do with it. The industry has a history of non-trivial reasons for mistrust.

Regarding coal plant deaths, I'm not in favor of coal either. The sooner we can move away from fossil the better.
Well I should have clarified I was referring to the engine, which is the part that generally has the most problems over the life of most ICE vehicles.

In the Teslas, there are dramatically fewer moving parts and consumables.

No rings to dry rot / wear out, spark plugs, fan belts, oil filters, pistons, fuel pumps, etc, etc. I was actually referring to the Teslas. I do however, think the X was too much too quickly. It is a mess from an engineering standpoint. That being said, the drive train will last much longer than a similar ICE. I suspect in the long run, with battery wear, it will be a bit more than a wash.

Disclaimer: I'm long on TSLA and Solarcity Solar Bonds.
I have no desire to re-hash this particular argument, but the margin, 48/52 was very small. Very close to 50/50. And the turnout wasn't perfect. I've heard that only something like 30% of the eligible voters voted to leave.

There was no "will of the people". The people were undecided.
Go tell that to companies that deliver crippled unusable community edition only so they can put an Open-Source sticker on their paying premium product...
> it works great until those times it doesn't work and you get stuck somewhere waiting hours to charge

If you run out of charge and get stuck somewhere that's no more the Leaf's fault than it is a gasoline car's fault when you run out of gas.

In ~3 years that has happened exactly zero times to me or my wife.

> Also, the cost of electricity is surprising to them as it is not as cheap (still cheaper usually than gas) as they expected.

That varies based on where you live but for us it costs about $0.02/mile to drive the Leaf. Whereas our Honda CR-V which gets ~30 mpg costs about $0.08/mile right now. Gas prices are artificially low in the US right now, when they go back up it will be even more drastic (and of course if your car gets worse than 30mpg then it will be worse, or better if you get better mileage.) In order to reach $0.02/mile with a gas car I'd have to get 115mpg, though. (Gas is ~$2.30/gal in my town currently.)

> Let's hope that the current government trends don't set us back years in the progress we are making.

This is my main concern as well. Where I live the state government just passed a really regressive fee for EV registrations.
I see a problem where companies are looking for the magic wand of the "hero engineer". For example, a manager at a small company asks me if I can refer someone with the following qualifications: excellent technical proficiency in many areas, front end and back end, great communicator, great leader, has a design vision, experienced in obscure areas.. etc.

Come on! Even the people I know who meet these qualifications are often not all they are cracked up to be. What happened to training people? What happened to looking for role players. In my career I have seen good teams accomplish great things with no geniuses.
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You'd have to guarantee that every person who votes puts their receipt in a box.

An even easier way is that you fill out a paper ballot and place it into a machine. The machine counts scans the ballot and counts it, but the ballot is still retained for handcounting if necessary.
Similar issue when working making designs into code. Design window(sometimes with multiple screen sizes), browser, sourcecode, and inspector. I'll use a laptop and larger screen for this, and I often still feel like I'm cramped for room.
I still like the idea of focused one-window work, and it's something I strive to do more of, but in reality I'm doing the above 2 out of 5 days at least.