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Conditioning.

[& p.s. since HN doesn't like single word replies]

They are normalizing mechanisms of maximal control. Just like the perp walk of innocents in airports. Chipping is what we do to cattle. And of course, a simple hospital style bracelet would afford a substantially larger surface area for embedding of technology.
It's not just about work.

To make that effective you would have to eliminate federal birthright citizenship, or anyone could easily make their children US citizens (and then too many would).

The "state immigrants" would also have to be disqualified from all federal programs or unwilling states would still be paying for them.

And if that isn't enough to make it intractable, what do you expect to happen when an immigrant crosses into another state to commit a serious crime?
With a title like this, I expected a true tragedy had occurred. It is brutal for Gary but such is the nature of the Barkley Marathons.

Knowing that humans push themselves to these limits for the sheer fact of having done it is something that gives me a lot of motivation. I have been following the Barkley Marathons for a while and I dream that someday I may subject myself.
How is that not an exception, though? The test 'whether the speech will provoke immediate face-to-face violence' is still a restriction on free speech, albeit an extremely circumscribed one. Which is exactly what we were talking about, that such circumscribed exceptions are possible in the first place without sliding all the way to 'criticizing the government is treason, citizen'.

But, ok, if you want another U.S.-based exception: some information regarding nuclear weapons is considered to be 'born classified' in the sense that even if you develop it on your own without clearance or access to classified materials, you still are not allowed to divulge it. That is another government-enforced restriction to free speech, although admittedly a sensible one on the justification of the survival of the species.

Don't get me wrong, I think in any specific discussion about speech restrictions the bias should be huge in favor of free speech, given the obvious dangers of any too broad restriction and the incentives of people in power to put in place such restrictions. But we definitely don't currently enjoy, let's say "absolute information-theoretical freedom of speech" (e.g. including things like direct actionable threats, weapon blueprints, video-recordings of certain third-party crimes, etc). We already put up with some limits without falling into a slippery slope. 'No explicit calls for genocide' might not, on its own, be the restriction that opens the floodgates to pervasive censorship.
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The places I've interviewed (a few big names and a few small ones) either wanted something pseudo-code-like (on the whiteboard), wanted an explanation of the algorithm (potentially with some clarifying diagrams or code), or actually provided me a computer with an IDE.
That would make logical sense, yes. But humans aren't logical, and regulators won't approve autonomous vehicles until they make accidents exceedingly rare.

Also, even the worst driver I know drives better than the Tesla in that video. Seriously, watch the video if you haven't already. I think Google/Waymo are really going to be the winners here.
I'm far from convinced that the people buying 40,000 Ford F150s every 3 weeks are doing it for mobility and they're just dying to take a "taxi" everywhere instead.
In all western societies, looking at the great lifestyle differences between the 1970s and now.
The best designers either already have a job, or are doing the freelance thing. So I suggest that you start with identifying companies that you think have good design and start looking through linkedin for the designers that work there. Next, reach out for a coffee/drink and see how amenable they are to talking about design at your company. If it's the right fit, the designer will be excited and you can move on to a more formal interview process. If the designer is happy where they are, ask if they know anyone who might be interested.

My funnel looks like this:
-reach out to about 50 designers
-15 of them are open to coffee
-1 of those 15 are open to an interview

Note about freelancers: they tend to like the lifestyle that freelance provides. I've had luck with hiring on freelancers as part time contractors that actually show up on site, then gradually convincing them to join up full time.
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This is the usual argument.
Here's the problem: There's always another thing.
always.
In the history of the world, we go from thing to thing to thing, always teetering on the edge.

So if you always say "hey, just doin it for this crisis, we'll go back to normal later", you'll be doing it forever.

EIther we make it without that, or truthfully, we aren't goign to make it as a species over time.
Well, who knows why mexico doesn't take advantage of that.

But they are the only people who can.
Ah I see, I thought you were just talking about carbon sequestration
I was thinking of police corruption myself.
I think many people are not realizing the fact that this is a master stroke by Amazon to break into the payments & wallet market. Wallet's are going big in Asia especially India. Softbank backed PayTm is leading this right now. Amazon could turn this easily and get a major market share by pushing payments in India.
> would never consider buying an American brand. I found them unreliable in the pas

Ford Focus is insanely reliable. I have a 2002 with a bazillion miles on it and it's still running like new.

To be fair, Japanese cars are generally great as well, especially Hondas.
An open source project I am involved with had the same experience. We were expecting to get idealistic young people as students who had a passion for the project. Instead, we got people from poor countries who were doing it for the money and didn't care about the project at all. I understand that this money may do some good and I don't blame the students for going for it, but it really tainted the whole process in my mind.

GSoC also has this this weird master/slave (or if you like, employer/employee) dynamic that is very artificial. If you are a mentor, you are basically a manager for the student. You have to give status reports, feedback, evaluate how they are doing, decide whether to pass or fail them at the end, and so forth. It's very different from how a real open source project operates. If you want to know what being a middle manager operating an outsourced project feels like, then being a GSoC mentor is for you. If that is something you would run screaming from, then I would stay away.
Sadly no mention of preinstalled hardware, one of the top requests in Canonical thread mentioned.
I hate to say this, but on the server I manage at my day job, I've never, ever seen legitimate email traffic from an .xyz domain, or a .club, .rocks, .work, or any other "gold rush" TLD. Nothing but snowshoe spam/phishing/malware, to the point that my policy is "block on sight."
I believe that Economics should be a subset of Psychology. It mystifies me how Psych or Sociology classes arent required for a major. One would think that practitioners of a field essentially about human behavior would have insight into actual human behavior. And you would be wrong. Humans are replace by the mythical rational agent

You are correct though. Economists are so proud of their elegant equations that they won't let questions like "Does this model accurately measure reality" stop them.
I regret that I have only one upvote to give to this comment.
This is tangental but: Now the term "bare metal" has been co-opted to mean "uses an O/S but no virtualization" what are those of us who run our software on bare metal supposed to call what we do?
Credit unions have similar, maybe slightly lower, standards for opening accounts. They don't want to be stuck with overdrafts either.
This is brilliant - I'd gladly pay the $95/mo they're asking if this were offered locally, whereas the $300+ that WeWork wants for a hot desk is too much for what I'd get out of it.
The decades upon decades of failed abolishment efforts speak for themselves.
Every single one of the privacy concerns listed are exactly the same as for an ID badge. No one is up in arms about ID badges. If I worked somewhere where they said "you either have to carry your ID badge with you everywhere on campus, or you can get this implant", I'd get the implant. If they offered a ring instead I'd get that though assuming it wasn't hideous.
I don't see why quoting the bible is any worse than people constantly quoting other dead people.

Just think about how often Franklin's "Liberty vs Safety" is quoted here and around the rest of the internet.

Or how often people like to compare the world to 1984 or Brave New World.
An informed opinion. Most people would probably have tried only one of them.
How can you get an irrevocable ledger without solving the "no trust" problem?
He was a highly valued part of a very large bureaucracy. He did keep the job and presumably liked it: but he knew from the inside what was possible when the job wasn't done well.
zipcar and it's ilk have the same problems as bike-share programs: people don't use the service in such a way that the vehicles get to where the demand will be. And if you finish work at the end of the day and all the cars are gone, you aren't going to trust it again.

the bike shares solve this by driving trucks around, collecting bikes from areas where they aren't going to be needed and moving them to areas where demand is about to spike. it's hard to load up a truck full of cars to meet demand in the business district at 5pm, but it's very easy to send over all the spare capacity in your autonomous vehicle fleet.
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You mean like the original had?

The truth is congress does what donors/etc ask when people don't ask them otherwise.

So it only happens on a small set of issues where people don't seem to care.

Additionally, the mechanism that causes this is not actually the money.
It's nice to think that, but it's really:
They don't understand the issue, they mostly trust the lobbyists they know to tell them what the good thing to be doing is.
IE the lobbyists are long time friends.
Tesla isn't interested in enthusiasts? The only people buying them are enthusiasts. The pragmatic folks are still in wait-and-see mode.
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Lol. I'm just glad for any reply that doesn't scream at me for "defending hitler". There are certain subjects that go south very quickly on the internets. I only realized afterwards that I had poked a very big bear.
This is a tough question. I'd say it depends on what kind of designer you need!

I'm a product designer in SF, and I work with many amazing designers. I can say that the vast majority of us are not publishing on Dribbble, Behance, etc.

I would recommend posting jobs on Dribbble, however. That's probably the first place I would go if I were looking for a new gig.

Designer News and Angel List are popular. Also Stack Overflow and GitHub for the more technically-oriented designers.

Lastly, I'd recommend word-of-mouth on Twitter. The design community there is pretty robust.
>Navient is a debt collector. They were sold loans owned by the US Dept of Ed (or hired by the department of ed maybe?)

Navient had a federal contract with the Dept of Ed and the Dept of Treasury to collect on their behalf.

Full disclosure: Navient is a client of my employer and I work with them directly.
I've been dealing something similar for years now. There is a guy out there who thinks that his email address is firstlast@gmail.com, however I've had the first.last@gmail.com version of the address from back before google decided that the dots didn't matter any more.

It appears to me that google merged the addresses but he still continues to use the dotless address when signing up for things.

It amazes me that he thinks it works, surely none of the email ever gets to it?

I've tracked him down on facebook and got a message to him via his wife.... but it continues to happen. Which makes me wonder if somehow sometimes it does work for him?
A YC founder is claiming that ICE is raiding SV startups and asking for emails, work product, and pulling people out of meetings. Can we get confirmation please?
>Isn't it a stretch to call them "Vikings?"

Are you saying we shouldn't call them Vikings because they weren't engaged in raiding and piracy, or we shouldn't call them Vikings because they were Norwegian?
I think there are physical reasons why driverless cars will never be as good as trains: they're rubber-on-asphalt instead of steel-on-steel, and you need a lot more engines, space, and transportation of dead weight per unit of people moved -- and they'll probably still need parking, too. As near as I can tell, driverless cars are horseless-carriage thinking... but trains have no element of novelty to them.
A lot of economics aside from the first year undergrad basics are being contested, I've discussed this issue with several economics professors and their consensus is to use the basics but ignore the more senior stuff.
>To make that effective you would have to eliminate federal birthright citizenship, or anyone could easily make their children US citizens (and then too many would).

This is irrelevant; you can do this on a visa just as easily. Additionally, this exists for a reason even if you don't like it. If anything it reduces the incentive to do this, because you can get 99% of the benefits without doing it. Regardless all you have to do to make this birth-neutral is make it as hard to get a state green card as it is to get a visa.

>The "state immigrants" would also have to be disqualified from all federal programs or unwilling states would still be paying for them.

You are ignorant of the laws regarding legal and illegal immigration. Education, for instance, is explicitly provided to illegal immigrants. Social services almost all have a multi-year "pay-in" period. Additionally, immigrants pay more into taxes than they take out. I believe you are unintentionally arguing a strawman.

Also, those states don't get a say in what they do or do not pay for. Massachusetts pays for Alabama. In fact, Massachusetts pays for immigration control that they don't want. In reality this would be a doubly more fair distribution of federal taxes. Even hypothetically it's an insignificant change.

>And if that isn't enough to make it intractable, what do you expect to happen when an immigrant crosses into another state to commit a serious crime?

I don't understand what you're trying to say at all- this would no different from anyone else, citizen or not, committing a crime.
My hope would be that the problem isn't "major donors" but rather uneducated and misrepresented citizens. The question about donors or deep states or any other conspiracy type scheme is both how they might affect the purpose of the education system and the integrity of the democratic machinery. These should be questioned, but fixing them might be more achievable than eliminating "major donors" which is certainly tied to income inequality in general, some level of which is most likely desirable.
That's a great book. Be prepared in this while it is very gripping, it's not a terribly happy book!
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The beauty of freedom of speech is that it disarms that fine china that begins to appear on every square foot of ground in society where free speech is under assault. Without it, people quickly become accustomed to tip-toeing around issues like the proverbial fine china, but just as quickly very dangerous ideas are left unopposed due to the climate of fear that is generated.
Can someone explain to me, what would happen if Mexico tomorrow, all drugs were legal like Portugal? Could it get any worse. Portugal seems to doing just fine.
i have always felt that erlangs message passing model was a more faithful rendition of oo than others. which seems to be inspired from smalltalk...
Is that growth, or does that fall under "eating the seed corn"? I agree the money supply has to expand when the economy expands, but that's not the same thing as printing a bunch of money and spending it during a recession.
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if you overdraft your account and owe the bank money or write/cash bad checks you get blackballed by the banks and your name gets put in the chexsystems that all banks use until you pay back the bank you owe. No bank not even a credit union will allow you to open an account until you get your name removed from chexsystems. Many poor people just give up knowing they will never be able to pay off that debt and go without a bank account
Maybe I was lucky, but I never felt in danger in major US cities walking literally everywhere. While in D.F. I had some anxiety outside of central roads.
Most people don't understand what the "national debt" is. It's the savings of the private sector.

Randy Wray sets the record straight in 100 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4sD-JDVwwQ
Microsoft Research showed that anything above 1ms latency is noticeable on touchscreens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
If you cannot predict, you do not really understand.
Awesome. I did not know about that issue. Seems like an interesting read.

I personally would like a standalone tool, like CRA. Will indeed jump into the discussion myself.
In many countries it was originally illegal to ask for an SSN(equivalent) as identification; the line suggests that was originally true in the U.S. as well.
You don't have to be a bootstrapping genius to build a valuable skill and make money doing it.
Vote for better politicians.
Yes, that's all true. I'm just balking at the idea that "austerity hurts growth". I think the alternative hurts growth even more.
As a European that sounds terrible! That it is not as bad as a lawless warzone in a failed African state isn't much consolation??
Nice. That reminds me, Carmack tweeted that he could send an IP packet to Europe faster than he could send a pixel to the screen[1], and this is unfortunately true on modern hardware. It's nice that phones are putting the kind of high-speed cameras that can measure this latency into the hands of consumers. Maybe this will allow gamers to put some pressure on hardware manufacturers to reduce the latency that they add to the systems.

I tried to measure the latency of my own system a little while back. I used a digital camera to record video at 240 fps and measured the time it took for a button press on a DS4 connected over Bluetooth to be reflected on a Mega Drive emulator running the 240p test suite. I can't remember the exact latency, but I think it was around 80ms, which is okay, though there is definitely room for improvement.

[1]: https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001
And also the collapse of the government. They're totally vested in keeping drugs illegal. It's a profit center for them
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Is that really google's problem, though? Why do you think they have a responsibility to ensure their OEM clients update regularly? It doesn't reflect poorly on them; it reflects poorly on samsung, sony, etc etc, who fill their phones with crap ware and are slow with patches and upgrades.
Moores law described an observed trend, while this is more of a "wouldn't it be nice if..." navel gaze.
Why does money need to be managed and controlled?

Real money inherently has a limited supply, so there is no need for it to be managed or controlled; the market does that on its own. However, the fiat currencies that are used by central banks around the world are not real money. The arrogance of central banks thinking they can manage and control the economic interactions of millions of people in a country is what leads to these great depressions and recessions.
At $95 per month, it actually works out to be cheaper to just get this for coffee alone,rather than spending money at Starbucks. Assuming of course one buys coffee everyday.
Cool idea though, helps entrepreneurs and local establishments.
Sorry for the excessive snark.

What I meant was, I think the US obsession with freedom of speech is an important one, and helps society to challenge the ideas that underpin totalitarianism. I think the absence of an American Stalin, Hitler or Mussolini is in part a consequence of their historical attitude towards free speech.

This is the most chilling aspect of Trump's behaviour, in my opinion: his disregard for the importance of free speech.
Yes, and browser-based apps still don't seem to perform (subjectively) as well as standalone desktop apps. I do see that changing in the future, however.