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> why German companies aren't moving their production to cheaper markets

German companies ARE moving their production to cheaper markets. They have been doing this for decades and they are doing it today. At the same time the market has expanded and changed. Thus new jobs are created, even a few are coming back. If we talk about manufacturing, which was the original topic, you can see multiple trends (examples in parentheses): exports of jobs (ship yards), back-import of jobs (automated manufacturing), disappearing jobs (nuclear industry), creation of new jobs (renewable energy), ...

> economic powerhouses

East Germany is our own 'economic powerhouse'. Twenty million people with a much different job market, compared to West Germany.

> You obviously didn't read the articles I've posted.

None of that is new. If you read German mainstream media, that stuff has been discussed for a long time. FAZ, Handelsblatt, etc. have published a lot of these arguments. It's just that for each economist arguing that way, we can find another one, which argues against it. The media published this discussion. You just have to read it.

> abolishing the laws of mathematics

That's a very simplified argument, with a very limited view what actually happens.

> But would it be such a "success" without major influence in EU institutions, in ECB, without Euro, with other countries having their currencies (which they can devalue to make their good cheaper and imported - German - goods more expensive), with customs on its goods, with fairer wages in Germany? I highly doubt it.

Germany has influence not because the ECB or the Euro. It has influence because it is the largest european country, it sits in the middle of europe. ECB policy has NOT following German demands. The Euro was not a German invention. But that European monetary systems have been influenced by Germany because of its economic power has always been true.

If you look back, Germany has export oriented with large surplus for decades. Without the Euro, with the European Monetary System, with the Euro.

The german economy will simply adapt to the changing conditions: weak currency, hard currency. The industry will react, but it will always be export oriented. Generally the economists prefer a harder currency, which actually will not have a specially negative effect on the export industry. With the super-hard Deutsche Mark, the export industry was doing just fine.
Government actions fly in the face of pesky requirements.

Black bag operations have always existed, and will always exist, despite legislation or other rule-making to the contrary.
That's not all, there's the cost of (down)loading the dead code, and startup cost for loading the unoptimised cost. Even more critical when you consider environments where you can't JIT, like React Native on iOS for instance, which was one of the many motivations for Prepack AFAIK.
Should they always have to?
This sounds like very wrong reasoning. Yes, Chrome probably does some of this stuff, but that comes at a time cost that we could take at compile time, instead of at run time in the user's browser.
Is the implication here that face-painting, hair styling, etc. are unknown in cultures where people have to "fight for survival"? Because I find that hard to accept.
My experience of WordPress is that the core is now very secure. These days, it's easier to find exploits in the plugins and templates.
I'm having a tough time imagining not being able to solve this in almost no time flat. Really, if you can't figure out a 4 piece puzzle... That so many here are remarking that this was somehow wrong (either morally or practically), yeah my 2 year old daughter has a fair chance of solving this one.
> This is the fizz buzz test with all the same problems

What is your opinion on fizz buzz problems? I've found it to be a tremendous help in the early interviewing process.
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From context it seems clear that it's somewhere between "savage" and "modern" and that it's still rather derogatory.
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No, I explicitly mentioned Apache because it has patent clauses.
Parent's usage of "Interest of the Public" here typically means "the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth" and you seem to be meaning the "lot's of people are curious -- culturally significant" kind.
CLeary I didn't keep up with the evolution of the technology, the last time I tried e-ink, the refresh rates were so slow that being able to watch videos was completely unconceivable... I'm impressed that you can now do that (even though not in fullscreen mode). By the way, what's the manufacturer of the tablet you have bought?
Actually, the quote you highlight is where I started to take umbrage with the blog. I'm willing to listen a person's opinion on what is ideal or fair, but here the author asserts an empirical fact without evidence.

The evidence that I have actually heard[0] from valve indicates the opposite: that total revenue is unchanged by price. I am willing to believe that it can vary from product to product, but I am not willing to believe such an absolute assertion without any evidence.

I agree with your point about 30%.

0: https://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economi...
Off topic question if you may happen to know: I'm looking to invest ($10k or so) in one or more publicly traded small cap drone companies - do you happen to know of any? I'm not necessarily looking for drone manufacturers, but perhaps more so regular companies that are using drones to enhance their traditional business (aerial photography would be one example, but too obvious).
there are no trampoline slots required. it's a function pointer that's provided as an argument (user data). Can you point to an FFI that doesn't support callbacks in this way? This would be a major problen in the FFI implementation.
> Many European Jewish immigrants, for example, fought for labor rights

Like Alisa Rosenbaum?
It was always rare, but it used to be more common than it is now.
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Regarding "zero-sum game", a very basic principle is that the labor of the individual creates new value, thus the sum of the market can expand.
what is the difference between this and bootstrap?
which is why press releases like this aren't really accurate and create false expectations
Such a world would presumably last for about a week before everyone starved to death. Where does the electricity necessary to run the Internet come from here?
Tensorflow in Kubernetes
I agree that some of the valuations are crazy. But that's not unique to crypto. The same thing happened in the dotcom era.
This looks very interesting and I have two questions:

1. How much cost in data are we talking about? There are some benchmarks on what 10min of video uses. Are you able to get cell data cheaper than a normal consumer?

2. With a 107 certificate, is it legal to fly this past VLOS and without a visual observer? Trying to see how this works in the US.
Sure it is; that's why it's called "due diligence". You are legally required to engage in some amount of diligence when acquiring a company. As a very related example, a US company acquiring a foreign company is obligated to make sure the foreign company isn't engaged in corruption/bribery, and is expected to show a certain amount of competence in investigating the foreign company before the acquisition. Going ahead with the acquisition after an incompetent examination is illegal.

More generally, the law recognizes the concepts of negligence, reckless endangerment, a "reasonable person," the idea that you're responsible if you "knew or should have known" about some problem, etc., all of which I would classify as specific ways of stupidity and incompetence being illegal. Of course if you keep your stupidity and incompetence entirely to yourself, you're fine. But if you act stupid or incompetent in a way that affects other people or the public, chances are high that you're in legal trouble.
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Back in the day, I literally sent a check to some guy via snail mail to get some Bitcoins. That was the BEST way to acquire them!
Especially when interests are aligned.
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Bootstrap requires JQuery.
That's a bit of a problem.

Proprietary OS users are going to judge Inkscape (or Gimp, or any other Free Software) from what they see on their platform. If it lags and doesn't support High DPI on their platform, they're going to assume the same is true of the GNU/Linux version.

Some users won't switch because of this faulty assumption.

Native UI… while there is little point it catering to users who won't switch anyway, it will still reflect badly on the application. Widgets that look like "something out of the 90's" will say to the user "I am an old unmaintained app" whether that's true or not. Users are highly influenced by an application's look.
There is a significant portion of people spending half their income on rent.
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> Most people I've met who work in security at large companies would rather lose their job than participate in the erasure of security for all.

While I think (and hope) this is correct, I'm not sure it matters.

For example, it would not be necessary for most of the engineers to be aware of a backdoor or other known vulnerability. There have been examples from open source crypto where malicious code has weakened it significantly and still nobody noticed.

There's also the very real possibility of baking the backdoor/vulnerability into a custom ASIC design. Chances are the government has a lot of expertise in this area and could simply tell Apple that it would provide one of the parts for all iPhones and the part would behave to spec (but would contain other undocumented behavior).

I think it's also realistic that other governments do this. Unless a chip is manufactured using the latest microprocessor-level miniaturization, it could contain all sorts of undocumented circuitry. I'm not sure about the economics of this sort of attack, but surely it makes sense once in a while.
I don't think I can use software that is "built with <3"
IE EDGE 12 for Minimum Support ? Thanks but no thanks !
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and the property rights to my house are unimportant because the house is 20+ years old.

oh wait.... something is wrong with that thought process, but I'll let you split another hair in your attempt at a meaningful dichotomy.
At the time I thought they would just turn down the money/minute dial to almost zero once they had brought enough people to their platform that it wasn't worth it anymore. I didn't realise they would shut it down completely.

I would be interested in seeing data about how successful that program was at attracting actual consumers to the platform rather than just developers . . . .
Unless you can capture the value of something, it may have value, but the price is going to be low. In order for something to be of value to an inventor, the value must be able to be captured.

This is easy for, say pharmaceuticals ("you'd like to live ? That'll be $5000 please. Patents mean nobody else can save you").

Likewise, software has the problem that replicating software is too easy, hence the value can't be captured. Imagine what would immediately happen if someone made an app that people would gladly pay $5000 for (e.g. one that somehow gets them interviews for a $100k job), it would immediately be replicated and sold for $500. And then $50.

Only where that is really hard can you profit. Software that for some reason can't be easily duplicated. Only Microsoft seems to have pulled that off, for very large and complex programs and even there the engine seems to be sputtering.

Larger article about this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-...
> In a company having the right to vote means you're a shareholder. Citizens are shareholders of their own countries.

Being a shareholder means you have volunteered part of your personal treasure to be part of an on going enterprise in the hopes of earning more treasure.

In the modern world, native citizens put nothing up for their vote. Taxes are not voluntary, nor are they required for a vote.

> Also, people get too fixated on the right to vote. That's not what defines a democracy,

That is simply, plainly wrong. Words don't change to mean what you want them to mean. The essence of democracy, that which literally defines it, is voting.

>Well, big companies have multiple owners, so one owner cannot do what he wants unless he has a majority. Also a company is subject to market forces, customers voting with their wallet.
So really, an owner can only do what he wants for as long as (1) he can afford it and (2) his peers tolerate it.

Your thinking is very muddy.
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Without reading the docs in depth, there's a difference of about 142KB of render-blocking CSS. I'm sure the API and functionality depth is very different too.
Not in America, no. This country was explicitly founded on a fear of majoritarian tyranny eroding what its founders saw as inalienable rights.

The reason why we have a constitution that permanently enshrines things like freedom of speech and religion is exactly because the founders worried that some form of "democratic despotism" would try to vote them away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
People are debt for all sorts of reasons, regardless of how you want to characterize it. Let's say your claims are generally right. But lenders are still willing to lend to people they probably shouldn't. And as long as they come out ahead overall they will continue to do so.

Regardless of what anyone says to the contrary, we all want the world this way. When we need credit or a loan, we want it to be easy to get because "we'll be responsible about it" and we don't want to be burdened with everyone elses irresponsible debt baggage.

If this was really a problem for lenders they would adopt different practices to avoid this sort of outcome. So instead they are happy to persist it and use whatever tactics they can to maximize their benefit. Lenders lend. They know the risks. They've been doing it for a long time. And they're smarter than you. I'm sure they appreciate your help in fighting their version of the good fight.

Most people aren't consciously running up debt with plans to declare bankruptcy. It happens, but they're not any sort of population to fall back on for an argument about a worldwide system of debt and lending. Using them is really an argument for your own ego and how you're a better person. Maybe you are. But it really has nothing to do with the other 7 billion primates on the planet.
The law is also going to ask hard questions about "unknowingly". If you're walking around Market St. at 11 PM and some dude stops you and tries to sell you a fancy new bike for $200, complete with a U-lock holder but no U-lock, the law is probably going to say that you should have expected it to be stolen property. If you gave the guy $200 in cash without asking any questions, you probably won't get away saying "I unknowingly purchased stolen goods".
I, too, exclusively use software that is built with >=3.
062115 - How to Manage Android App Permissions to Protect Your Privacy
http://thehackernews.com/2015/06/android-permission-manager....

beacon-blocking Chrome extension and sample Android (research prototype) patch:
http://ubeacsec.org/#Downloads

Silverdog Chrome Extension
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/silverdog-chrome-extension-mit...

Disable Beacon monitoring on a condition in Application
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34486930/disable-beacon-m...

050217 - https://www.wired.com/2017/05/hundreds-apps-can-listen-beaco...

110316 - https://www.wired.com/2016/11/block-ultrasonic-signals-didnt...

Beacon: Phone Tracker
https://www.aptoide.com/app/com.fibercode.beacon/beacon-phon...
At the same time, if all employees knew bad news and dumped all of their stock at the same time, the rest of us would be left holding bags.
But they always seem to see themselves the White Knight, supernaturally apointed and unreproachable. I ha e without a doubt left a company largely because they tolerated this behavior.
I think the problem is more that the consumer now expects to be able to download pretty much everything for free and for the developer to make money in some other way.

E.G F2P games
They state that older browsers and versions might be supported. I've tried this in IE 11 and it works like a charm, except for a couple of minor features. The diagram is the browsers that are "fully" supported.
From what I know the banking infrastructure are quite uniquely suited to each.
Here's my issue with it. I've taken a few programming classes. I could easily write fizzbuzz as soon as I understood the syntax for loops. So, we're talking day 1 of programming class. I could write it in like 4-5 different languages right now. It would take some work, but I might even be able to figure out how to write it in assembly. I still haven't written an actual program beyond the simple exercises where you are trying to run a calculation and get a specific output from the command-line.

I suppose it's good at filtering out people that don't even know the syntax of a programming language, but do such people apply to programming jobs frequently enough for fizzbuzz to be useful?

Edit: Didn't intend to offend people. I just can't comprehend why a person would apply for a job when they don't know how to do it. I now get that it's a bozo-check, I'm just surprised there's s need for it. I hire in a similar industry and while we run into a lot of people that are obviously bad and or inexperienced, they usually at least know the basics.
I have been using GQL with a Play! in Scala. If anyone else is thinking about doing GQL in Scala I highly recommend using Sangria [0], its well documented and easy to work with.

[0] http://sangria-graphql.org
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Weird that people consider this a question. I think it's objectively possible to say if a task is harder than another:

1) One problem is harder than the other if it requires more knowledge. E.g. to code AI you need to have programming skills, AI related skills, statistics skills and graph theory skills, plus whatever your domain knowledge is (e.g. how to build the code in your company's environment).

2) One problem is harder than the other if it requires more skills.

3) [...] harder if it requires a higher composition level of skills. E.g. configuring a firewall via iptables is harder than configuring a firewall via your router's web gui, since the first requires bash, Linux, tcp/ip related skills as a foundation to even understand what iptables does. The gui may only require a limited set of networking skills and 2 pages of router handbook.

4)[...] harder if it is more complex. Coding your own kernel is harder than coding your own calculator.

5)[...] harder if it requires more departments. "Go to market" of your product therefore is a harder task than "proof of concept".

6)[...] harder if it relies on more legacy code. Legacy code always contains domain knowledge that is unaware to most people, even to the developers. Changing that code or its environment yields a lot of surprises.
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Ah, this will be a nice addition to https://www.lightentheweb.com/libraries/, thanks. You can also find other libraries like this one on that page.
FNB also does OTP within their own mobile app.
Edge 12 is the first version of Edge. I'm guessing it's due to modern Flexbox support.
Is it Python 2.7 then? Use Python >3 allready!
It looks neat but I'm left wondering what sets this one apart from the many others in what seems like a flavor of the week.

It's minimal indeed, but almost too minimal. In my experience working with CSS frameworks, the "there's a class for that" pattern is almost always not enough and it's much easier to write rules to handle customization. That leaves out both developers that aren't designers and designers that develop.

Applications aside, the semantics of some of the content is not up to date (for example <section> vs <div class="section">).
Passing fizzbuzz isn't meant to indicate that the person is a good programmer.

Failing fizzbuzz is a quick way to indicate that the person is not a good programmer.
If you use just the CSS part of it, you won't need jQuery.
Some will, some won't.

Since everyone basically agrees that Levandowski downloaded these files from google, Occam's Razor suggests that the guy who knowingly stole the files provided them along. Doesn't rule out a different sort of malfeasance, but certainly it's worth exploring that avenue to the fullest.
It makes sense to have two similar but independent cryptos - if one falls into some crazy governance stalemate the other can go on.
They can take the high road because they currently have money and social status to leverage. If they were easily replaceable and earning an average middle-class income, the first amendment wouldn't mean crap next to their continued employment. That could actually be a novel argument against anything that would suppress their wages and salaries; their paycheck may be the last line of defense against a dystopian future.
If you're wondering how it got to this point I'd like to remind you that you (If you live in the US) don't own this country. The people in charge don't care about you. They care about money, power, and stability of their system. It's hopeless to resist because they own your home, your bank account, and all your money. The only way we'll ever change it is getting scientists, nerds, and engineers into congress. I don't know how we'll do it but we have to do it to ensure freedom for everyone in the USA.
The difference is that the physical box at the bank is not subject to being stolen by foreign adversaries remotely. With information that is stored in databases or on phones that may be lost or stolen there is no border. And when you start to consider the critical national infrastructure that is managed by private companies and individuals, it becomes clear that on balance Americans are safer if the FBI cannot read Tony Soprano's email because any tool they can use to get his data can be used by sophisticated adversaries to get at the emails of the CEO of the nuclear power plant and more. While I do not have a link at the moment to share, Retired General Michael Hayden, the former NSA and CIA director, says the same thing.