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The idea that fickle consumers are to blame for unethical and often unlawful exploitation of employees is propaganda with only the thinnest veneer of economics painted on it.

I suppose I understand why the very rich and business interests make arguments like this, but usually it's just ordinary people. Who benefits? It's about time we held companies like Amazon accountable for the way they harm and exploit their employees instead of helping shift the blame to their customers.
I can't speak for the UK, but here in the US it should have been evident as soon as the PATRIOT Act was passed.
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I am a software Engineer and I can't seem to find any work in New York City. Every company I go into its full of Indians on H1B visas and I never get the job. I have been to 15 interviews. I am going to be homeless shortly. Thats no joke.
Two weeks I'm on the street. . 10 years of C#, 10 years of SQL server, Golang as well.

The Indians have taken not some but ALL the jobs in America.

This is my skillset.

C# , .NET, ASP.NET MVC, LINQ, Golang, Restful API,
HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular js, Vue js,
Entity Framework, SQL Server, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Amazon Web Services (AWS),
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Whatever Comrade Progressive says your fair share is. You will not complain or they will take it away.
Nothin like a good old economics circle jerk.

I think it's time HN applied the 'no politics' rule to economics too. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong, and nobody ever changes their mind.
At some point people will stop pouring cash into this money hole.
I misread this as a service to predict the EOL date for a given Google API.
Here's Peter Norvig explaining this stuff: https://youtu.be/yvDCzhbjYWs?t=24m37s
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I'd bookmark the video and watch it; it's 6 mins long and you could watch it during your commute on public transport or on your lunch break.

It puts hard numbers on the world's poor and how immigration really only benefits the USA, not the countries the people are coming from.
> it would be wonderful if the U.S. could return to being viewed as "the good guys"

You mean internally or that there was ever a time where the external perception of US was of "good guys"?

I mean, I can't possibly imagine the latter being the case. For instance: it's pretty common knowledge in South America of US involvement in setting up bloody dictatorships in the 60's and 70's.

Only if US citizens believe in their own soft power propaganda (e.g. Hollywood).

See [0], it gets pretty ridiculous after 1949.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Edit (Relevant Carlin):

Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
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>It also charges fees to list postings in categories including ... automobiles offered by dealers

This was a huge thing in my industry. I work with a lot of independent car dealers that used to list everything on their lots with Craigslist, then they started charging the dealers $5 a pop and many of them just quit using it.

There are too many other car listing sites out there now that offer more than just an ad (vehicle reports like Carfax, market trends, valuation, et cetera), so Craigslist just wasn't worth the cost to them.
Isn't it partly because Microsoft laid off all the QA testers? As mentioned on Barnacules' video July 2014.
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this is the kind of stuff you learn in business school, but bezos has the resources and the wherewithal to execute on it.

verticalization is tantalizing for the promise that you can (1) capture existing value surplus (profit) and (2) consolidate services to reduce costs further. this gives you more operational margin to work with.

but as the author says, often stagnation and complacency swallow those savings over time. so then, rather than a value chain service being locked into a single customer, amazon makes internal services compete externally, and prove their value financially as well as operationally. not only that, but those services must keep pace with industry innovations to remain competitive over time.

this reminds me of the case of the chinese refrigerator company haier remaking itself into a global consumer electronics brand in part by implementing an internal market value chain mechanism to ensure a similar competitive instinct. each step in the value chain (down to the person) was evaluated for the value they produced and rewarded accordingly.

people derive more satisfaction and work harder in a more competitive environment, although you can go overboard and end up creating a cut-throat one instead. as always, balance is key.
I'm a little tired of the basic/universal income trope myself. The problem with Socialism/Communism is you eventually run out of other peoples money.
I didn't ask for a synopsis, but whatever. reading articles isn't "work" and not everyone has to be interested in every aspect of everything, all the time.
Capitalism is the normal mode of human interaction and has been the greatest lifter of people out of poverty period, while providing free choice and momentum to the economy that continues it's growth. This isn't even an assumption at this point. We've seen it with our own eyes. Government interference in this has created quite a few market anomalies over time, but overall capitalism in a free market works, and works REALLY well.

A basic income will never work for one fundamental reason, you have to place a solid number to it outside of any other factor in an economy, whether it's $30,000 or $50,000 a year, and everywhere we live is different and has different requirements according to the local economies. Furthermore, you would need a very large tax base to support it, or a never ending printing press that ignores debt.

In order to make the system fair so that it actually will do the intended job that people want it to, you would need to exercise a strangling amount of control over the economy and people's lives. This would in turn result in a much larger bureaucratic government with more costs and corruption, more state control of industries, housing and real estate, food production, energy production, less freedom in the consumer market due to increased price controls and regulations, and an eventual collapse of the economy when companies drop from the economy due to too much regulation and taxes, high barriers to entry, and government corruption.

This idea has been exercised in one form or the other over the 20th century to eventual failure each time. Bread lines, needs assistance, food, free government housing, it's all a form of basic income at a fundamental level and it's always failed.
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Tensorflow is open source and apparently very popular, so I'm guessing this migration would be moving in the direction of less lock-in.
I used to think the company was called Magic Leap because their technology made images magically leap out at you. I didn't realize it referred to the magical leaps their valuation would take.
> if it isn't enough to live on (at a very basic level), the experiment would fail

In terms of what I'm hoping for I agree, but it does depend on who you're pitching to and what their goals are. Assuming that BI is restricted to citizens, one non-obvious consequence of even a partial BI is that it serves as a protectionist barrier against non-citizen immigrant labour - a citizen claiming $4000 BI can afford to work for $4000 less than a non-citizen while maintaining the same standard of living.
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I think that's romanticising the old ways far too much. The famous RISKS DIGEST is over 30 years old.
I like the idea of BI.

But I keep in mind that the same lobbyist-infested group of people who would be responsible for putting it into law are the same clowns who have run roughshod over the healthcare and financial industries.
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Swing & JavaFX are not part of the JCL. Those are addon libraries.

NIO: https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/package-sum...
"added in API 1"

As in, it's been there since forever. What are you referring to specifically?

NIO2:
https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/file/packag...

Invoke dynamic: is a runtime/bytecode thing, not part of the library. The actual feature, lambdas, works just fine on Andorid

Method handles: https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/invoke/Met...
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It is a fascinating idea. I'm wondering if something like an ARM build of Windows 10 S could already support an ARM to x86_64 handoff with the main kernel/OS/UWP apps running immediately available in low power scenarios and where it might pass things of to Win32 on ARM emulation instead pass things to an x86_64 core? Then from there build out more hand-off capabilities for power hungry processes or performance-hungry apps (like Xbox Game Mode)?

To some extent, I would be surprised if there aren't teams at Microsoft exploring such crazy hybrid notions already, if at least for options for future Xbox or Surface hardware. Recalls to mind Microsoft already experimented with a notification platform of a low power CPU screen coupled to a Windows device way back in the Vista timeframe [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SideShow
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> You can't pin that on spy agencies. Criminals would have exploited the same holes eventually.

Officially, the NSA's role is not to sit on zero-day exploits. If it discovers zero-day exploits (either by accident or through active research), then it should follow industry practices for disclosing and patching it[0].

[0] There are discussions of what constitututes "industry best practices", but I think we can all agree that "telling nobody, including the software vendors, with the hopes of being able to exploit it later" does not qualify.
Yes, and in a scenario where you can calculate the baseline pie of money of which profit-seeking actors can ration, you would almost be forced down this route to ensure a fair market, otherwise different markets will cannibalize each other. (Might make for a good book)

Practically implemented, I imagine along with "basic income" there be "basic goods and services", which have said strongly controlled margins. The rest can remain the same.

(I think basic income will never work under any scenario in this current economy, I just like to theorize. Reading some of your other comments on this I think we would agree on much)
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It's basically raising the point that there are a lot of refugees and we can't take all of them. The US currently has a cap of 50,000 refugees a year (after Trump's executive order; Obama pushed for a 110,000 cap) but there are something like 60 million refugees in the world today. So even if we increased our already large efforts to help refugees it's still a drop in the bucket. So they advocate reducing our refugee cap further, since it's a financial burden that doesn't make a serious impact. It also points out that if we take the successful people from other countries and allow them to come here, then the rest of the world will get brain-drain.

I think that's a fair characterization of their argument, but I think it's wrong. It's the classic Nirvana fallacy: because something isn't perfect there's no point in trying. Like arguing there's no point in having seatbelts because you can still die in a car crash. We may not be able to help all refugees, but we can help some of them. And that may not seem that important in the big picture, but it means a hell of a lot to the ones we do help.
I'm still not sure how (at a fundamental level) a democratic society can work when an increasing majority of the voters are voting to determine how much money they will receive from a decreasing minority of voters.

How can that possibly sustain itself over time? What if the voters decide they want more than is feasible or available? What if this minority of providers decides to move elsewhere?
I have plenty of hypotheses of my own as to why other women do this sort of crap to me. In the end, I don't think it matters. If you want to talk about making the world a better place and "equality for all," then shitting all over me because I made different lifestyle choices from you and this hits some nerve of yours -- well, get therapy and quit making it my problem that you aren't actually happy with the lifestyle choices you made.

If you want to call yourself a feminist and talk about getting equal rights for women, then I don't want to hear your crap about how your ideals only actually apply to women like you but still exclude large groups of women.

I think these are just bitter people who felt "It's a man's world and the least worst option for a woman is to not have children."

That's not an idealistic solution. That is not about making the world a better place. That is not about expecting more of the world. That is basically saying "No point in fighting evil. You can't win."

Turning around and shitting on me because you gave up years ago makes you part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Microsoft is squarely to blame here. People would leave Windows update on if:

- it would not potentially brick their computer

- it would not install all kinds of spyware

- it would be a net benefit to the user

- it would not be used to further MS's business goals at the expense of the users

Telling people not to turn of Windows Update is putting the horse behind the cart: Tell Microsoft to start respecting their users, then tell people to turn on Windows update.

Fat chance of that happening though.
I'm adding this to my list of "things capitalists say that inadvertently support communism".
Love your enthusiasm. You're close, but not quite right. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_process)

"Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. When a government harms a person without following the exact course of the law, this constitutes a due process violation, which offends the rule of law."

I think the important point to note is that the 'digital strip search' mentioned is used in an arbitrary way and is a great power in the hands of folks not particularly careful about abusing it.
>if there is something you do/don't like. MS listens.

Users have been very very vocal about dozens of things that Microsoft refuses to stop. What about all of the forced upgrades to Windows 10 without consent? For the longest time Microsoft just denied that they were even doing it. Then they just tried to justify it with marketing B.S. about how "Windows 10 is great, so no one should be complaining."

Then there's the embedded spyware in Windows 10 that's not able to be removed or disabled. Even just the adware, it should go without saying that no one wanted ads to show up in their OS. This shouldn't be something I should be forced to opt out of, it shouldn't exist in the first place. I shouldn't have to deal with Microsoft installing crap like candy crush on every windows PC on the planet.

Microsoft categorically doesn't listen to their users. Can you name a time when Apple or a prominent Linux distro has pulled any of this crap?
You want your money, as shareholder, to return a profit and don't want the company focused elsewhere. However, you want the government to step in to solve this problem using other people's money. That is the problem with America, greed oversee everything else and when it impeded on our greed we automatically fall to the government to the solve the current issue.

Communities are still perfectly capable of taking care of their own. Smaller towns throughout the US do this but you don't see those from the larger cities and/or coasts doing this. I live in Eastern WA/Western ID, and the community is still very much involved in these types of projects without the government stepping.
At least 10x their yearly profit? What other investment provides a consistent 10% yearly return on the scale we're talking about?

At P/E ratio of 5, you literally just wait 5 years and you've just made as much as your initial investment.
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Withholding UBI from children would be a devastating blow to exactly the people who need the most help - unemployable single parents and their children. Of course, we could supplement their UBI with means tested additional assistance, but ... Then we're back where we started.
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> Also, there is a 50,000 cap on how many refugees the US can take in per year (It was at 70,000 and Obama was pushing to raise it to 110,000, but it was cut by Trump's executive order).

So the next Democrat is elected and raises the cap...

Also, you're forgetting that politicians really, really want to give illegal immigrants amnesty. Guess who's eligible for BI now?

> isn't because they have the best benefits, but because they have the most welcoming refugee programs

Funny how having the most welcoming program and having the best benefits go hand-in-hand.
I'm not sure why this is even a question, nobody can learn a subject only from a Q&A tool. You learn programming by reading a comprehensive tutorial(s) or book(s) for the foundations. Then you practice on real problems and research the advanced tools and APIs as needed. If you've got more experienced human mentors you go to them for help. You follow blogs / news articles and watch tech conferences. You get enough experience and solve enough hard problems until you know your tools and how to use them effectively.

Google (of which Stack Overflow is only one of many results) is for when you get stuck on some specific problem and need help. Nowadays we just see Stack Overflow in the search results more often than not. I guess SO means nowadays its easier to find answers to specific questions but I don't see how you could actually learn programming from the bottom up that way. It also encourages blind copy and paste solutions without actually understanding the mechanics of the underlying technical problem.

Stack Overflow is very useful, but you need to take it into context like anything else. Many stack overflow answers are still poor quality, outdated, lacking some context, or just outright wrong. Just because its on the internet and a lot of people have looked at it doesn't mean the right person who really knows the subject matter has not only read the answers but cared enough and had enough free time to produce a good detailed answer.
Having read the article and (most of) the comments here, there seems to be two basic responses:

1. For home users, turn on auto updates. Yes, MS's policies for updates suck, but the alternative is probably getting infected by something worse. For professional use, IT is probably going to turn it off, but then it is their responsibility to make sure critical updates get installed.

2. MS's policies suck, so everyone should disable auto updates. Then, make sure the machines have critical updates installed manually.

Unfortunately, history has clearly demonstrated that the second step of #2 doesn't happen. Heck, the NHS probably has a dedicated IT staff and that particular update hadn't bubbled to the top yet. That produces option 3:

3. Turn off updates to be moar bettar, then be surprised when the machine starts acting funny.
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When I taught maths at university, I would always try to include in every lecture a couple of slides showing how the lecture could be used to get a job, or to solve a real world problem in computer programming. It's weird that other disciplines seem to ground knowledge much better than maths, when it isn't hard to ground maths.
>I think the idea is that you raise taxes such that the middle class sees no difference, the rich pay more in taxes, and the poor receive more money.

But will that actually work out mathematically and economically? High income earners in big cities are already paying nearly 50% marginal income tax rates.

These people only work that hard to keep the golden handcuffs. If you take that away, they aren't going to continue.
This was mentioned in the HN discussion[1] about the other order, which denied enforcing arbitration. There are two separate lawsuits, one against Uber (this one), and one against Levandowski. Because of his employment agreement, the Levandowski suit is done through arbitration rather than a court. Uber moved to consolidate the two suits and force the combined suit into arbitration, but the court denied the motion.

Also, the court also referred the case to the U.S. Attorney for a possible criminal investigation, so depending on what they decide Levandowski could come under criminal charges also. (He is already taking the 5th.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14321044
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Exactly. Last I checked in this country, we have a Constitution to protect our rights as citizens and individuals, and this used to include the right to private property.

Demanding A gives to B because B doesn't have what A has, and forcefully doing it through government is a fundamental violation of that right.
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The right answer here is they need a valid writ from a court, just like the FBI had.

We don't have much of an issue with criminals getting wiretaps through faking subpoenas to phone companies (although I did find https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/feds-brooklyn-pr... when searching.)

Note that I'm not arguing that Apple should have complied, that the court should have said a particular thing, or anything like that (did enough arguing last year when the case was going on). All I'm saying is the comparison is invalid, and the author doesn't know the technical details and is therefore wrong.
As I mentioned, my default shopping destination​ is Amazon - except for grocery and clothes. So this pretty much includes most of our transactions including electronics for a family of 4.
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> On the other hand, should the federal government subsidize living in an expensive location rather than a cheap one? Or should expensive states have to supplement BI? (And that would further cement their position as expensive.)

The beauty of basic income is that makes location much less relevant. Poor folks don't spend hours commuting into high-COL areas for funsies. They do it because that's where the low-skill service jobs are.
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