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So the mainstream is Intel and AMD. Both are out.

https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd

See https://libreboot.org/faq.html#whatcaniuse -- your best bet is older Intel / AMD.

There are some laptops https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena which are open.
> Now from an economic and investment standpoint. The most important angle here is one of marginal benefit. If we are already spending 100 billion a year on disease, poverty, and climate change (this is a very conservative guess), how much good is adding a few billion more? It's likely not going to move the needle extensively. However, that money that will make an enormous difference in our space endeavors, letting us reap some of those second order benefits.

I feel like this is faulty reasoning. That money might fund a project that otherwise wouldn't get funded which may cure cancer (unlikely, but honestly I'd say finding a moderate breakthrough for treating a specific strain of cancer with a few billion dollars is about as likely as that few billion dollars getting us significantly closer to Mars). It's not that every project is getting funded and it's just how much they get funded - some projects don't get funded at all. Nobody can predict the future which is why startup investing is so hard - the winners often start out looking like losers (DropBox, AirBnB, Google, Tesla, Apple all struggled to raise money initially). And big accomplishments often come from underdogs, like the Wright Brothers (who were up against much better funded and better educated competition). And sometimes the best discoveries are completely accidental - like penicillin.

Nobody knows the best way to allocate resources. I think the smart thing to do is to back things because you believe in them, not because they seem underappreciated. And honestly, Elon Musk has such a cult following that I'd say anything he does gets way more love than all the other things that money could be spent on.
Seems like the patent is already by a Microsoft engineer: http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=05371847&homeurl=http%3A%...
I recommend the article that made the rounds on HN a few weeks ago. It argued that housing as an investment and affordable housing are opposing goals. You can't have both.

If London were to make housing affordable - a worthy goal - it would no longer be a good investment. The author seems to want both.

In other words, if you could afford the down payment, you wouldn't want to.
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Is this an honest question?

Honest answer: That person is someone who makes more money per hour than the person who did the hard work. And they stand to make even more money in the event of a settlement.

How can you fix this problem? Take away the financial incentives.
Because

a) The people making the standard work for the companies filing the patents. They are highly incentivized to make their own patents required, and

b) There's all sorts of potential legal liability associated with just knowing about patents, much less telling anyone else or writing that knowledge down.

As a result, you get things like the ISO and ITU IPR policies which profess to make the standardization process "patent blind". That is, so long as you agree to license your patents under FRAND terms, you can participate, and no one is allowed to exclude your technology solely on the basis of your patents.

This results in maximally patented standards. Even if you're not interested in seeking rent from other standards users, lots of other people contributing to the standard are. So you're forced to file patents just to minimize the amount you have to pay to use the technology you yourself helped create.

That's why you see things like the HEVC mess, where four years after the standard was completed, no one knows if it's even possible to license all of the patents required, nor how much it would cost if you could.
I would gladly buy an open source (including firmware) phone instead. Any you'd like to recommend?
As a society we need to attempt to align the individual/family/social costs/benefits of rearing children and make them as equitable as possible for people regardless of gender.

The popularity of reducing complex issues down to gender warfare tires me. Variances in pay due to availability to focus on career are entirely logical and reasonable.

You're suggesting to fix something that isn't a problem by demanding unnecessary changes in behavior. It's like suggesting that we should eliminate gender height differences by decapitating men. It serves no purpose, wastes energy, and doesn't address the true problem:

How do we equitably manage the impact of childbearing/caregiving on career growth and earnings? This is a nearly impossible problem if we want fairness at the individual level, as population averages don't apply to people. Contrast a CEO vs McDonald's clerk taking a year off. Problems like these aren't sexy and don't make headlines.

There are already attempts to address this issue, such as alimony.
There might be something else than lithium running out, like cobalt. On the other hand, if you're willing to go with somewhat less range, you can go with lithium iron phosphate.
the value of the property
increases over time

Is this a law of nature?
It's hard. I don't know about computers but for photo equipment with any real value, the last couple things I just sold to Amazon directly. I was actually pretty happy with the value I got and zero hassle.

I'm sure I could have gotten more with a private sale but then there's the risk and the hassle. (I live far enough outside of the nearest major city that Craigslist doesn't really work for me in general.)
To make an informed decision before getting into such situations, along with you family, I really recommend using numbeo.com
> The average cost of a flat in London is 500k

House prices are horrible in London yes, but for transparency that's central London.

Prices get better (but still terrible) if you go further out. I just started looking at houses and for 500k you cant take a 40 minute tube journey twice a day and get a three bedroom house. With a yard.

The average room price at The Hilton is high as well. The solution isn't to sleep on the streets, it's to stay in a cheaper hotel.
The same kind of person that owns a collection of valid patents, based on many years of unique research and development, looking to see if they apply to someone else's lazy theft of their hard work. Hint: it's really hard to tell the difference!
Lithium is a more common element than lead - and there has been no lead shortage for cars yet. Even a Tesla uses less lithium than lead for its batteries.

For the trade balance of India this is a big help, as the reduced needs of oil imports vastly overshadow any lithium imports.

With charging controlled by the supply, electrical cars can actually help stabilizing the grid. It is also very easy to supply them with solar energy during daytime.
Wikileaks did not disclose these exploits

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/shadow-brokers-du...
Read my comment above, inform yourself.
> they have posted hundreds of peer reviewed (and completely fake) papers

Were the authors that were listed on these papers CIA employees with a fake cover job, or just completely made-up names?
I'd rather say the value of the property is related to human population. Human population generally keeps growing.
The average cost of a flat in San Francisco was over $1mm so almost twice that of London. In my.last visit I thought about moving because the deals seemed so good compared to the Bay.
Is "Server 200" really something from 1817 years ago?
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He went to a doctor. He by very definition, did not "lose his mind" considering he had enough of his faculties to goto the doctor.
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So, if a person is supposed to sleep for 8 hours a day, and can manage to cut out of work after spending exactly 8 hours in the office, that 80 minutes of commute is about 17% of the bit of your life that you get to live.

Spend 17% of your life on that house, man.
C# and .NET is cross platform. VS isn't.
'Flat' means apartment
Life imitating parody? http://archive.museumoftechno.org/exhibition_detail.php?id=6

(see also http://archive.museumoftechno.org/exhibition_detail.php?id=4 )
What other tiling WMs had the same gui menu to select layout?
> Big tech companies have realized they need to expand into other markets (intel and samsung being prime examples).

I'm not sure if Samsung is a good example of this. They have been making Exynos chips for a long time, and other ARM SoCs before that. So its not like they have suddenly awakened and trying to break into new market.
And doesn't even have anything to do with hacking or technology or even startups. Wish I could down vote stories.
I've used Phatom.js before. It really depends on the site. Some sites need full browsers running which you could use selenium.
tbh it's not that much cheaper, I live in Zone 4 and there are new build properties going up starting from £390,000 for one bedroom.

...the OP sounds like he has a wife and child, so realistically a 2 bedroom is his minimum requirement, and that would probably get your close to that £500k figure.
I was looking at the same thing in SF recently. Vs Chicago, cost of living is 50% higher but salaries are only 25% higher.
Comments on Hacker News should say something besides being just personally rude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
QA maybe? Imagine the shitstorm headlines Microsoft would get if they managed to accidentally brick every Windows XP computer in the field with an automatic security update.
Thank you. However, suicide is a totally different beast than manic/depressive episodes. People who try to commit suicide have something extremely wrong with them in a far different way than standard mental delusions. It's good that he got help.
This "trap" is connected to the Meditations on Moloch [0] for me. Moloch is the god of child sacrifice, the fiery furnace into which you can toss your babies in exchange for victory in war. In this case, in exchange for "a flat in a high income city". You do not literally sacrifice your babies, but in exchange for living there, you must put a wish to have babies aside, because all the double-income couples inflate the rents.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
> take a 40 minute tube journey twice a day

Having lived in London for a year and hearing daily talks about delayed and cancelled (not to mention full) trains from coworkers, this sounds dreamily optimistic, as if coming from a real estate agent. London property market, central or not, is horrible.
This is the "beauty" of socialism. The greed and covetousness - I want what my neighbor has, is killing societies.

Buddy, your wife is going to have to go to work so that you all can support some single lady who wants to sleep around and have kids, but doesn't want to work. Actually muslims are the most common welfare abusers. Their husbands divorce for benefits, then live with their wife on your money!
The FSL still exists; don't know about the Biographic Register -- haven't seen that. Essentially the FSL is provided to host countries with a listing of all personnel on diplo passports. NOCs are obviously not listed.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335243 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, it did.

I know I used window managers with almost the same grid square select in the 1990's. Not able to conjure up a screenshot yet. I did find one that's very close, here: http://www.badros.com/greg/papers/scwm-extensible-wm.pdf

That is clearly a UI for dynamic window placement and sizing, just not with the exact grid dynamic, though you can define new constraints, so it's possible it can do it as well. It's not the one I remember, but it's hard to Google up old UI's in HN time.

Given some time, I'm sure I could find something exactly like it.
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Here's Divvy doing this in 2010 [1], the question is if Divvy is related to the patent or if they too received a letter.

[1] http://lifehacker.com/5715221/divvy-window-organizer-lands-o...
Didn't you ever have to program a Persistor 68332 with an ancient version of CodeWarrior? How about CCS C for the 18F PIC?
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>> India barely has power for normal domestic consumption; even in Bangalore, the ostensible "Silicon valley" of India, power cuts for an hour or two is a daily affair.
- Thats because India today relies heavily on hydro electric power and does not have as many peaker plants to handle peak capacity loads. One could make an argument that this is a perfect scenario for solar on rooftops (South India is a temperate country and gets lots of sun) generating the needed power locally and feeding the rest back into the grid as a perfect example that would work for India.

>> There is also the question of trade balance (presumably with China/Japan as well as upstream Lithium miners)
- Those are today's constraints. I am not so sure, these are the same challenges that we would be worrying about a decade from now. Geopolitics and tech. change all the time.

>> Environmental solutions, incl. solar, are okay for assuaging the guilt about wrecking the environment (and India is totally wrecked)
- Thats true, India today is totally wrecked, but so was 18th century London. You can always get better.
I took the train from Copenhagen to Leipzig.

It's a bit too long, but I met my Swedish friends on the platform at Hovedbanegård, and they'd already started the party with "cheap" alcohol from Netto.
As a society, we should address this. I'm more a fan of spreading ourselves across the cosmos and stepping off the planet than say mandated controls here, but it is something we should be discussing. There is a point in time where there isn't enough world for all the people on the world to live a moral life. (and its odd we seem comfortable in many ways that "War" is this answer..)
I used to travel from Bow to Westbourne Park and it wasn't that big an issue. Took 45-60 mins each way.
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Patent license fees are not necessarily onerous. The original Ethernet patent is a good example. The license fees were low - $1000 [0] and it became a de facto standard. Token Ring was a competing network technology with considerably higher license fees [1]. Patent owners for subsequent Ethernet standards started out with similar terms but then started shaking down licensees [2].

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=qTkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA52&ots=....

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=OFCXnqlSFKwC&lpg=PA709&dq=....

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2008/01/ftc-c....

Edited to fix formatting
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Sure, but real estate markets are local. At least in the US, there are plenty of places where real estate prices are not increasing, because local populations are not increasing, wages are not increasing, and wealthy foreign investors are not looking to park their money in places where real estate prices aren't going up quickly. So, yeah, in a broad, long-term statistical measure, re prices do tend to increase over time, but the distribution is far from consistent or uniform.
Would adopting UBI correspond to a one-time step increase in velocity that sits constant again afterwards?
He talks about exactly about pattern matching and mentions latex using it in the second section. Also that this approach doesn't work as well with German compound words which is the whole premise.
Engineers don't like being told by mgmt what to do, that I agree with. To continue generalizing, engineers also hate to re-evaluate the level of their skills when having to learn a new stack.. It took msft 10-15y to get uptake for the .net stack on the back-end side, and the reason they did that was because of infighting in the Java community.

Having studied the BC stack, I would say that the biggest obstacle will be to get engineers to dare try something new. To many SW-engineers on the web-side today, don't really have sufficient skills to understand BC-technology. I don't mean to offend, just state what I see. We saw the same thing with p2p-tech before that.

Solidity as a programming language is an interesting abstraction and perhaps lowers the barrier somewhat, but it will take many years before the skills available match that for what is required to gain momentum on a broad scale.

If you're an engineer and wonder why mgmt keeps bringing it up, its because this will potentially help them build a platform (two-sided) market. If that occurs and you constructed it correctly, your company may well be able to skip on taxes as well, as a side-effect.
India has already offered incentives for Tesla to open up car factories before they decided to go with China first IIRC. Piyush Goyal (minister of renewable energy, mines) still seems to be a fan of Tesla
London is shocking price wise...I could never contemplate working there although I once did.
I work in Belfast Northern Ireland, earn approx £57k, my spacious detached house with garden and tranquility 20 mins train commute from the office costs around £180K... So there is no financial way I would ever go to London...It seems crazy and illogical to me to work there.. nice place to visit however!
People in the UK are obsessed with housing and property, it's a national pastime.

To be fair, the housing market has been propped up by successive UK governments for years, it's the only thing they have left and it's the only aspiration they try to goad the population into achieving.
None of this sounds new to me, even if I lived in London for just four months. But the post made me curious about tax brackets in the UK.

So... perhaps this is partially OT, but: according to a couple sources [1,2], income tax at £50k/year is just 17-18%, and National Insurance another 9%. This makes the total "tax bracket" around 27%. Even if the author means that 50k is his net salary, the same sources put the tax bracket at just 32% [3]. Why does the author say his tax bracket is around 40%? Are those sources unreliable? Are they missing some of the taxes?

[1]: http://www.netsalarycalculator.co.uk/50000-after-tax/

[2]: https://www.incometaxcalculator.org.uk/?ingr=50000

[3]: http://www.netsalarycalculator.co.uk/74000-after-tax/
Flats in central London are often over a million pounds. Even studio apartments often cost more than 500k.
It did say something, though maybe in a way which was apparently too personally rude.
40% income tax is abhorrent.
You can do things on the train. Especially if it's a long ride. Like reading a book. It's not wasted time.
Salaries and living expenses have become really disconnected.

These are inherently disconnected. Salary is related to the value of an employee's labour. In the contemporary US, the value of a software developer is high. In that same place, the value of unskilled or low-skilled labour is below the federal minimum wage in a lot of cases.

Living expenses are related to the costs of real estate, food, transportation, etc. Some of these things are highly labour intensive so their costs are related to the cost of labour. Things which are not labour intensive have their prices dominated by unrelated supply and demand issues. Real estate is not labour intensive. A single landlord can probably handle dozens of properties.
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I lived in airbnb for 4 months whilst waiting for purchase to complete, was considerably cheaper than renting (winter months)

Now live in Kent, 33 mins to London Bridge, 3 beds with a garden for almost half the cost of a flat in London...
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Moving to either of these places is just absolutely absurd. What would possess you to buy into what could crash tomorrow?
Virtually everyone alive now is going to die on this planet, and their children, and their children's children. It's vaguely possible that someday we may find a place elsewhere for future generations to destroy eventually also, But no more than a tiny few are going to get to go; it will make no difference to the people left behind. We will have to continue to struggle on with what we have.
In the UK it is. The market is too big to fail.

The government props up the market, because otherwise they'll get booted out by the millions who have staked their retirement on property, plus the taxpayer owns £ billions of equity via the help to buy scheme, so the govt takes a direct hit of prices go down.

Local homeowners prop it up by ensuring no new housing gets built near them.

On the monetary side, the bank of England props up the market (e.g. funding for lending scheme), because our economy couldn't handle a crash, our banks are loaded to the gills with mortgage debt, they don't have enough capital to withstand a crash.
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Leave London? You said yourself that almost anywhere else would be a better financial proposition. Why not move?
> I was a Windows user for a decade and have now been a Mac user for a decade and the level of maintenance required for a Mac is _easily_ an order of magnitude less than Windows.

That's still generally the case, but it's worth mentioning that over the last decade, Windows has improved significantly. It's still the worst OS, but it's a lot closer to OS X now.

After decades of innovation, we now have operating systems like NixOS and Guix that are inherently maintainable in ways Windows and OS X can only dream of. If we had a user-friendly NixOS (or Guix) for schools, etc. it would be trivial, even for teachers and volunteers, to maintain hundreds, or even thousands of systems.
It is also related to the height of the mortgage rate; higher rates means more people cannot afford to buy a house, so house prices go down.

With the current unprecedented low interest rate levels it is hard to imagine, but there was a time that mortgage rates were above 10%. And there is no fundamental reason why they couldn't go back to those levels one day.
Virtually zero jobs require 20 years of education or degrees, 99% of jobs can be learned with a boot camp.
He means that tax on any additional income over £50k (actually, over £45k) is taxed at 40%.
And yet, London has a population of over 8 million. How do they stay afloat?
Hi guys- I wanted a simple way to send lists of podcasts to friends. So I made my first web app, and here it is!

The backend is in .NET Core and the frontend was built in simple HTML, CSS, and Typescript.

Here's a link to the github:

https://github.com/mmnormyle/radiofuturefinal
UK income tax is banded, when people from the UK say they're in the 40% tax bracket they're just referring to what band they're in

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowa...
Nothing soured me on "the economic establishment" more than hearing it said over and over and over and over again that rent control is terrible and bad and basically a way to destroy a city.

All while living in various rent-controlled apartments in Montreal, where even people who are working modest jobs get to live happy lives.
> Paved streets could be added much more quickly than streetcar lines

Streetcars tracks can be put on the ... street. The hint is in the name, kind of. :) . They're also much lighter than railroad or metro tracks. You can have level crossings and tight corners.

I don't see them as especially hard to build.
Cars probably require a lot more space, when you add all the multiple lanes, intersections, overpasses etc, when you take into account their low density.

So I wouldn't see it as obviously going either way.