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This problem still occurs in countries that are far more stringent in their fundraising and campaign spending regulations. While I wouldn't say that campaign finance reform is a bad thing, it doesn't really fix this problem.

The US has the most money in politics per capita in the western world, and yet, given how much a company can get per dollar spent, lobbying and donations are an absolute bargain. Handing money to a politician directly is very effective, but in practice, even a lobbying group that didn't spend a dime in elections would still be worthwhile for industry groups.

The dynamics of collective action don't even need government to be true: You see the same behaviors in large corporations, where departments can cause a lot of overall damage to a company by causing small inefficiencies to everyone else: Not enough to organize against. Having worked in government and in big enterprise, if anything government is better, as the lobbying and the cajoling is far more visible.

The solution to the general inefficiency problem in infrastructure in other countries is, against what you would think, is to align goals empowering government vs contractors. The places where we have more inefficiencies is where we are trading not money fork work, but knowledge for expertise: The more layers of expertise we borrow, the harder a contractor is to replace, and thus the higher the final markup.

There's a great study on this regarding the Madrid subway. The subway authority has a budget, and in practice it will go up if they have more ridership. It's in their very best interest to have a large, high quality network, so to keep costs down, they do most of the planning themselves, have a lot of the engineering in house, and most of what they farm out is basic construction and drilling: They'll go as far as to give different contractors different sections to drill, because different sections of tunnel are easier to handle with different techniques and machinery. It's not as if Spain doesn't have insane infrastructure inefficiencies overall, but in this case there's enough goal alignment, and enough decision making outside of the political arena, that they save an order of magnitude per kilometer and per station than the US equivalent, while typical highway construction, decided at the political level and handed to big contractors, aren't really any cheaper.

In software terms, it's the difference between handing the work to a small startup that lives and dies by its runway, or handing a project to big software contractors, healthcare.gov style: The big project handed to the big contractor will very rarely work right, and it will be incredibly expensive.
Those opportunities are there for people who want to invest. The rules are in place to stop solicitations for investment, not investors. Anyone can go looking for these opportunities and participation is not hinged on being an accredited investor. The rules are to stop these startups from making promises they can't deliver to people who can't protect themselves when they don't.
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R. Bigelow, just stop those god damnable red towers ok
Thanks for posting, as this one event by the far, far right with a couple dozen people stands in sharp contrast to dozens and dozens of examples involving as many as hundreds of people from the left, and really shows how unequatable they are.
I hate to be snarky, but there's another factor: laziness.

When there's a replacement bridge under construction around here, business at the local dunkin donuts goes up ALL DAY, not just at lunch and shift change. Everybody's there: laborers, supervisors, delivery drivers, managers, engineers, owners' reps from the state DOT and the towns involved.

And, in Massachusetts we have a peculiar extra cost: The police force has a monopoly on doing the traffic safety work that flag people do everywhere else. They have the right to arrest people who work in or near roads if they start working without a paid police detail on the site, or keep working after the police detail leaves. Slows work down; gives people a reason to wait around after arriving on the job.
American exceptionalism might have a place in the discussion, as the USA is exceptionally big. Furthermore it is notable that the only countries that are likely to have similar quality infrastructure with lower population density are the Nordic ones.
It was actually Mrs Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize winner (although a reluctant one).

The quote was "one thousand and one is still only one thousand" from a poem about a concentration camp (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szebnie_concentration_camp)
Slackware is right up there with Gentoo.
> To make a difference in the world? That sounds like a grandiose rationalization used to cover up an abyss underneath it. A sentiment is a poor substitute for purpose and justification, a vacuous idol whose twilight approaches.

What purpose and justification could there possibly be in "stop setting yourself impossible goals, lead a simple life, find humility", etc., as the original poster writes? That's just trying to put a good face on defeatism using flowery language. If that works for people, more power to them, but let's not pretend it's something that it isn't.
Is your argument against "forcing others to live how you see fit" as in your original comment, or against change from the status quo as in these follow on comments? These are not the same thing.
Elon Musk will leave Trump councils if U.S. withdraws from Paris agreement
Interesting - the article doesn't seem to mention what happens if you're indigent. Also looks like it is highly regulated, between required coverage, not discriminating against existing conditions, and the "copay" (US term):

> and by a charge of 10% of the costs over and above the excess. This is known as the retention, and is up to a maximum of 700CHF (PPP-adjusted $429) per year.

That is absolute peanuts in terms of costs in the US.
We used PNaCl to port some games to a Smart TV. It was a painful experience. Debugging chrome from a custom gdb, breaking changes from release to release, and some very subtle bugs in pepper API. But the final results were surprisingly not so awful.
I am aware that many jobs require physically being there. That is not at all what the reply to me said.

I am a writer. I am quite poor. In fact, I am currently homeless. I have been bitching via blog here recently about my frustrations with the widespread attitudes that writers don't deserve to be paid dirt, never mind that people online expect good quality writing to be readily available on the internet. Somehow, that high quality writing should magically appear without paying anyone for it in any way.

I don't make much money. I wish I had a better income.

I am really glad I can make money online at all, but, no, I am not part of some privileged elite with money, power, mobility, etc. I do have mobility. I do cherish it and it enormously enhances my life.

But life is a great deal more complicated than those who have ALL the bennies and those who are nothing but crapped on in every way imaginable. This isn't even a case of shades of grey. Life is incredibly Technicolor and varied.

I think it is completely legitimate to give some push back against the enormous amount of assumption in both that reply and yours.

I would like to see us come up with better solutions than we currently have. That will not happen if we blithely tolerate what amounts to classist assumptions dominating any and every supposed intelligent discussion.
You're replying to a comment where I made clear that I want you to be able to make your own lifestyle preferences.
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Sun-Thurs: I try to go to bed by 9pm, read/watch some show and hopefully fall asleep around 10pm, wake up at 5:45am.

Fri/Sat varies.
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I'm talking about risk. PoS is likely to have many more security issues than Proof of Work does. Other things could break, too, because of it. We may see other attacks such as the one that led to the big fork (ETH vs ETC), and so on.
>They have right to choose to limit their standard of living, as you have done, and move to an urban core and be completely dependent on transit for transportation.

As opposed to being completely dependent on public roads for transportation? Or out away from the "urban core" do you just get around on four-wheelers and snowmobiles? If so, maybe we can stop spending so much of our taxes building roads out to wherever you want to live.
Well, I was just watching yesterday an episode from TNG, where Geordie detects a "deuterium leak", and Riker immediately asks "toxic?"

Dude, it's hydrogen, you need to have different concerns there.

At least they did acknowledge that firing a weapon in a deuterium-rich atmosphere might not be wise, depending on concentration.

Eh, just push the non-chewy bits to the edge of the plate and enjoy the rest of the culinary confection.
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Ask HN: What is the complexity of the typical data that you work with?
Granted that it is very difficult to measure data complexity, I refer to the four dimensions of data defined by the 'Big Data Commission'.

1. Volume: The sheer amount of data generated or data intensity that must be ingested, analyzed, and managed to make decisions based on complete data analysis

2. Velocity: How fast data is being produced and changed and the speed with which data must be received, understood, and processed

3. Variety: Structured, unstructured, semistructured

4. Veracity: The quality and provenance of received/produced data
In-app purchases are a decent alternative. Give a mule some BTC, mule buys premium currency in your shitty game, your shitty game company sells the BTC it "acquired" on the open market.

Either way, you've got income from selling digital goods for cryptocurrency, rather than cryptocurrency with no socially accepted narrative for possessing it.
> almost nothing about modern society involve choices that only affect the people right around you

Please visit a city council meeting.

> When you shit, it goes into everyone's water supply

When I take a shit it most certainly affects no one outside of Texas. There isn't a river in the country flowing fast enough to make my assertion false.
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Oh yeah, you're right about the federal funding screwing things up. Again this gets turned into a political tool used by the federal government. Witness the issues with this current administration screwing with funding for mass transit in Seattle and Caltrain in the Bay Area. Things that have been planned for a long time being thrown off the rails due to politics.

The obvious solution here is for the federal government to have less of a role in infrastructure spending. It should only be infrastructure that is nationally or regionally strategic. The rest should be handled by the states. In turn the budget (and thus federal tax) should be reduced by this amount for the states to pick up with their own taxes. (Don't get me wrong I'm not a full libertarian states rights type person but in this case it's pretty cut and dry situation where states should handle their own infrastructure planning.)
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Uber blew through $1M a week in an effort to make UberPool viable in SF
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That's quite different. The astronauts were small in number and accepted the risks for themselves. It's not as if hundreds of contractors died building the Saturn V itself.
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It gives the consumer access to the software.

I agree that the fact that you only see them after the sale is a problem, though one that would be "solved" to some degree if every vendor could be reliably relied on to honor the terms that say "if you don't agree, return it to the vendor for a refund".

There are bunches of problems around EULAs, but the general concept of an agreement you must adhere to in order to legally use the product doesn't seem especially legally shady to me. Or at least not in the ways referred to by the commenter I was replying to.
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Exactly. I think you can hand wave most things, and invent your own rules for how the universe works, including magic, aliens, FTL travel, teleportation, resurrection, etc.

But there needs to be at least a cursory hand waving, and the hand waving and the resulting rules must be logical and not contradict each other.

Although hand waved premises can set up the plot (magic exists and there is a school for magic kids) it's not really fun when the plot is advanced by hand waving new things as they are needed, and the hand waving should preferably just be background things like moving from a spaceship to a planet or walking around in space - in a budget friendly way.

I personally have a problem with anti-gravity spaceships, unless the other technology is at least Star Trek-, Star Wars- or preferably even Culture level.
Unity uses a modified version of PhysX. Unity 5 updated to a newer PhysX build that supports at least some multithreading.
No they were only attempting eugenics and genocide a few decades ago.
I'm a writer. I do freelance writing for an online service, I sometimes edit resumes and I blog.

I can make better than minimum wage in fits and spurts, but I currently don't have much earned income. A large part of this is rooted in my medical situation. The details probably aren't really of interest to you.
You could go longer if you did periodic oil analysis plus put on a new filter (and top up the remainder) between changes. Could probably double the figure to 10k, depending on engine age.
What makefile/build system r u using ?

I am curious since i did some work on parallel builds and I always wonder how much of this is (easily) transferable to other setups...
That's just a description of huge inequality, though. The "economic success" is largely concentrated in a tiny pool of the extremely rich.
I'm finding the writing style of this article very strange. Is the author pulling some trick that other linguists would find amusing?
A wage that is agreed upon by both parties without coercion is not, by definition, a 'slave wage'. Yes, there are poor people who live in hellholes and are used to much lower salaries than you and me. It may make us feel uncomfortable or guilty, because we don't 'feel' as if we 'truly' deserve so much more money than them. But thankfully, following irrational feeling of injustice is not the only foundation of ethics that we have.
In what way was swordfish like Sneakers/Hackers? The latter are cyberpunk-ish, a bit ideological.

Swordfish is more of a "caper" movie with a cheap tacked-on hacking bit. Bad guy wants money, uses hacker and LOTS OF CRIME to get it.
Do queries to github.net stay internal or do you also sync github.net zones to Route53/Dynect ... just in case?

We have a similar setup with unbound and nsd (no need for powerdns for us). Even then it took a while to get it right because JVM apps especially love to hang for no reason doing NS lookups. You also need to specify -Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl= etc since they don't listen to TTLs.

Running unbound on every single machine has saved us a lot of downtime.
Okay, but wrapping functional F# code in .NET objects abstracts the functional internals away from C#. C# code can then use the F# object as if it was using a C# object. Does that address the issue you were referring to, or were you referring to something else?
There's lots of fun here!

> It will cost $271 million to design a 7nm chip, according to Gartner.

Not a million more, not a million less.
Firing someone for performance isn't a thing in Japan.

The "pointless simple make-work" isn't to build up cause, it's to abuse and degrade them until they have enough of it and quit. The technical term for this is "constructive dismissal".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal
Wait so you're saying political polarization isn't because all southerners are racist idiots? You mean they might actually have reasonable desires of their own? Mind blown. /s
Oh in the Windos sphere there was Windows Forms, and XAML, and some others thatvI forgot; and html/css based ones (there were some 15+ years ago!); and some other 'universal' ones like wxWidgets but not open source existed years ago. New ones coming out not so much, no.
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It's kind of interesting that we've come full circle. We started with pocket watches and moved to wristwatches when it was too inconvenient to take something out of your pocket to check the time in the trenches of WWI. Now we've transitioned back to pocket watches in the form of a phone because it's "more convenient."
I've been trying to understand Ethereum, but I was somewhat disturbed to see how heavily it was being pushed on 4chan's biz forum. That can't be a good sign can it?
The Port Mann bridge outside of vancouver was replaced in 6 years from the first twinkle in a politician's eye to the completion of the project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Mann_Bridge
The history described in this article is fascinating, but it does nothing to prove the article's thesis that English is uniquely "not normal".

All it does is describe how it's different, principally, from continental languages in the German and Latin families. Which, you know, you might expect when it comes from a big island off the coast.

Only English has spelling bees? In Chinese you have to memorize thousands of characters -- much, much more work. English has no genders and less present-tense conjugations? Again, Chinese has no genders and no conjugations. English uses a weird word "do"? Chinese has a weird word "le".

I'm only using Chinese as an example because I took a few semesters of it in college... but the idea that English is somehow an "weird" outlier in the world of languages doesn't seem to have a shred of supporting evidence from this particular article.
Well, out of the big gaming companies, Take Two is the best one to get acquired by. Let's see where that leads.
That's an excellent advice and it works because people are motivated and have a tight feedback loop ("is this what I wanted?"). Arguably this is the best way to learn if you follow it with some deeper reading on the subject once you have a working solution to close gaps in your understanding.
What I want to know is: Is there some kind of mode of attack we can use, such that when the bacteria develop a resistance to it, in order to have the resistance they must necessarily become vulnerable to something else.

If you have two or three of these things which are mutually linked. The bacteria can become resistant to one but will become vulnerable to the other.

I am however not a biologist, just a developer, so please excuse me if I am mistaken.

Is such a thing even possible? Is some one working on something like this?
And if you don't have an agreement, you have no right to use the software.

The execution of the EULA as a thing you don't get to see up front introduces problems, for sure. But I don't see anything blatantly illegal about an agreement that says, "you must adhere to these terms to use this software".
It's all a matter of degree. The Martian also has creative decisions that the author semi-apologizes for because they made the plot work. (Such the idea that a windstorm on Mars could blow anything over.)
Not a gun but nuclear missiles: https://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/why-sprawl-was-cause...
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I woke up to a flat tire about two months ago. Don't know why, but that was the breaking point for me.

Since then, I haven't driven a single day. I walk, take the metro or get an Uber.

I haven't been happier. Driving was easily the worst part of my day.
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Sure, but "becoming maintenance experts on critical systems, assuming responsibilities that no one else wants" does not imply putting out fires nor bad design. Not by a long stretch. But then again, if the company has that badly written critical system, someone willing to work on it responsibly has more merit then someone who is not willing to work on it. Of course if you are able to do it better and make needed changes then it is even better, but prerequisity is you being willing to work and assume responsibility.

The part I quoted from defines merit as raw talent or something like that, not by how useful or responsible you are. He assumes that your motivation have to drop over time and if it does not, he assumes you are bad developer. That is wrong. The productivity/motivation drop itself is a fault, not a virtue. Yes, good leadership deals with it too, but if they don't need to babysit you that way they might value that alone.

It is not just skirting unpleasant tasks. Some positions are largely repetitive - if you can not deal with that you are not suitable, period. I am unsuitable for them too, but I am quite happy that I have colleagues who are suitable. It is not actually that easy to find people who will reliably do boring work. Some positions require you do deal with problems nobody managed to optimize or difficult customers or such. Again, if you can not deal with that you are not suitable and if you can, that such ability is pure merit. Quite a lot of "hackers" run away from difficult tasks that require you to understand abstractions and such - I am good at those. As much as those "hackers" can assume me to be less capable because I did not flocked to cool new language, I still have skill they don't have.

Knowing what you are suitable for is important, but as I said, all the resentment and condescension towards people who are valued for their actual contributions is absurd.
Why do they always say "nothing will change"? Of course things will change. That why someone acquired them, to change something.

And why do they always say the acquisition is good for the community? I count meself to the community, yet I didn't receive any six to ten digit payouts from the sale. Why should it be exciting for me?
They have right to choose to limit their standard of living, as you have done, and move to an urban core and be completely dependent on transit for transportation.

This is dismissive, insulting of my preference to live without a car and rather hostile. If you were intending to say that you support my right to choose, you failed to communicate that. It came across as contemptuous and is in no way sympathetic to the fact that walkable neighborhoods and public transit are not hostile to drivers the way the current car centric American landscape is hostile to pedestrians.
I know you couldn't resist injecting an anti-car barb in there but it makes no sense - the problem in the US isn't our "abusive relationship" with cars, it's insufficient infrastructure. Your magical public-transportation future will be ever bit as bad or worse than cars today if the government similarly underfunds it. Which they will.
Your explanation is missing a nuance in the comment I was replying to -- namely, that people were being fired for not doing the pointless simple make-work. If you're going to fire them for that, why not just fire them in the first place and skip that entirely.
so doesn't this validate the usefulness of cryptocurrency? if people are using it to store and move value around the world in spite of government controls and fiat manipulations that is exactly why it was invented.