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The super rich have a very big problem.

How to maintain the status quo? If you cannot appease the general public, there will be revolution, and the rich will not stay rich for long.

But how to appease them? Offer them a vote, create the concept of democracy.

Then What? Control the figure heads. (Think dirt, bribery, monetary influence both directly and indirectly).

Immediately, the problem is reduced from impossible to difficult. From controlling millions/billions of people to controlling dozens. And with money, difficult things become less difficult.

All that to say, off course there is a ruling class (think dynasty like Rothschild etc). You have to to think on a macro scale for this. They rule, not directly, but by influence. And we will never see them operate, by design. In the real world, money buys influence, wherever you are and whoever you are. I think the OP was referring to the super rich, who are able to pull politicians strings.

The vote is only one aspect of democracy. The public get to vote in order to feel appeased, but its more than that. The rich get to influence in order to get richer, and the politicians get to feel powerful. Off course, the general population are not supposed to know about that previous sentence.

Now off course, we see the interaction between the public and the politicians (well, except for Theresa May yesterday), in fact, this is usually highlighted to maximize the public's feeling of appeasement by building a certain "democracy hype" (can be seen before most elections).

In reality, democracy is just the "peaceful" amalgamation of all three aspects:

- public feeling good. Fooled, but working the hamster wheel as hard as possible trying to amass EARNED wealth.

- politicians not feeling good, but powerful and usually richer.

- mega-rich feeling good, powerful and richer.

Which then leads to there being those 3 types of people.

- Laythe
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> I am presuming nearly all Stripe customers do this as well

Err... we push seven figures a year through Stripe, and we don't do this.
I prefer to think of it as "I'm really looking forward to an Internet that can survive without constantly nagging me for a subscription or running third-party ad code on my computer"
Yeah I'm just curious how they're tracking my family in real-time across devices. And geez, what a way to ruin birthday/xmas/etc presents. I expect to see a preview of my father's day gift in the sidebar any day now....
> an abusive employer would be more severely punished by the labor market if the economic cost to the worker is diminished

> workers would also be more likely to create new businesses entirely if the personal financial risks associated with doing so were diminished

What kind of UBI are we talking about? If it's the one funded by dismantling the social safety net then no - you won't get more income when losing your job, because the same money is now spread among more people (most of whom still have a job). If it's in addition to the existing safety net, you'd get more of the same advantages by expanding unemployment benefits instead (make them higher / longer lasting / easier to obtain).
Why not look at the original source?

http://www.nato.int/cps/ic/natohq/official_texts_112964.htm

"Allies whose current proportion of GDP spent on defence is below [two percent] will... aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade...." [emphasis mine]

That was 2014, so the goal is 2024.
It looks like a hybrid of Big Query / Looker for your financial data that lives in Stripe, with a lot of help to make it easier for users.

Imagine if you were a small and/or non-technical shop who used Stripe for your payments. This offers a window to produce good looking reports about the business without needing to keep track of that information in parallel outside of Stripe.

They have all sort of pre-run queries for MRR, Payment Methods, etc. which offers _huge_ benefit to those people who can get some great insights for no added work.
Before that, Samsung Exynos was in some Chromebooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A15
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That's the convergence phase, where the rocket car, land car, underground car, and boat car fuse into a glorious transportation chariot for humanity's reach for the stars. Can't remember what page that would be in Musk's master plan.

The pictures were awesome.
There's plenty of stuff that changes out-of-band, such as subscriptions/invoices, retried charges, etc. You're supposed to use the Webhook system for this, but not everyone bothers.
I feel like "Help" and "Ad Blocker" need scare quotes around them.
And that's fine. Obama was making that case as well.

But this is international diplomacy here. You don't publicly berate and embarrass your allies especially when those countries were already on track to meeting the target.
Freedompop, at least stateside, has a $25 unlimited 3g plan. It just isn't listed in the options, but you can request it (at least in the US).
Some environmentalists are anti-technology types or nihilists, who look forward with pleasure at the idea of humanity suffering for its hubris. The only solution they'll consider is people changing their behavior for moral reasons, which is comfortingly unlikely.

They're not fans of other environmentalists discussing happier ideas, like setting up incentives for economic and technological growth beyond fossil fuels.
He's there to make his friends money. Period.
Would you company be possible without any sort of government support(federal/local/etc), financial or legal?
There are very real physical limits to technological fixes anyway: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/02/the-alternative-energy-ma...
And though few think of buying options as a taxable event, the bizarro world of AMT treats it that way.
I completely disagree. It's really not hard to find a company with great product market fit, say series B, get a bunch of equity, a decent salary, and wait a couple years for your equity to be valuable. Assuming the company is successful (of course there's risk there, but by series B a lot has been mitigated), your equity will likely be quite valuable. I actually think, risk adjusted, that's the easiest way to make a bunch of money.

I joined a startup long after product market fit, it was pretty obviously going to be moderately successful, and I was employee ~100. I never worked too terribly hard, and my equity was worth about 50% of my (not too low) salary each year.

If you're not joining at or before series A, a lot of the risk has been mitigated, and there are markets opening up to sell your equity into.
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That too, but the difference between the previous president and the current one is really light and day.
Your ignorance is breathtaking. The US and other developed countries have always taken the lead on environmental policy that has resulted in real change. The most famous is the Montreal Protocol which resulted in the banning of CFCs and saved the Ozone Layer[1]. The policy decision drove technological innovation and created entire new classes of appliances and chemicals which resulted in millions of new jobs.

After the Kyoto disaster, and now this, it is going to be hard to anyone to trust The United States. Past Republican and Democratic presidents may not have fully agreed with their predecessor's foreign policy decisions but they always aimed for consistent outward message. All this does it give China and Russia what they wanted, that the United States can't be trusted as a partner.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
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I would phrase that differently.

He was incredibly qualified as a candidate. Huge name recognition, a particular sort of charisma, shameless.

It's the office that he isn't qualified for.
To clarify, the NATO countries all agreed to spend 2% of GDP _by_ 2024.
Short term thinking and selfishness are the hallmarks of children. Ignoring climate change so you and your friends can benefit in the short term is pretty selfish and short sighted.

The use of "adult" here sounds accurate.
That use of "as" would require a comma: "they were free, as the case had not been proved."

P.S.: I noticed the misspelling of causality, which is was the [sic] was trying to indicate.
The real tragedy was the system prior to communism, during communism, and after communism.

Tsarist Russia was highly, and poorly centrally planned, and incredibly backwards. It ended serfdom in 1861, for Pete's sakes. The first world war demonstrated exactly how broken that system was.

Market reforms, on the other hand, inflicted immense amounts of suffering on the population, particularly segments of the population that were unable to work. (But, as with every economic system, market advocates only want to take credit for successes.)

Falling from its position as a super-power to a back-water second-world state was also a huge blow to national dignity. In case you're wondering why Russians are largely supportive of Putin's aggression, its because they see him as restoring said national dignity. It's the story of Trump's deplorables writ large.
Pros: the US was signing up for a _minimum_ of $100B/yr in foreign aid to help others implement the accords. When you're up to your ears in debt that's kind of stupid.

Cons: estimates say that the climate will be warmer by 0.3 degrees Celsius by 2100. Assuming estimates are in fact right (which they historically haven't been) this could have devastating effects elsewhere in the world.
People should just use Facebook for what it's good at, for example event planning. In a social context Facebook is often the only social platform "everyone" is on - that's a killer feature. No matter how good a competing specialized app is - if you e.g invite people by email it's not even close to the power of Facebook.

People (and corporations) should STOP using all the other features and the web will be a much better place. Don't put articles on Facebook like a blog. It's not a blog. Don't make Facebook your only site for your restaurant. A static html page with your address and opening hours is better. And whatever you do, don't ever click a facebook ad or "like" a company on Facebook.
* "Brücke über die Ackerstrasse" could be here:
https://www.google.ch/maps/@52.5395159,13.3804503,3a,75y,340...

* "An der Travermünderstrasse" might be here: https://www.google.ch/maps/@52.5535716,13.3787057,3a,75y,169...
> Trump is hurting his own base, while not slowing anyone else down.

Whether it hurts them or not this is what many of them voted for. This is what many want.
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I'm sure this is a thing someone has decided was a good idea at one point. It can easily be done in other languages, too.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone, for example, decided to hijack PHP's `__call()` function to forward method calls to a component.

Rust has the similar Deref anti-pattern: https://github.com/rust-unofficial/patterns/blob/master/anti...
> fallacious assumption that international cooperation can fix climate change

ITER for example is an international project which if it were successful would change the energy landscape and by extension the climate change issue dramatically.

This and projects like this requires international cooperation.

Also look at when the world united to outlaw HCFC refrigerant. That made a huge difference to the planet's outlook.
But Trump did not pull out of Paris because it's toothless. He pulled out because even a toothless, largely symbolic agreement about climate change is against the core tenets of his supporters, i.e., that climate change is a liberal hoax.

I know it, Trump knows it, and we all know it.
I could see post Trump the POTUS having powers taken away by the slightly more grown up house and senate.

Dropping the 18th century method of nominating candidates and moving to a OMOV where only paid up members vote would make sense and eliminate the "Nutter" problem and that's using Nutter in its political sense, it would reduce the waste of money involved in the electoral process.
I love the concept -- I already use a laptop with an LTE modem, but I really wish Qualcomm would lay off on giving their baseband such low level access to the application cores.

I already begrudgingly use a phone where I know the carrier can execute arbitrary code accessing system memory, I really don't want that on my laptop too.
How is that accomplished? I know sometimes when I go through the security line they take a white, circular pad, wipe my laptop, bag, etc. and put the pad in a sensor.

Do they do this with every piece of luggage going into the hold?
Pretty much. If Ads were without JS and videos (or, at least autoplaying videos) I really wouldn't care. Hell, if they were relevant ads to the website, I'd probably even click on them and buy things occasionally.

But when a modal pops up or I get redirected, or your ad floats over your content and tries to follow my scrolling not only are you not going to sell to me, but I'm going to leave your website.
Seems pretty likely that the goal is to get people using this unknown CDN to start serving malicious code...
Change your password and run for the hills! Clearly this part time wannabe developer / full time beer enthusiast is just trying to make a quick dollar with the least amount of effort (let's be real everyone is), but his complete neglect to basic security standards, and how that can affect his consumers is just pure neglect and laziness. I'm sure quite a lot of people who read this, much like my self will be like "oohhhh an unsecure website with passwords. I wonder what mischief I can get up to."
There are those of us who look forward to exactly that: the ability to own our participation in the content we consume. When you pay for content, you are the customer. When someone else pays for the content, you are the inventory.

Yes, ad blockers work. But they are susceptible to the tragedy of the commons: it's always advantageous to install an ad blocker. Then, as they proliferate, companies must insert more and more intrusive ads. This encourages more people to get ad blockers.

Allowing a tiered economy for content will enable those who wish to pay to do so, and those who don't to see ads. The ads can become less intrusive because the companies are no longer playing a cat-and-mouse game with their inventory. That should decrease the incentive to use an ad blocker, allowing that revenue stream to stabilize.
What if there is no technological solution, or we fail to find it?

Then we're going to see a dramatic transformation of the planet due to significantly rising global temperatures. That is the grim reality.
They've been openly attacking the open web since day one. I think the problem now is that they've been too successful.

Zuckerberg was on to something. He saw the web connecting pages, but not people. So he created a web connecting people and now it has grown to what it is. With both MySpace and Google+ practically buried, Facebook has no competition.

We desperately need an alternative, and not just one for the sake of not being facebook, but something that works. The open web needs a way to connect people.
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There were people not using cell phones in 1997 because of the privacy implications.

I guess they were making some assumptions that they would likely apply to modern tech.
I believe the main issue is that people use facebook as if it were the open web. People aren't posting because they want to keep their content in a silo, but rather because they don't know of / have an alternative publishing vector.

Nobody is saying don't have private silos, but I believe Gruber and co are saying don't pretend like a private silo is public, when it isn't.
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453344
I just applied for a different position listed on your website. Quick question:

1. Do you sponsor H1B's for people who join on OPT/do you hire on OPTs?

3. There are like 3 or so jobs with almost identical requirements. Should I go ahead and submit identical CVs and cover letters for all of them?
#savedyouaclick

Answer is $0
They have that, sorta https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3463947?hl=en
I think of them like movie trailers for the in-depth stuff. (Particularly Ted talks.) Nothing wrong with that, but the problem is when you try to go deeper and there's nothing there.
Seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario for Tesla. If you promote her, then you're being unfair to the more qualified other candidates. If you don't then you're discriminating against her.
Yes. Selective enforcement of law, especially esoteric or procedural laws that often apply in white-collar crime, is widely used and under-recognized as a potent political weapon.
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Democracy is a broad term. Trump even winning the office would indicate that democracy was ignored, according to most definitions (just not the one encoded by our laws)

This is at best equivocating over definitions. Do more people in the us oppose the PCA than support it? Is Trump only supposed to represent those for votes for him or is he supposed to represent everyone?
> I want the open web to flourish.

When the open web wins, Mozilla wins.
I found this one [0] particularly interesting :

- speech recognition as input

- support for Microsoft devices

- Marathon game engine details

[0] http://s3.bslabs.net/wwdc/1997/107%20Game%20Sprockets.pdf
To be honest, when your starting a business. I think to have him as a "business partner" would be a very bad idea also.
In the worst case, an option is going to be worth 0 and in the best case it's going to be worth > 0, so the value of an option is always positive until the company actually dies.

Lottery tickets, unlike options, cost money up front. You still can't lose more than you pay, so the payoff curve is similarly non-linear, but unless you can trade options for cash options will always beat lottery tickets.

Lottery tickets are easy to diversify in that you can buy a variety of numbers. (The times when lotteries have become a net-positive buy the buyers takes advantage of this fact.) Employee startup options are more like buying one set of numbers over and over again. On the other hand, the odds of getting any payoff from options are somewhere around 15-30%, whereas the odds of getting any payoff from a California SuperLotto Plus ticket are ~4.3%. Because you can diversify ticket numbers, you could get the same odds of getting any payoff by buying 14 tickets with different Mega numbers, which would earn you $1 to the $14 you spent. If you could buy stock in many different startups, you would be called a "venture capitalist" and those folks on average do much better than people who play the lottery.

Finally, the maximum payout of a lottery ticket is capped and known ahead of time. The largest lottery win in the US was $656 million. On the other hand you don't know going into a startup what the payoff for that particular startup is going to be, and the largest exit of all time was Facebook at $104 billion. Just like with the lottery you don't know how many ways you are splitting the payoff, but unlike the lottery it's going to be based on the decisions of the board/founders, rather than random.

Basically, the lottery is a lot simpler than a startup, with few sources of actual uncertainty, and so there's no real risk involved. It is just gambling: you can do the math to figure out what edge the house has and figure out for sure that you shouldn't do it. Startup options, on the other hand, reflect actually-unknown unknowns, and so are more valuable to those who hold more-optimist-than-average beliefs about the probability of that particular startup succeeding.
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