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I feel kind of frustrated knowing that I have a solid set of skills in web programming, but just can't figure out how to monetize that. What are your stories?
No so much, software was generally obtained straight from the vendor's site, often legally. Although piracy existed, there was some sort of honor culture around the Mac.
Not only that - judging from used car websites in Denmark around the time, quite a few people seemed to have bought Teslas with expectation that they could sell them at a higher price after the tax increase. If I remember correctly it was initially rumored that the tax increase would not have been gradual.
Almost certain this doesn't qualify as "nice", but:
Namespaces make XSLT more powerful than one might think at first, because they allow you to write XSLT that generates XSLT (and so on...) by switching a namespace to a different one upon output generation.

Of course, the result is often barely readable anymore, so there's that.

Edit: On the other hand, the difference between XSLT-namespaced elements and all the others in a stylesheet is the one thing that makes basic XSLT readable, since you don't have to use a full meta-language just to create simple elements.
I have all my life savings in a checking account. So in my case if I got hacked and my money from that account stolen I would be in big trouble and have suicidal thoughts very likely.

>>I'm not saying that investigating the $250k is not important; but just not more urgent than the $2k theft.

Absolutely not. Ignore the case when this 250k was your entire life savings (30-40 years of saving remainder of your salary every month and slowly building savings for retirement).

It could be mortgage money which you are about to buy a house with or it could be company money for payroll. Suddenly employees of a small business don't get paid. Those employees of course have to pay mortgage/rent/medical bills and suddenly paycheck they counted on doesn't come. This could affect many people in very negative ways.

I think $250k stolen should definitely get a priority to be investigated by agents over $2k stolen as it is more likely it will mess up lives of many people in a bad way.
Just nitpicking a bit about something I'm passionate about: Becoming a multi-planetary species should at least be on that list, if not first item.
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So I have a service I'm thinking of implementing, and I have the domain name freesomething.com reserved. My goal is to let users do something they may want to (upsell from the free service), by paying an annual or monthly fee (haven't decided yet).

Question is; freesomething.com with an upsell? Is this too blatantly a bait and switch?
This happens with cargo vans in the US, which are imported as passenger vans before being converted, to avoid a 25% tarrif on the import of cargo vans.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/feds-watching-fords-run-around-...

However I'd challenge that this is a market failure - this is an example of the failure of a rules-based approach to regulation.

In countries which take a principles-based approach to regulation then the substance of the transation is considered as well as the form.

So this kind of nit-picking to circumnavigate the rules wouldn't have been allowed.
Where I live 90% of people work in a industry that has a problem with diversity and inclusion, with a unemployment rate that is higher for men than women. Its not a problem isolated to a single industry or even a single society. For reasons that we don't like to talk about, the wast majority of women work in industries that exclude men and the wast majority of men work in industries that exclude women.

Maybe we should acknowledge the root cause here rather than picking which sand bucket we choose to bury our heads in?
It's political. Note that BBC Good Food is in exactly the same scenario, legally. Yet it's fully accessible in the UK.
Audio equipment is not taxed at 100%.
I am skeptical that a 180% tax on fuel-powered cars is good policy, however I can see the point given that Denmark is extremely concerned about the environment.

That said, I think that the same bracket on electric cars is a truly draconian measure.
I'd say that's good. I wouldn't want some rogue software changing my settings on me, like how Chrome has been included in the installers of other software in the past. I wouldn't want to install Skype and then find that Chrome is now somehow my default browser.
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What I find absolutely incredible is that this is accepted at all. You really have to wonder how we went from a computer with a bunch of slots and open schematics to one that is so closed you need permission from the manufacturer to run whatever code you desire.

The degree of paternalism is astounding.
Which OS did WanaCry effect again? And when has OS X ever had an exploit like that?
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Have you tried Comcast’s xfinity mobile service?
Also dutch, and while kk can mean kanker (cancer) in chats its often used as just 'ok ok'.

Though I did have an awkward incident once where someone thought 'kk' meant cancer and they got very upset.
This is roughly along the lines of the vast majority of the people that would happily vote in a police state if it meant that they were safe.

Freedom is a good thing, even if it comes at the price of some risk, no matter what the context.
We need electric self driving busses or similar, capable of moving large amounts of people frequently without the parking and other traffic related stress.
I found the same issue, so promptly moved to use BoxySVG, which I must say is pretty amazingly simple and modern.

Sure, it's not open source, but it is free.
Cars cause other problems beside pollution (not that electric cars are pollution free). An over reliance on cars leads to sprawl, sprawl reduces quality of life. Accidents costs lives.
It's not even very hard to imagine. Just go to any web-based diagram drawing service (there's plenty of that), and look how sluggish and crappy it feels even when performing simplest and most basic tasks. Now multiply that crappiness 10x for the complexity of vector drawings (100x if you're doing vector art), and additional 10x for the complexity of the effects vector formats can handle - and you'll get a ballpark of how Inkscape would feel if it was an Electron app.
It's better to think of iThings as semi-flexible embedded devices instead of general purpose computers.
I wished I could back up my repository when I worked with AccuRev or SVN. Knowing with absolute certainty that the worst-case scenario was just reverting to a copy meant that I could try anything in git, even when I barely knew what I was doing. Freedom to experiment without consequences made learning git a much faster process than previous version control systems I'd worked with.
Same in height when compared to the Angel Falls which are 980m high[1] vs 51m for the Niagara Falls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Falls
"Mesmerizing View
Looks better than reality."

So, does that mean the pictures on the website lie or is it as nonsensical as my comment on it?

Well, It does look like an ice scraper for a lamborghini...
In Europe there are no import taxes between member states though. I live in Lithuania and it's quite common for people to drive to Poland for larger purchases (e.g. kitchen appliances) where they are a lot cheaper. If you buy as a business you pay 0% VAT in the country of origin.
since this got downvoted, what forces their hand?
Gotcha, but I believe from personal experience that there are tons of fabric blends that are cheap yet feel fantastic, how not to get tricked?
It seems Google Voice is US only, and a bit abandoned. From the UK, the website throws various errors, and searching for "Google Voice" in Apple's App Store just shows spam apps.
Was aiming more towards some real ones :)
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Just imagine what the PC landscape would look like if the various big entities active in that space had figured out this trick before we - thankfully - got Linux on the server, meaning that if they try to take it away there will be a huge roar.

That's roughly what stands between us and losing our ability to compute with whatever hardware we want, whatever we want.

Cory Doctorow had it right all along, I'm just surprised with how fast we are getting there.

http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/coming-war-general-com...
> if you use Electron and build a custom UI you don't need to worry about it being unsupported or poorly supported in the future on certain platforms. It's just HTML + CSS which is going to be around a lot longer than the current iteration of UI frameworks.

No, you just have to worry about JS frameworks that change every week, and HTML/CSS support which also tends not to be very stable over time. Forget about pixel-perfect UIs.

Also, the way people write those pseudo-desktop apps, their UI breaks in really funny ways when your Internet connection lags. This is not Electron issue per se, but the issue of culture around web tools.
> yo, please don't delete me

Nice :)
> - Polution created by making a car.

No different from making any other object - you might as well tax e.g. TVs if that's the rationale.

> - Cost of parking, especially in cities:

Agreed, but better solved by disallowing street parking and taxing land ownership. Again, tax the parts that introduce the negative externalities as directly as possible, otherwise you create perverse incentives.
Probably not. You can download the footprints of the buildings here:

https://data.cityofnewyork.us/browse?q=buildings&provenance=...

Other uses of this data:

https://nycopendata.tumblr.com/post/156085577820/one-dataset...
> It seems possible to me that it would be advantageous for there to be randomness baked into personality

There is also a question of possibility. Do we really understand how few hundred megabytes of information driving a soup of self-replicating peptides could encode the details of large, complex organisms, completely with all their behaviors, regardless of environment and random flukes? It's a miracle that this stuff works even as far as we can observe it working.

And on a somewhat tangential note:

People discovered genes and sorta jumped to conclusion that there must be genes for every adjective they have ever come up with to describe organisms. They used genetics to justify various eugenics movements. 100 years later, we still have trouble finding genes responsible for complex features.

I somewhat trollishly call it "intelligent design" or, more specifically, "anthropomorphically-intelligent design" because it really is an assumption that life is a sort of machinery designed in the same way the current generation of humans would go about engineering that kind of stuff, i.e. describe the "features" we think organisms have and figure out ways to "implement" them using biological processes we assume to be possible.

I'm not saying that I know a better way. I'm just not really surprised when science delivers less than people hope and hype.
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Since you're using python and R I'm gonna throw Jupyter (used to be called ipython) into the mix (I'm using it half the time on desktop anyway because notebooks format everything so beautifully). You might also want to install Hacker's Keyboard from the play store so you have access to shift/enter/ctrl, and while I havent personally used it on a phone it should work fine. Here is a random tutorial link http://bretahajek.com/2016/12/jupyter-notebook-opencv-androi...

And using termux+vim is definitely an IDE, but has a pretty damn steep learning curve.
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This isn't the first story I've heard about a walk-in clinic providing sub-par care. The last was someone who went in with chest pains and was told to go home and that they were fine. When they went to a real hospital they were immediately sent into the OR for emergency bypass surgery (and thankfully survived).
Here in Portugal we have highways with automatic tolls using a small transponder. It is quite common.
this seems applicable to libertarianism
This is actually a significant problem in the UK. You could create a much better environment for pedestrians and cyclists if city streets weren't clogged with parked cars all the time.

Danish streets do seem to be much clearer, even in areas that have similar road conditions and population density to UK cities.
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I believe mainlanders normally spell it "en".
A lot of European countries have vignette stickers (often only for buses/HGVs), which are needed to travel on highways. The sticker attaches to the inside of the windscreen. The only infrastructure/logistics needed is to sell the stickers to fuel stations, and a few signs when entering the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vignette_(road_tax)
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Started mining bitcoins since first year in college, mined on college servers, library servers and even room mates laptop. Installed mining nodes on few freelance customers too..

Now its paid off..holding 100,000 bitcoins now...feels good.
The BBC charter and the various laws that the BBC have to operate under.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/catego...

> The BBC may carry out commercial activities but only through subsidiary companies. There is a risk that without appropriate safeguards the BBC’s public funding could be used to subsidise or benefit these subsidiaries by offering services on favourable terms. This could distort competition by giving its commercial subsidiaries an unfair competitive advantage.
Native Xcode or VS run on mobile is not possible by multiple hardware/software issues.

I'm using iPad for developing in Xcode using ACPU remote control of my Mac from 2014. I was made special ACPU-bot for touch control of remote Xcode execution and low bandwidth connection.

http://acpul.tumblr.com/post/116464494150/xcode-on-ipad
Electric busses self driving or not would not do you good in places where public transportation does not exist currently.

Busses with drivers electric or not are easy to implement and we have them today, but many places still lack good (or even acceptable) public transportation links for many reasons including lack of investment, high car ownership rates or as far as cities lack of urban planning, especially for older cities that were not had to be rebuilt after WW2.

Driverless busses would not really make a difference for any and many more root causes. They will reduce the cost of operating already existing bus networks with good traversability and optimized bus routes, they would not however magically help you to setup public transport where there has been none, in fact it might be more expensive to go driverless from the get go.
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Tesla is a pretty expensive car, so when the buyers no longer got a discount on the purchase of an electric car less people could afford them.

The Electric cars aren't selling because only a few people can afford spending $110.000 car, more than a house in some parts of the country. Even when the subsidy was in place most of the buyers were relatively wealthy people.

You can question the Danish taxation of cars if you want, but what's killing Tesla and others is the high price. The best selling car in Denmark in 2016 was the Peugeot 208 at $20.000. If electric cars are to take of they need to hit the $20.000 - $40.000 price range.

Tesla is a luxury which sold well among the well of segment of the population, when they were given a discount on the taxes, by the government.
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Polynesian navigation and settlement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation
The 180% is a good way to get people in the direction you want. The danger is that it's a huge income which the state cannot afford to lose. Because the state will still have to buy the roads for electric cars.

I think most western states are struggling with how to transcend from living off income and environmental taxes to living off something else though, as automation and green tech frees us from former burdens.
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An over reliance on cars leads to sprawl, sprawl reduces quality of life

It must be so nice to have the wisdom needed to prescribe everyone else's lifestyle.
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>complexity tends towards chaos

Sure, that's a good point, but to play devil's advocate, I could also say something like: "life tends towards patterns of similarity" and point to anything from fractal patterns in life to similar behavioral outcomes in social strata or in culture.
The EU plans to introduce a common system for road charges in a couple of years:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/road-charging/news/fifteen-...
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I honestly don't get who upvotes articles like this one. Company supporters? Bots?

I mean, this is front page for several hours now and it's embarrassingly low quality. The only reason it triggered a conversation is because it's highly inconsistent.
For one, it's an easy pick for someone with a cosmopolitan spirit. Then there's also a lot of gadgets or software that come with the untranslated "ok" which serves as a pushing base for all but the most aware and opposed to the adoption of foreign words.
The first paragraph (or maybe it's the sub-head) is "This will be a day none here at National Review and NRI soon forget. This is the day Alex died." So I clearly knew where it was going and it still hit me like a ton of bricks.
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See Russ Cox's (Go core team) blog post about Go's memory safety & data races : https://research.swtch.com/gorace
Agreed RE parking, but RE taxing TV - well, I'd say sure, tax it too. The more I think of it, the more it seems to me that a general CO₂ emission tax would help solve so many problems in the current world...
Yes, that's what it is now nominally (especially now that it's directly related to CO2 emissions). But what I meant was - these taxes existed in a time when nobody cared about that. The BPM was even called a 'luxury tax'. It's a way to tax 'excessive' consumption, which is how cars were (are?) seen.

The justification, on the surface, has changed nowadays. My point was, though, that the relatively wide spread acceptance of this sort of tax is not because everybody is so environmentally conscious; it's because it's a function of the cultural instinct to 'punish' those who flaunt wealth. Or if you don't want to call it 'punishment', at least to make those who want to drive luxury cars pay more on top of the taxes they need to pay that also apply to other goods (i.e., VAT). I mean, if those taxes were to make those driving cars pay for the building of roads and to counter emissions, you'd charge a flat fee, or a per-kilometer fee. You wouldn't tax them proportional to the list price of the car. A 250k Lamborghini doesn't wear out roads more than a Kia, but it costs several times the purchase price of the Kia just in taxes.

So my remark was that, despite today's bend of environmentalism, these taxes need to be seen in the context of the broader societal mores of egalitarianism; or 'suppression of those that show wealth in socially not accepted ways', depending on how you want to spin it.
Or maybe X11 is actually useful to many people... I regularly run expensive commercial software remotely on a beefy server and access the GUI locally via X forwarding. I suspect among professional desktop use of Linux (besides software development) this a fairly common scenario.
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There is a huge difference between police state and letting dodgy products on some store's 'shelves'. Do you support Amazon allowing sellers of counterfeit goods on Amazon Marketplace?

Besides the walled garden of Apple is not so walled - you can install any app you want on your iDevice, as long as you have access to Xcode (which is free). It is the access to the marketing and reach of App Store that Apple denies.
I agree that Inkscape is awesome, but the UI still could use some love in some places. What I am regularly missing, for example, is a widget that displays nested groups as intuitively as Adobe Illustrator does.

Inkscape gives you a possibility to search for elements with its XML-widget, but that one is really fiddly and doesn't support many really useful usecases (quickly toggling visibility, selecting multiple elements, regrouping by dragging elements out of a group...).
1. Git's not "winning" at Facebook: https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...

2. Mozilla has also standardized on Mercurial

3. Mercurial’s changeset evolution is awesome: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/
Since we're on a topic of BGP, someone spent the time to create this masterpiece:

https://youtu.be/RT-1DU33xIk
High tax rates on cars weren't set because of the environment, it's a relic of post WW2 austerity when cars and other luxury items were excessively taxed and in many places they still are.
"There's prepaid cell phone providers that recycle phone numbers, etc. "

This isn't limited to prepaid phone companies or even cell phones. This practice has gone on for years. (I worked at GTE/Verizon around the time of the merger). My understanding is that the bigger issue is that it is fairly easy to run out of phone numbers if we never repeat. If I remember correctly, most hold the number unused for 3-6 month and fewer folks change now since they can port numbers to a new company at times, if the company that owns the number allows for it. (Yes, the phone company at least used to own the number).
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