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> MEP seats are allocated per-country, voting based on domestic policies is the entire point of the EP.

I disagree, that's like saying — MPs are allocated per constituency, voting based on local policies is the entire point of an MP. It's definitely a factor, but how many people voted in the last UK election based on having "a good constituency MP" rather than the party positions?

I think an MP's main job is to make legislation for the country as a whole — yes, she should inform her opinion through the lens of her constituency and her constituent's opinions, as well as her own, but she shouldn't only vote for things that affect or benefit them directly. So similarly, I'd want my MEP to make good European acts of parliament for the EU as a whole.

Telling me they are a 'Labour', 'Lib Dem' or 'Tory' affiliated gives me a hint as to their ideological background, but it's no match for something like the voting blocs issuing their own manifestos for how they'd like the EU to progress and develop.

I think if people want the European Parliament to become more accountable, you have to start engaging with policies (and politicians) at a supra-national level.
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14592745
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Perhaps a pseudo random number generator, with the solar radiation level and the moon phase as seeds. ;)
I understand. But from my point of view, this may not have happened if the UK was still a member, as they would've forcefully pushed in the opposite direction. So I'm glad the UK is exiting before they can do any lasting damage to EU values. If the UK isn't happy with the Fundamental Charter of Rights of the EU, then it's free to pass its own "Bill of (Non-) Rights".
Have updated my original comment to reflect this. It's a very valid point.
For a distributed team, group chat can fulfill important culture-building and team cohesion functions.
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I have a spreadsheet going - there are a few serious options available still. I will publish it on here at some point.
This has been posted 5 times in the last 24 hours, I think I got it the first time.
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On the flip-side, we were also promised a punishment budget, higher interest rates and the end of western civilization. I think it's rather snooty of you to think that the plebs who didn't agree with you don't know how to distinguish fact from fiction.
Curiosity is one of appreciated traits for a cat and I doubt it would be left to disappear. I actually think it would be a trait sought after. I expect first to go to be traits less appreciated in modern environment, like their hunting instincts.
I value immutability, when I'm talking about my savings. I'm storing my savings in cash, because I don't trust central banks, but cash isn't ideal either. US might collapse tomorrow and their dollars will become paper, I've seen that many times with other currencies. Bitcoin would be an ideal solution. But for everyday transactions I would certainly use bank card or similar technology, just because even if my bank would bankrupt, I won't lose more than 50 bucks and it's acceptable risk for convenience.
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Evil every day. It breaks tabbed browsing and pins one of those stupid bars to your screen.
Cameron was actually truthful when he said Turkey will join the EU in the year 3000 at the current rate.
Nothing is more obnoxious than Tumblr, which blocks you reading further in the site past the last few posts unless you download their app (or request desktop site)
Thanks! No need for processing as I'm fairly "in the moment," if you catch my drift.

Maybe you could pick your favorite (or 2 favorites). I am traveling for a wedding, so I won't be able to do a great deal, but I have a couple of days before other folks start arriving.
People have been killing people over lies for a very long time. Fake news won't start any more of that.
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They already know all the detailed information about their third party sellers and they also directly compete with them as well.
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Isn't that just a circular definition? Bitcoins get stolen in increasingly different ways, then people say that they weren't properly secured. 'Be your own bank' is not actually a good feature.
These folks tried that, didn't work: https://sf.eater.com/platform/amp/2017/1/10/14231188/bento-c...
It doesn't say that it just says it's not an issue with Mac.
Ethereum addresses scaling with a flexible block size system, which is only a temporary solution. Long term, the ethereum community is heavily involved in "scalable blockchain" research, the only true solution to this problem.

As for coins getting stolen: Ethereum users regularly make use of "bank vault" smart contracts that can time lock funds as a protection against thefts.

As for people doing "naughty things" with Ethereum: No, there is no central entity that maintains "anti money laundering" information on transactions.
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Because there are a ton of viruses that cause it, there are a lot of things that look like colds but aren't, things that could kill a cold may be too high a risk since a cold is a relatively minor thing, etc. That said, there may (or may not) be broad-spectrum anti-virals on the way (1-2 decades)

This is trivially searchable on the web, btw, e.g., https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/you-cant-beat-the-common-co....
I'd say it didn't do that great of a job of that since if my memory serves right(I ran the numbers a few years ago on their early donations) they didn't really receive that much from bitcoin donations. Likely because it was a pain to get bitcoin at the time so it severely limited the number of potential donors.

They would have made a lot if they held them all to today but back when the donations peaked 100btc donation was $600.
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Relevant xkcd

https://xkcd.com/1174/
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I know this is directed at slack but I've noticed the same thing on whatsapp, where, in my circles - anytime there's a `thing` involving more than two people it will become a whatsapp group chat before some people even kown they're involved in the `thing`. You can easily rack up dozens of whatsapp groups and even though they might not be business oriented they make me sweat socially for most of the reasons listed in the article.

That's just the tip of the iceberg though, since it seems like an almost natural instinct, at this point, to make a whatsapp group chat for everything. School group projects are also added to whatsapp groups and with these everything the author has listed is true. Probably even to a greater extent.

In one project I did a couple years ago our group never met physically for 99% of the tasks, all the meetings we needed to have happened over group chat - bearing all the problems listed in the article. I know for a fact that the resulting work was diminished because of this. Yet, people seem almost enthusiastic about transferring work to whatsapp.
more like what is it with the rest of the world that stopped using them (the answer is Facebook and IM, obviously)
Main discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14592745
>I value immutability, when I'm talking about my savings.

What about if someone steals your savings? How much do you value immutability then?
I'm slightly confused.

Can you compare a currency market cap in USD to a company valuation??

Who is "buying" a cryptocurrency....?
It means so much to me because I live in a country with no Paypal or easy access to credit cards that can be used online. Bitcoin is the only way I can pay for servers and books.
Banks can't survive on immutable currency. They get out competed by those who take more risks, until the risk takers fail.

And FDIC style insurance does not work with a fixed currency, so you don't want to use these banks.
Perhaps easier than the mushrooms, various "chemical supply companies" will sell it to you for "research" and not ask many question. There's a list of such companies on the "RCSources" subreddit wiki.

It's definitely a good idea to get any chemicals tested before consuming them. I doubt they'd intentionally send you the wrong chemical, but I guess shipping mixups could happen. Energy control runs an excellent testing service https://energycontrol-international.org/drug-testing-service...
This means that I did something wrong and immutability is not a problem. Immutability helps me to protect my savings. So I wouldn't value it less.
Serious question:

If we had perfect encryption on all devices and no government would be able to listen in on anything (spoken conversation, mails, whatever) we would be pretty much back to where we were a couple of decades ago. I suppose the government would need to employee more real people to monitor other real people.

Is there any way we could have encryption / security with a state actor still being able to decrypt the data if needed?

I'm not saying that I personally am for the state actor, but I'm just imagining a scenario where all communications of bad actors would be via encrypted channels. No possibility to gather chatter, no possibility for rumors, everything encrypted and hidden. I mean this is the scenario state actors are afraid of, and frankly I would be too.

How would we live in a world with perfect encryption? More anonymous, sure. But safer?
I'm really trying to see "the other side" (state) right now. Help me out and tell me how we can have perfect encryption, but don't undermine security / possibility of investigation.
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And a lot of people you obviously didn't agree with.

Can't say I supported neither Trump nor Brexit but at least I think I can see that it was democratic even if they weren't my choices: people were angry and scared and voted accordingly.
>You can build a mutable payment system on top of an immutable blockchain

Can you do this without centralization?

>Without immutability, the blockchain will eventually lose all of its differentiating features, and have no value proposition.

Right my point is though that for most people immutability ISN'T actually a value proposition. It's a risk.
>> industries where it's very difficult for new blood to break into

What are examples of such industries?
This was the madness that finally pushed me over the edge and towards Vue about 8 months ago. No regrets here!
that is trivially possible (and likely) but if it happens it will be likely come out at some point, and the EU is likely to punish MSFT hard.

The EU Commission has previously fined MSFT for a couple billion dollars for "lesser" infractions.
Yeah that's the tricky part. I don't think the EU could make Microsoft open source their Windows, but I guess something along the lines of Microsoft having to give access to their source code to a team of EU security researchers that audits and looks for backdoors would be a start. But even that isn't foolproof.
The UK is still a member of the EU.
If you're going to build a central organization on top why bother with the overhead of a distributed immutable ledger below that?
I have to admit I actually use social sharing buttons because fb on mobile (the site, not the app) somehow doesn't create a link preview when I copy-paste URLs like it does on desktop.

So often a social sharing button is the easiest way to post an interesting article to my fb. But that's entirely a workaround for as stupid bug in a zillion dollar website.

Everything sucks.
I am extremely cautious but no skeptical because real projects can jump there too and find an edge. There will be crashes and a lot of scams but some few projects will find their way and we will learn how to better recognize those. Also, when I don't understand when open source projects ask for contributions via PayPal or credit cards.
Whenever I read about digital currencies I get a sinking feeling.
Everything about them raises red flags in my brain that this is an asset bubble that will pop.
All of these currencies have drastically appreciated in the past few months without anything fundamentally changing.
A series of companies have ridden the wave based on black box tech that few people understand.
I've had a few friends who are looking to make a quick buck ask me for my opinion on cryptocurrencies.

The only benefit (IMO) of using a cryptocurrency is the ability to participate in the black market.
The current financial system for all its warts does a good job at facilitating trade.

My advice would be to treat any speculation into digital currency as gambling.
Don't spend any money you can't afford to lose, take some money off the table if you happen to be winning.
I think house cats just try to communicate and are smart enough to figure out that sounds work better than body language. I wouldn't be surprised if a wild cat would learn similar behavior if it lived with humans.
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Ever since Brexit, I feel like the EU suddenly has plenty of good news for EU citizens (myself included, which makes me happy). No backdoors, free roaming and privacy law in 2018 most notably.

Anything else I might have missed that EU is doing to improve itself for citizens lately ?
I looked into sgx recently and have a question related to your comment. It seems an enclave doesn't make system calls. I was wondering how any io gets done? You mention untrusted ... is that the only way??? Trust zone seems to do it better then?
I'm sure it's ok when utilised by skilled hands. But unlike a lot of tools it's just too easy to get things wrong. Possibly by a lack of good documentation or design.

I'm still feeling bitter after seeing it introduced on my last project, a Rails app. Build times went from seconds to 15 minutes. After experiencing that I will make every effort to argue against it's inclusion on my current project (should anyone propose it).
Yeah. The customizability of a whole computing environment of Emacs is unparalleled, except by some Smalltalk or Common Lisp ones. From `defadvice` to dynamic scoping to `edebug` and `find-function`, everything in Emacs is optimized for extension development, from the tiniest 3-line long advice to N kloc full-fledged programs. And it got even better once I started using StumpWM, since now I can really control everything from inside Emacs (with window management accessible via SLIME/CommonLisp REPL) - no matter what it is, if I find something irritating I can disable or change it almost immediately. Pure bliss! :)
But your life savings are gone either way. You want to risk your life savings on your having perfect computer security?
Parent post doesn't mention the Met or MI5, and I'm not sure how the Met s relevant for eg Manchester bombing.

Those decisions not to investigate or prosecute were also made by police in Rotherham. Police were well aware of the extent of the criminality, and chose not to investigate or prosecute.

http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_...

> Within social care, the scale and seriousness of the problem was underplayed by senior managers. At an operational level, the Police gave no priority to CSE, regarding many child victims with contempt and failing to act on their abuse as a crime. Further stark evidence came in 2002, 2003 and 2006 with three reports known to the Police and the Council, which could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham. The first of these reports was effectively suppressed because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained. This had led to suggestions of coverup. The other two reports set out the links between child sexual exploitation and drugs, guns and criminality in the Borough. These reports were ignored and no action was taken to deal with the issues that were identified in them

[...]

> Some at a senior level in the Police and children's social care continued to think the extent of the problem, as described by youth workers, was exaggerated, and seemed intent on reducing the official numbers of children categorised as CSE

etc etc.
Yes, narrowing and widening are the correct words for that :). Fixed, thanks!

I have the same thoughts about available terminal options; I'd love to use Emacs for my terminal, but unfortunately there are always corner cases that annoy me enough to keep me stuck to urxvt + fish.
Yes they were bought by PTC.

I still refer to Aonix, because they were more developer friendly, had more information on their website than the few whitepapers from PTC and the web site is still partially up.
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Only a few people seem to have issues communicating with them. Weirdly I've not had many issues.

Certainly a lot better than some payment providers I've worked with
Ask HN: What personal finance advice would you give your 25yo self ?
Or if you could go back in time, what would you have done differently, what lessons have you learned ?
Interesting stuff, thanks
That's interesting, do you know which companies make their hardware on US soil?
Impossibly broad question, but have we not reached the point of... not needing too much more performance out of our SSDs for most workloads?

I say that as somebody who jumped on the consumer SSD train early (ten years ago, I guess) and never looked back, because even with those terrible first-gen controllers (JMicron, Indilinx Barefoot) the advantages were so incredible.

For a while now, though, things have seemed good enough. For my workloads (software dev, gaming) there seems to be no real-world noticeable difference between the Samsung 830 (or 840?) in my 2011 MacBook Pro and whatever new-ish PCIe drive is in my 2015 MBP.

Now obviously there will always be outliers that need that extra speed and reduced latency of course.

And maybe if there was another quantum leap in drive performance, I'd come up with new workflows. I wouldn't say "no" to more perf, obviously.
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> You can have multiple entries (html files), but share common chunks between them might be difficult in some special cases.

This is what I'm trying to do at the moment -- create a static site that's just a bunch of HTML files, while still taking advantage of Sass, CSS modules, and Vue.js components. (God, I love scoped CSS so much.) I'm sure there's a way to get Webpack to do what I want, but I haven't found it yet. prerender-spa-plugin has been a huge help, though.

It seems very similar to when I was learning Git: I know what I want to do, but Git's interface uses a level one layer lower than the one I'm operating on. "Undo the last commit", not "Reset the working tree to the previous commit's, but leave the staging area intact". Webpack's interface seems too abstract for what I want. I want to think in terms of individual pages, not of entry points; components, rather than chunks. Hopefully in five years when flat HTML files are vogue again there'll be a friendlier interface on top of it all.

Edit: I don't mean to be 100% negative in my comment! Webpack has certainly helped me solve problems that, previously, I haven't been able to solve. That alone is great. I just wish it'll go "click" so I can "get" it.
I never used those notebooks because they contain too much structure. If I miss a week then I have a number of blank pages, and I would rather have consecutive pages of text rather than blank pages when I didn't plan anything. YMMV

I use Evernote quite a bit, but it was a bit restrictive for me when I tried to do my planning in either using my phone or the desktop/web application. I like to doodle and make quick tables - basically just using a pen and paper. Evernote ended up being too slow for me as well, now I have a notebook with some bookmark ribbons to switch between my yearly and weekly planning sheets. That is difficult to do with Evernote IMO.

As for following it religiously, I miss weeks as well, and I don't really note my days as much as I probably should. What I do make sure to keep consistent is a weekly plan, and right now I'm able to get one week done in about 5 minutes - enough for a cup of coffee on Sunday morning. I think the secret is to keep it as short and sweet as possible. I used to take 30 minutes or more, but that ended up being overkill and I didn't look forward to creating my layouts. Now planning my week is easy and I look forward to it
Have you tried rollup? Webpack's tree shaking is broken and doesn't work properly with libraries structured like d3, while rollup's works properly. I've managed to get trivial 150kb minified size reductions by switching.
Hmm, I see. Maybe that's why the ladies selling the SIMs at Haneda were a bit perplexed when I hung around to make sure that it worked.
You could compare it with _funding_ valuations, which is different from _buying_ a company at a certain valuation.

Eg: If a company has 200M shares, and someone pays $1/share during an investment round, the company (and the press) will mention that the funding was done at a $200M valuation.

The same logic is done to calculate crypto currency market cap. If there are 200M coins, and someone somewhere pays $1/coin, the market cap is reported at $200M. This is, however, the total value of all coins of that currency. Often, the person(s) or company that created a coin won't own most coins (unlike with company shares).
I don't think what you are saying contradicts the gp. All the expertise that went into developing tools to host their own website probably went into developing AWS. Just because they maintained two separate infrastructures doesn't mean that it's not an example of turning an internal tool into a product.
I find it hard to accept that this is a real problem... Managing a business using only group chat just sounds incompetent. Even when I get together with a couple of buddies to do a project we will use a combination of communication/collaboration tools.

Even in my office I've never met anyone with a problem flipping between the correct communication technology for whatever task.

We switch pretty seamlessly between,

* Email (with Outlook's calendar feature for organising meetings).

* Face to face meetings, (formal/informal, presentations, etc)

* Instant Messaging for time wasting but also for quick answers too. Almost always 1-on-1.

* Telephone for awkward but super useful communication with field crew.

* Atlassian's Jira. This is a recent addition and directly addresses many of the flaws of using email for coordinating projects. There are probably heaps of similar solutions out there, but I am enjoying this one.

The more channels the better!
This is my first time hearing about Silk. Thanks for mentioning that, looks like a dream for profiling. GitHub for clicking: https://github.com/django-silk/silk

To add, if using Django Debug Toolbar, there is a line_profiler [1] extension for it: https://github.com/dmclain/django-debug-toolbar-line-profile...

[1] https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler
Supply chain. Special ops are behind enemy lines without access to the supply chain, backup, or ongoing intelligence. And despite all this they must complete more difficult missions. That is doing more with less.
_very_ dependent on what you're using.

If you just use Typescript with some libraries, you just need to setup your tsconfig.json. Maybe a package.json to track your dependencies, or just vendor them in! The compiler even includes an incremental watch mode!

Almost all projects start off with some infrastructure. There's easier paths than others.
this only apply to citizens.. they will just revoke this status from you and call you a criminal if it comes to it..