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Presumably, boosters who tell me it will eventually replace the world's various currencies do expect some level of stability, because nobody in their right mind is going to use a currency that deflates and inflates 40% month over month.
It's not that they wouldn't be able to. It's that proving it was them is damn near impossible. The claim that it's DEFINITELY THEM is just so hard to put any real substance behind that it just appears to be fictitious. The amount of proof that you could find in a single binary is very limited, and even that stuff could be faked on purpose. To say that it must, 100%, without a doubt, be of North Korean origin is about as foolproof as any other conspiracy theory.
The only thing sockpuppet voting and commenting will do is get your accounts banned. Please don't.
One of my all time favorite books. If you have not see the BBC TV series of it I highly recommend it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...

So this is an interesting read you have here. I think the largest issues is that because of our technology we have allowed everyone to only hear their option. If you are in the US and you are conservative you watch Fox, if you are liberal you watch MSNBC and if you are in the middle CNN. It was not always this way. You came home and turned on ABC, CBS or NBC news and the news was delivered in a non-partisan fact based method. Then you could debt it with your family. You did not get force feed view points.

Today you never have to hear anything you do not like which leads to a closed minded view of everything.
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Well of course. Where do you think all of China's pollution comes from? Comes from outsourced US production and US demand of products.

Anytime there's a mismatch in laws and a lack of appropriate tariffs, it just asks for an externalization of cost and pollution.
As someone who usually writes the crap stuff that other people get to live with, now I'm on the other end and having to make this "order from chaos". It's one of the most difficult things I've ever done.

I just hope I can figure out how to enjoy it, eventually.

At this stage the only thing that keeps me going is I'm too proud to feel ineffective and to fail at this, ugh!
That would have been awesome.

The econet system too, this time with email and web access but still the hackable LAN that was so much fun to navigate and spoof.

?&D22=100 to change my station number to the IT teachers station when he'd left for the day. Thus all logs were from his machine, seemingly.

He hated me and my mate. To the point where he had spooled all system privileged activity to actually print out (not to a text file, he wasn't the smartest even to us 14 year olds) to paper.

It was his genius plan to narrow down which room we were logging into from!

The next day we see a locksmith changing the locks to his private computer room.

He never did catch us. Someone snitched in the end. We told a friend who boasted unbeknownst to us to others and the jig was up.

Banned from computers for the rest of school.

A really cool science teacher got us involved with the weather station (it recorded data from NOAA sats to the BBC micro!!) so got the ban amended to 'no computers with network access' so we could use the computer in his lab.

Of course we then learned how to splice cables and made a reeeeeally long econet cable and had a system of lookouts.

Good times.

Thanks Mr. Bush you were a good guy who nurtured our interest. AS for you Mr. Pollard, as an adult I get why you hated us but still, if you'd have asked us to help with the network or the lab or something we could have avoided our war.

Sorry guys, big barely relevant anecdote but hopefully someone else will smile at the fun days of the BBC Micro and remember the econet hacks.
Android looked more like a Blackberry competitor prior to the iPhone.

https://www.technobuffalo.com/2011/10/27/android-before-and-...
Is it really causing polarization, or is it causing more groups of people who were previously separated to become less separated and thus bringing the already-existing differences into a context where they can't be ignored?

I think if you ground yourself in history, and look around the world, you will see that there were plenty of very real differences between people and groups of people in both spatial and temporal directions, and anybody who had the idea that "everybody in the world is mostly the same and generally agrees with each other (and me)" was simply unaware of how deeply false that has always been.

If you look at it that way, a reflexive closing of the ranks after these decades of increasing contact with others is quite predictable, and I'm pretty sure you can expect it to continue apace for the next couple of decades at a minimum, and there's basically nothing you can do about it except somehow manage to restore the communication environment back to around the 1950s or earlier.

(After that, I expect another wave of internationalism similar to the one that currently exists (albeit sputtering and fading) between the elites of the US and the EU, but much more widely spread. But before that can happen, a lot more countries need to get much, much wealthier.)
This. I'd argue one of the biggest problems facing the United States right now is that there is a (falsely) perceived lack of competition / existential threats which is making us lazy and complacent.
It's not you. I got the archive link because I got a 404 in the first place (through https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/no-more-404s )
Well, if the unions managed to secure reforms such that that person's problem would not occur then they'd solve it. It certainly seems more likely to help more people than doing everything piecemeal and on an individual basis.
"You came home and turned on ABC, CBS or NBC news and the news was delivered in a non-partisan fact based method"

Getting news from only one partisan viewpoint is not the same thing as getting "non-partisan news".
> Making up important-sounding quasi-science "objective" data (like the ever-popular THD) is an industry marketing ploy. People are insecure and want the "best", so pretend-science lets them think they're buying "best", rather than actually listening and judging subjectively, which is scary and hard and full of weird biases.

To be fair, the far more common trap is when people believe they're getting a better experience via the price-quality relationship. Or due to false authenticity. Or general brand marketing, etc.

Often these things fail the sniff test, and people who swear their $500 headphones are noticeably better will pick the cheaper headphone in a blind test.

The entire "audiophile" industry is more quasi-quality than quasi-science, though there's a healthy dose of whatever it takes to make the people with $ spend $.
> "you short it now and close when my lockup period ends, and I'll use my locked-up long position to unofficially hedge for you"

That is illegal and most certainly not happening. Those shares aren't even available to short in fact. Yes, naked shorting does take place and shouldn't but that's nothing to do with this.

This is fake news.
You know Electron runs on top of Nodejs. How do you know it's not that?
It doesn't mean medical care is more expensive or less efficient here, it is just that americans buy more of it. https://www.quora.com/What-makes-the-US-healthcare-system-so...
In Australia, I think there's probably just the one main website (seek). Although Indeed look like a close-ish second.

I can't say I'm experienced at job searching techniques. I get most of my work through personal referrals. But I'm pretty free with advice and like helping small businesses get their basic IT stuff sorted. It's not really my day-to-day Software Dev role, but I enjoy it. And it's surprising how often it results in decent projects down the line. (although that's never the intent)
Any average day 16 elks collide with cars carrying humans in Sweden. These animals have no natural predators any longer - without these annual culls (100k out of a population of about 350k - these numbers are relatively stable from year to year) they would reach very large numbers very quickly.

(There are not that many human deaths from this any longer; about five annually. It used to be a lot worse before e.g. Volvo focused on fixing this safety problem. Someone I knew died from an elk collision about 25 years ago.)
Developer productivity vs devops hell is a compelling argument for MongoDB for fast iteration when building out. I'm fortunate to deal with relatively low scale with my Mongo deployment, but I'm hoping by the time the seams show in Mongo for our needs, we'll be large enough to abide the long road to a hardened and reliable data infrastructure.

MongoDB 3.4 seems like it has a lot of great stuff and I hope to move to it soon.
I've seen the exact same behavior with white-tail deer. All summer, they will be in the field and gardens back of the house, morning, noon and night, but as soon as November rolls around, they ghost during daylight hours, and retreat into the thickest softwood or hardwood whips or swamp, where the hunters can't push them out. Until you get to the first snow, and can actually stay on their tail and track them down, it's hard hunting.
Can you elaborate on what that agenda is?
The generational effect is strong here.

Most of us that grew up with the Internet have already made these adjustments that Mattheij is just coming to terms with now.

It's not going to get less bumpy, but the weakness of the old[1] is made pretty clear. That list of bullet points is what old people have said about young people pretty much forever. The only new one is:

* all this happens on a moments notice

Sorry the world's moving too fast for you, but everything else in your list was already happening all the time!

The systemic changes being brought about by the decrease in dissemination time, which again, is the only change in play, are caused by a meta-understanding of the pace of change reaching a head all at once.

Put another way, Singularity happens not when AI becomes 'Strong' but when everyone recognizes the discontinuity.

Edit: Put another other way, more pointedly: Unitarians have been around for a long time. The distance between cultures and people are really not that large and we already have tools for understanding them.

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[1] Now I don't dislike old folks even if I roll my eyes at their self-importance. It's weird being on a cusp: boggled by the unwitting naivete of those older, boggled by the subsequent distance there must be between me and those 10 years younger...
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> You can't find the truth by averaging lies, half truths and omissions together.

Three things:

1. Even working from my initial cynical assumption, "using context clues" in no way implies "averaging lies". It means knowing the bounds within which certain spokespeople lie, when a conflict of interest is likely causing an omission, etc. Reporters do this kind of digging with government spokespeople every single day. Even if the insights are limited to information about internal infighting within the government, that is still of greater value than Facebook clickbait that gives a false history to a typo.

2. I'm confused-- are you constraining yourself to argue within the bounds of my thought experiment that all journalists are paid shills? Or are you implying that my thought experiment maps (more or less) perfectly onto reality? If it's the latter it is trivially disproven by the investigative journalism of people like David Barstow, Seymour Hersh, Jeremy Scahill, Jim Risen... well, Google them and you'll quickly get the refutation to "paid shills doing the bidding of their customers".

3. Your last two sentences are essentially a restatement of investigative journalism. I am a fan of investigative journalism.
And now imagine how many schools could have been already built, as just under $100m was a price Arianespace had offered for over a decade for the same launches.

SpaceX’ concept is about going below $50m in the next years per launch.
Live customer since 4.0. Spot on.
On Hacker News we are enthusiastic about Snapchat as a technology without any value in terms of being technologically interesting or useful. But yet we are littered with blockchain skeptics.
26 yo here. I can't figure out, nor do I enjoy Snapchat's UI, but then again there's a whole generation below me that does, so who cares what I or people like me think?
Well: http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/

It's hard to get "completely anonymous" for large video files. It's the snake-eating-a-pig problem. Torrents anonymize much better than streaming, because users are sharing many small pieces. Torrenting is very popular on I2P. With Tor, it's best to use only onion services, because exit resources are limited.

There's potential to multipath transfers among onion services. MPTCP works, right out of the box. That would enable high-bandwidth torrenting. It'd also provide chaff for normal Tor users. And there's currently oversupply of entry guard and middle relay resources.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-10/china-warns-washing...

Taken with a grain of salt: China might not actually be 'there' yet, but they are progressing toward that goal.
You need to chill out and look at the future, not the past. If you dwell on the past, many countries have invaded many other countries. The British colonized and ruled the US for a long time. The US invaded Mexico and seized large portion of California and Texas. Even recently, the US invaded Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, among others. China was the leading power for hundreds of years, way longer than the US or Britain. China rarely colonized other countries. The Chinese people look at the future, not the past.
Gcp has it's tpus though...
http://i.imgur.com/nKcVpVU.png
I've found contract work tends to increase technical debt rather than decrease it. Contractors never say no. It's not their fault. They're not paid to say no. It doesn't matter if the work is "remove this emissions counter when x occurs," they just do what they're told. No push back. Push back means no contract.

If my PM asks me to hard code something, I understand the business well enough to know when it's a bad idea and when it's okay. Sometimes I say no, that's a 3 month project. They run out, get a contractor, who says yes, 1 week. Now I'm stuck with a 12 month repair job instead, because it has to be fixed in production.

I don't play ping pong or chat around the coffee maker either. I'm too busy cleaning up messes and trying to set things right so the server doesn't catch fire and force me to come in on my weekend.

Some days, I hate programming full time. I wish I was a contractor who would say "Sure, 1 week." I'd get all the glory. "Wow, that was fast. What a brilliant programmer." I'd hate myself for what I did to other programmers though. Bottom feeders, indeed.
It's pretty common, reading memoirs of very proficient soldiers, who have killed dozens or hundreds in battle, that they are respectful and even admiring of their foes.
Here's what Larry Summers had to say on this topic:

> 'Dirty' Industries: Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Least Developed Countries]? I can think of three reasons:

> 1) The measurements of the costs of health impairing pollution depends on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From this point of view a given amount of health impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest cost, which will be the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.

> 2) The costs of pollution are likely to be non-linear as the initial increments of pollution probably have very low cost. I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City. Only the lamentable facts that so much pollution is generated by non-tradable industries (transport, electrical generation) and that the unit transport costs of solid waste are so high prevent world welfare enhancing trade in air pollution and waste.

> 3) The demand for a clean environment for aesthetic and health reasons is likely to have very high income elasticity. The concern over an agent that causes a one in a million change in the odds of prostrate[sic] cancer is obviously going to be much higher in a country where people survive to get prostrate[sic] cancer than in a country where under 5 mortality is 200 per thousand. Also, much of the concern over industrial atmosphere discharge is about visibility impairing particulates. These discharges may have very little direct health impact. Clearly trade in goods that embody aesthetic pollution concerns could be welfare enhancing. While production is mobile the consumption of pretty air is a non-tradable.
Not at all.

Wolves don't need any help adjusting to an increase in their food supply. What you will end up with is, "What are we going to do about this wolf problem?" That's not a problem you want to have.

What you will more realistically end up with is an increase in auto insurance premiums in rural and outer suburban areas. Deer/vehicle collisions will become more common and they are expensive claims to pay.
"current government does" i mean literally does right now. Everything you mentioned is either not going be significantly affected, or not affected at all by current government.

In general I agree that removing taxation completely out of the picture as a way to to pay for medical care will make health market healthier. There are very little reasons to pay for routine family doctor visit, or x-ray via insurance.
If women ran the world eh.

"For scholars such as Steven Pinker, a psychologist, and Francis Fukuyama, a political scientist, these are grounds for thinking that a world run by women would be more peaceful."

"But European history suggests otherwise, according to a working paper by political scientists Oeindrila Dube, of the University of Chicago, and S. P. Harish, of McGill University. They studied how often European rulers went to war between 1480 and 1913. Over 193 reigns, they found that states ruled by queens were 27% more likely to wage war than those ruled by kings."

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21722877-european-histo...
I don't think I'd throw away remote opportunities if they are available.
I got the impression the formula was:

(fixed_cost + number_of_launches * cost_per_launch) / number_of_launches = 422
Not having an enforced scheme means that there is no guarantee a given key exists or that if it does exist, the data type matches what you'd expect it to be. One errant piece of code could insert a bad record that could break some other of piece of code.
The US lost a significant part of their launch capability and ULA was the only provider left. They were free to charge whatever they wanted, and it was in the national interest for them to stay in business, hence the subsidy.

Now spacex is starting to compete, costs will come down. Is something not going as expected?
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That's called an Externality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

It's an essential component in optimizing a company for efficiency, but it carries lots of costs and they tend not to stay hidden for long.
We seem to need some time to react, time to grow some thicker skin lest we’re overly vulnerable and allow ourselves to be goaded into making big mistakes, such as accidentally empowering authoritarian regimes, which tend to be very capable when it comes to using communications systems for propaganda purposes.

Or, perhaps the move towards authoritarian regimes is, itself, a reaction to that sense of vulnerability. I have read that during times of crisis in tribal cultures, the men in charge close ranks and get a lot more controlling generally. I think that bit came from some psychology class I had.

In other words, if this feels out of control, some people will react by wanting to be controlling. That can go bad places.
Just imagine what you could do if humanity moved at the pace of the slowest individual.
Compile time sorting in D
"First world problems."
What do you consider to be mens-rights?
My understanding is yes, it is, mainly because spectrum is a limited resource
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers_memo
An unmanned drone is easier because it's piloted remotely, where a self-driving car is autonomous.
Sorry, I'm completely lost. Daycares? i.e. schools do you mean? And what do you mean that they trust these services? I must be getting this completely wrong, but surely you're not saying there are schools which exclude children who've had nits unless they've got a receipt from a $100 hair comber?
Only alludes to the idea of apprenticeship but, I love it.

I use it. The hire process is so much easier, defined time-box, learners (who you want to keep) are easy to identify.
All in all I don't think that's a very accurate summary of US history.
Comey himself stated under oath that Trump was not under investigation.
Glad to know it is not just me.
If you want to continue commenting on Hacker News it can't be like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe the US needs Musk to do to these programs what he's done to space. ie instead of going for the over-engineered super expensive option show how it can be done with the SV mindset of building things faster and cheaper. If you've read his biography it details numerous times when engineers at SpaceX would come up with ways of saving huge amounts by building the parts themselves or finding another much cheaper part that worked as well or better.
I like this idea bc art implies an intrinsic interest in the work. You're not just building things for the solution, you get joy and take pride in the work itself.

Also, one small typo: it's principles not principals in that context.
This is a very timely post for me, since I was discussing this idea with a friend just a few weeks ago. I left that conversation thinking that on the whole, maybe, just maybe, the internet is becoming a net negative force on society.

Yes, lots of good has been done--Wikipedia, other outlets of free culture, email and its decentralized model, etc.--but on the whole, I think that just maybe it's poised to do more bad than good. As this post mentions, the internet and its promise of a free and instant global megaphone for any idea whatsoever is a powerful tool for manipulation, deceit, and power struggle on a grand scale. The human psyche isn't yet ready for this kind of instant firehose communication, but it seems to crave it, and our darling internet megacorporations are happy and eager to provide it, carefully tuned to be as addictive as possible.

Furthermore the human population on a grand scale doesn't have the critical thinking and reasoning skills necessary to filter this firehose: huge swaths of people in the world don't have good access to education, and in the US at least, with our high schools already at the bottom of the barrel and our universities increasingly becoming diploma mills/expensive trade schools, I don't see the education situation improving. But critical thinking and reasoning skills, which are the foundation of a good education, are exactly what we need to combat this.

I grew up in the Bay Area, and my entire life has been centered around computers, the internet, and the good they can do. It was really saddening for me to reach this conclusion. I hope I'm wrong, and I hope we can do something to remedy things. But these problems are largely cultural/human nature problems, not technology problems.
I have an eight year old (3rd grade) who loves playing around in Scratch, it seems entirely appropriate for him at this stage. In a year or two I'll likely get him to do Swift Playgrounds, it was just a bit too hard for him right now.
Many people associate artisan with food. So software artisan would produce spaghetti code.