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All laws are coercive. Why are you picking out specific ones, what are the criteria?

For example public parks have bipartisan support and are funded by taxes. So why will the US tax people to care for wildlife, but not its own citizens?

At one time the US instituted a military draft, requiring citizens to carry out military service. Citizens are required to obey the law, pay taxes and serve the interests of society, as determined by the government. I believe that this places a responsibility on that government to care for and protect citizens. It must offer them the protection of the law, defend them in times of war and, I believe, provide basic health care. It should do so not just for the benefit of the individual, but for the benefit of society.

There's no point drafting people into the military if the health of the population isnt up to it. This was a major issue for the UK in WWI and a key factor in getting cross-party support for a national health service, because a shocking number of young men were unfit for duty. Currently not being in a time of war doesn't change the relationship though. The duties and responsibilities are still there.
Agree with this one. Only local startup can compete whatsapp. Asia, rusia and africa.
The average painter can't construct his own pallette and canvas. The average guitarist don't know shit about building a guitar, amp or pedals, which are electrical engineering and woodwork.

We come to accept these, I don't see why this would be any different.
It has never been the stated goal of the USA government and is not the goal of the party in power now, in the Obamacare repeal process they have repeatedly argued that letting people choose how much or how much not to pay (either no insurance or emergency only type healthplans that are not available in most healthcare markets now) and to whom to pay for healthcare is more important, if one is not wealthy enough to pay, their argument is one needs to get more money. The GOP was in favor of Obamacare when Mitt Romney implemented it as governor and when it was initially proposed by a conservative thinktank.
Because of "don't worry - it'll be fine" thinking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155068
It's not based on that premise, no. A person can think that the country should tax its citizens to protect them, while simultaneously think that the country should not tax its citizens to redistribute wealth.
> It won't make you rich, but sometimes it's nice to just watch something burn.

Cheers to this. :)
"Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison [or Oracle] " - Bryan Cantrill
The conversation in threads never goes beyond this point.

Yes, this is by design - and crickets (usually).

Even if it were by design, how can it be countered or worked around.
The problem with charity is that no one will think they need to give money to it if no one else gives it money. Also, people don't necessarily feel an obligation to pay anything whereas taxes are enforced by a government and regardless at this point pretty much anything is more efficient than US healthcare
This breaks the HN guidelines badly. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and refrain from posting like this here again.

Somebody opening the gates of hell a crack is no reason to fling them wide open.
I've built my service https://urlscan.io to some extent to be able to track the impact of certain scripts / hosts on the overall size of the website. You can find the breakdown by hostname under "Request Stats" on the right. But, for this use case, it would be perfectly sufficient to use the Chrome Devtools and filter by "facebook" for example.

Here is a scan where the 200KB Facebook sdk.js is being transferred (62KB gzipped) just to display some like buttons. Repeat for other networks like Twitter (114KB) and Google: https://urlscan.io/result/fa422ac0-3b2c-4ba7-a182-31921cc61e.... Remember: Even if you don't mind the transfer of 200kB, that volume of JavaScript will take some time to parse, especially on mobile.
Article is nonsense a high altitude detonation would in no way prevent retaliation. After reading this i stopped wasting my time.
I'm not sure what you mean by "understood". Everyone has always understood that the government works on taxes. But if you mean "agreed with", that's certainly not the case. The line between taxes and theft in the middle ages, for instance, was extremely blurry.
Wonder if there is someone out there figuring out there is also a market to find with better tasting things.

Mind you, perhaps it's not that big a thing if bland tasting food has done so well.

But these things also change. Look at how coffee has improved so much in the past 20 years for many consumers.
The founding fathers thought the rules of democracy were fundamentally broken? Isn't the Constitution and Bill of Rights precisely a set of rules for democracy?
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Lots of things are more cancerous than a banana. Fries and steak for example. And sure, if you're spraying it without the proper precautions for "years and years", it probably will negatively affect your health, though even there the cancer link is not clear.

But in spite of tons of research all over the world no one was able to establish a causal link for dietary glyphosate residue. The herbicides before glyphosate were truly vile, look it up. Glyphosate is very targeted for plants, and based on its mechanism of action it's unlikely to be toxic or carcinogenic in humans or animals, including even fish and invertebrates.

So my money is on State of California being full of shit as usual. Put simply, between glyphosate and the alternatives it's not even a question that glyphosate is much safer.
Sounds like they broke, or tried to break, his leg. Seems reasonable to me to want to fight back.
> For example BeOS never had, and never planned to have, multi-user support and different permissions.

Oh, it did. The system was the same as Unix, only difference is you got logged in as root, but it was certainly there.
If a single worker is capable of making an entire 787 in a single year then why not?

If they are getting paid less than a 787 that just means they aren't producing entire 787s, they are producing parts of a 787.
Ok, so a worker makes a part of a plane - not the whole plane. Should the group of workers be able to buy the whole plane?

I don't see the substantial and valid point in your rebuttal. Care to elucidate in the spirit of the original point?
I think that some kind of minimalism will come next, after the novelty of the current trend wears off. There are accessibility problems with Material Design (and maybe Fluent Design) due to animation overkill and over-saturated colors.

I'm waiting for the study on how many types of animation can cause nausea in some people.

https://www.webaccessibility.com/best_practices.php?technolo...
You can wait for the ship to sink before swimming to the next ship or you can jump and board another ship while the current one is still afloat. Both are viable options - depends how much you like swimming in possibilities/uncertainties, but it sounds like you find it nerve wracking. :)
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It’s amazing how we, geeks, fail to negotiate and secure our equity before delivering our work and lose all leverage.

After countless examples where tech people have been exploited by business people, Tesla pops into mind as the most famous one, we still haven’t learned our lesson!
Maybe they did choose things to confirm their hypothesis, but these aren't some mom and pop shops nobody recognizes, these are international well known brands - Hertz, Barnes and Noble, Nest etc...

If you read the entire article, you can see that the point was not Flat UI is bad, but rather Flat UI done bad can strongly hinder UX.

It makes no sense to just pick sites at random, you want to check the extremes so the evidence will be significant. To put it another way - you choose the most obvious candidates so that if you end up without a significant difference you can be positive that the hypothesis isn't correct. Following research can be more nuanced.
There is a "sermon" that is given at the beginning of almost every QM intro lecture, and as it was given by Feynman more than a half century ago, it went something like:

> "Quantum mechanics is weird. Particles are not like baseballs; leave your classical intuitions behind."

Which is all well and good. But it has subtly shifted to:

> "Quantum mechanics is weird. Our human brains are not wired to understand it intuitively, so don't try, because you will fail and get the wrong answer. Just turn the math crank and get results."

And IMHO that attitude is both (a) flatly wrong and (b) mind poison.

With regards to (a), the human brain is a turning machine-- it can simulate any rules. Learn the rules and work with them enough, and they will become intuitive. If you can learn DiffEQ or Fourier transforms, you can learn QM. Actually, the rules for the "spooky bits" are probably simpler than both of those two things.

For (b), all these undergraduates grow up into research physicists and still believe the creed they were solemnly lectured on Day One about how to think about quantum mechanics (which is to NOT think about it). As such, they are all very bad scientists because they have stopped wondering about what makes it all tick. Case in point: A good fraction of scientists still believe in "wavefunction collapse", which blows my mind, because it's so self-evidently rejectable[1].

Science went from a Plum Pudding atom to quantum field theory in about 30 years. It's been nearly a century since then, and we don't really understand things much more deeply, and I think this is because we are too busy banging particles together and not asking "why" enough. I (boldly) posit that if undergrads didn't get the "don't ask" lecture, quantum physics would be decades ahead of where it is today. We can understand, and we should try, and I would love it if undergrads were told that instead. The kind of thing in this article is what more serious physicists should be doing.

[1] This is a controversial statement, but that's kind of my point. Explaining Why Not Copenhagen is probably a topic for a separate diatribe.
> Presumably, Italy keeps its best tomato produce for themselves and I don't blame them

I think this also comes down to the trouble with transporting those types of tomatoes without loss due to spoilage.

The tomatoes you describe are exact the same as tomatoes sold here in Australia.

These Australian tomatoes have been genetically selected for characteristic that allow them to be picked green, ripen on the way to the supermarket and hit the shelves blemish free.

They look great on the supermarket shelf but their skin is as tough as nails and they pretty much tasteless.

The only
The FAA until very recently categorically denied the use of UAVs, even if it would save lives.

The drone needs to have an air worthyness certificate and be flown by a full pilot in order for the FAA to allow it. This is slowly changing though with the rules for lightweight drones.
Your account seems like it's teetering on the edge of using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's destructive of what HN is supposed to be for, so if you would please (re)-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and walk back from that brink, we'd appreciate it. The same goes for any other account in this position, regardless of their politics.
I think that people that disregard Polymer fail to understand that Web Components are already here.

They are fully supported on Chrome and Safari, and hopefully Firefox and EDGE will eventually catch up with them.

And they have to, because Chrome and Safari own the mobile web.

Polymer is transitioning to being a thin layer on top of what the browsers support, which basically means a Polyfill for Firefox and Edge, and utility classes to make writing components easier.

Web Components is what is making me finally get to love web development again.

If it is to make an application platform out of browsers, then give me a platform, not an application for doing hypertext documents that we try to bend for something else.

Chrome settings panel, the new You Tube, all new EA gaming portals are already using Web Components.

I look forward to have something like Blend for Web Components.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otcmcNY-3pk&t=17s

EDIT: fixed a few grammar issues
> The complex numbers equips the vector space of 2-dimensional real numbers with a multiplication. This structure is known as an algebra.

This is a very formal/technical and not very enlightening (and often quite misleading to novices) way of interpreting what the complex numbers “are”. It is basically just a declaration “we have this particular set of symbolic manipulations which we are making up; deal with it.” It’s also kind of ironic because historically the invention of linear algebra came out of attempts to generalize complex numbers.

For me, the key point is that the complex numbers are isomorphic to the transformations of rotation and scaling centered at a point in a plane, with composition of such transformations corresponding to complex multiplication. That is, a complex number can be associated 1:1 with such a transformation. So to understand complex arithmetic, what we really need to understand is the composition of plane rotation and scaling.

In other words, a complex number is not a vector (in the sense of the word “vector” used in physics; it is a “vector” in the sense of an abstract mathematical object satisfying certain axioms).

Personally I would say that the complex numbers “are” quotients of two-dimensional vectors (using the Clifford product, and with non-zero divisor) which include a given planar orientation (the bivector i, with i^2 = –1) but are otherwise unitless and need not be defined in terms of any particular basis though splitting them into the sum of a scalar and bivector part or into the product of a rotation and a scaling is often convenient. But doing this explanation justice requires spending a considerable amount of time explaining the difference between affine points and vectors, talking about how two-dimensional vectors work and how to think about vector multiplication, etc.

This makes generalization to multiplication of vectors in higher dimensional Euclidean (or pseudo-Euclidean) spaces very natural without bothering with any discussion of classifying Lie groups or whatever.

But you could also say that complex numbers are linear combinations of the two matrices [1 0; 0 1] and [0 –1; 1 0]; which when right-multiplied by arbitrary column vectors are respectively the identity and a 90° rotation.

Or you could say that complex numbers are the quotient ring R[X]/(X^2 + 1). [This is closest to the historical approach, where we just declare by fiat that √–1 will be a meaningful symbol.]

Or you could define complex numbers purely in terms of classical trigonometry and analytic geometry.

Etc.
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You can't win these days, you either hit an automated thing of some sort (chatbot or otherwise) or you hit something even worse - the Indian or Filipino call center. It's like a chatbot that doesn't comprehend ANY English, is impossible to hear or understand, and that transfers you to another equally useless chatbot or just leaves you in silence every few minutes.

I'll happily pay extra to be able to call and speak to a normal person who's fluent in my language. In fact I go out of my to avoid companies that don't meet that criteria when it comes to important stuff like power, phones etc. Bonus points if they have a physical storefront of some sort that I can actually walk into.
Golden times for lawyers.
Instead of talking to bots, more people will ask their lawyers to send a serious letter to the company in question.
While I did prefer the good old SysV style init, systemd works fine for me.
There's also much less of an incentive to do shitty unethical things if there's a cap on how much you can reasonably make.
Most libertarians would give those up, in favor of private solutions.

Again, I don't believe this argument, but this is the argument.
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If you just graduated from college with no money and debt how could you have a house? Also that is currently how bankruptcy works anyway.

>Personal bankruptcy could result in 2-3 years of handing over most of your income to the state (which distributes across the original loan providers)

That is even worse than how bankruptcy works right now for most debts. There already is loan forgiveness after so many years for student loans.

Also even if they did offer some faster path to discharging student debt the interest rate on the loans would go up to handle the increased loss from defaults. That would not really make the situation better either.
I was a big fan of XHTML and all related XML Components, but then politics won.
Angela Merkel:'In Everything I Do, I Aim to Strengthen Democracy'
If you think the economy is a zero-sum game then it's not a bad thing. If you think wealth can be created and that society benefits from a population with a high labor force participation (like Scandinavia for instance), then it's a bad thing.
> "This is racism, pure and simple."

No it isn't. This is immigration policy, pure and simple, but I'd wouldn't call this racism, that'd be a bit hyperbolic.
I use Google Photos.

It's easy to upload photos from the app on my phone. The app uses some sort of algorithm to figure out if photos need to be rotated and it's pretty accurate at this. Also it has some facial recognition features, so that makes it easy to find a collection of photos of the same person.

Access control is also available and personally I have chosen to make all photos private, but I do have an album of my baby that I frequently update. This album I share with some family members.

AFAIK people don't need to sign up to Google to see the photos when using a share link, but not 100% sure - how this works with access control, I am not entirely sure.
>Imagine we were talking about the army

Police yes, army no.

In Costa Rica the answer to whether government have an army is no. In many other countries the answer is "not really" or "not required"

The USA stands alone when it comes to the amount of money spent on military. It is somewhat absurd.
It's hard to determine how much of something to produce in a planned economy. It's inefficient because the market is incredibly good at figuring this out through the price mechanism.
Or you know you could setup a pension system where this hardly happens if at all by ringfencing the funds, allowing limited risk exposure and making sure the plans are well-funded. Countries in Western Europe indeed have managed to do this.
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I take it you are a fan of the copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. its the right answer for making calculations. but how do come up with a new theory? you have to tell a story or envision an underlying reason to justify it. new theories dont come out of nowhere.

this is also like saying the universe in the time of newton consisted of only newtons laws, which is untrue. if the universe is science, then you have to say the universe is changing as science changes. unless the universe really is just made of published journal papers.
the second line could use some explanation, assuming I don't know either very well.
This seems to indicate that on some aspect, internet complexity has stopped growing: https://www.isc.org/network/survey/

But still the BGP table grows, but the growth has changed from exponential to linear in ~2012: https://bgp.potaroo.net/
> Browsers would just know how to render them!

They wouldn't "just know," there were supposed to be DTDs published that would tell the browser how to render that specific kind of markup.
I think the biggest take away from this research is that a bad non-flat UI can make a site look ugly but a bad Flat UI can hinder user experience.

Frankly, I think that's a pretty obvious insight, but there are a lot of people who don't see it that way, so this research has value.

It seems that the research is well thought out and executed, but it fails to create any meaningful advice for designers - hertz' example is just pure bad design even before the question of flat or non-flat UI, the other examples that proved significant are also glaringly bad design.

A further study should fixate on a single aspect (such as in text links or navigation menus) - which designers could take real input from.
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They need $10,000 to do the test and are looking for donors. C'mon one of you HN tech millionaires - pick up the phone and cut them a check.
Leaving aside the fact that many engineers are sharedholders, or bonus structures based on company performance, it's more a metric of the ceiling these companies have for increased wages. Obviously there's a risk premium that shareholders should be compensated for, but at the same time, Google has more or less explicitly structured themselves around their reliable profit stream with no obvious place to reinvest the profits. Those Other Bets are essentially all funded through Google's ad network profits.

Obviously my simple model has pitfalls, but it's fairly apparent that, absent an illegal covenant preventing it, there would have been more upward pressure on wages in SV. The economic principle of wages tied to productivity has gone off the rails recently, and the investor entitlement you've demonstrated seems to be part of the problem.
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> As long as in-line text links are presented in a contrasting color, users will recognize their purpose, even without an underline

I saw that sentence, thought 'it would be most ironic if "presented in a contrasting color" was not actually a link' --- but then was relieved to see that the text is a link to another of their articles.
When I read this I though a violent struggle didn't happen but that he wanted to imply that it did. The reason is that it reminds me of similar techniques that my more drama-loving acquaintances use,and based on the way this is written, this guy has a flair for drama. My guess is that something happened where the author got scared and as a side effect hurt himself. Meaning he can garner sympathy and still not technically lie about what happened, but make you fill in the blanks with stuff that didn't happen. I would love to stand corrected on this, though.
> Proper nouns have only their first letter capitalized.

Are you familiar with McIntosh apples? ;)
Honestly to me, it sounds like a junior (or at least, a non-business-savvy) person tried to extort somewhere in the area of $3.5 million from the owner of their company.

In this instance, "trying to break his leg" may have been more like "got shoved and fell over" (Which to be fair, could be a reaction someone might have if their employee came into their office demanding several million dollars - who knows).

I don't know, I'd like to hear the other side of the story.
It reminds of the Jimi Hendrix song 'Castles made of sand'. Not exactly the same but definitely some common ground.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jimihendrix/castlesmadeofsan...
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