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Isn't all that stuff about drivers? If Apple got BeOS they would only need to implement drivers for their own hardware and ignore anything else.

EDIT: See? This is why comment voting is a bad idea, it was bad on Reddit, is bad on every Reddit clone being made and of course is bad on Hacker News. What is the point? You get people downvoting comments without reason, leaving the original commenter wonder why someone would... disagree? Consider it non-constructive? Agree but dislike the tone? What? Text explains much better than a number the intent of someone and me, right now looking at a -1 number near my post, have no idea what exactly is the issue. Not to mention the fadeout that happens in downvoted comments in HN, which is extra bad (gives the impression that this comment is not important before even someone bothers to read it - thus creating a bias against it regardless of the contents).

No really, why was this comment downvoted? There are so many reasons it could have been, from misunderstandings to actual issues, that i cannot pinpoint without someone saying it.

I mean, imagine being in the same room, having a discussion about OSes, someone saying the above about BeOS and me asking the question above... if you disagreed with something i said, wouldn't you try to explain what you disagreed with? Why aren't you doing the same here?

Note that whenever i say something like that (mainly on Reddit, but a couple of times also here) people upvote the comment after the fact, i suppose to "right the wrong". But i am not interested in the comment votes as much as knowing the reasoning. After all i asked a question, my impression from what memsom said was that this was a driver issue that Apple could mostly avoid - downvoting/upvoting isn't a response, doesn't answer the question nor affect the thinking that went on making it.
Had to dig around 3 sites before finding a definition for ICO:

ICO (Initial Crypto-Token Offering) refers to financing through the issuance of encrypted tokens (Crypto-Token).
You can still do this, and in OSX too using MacGap (or writing a tiny webview wrapper yourself). The main reasons this is not widely done are incomplete device APIs, no control over browser versions/features - app might break at any moment for different subsets of users, and the lack of cross-platform compatibility. Electron actually solves most of those pain points despite the heft.
So, the solution is to avoid analogies? But that cuts off most of the input- quite a swath of experiments that revealed new facets of a theorie, based upon a wrong analogie, giving right results.

I think what QS needs is more wrong analogies, resulting in new angled experiments.
Many is not the same as most. Most people would be perfectly happy to pay off their debt unless they were literally unable to.
Many Nazis support the AfD, not every AfD supporter is a Nazi. Some people are just idiots. And a not-so-insignificant amount of people are plain "protest voters" who vote for the most unacceptable party the media talks about (before AfD this was the NPD) to "stick it to the man".

I watched most of the federal convention of the AfD and the party basically unifies a number of different political interest groups, including but not limited to literal Nazis. Almost all of these groups are right-wing and almost all of them are nationalist or ethno-nationalist. The moderates are actually almost palatable (their main argument always boils down to "but think of the children") but the party tries very hard to pretend there is no diversity of opinion among its members.

FWIW, the aforementioned moderates are often extremely "conservative" (i.e. queers are destroying society and corrupting our children, gay men are pedophiles, sex education should be abstinence only, etc). There's also a disturbing amount of support for fringe conspiracy theories (chemtrails, holocaust denialism, sovereign citizens aka "Reichsbürger", etc).

Saying "but some of the things some of them say are true" is missing the point. You can't take the AfD seriously because it's a hot mess that is heavily influenced by ideologies that are bordering on being anti-constitutional.

It's like attempting to justify bringing Adolf Hitler into a conversation about healthcare because he's a vegetarian. Yes, vegetarianism might have a place in that discussion, but nobody would expect that to be particularly helpful because he'll likely derail the conversation to say something awful about Jews.

The AfD's official position on so many things is so far off the mark you can't cooperate with them on any detail without suffering their taint on everything else. You can have reasoned discussions about immigration (e.g. how we actually handle immigration has resulted in plenty of problems on all sides) but you can not base it on a stance that is inherently anti-constitutional.
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More specifically union leaders, who have the whole weight of the union behind them.
> Fyi, England used to effectively do what you suggest pre ~1700. It didn't work out well from a justice, education or infrastructure angle until the state got involved.

Same can be said about health care, at least in countries that (unlike Post-Thatcher UK) don't actively try to ruin their public health system.
I don't agree with what you're saying, hence I have to call you a Nazi, Nazi
The dip in July was bigger. Percentage-wise and in absolute numbers.

And if you think "stability and sanity will return" to a still mostly unregulated market, you are pretty naive.

I'd even say for stability and sanity to return, they had to be there at some point in the first place which they didn't. :-)
Bitcoin is a threat to the Keynesian model. That said, it still has a long way to go in order to take over fiat currency.
It's important to note that ICOs are a mechanism rather than a financial instrument and it's the nature of the underlying financial instrument that generally influences the legality.

For example if it's used as pre-sale (i.e. currency that will be used in product for a future product) then that's likely legal in most places, if it's used as a proxy for equity then it's likely illegal in most countries (most countries prohibit unregulated share offerings to non-sophisticated consumers).

Although in some cases ICOs might get considered as gambling if the purpose is primarily considered to be for speculation rather than whatever the underlying product is.
Absolutely it is. I'm a believer that learning programming with a high level interpreted language with a weak type system is a disadvantage in the long run.

That doesn't mesh with people who want to do something valuable out the gate, which is fair enough. But I've seen so many people start with the "easier" path and run into a brick wall they can't surmount later and just give up. It makes me sad to watch every time.

EDIT: Substituted "learning a high level" with "learning programming with a high level"
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Wow, today I learned: http://www.thermogis.nl/general_info.html

Not as hot but definitely useful for greenhouse direct heating.
A lot of people already knew about that and was able to profit in the weekend. Some coins just jumped nowhere and now will crash. Hshare has passed 1 billion market cap and will be probably be evaluated less than 10 million at the end of the day. Walton, Loopring, NAV...
Some people use top 1% to refer to income. Some use it to refer to wealth.

For range majority of people income relies on a job, and by doing it harder/longer/smarter you get a higher income. Our tax system peanalisies hard work.

The other option is to treat rich people as those with a lot of money, not those who are most productive.

When I think of someone who is rich, I think of someone who is wealthy. That means having a lot of wealth, more than 99% of the country. To do that you need assets of over $8m (2013) {1}

That amount of assets should be able, long term, to grow with inflation and still deliver over $100k a year to live on. Even if it didn't just withdrawing the cash at $100k a year will see you through for life.

1. https://dqydj.com/net-worth-in-the-united-states-zooming-in-...
In Japan a a normal person will pay a little bit over $100 per month for an insurance card that can be used at any clinic or hospital. People under a certain level of income don't have to pay.

Since a visit to the doctor and medicine is rarely over $10-20 it means basic healthcare is something people don't have to worry about, and keeps people out of the ER (since it costs the same anyway).
Finally somebody in position of power stepped in to stop this mad online casino. I was not expecting this sensible move from China, was hoping EU or US would lead the way on regulating this crypto fraud. I hope Fed/ECB follow the Chinese Central Bank and ban ICOs too and start regulating crypto and enforcing some basic rules.
Wow, is this satire? The amount of buzzwords on that Twitter account [1] is staggering.

[1] https://twitter.com/LydianCoinLtd
i'd rather jerk off with sandpaper, thanks.
My problem with these autoplaying videos are on mobile, specifically iOS, sometimes I'm just commuting with headphones, open a link for something and those ads begin to autoplay on 4G, even though I have quite a high limit it always makes me angry, stopping my music because the browser took over audio control and after closing the tab my music doesn't start again automatically.

This is really a fucking cancer for web ads, I've been through it all and never got so angry apart from the pop-up era.
Well yes and no. Unions for white collar workers are pretty different from "traditional" unions.

I'm a software developer making nearly $100k (That's probably $200k in Silicon Valley dollars) and I'm a union member.

Now, my union isn't a blue collar union in the traditional sense. My union is just an employer organization to e.g. push mandatory contract contents like flexible pension age, insurance issues etc. It's a white collar union. They don't negotiate salaries for their members. If I ever end up in a situation where I need legal help, e.g. I'm quarantined when leaving an employer and think it's unfair - I can ask my union for legal help. They also provide an unemployment insurance to bolster the public insurance for their members (if the public provides 50% of income, the union one adds to that so get maybe 80 or 90% of your income).

Blue collar unions on the other hand represent people who are replacable. The union is their only way of achieving bargaining power against employers. Blue collar unions typically negotiate wages and raises for all members at the company. Blue collar unions may have to go on strike etc, whereas white collar unions rarely do. That means my union fee might be 1/4 of what a blue collar union costs per month, since the white collar unions don't need a stash of money to live through a strike.

So these are fundamentally different organisations. My union is more like a legal aid + insurance deal that costs me a few bucks per month.

Now: you could argue that with my relative power over my employer, shouldn't I be able to just negotiate this myself? I should be able to retire when I want? I should be able to just hire a lawyer when I need one? And buy unemployment insurance at market rate?
Well yes, I suppose. But the insurance is actually pretty good valuye for union members (we are considered less likely to be unemployed so the premium is much lower) and I'm happy to buy all that stuff as a package deal. I like the idea of someone representing my group and not just me.
There are no things flashing or animated elements on Booking.com's website. Maybe you're confusing with some other website?
Larger? You mean, they find another investor and start a new failed company? I don't know, but one of the few things these people seem perfectly competent at is pitching.
I agree. Finally I hope this breaks the ice and west steps in to regulate this ICO scam casino.
I suspect it was done for money, which is main cause of minimalism these days (past 50 years or so). Flat elements and colorless icons are much cheaper to design than the alternative.

I personally find minimalism quite ugly. But it doesn't matter, because objectively, it's less expensive. It is also "predictably ugly". Less chance to make it really really ugly => better from the business perspective.
You're using a bunch of US-specific names and I don't know how they translate. But of course anywhere will have a variety of facilities appropriate to different severity issues; the specifics vary from country to country. And of course if you go to the wrong place you might end up waiting longer, but will still be treated or at worst referred to somewhere that can treat you appropriately, and anything urgent will be treated appropriately quickly.
People will see the authoritarian aspect of this, but in my view the Chinese are particularly vulnerable to financial scams for cultural reasons.

- They have recent communist history/lack experience of crashes/associated fraud.

- Traditionally they actually worship money - By burning fake money.

- MLM scams are popular (at least in Taiwan).

- When I watched a video by Andreas - that Bitcoin guy - the audience (in US) was disproportionately east Asian.
I urge you to read the "Wahlprogramm" with Google translate, the legal text that defines what a party stands for in this election, it's ~70 pages for each party, but there is a summary for every topic. http://www.bundestagswahl-bw.de/wahlprogramme_btwahl2017.htm...

It's not much different from what the other parties aim to do. The only real one being, that the AFD wants a hard cap on immigration. If you read media covering the German election you never find them having the, you know, legally binding document of their goals. Because in reality everything is much more tame and realistic.
The assaults against parties always happen because someone said something, never do they source what actually is defined by the party.

Höcke said some goddamn stupid shit, that you will barely find anyone agreeing. But his words alone were enough for all the opponents to tarnish AFD's name and it became the Nazi party forever. Last week the AFD split because of that into a new "Alternative Center" just because of that.

I won't vote for them, but how is the want to get blacklisted words like "Volk = People" and "Vaterland = Fatherland" to be reclaimed and used freely again that evil? Nobody in Germany can defend their historic achievements, because their ancestors were criminals. The AFD whishes to reverse that.
The climate change part is a thing that the AFD fiercly debated for long inside their own walls, but they never claimed to deny that either. The official statement, is that the blind deactivation of Nuclear energy can lead to skyrocketing electricity prices, where they don't question climate change itself, but the human component in it. By their words, it is not clear whether man had influence or not and to act on something that is not set in stone is foolish.

I don't agree with them on that or will vote for them, but I must defend the them on simply calling them stupid and racist, because they are not, or the words of one or two people are weight more than a legally binding election plan.
Norway has practically zero homelessness, since everyone who are incapable of providing for themselves are paid a living wage by the state (and are also provided free housing).

There are probably a few people who fall between the cracks in the system, e.g. illegal immigrants who are on the run from the authorities or people who are mentally ill and actively resist medical care or help from the government. But there are practically zero people who are involuntarily homeless, for some fuzzy definition of the term involuntary.
Do the police enforce doctor's orders in the USSR?
Does the Cocoa WebView expose any kind of non-sandboxed COM-like API for system access? That was what made HTAs so useful.
trump owns you, retard.
16:10 rotated is good, I have 2412's at home (1920x1200) and 16:9 at work (2560x1440).

The higher res screens win on pixels per inch but are a bit narrow in portrait, what I'd like is 2560x1600 at 24" that would be perfect.
Chinese seem to love gambling too?
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Now that's awesome.
Wishful thinking. This will probably not, in the short term, add sanity. It will, however, provide a buying opportunity for a week/month perhaps.

China will make some announcement in the future that softens or reverses this one, and we'll see a spike in crypto prices.

Hopefully there will be some sane regulation (or at least guidance) on ICOs to make it more difficult for scammy types to use ICOs as tools to bilk unsaavy "investors" (which includes most humans).
>> They have ... lack experience of crashes/associated fraud.

The Asian financial crisis was all these things.
Probably what Haiku does: provide two sets of libraries, one with the 2.9x ABI for older programs and binary compatibility with BeOS apps and one with the 4.xx ABI for newer programs.

I think the old one is actually a shim for the new one (it isn't a full build, all it does is forwards the calls) but i'm not 100% sure.
"Keeping in check" is not the same as "not allowing". It has metaclasses, but they're rarely used. namedtuples are also a rare case in a large stdlib.

How is the OO layer a clever hack?
"does the concept of urgent care exist outside the US?", someone else mentions A&E and you say that doesn't count because broken arms.

To answer your point: in England we have:

NHS Choices, a website that provides evidence based advice

NHS 111: a free telephone helpline where health care professionals offer advice, or arrange a call back from a doctor, or recommends a visit to an doctor (and arranged an out of hours doctor if needed), or recommends minor injuries or A&E (and arranges ambulance treatment if needed)

Pharmacy: all pharmacies offer health advice

GP surgeries have GPs but also nurses who can provide a range of treatment including minor surgeries

Minor Injury Units provide treatment for minor Injuries

Accident and Emergency provide treatment for life threatening and other severe accidents - bit they're also misused as walk in treatment centres for a range of mild conditions. Some injuries would mean you get transported to a different hospital after being stabilised -- severe chemical burns would be one example.

I've missed out midwife-led birth units, and all the mental health stuff.

For a broken arm you'd go to A&E. They have to treat it and discharge you within 4 hours. Or you could go to minor injuries, where you'd probably get treated within 4 hours. A&E would have better scanning imaging options.

All of these are free at the point of delivery.
I don't agree that Electron is simple. Electron runs a Node.js instance as a websever and application server in-proc, while also running Blink/WebKit for each frame instance. There's no consolidation going on, and I feel for a majority of Electron applications there's no need for the Node instance because all they're serving is an Angular app using the built-in `chrome.` APIs. What would be simple is if a script tag in a single HTML file could access the filesystem or Windows registry - but under Electron they can't.
> This argument seems to be novel from the late 1800s. Before then, it seems to have been understood that the political system ran on taxes.

Before then the political system openly ran on violent coercion.
Actually on US military spending by percentage of GDP, the US spends less than Singapore and as much as Morocco.

The amount the US spends isn’t absurd on a percentage of GDP or even a per capita basis. It could be “absurd” when looking at it in raw dollar amounts, but you could say that American expenditures for movie tickets are absurd — Americans spend more money on movie tickets than the entire GDP of 65 different countries.

The US stands alone on the amount spent on the military, but it also stands alone for the amounts spent on everything: it’s the world’s largest economy and it would seem rather prudent to be able to defend that economy — and it does, at a reasonable level of military spending as a percentage of that economy.

A bank that protects $50 might not need a guard. A bank that protects $50,000 might need one guard. A bank that protects $5 trillion might need a few more guards.

Comparing Costa Rica to the United States is pretty ridiculous in terms of national defense. It’s rather naïve to suggest that militaries are not required. It’s never required, until it is.

If someone were to invade Costa Rica, who do you think would come to the rescue when asked? Costa Rican security is benefiting from the military of the United States. The Rio treaty gives Costa Rica the luxury of not having to worry about invasion since the US military is standing by to help.

Denmark doesn’t need much of a military because it’s part of NATO.. a risk to Danish national security wouldn’t last very long when you have the most advanced military in the world as your ally and treaty-bound to protect you.

These treaties and arrangements make it easier for countries to reduce their military since they are allied with the United States.

My point is that making comparisons isn’t very accurate without considering defense treaties that might exist and thus incentivize smaller military expenditures.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_...
Interesting. I would have never assumed as you did precisely because 16% of markup is a drop in the bucket compared to 16% of code (or CSS, even).
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The AfD is a rebranding effort of the NPD to get rid of their direct Nazi / Hitler / WW2 past. The sad thing is that it appears to be working, albeit only marginally for now.
This is amazing... I wonder how Obama feels about it !
>so much business is conducted on it

WhapsApp could probably monetize there by tacking on a payments system, possible a bit paypal like. Could make money and not annoy existing users much beyond an extra button they don't use.
The real answer is for Sun to have remained profitable. Unfortunately, due to their workstation focus, it probably wasn't possible. e.g. Digital was an excellent company, but also went down with (in their case) mini-computers. Christensen's frustration at how such a great company could get killed was part inspiration for developing his "disruption" theory.

I'd hate to think Sun's demise, in the alternative, was due to their hippy open-standards approach, which is very appealing to engineers...
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FWIW, systemd uses GitHub for bug tracking these days:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues
And perhaps that viewpoint has skewed your outlook somewhat. I haven't seen anything close to that nightmare scenario in Denmark, and indeed the rest of Scandinavia. What comes closest is taxing unhealthy food, which i tend to agree with.
Necessary.
Man, I tried to troll 10 different channels and only got kicked from #bitcoin-dev

Its interesting how hostile and vitriolic the bitcoin development community has been lately, kind of a good proof point for what the original article is trying to say.
Well, you don't know me.

I can assure you that I am among the most polite and patient people you can find.

And I don't - in the least - put the blame on the (usually very nice and polite) guys/gals that answer the phone, they are (normally) very good willing and courteous, and I always treat them with the utmost respect.

It is the management that often (not always) puts in the front line clueless people or people constrained to follow a given (often wrong) procedure that rarely brings satisfying results.

The Authors of the (flawed) procedures AND the call center responsibles that blindly and senselessly implement them in extremely rigid ways (and hires, for the sake of the low wages, largely inadequate people) are the ones to blame, not the poor workers (the ones that will lose their already scarce income thaks to these chatbots).

There is no reason to believe that because of the chatbots the procedures will be bettered, nor that they will introduce more flexibility.