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> The average citizen has little say in the rules the so-called "community" designs.

I think sometimes there's a commingling of "the system is complex" and "an individual is powerless" in recent political narratives, to the detriment of hope.

The "system" (by which I mean elected politicians, lobbyists, campaign contributions, the Illuminati, etc) is ultimately grounded in popular will. Clinton lost because people were upset.

I'm not denying regulatory capture, revolving door lobbying, and corporate interests aren't part of the system.

But you know what else is? Local primaries. Local executive officials (school board, mayor, etc). Visiting your congressperson and framing your issues in a way that speaks to them. Making campaign contributions.

I think it's too easy to nihilistically say "the game is hard, therefore I'm not going to play."

Bullshit. The democracy game is as it has always been (and a helluva lot less corrupt now than in previous centuries). But all that's required for evil to triumph is that good people don't engage.
For what it's worth, I picked Veterinarian because a friend of mine did in fact make the leap from underpaid vet to small business owner. All in one go, with a small business loan.

His motivation for doing so was a conversation with his previous boss that included the quote "because I went out and got a lease on a building".
This really makes the point. Perhaps exploring different pathways would help. Braille? Audio? Different colors or fonts?
Would making sure that every software has libraries packaged/signed and in the same folder as would work? It would minimize common shared lib and updates to the same. THough disk space will be wasted should be still acceptable to many use cases
That sounds like a pretty interesting code golf-ish challenge actually, would attempt if I had more than 3% battery on my laptop atm :(
They (Scaleway) are ARM machines, no?
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I use to have it, then disappeared on its own. This description is really good, I was never able to describe it
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Ah, I didn't read the article. Probably should have done that.
> The problem here isn't temp agencies it's companies that would be doing bad things anyway hire their full time workforce though temp agencies to create level of abstraction that helps avoid liability.

The problem is worse than that. Companies are providing insufficient worker trainings/protection to save money and hiding behind a temp agency for any consequences of that decision. That way, when they get inevitably get sued, the temp agency can declare bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the plant reassigns the contract to a "new" company who then hires most of the same workers.

Here's how it works:

- A holding company owns the factory and everything in it (equipment, etc). Skilled labor (technicians, etc.) work for this company. This is also the company that is most likely to be a subsidiary or joint venture of a publicly traded company that you've heard of.

- An operating company leases the factory from the holding company with the goal of manufacturing something (but often something that the parent company wants). The plant managers are probably the only people who work for this company.

- The operating company hires a temp agency to staff the line.

- The temp workers are employed by the agency to work the line.

- If a worker gets hurt, the temp agency can declare bankrupcy. Temp agencies have few capital assets to go after, so even if you win, you're not likely to get much.

- Even if you can somehow get the operating company included in the suit for negligent oversight, it too has very little in the way of assets.

- The holding company (where the real assets exist) is protected by several layers of liability.

- The publicly traded company is out of the loop entirely, but still gets cheap products to sell at their stores. Risk is transferred to workers in order to save money.
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I used to live in Roanoke, VA, which similarly has directional quadrants in addresses. They're appended after the street name (so, for example, the nearest grocery store to me was on "Brandon Ave. SW"). And since street names and numbers can repeat, it's necessary to always include the quadrant in an address there.

Roanoke, and nearby Salem, are also nice tests for assumptions people make about addresses hierarchies and local government units. In Virginia, anything legally classified as a city is its own independent governmental unit, subject only to the state government; towns are part of and subject to counties, but cities aren't. Which creates situations like Roanoke the city not being part of Roanoke County (despite being located within the geographic boundaries of the county). And Salem being the county seat of Roanoke County despite legally not being part of the county.
The problem isn't that Mercedes, VW, and other big automakers don't have more horsepower in terms of dollars to spend on R&D than Tesla. To abuse the car analogy, it's a problem of momentum and power-to-weight ratios.

Mercedes needs to do a complete 180 to become an electric car manufacturer. Employees with education and years of experience in internal combustion engines will fight their obsolescence. Plants and production lines that are specialized for ICE manufacturing will buck against the change. Their supply chain, dealerships, and repair shops will have the same problems and will also provide resistance.

It's one thing to pivot a little start-up company that's maybe a few dozen people who have just been applying generic engineering and sales techniques to a domain that they've only just invented in the past year or two. A behemoth like Mercedes does not pivot. It trundles along and slowly, almost imperceptibly, shifts course over a long period of time.

Mercedes needs a lot more horsepower for the battle than Tesla does.
There is a karma threshold before you can see the down vote arrow (underneath the up vote arrow). It was 200 when I got it, it may be up to 500 by now? I don't think they publish the number.
Which is exactly what I said above could be done.
Software engineer starting salaries in companies like Amazon/Google/FB etc are close to 100k or more. So breaking that mark as an engineer is very much possible.
The i8 are hybrids with two engines. BMW sold an e-Mini 2009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_E and announced to release the next version 2019 http://www.businessinsider.de/bmw-electric-mini-concept-fran...

edit: corrected what I said about the i3, there are full electric versions
They should be: settlement or no, I think this case is a win for PETA.

I don't believe PETA ever went into this expecting to actually win copyright privileges for animals. I think they intended to create a 'chilling effect' around animal photography and any kinds of entertainment they see as 'exploiting' nonhuman species. The further the case goes, the more risky that will look as a commercial endeavour.

The case also raises the profile of the organization. This is not just for vanity: it's how pressure groups try and take hold of the agenda and gain a platform for their views.
I grew up in a village in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and it was the same thing there. For normal mail, we had a box at the post office, which was conveniently right next to our house. (Smallest post office in the state, I believe.) For delivery services like UPS, we would tell them "the first house east of the post office." It usually worked. Occasionally we got a UPS driver who was directionally impaired, and we had to go over to our neighbor on the other side of the post office and get our package from them.
I still remember that IRC conversation somehow haha.

I still use Jekyll too. It's awesome. It powers my main site (about 100 posts) and builds "fast enough" where it doesn't get in the way.

Although I use DigitalOcean and use Ansible to build / deploy the site. A couple of lines of yaml lets me deploy a new site with HTTPS (using Let's Encrypt).
Consider getting a bread maker: Keurig for bread.
Previous discussion of Mercedes' announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15219469

However, what surprised me in this article is the following:

> VW has earmarked 50 billion euros for batteries for its electric cars

That's more than Tesla's current market cap.

Edit: Seems I missed the article on the front page, as the latter is also being discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224578
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All of it? None of it? Teachers themselves don't add value, teachers enable value addition.
Ending right to work laws and bringing back unions.
Actually, communism is a materialist tradition, meaning that most of Marx's works were critiques of idealist nonsense like Austrian Economics.
Well, storing the data in an INTEGER column will save like three bytes of storage per record on average....
Similar story here, grew up in communist Poland, where you would get (at best) a blank stare if you told someone you wanted to "follow your dreams"... Makes me grateful for how much different Poland is now.
Err not all dyslexics have problems with reading I am Dyslexic and had a reading age of 20 at 11 :-) Writing and spelling however I am very bad at
what is wrong with their technology?
What I've learned over the years with digital cameras -- you can't trust the preview image. The histogram tells much more of the story (if not the whole truth). My photographs have become much better (in a technical sense) after I learned to expose almost to the point of blowing highlights, making sure there is little blank space at the right (where the highlights are displayed) of the histogram as possible (hence the term Expose To The Right). As someone downthread stated, this improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the captured data. There's an unwritten assumption that the camera's built-in auto-exposure capability isn't sophisticated enough to expose the scene properly, and the photographer has to take control. This is often the case.

And speaking of SNR, there are a few tricks astro-photographers have been using for years that occasionally find their way into mainstream photography. One is image stacking, where you combine multiple photographs of the same scene (useful for landscapes if a little blur isn't a problem for you) into a single image. This pushes the shot noise (the random distribution of noise) down even further. I've gotten clean images out of cheap cameras, and even from cheap cell phone cameras (given enough images).

The other technique is dark frame subtraction, where you take an photo with the lens covered at the same ISO/shutter/aperture as the rest of the set. Digital sensors have readout noise and heat noise which tends to be very predicable. Subtracting this noise gives you a cleaner shot as well.

On a side note, I do wish when talking about ETTR and even digital photography in general that the term "overexpose" wasn't used when explaining the technique of overriding the cameras default metering with exposure compensation. Overexposure would be blowing the highlights, or at least the highlights of details that the photographer considers important (e.g. blowing the highlights of street lights is usually okay). The "over" portion makes it sound like the photographer is doing too much of something, when in reality ETTR is a technique of giving enough exposure, but not too much.
Too late I'm afraid, set this thing up 10 years ago and still going at it :)

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I still find that after being off Facebook for five years. Luckily the football team I hate the most has a URL that begins with f, so I started visiting that. Cured it in a week...
If you want to see more journalism like this, subscribe to your local newspaper.

Investigative journalism is slow, difficult and expensive. Sometimes it doesn't yield anything worth printing, sometimes it results in a worthy but dull story, sometimes it provokes major social change. You can't afford to do serious investigative work on Adsense revenue.

Local newspapers are uniquely equipped to do this sort of work. They have the local contacts, they have the experienced journalists who know their beat, they have the trust of the community. Agencies like ProPublica do important work, but they're no substitute for grass-roots journalism.
Yes, if there is any chance I won't be home on the day something is supposed to be delivered, I will have stuff sent to the UPS store on my way home rather than my apartment. In fact I have something there right now!
I think PETA see outrageous behaviour as a good way to raise their profile. Whether that actually helps them achieve their goals, though, I'm not that certain.
I trust your experience over my own in this area; just reading this piece with curiosity. That makes sense, metadata and namespace operations would be difficult when distributed. But isn't the graph in the article specifically about file handle state maintained by the OS? I guess the graph is weird though it wants to be logarithmic but the power of the series keeps decreasing...what type of graph is that?
I'm pretty sure that title was changed since the original posting.

The original one was something like: "Try to read it". That's pretty much it.
It's not that I want some additional feature, I actually want fewer features. The ability to name group chats and persist them leads people to treat them like chat rooms. The ability to send animated gifs means people send them. These apps very quickly turned from "alternative to text-messaging" to "full-blown chat room that wants push notifications each time anyone sends a message," and I don't want an app to ask me to enable notifications each time I open it.

I realize there are per-thread mute settings, but the whole experience of using these things is highly intrusive. At least with text messaging (or calling) we still have, to some extent, the social expectation that it is known to be intrusive, so people (in my social group at least) are less likely to text for frivolous reasons.
This is analogous to when an unknown Joe creates a new course he specify in italics that only few seats left even though nobody have signed up yet. It is all to just create a rush.
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I can think of one - you're a single product company that wants to add a couple of new products without slowing down your current pace.
I agree completely. Pedantically, there is one other option: return an error like windows select does (WSAENOTSOCK). But then apps need special cases to deal with files and life is horrible.
I would not call it a 180. Maybe more like a right turn, if even that much. All their sheet metal stamping (or carbon fiber fabrication), chassis-making, interior manufacturing, paint, as well as parts suppliers for all that, glass, brakes, tires, wheels, etc. can be directly used. They just need to change the drivetrain.

Their distribution, dealer network, marketing, etc. is in place world-wide and very well established.
This looks very scary, especially given how many Android devices are out there that receive few or no security updates.
Yes he is. The S&L crisis and the global financial crisis are both largely the product of his ideas.
Would this be an example of "Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper." ?
Agree that value is derived from all contributors to a project, but the value/income from a project is gated most at the level of the sale.

Projects can be created but not sold, or sold poorly, deriving little to no value for the organization. But great salespeople can even sell projects that have not been created (not always a good thing).

Also, where does the money come from to pay someone? With a sale, it's clear: The salesperson went out and harvested money directly. With everyone else, it's derived through politics, formulas and philosophies.
No this comment was not. Sorry if you thought my comment was offensive. I'm just saying that I think it's offensive to say that "beautiful women" are a problem in an office as if they're not people too...is that an outlandish thing to think?
> That's evolution in a few months.

A single isolated event with no impact on the species is not the definition that most would use for evolution. And even if it had an effect on that individual family, evolution is about nature selecting that particular mutation, which may not happen at all. So I don't support the premise of your argument.
That's not what it's like for me.

I simply can't tell the difference between symbols that have been rotated or reversed. So I made it through an engineering degree with "the alligator eats the bigger number" mnemonics for > and <.

The first thing I do when I get a new dev machine is take a pen and write "\r\n" up above the delete key. I've never gotten the slashes in the right direction on that key sequence from memory even though I type them several times a day (I just had to edit my post after looking it up right now and realizing I'd typed it wrong on my new laptop).

Anything that can be reversed, I reverse roughly 50% of the time. Because to my brain, they're interchangeable.
That's interesting in the UK I was diagnosed early 70's with dyslexia by my optician - who had an interest in the subject.
Where's the counterproofs for the 17 other chapters?
Many of his criticisms originate from "own goals" made by those same modern economists he apparently doesn't understand.

Is Perfect Competition is an even remotely realistic approximation?
I live in Fairfax County, whose county seat is Fairfax, which is not part of Fairfax County. It's fun.

I used to live in Alexandria, which is a city. Occasionally I'd conduct some business where they needed to know which county I was in. I'd tell them "Alexandria" and they'd say, "no, county." Then I got to explain how Virginia is special and that was the closest thing to a "county" that I could give them.

It always amused me that companies who needed this information somehow were unaware of this important fact about one of the states they operated in.
That's crazy. I always wondered what it would take to actually be worse than united airlines.
I had to register to vote 4 times before they got the "N" for North part of my address correct. Half the addresses in my city have those and getting it wrong puts me in the wrong district! And two of those four times were me explaining the exact problem to someone on the phone and them saying "yes, I understand, I'll fix it" only to end up with it still being wrong after they 'fixed' it.
Yeah, I think "hybrid vigor" is probably nonsense. However, interracial couples tend to be left-leaning, which also implies fewer children, so I don't think it makes sense to infer causality (or lack thereof) the way you are. Too many competing factors.
The experience isn't the same, but I think the affect on someone without it would be similar.

In essence, it would take them a lot longer (or at a higher cognitive tax) to intemperate a page of text.
I'm quite surprised any images of the Milky Way are possible in such a light polluted environment and I'll be using these techniques when I can to see if I can replicate the results.
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This made me chuckle. Yes, this is not a case of a recluse squatting on some land in the middle of nowhere, it is land off of a major highway, there is just no address or postal code associated with it.
I see this sort of thing becoming a bigger part of journalism in the future.
I mean, obviously everyone adds value (from janitors up to doctors). And my person view is that all jobs should be compensated at the same hourly rate. But is there anything special about teachers? Like if they all quit society would go to hell, but that’s true of garbagemen and road workers too. The question is, does it matter who does the job?
See gpderetta's comment elsewhere in this thread: the page-cache is different than socket mbufs in some pretty significant ways.
My current company (Snap). I have the opportunity to shape huge things and effect millions of dollar worth of changes every year. I personally believe in the innovation potential here. The perks/package etc. have been pretty great as well. I work out of Seattle and fly into LA once in a while. Again, two of my favorite cities in US.

To be fair, for most of my career it has been my current job: Whenever it got to a place where I wasn't happy (mind you - not even unhappy, just chronic normalcy or lack of exciting work), I usually left either the team or the company. It has worked out so far :)
This does not bother me. Competition is good for the consumer.
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Also interesting, this article about Venice, where (apparently) the wealthiest families in 1427 are still the wealthiest families

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

http://voxeu.org/article/what-s-your-surname-intergeneration...
I wonder why people (many devs included) use stuff like wordpress to host simple blogs. static site generators are a blessing :)

I built my own custom static site generator (python + jinja2) for running my side project[1]

I just git push and Netlify picks it up. Simple, to the point and no JS.

[1] I run https://discoverdev.io , a "product hunt" for top engineering blog posts!
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A documentary I watched claimed giving laptops or iPads to students is correlated with worse academic performance for those students.

Sorry, don't remember enough for a citation, but the suggested causal effect was students just spending even more time on social media, games, and web surfing instead of school work.
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I don't think people realize just how much Musk is laughing at all this. He gave away many electric car patents because he knew he would profit from it so long as he has the best battery factory in the world. As it stands Tesla owns the building, the factory and rents some of it out to Panasonic.

Unless Mercedes finds a cheaper battery elsewhere they're going to be paying Tesla for these.
I have no clue if this works (I have not been diagnosed as dyslexic) but it certainly makes things more readable for me: https://opendyslexic.org/
I worked for two very large ESPs and never really had many problems with blacklists from a deliverability perspective.

Whenever one of our mailer IPs was blacklisted by one of the big targets (hotmail, gmail, etc) it would only be for 24hours after which I'd put it back into the pools (although, at least initially perhaps for our more reputable clients to warm it back up before letting the more dodgy stuff through it again). If you host your own NS's for the sender domains flipping SPF ips/ranges is not too hard (it's all automated for us, anyway).

The big boys work that way at least in my experience. I'm sure sometimes you'd hit a 'somedomain.foo' domain which is using a blocklist style thing that their (usually inexperienced) sysadmins think prevents them from receiving spam; but they're not worth arguing with. If you're doing email at volume shifting sends to another range for that client is usually 'enough' to get them through if they care that much about that one segment to ask you to do it.

If it's not then we'd usually refund instead of trying to negotiate with such admins.

Honestly though, blacklists have never been an issue for me and I've sent a ridiculous amount of email over the last 10 years...
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Seriously, as a Frenchman, if history has taught me ANYTHING about the Germans, it's that they're generally very apt at changing course, adapting and being ahead of the curve. They have that image of not being the most flexible but when it comes to technology and industry, they're pretty damn good and I think they'll make that transition just like they've made all the necessary transitions before.
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