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Sure, lobbying is legal. I can see how, for instance, it can be helpful and needed to inform politicians about complex issues faced by corporations.

Unfortunately, lobbying is also easy to abuse when you have very powerful amoral and greedy entities use it and vast sums of money, directly or indirectly, to influence politicians against the interests of the people.
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Engineering is about providing a tool/service that fulfills a customer need. But in the end it is not about making customers happy, as most engineering focussed blog posts would suggest. In the end it's about getting this very rare ressource called money in amounts big enough to pay your regular costs (for instance your engineer) while maybe even making a profit.

In some regards the battle for money and solving customer problems are interdependendent and can happen together by coincidence, but they are not necessarily connected. For instance a few months ago I was forced to pay a four digit lawyer bill (could've been bigger) in exchange for the lawyer actually telling me face to face he's not willing to work for me, after signing the contracts. Still can't do much about it.

What the sales people provide as value is a high spirit of competition for money, together with an acceptance for how immoral and shitty this world is. And these two skills are also valuable for climbing up the Ladder. The desire to live in a comfortable fantasy world of people helping each other all the time is not good enough. Therefore most of the CEOs are managers or sales people and not engineers.

And your companies, while maybe being shitty in the engineering department, may have still made more money than some engineering lead corp.
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I did the same + I disabled facebook.com in Block Site extension. If I need to contact someone I use https://www.messenger.com
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there's a difference between no names needing to be addressed and one address is 1 mile from the right one.
The important aspect is competition. If you have multiple central planners that compete with each other then maybe it could work out as well.
> `random % alphabet` is a popular mistake to make when coding an ID generator. The spread will not be even; there will be a lower chance for some symbols to appear compared to others—so it will reduce the number of tries when brute-forcing.

I don't understand: is the default implementation of random in node.js flawed? Surely it should produce a uniform distribution…

edit nevermind, found the link to https://gist.github.com/joepie91/7105003c3b26e65efcea63f3db8... just above that paragraph
There's a good chance that if you were to rewrite some of today's existing stack in new languages you'd end up with more bugs, not fewer.

C may be awful in some respects but for quality it's going to be hard to beat 15 years of peer review with any new languages cool features.
Where do you get the "very heavily" from? I think you're imagining things that aren't there.

Apart from that, you may be suffering from Status Quo Bias.
If it helps, I grew up just off the A673 shown in the "BUT WAIT..." section (it's a pretty long road!).
I guess its because it was deleted by moderators instead of deleted by himself.
> Is it because we are really meant to be reading our news through a REST interface?

It would certainly raise the bar for entry if HN just offered an undocumented API and required users to write their own clients for it.
BadBios is not nonsense, it uses CPU virtualisation and Hard Drive controllers which appear as USB devices to load first, then runs independent of what ever OS you are running. If your Bios has been compromised then you cant switch off CPU Virtulisation and your Bios looks and feels like the real thing. Any electronic device with chip's that can be updated can store the malware, USB printers, card readers & writers, some keyboards, the list goes on.
This is pretty much spot on, they get a commission because it is easy to work out, and has the added bonus of an easy to calculate monetary incentive.
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No it's not ignorance its willful ignorance. There is the actual definition. And then there is your personal definition.

This is like saying that personally you use the definition of kilogram to be 3.5 measures of flour using one of your cups. You would struggle when using other people's recipes and other people would struggle when using yours....

Software licensing is complex enough already. Why not keep it all simpler and use words as they are defined and understood by the lawyers who are the ones who actually have to deal with this side of things? Then us programmers can just write the software.
I recommend reading The Mythical Man Month[1] to anyone interested in proper SWE project management. There are so many wannabe managers out there that will just through more people at a project which is slowing down.

To quote the book: "Adding manpower to a late software project, makes it later". There's some really good stuff in there, even for those of us that are less interested in management.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineeri...
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Maybe, from an employer point of vue :

If you hire someone with a degree and he fails, you can sue him or your insurance could work.

If he has no degree, you could be told that only an asshole hires a security expert without a degree.
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You know that one of the major features PWAs offer is creating an app icon so you can launch it just like an app in a headless browser and use it offline, right?
We don't have a house number or a street - I wonder who controls the registration of house "names" for rural properties?

Edit: Found it: Our local authority (Fife) has an online form where you can request changes to property details and even request a new street be given a name:

https://www.fifedirect.org.uk/topics/index.cfm?fuseaction=se...
The 'creative input' bit gets really dodgy here.

If you put a camera on the table in front of me, I pick it up, point it at my face, and press the button - I think it'd be fair to claim the copyright there belongs to me, not the person who put the camera on the table.

If you replace me with a monkey, you have the original claim in a nutshell.

I think the actual problem here is the strange assumption that copyright naturally exists, and must be assigned somewhere. And that if it can't be assigned because the obvious recipient isn't a legally defined 'person', it strikes out like a lost child looking for someone else to cling to.
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Wait, there's fees for transferring money from your bank account in the US?
> tend to have at most a BA in economics

Or worse in the UK where they all went to Oxford and got a PPE.
What gives banks right to consider SSN an authenticator?

Is there a law allowing that?

Common sense suggests it should only be possible if user explicitly accepted "I agree that knowing my SSN is enough to prove it's me and I agree to be liable to any debts created with just my SSN presented".
On the other hand, if you gave someone a gun, and they were fidgeting with it and shot themselves, then it's a suicide.
Location on Google streetview

https://goo.gl/maps/xNEXsXv5gq12

Unfortunately the sign on the house on the right is blurred out.
In plain text, Thunderbird recognises * and / as bold and italic, which sometimes produces interesting results for badly-formatted multi-part emails.
> - There is no search function anywhere

The bottom.of most pages has a search box.

Most people here will be able.to use DDG or Bing or Google to search the site.
We have to provide a lengthy "please ignore your sat-nav and approach our house this way..." for most deliveries. Otherwise the vans/trucks try approaching our house up a farm track that stops about 200m from where we are.
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Obviously the infrastructure is not free, but the prices are falling.

Scotland's government just made a deal to pay two windfarms £57.50 per megawatt hour (MWh), 40% less than they were paying even the previous year. [0]

Prices will continue to fall even further by the time your hypothetical bakery switches to electric vehicles.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/11/huge-boo...
That's literally their business
Where is the sparkline on that page?
Over 99.5% of the email I receive is either plaintext or renders perfectly legible in plain. This suggests that a large fraction of newsletters are already plaintext. The mail client is primarily a program to display and send email. The web browser is a web browser.

If the user wants safety, switching to plaintext is a very wide step forward.
Yep, local councils have that power.

In London this is granted to them under Local Government Act 1985 (Schedule 8, 14/1); not sure about outside London though.
If I remember correctly how I did this years ago, I made filters to label important messages with correct label and chose different notification (sounds at least) for those labels in gmail app.
I don't understand how this strategy works. Company A doesn't want to hire employees because employees have rights. Instead, they hire temps from Company B who abuses their employees' rights.

Why doesn't the government start policing the abuse of rights by Company B? Why doesn't the government pass laws that acknowledge that these employees are truly employees of Company A?
>Ask someone else to look at the code...

Yeah this, sad as it may be getting external help or another perspective is a possible solution.

I thought I had to figure out this recursion and someone's like "You don't need recursion at all..." Oh...

Stack Overflow (have a lot of banned accounts), Reddit... sucks making an ass of myself but I get over the block
Well, copyright is a 17th century legal concept, so I don't see why "extremely provincial and 19th century view" is necessarily wrong?

Artists are welcome to do all kinds of things, such as "given creative control to random elements and processes". But they shouldn't be surprised if copyright law doesn't fully apply to the result.
My second question is : why don't union gets bigger and stronger ? Millions can't be put on the brink on poverty without an answer.

Yesterday, on a european TV, I saw a documentary about middle class people who became half-homeless (their words). They were just unlucky to loose their jobs. Now I understand they may have had too much credits or debts here and there but, these were middle class, that is, they went down the social path. That's scary.
One thing to note is that most cameras use 12 or 14 bit sensors, so in-sensor digital gain can still be better than post-processing.
On another site, somebody asked the question,

Can you then also sue peta when an animal then steals something of you? E.g. if the monkey would have ran away with the cam, theft.
Could you tell more about your setup? I'd like to do something like this for myself. Maybe some articles or search queries? Is this setup valid for multiple users simultaneously with separate desktops?
Thanks for sharing. Interesting document. Do you accept contributions ? (Not that I'm in a position to give any value informations)
A small, but not insignificant, proportion of malware and phishing emails I receive do not show any links at all in their plaintext part. Some of the links are probably easy to skim over and miss the fact they're suspect, but some really do look very dodgy indeed (coupled with very poor plaintext formatting), facts that I would expect a non-expert would notice in some cases. Certainly enough to make it worthwhile.
I might become a teacher and I don't want to be a bad one. I want to be exceptionally good. Do you have any suggestions?
In the US, a lot of that sort of thing was cleaned up for E911 services. Rural cottages without mail delivery and houses on rural delivery routes were given street numbers. Not sure who did the assigning though.

Also, for example, roads that didn't actually connect in a navigable way in the middle were given different names as are roads with branches.

A similar issue to that in the article exists in the US--perhaps especially in the Northeast where there are lots of relatively small towns that connect to each other and restart numbers. (Though in New England, they do often change street names.)

[ADDED: Apparently they're assigned by local authorities in the US. [1]]

[1] https://ribbs.usps.gov/npfpresentations/documents/tech_guide...
> Learning models that, while not great have shown some predictive power, is better.

The problem is that theses models have a predictive power approximatly the same that Aristotle Law of free fall. They describe a world that seems intuitive but is totally wrong in most cases. For instance the diminishing return hypothesis comes from Ricardo's studies of agriculture in the UK. Since then this hypothesis is almost always used when studying the law and supply and demand. The problem is : it's almost always false unless you're harvesting a natural ressource.

Teaching a model which is known to be a pretty terrible representation of reality is not a good thing because it gives a false sense of understanding, which is dangerous from a democratic point of view.
You're presupposing two positions, while in practice there's three: there are plenty of people (indeed, including some judges who have previously ruled on this) that believe that the monkey is, of course, not entitled to copyright, but neither is the photographer, because of how stretched the notion of "the concept" etc is here, and how indirect the chain of causality is.
Unless I'm misremembering where my social circle lived, there was at least one SH alum on the Clinton campaign's technology team.
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Problem with dialectics is zero predictive force and zero utility. It can be used to argue about things in hindsight nearly universally, but otherwise entirely useless.
Considering how much email is checked on mobile I am surprised your point is not being mentioned more frequently.
> Do any actual respectable, academic or working economists make these arguments though?

"Respectable" is questionable, but the economists that do are invariably motivated by ideology.
Should we teach both evolution and intelligent design for the sake of neutrality ?

A scientific theory shouldn't pretend it's «neutral»: biology isn't «neutral» since it's clearly again the religious believes of huge part of the humanity. What's makes a science true is its ability to explain and predict the real world.

The socialist view of the world doesn't even pretend to be scientific : it doesn't give any predictions. (unless you consider that Marx predicted the communist revolutions, but it looks more like a self-fulfilling prophecy than a prediction).

The classical/liberal view pretends to be a scientific point of view, despite being unable to predict anything accurately and having almost all the founding hypotheses proved wrong. Historically the reason the classical economic theory became popular was because the classical economists where against the corn laws[1] and they convinced the nascent industrial bourgeoisie that the free market would be good for them. Then the Anti-Corn Law League was born, and The Economist and the political destiny of the classical economics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws
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It was flagged by users and then 'dead' because of the number of flags. You can turn on 'showdead' to see it. It wasn't deleted by moderators, they're generally quite open in the (rare) cases they modify a comment or ban a user.
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Does anyone know how the Shell Fill Up & Go system works? What technology are they using to get the data from app to pump and visa versa (essentially making it a smart pump) ?
It's not just the rain and the spit that just hangs in the air. It's also the depressing overcast skies.

http://www.manchester.climatemps.com/precipitation.php
http://www.san-francisco.climatemps.com/precipitation.php

Hours of sun vs cloud for Manchester is a big deal. In the winter you only have 8 hour of possible light and the ~90% of it is covered by clouds.
> Slow drip of a paycheck haha that's brutal

Yeah I wish I could quit my day job of working in a restaurant, drives me insane the yelling/ego bs I have to deal with. Granted I'm not "better than them" sucks can't escape reality. Got a "great gig" relatively where I am actually getting paid hourly as a contractor getting paid the same (less actually with regard to taxes) to my restaurant job.

I think it's funny as an intermediate developer I have no idea what business to make/run yet there are people that can do these "marketing/subscription" things "call to action button" and they just need some site and some theme/template to do it, some coding Joe like myself to change something and boom they're raking in some monthly recurring revenue haha.

Speaking through experience working on UpWork

edit: the rates matter and having a product matters, there are fixed amount of hours in a day and even working somewhere "that you like" if the rates aren't great it still doesn't make you a lot of money.
Open an oven, but not entirely, just a few inches, the air that is forced out from the oven through the narrow opening will burn your face instantly. Open it entirely, and whilst hot it's still far less heat.

My point being, that the streets could act like canals for the heat, concnetrating the heat. Just a guess, perhaps mathematically irrelevant.

Fire has many 'exceptions', and can be influenced my many different variables and situations.
If you have a browser with a Java plugin, then yes.
I do see sales people doing sales in their free time, though. The best ones in my company always seem to be at parties and events with potential clients. They make it look fun!
I find it ironic that the race to the bottom is also driven by more constrained salaries. People earn less, they'll look for cheaper choices

> it's extremely low wages

"its extremely low wages"
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Yeah, I have used alpine for email since the year dot. I don't feel like I'm missing anything important.
Why is the iteration time so high?

Which features mean the most? Can you iterate on those first?
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New Atlassian logo is better than the old logo. Old one always looked more like an unimportant decorative element than logo.

I totally agree about the hate on rich markup replacing plaintext, though. Entirely counterproductive and stinks of excess engineers syndrome.
"What metric do you use?"

The key difference between good and bad engineers is that good ones deliver the product/finishes the projects (add bonus points if on time) and bad ones don't. Quality makes much less business sense and is usually only important to the engineer himself and his peers than managers that pay his wage. That's especially true in current "move fast and break things" environment. I have seen a fair share of bad engineers (by this definition) fired, even though they had decent technical skills.
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I took a basic Econ 101 class and they did model monopolies. Where are they not used?
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> can we justify treating humans like

Surely not.

Not for any reason, let alone for profit.
Facebook is just dying and they know that from their internal metrics long time now so these features have been developed to save the engagement because otherwise facebook's stock value will plange.
I lived on one of the streets they mention in the article while attending college. The hardest thing one would see was malt liqour abuse or the occasional nodded off opiate user.

I was just in the area last week, and it is arresting how different things are. Boarded up houses, handwritten signs for suboxone treatment with phone numbers, addled users staring into space on many corners - things have changed.

Stories like this give me a bit of hope because people do recover, I know that. But what is the longterm solution here? The causes of the opioid epidemic are debated ad nauseum, but it seems much harder to put a finger on the pulse of a solution. It's wrecking lives at an increasing rate, that much is for sure.
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Hmm. In US the people who operate emergency dispatch (police, fire, ambulance) often spend political capital to get changes to street names and addresses that might cause them to send service to the wrong house.
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Is the core-econ website loading for anyone?
Almost no Belgians in Belgium are homeless. I haven't seen anyone, although there seems to be some in the main capital.

I know a lot of refugees live in sheltes and currently there are homeless people in Brussels due to the breakup of Calais. But these people don't want to get asile in Belgium, but want to go to the UK. So that's why they don't receive anything here. That is their choice ofc.
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True, but avoiding the production of new phones is one of the draws for me, and batteries that quickly run out one of the hurdles :)
Exactly. Layer a system on top of the usual I/O and you get the ratio of performance / statefulness you want.
What about sensors/stuff on the hardware that the browser may not be able to access?

Edit: I have seen some browser demos that could show your phone's orientation. In the past the camera trigger was not reliable that was in 2013-2014 if I recall dang time flies.
I opened other tab with same place and I was getting warning about myself. They clearly know by session that it was same user just don't fix it on purpose :/
creative input is not that impossible to define.

A malfunctioning equipment don't change the fact if a artist has made some creative input. So long the creative aspect is still visible (ie, the image is not all a single color), there is a argument to get copyright for the combined result. What the creator do not get is exclusive right to any work that has similar malfunctioning but with different creative input, so a interesting looking artifact from malfunctions should not be copyrightable.

A misconfiguration could be argued to be a form of creative input. Debatable. A write should still be entitled to copyright, even if their books has odd words from when auto-correcting software misbehave.

Who trigged the image is not very important so long the creative input exist. Arguable you could claim that a director has more claim to copyright that the person behind the device, but this is the place which practicality comes into place where society prefer to have a single author over many. From a philosophical perspective I would say that every person involved in creating a artistic work should get copyright ownership, similar to how every developer of the linux kernel has copyright ownership for each part they made.
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Hmm these comments really bother me - people seem to miss the point that Google is using its monopoly power to block out competition. This concept is very, very frightening and we should all be worried. This is no different than when railroads would block competition and promote their own products.
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> The dogma of the day is Free market/capitalism GOOD , all other systems EVIL!

The number of times I have heard a respected economist say this can likely be counted on zero hands.

In econ 101, you learn, "here's the free market model, it's wrong but it's useful", and much of the rest is learning about the scenarios when it's wrong.