skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of a referendum being "illegal" may be counter-intuitive, but I don't think the situation is as simple as you suggest.

For example, secession (not to mention sedition or treason) is illegal in many jurisdictions, and is a natural thing for sovereign countries to want to prevent. It is also natural for the sovereign central government of a country to put limits on what a regional government can and cannot do, with the usual principle being that the regional government cannot do anything outside of the powers specifically given it by the central government (regardless of what powers the inhabitants of that region want).

You're right that "people" could "get together and conduct a poll on something", but if this was informally conducted it would be hard to prevent double voting, and not accidentally disenfranchising certain people, and there would be little recourse against these self-appointed pollsters stuffing their home-made ballot boxes.

At the same time, if a regional government spent money, or used people's personal information, for a purpose they were not legally permitted to, then those would potentially be crimes themselves, regardless of the issue of secession.

The questions worth debating are "How much autonomy should regions of sovereign countries be given?", and "If a region isn't legally given that much autonomy, what is most peaceful and just means for that region to attain it?"
You want to put lawyers in jail because they advocate a "bad law"? It was congress and the president who actually voted for it and signed it into practice, and it was the cops' selective enforcement that is the bigger problem. How on earth did you extract "lawyers are awful" from this?
Dan Brown does a lot of "research", but it is not what we would consider to be research. He is interested in the world of conspiracy theories, in which NSA is a large subject. This is the common thread going through all of his books.
I'm actually using notmuch in emacs myself, but I'm just running in to a bunch of its limitations and looking around for an alternative.

Very sorry to hear that Gnus with a notmuch backend is slow, as that's what I was considering trying next.
100,000 still seems high. Clearly I'm in the wrong industry. I should be fleecing enterprise businesses instead.
The solution is good, but it's not perfect.. it's just a question of how much time and effort particular problems are worth.

In fact the whole lesson here is about exactly this.
The main reason is google used its piles of cash to push their browser.

The side reason is firefox made counterproductive and unnecessary changes: removing the status bar, australis UI, removing the ability to disable script, dropping alsa support and many other useful features removed proving that user have no freedom of choice and no say. While adding unwanted things (DRM, pocket, hello, etc.) and not fixing broken things.

Some power users and long supporter would have sticked with firefox despite google's marketing, had it not piled bad move after bad move and not listening to its users.
Newsgroups could be an exception to what I wrote. That's a good point. But, newsgroups don't use the special protocols that I meant, which may not be long-lived enough.
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It was worth a shot certainly, no company ever didn't undertake projects that didn't pan out in the end, at least somebody tried to break the smartphone duopoly. I can imagine the money being spent on much worse things.
> 4a: You can't be sure of that. The court can always decide (and I've seen many analogous situations in which it did) that your debt is not valid, it was oppressive, it abused the customer needs etc. and so you lose.

Most people who take loans in situations like this are members of the community and are grateful for the opportunity. There’s always a level of write-off, but the system doesn’t need to guarantee total repayment.
Ever noticed how tooth paste ads always show the entire brush covered in paste, even though a lil' dib is already enough?
Why would the people owning the capital even invest in those robots if most people won't be able to afford the things made by them?
Sounds like it'd work until everyone knows about it. What about an actual 3D object there (speed bump)?
>> Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is based on the assumption there will be no jobs for most humans in the future.

That is not true. It could work very well in today's society. And UBI is not designed to have every other guy slacking around, you will still need incentives to work (i.e. paychecks).

Basic Income can, in theory, have wonderful effects without much changing the working world: Taking the pressure off people and a give them a hell lot of freedom and a stronger stance in negotiations.
there's a similar one too about NASA researching a pen that works in space.
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I came here to post something similar. I'll add that many of the hard things we do with Git seem to do with re-ordering or re-combining of the underlying changes. If we want to make it easier to reason about changes to a set of changes, then I think we really want those changes to have some properties which they don't currently have.

It's powerful for Git to treat changes as line-by-line text diffs, because it allows us to manage changes to any textual data. But what if, instead, we borrowed an idea from distributed databases, and implemented all changes as commutative operations on a Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT)?

I think almost every example of difficult rebasing would get significantly easier, but at what cost? We'd have to completely rethink how we write programs, because this would drastically limit the types of changes to a program that were valid. I wouldn't be surprised if this would require us to develop in entirely new languages.

There might be some meat to this idea, but again, I don't think we'd get there by mining existing Git graphs.
Most of my life.

I don't deny there is a certain consensus driven culture with a general fear of conflict. But I don't agree that Scandinavia in particular has, as people tend to argue, a dislike for successful people nor necessarily of people being different, as long as there is also substance. Especially with there being so many well liked successful Scandinavians. It seems to me like people most often mean:

A) That the grass is greener somewhere else. Which can be true in many cases, but is usually more down to individual circumstances.

B) That they like more appreciation for their social status. As in more egalitarian societies few things are by themselves impressive.

C) Or that they actually want more collectivism and people to be invested in their success, in contrast to the sometimes cold Scandinavian individualism.

In term more destructive collectivism I think the US/UK (who loves to hate celebrities), central Europe (where everyone have only themselves to blame) and Asia (with a lot of social pressure) is worse.
Why don't you switch to waterfox ? it has support for legacy extension and plans to keep them alive, it's even currently working on hosting its own copy of the addon store.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
I understand the impulse. What I like about the others are that they suggest that the payment is not charity or a hand out but a fairly earned profit from owning a piece of the American experiment.
Imho UBI could maybe even increase what little jobs will be left. People on UBI might only be willing to work part-time at reduced pay as the UBI makes up for the difference, employers would compensate by hiring two people for the same job and would generally have to be way more appealing to employes as the power-dynamic of that whole situation would be equalized.

The far bigger barrier are probably gonna be cultural notions anyway. Right now we are basically conditioned to constantly work, be looking for work or at least give the appearance of being "productive" in some way or another, it's a giant rat race that seems to be constantly accelerating.

Imagine a society where "working" more than 3-5 hours per day would be frowned upon, an utterly absurd idea to us, even tho it's realistically quite possible humans could live like that.
The massive regulation and government interference in health care in the US has definitely resulted in companies gaming it for profit.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...

https://www.amazon.com/Competition-Monopoly-Medical-Care-Fre...

https://www.amazon.com/Regulation-Pharmaceutical-Innovation-...
Complete lack of technical details? Check. Nonsense math ($15 per package)? Check. Mention of block chain ledger? Check. Alright boys, pack it up. We got vaporware here.
Well, I'm not certain about past models, but the current MacBook Pro advertises "Wide color (P3)", referring to the DCI P3 gamut. This obviously requires a wide-gamut backlight of some kind. I found this [0] blog post talking about DCI P3 vs. Adobe RGB.

Looks like the iPhone 7 was the first iPhone with a wide gamut [1]. No idea about the iPad.

[0] http://www.colourspace.xyz/the-new-apple-imac-and-the-dci-p3...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5287c3/lets_talk_abo...
I'm in the same boat! Have you contacted them or had any recourse?
> The US free market has been very successful at radically reducing the cost of goods and services

At the expense of generating poverty either in the form of people working two or three part time jobs (so that "costs" like healthcare can be avoided) to barely make rent or abroad, in factories where one needs to extend nets to prevent suicides.
what do you mean privacy concerns ? firefox is far from being a privacy browser outside of marketing.

Also chrome has had privacy oriented counterpart since the early days such as srware iron[1].

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron
> The solution would be to figure out how the empty ones are produced and fix that (root cause analysis)

Maybe.. maybe not. One possible outcome:

Likely problem: speed of production. Solution: slow down production. Analysis: the loss on sometimes empty boxes is much lower than the loss on a slower production line. Conclusion: the fan is the correct solution.
You might find IINA on macOS refreshing: https://github.com/lhc70000/iina

(note: I understand that linking to other software might come off as offensive, but I truly feel there is a place for both. VLC is pretty much irreplaceable for many, many things)
> Id love to see more people trying to rethink the desktop/workstation OS

He's very creative. Both his video[0] and website are very artistic. I originally went through the initial reddit links[1] to try and figure out what he was trying to do here.

He just needs to provide more substance. Lots of flash but little info. I say this as constructive criticism. It shouldn't have taken me as long as it did to figure out what this was.

On a positive note: I did spend extra time trying to figure it out because it looks so great and I really liked that he went JS-stack with this - it's very impressive. Impressive enough that it's on my todo list (very few things get on it because I've gotten very lazy!:)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5tak0tHqIg

[1] https://www.reddit.com/user/anesuc/submitted/
One of his other books opens with a few pages on how anti-matter is the solution to the world's energy crisis due to the amount of energy stored inside it. Totally ignoring the efficiency issues of producing it in the first place.
Water storage is important, especially in case of a radioactive event, but for most cases you probably want a water filter, such as a Life Straw. You can probably filter more water than you can store (unless you have a very large water tank).
> The problem is that you can't look up those stats. They don't exist.

Yes you can. You can obtain just about every budget online, whether it be state, federal or local. The person you're replying to showed you the federal budget which you seem to have conveniently ignored: https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/images/pubs...

You can see on that chart that the chunk which might apply to "roads, electric lines, sewage, bridges, community centers [...]" is the "Nondefense" chunk, which is $600b, or about 15% of the total federal budget.

I can't be bothered listing the budget for every state in the country but they're there. As for local budgets, they're going to apply to the local area.
I don't know, I don't really use photoshop. If PSD is binary, I guess it would make things hard, but easier if it's text or xml.
No this is where I believe you and many others go wrong, especially, if you like me are a proponent.

It's an argument you can't win as there is no and will never be evidence that it could work. That's political territory IMO.

In my view, you will be much more likely to succeed that discussion if you manage to make it rational and about whether there will be jobs in the future than whether it's a better way to architect the current situation.
waterfox has been doing since firefox stopped doing it, actually waterfox is doing right everything firefox does wrong:

Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
Removed Pocket
Removed Telemetry
Removed data collection
Removed startup profiling
Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
Allow running of unsigned extensions
Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
Addition of Duplicate Tab option
Locale selector in about:preferences > General

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
Reversible computation is inherently slow computation and the main advantage is it lets you get below this limit but current computers are still many (dozens?) of orders of magnitude off from reaching that limit. Until then, you'd be better off just improving efficiency of non-reversible computers.
Suggesting that the entire homeless population are criminals is disingenuous at best, and this kind of fear-mongering distracts from productive discussion about how best to help.

I never said that the entire homeless population are criminals. I merely provided a single, real-life example of someone for whom current policies and institutions have failed, then asked you as to what you think should be done.
It's all smart and clever until someone gets distracted, slams the breaks, gets rear-ended and breaks the neck.
Or less freedom. Just depends on how you look at it.
When a software concept is explained in code it leaves no ambiguity, can anyone verify this is a legit explanation? I do find it make sense but some code such as the Proof of Work I had to just trust the writer without testing it out
More, please.
I love ZFS and use it as much as possible. But we make heavy use of UFS at $work because sendfile and fail in place. I'm in the market for a flash filesystem for this use case. I doubt APFS has that all figured out, but it might be technically interesting enough to do so, and it might integrate move coherently with the pager than ZFS (the ARC makes this quite difficult but not impossible to do sendfile/mmap w/o extra copying)
Stack Driver is a Google Cloud service, you need a Google account with billing to use it. It can gather metrics from hundreds of vendors, including AWS and Azure.
Capitalism already assigns people career paths. How is that any more ethical? Not many kids grow up saying "I want to work on Wall Street" or "I want to make better targeted advertising." They go into those careers because they offer piles of money, and the jobs they might want to do don't. We could fix that.
Did Apple have a lot of cash in 2001/2? IIRC that is before the iPod hype.
Also the fastest way to accelerate the bleeding of long time supporters and power users who would not be using firefox if not for extensions.
The book meta_AU is talking about is Angels and Demons, and while it doesn't explicitly state that it would solve all the world's energy issues it heavily implies it.
In German we have two words for research.

"Recherche" which is what journalists and authors do, to find information for Articles and Stories.

And

"Forschung" which is what scientists do with experiments.

I often have the feeling English speaking people like to play with the fact that these things are called the same in English.
Capitalism doesn't mean you don't pool resources together, it just means pooling resources is voluntary.
Probably more like email works best for linus and the other gatekeepers.
The Russians developed that first.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev
They didn't do some basic error-checking in their PDF. Should redirect to: www.thebitpost.com not bitpost.com.

Maybe using NB-IoT and a GPS, it could be plausible? Not at $6 now, but maybe $20, and assuming NB-IoT networks exist where your package is going.

No details, so it might be complete hand-wavy vaporware.

Also, rant, I am frustrated with the use of 'blockchain' for things that should be in a database. Makes me think the company is only hype and buzzword-driven.
> whose value is purely symbolic.

A symbolism so powerful it can override human nature. I wouldn't be so quick to underestimate the importance of it.
And here's Peter later talking about his doubts due to the AMT backdoor, with responses from Zooko.

https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/861726383730503680
Interesting points about SA and UAE. My take would be that Basic Income requires a certain level of society. Just like democracy, which requires people to be informed and free of the worries of basic needs.

>> But the thing is there’s no way to know how many will just sit on their ass doing nothing

I absolutely agree but don't see it as an argument against BI. We can just approach it slowly.
Because a speed bump has a different purpose, and has some negatives associated with it (which is why you don't have speedbumps at every crosswalk). This should work even when people know about it, because the real point is to draw attention to the crosswalk. Probably the people who know about it, are less likely to hit someone in the crosswalk anyway, it's the people new to the area that are most likely to be dangerous.

Now if they put these everywhere, they'd stop losing their effectiveness.
A real example of this would be Alka-Seltzer(dissolvable antacid/pain medicine). An ad showed two tablets in the glass, and they saw a large increase in sales. Nowadays they simply come in packets of two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alka-Seltzer#Marketing
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/alka-seltzer.asp
That's a really good description. My TL;DR would have been that everything was bad with progressive lenses. I can drive with my readers and if I slide them down my nose, I can read with my drivers.

I'm lucky I guess. I'm myopic with an FD of about 12 inches. So it was really dumb to have progressives with the near FD set to 12 inches.
PR is no stranger to mass exodus (the previous waves to New York are evidence of this). In fact the pre-hurricane problems largely stem from the results of the past exoduses.

Solving the problem requires repealing all the laws that yoke PR to mainland companies without providing any of the actual benefits, but that would require the current Congress to want to give PR something like statehood, if not statehood itself.
Most people misunderstand basic income. What they're thinking is "basic income means that everyone will get enough money to fulfill their basic needs". But you can achieve that in the current system, by transferring more money from taxpayers to the unemployed. (Assuming Europe, where unemployed are eligible to small amount of money.)

Basic income is not more welfare, it's a relatively small change to the structure of the welfare system:

1. Simplification, everyone gets a constant amount of money. It has some advantages but some of the current complexity has good justifications. It allows us to give more to those who need more.

2. Bigger pay jump when you decide to work. I think this is the strongest argument for BI.

3. You get the money automatically, no need for paperwork.

4. Cultural and mindset change.
No, it doesn't assign them, they choose them. Many people don't decide on a career path based on the greatest salary potential, but on things they enjoy, problems that interest them, and places they want to be.

We are humans, not unthinking machines.
It seems to me waterfox has both legacy extension and multiprocess support.
Like many of the stories on The Daily WTF, I consider this to be in the genre of stories that are impossible to determine if they're literally exactly true as told, because there are so many things like that that happen all the time, so by the time you factor in just a bit of distortion it matches too many things.

If it isn't literally true, and I have no idea, many many things just like it are.

Heck, I could probably collect a few dozen stories from HN folk right here about projects they've done where they've wasted tens of thousands of dollars (and up to arbitrary amounts of money) delivering something that their customer didn't want and anybody could have found that out with a single question in 10 seconds, if anybody had thought to ask OR if management had taken the answer seriously.
Let me guess, you live in an area where most people are catholic? I'd bet that most protestants have never heard of that particular definition. Of course the reporter should still have gotten it right, but it's easy to see why it's less obvious to some people than others.
If they are going that fast and it is that distracting to them, they are probably dangerous already.
We have a good meetup culture in Atlanta. Lookup the Atlanta Ruby users group when you get settled. Lots of tech startups to work with.
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Who are some of the thought leaders that are trying to fight or find a way around this eventual neutering of the internet?
I wouldn't get too hung up in it being an OS. My main question is about why you'd use something like this instead of the existing web-based "OS", ChromeOS.
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How do you think our freedom will be limited (compared to now)?
I wonder how well it would work in the dark.
The speed limit is 18mph. No neck breaking can happen at that speed.
Thanks for the excellent TL;DR.

Now if you can turn yourself into a summarization bot....
I dislike this line because life is more nuanced than it portends.
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So you've not used opera before they switch to chromium ?
>Blockchain is not the first idea of cryptographic money,

Right: Bitcoin is just the first decentralized cryptographic money. The decentralized part is where blockchains shine; if you can have a trusted authority, then almost literally any other solution is much more efficient. I groan whenever I see blockchains suggested as a solution for something where trustlessness is not a priority.

>and in fact, from cryptographic perspective it's not money at all, it's document timestamping service.

I'm not sure that's mutually exclusive or that that's a useful distinction, unless the point is that Bitcoin/blockchains can also be easily used for timestamping.
Man why do people keep saying this dumb shit? Do you guys never watch FOX news about the impending takeover of Sweden by muslim immigrants? Anyway Scandinavia has been multi cultural for a few decades already. Most of my neighbours in Oslo are neither blonde nor Norwegian. I got thais, kosovars, pakistani, kurdish, vietnames, thamils etc neighbours.

Anyway Janteloven has nothing to do with physical appearance. It is about how you carry yourself.
Do you think Usain Bolt considers his life meaningless because a car is so much faster than him?