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Magnitsky Act.
If they had no overt political objective - it still launders blood money.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-br...
1) How would nationalizing it make the price $0? Government services are notorious for costing more than private sector equivalents.

2) How are you planning to get the Russians to go along with this?

Edit to add:

3) Why shouldn't the Russians (or anyone else) get paid for digging it up? Mining uranium isn't something that people are going to do for fun.
The only thing stopping someone stronger than you taking all your stuff are the rules society makes up. That's reality.
I found this article from June 2015 provides better background on the F20:

http://spacenews.com/senate-spending-bill-backs-house-recomm...

(It’s also not editorialized.)
And?

A gas station convenience store clerk gets a salary in part from selling sugar water that promotes tooth decay and cancer.

What's the difference?

Everyone has to make a living, and our economy is not structured to prefer "positive" output, it only cares about profit. If you call this guy into question, you should be looking at the larger picture.
I've been using Mixxx for years, but I've never tried Serato. I'm curious, since I can't imagine what the point of "next/previous" keys would be - what do you do with them? Next/previous relative to what, exactly?
Ok. Fair enough. But how does the blindness that feeds their bias any different than that which feeds say a Trump supporter.

I'm not sticking up for either. But to believe one side is less ignorant than the other is fairly naive.

The proles are the proles. Just because you side with one subset (because they match your beliefs) doesn't make them any less prole-y.
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I guess is harder to pretend that things are ok? Many people wanted change. I doubt the reality of how that changes is materializing is keeping up with what those who voted for Trump wanted
You lost me when you fell back to racist conspiracy theories. What the hell do you think "Zionist" means?
If they don't consider the software a good deal, then they simply choose something else. We're not talking about the bad old days of the Microsoft monopoly where you were basically forced to use MS products (eg: getting documents in Word format by default in many industries)

It's weird how much HN has transmogrified. Originally a forum for tech entrepreneurs who filled this space with business-running and tech articles, now we get people asking to be paid for their work in some situations called 'leeches' or described as 'extorting'.

> This won’t scale at all - count your current open source dependencies and imagine paying that sum for each of them.

There are now and historically have been plenty of MS-only shops which pay for all their software. There are plenty of companies out there where every employee gets a licensed copy of MS Office.
Since I can be compulsive, drugs are banned from my mind. Some double-edged swords are just too sharp.

(I didn’t downvote you)
> Does anyone remember websites? These might be unfamiliar to anyone unexposed to the internet before 2005 or so [...] it was largely a collection of websites made by people who were interested in some subject enough to write about it and put it online.

Does the author mean web rings? I do remember these :)
The Biggest Stock Collapse in World History Has No End in Sight
Cryptomator – Client-Side Encryption for Your Cloud Files
Compromised? Compromised the shoe retail business?

You are going to need some more meat other than James Bond language and a lot of money.
Both. Simpler (potentially higher, but just more enforcable) tax would be good. On the other hand it's not about standard deductions - if an accountant comes to the corp with "we figured out this crazy loophole, we'll call it double Irish with a Dutch sandwich", then yeah, I think the corp should step back. (and the tax office should charge them for taking a piss)
You keep defining crime as it suits you.

You want to define one set of laws you agree with "justice" and another you disagree with "charity". That is namecalling and intellectually lazy.

The same state and body of laws that define property also defines taxation.

Without a social contract, there is no property. Property isn't obvious! My viking ancestors considered it good and noble to pillage Englishmen.

The social contract you live in happens to define property, but also define taxes and redistribution to the poor. It gives the poor rights. Not charity.

You seem to consider property more "natural" or God-given or such than taxation and everyones right to eat. Why?
"As to who gets to decide? We come up with guidelines and make them law."

Who is "we"?

" Anyone can tell when an ad shows an alluring life instead of selling the product on merit."

"Product merit" largely lies in improving the user's quality of life.
Lower price for consumers. Increased competition in the market. Increased product turnover for Walmart, meaning he helps those stores remain open.

He has filled a gap in the market.
> This article can be discussed on r/TTTThis.

Oh the irony.

The web has changed: in some ways for the worse, and in others for the better. I remember websites being like a lottery: sometimes you'd hit jackpot but most of them were "Under construction" GIFs over ugly tiled backgrounds.

There is still ton of content and much more than what I would've dreamt on the 90s. Platforms like Reddit allow everyone, whether they know HTML or not, to publish their own content and even comment on others'.

Yes, Facebook and Twitter suck, but that's mostly it. I'm very, very grateful for everything else on modern internet.

This smells like 'memberberries.
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Lame that you'd say this without posting the source.
I often see links on HN renamed to reflect the original title.
I attended the Brockham bonfire last night (pictured in the article) and was really quite something.

Over the last couple of months there's been a lot of communal work to build the biggest bonfire I've ever seen - I believe it's the largest in the country. The fireworks themselves were absolutely brilliant but what was really lovely was that before hand they read out dedications to those who have passed. It felt a lot like being at a service really.
It's a figure of speech that completely hides the identity of the enemy and names others instead, and the elite love that.
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>At the end of the day, these guys always work for somebody, who is usually some sort liberal arts or business major.

Usually that someone is a liberal-arts major because they had a trust fund, not because the liberal arts turn you into an insightful, far-seeing, compassionate leader.
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The specific actions the DNC took to cause Bernie to lose includes:
1) They chose to put the debate between Hillary and Bernie at MIDNIGHT so people wouldn't watch the debates. It was at the start of the primaries when people didn't know much about Bernie so the DNC decided that nobody watching the Democrat's primary debates helped Hillary

2) In the debates, they gave the questions to Hillary before the debates. The DNC controlled debates gave them to a CNN person who would give them to Hillary

3) The DNC owns the decision about Super delegates. Super delegates == ignoring one-citizen-one-vote

4) Arizona greatly reduced polling stations. With 3+ hour waits, people gave up. The DNC knew that Hillary voters voted at a higher ratio on mail-in-ballots, so it skewed to Hillary.

5) The California level had Bernie votes made in a way that they were all not counted:

In California 2016 election, "NPP" (Non-party voters) the election committee training pole workers to give them "provisional ballots". All of those NPP votes ("provisional ballots") were thrown away. The only NPP voters that could be counted were "Democratic cross-over ballots", but they they poll voters weren't trained that way. Bernie Sanders votes where thrown away. In California Bernie had 61% in polls against Clinton, but then lost. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoGeDGHmwJU
Sorry, I'm so used to writing SG in for singapore that I do it without thinking.
> Why is startup investment by the US Govt so inept & ineffectual by comparison?

It doesn't have to be effective.

We're on something of an economic and technological roll, what with profit-motivated private investors who don't face political backlash when they shut down failing endeavors building on government-funded basic research.
So, a few scapegoats got turned out, an business as usual continued.
I don't think the author talks about hyperlinks. It's fine to have pages without them. What links do you miss?
You don't have to change the package name just because it's forked.

I threw together an example of doing this with `dep`. I forked Fatih's color package, and am using it as `github.com/fatih/color` no problem: https://github.com/sofuture/colortest (forked dep here: https://github.com/sofuture/color)
I don't think you can point at a specific action, but the leaked (Podesta, I think) emails seemed to show that the DNC was working to help the Clinton campaign to the detriment of Sanders during the primary. This lead to the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the DNC chairman position.

Later, it turned out the Clinton campaign had essentially taken over the DNC far in advance of the primary results which is highly unusual, to the say the least. [1]

[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-b...
And in a similar vein, you could use the Kelly criterion for how to optimally allocate your time/effort/capital.
And you think that would be a good thing?
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How is 1/8th of the price "market price"? Quite the opposite. You seem to have trouble addressing facts here.

EDIT: Responding to your answer below. You are materially misreporting the substance of the NYT article, which I find to be telling. It says that the building was sold for $8 million two years before, and that Trump paid "less than" that.
I used to go through one or two Coursera courses at a time. Just whatever seemed useful and/or interesting at the time. I had my employer pay for their certificate program on one course (the first part of the Nand to Tetris course, which might be my favorite course on there).

Now I have them paying for an online MS and I have no time for any other projects, as much as I'd like to.

Something I found when I did have time for side projects (and which I now employ for some schoolwork), is that it was immensely helpful to have milestones. I do this when I'm programming an intimidating program, too.

I start by taking a tiny piece that can technically run on its own. Then I write and debug until that piece works and I can add on another piece. By seeing the thing actually working as I go, it keeps me motivated and focused on the next small step rather than getting overwhelmed by the overall project.

Debugging as I go also keeps the defects at any given time at a manageable number, which probably has applications in other places as well (such as regularly practicing a language to weed out bad pronunciation habits early or what-have-you).
Bayesian brain theories are very helpful for interacting with other humans, actually.
But that's the beauty of the ruse isn't it? The Establishment (of both parties) has the masses believing Trump invented racism, sexism, income inequality, etc. That before Trump there were no such things.
Trump is to blame for racism?

That would be funny if it wasn't so ridiculous.
You are changing the argument. I'm not defending trump and I am not saying he is or isn't a crook. I'm saying your original statement and argument is false.
Well, is the total lifetime earning potential of an 18th-century Irishman greater than the value of the meat on an infant? If not, then his proposal would have had merit outside of satire...
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They advertised her superdelegate lead before the voting even began. They leaked debate questions to her in advance of the event. They smeared Bernie with unfair accusations and labels. They worked directly with big media outlets to either deny or put out negative coverage of Bernie. The Washington Post put out 16 negative stories on Bernie in one day. There was unregistering of progressives in New York, and a botched delegate counting process in Nevada. They reduced the number of debates before the first primary by at least a third. DNC leads got caught actively cheating, leading to their resignations - Debbie Wasserman Shultz and Donna Brazile. They actually used the excuse in court that the Democratic party is private and has no legal obligation to run fair elections, and could select in a backroom smoking cigars if they wished. They actually said on national television that superdelegates served the purpose of preventing grassroots candidates from winning. I could go on and on. All of these things are easily verified. I can give you more if you'd like, with references.
Trump was one of the dirtiest candidates in history. How a rich oligarch billionaire got elected as a blue collar populist is one for the history books. These scandals will haunt him for the rest of his political career, as it's just so easy to dig up dirt on him. Almost every business deal in his past has been marred by some kind of controversy. The man is a walking scandal magnet.
Difficulty with setup certainly is a huge pain point with me using Clojure, the amount of time I've spent wrestling with different libraries were just not working is way too high, and is probably the number one reason I don't use Clojure today. Clojure desperately needs something like Anaconda to simplify setup, this looks like it might help.
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No, there is no "ownership" in the wild. Posession is not ownership. Ownership is a concept. Posession is a physical fact. Any connection between the two is based on ideas in your head.

By the way, we are not at risk of going back to defending ownership with violence, for the simple reason that we haven't left that situation. Property is defended with violence and the threat of violence every day in the most civilized of countries. That's what police and prisons are: violence.
'zionist' - far right wing offshore mobster hiding behind Judaism in this context
Disagree. There's nothing wrong with looking at somebody else's previous comments, nor anything wrong with pointing out to the reader that there might (rightly or wrongly) be something of interest there. Comments are public, and a user's comment history is public too.
"At one point he claims the old boys' club doesn't exist at law firms."

Well, sure, you see, those hyper-competitive men who happen to like that sort of environment would never, ever, do anything dishonorable or unethical to reduce their competition. It's purely "market determined right to the core"[1].

[1] Yes, I went back to get the quote.
> Or is it some arbitrary number where it’s like “ok I feel like I need to contribute to society now”

Some cultures do have such arbitrary numbers codified in their religions, as it happens - 10% for Muslims, 20% for some Christians, etc.

Secularly speaking, tax law in most countries is laid down with certain public thresholds, defined through open process by democratically-elected representatives, and everyone is supposed to abide by them; but the rich can afford armies of professionals poking and prodding these laws until they find loopholes, contradictions and secret hatches. Obviously the legislator should carry some of the burden for not explicitly forbidding these escamotages; but it's similarly obvious that this sort of activity has reached levels that, even where ostensibly legal, are patently immoral and against the spirit of the law, and that's not the legislator's fault.

In a lot of cases, these activities are not even legal, in fact; they are just not prosecuted because authorities lack manpower for enforcement. This is why public leaks often results in new charges being brought forward: because someone else did the job and the taxman can piggyback on that. Responsibility for illegal activities lies squarely with the people engaging in them.
Right, even torture has some legal limits. One cannot deprive someone from sleep, food, or clean water for longer than certain reasonable periods during torture, poverty on the other hand has much less certainty.
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I'll try to use it but those news on the search page... I'm there to search, not to read news.

There is an addon for Firefox to use it as a search engine:

https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/qwantcom-for-fir...
You should read it more thoroughly then, because Trump-Russia connection just might be explained by this leak.
That's not exactly reassuring.
Do I have a choice? If not, then I am robbed.

I don’t disagree with the idea of taxes, just with the way they are stolen from me and with most of the purposes they are used for.
>There is still ton of content and much more than what I would've dreamt on the 90s. Platforms like Reddit allow everyone, whether they know HTML or not, to publish their own content and even comment on others'.

The amount of good content on reddit is no larger than the amount of good content that existed before.

The difference is now it's drowned out by all the Trump supporters.
I don’t. In the excellent words of Ron Swanson (Parks and Rec):

“Never half ass two things. Whole ass one thing.”
I agree with your point, but are you also implying that 'new medications for difficult to treat diseases' are a primary driver of 'ballooning healthcare costs'? I don't think healthcare costs are increasing as quickly in other developed countries while they do benefit from constant medical advances.
Because they wasted years of time learning useless garbage that universities teach that is of no use.
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Thanks everyone for the high quality responses, really made my day. I’m going to attempt to systemise all the suggestions made, and try out those that suit me best.

And good luck with your learning projects! So humbling to see that many of you make learning literally lifelong :)
Addendum: I'm not trying to be difficult here (well, maybe a little) but I'm wondering exactly how "what people need" differs from "my personal opinion of what other people need".

In your opinion, people don't need to take joyrides in convertibles. I understand that.

But other people's opinions differ. Why should your opinion be privileged?
I wouldn't say Germany is the most liberal democracy, but it certainly isn't an 'illiberal democracy' in the sense that is commonly used.
You don't have to use the full url to import a package. The name of a git repository doesn't have to match the remote name though, so I don't see why it would be a problem to fork a repository.
> Some bigger websites at the time were like mazes with some of the words on each page hyperlinked to other pages on the site that were about each of those separate topics, and you had to open up multiple links from each page otherwise you'd lose them, and you wanted to read every word.
> Small businesses were being held back by their tax burden.

It's never taxes on profits that holds small businesses back. It's all the annoying things you need to do to employ people[1]. Best thing the government could do for small businesses is provide healthcare and decent pensions for workers. Which would be two fewer things for a business owner to worry about. Having the state employment agency handle payroll would also really really help. (For a small business payroll is a big headache always)

[1] Also important is lack of access to capital and uneven income.
They have a "read"-access to each others thoughts. Also, they have a "write"-access to each others motor areas. The question I cannot stop thinking about is whether they have a "write"-access to each other thoughts???
Can one of them MAKE THINK the other of something different the other being thinking of?
The "self" by Damassio was a self-as-process plus a self-as-object... How can one of them think of herself, if another one is thinking by her mind about something different at that moment.... hmm. No I am lost. Anyway, what would be a "self" in their case?
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In fact! I can falsify your claim that PL research isn't falsifiable by using some PL research!

http://cis.upenn.edu/~cis501/papers/producing-wrong-data.pdf

> Of the 133 papers published in the surveyed conference pro- ceedings, 88 had at least one section dedicated to experimental methodology and evaluation
Recommend Misha Glenny if you haven't read his work.
https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Unde...

https://youtu.be/r28674tI3uE < From 2008
Global OSM is 40Gb or so - there are various libraries to translate it but as you can imagine, the sheer size of the dataset causes challenges. You also have to make choices about how you translate the attributes - for example, if you want to pull certain tags from the key:value field into separate columns in a table. Yet another issue involves source and target geometries - there can be inconsistencies in how features of the same type are recorded in OSM in terms of geometry, and so getting disparate input types translated into a single output type involves choices. Yes you can easily (after a wait!) get global OSM translated into something else, but making that something else exactly what you need can take effort.
Really? Which libraries? Did you try using leinengen? One of the strengths of Clojure imo is how well everything JUST works as opposed to python, ruby, etc.
I feel like conjoined at the hip is a bit different from conjoined in the brain.
Electromagnetic shielding with superconductors is probably better than a mass solution.
I think the whole premise of your question is wrong.

Most countries have a fiat currency. The government via the central bank creates as much money as it needs to run a society, money is there simply to get things done, it's a promise to 'pay' for work.

Money in itself doesn't have any intrinsic value other than the fact that everyone collectively agrees to believe that it does.

The government doesn't have to tax anyone, it can just continue to create money and inject it into the economy and things get done. The problem comes that the more money it injects the less the perceived value of the money is (i.e. inflation).
It needs to destroy some of the money it creates and it does this via taxation. That's why you have tax.
Yes, I very recently thought about them for the first time in decades, while pondering the platformization of the web.

Those and stumbleupon were fun surfing!
I think this is an interesting discussion, but it's getting down voted because it's off topic. If Russia learned one of their major domestic investors was actually connected to the CIA, I'd expect them to reasonably flip out as well. Who is and isn't a good boy is irrelevant to this discussion, which is more about strategic implications than morality.
Huh, I guess this might explain why several capacitors on my video card failed around 2007.
The two are synonymous. I'm not Russian, but I study the language for some reason and know way too much about their politics
That has nothing to do with these investments. Milner is not even listed as affected:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act#Individuals_affe...

Government’s are neither all bad nor all good. You can cherry pick nasty incidents from any government throughout human history (including the US — of course). That doesn’t mean that every action they take is “evil”.

On the grand scheme of things investing in startups is pretty progressive.
What if - theoretically - this is just "fake news"? I mean, how can you discern that the stuff the media reports is actually true, no matter in what direction?

I think the most reliable source of information in this time of spreading "fake news" is personal witness by known people.