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He's pointing out how there are many facets to the problems we see in America. Healthcare, education, and housing in many areas take massive chunks out of people's livelihood.

I hear a lot about the politics of the poor and the rich, but not about how to actually solve these problems we see in our economic system today.

There's something rotten in Denmark.
A publication using "the 1%" in the context of "the global elite" means what exactly? A salary slightly north of $30k/yr lands you in the global elite club of the 1%.
As another MIT alum I'd heartily second your statement "Most MIT students interact with one another in class as fellow masochists struggling together against a common foe". IHTFP anyone? One difference I have with you is in identifying the foe. I'd say it was the faculty, not the material. A second difference would be in assessing it as an advantage. I've encountered people who went to other schools that are, IMHO, at least as good as MIT (U. Chicago, Caltech). The experience they describe was less focussed on inflicting pain on the students and more on the cool stuff to be learned.

The first lesson from Prof. Rota is about making the painful and unhealthy practice of spending seven hours at a desk a routine thing. The course he cites is 18.03. Its subject, ordinary differential equations, is about as well understood as anything in mathematics. The ODEs that are solvable have generally been solved. I'd question the value of putting students through a meat grinder of lectures and problem sets to drill them in the mechanics of solving those problems. AFAIK computers can do the job now for both those with closed-form solutions, which students can be made to solve, and for those that require numerical methods. Would the students not be better served by a course that focussed more on understanding the nature of the equations and their relationship to physical phenomena than on how to grind through solving them using specific known methods?

The most significant thing that came out of MIT anywhere near my time there was the RSA cryptosystem on which most network security still relies. The most significant aspect of RSA is not the math of the factoring problem that it's based on, but the clever application of that math to create an asymetric cryptosystem. Grinding ODEs does not teach that kind of creativity. I'd argue that making learning into a painful grind actually hinders it.
The exploitation of the strategy can be limited by two factors: "labor" and "capital". It sounds like labor is the more limiting factor, though.

Also, some of these prices aren't set at maximum profit per item, but there are other factors involved. For example clearing warehouses or attracting customers.

In many cases, I suppose Walmart should be coming up with a way to sell direct to Amazon, but that may not be what they want, strategically speaking.
"about 99% of people listed in the panama papers got off scott free"...

...and the journalist who triggered the investigation got killed! Global elites, fuck yeah!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...
I think one could make the case that the Republicans are not corrupt because what you get when you elect them is exactly what it says on the tin. Their arguments may be lies, but their loyalties are not hidden.

It's corruption when you claim to be the party of fairness, the party of making sure average Americans get a good deal, but in the end you're doing the bidding of a slightly different set of billionaires.
how do Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, &c. compete? they have similar features, pricing, &c. dex tech doesn't have to be radically different to be competitive, it just has to be good, fast, and have a competitive angle of some kind: perf, price, privacy, &c.

a more interesting angle, imo, is to create an alternative to the GOOG/APPL/MSFT mobile/desktop platforms using free software and dex tech. a lot of the stuff will be the same, people want music, photos, video, social, but I also hope that the p2p architecture will inspire a lot of novel ideas that will only be available inside of our freedom garden.

#heropunch:matrix.org
It's not that representatives should isolated from all influence, just influence aside the electorate's.
The opposite, I think. Lvt does not tax the value of improvements. And while lots can be very valuable, they are not very valuable compared to the improvement if the improvement is a skyscraper.
Learned Hand was surprisingly never a Supreme Court justice. He's been quoted by the Supreme Court justices more than any other lower-level judge, however. He served mostly in federal appeals court.
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> almost no one in advertising where I'm from comes out of university computer science

Do you not know anyone working at companies like Google? They have tons and tons of computer scientists working on serving the most applicable adverts as efficiently as possible to as many people as possible.
This is why you never meet your hero. Everyone is falliable.
Do you have a proposed counterexample? The OSI definition is pretty much the same in spirit and in practice as, say, the DSFG or FSF definitions.

Non-discriminatory terms is pretty much a fundamental precondition for any open-source license. As any lawyer would tell you--and don't forget, licenses are explicit legal contracts--licenses that include discrimination clauses of various kinds (including "fun" clauses like "don't use this for evil") are basically non-starters. It's especially problematic when the discrimination is based on something as malleable as yearly profit, so that someone's inclusion or exclusion on this basis changes every year.

Licenses are legal contracts, and therefore they have the force of law behind them. Rolling your own license is a stupid idea, particularly if you are not a lawyer and you are not retaining a lawyer to give you advice on the matter. Even aspects of major licenses like 3-clause BSD, MIT, GPL, LGPL, Apache, and others have indeterminate legal repercussions, particularly when patents and copyright of contributions come into play.
Come on this is HN. People are reasonable and welcome opposing opinions that are well argued. That should never happen!

:-P
Nah, we paid the self installation fee, so that guy doesn't track dirt all over our apartment and try to drill a hole through a wall because he doesn't notice the coax cable we already plugged into the modem.
By that logic they can also just assult you while the phone is unlocked... which is probably many more times than early in morning.
Isn't Joint Polar Satellite System the replacement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Polar_Satellite_System
Then I think you would probably enjoy Colin Woodard’s “American Nations - A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America”
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See also: Leonardo DiCaprio and his cronies taking private jets and mega-yachts to "global warming summits".
There is an even rarer subspecies which afaik only lives here in Slovenia - the black olm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm#Black_olm
Yah!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb...
That’s a common thing, but amazon soon cancels the prime account for TOS violations. (Google “amazon to eBay arbitrage”)
My question for America is, given the current system if every single person was smart and capable enough to be a physician is it possible that no one would live in poverty?

I've been thinking about this question for years and all evidence I can find and understand points to NO, we cannot provide the basic necessities for our population (with our current) even if everyone was an "upstanding member of society."

So, if the system cannot insure that every one is taken care even if every member of the system is highly skilled and capable then the system is WRONG. If we can't take care of an entire population of skilled and contributing members of society, we certainly can't take care of a population where many members are not highly skilled or capable.
You could argue rights as being in the welfare category. But in all reality this centers on first agreeing to basic definitions of terms. Words do have meanings, but the most frustrating thing about our "post truth" world is everyone wants to define words in a personal level. It makes any sort of debate or discussion next to impossible.
Um hello... Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

Then have a look at the Tensorflow logo. :)
What you are asking for is vigiliantism and extralegal actions against corporate persons and the people that make up these corporations. There's a lot of reasons why those things are considered pretty bad.

I also find it interesting that you say:

"Corporations are made up of people, and people are fully capable of not committing rampant constant fraud."

What are our local, state, and federal governments made up of, then - the same organizations that don't close loopholes and set tax code properly to serve the greater interest? Are these organizations not made of people?
Your first strike plan appears to use nuclear weapons against another country (not seen since 1945), on such a massive scale that it knocks out the ability for North Korea to respond.

Lets say for some miracle you're right, and the plan works. The fallout is going somewhere - China, South Korea, Japan, and the far east of Russia. That's a lot of unhappy people right there, before the rest of the world realises just what tiny hands has done and the US truly becomes the evil empire.
There’s also the fact that it was pretty much a setup, the group having been infiltrated some time before.
That you Woz?
Ethereum and the idea of smart contracts can be an initiative towards this end.
And it is written also "...his business is making seven-figure profits..."
Jeffery Carr wrote about Milner's ties to the FSB/KGB in 2011

http://archive.li/2Lv1b#selection-549.14-549.39

...and got fired from Forbes Magazine for writing about it...

https://twitter.com/JamesFourM/status/915361529012289536
The existence of the GOPATH environment variable is not a problem. The fact that the toolchain is violently opinionated about where you locate your working copies, and goes out of its way to fight you if you try to fake it with symlinks, is.

The GOPATH issue will be solved when I can clone a project to anywhere in $HOME and build it without issue.
I wonder, does the suffering of your fellow man mean nothing to you? Make you feel bad? How do you manage to feel such callous disregard for the agony of others? I'm really curious about how one can be so coldly and consciously cruel.
But it’s no “Gunpowder, Treason and Plot”. It’s hard to beat Jimmy McGovern.
https://truthandshadows.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/guy-fawkes-...

A good read for paranoid types comparing the gunpowder 'plot' to September 11 2001 in the USA and resulting crackdowns...

'Fawkes was not apprehended in a basement room but rather a ground floor room, one remarkably easily rented by the plotters. There was, accordingly, no tunnel. The authorship of the letter by which the King learned of the plot is murky. It was turned over to the King by the Royal Chancellor, Sir Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury.

Sir Cecil I would characterize as the Dick Cheney of his day....' etc etc
Hi Vasili - I don't think you understand. He bought an office building on Wall Street in the mid-1990s for $1 million. That's a price so low that it's shady. As usual with Trump, he buys real estate at prices that don't make sense unless you assume there's another half to the trade. Then he borrows money against the building's supposed increase in value and uses that debt as income without an income tax. His deals are all funny numbers.

I see you're also an apologist for Facebook's approach to Russian ads during the election.
"According to former U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres, we have only three years left "

Oh, give it a rest. You've been playing the "only x years left" routine for at least 25 years now.

As I recall, Manhattan was supposed to be under water by now.
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One great thing about it is that we don’t have people letting off fireworks all year round for no reason at all. Unlike some of our close neighbors.
I don’t disagree with you at all. I wholeheartedly agree. The point still stands though. If you or I as middle or lower class schmucks could lower our tax burdens to 2%, wouldn’t we as well? Or is it some arbitrary number where it’s like “ok I feel like I need to contribute to society now”. If the answer to the above is non-arbitrary, the fault lies with the people that invented such tax code in the first place.
True and the more surprising aspect is that to land a develop position at Google you need to be on top of all CS theory and fresh in memory, just to unlearn everything and use Go for unspectacular business/enterprise projects, unless you're on certain teams like V8 or DeepMind for example. I think Go is meant to replace Google's Java coders with Go coders and have a language that fits exactly into the mold of their coding guides and rules for their monorepo and all the business/enterprise code written by the hordes of the rest of their developers.

Google's also opensourced Abseil, their C++ standard library (not meant to completely replact STL, to be clear), which contains all kinds of classes which were copied into many existing Google C++ projects in some form or fashion and sometimes incompatibly (e.g. Google's StringPiece found in several projects).

Either way I applaud them for doing a lot to open source projects. It's not something we can take for granted.
Whatever you want to call it, it’s a temper tantrum. It’s what children do in supermarkets.
This is quite far-fetched. You are suggesting that the internals (source code? general algorithms? product design documents?) of the Facebook advertising and news feed systems were sent to the Kremlin via someone who sits on the board requesting them. That's not how due diligence works.
It seems so. Regardless of our opinion about it, it'd be nice if people could agree on using two different terms for both concepts.

https://fee.org/articles/rights-versus-entitlements/
He shouldn't share it so long as it's more profitable than what he can get paid to share it by running seminars, selling e-books, minus expenses such as getting this article "published". There's not much in the article to suggest that is the case.
Then walk the talk and propose some example config file APIs (or however your ideal tool would work).

It's easy to complain about something without offering an alternative. You just shot down every tool, so let's see this impressive tool that you surely must have in your head.

As a tool becomes sufficiently generalized, it always picks up what looks like cruft in the simple cases. But the simple cases cannot tell you how good or versatile a tool is because you can solve a simple problem with virtually anything. That's why people who need to concat 2 files think you can replace all of Webpack with `cat`.

The cycle continues when someone creates a new tool with a simple API because it doesn't generalize, but then they realize they need to extend it such that it generalizes over the real-world problems that people have when bundling, like hot reloading (different than live reloading) and code splitting and arbitrary transformations.
Is there any way to verify that story?
If you're growing your company based on cash-flow you're slowly strangling your company to death.

If it's profitable, leverage it. You don't have to go nuts and borrow millions, but if you can generate a better return on debt than the interest rate, which shouldn't be too hard given today's interest rates, you can build your business faster.

If you're aggressively expanding your company you'll be channelling any profits back into it, so you're going to barely break-even from a tax perspective and your tax payments will be negligible.

If you're doing this and not seeing the right tax benefits already, get a better accountant.
>do they also share common memories?

Indeed! The way I see it, identity derives from memory. So to the extent (if any) that they share identical memories they are strictly the same person. Beyond that I would guess there may be some (false) identification with behaviours of the other twin, in a manner redolent of Gazzaniga and Sperry's famous split brain experiment:

https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/honors/split_brain.htm
I’m having a very hard time understanding why anyone would be upset by the Russian government making technology positive investments. Especially technologists!

I wish more money was deployed into software development. Russia seems to be a positive influence here.
FYI HN:

Jeffery Carr wrote about Milner's ties to the FSB/KGB in 2011

http://archive.li/2Lv1b#selection-549.14-549.39

...and got fired from Forbes Magazine for writing about it...

https://twitter.com/JamesFourM/status/915361529012289536

Theres certainly a major back story here.
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Well, why do they do it? To save costs. If they have lower costs than you doing the same thing, it will eventually cost you your business.
JPSS-1 is the satellite I was referring to. It records climate data. Maybe not specifically what was covered by the lost satellite. I'm not sure.
Go vendoring gets such a bad rap undeservedly. In practice it's the simplest and most straightforward dependency system (since 1.4/5 added vendoring) I've used.

Step 1: Check out code that you want to use. That's actually the only step and you can do it by hand, or with one of a multitude of tools. All the tools differ slightly, and any metadata or manifests or things like that they do aren't compatible, but the code they put in your repository is, enabling anyone to clone a repository, and instantly build the exact version of all your dependencies.

Imports also aren't full git URLs, they can be as a convenience that tells you where to get a package. You can't `go get` a specific tag, but that's fine, because `go get` isn't a package or dependency manager, it's just a convenience to grab code to your system, not to freeze a version as a dependency into your project.

Frankly, the amount of people that put their nose in the air at go is just fine with me, just makes it more of a 'secret productivity tool' I guess.

Edit: not to say it wouldn't have been nice if `dep` had been the one blessed path at version 1. Still, I have extremely little to complain about with the language and tooling since 1.4/1.5.
>We've documented Trump's relations with a variety of Soviet and Russian individuals and organizations

a telling hypothesis, now we know who to blame Mr Trump on. I am sorry to tell you but your friend is doing it on the dime of someone pushing the current hysterical Russophobia. Either that or he is delusional.
> The real goal of capitalism is exploit or be exploited.

The real goal of capitalism is to increase the amount of capital available. This fundamentally is not possible via exploitation alone. Capitalism - nor the economy - is not a zero-sum game. This type of simplistic thinking makes people dismiss real criticisms over the real-world implementation of American capitalism.
Point is, you (and your CEO) know Tencent is an arm of the Chinese government. Passive state-backed investors are fine. If a random Board member told your CEO "let's get an NDA with so and so and then give them such and such sensitive data; it may help us break into a new market," your CEO may be inclined to take the advice. If Tencent made that request, most CEOs (and Boards) would do more digging.

There are Boards, today, realizing that suggestions that were made over the years may have been compromised. They sounded like they were for furthering the company's financial interests. In truth, they may have been about compromising the company, and through it, American geopolitical goals.
do you have any evidence that buying an office building on wall street for 1 million in the 90s is a shady price that doesn't make sense? also, how in the world did you bring facebook into this conversation?
"Seminars are mentioned"

Ahh, yes, of course.
Here in South Africa a sophisticated campaign to inflame racial tensions was recently exposed. Notably a UK firm (Bell Pottinger) was hired to achieve this. To cut a long (but fascinating) story short the underlying aim is to fast-track a nuclear power station deal (9 units) with Russia that would put SA in its debt to the tune of >$100 billion dollars. This is common knowledge, reported in local newspapers at this stage. Nobody wants the power stations (nor do we need them); many are calling for free college education instead. Guess what we are going to get.
My father did this. Also he imported stuff from Taiwan and crudely ported the software for European market for a 200% markup. Literally unpack, throw a floppy disk in it, pack, sell.
I believe you are misinformed. You're describing "communist dictatorship". There are other forms of Communism in the world. From the Israeli Kibbutz to the Mondragón Corporation, the gamut of communism as implemented is wide.
Start with Why by Simon Sinek very much changed how I thought on a daily basis.
Ok, let's set aside for a moment your personal politics, since compassion is clearly not a concept you're likely to grasp right now.

As a practical matter, what do you think happens to any society that suffers a class divide severe enough that (a) the majority of the citizenry ends up in the underclass and (b) being in the underclass sucks badly enough to really piss people off?

Societies need to take care of their citizens and ensure they receive, if nothing else, fair treatment under law and approximately equal opportunity. Otherwise, you get behavior like this: https://youtu.be/HL45pVdsRvE?t=60

What a lot of people on both sides don't seem to be getting is that Trump getting elected was an expression of bipartisan anger and frustration on the part of voters. Their anger and frustration may have created an even worse result, depending on whether you think Trump is going to ease or worsen inequality in this country, but guess what? Stupid things are exactly the result of festering anger and resentment.

There are a bunch of folks out there -- maybe you're one of them, maybe not, I dunno -- who kind of wish for some kind of implosion of American society. They think they'll come out ahead, because they've got guns or they live in the middle of nowhere. But, they won't come out ahead, they'll lose. Everyone will lose.

So you can pontificate about the ideological merits of extreme Libertarianism all you want, but in practice it works exactly as well as extreme socialism.
Go has become pretty big in China, and it will only grow around from now on. I wish Rust will reach the same critical mass.
FWIW, if you're on a Mac, the absolute fastest way to get Clojure/script going for exploration purposes is to use Planck, which is a CLJS REPL with a few batteries included, built on JavaScriptCore. (There's also Lumo, built on top of Node, and I think there might be a Linux port of Planck, FWIW.) It's seamless, and I actually use it for a lot of the same scripting tasks that one might use Python for.
Just curious about your description of the Facetmobile as "impossible"... do you believe the video of it flying is faked?
This is how I felt when I started using go, but I was unable to rationalize why beyond 'it's different'.

What's the real difference between `cd ~/dev` and `cd $MYGO` (~/dev/go/src/github.com/myusername)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGC42gUSOZY
Maybe, I’m guessing it depends on the flavor-of-the-year government they would deal with when attempting such.
>someone who believes in things I don't agree on is either working on some hysterical dime or delusional