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There's enough straw in your comment to make an army of men, and almost too much cringe to handle.

For starters, you're putting a mountain of words in Kumail Nanjiani's mouth. It's odd that you must be told this, but when you use quotes to summarize your opposition's arguments, you're supposed to actually wrap them around words that were actually used. A quick Ctrl+F on that page leaves one having to guess at whether you're dishonest, careless, projecting your own securities, or all at once.

Then you go and draw a line in the sand and separate yourself from "regular" people who lack the capacity to see beyond their small and petty concerns. You applaud Silicon Valley entrepreneurs as holy warriors fighting for humanity's "best long term outcome" without providing a single example. You claim that people start businesses not to make money, but to save mankind itself.

All this grandiose talk while you fervently pat yourself (and your kind) on the back, but your only tangible anchors are imagined words and flimsy analogies to humans colonizing Mars.

You are the exact personality that Silicon Valley team expertly mocked in the first season.

"We're making the world a better place!"

And for the record, if you managed to get 5% of the human population on Mars, that would be ~350 million, more than the entire population of the United States. If we put that much energy into moving people to a planet that's currently capable of supporting life for zero humans, you'd think we could've built a pretty damn good defense system to knock asteroids off a collision course with Earth.

Why is it that so many people who describe themselves as forward-thinking are more attracted to the idea of terraforming a planet with a poisonous atmosphere than lifting a finger to keep our little oasis in decent condition? I'm not saying the entire human race should rise and fall on a single planet, but don't try to paint your Mars fantasies as an altruistic plan to save all the coarse-minded sheeple from themselves.
>I’m sure you would find Apple pays plenty in American taxes.

I found Apple incorrectly reports to investors taxes paid.

"For example, in fiscal year 2011, on its 10-K reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple said it paid $6.9 billion in taxes to the U.S. government, but on its tax return filed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, it reported taxes due of $2.5 billion, the report said."

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2614464/techology-business...

So yeah, I'm sure you think they pay a lot of money.

>35% is a huge haircut to take on money earned outside the United States.

30% is a huge haircut to take on money earned outside the app store, but Apple still demands that too. Suddenly Apple's in favor of taxes. Developer taxes.
+1 to both your well articulated comments.
Why would a lack of natural predators make social interaction necessary?
easily deceived
Keep one bookmark to a community directory? The plausible deniability is that you just visit for the catpicures1685isbis.onion, and not for cocainehookerz3288uiop.onion
Not during medieval times. Scripture and philosophy were the standard for best evidence at the time.
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assuming you want a bayesian approach? take a flat prior and look at the MAP? though you know its just going to be the observed rate. if you know you only have a fair coin or a double head coin just compare their likelihoods? what is the point you are trying to get at?
Looking from the outside as a user and package maintainer, there is no "MySQL" company. There's just Oracle now. You can't even download MySQL's official Python driver (mysql-connector-python) from Pypi because Oracle legal is not comfortable with it. If you are looking to do business with MySQL over MariaDB, it means you are looking to get in with Oracle. Is that not accurate?
My guess is that there are certain accounts that have separate procedures. Twitter is in the black this quarter for one reason - and I'm pretty sure its the @realDonaldTrump....

If your company was being propped up by 1 individual - wouldn't you put special procedures in place to make sure nothing inadvertent happened? (EDIT - GUESS NOT!! https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926267806261407744)

As a side note: I started using Twitter a lot more to follow @realDonaldTrump. It doesn't matter what I think about him. The reality is we live in a new news paradigm where every POTUS tweet is news before the actual news writes about it. Thats powerful... I'll go straight to the source then...
Why is reinforcing that stereotype important to you?
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But now you have to trust that community directory not to give you the wrong onions...
>Is a warming planet a problem? Again, debatable. Rising sea level and ocean acidification scares aside, history suggests that we tend to do better with a warmer climate.

The IPCC reports that "There is medium confidence that approximately 20-30% of species assessed so far are likely to be at increased risk of extinction if increases in global average warming exceed 1.5-2.5 °C (relative to 1980-1999). As global average temperature increase exceeds about 3.5 °C, model projections suggest significant extinctions (40-70% of species assessed) around the globe."

As a bioengineer, it saddens me that we do not value species diversity, dooming us to ignorance of the survival strategies and adaptations of unknown or little studied organisms and the accompanying nanotechnology

If you're interested, warmer climate in the past hasn't been a clear boon. Its a more nuanced relationship Here is a writeup of it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch...
The short answer is that there are no real physical constraints.

BUT there are some fairly important practical issues around unequal access to resources: some places have too much water and some don't have enough. Those kind of problems may lead to war, but probably won't stop population growth (short of it going large-scale nuclear or biological).
http://www.empowr.com is a 10+ year old tech company with this as a premise.
Wait, what about an escape key for EMACS?

My heavy emacs use is the reason I didn't mind getting the touch bar. It's vim users I'd expect to be annoyed...
It’ll also reduce worst-case latency on vblank waits by 8ms, making the screen more responsive.
When it comes to programming, video is a pretty difficult platform.
Java for me. I started using it at my most recent job and was a little horrified initially at what I was seeing in our codebase. The syntax does you no favors when in comes to code formatting. I also had reservations about the overhead of a strongly typed language as it was my first. BUT I ended up really enjoying the language and strong typing gives back so much more than it takes. Pleasantly surprised in the end.
This is an interesting essay, but I do not think it contradicts what I said above. I am being careful to avoid ascribing a moral value to faith-based belief.

I understand that reasoned knowledge is inductive, which is why I claimed it is based upon "the best available body of evidence". When a belief is shown to be false we must reject it and reevaluate what we believe to be true. That is why one of the most exciting events in the scientific realm is proving a belief to be false, as that means we have fundamentally altered the corpus of human knowledge.
Qatar earned less revenue in an entire year (2016). Apple should start buying S400s to defend its offshore accounts. :)
My friend's boat is a dual engine diesel, 78ft, two stories. It has a controller where you set a course and a computer controls the throttles and rudder. On the very choppy lake of the Ozarks, this is a handy feature.

You're telling me a million dollar guided missle destroyer can't do this?
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Do you believe that the opinion of older citizens who, if climate change is happening and they wont have to live with its effects, should be somewhat disregarded?
Cinnamon is a laxative, and has been used in herbal medicine for a long time.

In this case, it's the 15 teaspoons of sugar that helps the medicine go down!
There is already a solution out there and it works. Japan has something called Takyubin-box. Delivery person arrives at door, nobody home, opens box, puts in package, sets a pincode, puts pincode in person's mailbox, person comes home, retrieves packages. Some T-boxes are enabled with fancy features, some have simple tumbler locks with manual one-time code setting.

I can't believe Bezos and company can't take that concept and retool for the US market.
Having to pay $3k per month for health reasons sounds like the very disaster buying health insurance was supposed to guard against.

If that $3k were paying a mortgage debt, it would be servicing more than $600,000!
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That is only nominally true if you ignore the world outside if Europe, and also if you ignore the pursuit of knowledge undertaken by various religious institutions and other curious individuals (see Moses ben Maimon).
The general tone of those claiming global warming is unconvincing. It is shrill, yet based on handwavy evidence like "concensus" or particular examples, and doesn't effectively address counter arguments. Personally, the biggest issue is CO2 is only a minute part of the greenhouse effect compared to water vapor, and human contributions only a portion of that. When we work it out, human contributions to the greenhouse effect are less than a percentage point, if memory serves. Why should I believe poorly understood feedback cycles will amplify the human contributions into untold catastrophe? Plus, there is the generally poor track record of catastrophic environmental predictions, such as global cooling a half century ago, or global warming predictions in 1920s. The whole enterprise is too shrill and shaky.
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does this just display a keyboard in the field of view of the vive perspective? why do i need to see my keyboard if i know how to touch type?
To be fair, lots of people use debit Visa/Mastercard cards instead. If I had a credit card, I don't think I'd be comfortable buying something online with it.
Ask HN: New tax plan and AMT?
The proposed tax plan should repeal the AMT tax, which is fundamentally a good thing for startup employees.

My question is: if you already paid AMT tax in the past and are still taking advantage of AMT credits every year (because you paid AMT tax due to stock options exercise), will those credits go away from now on? Or will those people be grandfathered in and will keep calculating their AMT taxable every year so that they can claim the credit if the spread between federal and AMT in future years is positive?

I tried to read the bill but it's really too complicated for me to understand.

Thanks
In other news: Twitter buried a significant portions of tweets related to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta in the last two months of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Twitter’s systems hid 48 percent of tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag and 25 percent of tweets using #PodestaEmails, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in his written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.
Can you remind me of the example you were replying to? Isn't it being transported back into medieval Europe, where scripture and philosophy are considered the standard of good evidence?
Bugs, fat-fingers and misclicks don't care that you're the president.
I'm not sure that "1000 reproductive adults" disproves the headline at all - that's a barely viable population group.

I agree that it is fairly different from the "40 breeding pairs" quoted at times in the article though.
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・SQL into Sheets - http://pastebin.com/ACwqc5um

・LibreOffice Calc server - https://github.com/robsco-git/spreadsheet_server

・Sheets API (JS) - http://chriszarate.github.io/sheetrock/ | https://github.com/theoephraim/node-google-spreadsheet

・Grunt / Jekyll - https://github.com/stpe/grunt-gss-to-json

・simple read-only (JS) - https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db | https://github.com/digplan/gsheet-web

・auth proxy (Golang) - https://github.com/VLO-GDA/server-app
That's not really fair. Those people are simply using the current rules to their advantage to help them make a living.
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Yes that was Microsoft all the way into the 2000s. Power users are the canary in the coalmine. Once you lose them they are gone. With power users gone your computing problem devolves to creating common denominator apps / platforms. Lack of interesting work eventually catches up with the company since it becomes progressively harder to hire top talent since there is no compelling "mission" or "vision" anymore.

Having thought about this, I guess there are different concepts here

a. Apple as a business
b. Apple as a force that shapes the future of computing

By any metric they are doing a great job of a, on the second I think they could do a lot more.
I find that the very concept of fairness in life to be a four-letter word that comes from a victim's attitude. When I hear people talk and they use the word fair it really is their way of swearing at life and how they are without the things they need to live successfully. I hardly ever hear it used for defense of others, but of a negative thought about what they were given.

So my philosophy of dealing with lack of understanding is to help them to concentrate on facts. To concentrate on doing whats right not whats fair nor easy. :)

> In the best case, they'll rebel against you. In the worst case, they give up and accept learned helplessness.

Nah my two oldest, foster kids I adopted, both graduated college this May. It wasn't fair when my son, their brother died of bone caner when he was 12. It wasn't fair when my 12 year old's bio dad took a baseball bat to their biological mother's head the same year my son was diagnosed.

They learned that they have to work twice as hard because life isn't fair. It isn't fair that my oldest son is pulled over 8-12 times a year for DWB. It isn't fair that kids outside our city get two or three times the educational funding for their public school. The inherent fairness is from humans' selfishness streak usually and doing what is right in the moment is hard. My other kids are also pretty darn tenacious. I kind of see the White Evangelicals (Which I guess I am one of them) feel they are the most discriminated population when it's the opposite.

At least my two cents :)
Is there not a problem that in the US it would encourage people who otherwise couldn't afford the operation to opt for the "riskier" trial, even if they'd really prefer not to. Whereas in the UK, they would have received the operation free in or out of the trial, therefore the patients financial situation wouldn't factor in to their decision to join. Which feels significantly more ethical to me.
>But what's the end result of hidden services?

It's not just hidden, it's also decentralized. You can:

* Register and publish a site in seconds ...

* ... without a central registar (just generate a key) ...

* ... from just about any Internet connection.

* Get a secure transport without the clusterfuck of backdoors that is HTTPS.

* All for a concentrated audience that likes a different, simpler, smaller, homier Web.
I used to think that all languages should be garbage collected. I thought this because I thought it was the only way to make programs safe and I learned it was actually faster than manual memory mangement. I changed my mind when I learned that GC on average causes twice as much memory usage, and higher latency and Rust managed to achieve safety without it.

I used to think that exceptions were the best way to handle errors. What changed my mind was reading about the language Spec# that Microsoft made for the Singularity project. They actually REMOVED exceptions from C# and made many compelling reasons for why they did it. The one that I remembered most was that it was difficult to rely on a function's API, of only throwing certain kinds of exceptions, when it could change so easily. I also thought that boiler plate error handling code without exceptions was too much to handle. Go and Rust showed me that it doesn't have to be so bad.
Moving Away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?
Unsurprising. Krulwich is particularly notorious for sloppy science writing/reporting/whatever he does.
Yes, let's not forget about those fat cat abortion tycoons
Keep your VM's, I'll stick with Docker/K8's
I can see some scenarios where this would be desirable. Like my grandparents, who basically just wants to browse Facebook, etc.

Since they have a Chromebox, I do not have any calls regarding viruses or their computer being slow, etc.
These bottlenecks are interesting.

The cheetah had an extreme bottleneck — the remaining 20K or so cheetahs are so genetically close that they can take each other.

I remember when this was figured out reading that the estimate was that they had gone down below a hundred, a few kiloyears ago.

Here’s a brief article from back the (1987) about this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/16/c...
Wikileaks leaks are selective. "Public" only describes the things they release. The hostility is in the choice of releases.
The social media companies (FB and Twitter) in particular seem to care nothing about the quality of their service otherwise they would be working to keep fake news and astroturfing campaigns off their platforms. I find that weird, or at least telling about how they feel about their relationship to users of the platform (yes I know 'the user is the product'). The lack of ethics need not be narrowed to a lack of patriotism as the lack of ethics is a problem globally for these companies. A sick individual could seriously fuck up any community through disinformation with enough time and resources. FB and Twitter are fully engaged enabling advertisers and care nothing about the messaging, content, or end result of any campaign as long as they get a hit off the impact.
Tinfoil hat time - I think this is Amazon's solution to become as pervasive as they can possibly be. You can buy just about anything that's legal from Amazon, you can stream entertainment, you can automate your house, and anything that they don't provide themselves they let third parties do it in AWS.
Three months seems like way too long to know you're being laid off but I guess maybe the purpose is that it gives you time to find new work?

In the US, it's just assumed that the ex-employee will be as malicious as possible and so it's best to get rid of them fast as possible.
I think that it will allow you to install the drivers, but have an extra red pop-up with a warning about unsigned drivers.

To get a clean, professional-looking installation, you've got to have a primary signature that chains down to a trusted root CA and also a cross-signature, which is a Microsoft cert used to sign the code's root CA's certificate.
Those exist in the US as well.
It depends upon the interpreter. I wrote a program for use at work in Lua. The entire program, plus Lua modules it requires, are bundled into a single executable. Nothing to install but it, and a configuration file.
And now they admit it was an employee on their last day. So, yup, lack of internal controls. Appreciate the downvotes.

https://www.thewrap.com/trump-twitter-account-deleted-by-cus...
A basic of driving a steam engine is not to waste steam, since steam represents fuel, which in turn represents money. As you say, not having an accident is more important than wasting a bit of fuel (hence safety valves on steam boilers), but in everyday operation wasting fuel is a cardinal sin and something that is to be avoided. At one point I was involved in steam rail preservation, and the old-timers used to mourn the loss of engine driving/firing skills whenever engines sat at the platform with the safety valves blowing.

The ship command structure was a form of information hiding, whereby the commander only worried about the speed, whilst the engineer worried about how to efficiently deliver the requested speed.
I'm less worried about science in particular and more about politicians, CEOs, and other authorities. And society in general, for that matter; a lot of the improvements that African-Americans, for example, have seen in the last 100 years have been down to the old bigots being displaced by more tolerant young people. Basically, whatever prejudices are popular when life extension becomes commonplace are going to be fixed permanently.

And of course overpopulation becomes a huge issue if it's widely available. People seem to have a real thing about having kids, and even with dramatically advanced space travel it's just not possible to transport people offworld fast enough to make a dent in the population. We either wind up with crippling overpopulation or draconian birth control.

> I think that's a problem we can tackle with other methods.

Such as?
Tech buying out competition and shutting it down
It makes sense that there might be a lack of awareness for a subgroup that maintains a low profile.

Inspection of the skeleton for specific details, and genetic tests prove that while interbreeding is possible, this other group was separated by geography for generations. That's not something that would be immediately obvious by unaided observation.

Their vocalization is different, but a detail like that would be quickly challenged, if put forward as proof on its own.

It's interesting that these subtleties permit the identification of a distinct species. I would have thought deeper, more obvious difference would be required, but I guess this level of taxonomy is mostly just for the sake of utility, when examining specimens.
Reminds me of GM buying LA tram companies to eliminate competition by shutting them down. Now it is tech companies and moguls instead.
Nuclear missiles, land mines, biological weapons, torture research, etc has all been carried out by willing and often motivated engineers or doctors.

I'm skeptical something that hasn't worked in other fields is going to fix our woes in software.
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“When did you stop beating your wife.”
Could you outline the process a bit? Who participates? What’s the context of the questions? Etc.
I can't believe these watchstanders had the LOK they should have had on the steering system, or every one involved in ship control would have been able to immediately identify the problem and realign the steering system, other than bmow.

I don't think the senior watch team had their st either, or the orders to prepare to take manual control of the steering and propulsion system aft would have immediately been out.

Also it makes little sense that lookouts who calculated cpa at collision weren't raising the alarm. These guys who I had to do their job for them: I got them removed, and tried to get them off our boat. They were fine people but they were a danger to us.