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So? The majority of anything is probably not criminal. This is about the portion that is.
You inevitably need more state to combat antitrust.
Uhm, isn't that what they are doing? :)
I think your point would be better served with some elaboration. It seems that you are claiming that you know (based on one paragraph) what that poster values and he doesn't. I don't think I need to explain why that is absurd.
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It's not too difficult to build your own IR blaster that is controlled by an app. I wrote an Arduino library that lets you send device-specific IR commands based on a generic LIRC configuration file. I run it on an Arduino101 and send commands to it via Bluetooth LE. Currently using it with a Windows service for climate control in my rental apartment.[1]

I could share more source code if anybody is interested in doing the same thing.

[1] https://github.com/dantler/infrared-remote-sketch
We explored funds like this in the past and discontinued them for now. The other real estate startups in this thread match what you're looking for closer than Roofstock.
"How dare"? Who is saying anything like that? I think the original accusation focused on the deleted account of an experienced engineer associated with Naomi.

But you know what?

> How dare she use her physical attractiveness to woe the attention of men

I'm just gonna go ahead and say this is, in fact, a questionable thing to do. Especially in a community with a name like "Maker" that purports to be about technical ability.
Any internship/co-op available?
On one hand I agree with you, as pedophiles are too often seen as child molesters. On the other hand there are people who consider those as porn. Pornographic content is simply impossible to classify.
Of course, because he's so find of power structures in general. *Queue eye rolling
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I don't know about you, but I don't only ever buy one brand/style of pants.

Hell, even if I wanted to, often by the time I need more pants, things have changed. Either the brand/style combo is no longer available, or I've gotten fatter (or skinnier! It has been happening recently!).
It goes to show that what I said isn't an "attitude" or mindset, but rather a simple observation of reality. Mainly that decisions have consequences. What I said is nothing new, yet you say that it is wrong to have that attitude. Meanwhile basically everything we have ever seen supports the claim that if you prepare and plan for the future you are in nearly every circumstance far better off in the long run.
This is absolutely the key point here.

The reason large corporations have more power is ... they have more power. They can afford to not only find loopholes, but also exploit ones with higher barrier-to-entry, AND lobby for additional ones.

Many corporations probably DON'T want loopholes that are "too easy" because then smaller businesses would be able to use them as well and become potential competitors. Kind of like how Comcast sues any potential competitor into oblivion using frivolous lawsuits. The cost to entry into the ISP market? The price of a good legal defense that can defeat Comcast. (Read: Nothing to do with the actual hardware/manpower)
Slightly off-topic, but not much, something I always find very funny, in a somewhat sad way are the just launched/published sites including (from day one) the FAQ's (asked by whom?) that besides being often so basic as to border idiocy, tend to remain the same ones for weeks, months or years, whilst you cannot find anywhere answers to actually asked (by you) questions.
ML is gonna be the next commodity on the stack. It takes time, but considering some of the complexity, I'm impressed by the speed at which this is becoming reality.
This is what you have in mind: https://www.electricitymap.org/

Ontario ($627B GDP) and France ($2465B GDP) are both examples of modern industrial economies that are in the green due to highly successful nuclear energy systems.
Did you see this earlier in the year: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/496596810/reissue-of-th...
But which data segment are you looking at? Top 1% national income share is the default.
Our industry is (rightfully) going through a lot of self-examination on how we treat women as sex objects and here is a technically savvy woman projecting herself (among other things) as...a sex object. While it is certainly her right to do so it seems that a bit of push-back is expected (and potentially warranted).

That said, being called "fake" may be wrong. I have no knowledge one way or the other.
AKA Control of the society that is...

1) Openly documented
2) Viewable by all
3) Accountable to the people not the highest bidder

Exactly as the Founding Fathers wrote and spoke of it? They were pre-capitalist, saw the origins of capitalist philosophy beginning, and wrote of their fears about where that will lead a country of free people; straight into the back pockets of the elite (remember the crown was essentially the same way, owned/controlled all, required the masses to entertain them and provide value for THEM).

You seem convinced contributing to your government is a scam, and you should go shovel whatever for some rich wanker.

You got something else to add? Or are you going to just regurgitate the banal fear mongering of the last 200 years?
We have worked with electric trains with over 1Mwatt or more per machine in places like subways. When a train slows down and stops, an enormous amount of electricity is recovered for another train to accelerate at the same time.

Also the requirements of aluminum factories in electricity are mind blowing.

What I mean is: We already have those electrical installations running, way bigger installations than 10 supercharging stations grouped together, for industry and transport.

I see EVs as an enormous opportunity for those technologies to become cheaper as they become mass produced. But the technology is well proven and works.

It will also accelerate the development of things like superconductors or extreme voltage continuous current for electric transportation.
You guys can defend Snap all you want, but the fact is there is no single company on the planet or at any point in human history that has benefitted from child pornography more than Snap has.

They became popular as the “exploding image” app. The primary consumer use case for this is transmitting nude photos. Their valuation is due in large part to the youth of their demographic (younger users than just about any social app).

I don’t think it’s a stretch to say they probably owe most of their success to solving the problem of the consequences associated with sending nudes online for people in junior high and high school (or at least, these people think it’s solving that problem for them).

Comparing Snap to email or texts on this issue is a false equivalency. Snap is specifically intended for this, and owes a ton of their valuation to children using it and spreading it for this purpose.
Well, regulations work pretty damn well for the FCC's control of the wireless spectrum.

So some regulations definitely work.
Crunchyroll got started by stealing stolen content. They uploaded high quality sub group releases to a low quality player without attribution. This is why there is now a sub "group" called HorribleSubs that is literally just rips off of Crunchyroll.
I'm pretty proud of my hometown for passing this measure! Longmont, a town 30 miles south of Fort Collins, passed something similar a couple years ago, and it sounds like it's been pretty successful so far[1], so I'm excited to see where this goes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15570559#up_15573817
That does seem very suspect. Is historical data on submission rates easily available?
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Agreed. But I'm thinking in terms of hours worked. It's easy to find another $100k/yr job or more clients that will do $75/hr.

But does that mean more hours worked in a day? I don't think I can charge significantly more hourly and find clients as easily. I see that as equally challenging if not impossible as finding another $200k/yr job.
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You're not wrong, but it's a touchy subject and the word "slutshaming" polarizes people pretty effectively in the current year.
A few altcoins immediately went +20% up - NEO, IOTA, Omnise, Lisk, Waves, Ark. But not the ones I expected - like Ethereum.
I forked one of GitHub's own abandoned projects and noticed that it was archived when I received a flurry of notifications as all of it's issues were being closed automatically. It is actually a little harder to find the links to my fork now, because they were comments on the unresolved issues that were created when I migrated them to my fork.

It might be useful to promote the "Network" graph a little more prominently once a project is archived.
> Satoshi could be a whole building of people, we don't know who he was, and so it's not even clear what "authentic" would mean in his case.

That doesn't matter, because people can independently look at the design of the crypto. Your point about authentic in this context is meaningless.

> Integrity of the message doesn't matter - if you see a message and it makes sense to you, then that is all that is necessary.

That's exactly why you sign a message, to judge the veracity of the contents according to a trust anchor.

> If it's something stupid, what does it matter that it's signed?

You are fundamentally misunderstanding the purpose of signing messages. You don't sign to check stupidity, but to assert that important yet unsigned messages can be repudiated from the party believed to be the origin.

Another way to illustrate this - in the Bitcoin world it is best to assume all messages are spoofed and never trust signatures.

That's WHY you sign messages. It isn't a reason not to sign messages. You are confusing authentication of origin with identity of sender.
>To those downvoting me, can you please explain? I don't see the flaw in my logic.

That's just the point, you have a worldview and assume it is correct and should apply to everyone else. But no one worldview will encompass everyone's thoughts and feelings. Why should someone's fashion choices tell us anything about their technical ability? Was Einstein less trustworthy on the days he forgot his pants?
I wish someone would give this kind of love to emacs.
emacs's gui is sufficient but really doesn't take advantage of any of the features a GUI offers.
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Doesn't Ethereum have its own problems right now?
So, growing up in the midwest, there is a museum dedicated to the area. It's on Main Street in the biggest town in the area. It's basement, which is now just used for storage, was part of an entire underground Main Street. You can still see the storefronts with the big windows and such down there. Apparently it stretched along most of downtown, mirroring the above.
How do you work on Digital Ocean or some other cloud without VPC? I haven't been able to figure this out. Sure, if I just have 1 or maybe 2 servers it's fine. More than that what are you doing? Mesh networking like ZeroTier? iptables on every machine? It just seems like a lot more work than setting up a VPC.
I've had similar experiences with them.

Had a CPU cooler fail somehow (resulting in one very toasty, unstable server) and they responded within minutes, the whole thing was probably resolved within half an hour.
Actually, a lot of people have called for Equifax to be shut down as well. It's just a lot harder to kill a company, even ones that have engaged in wildly irresponsible or illegal activity, than it ought to be.
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1) nor can you cache client-side rendered pages in a CDN ... you can only cache EMPTY information-free pages in a CDN

2) Agreed, but again, same problem as one

Truth of the matter: Javascript rendered pages

1) request(s) for the page
2) response for the page
3) at least one AJAX request (in practice: dozens) (cannot be akamai'ed)
4) waiting for all responses

Server side rendering without AJAX

1) request page
2) respond to page

Seems to me server side rendering is guaranteed to be faster, if you count the full cycle. But sure, with AJAX you can show your logo faster. With server side rendering only you can show the actual data people are looking for faster.
If governments want to effectively tax the largest players, they would need to take up arms against those companies and spill some blood. Or at least grab a few top level executives and put a gun to their head and lock them in a cage. Do you see that happening? Of course not, it sounds entirely insane. And the executives know that. For them, however, the true sociopaths who rise to the top because they are willing to do literally any thing short of slitting their own throat in order to be at the top, a gun in the face is the sole thing they will listen to. When they accept that as their standard of having their behavior changed in a room full of people not bankrupt enough to pull a trigger? They don't have a single thing to worry about.

Those who fail to learn from history will be doomed to repeat it. All the things you really wish to cry out "but no one would DO that"... can you really not think of any examples from history where it already has been done? And on smaller scales even? Why would someone now not be willing to do it for much higher stakes?
Which is probably why they're involved in investigations and prosecutions of same.
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I talked to one of our customer service reps and they echoed what I said. "We have certified property managers in each market that will be there to manage the property and tenant post closing. But if there are any issues outside of that they can also reach out to Roofstock support for assistance."
A compare/contrast between Aeon and Walmart would be fascinating. I've literally never seen the inside of a Walmart, so I'm not qualified.
Watching the video in full, it was not clear that the two parties played together. They seemed to head that way until the guy with the permit arrived. Then it became a territorial standoff again.

What would be truly interesting is how the Dropboxers handled the situation afterward. Did they get local authorities involved? Did they come back the next week, without a permit, and blend in the way the guy from the locals suggested? The answer would be a good measure of their Social IQ and value systems.
Was pretty worried when Google Glass failed that it was going to impose a decade-long 'AR winter' on us. With this and Hololens, maybe I needn't have been so concerned.
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Even just going from a system with a Core 2 Duo E8400 to something more recent like an i5-2400 can result in 50W savings or slightly more at idle. This can be a big difference in areas with high energy rates (PG&E is something like $0.25/KWh) when you consider not only idle power draw, but also general improvements to performance and power efficiency making the CPU take less power when under everyday load and also returning to idle faster. You could easily save $30 or more a year, especially considering most people could get away with the iGPU and use even less power driving a PCIe graphics card.

There's plenty of people offloading sandy bridge or newer systems at this point and they're dirt cheap, being that I live in Boise, ID the power savings of desktop components aren't terribly important to ME - but I realize I live in a little bubble when it comes to cheap electric rates.
It's so clear that the person you're responding to does not even understand what "ethical" means. This is usually the point where I give up on hn threads.
Steelmanning Dale's position here.

(https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Steel_man)

It seems like the root questions here are:

1) Does Naomi do all of the work for all of her projects, without external help?

2) If answer to (1) is "No", does she ever represent herself as doing all the work, or claim that she doesn't get external help?

3) If answer to (2) is "Yes", Does this cause harm to people deceived by her public character as a "maker"?

The balance of evidence for (1), if you believe Dale's account and some others, is "No". There's piles of internet evidence for this (I don't want to drag them up, but can maybe find links if people are curious). This fact doesn't actually seem to be in active contention, so I'll move on.

The balance to evidence for (2) seems to me also like a "No". I don't think Naomi has ever claimed that she does 100% of the work for all her projects herself -- and that's totally fine! She's a figurehead / movement leader, she doesn't need to be a personal expert in every maker field to make a positive impact. If you read some of her FAQs (https://pastebin.com/V3474kYs), it doesn't seem like she's making this claim.

(3) is an interesting question that I will leave to the crowd. I'm already tired of writing this comment and realize that I actually don't care. So nevermind about all this.
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I don't know. I grew up the same way, and it really helped me become cynical about messages from media, which is a good thing. It's kind of like how European kids are allowed to drink alcohol, and they tend to not be as stupid with it as us Americans when they're in college. (Or so I'm told.)
Given that every perceptron layer does a linear transformation of the input, I have to disagree. There is no linear function that separates XOR, and that also means there is no sequence of linear functions that separates XOR.

That means there is no 1-layer perceptron that can learn XOR, and there is no multilayer perceptron that can learn XOR.
What you are saying is, reputations are irrelevant.

In this case you can get all sorts of sybil attacks to manipulate consensus by sheer numbers, including fake news and so forth.

Imagine HN without reputations or limits on spoof accounts.
I think the reason OP listed "sexism, slutshaming" separately is because they're separate issues. The downvotes are coming from your erroneous conflation of the two (and possibly being perceived as purposeful conflation to strawman the argument).

That said, I think the slutshaming you pointed out is just as damaging as what's going on in Wu's case. Who gives a shit if @sexyengineer is wearing a speedo in all of his tutorials? The point is the information and if he's not sharing bad info I don't see the problem other than the fact that you and I have differences in taste.

I.e., don't yuck in other people's yum :)
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Indeed, I see all that traffic because I block it all. I still doubt that the ROI tracking is useful for anything other than direct online sales.
I see that, and yet those other factors nowadays have some correlation with wealth too. In Spain gypsies are discriminated against, with a stereotype of them being poor, not educated, and thieves. And yet the children of a rich gypsy football player won't probably even be thought of as gypsies, just kids.
> Per the GPL, they publish sources for their modified MINIX, and every person who runs Intel hardware gets a copy of the source for MINIX, but not for the separate daemon, which Intel doesn't need to GPL.

Actually, there is still controversy surrounding this since there has never been a GPL court case about what exactly counts as a derivative work. There are similiar concerns around proprietary Linux modules that interface with GPL'd kernel interfaces.

> What license could he have used that would have prevented the thing Intel did?

He could have chosen the JSON approach to licensing [0].

[0] http://www.json.org/license.html
> It also shows Bitcoin's resilience in the face of committed minorities who would try to take over its governance

could it not likewise be "it also shows Bitcoin is controlled by committed minorities which will not allow others to take over its governance" ?

From the outside, this seems the case.
I feel like this is a sign of the times. Inflation has outstripped our disposable income that our previous generation has spent on consumerism or infrastructure to enable more consumption (malls, easy capital) and we are now reaping the rewards that our generation can't afford.
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"6 people called off the fork. Think about that." [0]

A censorship resistant digital cash is being built, and it only took 6 small time CEOs to completely throw everyone off and almost derail the project. When someone like CME Group, who now has skin in the game, also starts pulling their weight, who knows if the bitcoin experiment will survive?

[0] https://twitter.com/arronschaar/status/928316853092433920
An average Walmart is nothing like the malls I'm talking about. Heck, Carrefour itself already provides everything Walmart does, minus maybe the Walmart money and vision centers.

Imagine putting a Walmart inside of an average US mall. Now crank up the number of stores and activities to 11. That's how major malls in the UAE are like.
I don't think such a feature is quite as difficult as one might think. The use case is for repos that are completely abandoned with an actively maintained fork, so you can be super conservative with the time frame in order to limit the possibility of abuse. Don't allow it for any repository with any activity from its owner in the past year, and give the owner something like 3 months from the time the request is initiated to refuse. If they don't respond, then the repo has been untouched for a minimum of 15 months. At that point, the requester gets their fork marked as the "canonical" repo, with a banner on the original repo informing people that it is unmaintained for X months and directing them to the maintained fork. Thereafter, if the the original repo's owner ever logs in, they could have a button on their repo to remove the banner, or alternatively confirm the transfer of maintainership (after which they can no longer take it back). In any case, the frequency of this kind of thing should be rare enough that it also would be reasonable to require approval by a human at Github for each one.

Anyway, the above is one possible concept for such a feature that I think would be pretty resistant to any kind of abuse. But I'm not necessarily arguing in favor to this specific concept. In fact, given how rare such events would be, the most expedient "implementation" of this feature might simply be a dedicated email address and instructions on how to write up such a request for manual review, along with a stated policy of the minimum period of inactivity before a repo is eligible for such treatment. But my overall point is that with abandoned projects, I think you can slow down the timeline for transfer of maintainership to the point that abuse of the feature becomes essentially impossible.
I thought that "progressive" and "regressive" refer to what percentage tax you pay given what bracket (in dollars, not in percentile) you are. I would have thought that the 45% mentioned in the article is proof of how many Americans are poor, not that the tax plan is progressive.

Even with a moderately regressive income tax the rich will be paying more total tax even though they are paying a smaller percentage of their income as tax. Therefore you can not make any conclusions about the fairness of a tax by saying that the top 20% of earners pay 80% of the total amount of income tax (it would have been absolutely crazy if this was not the case, unless everybody had the same income).

As such, I do not see how this article can be used to say anything about whether the tax is progressive or regressive (and as you mentioned, whether it is fair altogether).
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It seems I needed to reload the page. Works great now, thanks.