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I think this opinion is very narrow minded. Who is the person you're trying to convince with this thought? No one is doubting that we are doing this overseas, that doesn't make it any less concerning that it is happening here. It is a weapon that doesn't result in war, I hope my government, the United States Government, uses this more as an early option instead of going to war. If anything, I'm upset they are not more effective at this.

When a foreign government disrupts my free elections though, I'm going to be troubled by it. What you're saying is effectively belittling the importance of hardening our own systems from this foreign influence.
At this point, any company that thinks stack ranking is a decent idea just needs to die.
I think the comment you're replying to understands that. I interpreted it as them calling out the fake bravery of saying "maybe it's just me" before sharing a very common and widely-held opinion.
How much is a lot for you? 1 billion/s?
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> the Paul Graham story where he tells Jerry Yang his idea for selling ads and then realized when Jerry told him no that yahoo was already selling ads for more than they were worth.

What was the moral of that story?
>What really should have been done, for curbing student debt and stopping nonsensical measures like this one, is to restrict university administrative expansion, board member salary, campus expansion etc. Universities have expanded too much from their core functions of teaching and research, by adding out-reach programs and program administrative staff.

In public institutions, there is a linear relationship between the reduction in state funding for education, and increasing student debt. Per-student spending is down at UC: http://dailybruin.com/2014/11/18/tuition-rises-despite-decli...

Research spend has gone up a lot, but so has federal funding, and the bureaucratic requirements imposed by the feds to obtain that funding. See OMB Circular A-21 if you want your eyes to bleed with this stuff.
Why do you think 100kWh batteries will become standard within 10 years? Most cars could do fine with 200mi which would really require about 50-60kWh max - assuming a standard sedan and not a sports car.

Tesla is really on the vanguard here. I wouldn't expect the highest-end Tesla configuration to be standard until at least 10 years later unless China or other countries (current US administration/congress will definitely not) really push the ball forward from a regulation/support standpoint.
If you think these retailers aren’t “too big too fail” you’re underestimating the lobbying and propaganda power of the people holding the debt.

Hell, this article could be an example. A little too tinfoil hat for me, though.
Well, I do see a distinction between 'ME has bugs', and 'ME is designed to be insecure and allow remote takeover'. From what I have read, ME requires provisioning to be enabled. Even the so called 'zero touch' provisioning requires you to first reboot the machine, then run a special DHCP server that sends out an Intel certificate. An attacker would have to forge this certificate, which has to be limited to the domain the specific computer exists in, get physical access to the network to run a DHCP server, reboot the machine, and then be able to provision it (if at all).
These aren't really her "quirks" are they? Its pretty much central her identity. Its in the name.
Your story reminded me of when I went on a cruise for my honeymoon. There was a cruise employee who gave my new husband and me a stern warning about how we should not be on the cruise without our parents if we were under 18. (We were in our mid-20s.) So much of society today wants to keep people dependent on their parents forever, it seems.
This largely has to do with the high average income and a wealthy state than European culture or anything like that. I can't imagine my city ever giving up parking fees or the average person being able to afford a mid-tier electric car, even with the subsidies we have here in Canada.

Not to mention there are usually far better offerings for electric cars in Europe. Such as the Golf GTE which isn't available in North America: http://www.autotrader.ca/expert/20170605/first-drive-2018-vo...

The lack of infrastructure is also a big deal. I personally didn't get a plug-in because of the lack of access to plugs in my apartment building and only a few charging stations in my city.
That article is clearly wrong. Apple isn't headquartered in Germany, it's not building phones or computers or software in Germany. It only owes Germany minimal income taxes, while it pays huge amounts of VAT, and employment taxes for store employees.

It's like saying Porsche should pay US income taxes on cars it builds in Germany because it sells them in the US. Porsche pays sales taxes, import duties, etc, etc, everything it requires. It's profits on it's U.S. marketing and distribution operations are minimal, so it should pay minimal US corporate income tax.
Do I read this correctly in seeing that Wealth Inequality section in the United States shows the top 10% have 73% of wealth, the next 40% of people have 27% of the wealth and the bottom 50% are effectively living pay cheque to pay cheque and have 0 (or slightly negative wealth)?

As in the average of the lower 50% debt equals savings?
What do you mean by a very slim margin?

If you believe that the regressive nature of state taxes balances the progressive nature of Federal, do you believe that state income tax collects as much as Federal, or are you simply counting them equally because they are both types of taxes? If the latter, why would you say that the rich don't pay more, percentage wise? If the former, why do you believe this?
I am sure people in colarado are bold and smart enough to not let such back door efforts come in the way of their expectations.
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Honestly I think it just means that they're smart. My girlfriend in college didn't remotely fit any tech stereotypes, but when she saw how much more functional my Linux laptop was than everyone else's, she spent a day and set up Linux for herself. We're still friends, and ten years later she's still happily using desktop Linux and grumbles to.me on the rare occasion she needs to run a windows VM for some specialty software.

The idea that being tech savvy requires lots of hobbyist time investment and a deep interest in the topic is insane, like saying that being a good driver requires being independently interested in cars as a hobby.

To a large degree, I think that Apple's marketing and the rest of the industry following (cf Google's shift in product design and focus six years ago) shoulders a big chunk of the blame. Endemic short term thinking in the form of only considering how easy to use something is in the first ten seconds has led to an entire generation of computer users quarantined into a tiny fraction of what their devices can do and how well they can fit their needs. (For example, my dad is _also_ on Linux, and he has barely managed to figure out copy and paste. Windows is simply too buggy and difficult an OS for users as novice as he is)
So much of this. This happens everywhere even when it's not in the form of a multi-national tax avoidance scheme. You can tell all you want that it's the fault of the law which it is but that doesn't change the fact the system is like this because these companies and people have over the years have done everything they can to make sure these loopholes exists and these loophole remains including outright bribing where they can get away with it. And for the most part no one individually did it and so you can't event point it out properly.

At least in my country individuals are often in even worst position in terms of taxes. The less capital you have the more you will be taxed seem to be the norm of the world these days.
That's so weird. We in northern europe have no problem in letting our kids roam (Finland, but I presume the situation is similar in at least scandinavia).
They did in Chattanooga, but not before trying to sue the city four times:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpk77/chattanoog...

A couple shorter articles on the same topic:

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/1/8530403/chattanooga-comcas...

https://consumerist.com/2017/04/11/comcast-introduces-gigabi...
IP range blocking is extremely bad practice.

You'll lose customers that way.

It's like rejecting email addresses that don't end with .com.

There are lots of services these days that can "smartly" handle DoS attacks (e.g. only drop traffic from an IP in the range when it starts flooding you).
All countries do this or attempt to do this, as much as they are able.

All countries also need to defend themselves against this. Sovereignty isn’t just about borders.
The government can't give you two married parents that love you in a stable household, the best education money can buy, or social connections with powerful people.

It can minimize the value of those things for the people that have them... at least within its borders. I'm not convinced that's in anyone's best interests, though.
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If you deploy some non-edge-case bug then you can easily generate thousands of events before you even receive the notification - assuming your service is any popular, but even if it's not it can be e.g. some stuck background job.

Btw, it's on average 7.5k events per second. Not that drastic but of course peak, not average is what matters.
With regards 2, the gap between most people earnings and house prices, has been rising steadily for years. It looks like the pie is getting bigger while people's share grows smaller faster.
No, ours doesn't do that, but it doesn't something equally stupid.

I think our ISP does upgrades and network changes in the middle of the night and sometimes our gateway is rebooted. For some reason, the Echo feels the need to loudly proclaim that it can't connect with the mothership even though it's 4 am and we've never once used it at that time.

It wakes us up with "HOLY SHIT I CAN'T SEE THE FUCKING INTERNET!1@!@!". Those aren't the exact words, but when you are startled awake at 4am that's what it sounds like.
> You can switch to Firefox ESR to keep using your extensions and give the extension authors more time.

The problem is that certain valuable extensions are impossible to update, because the new plugin API doesn't expose the necessary functionality. E.g. Keysnail, which will break because Mozilla won't expose the ability to override C-n.

Mozilla should have taken the time to release a fully-baked extension API before deleting the old API; then it really would have been on the extension authors. Between this and the utter destruction of Sync's security guarantees a few years back, the Cliqz keylogger fiasco & the Pocket fiasco, as well as the WebRTC fiasco (as well as the defenstration of Brendan Eich), I'm very disappointed in Mozilla these days.
What the title actually means is "DOJ demands Turner Broadcasting to be sold as a condition..."

Includes all of these companies: http://www.turner.com/locations
Fair point.

Maybe one of the downsides of living in a democracy is that the upper class needs to pay the lower class hush money to keep them from rioting or turning the economy into complete socialism.
Yes. This is from the same CEO who wanted to name his first 3 models of car "S, E, and X" (the 3 was going to be the model E, but renamed due to ford's trademark).
Yes, see Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, etc. for overt examples.

IMO we should not do covert activity that reciprocates Russia's in this case. We should do overt things like trade sanctions or embargoes.
The US certainly does spread propaganda to the rest of the world. Voice of America [0] has historical been the main vehicle for this. They also seem to have pioneered a lot of the internet based methods that are being used now with their concept of memetic warfare. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America

[1] http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a507172.pdf
At what point is "propaganda" just annoying advertising?

I mean, I've seen these silly promotion ads where they interview random people who say China is great. They're annoying, but not unlike random mattress ads or ebook ads I see everywhere on the timeline. Most of the time i just ignore them always.

Besides, they're no where near the level of nastiness of local political ads that denounce other sides as rapists and child molester (at least in my area, where they basically show latinos as gang members)
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It seems like yes the day-to-day fluctuations may be at the whim of the large wallets, but how can they actually be in control of the price over longer periods?

Or if they can, then given that it's in their interest for the price to keep rising long-term, why not hold and go along for the ride?
When they say eggs they mean accounts that literally do not have any avatar image, and are thus probably operated by newbies or bots.

A quick check of my feed shows that at least half of the accounts I follow don't have an image of a person or a name that could be a real name. Of those that do, some are clearly not the picture or real name of the user of the account.
Firstly, it depends on the major and university. Secondly, out of state tuition here is around $20k per semester...
> No one is doubting that we are doing this overseas

The 2nd highest comment is "honestly curious" whether the US participates in propaganda campaigns.
>There's plenty of people offloading sandy bridge or newer systems at this point and they're dirt cheap

I recently picked up a couple Ivy Bridge Core-i3 Dell Optiplex desktops for under $100 each to replace some older machines at work. Totally worth it, and they came with Win 7 Pro, which can still be upgraded for free to Win 10 Pro. I'd imagine by this time next year Haswell desktops will have fallen to the same price.
Yes, and the top earners pay 396% more of their income than the bottom as far as federal income tax is concerned - this is traditionally understood to mean it's highly progressive as a system.
My city has a pretty sweet hybrid of this. We have a local company that provides electricity/cable/internet which received grants from the city to get off the ground. But it's now self-sufficient while still remaining cheaper than Comcast, with gigabit speeds.
It's not surprising. China just adds itself to the list of countries with "you do it over there, but you don't do it here" laws.

* China fabricates propaganda on Facebook, but bans it at home.

* Germany manufactures and exports firearms, but tightly regulates them at home.

* The US manufactures and exports cigarettes and pharmaceuticals, but tightly regulates them at home.

* Israel markets binary option trading scams to the rest of the world, but bans them at home.

* Russia produces malware, but only punishes anyone who unleashes it at home.

There's a lot to be said about the credibility of products and services that governments won't let their own people have access to but freely sell to the rest of the world.
Can't digital signs accomplish that? And if you're not driving the car, then the car can get notified of the changes without there needing to be a human visible sign.

I have a hard time believing the long-term future is everybody wearing something over their eyes. Seems like the better alternative is just to make the environment smarter.

That or implants.
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Given your comments, we seem to be similarly minded. What do you think about a wealth tax? To me, that would be the most appropriate given that incomes can vary year to year. Corporate taxes are a separate matter altogether, IMO, since corps just include their tax burden in the price of the products.

edit: What I'm thinking is some sort of total asset valuation placing one in a given bracket, rather than income level. While income tax is income tax, regardless of short-term/long-term capital gains (35%/15%, USA), or salary.
I'm sure other people in Colorado would gratefully accept the appropriate amount in "campaign funds" to run against those who would dare to compete against Comcast.

I mean, really - how dare they?
If a ripped 6'4" male model called himself @sexyengineer and posted pictures of him building things shirtless, I would roll my eyes and call his legitimacy into question. Doing the same to a woman isn't some sexist conspiracy.

Edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain? I don't see the flaw in my logic.

The flaw in your logic is that sexuality has nothing to do with being "legitimate."

Furthermore the tech in question is more about creativity than skill, the entire maker movement is about abstracting away the more difficult concepts into easier to use pieces.
OK, but it's not the end of the world (printing), because they're changing the license to Apache 2.0.
How does a simple type checker works and see how you can implement one
You can’t blame the people taking advantage of the loops holes, you have to blame the countries which allow it, and then stop them, thus putting all business owners on a level playing field. They are driven by capitalism and money, they aren’t going to not do it for moral reasons.
Why don't you just hit . to repeat the last indent?
I like to us gv as default, so I have this in my .vimrc:

" Align blocks of text and keep them selected

vmap < <gv

vmap > >gv
progress has no bounds. it's like water, finding a route where none existed before. even if you try to dam up some portion, the pressure mounts, and the dam breaks. do not worry about stifling advancement, especially through economic means.

when it comes to wealth (in)equality, you basically want to balance greed on one side and anger on the other. sure, allow the greedy to amass a little weath to promote their playing by the rules, but only just enough for those ends. and the other side, make sure wealth is distributed enough that people feel collectively prosperous, so we don't have riots and the like (fairer wealth distribution should come from better ways to more equally value the work of all people, not just that of gatekeepers and rent-seekers; and it should especially not come from simplistic wealth redistribution schemes like universal basic income).

wealth inequality has risen sharply over the past 50 years. whether you're a lefty or a righty, most people agree that it's time to level that playing field. there's absolutely no need to worry about stifling progress as we do that.
Apple needs to keep it's international after tax profits out of the US or it will be forced to pay another 40%+ in taxes on them. So it puts them in Ireland, because Ireland gave it a great tax rate, less than 1%.

What should the tax rate be on the interest from billions in savings? Apple isn't' forcing Ireland to build roads or spend any government moneys to allow it to make Irish bank deposits. it's a completely legal arrangement for both Ireland and Apple.

It's crap like this that forced the UK out of the EU. Nothing the EU does is going to force Apple to move it's savings to Germany or France so they can impose high taxes on their interest. That cash will go to Asia first.
There are too many options, I agree. But vim-plug is ultra easy. In my opinion, it should be the recommended package manager.
To first order, the network should show up for large projects that have many forks (Sometimes it says "Too many forks to display."). And it should be straightforward to distinguish forks with no updates from forks that have diverged from the main repo. Just being able to see forks with changes would be enough in many cases to at least open a conversation with the community.
I have a pretty small open-source-project -- https://github.com/Bloomca/redux-tiles.

It is a library for javascript, which allows you to write less verbose Redux code. I don't have any social media activity (like big number of followers, etc), and had 0 stars, until I've tried to put it on Show HN. It gave me around 100 stars and some momentum, which resulted in 100 stars more over couple of months.

However, it is still a pretty small project, and I can't say that it is used somewhere. I use for myself, as it solves exactly my problems, but don't really think somebody else uses it.

Is it unfair? It depends on your goal -- if you build something for yourself, it is okay (but some marketing definitely won't hurt), but if you really want to share, then I think you should dedicate time on marketing -- meetups, blogs, HN, reddit, etc.
> Hate these X millions / billions per month or year or a centuary.

I hear you, I hate misleading examples too.

> Dang an Nginx can serve a web page faster then that on a single modern notebook.

"What? Your moon-rocket can only fit three people? My couch can do six. I am not impressed."
I had that thought at first, too. But then I thought about it: she has worked on the subtle shades of meaning in words for years in order to translate things. So the more subtle significance of the role of translator is also something she would have pondered for a lot longer than most of us. Perhaps, if someone has thought deeply on a subject and worked in a field for decades, we might listen to what she has to say instead of dismissing it out of hand because it is unfamiliar.
What a sad, sad world we live in where a corporation can come in and use legislation to be obviously anti-competitive. What would the world do if comcast or a group of content owners tried to sue netflix out of existence because their business model threatened the incumbents? There'd be pandemonium.
I think you mean Maserati.
How is this news? Every global and regional power does this sort of thing to further their economic and political interests. They do it against both friend and foe. They've been doing it since newspapers first became popular.

And there's nothing wrong with it. Sure it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, but Facebook posts filled with misinformation, sponsored by foreign agents disguised as your countrymen are vastly preferable to the alternatives which have historically included sponsored coups, astroturfed bloody protests, economically crippling sanctions, and assassinations.

[1] China, Russia, the US, the UK, Israel, KSA, India, Germany, etc.
Yes, even Germany which many people on HN seem to think miraculously stopped spying in 1989 and ascended to ethical heaven. I wouldn't be surprised if Canada used it during the Keystone pipeline debate.
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Oh, they definitely do keep tabs and actively participate in places like HN.

You must have missed seeing this a few years ago...

> Members of Apple PR seek tabloid photos of celebrities holding iPhones, while others read Apple-focused blogs actively, and keep tabs on prominent Apple beat writers using anonymized social media accounts. A former Apple PR employee notes that the team enjoys being an “overall watchdog,” monitoring what the media is saying about the company every day.

https://9to5mac.com/2014/08/29/part-3-strategies-the-art-of-...
NBC confirmed the Justice Department's demand that Turner Broadcasting or DirecTV be sold before approval of the $85 billion merger.

A bit different from the headline. So, get rid of some content or a distribution channel.