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Indeed. I think you are right. They prefer toying with childish ideas instead of dealing with the boring, difficult and dirty job of real politics.

And in fact, perhaps it's better like this.

Edit: that said, their ideas do have real political consequences: keeping the status quo as it is.
> Pointing fingers at "all guilty parties" means pointing fingers almost exclusively at republicans.

Almost exclusively? That's definitely an unhelpful exaggeration. I agree with the spirit of your analogy, but even invoking the term "exclusively" when referring to political behavior, qualifiers or not, is going to undermine your argument.
can the kids still attend that school district after you get fired/quit?
I still remember reading about this weird thing called bitcoin on this website around then, I had most of it setup to start mining but got distracted and forgot about it. That is until it hit $100 and I figured 'well it wont get much higher so there's no point now'
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Are there any good collaborative editors for a two file C++ assignment? VIM plugins? Atom or VS Code Plugins? It should work on the local network, without needing internet.
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> have the mortgage paid off; it's one less bill to keep track of

Most people will get an increase in billing complexity when paying off their mortgage. I have paid off one and now have to pay insurance and real estate taxes separately (rather than them previously being escrowed amounts from the PITI payment). My tax bill cannot be easily auto-paid either, so I now have to pay more attention (insurance can be auto-paid).
The problem isn't finding an idea for how to increase equity (we already have ideas for progressive taxation, UBI, tax credits for the poor, etc.). The problem is finding a way to convince the government to actually implement plans to increase equity, and limit loopholes and unintended consequences that may stem from it.
>Running at a moderate pace //

If you're obese you will knacker your knees. Swimming is better, but be careful to exercise complementary muscle groups too.
A law without a budget to support enforcement does not do much. It again comes down to economics - the balance of risks vs returns. This is of course obvious. What provokes me to mention the obvious is the count of politicians/governments who grandstand on issues, pass laws but do not back it with a budget. These are mostly PR exercises.
I really like this idea. Would improve the user-visible quality of wireless mesh networks where latency can be high.
20 years ago I helped start an ISP. I would like to do it again.
Does anyone else gets this feeling of being helpless in front of the corp mega-machine?

What can one do when is forced to deal with psychopathic corporations that lie straight into one's face? i.e. https://twitter.com/comcast/status/933396998958567442
>The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanic

Who names their covert terrorism op that? That's just asking for it.
55 hours is very long for Europe.

European working times directive limits the maximum hours to 48 hours a week, although people can opt out of that.
On the nose. Reads like he picked up a copy of Lakoff's "Don't think of an elephant!"and is attempting to apply framing theory. Great job sans the lack of details–though that in itself is probably intentional.

It's useful to try out different metaphors and see what sticks.
That's the sort of thing that's left out by comparing specs, unfortunately. And people who build their own systems are mostly focused on specs.
So broadband speeds are now frozen for normal Internet traffic. Only paid traffic will see any upgrades from here on out.
I think you mean unpaid slow lanes. A neutral network operates at maximum speed always. Prioritization really means deprioritization here.
The prices they pay for goods go up...
QoS is not net neutrality, and confusing the two is a common tactic of anti-NN shills who can’t make actual points.
This seems like relativism run amok. All political positions are not equal except in a completely unmoored ethical system.
People probably believe that the positive effects are on the more obscure or hypothetical side while the negative effects would be more severe and definite.

Sorry to the hearing impaired community for not prioritizing your latency needs, but Fox News buying up all the ISPs and controlling the news is worse.
First, Ingress had a purpose to serve, and it has served that purpose - it is relatively easy to handle low-complexity apps with generic Ingress.

But low-complexity apps don't stay that way.

What you're describing is very much the way my brain has gone. In my experience, most users end up using at least one non-portable annotation on Ingress. The logical conclusion then, is that people care about features MORE than portability in this facet of the API.

This is not surprising to me, given how religious the debate tends to be...
This used to be called an IPO, but as it turns out the companies themselves don't want it.
I finished grad school in 2000 and started saving then. We haven't had 7% returns for 2000-2017, even with the recent increase in the market.

40 years is a long time, and I'm talking about a notably bad start and end date (though remember how it looked between 2000-2010, almost a lost decade from the perspective of investment growth for retirement planning).

But while I still support saving and investing, a lot of people are reasonably starting to wonder, at what point should we stop assuming these kinds of returns in our planning?
> money invested

Only in the most inefficient way possible. The 'problem' is banks are limited in what they can do with this money which ends up creating investment bubbles and other market distortions which hurt the economy overall. If you slowly transitioned banks so they could not invest this money over say 100 years the net result would not be harmful.

In the end money is not actual wealth, it's simply a representation of wealth. Anything that turns money into more money needs an intermediary where some cash flow is generated. And those intermediary's are often harmful see in excess like pay day loans.
It was certainly its ambition to be an academic workstation originally but lots of other things were. 'OS (or hardware) of choice in sciences' doesn't really reflect reality.
I was explicitly referring to the topic at hand: Marketing abroad/International brands. What I described is undeniably one of the major reasons, if not the most important one. Most true global brands were established in the post-war period (Spain couldn't have participated in it that is).

Language barriers are a common issue for all our neighboring countries, more so in the past.

> most of the people working today never lived through the worst of it

You don't have to be around when the earthquake hits to live with its consequences. But sure, things are going somewhere, where exactly I'm not sure.
We need a Telecommunications Act of 1996 all over again.
Was this not edited? The writing is incredibly awkward.
The economist wrote an article on this recently discussing how the United States raises a lot of money from rich citizens compared to other countries, but redistributes relatively little of this money to poorer citizens: https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21731642-how-am...
You are just beating on the fact that I based the comparison on the total rather than the mean GDP available to an individual.

I addressed the comment you made, not the comment you didn't make.
If Netflix were paying AWS's rates for outbound bandwidth they'd be even less profitable than they are.
I think it's that the response was all about the company's goals, but the question seemed more addressed to elicit discussion around personal goals.
Oops, the URL in the video is outdated, the repo now lives at https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/shared-editing-demo

This is also the tech that PeerPad is built on: https://peerpad.net && https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624158
Interesting. So from yours and the other comment, it sounds like the issue really comes down to not being able to force all applications to use the "VPN interface", while still keeping the "hardware interface" functional so the VPN itself can use it.

I can see why it can so quickly become a giant mess...

Assuming it's the OS that needs to "fix" this, are there any changes either already made or in the works to better address this use case, or is a hardware VPN still going to be the only "real" way to securely tunnel a system for the foreseeable future?
The Guardian is not different from any other Tabloid, except the viewership is the left higher class. The journalists still mispresent data and exploit racial/gender tensions to make bucks. I used to read it every day, now I only look at the environment section.
> 2 pounds a day. That's how much CO2 you breath out

I bet I breath out more on Saturday's marathon than Sunday's recovery day.
Is a lot of rural land locked up? By whom/what?
> I don't think the author has any insight at all on what a general AI will be.

To be fair, nobody does. But you're right, the author shouldn't be making these statements with such certainty.
You might want to look up who build the Taliban in the first place...
The first time I saw one of these was when my boss (a huge Apple fan boy at a time when that was a difficult lifestyle choice) managed to somehow convince the local Apple distributer to loan the office a demo machine for some reason.

You have to place the machine in the context of the time - the office was filled with crappy desktop machines from Dell, Compaq, and a bunch of white box OEMs. The G5 tower suddenly arrived like the monolith from 2001 with us all clustered around like filthy apes.

We never did anything useful with that G5 and after a few months it disappeared. But its job was done, over the next couple of years nearly everyone uplifted by that machine purchased at least one Mac for personal use.
Is there a mode to rerun everything on every update? That's how my https://github.com/darius/halp works, and it's fine for working out code with cheap test cases. You wouldn't want to do that for data analyses that take even a second, but I've found myself using it a lot to develop code.
Whereas I tend to reject analyses (literally meaning splitting) that can't even come up with one meaningful division. The whole point of the article is that while there's still some variety, we're losing a huge part of the economic ecosystem in the middle, that is, that we're dichotimizing; if you have contravening statistics, by all means provide them.
There is a hard limit of ketogenesis: about 185g of ketone bodies per day [0].

(That's about 2 lbs every 3 days).

[0] https://www.diapedia.org/metabolism-insulin-and-other-hormon...
I keep thinking about what my ideal ISP would look like, then weighing the options. It's just so, so expensive to get one off the ground.
Corporations have been operating under the mistaken belief that they are legally obligated to maximize shareholder returns for a couple of decades now, to the detriment in general of labor and the overall quality of goods and services provided.

I would expect something similar to happen to here: this would incentive massive changes in attitude towards national infrastructure and services. Take NASA for example: it's already difficult to convince taxpayers at large to support NASA even to the meager extent that it is; now put NASA into the context of being even perceived as a very minor drag on GDP in a country where citizens expect to get an annual return on GDP, and there's no way NASA would continue to be funded.

Everyone would be willing to forsake long-term goals and returns in exchange for short-term financial incentives -- exactly the problem of so many businesses today.

(Rural areas would also be absolutely gutted by urban centers -- this would become a system that empowers tyranny of the majority.)

I think former President Obama has already replied to this idea more eloquently than I could:

"...government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with." ... "...if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences -- setting aside my Syria and Yemen portfolio -- then I think those suggestions are terrific." https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/1...
Wouldn't need to replicate them.

We had plenty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4477th_Test_and_Evaluation_Squ...
Of course they are. They are a corporation.

The real question is what do we after net neutrality is repealed?

Do we try to break up the cable monopolies ?
FTC lawsuits ?
Start having Cities or States write laws enforcing neutrality ?
These are just words that don't mean anything without a concrete implementation plan. Owning a piece of America... What is America? Is it US based companies? Is it physical property and capital? These things are already owned by people. Everything worth being owned is already owned by someone or some corporate structure. Who is going to rearrange and adjust all these existing ownership structures to introduce joint ownership by the American people? Why would we expect existing stakeholders to want anything to do with such a plan?

Silliness.
> Absolute poverty would be eliminated, and we would no longer motivate people through the fear of not being able to eat

That's the biggest misconception about poverty. It isn't about not having access to financial help when you need it (we already have plenty of programs in the US that should - in theory - solve those same problems).

Poverty in America is more about culture and lack of education. Give any amount of money to many of the poorest citizens in the country, and they'll be no better off after a week of frivolous spending.
I've read both books. I personally didn't find them to be well written, however they convey what they are trying to convey well enough. If anything, people should read them to better understand how libertarians of the Objectivist streak view the world. It would be eye-opening to say the least.
Woah, I did not know that universities were exempt! The head of my alma mater's investment fund definitely did not mention that...
He made it to the front page because people here read it, thought it was interesting, and gave it a point. The fact it's on the front page means nothing more than that. Any reputation youre attaching to it doesn't exist.
I don't subscribe to an objective morality. There are things that I value and attempt to maximize, but I don't feel the need to compel all sentients in the universe to adopt my position.

I'm willing to "live and let live," with the understanding that conflict will still happen sometimes and that's okay.
> In Germany $120k is the salary of your average successful internet startup CEO

If that CEO salary figure is even close to accurate (I have doubts a successful German tech CEO is taking home just $120k a year), that arguably speaks to how few enormous .com/tech success stories have emerged from Europe (we're not exactly overflowing with Googles, Apples, Facebooks and such), which is arguably a problem in itself in 2017.

I don't know when the OP was last working here, but I'd also point out that ~$120k is increasingly a pretty common level of remuneration this area for a reasonable entry-level engineering position, if you are good and make the most of opportunities significantly more than this can be made, worth remembering when looking at cost of living comparisons.

> it's not like the quality of life in the Bay Area is ten times greater than in the top cities of Europe either, not to my knowledge anyway.

This is clearly a hugely subjective, not to mention anecdotal measure, but having lived in several major European cities as well as the Bay Area for a number of years in each instance, I definitely do have the best quality of life I've had for my family in California, and for me anyway it's been absolutely worthwhile. There are very few cities anywhere that offer the incredible range of activities, nature, jobs and educational establishments etc all within driving distance that the Bay Area offers, which is a huge factor in why so many people are trying to move here.
The warehouse shown is in UK, which has a national minimum wage and EU working times directive and other labour protection law.

Amazon needs to be careful, because the combination of this and tax avoidance could cause them trouble.
If you want to brand basic income in a way for conservatives, advocate for a Negative Income Tax (Friedman's idea) as an alternative to welfare bureaucracy.
> This proposal seems like the equivalent of a failing startup diluting the crap out of its employee pool to raise a gigantic round.

If that's possible, that's probably the right thing to do; if the company is failing, who cares about diluted stock? 0.0075% of $0 is still $0.
If you're not in the position to angel invest I don't have anything top of mind to share. I think most of the stock market is overpriced, but Facebook is still probably a reasonable bet.

If I knew the next Bitcoin I'd definitely have typed it out. Sometimes the answer is to just wait and see and let your thoughts kinda work through things. What I know for sure is that there are a lot of powerful people that found out how important cyber security is in the past couple years. Snowden, Clinton, Paradise Papers. The market will do its best to try to meet this need.
I'm a music lover. I have more than 2000 CDs. The abundance of music is impressive. Just a few years ago all the music services just have anglo-american pop/rock songs. Now they have music all around the world.

It is impressive. I read about a musician, I have not just him/her latest album, but a plethora of related artists. I can hear music from Mali to Cabo Verde to Colombia in a few moments. It is really crazy.
I don't think that most people even look at their pay stubs - either physically or electronically, so adding yet another sheet with a big pie chart with vague slices like FICA, Defense, etc. wouldn't accomplish much.

Taxes are also hidden in various ways.

The ACA is more or less a redistributive tax charged to your health care premiums.

More than 10 percent of your salary is deducted as employer FICA contributions, but they are essentially paid by the employee in terms of salary potential.

Property taxes and municipality costs are hidden in mortgage payments and rent.

With the exception of more education, I think the only true way to get people to understand where their taxes are going would be to not auto-deduct it from their pay checks or as employer paid or bundle them in with other payments (like mortgages), but instead send them several distinct bills to be paid in-person to some representative of the beneficiary.

For example, I think defense spending would be less popular if each worker had to write a check for a few thousand dollars every six months and go deliver it in person to the local army base.

Same thing for Social Security and Medicare if young people were required to deliver a check to individual retired persons (who, would, statistically be in far better financial shape than the millennial).

Obviously, this is too absurd to be implemented.
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Alright, say you had to sort them from most guilty to least guilty. I don't have the resources to do this, but start listing off republicans until you find one who is "less guilty" than a democrat. How many places on this list does that take you? Probably more than 100.
What makes you confident in asserting this? While it appears to be Russian speakers who are looking for cooperative hosts, it's not at all clear that the issue is limited to Russia. From the article:

The laundering may work outside Russia as well. In another post, a sixth scammer, who is also willing to split the cash 50-50, says they are looking for hosts and “the country does not matter,” their post reads. Another post on a Russian-language forum is looking for EU-based hosts.
In fairness, Comcast didn't "hint" at any such thing -- this is based on Ars's conjecture based in what Comcast stopped saying.
>whether it's better to take more risky start-up jobs for equity or stick with safer enterprise jobs at a good salary, but with less chance to start something myself and possibly hit the jackpot.

You're better off taking the high salary at Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google etc..

http://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
I completely support this idea. Additionally, I think the USA needs to move away from anything that doesn't reflect majority rule. For example, abolish the Senate, end the electoral college, end gerrymandering, and reform campaign financing.

The USA could be a lot more democratic than it is at present and until that is fixed, you will keep seeing a minority of the population control policies that affect the whole nation.
Universal basic income. He wants to (numbers _entirely fabricated here_) tax 20% of US GDP and then give that money evenly to all adults, therefore giving every adult American an equal share of 20% of the GDP (which would be about $14,000 per year per adult).
I went from drinking 10-12 beers a night to drinking 3 vodka+waters and didn't lose a single lb
To make this seem less socialistic. Favorable tax treatment to mutual (customer owned) and employee owned companies would be a good route to go.
I think it would be an annual bonus for some Americans, and an annual tax increase for others. As someone who, I suspect, would be in the second group, I feel like we do enough of this kind of thing already.
From the perspective of trying to get the budget balanced, taxing wealth is probably the single most efficient way to do it.

From the perspective of the tax code as an incentive system, taxing wealth is a strange thing—it makes people feel less interest in becoming wealthy, and thereby causes fewer GDP-building things to happen! (This is also, for a similar reason, why economists don't like corporate taxes or trade tariffs: they disincentivize exactly the things that help the economy the most.)

Economists are usually more in favor of a land-value tax, because it punishes people for something that doesn't build GDP (investing their wealth into property and then sitting on it as it appreciates), and encourages them to instead do things that do build GDP (like investing their wealth into companies.) A land-value tax is still essentially a luxury tax, but it doesn't have the same problem of unilaterally discouraging GDP creation that taxing wealth does.
I'd love to hear more about the difference between QoS and "prioritization", as they are calling it.
In short, no. While we should address the income and wealth gaps in America through measures to guarantee more to the people at the bottom, we should resist further attempts at quantifying human life and activity in economic terms.

(Also, in reality we all own in a share of the massive debt the federal government has taken on to fund wars and corporate welfare. So much for that.)
> It can understand "the given problem" but there is FAR MORE to our minds than optimizing and learning how to solve a task.

Humans are bound by the size of their brains. Machines can "duplicate themselves", in a way, it can freeze its Go-playing part and learn to do something else to perfection. Humans can't do that. If pro Go players stop playing Go and decide to master sword-making, they will forget about Go. A machine could be designed not to.
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