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If it's so easy, why didn't they take a photo themselves? Could it be that using someone else's existing photo actually saved them time and money? If so, then it sounds like there's value in the original photo. If not, why wouldn't they just create an original photo on their own.
It may be annoying or inconvenient, but China is not the only country a requirement to register with the local authorities. The fact that it applies to all types of visas may throw some travelers off. Still, it is their responsibility to make sure (preferably before arrival) that the requirements for entry are met.

When you break the rules (intentionally or not), you're taking a risk. Some people get off unnoticed whereas others learn the hard way. Ask people familiar with the country and its laws before arrival and plan your trip properly.
Back in the early 1990s, I purchased a HP 48G calculator for $150, IIRC. It was at a university bookstore, so it may have been overpriced compared to the actual market value at the time.
Most Meetup events and groups have become a vehicle for salespeople and self-promoters.
The average person cannot remember more than 8 characters. So a 40-60 character string of random characters, many of which we rarely use naturally is not really feasible :)
> Sometimes, right and wrong isn't always obvious. To know one from another may require effort and thought.

The problem is that much of the progressive movement is convinced that not only do they have all the right answers, but that their conclusions are not up for debate. To even open up a dialogue on transgender issues (for example) is considered harmful, violent, toxic, hateful.

This happens over and over, but here is this week's example: http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/heres-the-full-recording...

I disagree with the right on almost everything, but the left has serious problems that it needs to work out before it can claim to be the party of truth.
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I really want to see someone attempt an Android Treble-like project for ARM Linux distros.
Let's just say that by "My Generation", I meant that I'm roughly as old as the Who song of that name...

And I did not mean my remark in a normative way. I watch all sorts of sports, I play all sorts of video games, and I have occasionally enjoyed watching Machinima. I don't consider these activities morally superior to watching e-sports or other forms of video game streaming, I just don't see any personal appeal whatsoever in the latter.
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It's the name of the problem being solved.
On a similar vein, I've been buying New Balance shoes exclusively for quite a long time. The fact that they are made in the same country as myself is part of the reason.
No, but maybe we can guess?

Uber had 170 employees in Jan 2013 and were valued at $3.5 billion in Aug 2013. Their goal was to 4x the number of employees by end of 2013. They then had 1500 employees in Oct 2014 at a valuation of around $17 billion.

Let's say equity grants ranged in value from $50,000 to $200,000 (these are probably good 25th and 75th percentiles) in stock options.

The secondary is at $48 billion, which is an increase of 14x over the 2013 valuation and 3x over the 2014 valuation. Assume Uber had 600 employees at the time of the $3.5bn valuation.

The 2013 equity grants are now worth $700,000 to $2,800,000 (conservatively).

So I'd say 600-700 millionaires from that alone. Probably a whole bunch more if you count later larger grants times the smaller multiples.

So maybe 1000 millionaires?

Also, employees are only able to sell 50% of vested I believe in this round and will have to pay tax up to 40%. So that reduces the number a bit.
No. Also individuals would have to opt into this, so it's entirely variable.
The Dash Online Search has been off by default since Ubuntu 16.04.

The "Dash" is also specifically a UI element in Unity and not part of GNOME.

I imagine, they keep these parts of the Privacy Policy around for people still using Ubuntu 14.04.
Well putting folks in jail for victimless crimes (such as drug offenders) is, for one, very wrong in terms of human rights.
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That’s a horrible non-summation of the point.

Yes a very large number of peopl don’t change their routine, habit or comforts until significant external stimulus is applied.

If a solution depends first on wishing reality was different, it’s fantasy. At best a reality to realize.
> is there a valid moral/ethical argument for buying products "Made in the USA" that doesn't fall apart when expanded to include other countries?

Logically it will fall apart. You can say "but isn't citizen of country X just as worthy of a making a good living?" and in a general logical sense, yes they are. However from a practical point of view, choosing to buy something made locally is appealing.

Countries and nations are here to stay for a while. Only the super-wealthy get to be citizens of the world and enjoy globalization in its positive PR-sense. They can live in South America, fly to New York to shop on the weekend, take the yacht to Seychelles for vacation. Borders mean nothing for them. Funny enough many developers on HN here also get to enjoy that if they don't have to work in an office. They can be nomads and borders are just minor annoyances for them.

But Most people are stuck in their countries, and so it makes sense for them to care and worry about the people from the same country a bit more. Buying locally is a manifestation of that.
> impose Western products

Nobody's forcing them to buy anything, you know.
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Though often that flow of information on the internet is through Facebook and they have control over certain information valves as stated by earlier posters.

In application just because a piece of information exists on the internet doesn't mean folks will be exposed to it. Folks values are reflected, but are also molded by the information that is made readily available to them through there internet habits and social network. If entities censor or place greater emphasis on certain streams of information they can attempt to mold the resulting values of users.
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The article doesn't explain why the returns are diminishing so steeply when illnesses, particularly chronic illnesses aren't exactly going away - and our technological capabilities are increasing rapidly. Why doesn't it all balance out to keep progress steady?

Part of the reason is that nowadays there are more longitudinal studies that tend to expose larger death rates overall even when drugs are "effective" along some one desired dimension.

But a larger reason is this: the vast majority of drugs mimic hormones (messenger molecules) or block them; or other messengers such as neurotransmitters. In other words, we are overruling a brain/body decision and hoping we know better than millions of years of evolution. But there just aren't that many cases when the body's responses are truly inappropriate. We've found most of them already.

There are some such cases of course. We've altered our environment a lot, after all. For example, although beta blockers wouldn't be appropriate for nomads because doing without adrenaline might mean not spearing vital game, or even getting outrun and eaten. However in the modern world, with a lot of environmentally caused heart disease, beta blockers are saving a lot of lives.

Of course, some drugs are still used to target invaders, but chronic illnesses are by far the bigger part of the medical and economic picture now.
I was about to say that American bikes have switched to metric tools, but then I realized that I can't think of a part on a new bike that's actually sourced in the US. There was a brief range of years when Schwinn sourced bikes in the far east (Japan and Taiwan) but still used imperial fasteners on components that were expected to be adjusted by the user, such as the stem and seat height. I have one of those bikes.

I work in product development. In general, US manufacturers easily switch to metric when there is a market reason to do so, or simply in the course of normal product turnover.
This certainly brings back some memories. This is what I wrote in HN when I first encountered Unity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504972

HN tells me this was 2402 days ago. Oh how quickly the kilodays fly by. But I am glad that after a mere twenty four hundred days Canonical finally listened to my advice.

I have been using mostly Xubuntu during the unity years so this thing did not affect me much. So I can look at the unity mistake not with anger but with interest and curiosity.

And when you look at the whole thing dispassionately and with perspective, you have to admit that this was not a mistake that Canonical made exclusively. It was a mistake the entire computing and software industry made. It was one of those strange turns into dead ends that happen to industries sometimes.

After the first ipad came out, the entire industry was absolutely certain that the future was tablets. Everyone started changing their user interfaces for tablets. And they did not care how much their customers complained, they just forced it down their throats because that was the future darn it.

But it turned out that the tablet future never happened. Even now I had to pay extra for a touch screen laptop because there was no other choice, when I "use" the touchscreen option only inadvertently.

The good thing about linux is that they can never railroad you into anything. So I switched to Xubuntu and that was that.
So, what is an effective means to try to connect with people for work related stuff? Say, if you freelance and need a water cooler type group?
Many of the companies behind these brands are tiny, like 1-10 people. For example, Rogue Territory is just a husband-wife team. Corter is another equally small brand.

When you purchase from these companies, you support artisans. They love their craft and are continuing American heritage traditions.

You're not likely to find this sort of things as imports. Husband-wife teams don't exactly have international presence.
> “It happened in China, it happened in Russia. In India and Southeast Asia, rationalizing the competitive environment makes sense,” says Boodry. “Going forward ride sharing in an environment without a lot of competitive pressure looks to be a pretty good business.”

This is one of those quotes that really make me wonder how markets are ever able to push prices down. I get that people are all trying to make money but almost everyone in the decision making process except for the end consumer seems to be in the "competition is bad" camp.

I wonder when the anti-trust cases against Uber (especially for dumping) will start rolling in.
Have you... ever actually done this?

When a publication boosted some of my images, I sent them an email. They apologized and sent me a check for, I think, $500.

My lawyer charges $350/hr. If I called him up asking him to send a demand letter for $500, he'd correctly tell me that a) it's worth me trying it first, and b) it might not be worth him doing it at all.
I would expect the education level of the workforce to be higher in Austin than in many places; UT churns out so many students and it's a cultural center.
See also:

Chat startup can't outspend Facebook, so it created a new currency to scam gullible "investors": https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kin/

Look what these guys did (funded by the same VCs), and you'll see why this is more unethical than even some of the shadiest ICOs.

I can understand why they're doing this, but the founders and the VCs should just step back and think about it for a bit. Do they really think they can make a comeback because they raise dumb money?

I'm sure the answer will be a No, if they really think about it. The problem is they're probably past that point and can't think rationally. (And the VCs have nothing to lose by letting them go ahead with this because it's better than losing all their money)
Thank you.

Honestly, it's not like the author worked 10 years on a Mona Lisa painting. It's a plain shot of a tape. Boohoo.
>Witness the disparity between American and European cellular plan rates.

I spend a fair bit of time in Europe and since I'm Scottish by birth I devote an unreasonable amount of time trying to find the cheapest decent cell service. Something about this didn't jive so I did a quick check:

Picking France as an example European country, Orange will sell you a 2G/Unlimited voice/SMS plan[1] for 25 Euro/mo. Meanwhile Verizon will charge you $35/mo for a similar 2G/unlimited voice plan[2].

Current $/Euro exchange rage is 1.2 so the French service ($30) is a little cheaper but not significantly.

Also in my experience service in Europe is generally less good in terms of coverage and QoS than we experience in the US. YMMV of course.

[1] https://boutique.orange.fr/mobile/forfaits-orange

[2] https://www.verizonwireless.com/plans/verizon-plan/
On the surface, yes. Here Wikipedia is just a pawn in the game being played by Telcos to actually do away with NN. If telcos really are being "magnanimous", why not let users browser whatever they want to (bandwidth/usage caps are okay).

Links are the essence of the Internet. Internet broken up in unclickable silos will have huge effects.
The editorial department of the WSJ is almost certainly "compromised" (in the sense that they have political opinions and loyalties), but that is true of even the NY Times. The actual reporting at the WSJ is still legit.
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Absolute poverty would be eliminated, and we would no longer motivate people through the fear of not being able to eat.

This is just UBI with a new branding platform, basically. There are tried and true solutions that have an established track record of working, such as universal basic health coverage. It would make more sense for the US to implement those things first, rather than try something experimental.

U.S. health care spending grew 5.8 percent in 2015, reaching $3.2 trillion or $9,990 per person. As a share of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 17.8 percent. *

There you go. The $10k per person that is so often bandied about for UBI, and it would do more for the neediest automatically. People with serious health problems would get more out of the system without having incentives to try to game the system or milk it.

* https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
The TSS is not the same as the 457 visa.

https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/457-abolition-replacemen...

"a requirement for visa applicants to have at least three years’ work experience"

"a non-discriminatory workforce test to ensure employers are not actively discriminating against Australian workers"

"new, more targeted occupation lists which better align with skill needs in the Australian labour market"

"a requirement for visa applicants to have at least two years’ work experience in their skilled occupation"

It's been a long, difficult, wandering struggle to find a country willing to accept me for 3 years so I can get enough work experience.

Expanding on that would be my personal story. I have many friends at various stages of education/work experience, all just trying to find a country to welcome them.

Work experience requirements are a veiled age limit. This is persecution of younger generations. The youth are not happy with the status quo, and are resentful of older generations for these kinds of rules.
> computer chips

Do we make those?
An update to this saga, "Teen's under-fire cryptocurrency offer withdrawn" http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...
Exclusivity contracts.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-restaurants-only-serve-...
Bingo. Hopefully, this course talked about inflation adjusted ARR, that a nest egg must keep up with inflation, etc. I'm assuming it would, but it goes to show there are a lot of details that are easy to skip over.
On my machine, the first link in the search results is to the ir.netflix.com pages (ir stands for Investor Relations) which has the list of directors and managers. That is a Netflix owned page. And if you click the 'annual reports' link it shows the corporate headquarters address at the top. So you are correct, it is two clicks to get both the name and address of the general counsel from Netflix.

And while I don't necessarily expect anyone to know off the top of their head that the top legal contact for a company will be called their 'general counsel', there are many many many stories on the web about people who have had their photos misappropriated and used (from travel brochures to bus stop ads) and doing any research at all would give you a clear sense of what the right course of action would be to do here. Further I would expect anyone with a PhD to be familiar with how to research a new topic of interest, to evaluate sources, and to derive the key principles underlying the system if they were widely understood and published (like image copyright is).
Orz mode on. :) Items in * are poorly translated and not to be taken literally.

(edit, lol, fail. Didn't realize asterisks cause italics. Sigh)

From my experience with Hackintosh, you're downloading a canned VMWare image of a pirated OS. I'm not exactly sure when they would say you agreed to anything when you downloaded it, since you only have interactions with VMWare Player (or VBox) and the site hosting the VMWare images, plus a few of the BIOS patches that are needed to make it all work. you never interact with Apple in any way.

The guy who keeps packaging it is running a risk of legal action when Apple gets their fill of PCs running MacOS, though. In the meantime, though, it allowed me to shelve my Mac Mini for iOS development and keep everything in one PC, albeit one virtualized environment.

Being able to copy/paste between PC and Mac is fantastic for workflow.

I am a big fan.

I probably get burned by something deep in the Apple Developer Program EULA where I agreed not to do unintended things with Apple software. :)
> the high income countries of the world are only "great" because they exploit everyone else

Man, I hate this trope. Let me fix it for you: high income countries are only "great" because they have achieved a great deal of institutional, economic and scientific sophistication.

This puts yes them in a position to do shitty things, and they do shitty things, no question. But the actual source of wealth isn't exploitation of other countries. There are plenty of high income countries that don't exploit, and low income countries that do exploit. Also look at history: exploitation or not made little difference except for the most successful colonial powers, so more or less Portugal, Spain, maybe Netherlands, and the UK. Those things are all over.

Progress is not a zero-sum game. Wealth can be created, if it exists it does not have to be because it's stolen. I mean - how did the amount of wealth in the world increase, anyway? Stealing is kind of lossy, it can't have been by mutual stealing. Also, natural resources are not that important anymore. And high income countries were/are doing just fine mining them on their own soil.
Take a look at this video from Kyle.Engineers (a practicing aerodynamic engineer) YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzlp6TxqM5o
> It is not difficult to avoid abusing power imbalances in your favor,

I think that's being naively idealistic, looking at everything both currently and throughout history. The Stanford Prison Experiment has a lot to say about this, too.

> nor is it difficult to set fair wages and labor practices.

Theoretically, yes. But one issue with the USA in particular is its sheer size and variety. A fair wage in New York City and a fair wage in Podunk are not the same thing. Nor are manual labor practices equivalent across varying climates and population densities. The federal level of governance is wildly disconnected from the populace in both distance and levels of hierarchy. They deal with passing laws most of which arise from local issues that 99% of people (and even lawmakers) don't have a connection to, yet end up affecting everybody. Even at the state level, Californians and New Yorkers are still burdened by laws that tend to originate from the high density centers that might not make any sense outside there.

It's relatively easy to look at a single instance of a job and consider what's fair practice and fair pay in that specific environment, but to do so as a legally enforceable blanket policy is not.

> moral authority ... individuals devaluing everyone ...

There isn't a "devaluation" happening; there's little real value exchanged in the actual work to begin with. This has nothing to do with any notion of "moral authority", which themselves manifest in externalities added to work environments for societal benefit. But the ratio of expense between those externalities and the work itself can get overwhelming for low-end labor, hence automation and offshoring.
Not sure about full-time employees, but according to the video in https://www.facebook.com/safety/wellbeing/suicideprevention, they work with suicide prevention groups and researchers.
>>Some people will work harder anyways, and many will be discouraged.

Some people will work harder, by moving to a different country, where the tax laws are saner and don't punish hard working prime movers for the very value they provide.
I hope meetup doesnt get trashed like the Slashdot, Wired and Huffpost acquisitions. They were destroyed by excessive advertising.
You might be able to classify it as dumping.

Loss leading itself could also be regulated more. For example, in France it's illegal to resell something for less than the price you paid for it (except during regulated "sales" periods). This prevents companies coming in and using their funds to subsidize the products.

I could see the argument that Uber is a reseller, given they're not part of the actual taxi experience
There's no shortage of data about steeply growing inequality, here's just one recent article that caught my attention, by Ray Dalio, no less, saying it's up by six times:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-biggest-economic-social-p...
This is a very misleading and inflammatory title. Furthermore, it is not the linked article's title. The title makes it seem like Wikimedia's official position is against net neutrality and that is not the case. Their official position is in support of net neutrality.

If you want to make arguments that some of their actions do not jibe with their official position, go ahead but make the title reflect that.
It's the Corporate Communications Manager at Netflix, they are pretty much a public spokesperson for the company so I don't think there is any harm done here. It's not a low-level employee.