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This sort of thing has been used for the last 40 years and its effectiveness is drawing to an end. Nobody believes anything the oligarchs say anymore.

You can only pull on a rubber band for so long before it eventually breaks and smacks you in the face. The band is now very, very tight. The next economic downturn risks unleashing something that no amount of money can control.
The elimination of the State and Local Tax deductions will be huge for California and New York.
Yeah somehow I don't see itemized deductions as a "middle class" thing. Even less so with the standard deduction increase.
I fortunately have not experienced this, despite living somewhere where it is already the 2nd (no doubt because I've disabled most notifications). But Apple seriously needs to fix its QA processes.

Microsoft was a security laughing stock in the early 2000s and they invested heavily into secure coding methodology, tools, and standards. Now it is Apple's day of reckoning.

Apple must demonstrate that they have learnt this lesson and commit to fixing the security and quality control processes they have.
I think your measure of what is ok and what isn't is just on the basis of what you are comfortable with. Doesn't mean every other programmer is comfortable with the same.

To tell you the truth, I am ok with coding questions. In fact, I demand it. What I'm not ok with is demanding inch-perfect code in 20 mins. The only people who can be perfect are the ones who are doing the exact same problems everyday....not the ones who are doing production work.
And the Baltimore rioters? Police actually let them destroy property. And who is facing life in prison protesting the Trump inauguration?

And what was the purpose of protesting the inauguration? I get it you are MAD and you want to break things.

But did you vote? How many of those protesters did? Statistically, very few.

You get the government you deserve.
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The differences to the current situation seem more interesting than the similarities.

Now :

- widespread easy access to contraception
- low early life mortality
- massive agricultural automation and machinery
- pervasive educational opportunities
Tonight I'm thinking about the Affordable Care Act, which McCain piously invoked as an example of the kind of unseemly rushing and ramming through that he disapproved of when he voted down the recent health care bill. The ACA took about a year to pass, spent an extensive amount of time in committee, incorporated hundreds of amendments, and had fundamentally the same structure from the beginning of the process to the end. This bill was cobbled together in a matter of weeks and was substantially altered while the Senate was in session preparing to vote on it. The hypocrisy is mind-boggling.
> Hey, I enjoyed your Perl 6 book this summer!

That's great to hear. If you haven't done so, I'd appreciate it if you could write a review on amazon. There's a second one coming up: https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484232279 / https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1484232275/

> Pity, there are no Perl 6 jobs so far

Not full Perl 6 jobs yet, but I heard from friends that they started developing some tools for $work in Perl 6.
The parent comment is saying that the economic success of China should be encouraging America to step it's game up, not that it should become a single party system.
> protesting is virtually impossible

I call my state and federal representatives and have built rapport with their SLAs. I find my input valued and well considered.

My district is a densely-populated one in Manhattan. Work brings me to the Bay Area, where I also conference with representatives. I am usually the only person calling or caring about most technical issues.

The problem isn't imagined bans on peaceful protest. It is apathy, laziness and an unwillingness to independently engage.
It's actually spelled "gerrymandering".

You might have learned that by now if you weren't so busy spreading dumb conspiracy theories on the internet.
Call me cynical but this has ‘fake’ written all over it. It’s an interesting challenge but the stated problem doesn’t really make sense.
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That's very optimistic. There are are two pretty likely outcomes: humans will solve our problems, bring about peace, colonize Mars and voyage out into space ... or... we go extinct. We might waver between tech and stoneage for a bit with some war, but eventually we're likely to converge on one of those two.

Looking at humanity today .. I'm thinking we'll go extinct. Love your loved ones. Don't spent too much time in the office. Life is too short to not really live, cause there's a good chance literally no one will remember us a million years from now.
That's a pretty safe supposition no matter what he said. Risk preference is real. There is very little overlap between the set of CEOs and the set of accounting professors.
I can't remember the exact limit (I think it's rat dog size) but every large species of went out. Also ammonites surface dwellers went out, nautilus which are deep divers didn't

Makes one think anything that couldn't squeeze into a small localized hideout for a year or two didn't make it.
I’d be the first to say there are a bunch of serious problems posed by the one-party system in China, but getting important projects done quickly is not one of them.
They weren't eliminated, but ended up capping them at $10k.
It's very easy to let that slip into post hoc justification of your priors.
There is merit to this idea and it has the potential to be highly effective but also highly destablizing, in both positive and negative ways.
A comment about a bill that took almost a year to draft and which was passed under regular order. And now hypocrites who used that quote to attack Pelosi are supporting this abominable bill, which was passed without any kind of analysis and without even the slightest pretense that anyone voting for it had read it.
I’ve checked, cats have 19 pairs of chromosomes.

So technically it would be:

19 and Meow
Yes, it can still be a moral issue (I'd prefer to use 'quality of life' rather than moral, as the term moral implies a certain level of judgement of the choices of others, and I'd rather be focused on making those judgements over my own choices).

Use of technology can both help and hinder us. On the negative side, we can become dependent on it, and that dependency does not always enhance our lives. Even in the case of your Apple Watch making you exercise more, used in moderation you can get the benefits without too many downsides, but it can also become a device that distracts you from the world around you, disconnecting you from experiences that you could get by being more fully in the moment. To be clear, this isn't an issue solely limited to use of technology, but the more devices we have and use the more easily distracted we become.

The ideal for companies is to have all our life's needs and wants fulfilled by companies. If they can do so by suggesting there's a hole you need to fill by buying their products, and you become unhappy if you don't have it, is this a healthy trend? What if you were generally happy before this marketing campaign started?
China is said to have 60M men who will never be able to marry. I wonder how that will play out.
Recommend watching this video and others that are on his channel before believing what the media says about him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l__qN9Qt3Hc

I only became familiar with Martin Shkreli's story a only few days ago, yet it has become my main example that I'll point out when talking about:

- corrupt media and fake news

- corrupt populist people in power

- political witch hunts

- public that is trivial to mislead

You can easily verify the claims made by the media and the claims made by him and see exactly who is right and who is wrong, there is no moral grey area.
You're preaching to the choir.
What do you want to demand? More taxes? You do not need police state. You are living in an Orwellian state of mind!
The person you replied to does not say that China's political system is better in any way, simply that if such a system (single party authoritarian government) can out develop the US then there must be some serious improvements to be had for the US's democratic system.

In other words, if China can give their people what they want without fair elections or due process or freedom from corruption then our democratic system which ostensibly includes those things must be seriously broken. That does not mean authoritarianism is better. At least that's how I read the comment.
"Land in New York is more valuable than in San Francisco; and in New York, the San Franciscan may see squalor and misery that will make him stand aghast."
Does 'xenophobia' have other connotations in the US besides its established meaning?
Protest what? Trump could pardon a turkey and it would seem to inspire riots.
There is an officially recognized gender imbalance[0]; there is more incentive to prefer a male as a sole child. But the problem is slightly dampened by the fact that female children are under-reported[1].

[0]: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/opinion/china-challenges-one-c...

[1]: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/asia/china-missing-girls/index...
Replace state and/or federal income taxes with a LVT (land value tax). Its egregious that a single family home in downtown Portland cost $5000 a year in property taxes. You'll deduct that amount in interest every year. Its essentially free for people to take up space.
> protesting is virtually impossible

And look how fast the discussion of an issue (this post) of this gravity is quickly flagged into invisibility.
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I was so interested to read about a somewhat similar situation with the Shaker Church in the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers

The members took a vow of celibacy, and the church depended on new members joining. As of today, there are just two offical Shakers left, both quite old.
I can only speak from personal experience on this.

I find 3 things important: celebrating successes, shore up your mental model of failure, and to try to build mental positive momentum. I will explain.

With regards to positive momentum, it takes a bit of mental energy to start. When I am biking to work or in another time when alone, any thoughts of a defeatist or negative nature I aggressively try to shift to a positive. Example being "man, I'm going to get nothing done today cause I feel tired" can become "I didn't get the best sleep last night but this fresh air is really refreshing, the sky looks really nice today". Once I get started, it's surprising how quickly it sticks and I no longer have to try.

Shoring up my mental model of failure - I guess here if I was thinking about building a side project, instead of "Google has already done it, no point in building it myself" I'd instead focus on "I am going to change my idea a bit and service this niche, and my objective is to learn how to build this, not to win the war against Google". So by picking a personal objective to work towards, personal growth, and in case it does fail, I then still achieved what I wanted.

And lastly, to remind yourself that you achieved a lot as it goes along by celebrating successes. Again, if I am building a side project and I manage to get my first 50 users or something like that, I am going to have a little celebration ritual - doesn't have to be big, maybe it's as simple as "awesome, I am going to celebrate this by going to my favourite bakery and getting my favourite croissant for breakfast this morning" or something like that. It helps to do this to maintain positivity throughout.

Anyways, that's what helps me personally.
It sounds like the person that tolerates bad management well, wont try to change things so that they are better managed and simultaneously is autonomous enough to manage own responsibilities well. I see how last one is a bit in contradiction against first two. Such people exists, but are indeed rare and hard to recognize.
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I would hate to live in a system that worked by the letter and just said "Well, can't touch him, he didn't TECHNICALLY break any laws...."

But we do live in that system. That's how Google and Apple pay no taxes.
Oh right and Obamacare didn’t do the exact same thing? What goes around..
I'd love to a dystopian science fiction novel in this vein.
> Nobody believes anything the oligarchs say anymore.

And yet Donald Trump was elected president.
Some destabilization is possibly needed. Like you have to raise to rebuild.
No, but that would be a promising solution when I have a team. I was hoping for a cheat-code into the HN collective knowledge.
"who is facing life in prison protesting the Trump inauguration?"

Here you go:

"More than 200 people who were arrested on Trump’s inauguration day risk up to 60 years of jail. Meanwhile, the white supremacists in Charlottesville walk free"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/donald...
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You may not be aware that people are being charged not so much with breaking things but being part of a crowd in which some people broke things. And yes, the potential sentences run into decades despite the extremely minor nature of the property damage.

A slanted editorial but one grounded in fact rather than a particular ideology:
http://georgetownvoice.com/2017/12/01/j20-defendants-face-a-...
Physical security, digital security and fraud prevention are separate fields. They may all have something to do with "security" but the goals are very different and as a result, the management structure needs to be different. If you fail to do so you will simply dilute the key objectives each of these fields deliver.
They did make some rather nice furniture.
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Your tech stack seems to be interesting. Do you have more details about how you do scaling? 28k servers seems to be massive to run on a cloud..
And the prior comment references Santa Clara vs Southern Pacific Railway, in which a note on the decisions (not even in the decision itself) stated that corporations were persons for purposes of the 14th amendment. It does not date back to the Joint Stock Companies act but comes from a little later in the post-civil war cases.
Here's a sampling of the top comments in this thread:

* "protesting is virtually impossible"

* "The law making process is so clearly broken"

* "society will be warped into some dysfunctional dystopian end game"

* "the US doesn't have enough accountability for its leaders"

* "digital technology delivering us a single party state"

* "Dystopian police state here we come"

* "protest has been criminalized. The people who protested Trump's inauguration are facing what amounts to life in federal prison."

Which are all just elaborate ways of crying "I don't like this bill. It must be unfair!".

I'm gonna break something to you: it's not unfair. Stop being an immature baby.

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. That's a result of multiple successful midterm elections and the recent presidential election.

If you don't like this bill, go vote for someone else in November instead of offering your elaborate theories of how US politics is "fundamentally broken" because you didn't get your way.
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The Germans will be safe for a good few years yet. Their government will only be able to do this when everyone who lived under the Stasi dies and can no longer vote.
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> I started thinking about it as a sort of superpower I have, one that must be used with great care and responsibility.

Bingo. Well done you. I’ve struggled with mental/emotional problems all my life, thought that I was cursed even, and accepting that I’ll never be cured [1] is the game-changer. For readers: it forces you to think how you can >>manage<< them better, and how it can actually be >>useful<<. This can be hard at first, and will continue to be a lifelong struggle, so patience, lots of them. Eventually you’ll be able to pinpoint your ‘problems’ and their triggers, and build up the discipline to adapt via lifestyle change. You’ll also begin to understand how these can be turned into, well, ‘superpowers’ when you’re in a calmer state of mind. Like the ability to empathise is frequently overlooked when it’s actually very powerful. (But please, don’t start looking to be powerful, for sure this will cause grief sooner or later!)

Solitude imo is not necessarily a bad thing, it encourages more introspection and independence once you train yourself to embrace it. As long as you balance it with the right amount of positive socialising of course.

[1] If you feel severely affected, PLEASE sought out professional help. Or at the very least, people who you can trust to be kind
Fascinating. How widespread was this?
Please stop repeating that obvious canard. It's insulting to your fellow HNers to repeat known counterfactual claims.
They won’t get married.

A interesting historical parallel is early Australia. Due to more men than women being shipped as convicts to Australia (something like 50:1), many women in Australia were rather reluctant to get married. Why get married and be under the power of your husband when you could live “in sin” and move on if your defacto husband was not up to scratch.
Elections in which the majority of voters voted against the current President, as well as for the opposition party in Congress. US politics is fundamentally broken because the majority does not get its way, nor does the party getting the lion's share of votes get a say in major policy.
> People are selfish; if they make a big investment and you're about to reduce its value, they will fight tooth and nail. Any conversation about 'right', 'wrong', 'moral', it all goes out the window.

I disagree with the tone. Everyone is selfish. Everyone wants either their own benefit or their own benefit. Everyone is grasping. Moral, wrong or right can't correct that behavior, even if you could agree to it. Thats why the moral, wrong or right decisions dont have to be about what people want, but what you allow people to do or not do.
Not a wildcard solution (or a particularly legit one or one a serious vendor is going to take up, but could work for DIY):

DNS poison within LAN (or proper internal DNS, or even HOSTS if DIY) for
.product.tld
Product initiates letsEncrypt for:
uid.product.tld
And posts some form of identity proof to vendor, setting up a link to carry out letsEncrypt challenges.

Verification negotiated between letsEncrypt and the vendor via public resolution of
uid.product.tld

Device completes cert process with letsEncrypt and installs cert to the device.

LAN now has TLS to uid.device.tld internally (via DNS spoof/poinon) and vendor hasn't seen the cert. (but, if not DIY, the vendor is distributing a DNS poisoner in their product)

() Caveat: I've still not set up letsEncrypt in the wild, so don't know it's limitations, but from the doc's the above looks doable.

The lack of ability to have a browser TLS to *.local without an internal CA or non-public root and the endpoint management to goes with either is a pain.
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> The next economic downturn risks unleashing something that no amount of money can control.

More like we'll be in such debt that no amount of tax increase will save us for decades? if you think some how people are going to suddenly revolt against the system then I wouldn't hold my breath... I didn't see anyone with pitchforks and torches back during 2008, I sure don't expect anything now from this lazy and increasingly misinformed and uneducated society.
The fact that people put a game show host of his ilk in that office is the death of the institutional canary.
You also have to take into account is that chatting is how the younger colleagues want to collaborate. Just like email replaced phone calls, chat apps are supplanting email. What's next? Bots.
US politics was intentionally designed such that the majority doesn't get its way. It's the single major innovation in liberal political philosophy in the past 500 years.

Saying "it's not democratic!" isn't a useful comment.

We know.
Interesting. Then you might achieve similar results by compressing the image as a JPEG with low quality settings.
Come now, we enjoy a good anti-capitalist critique as much as the next citizen. But the community's dislike of dupes knows no bounds.

You don't really think we're ideological control constables do you? I can't imagine a sillier thing to be.
I dated a girl with (I would guess) BPD for a couple months, and it was either fine (most of the time) or a hellish nightmare. I gave up when she shouted at me for two hours, started physically shoving me, then threatened to call the cops on me because I spent an hour talking to her (chill male) roommate after she had gone to bed. I ended up suffering fairly severe anxiety attacks for at least another month or two, and felt tremendous guilt and regret that I couldn't help her, as well as anger at her behavior.

She was otherwise an apparently successful masters student who I'm sure can hold down a job for years at a time. But taking completely senseless abuse just isn't worth it for the vast majority of potential partners, even if the BPD person has many redeeming qualities and can't control their outbursts.

I wish her (and everyone in a similar situation) all the best, but I am too emotionally sensitive and empathetic to be able to deal with that for the long term without going nuts myself.
The people that own the building might want to do something else with it and since they own it that's their choice.

Well, that depends. One could argue that by allowing you to establish a home in their apartment building (in exchange for rent), they've taken on a responsibility towards you. Nobody can build up a decent life if they were under the constant fear to be evicted. That's why as a tenant, you are especially worth of protection from arbitrary actions would make you lose your home, no matter if the building you live in belongs to someone else. In other words, there must be a very good reason for the landlord to make you move out, such as e.g., they need it for themselves to live in.

At least that's one way of seeing it.