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I've been a happy rsync.net customer for several years. It's my personal backup solution (borg + append-only + locked down SSH key) for a while, and I just had to use it to restore my computer yesterday.

Their rates are incredible, and their support is excellent. I highly recommend it.
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Let me start by saying thank you for taking the time to review it. I hope it is useful to someone.

It can be downloaded and reviewed at no cost with the following offer code: hackernews, to be entered during the purchasing process.

Reviews on the software itself, and marketing advice on how to grow sales is appreciated.

Site: http://baileyssoftware.com/

Notes:
- I am aware of the @gmail address used, but I don't want to pay for a service (e.g. https://gsuite.google.com/) until I have the monthly income to support it.
- If there is enough interest I plan to add more features such as exporting to csv.
Since we're swimming in the realm of opinion: it's not selfish precisely because the issues you raise are all solvable and I choose to believe they will be solved. There has been no time in human history where one could not have raised equally valid issues, and then proclaim nobody should have children because of said issues.

In fact, today is the best time in history to have children (or in your phrasing, today is the least selfish time in human history to have a child). Humanity is radically more capable of supporting another baby now than at any other time. It isn't even remotely a close contest.

Questions of resources? No it's not. We're drowning in food, take a look at the massive boom in Russian wheat production as one example. Global food potential is far beyond where we're at now, likely by a magnitude. We don't know what to do with it all. And that's before we take it up another level and move to drastically more productive food output methods, including indoor farming, AI + robotics, growing meat, better information management & knowledge globally, etc; and that's while we're still acting very inefficient with our existing food (throwing vast amounts of it away). Merely developing Africa's food potential alone will feed billions more people.

Maybe you're thinking energy? Have you seen the massive boom in solar and wind? That's going to get a lot more massive yet. We're intentionally under-developing nuclear, because right now it doesn't look like we're going to need it. Renewables are making up the majority of all new energy production globally, that tilt is going to get more extreme by the year. If the world had to do it, we could collectively throw trillions of dollars at nuclear immediately, and boost global energy output substantially within a few decades.

To date, humanity is batting a thousand at not going extinct due to challenges. Climate change will be no different.
In what way is it compensation? So we should calculate sales tax based on sticker price rather than actual paid price?

Grad students receive a salary for their work and a discount from the sticker price of the tuition. They are separate transactions.
Choosing this place to make a line on medical funding or even just societal preferences seems pretty absurd. The economy does not work in absolutes nor with firm regard to societal well being or even marginal valuation. There are so many other worthy critiques to make before getting to the granularity of reproduction.
I’ve never met one either, but that could not be any less relevant. The ACLU says that 11% of American citizens have no ID.

https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...
I agreed with you until I had to be wary of performance on mobile devices where the user may have to pay 10s of milliseconds just on boot per every 15kb of javascript you add.

At the end of the day you ask yourself "do I really need to add 34kb for 'for..of' or can I get away with a small concession?" like the blog post asked. You may find that it might not cost you much to pay attention to your trade-offs.
Indeed. The somehow clunky syntax for named groups in python re was (in my opinion) a big drawback with old style routing. I hope this new style gains traction.
How do you know? Do you ask everyone you meet for an ID?

There's a lot of people who live in the "fringes" of society who don't have an ID.

My uncle, for example. He lived with my grandma his whole life and didn't have a driver's license, car, or a job other than to run errands for my grandma.

I also have a friend who does not have an ID. Her husband takes care of everything and she doesn't drive.

It's unusual but not illegal to live like that.
> Congress makes the laws that allow corporations to operate nationally. It can be argued that Congress has abridged the freedoms of speech, the press, and assembly by creating the environment in which private entities own everything that resembles a modern public venue.

Only if by "it can be argued" you're referring to being physically capable of arguing. Otherwise, no. The first amendment was never about guaranteeing you a platform or about otherwise ensuring anyone else hears you. It was about the government not arresting you for what comes out of your mouth.
Well, bank secrecy is as dead as governments can make it, for obvious reasons. However, for cryptocurrencies, it's mainly exchange interfaces with meatspace currencies that are hard to keep private.

If you use local wallets like Electrum, transact via Tor, mix thoroughly, and generally practice good OPSEC, your personas and their cryptocurrency can be as anonymous as you like. But only as long as you maintain compartmentalization from meatspace.
Ireland is closing its loopholes. Specifically, if a company is managed outside the country but registered in the country, it was considered non-resident for tax purposes. That changed in 2014, with a grandfathered provision that expires in 2020.

http://www.internationaltaxreview.com/Article/3410898/Irelan...
I agree, in general, at least in states where an ID is trivial to obtain and dirt cheap. A sibling poster suggests $8 for a 4-year ID in Ohio. I just looked at the CA DMV, and they're $29 (5-year, I believe), but they have an $8 option for people who meet certain income requirements.

Now, getting to the DMV to apply for an ID card can be a hardship on people given the hours that the DMV operates and the fact that you usually need to set aside several hours to deal with waiting in line and such. If you hold 2 or 3 jobs, and missing part of a shift means getting fired, you probably don't have the time to go to get an ID. (Hell, you probably also don't have the time to actually go to the polls to vote, but that's another issue.)

And what if you're homeless? Getting an ID is probably very low on the list of things you can afford, even at $8. Also how do they mail it to you if you don't have an address?

At any rate, isn't this fixing a problem I don't think we don't have? Where is the evidence of rampant voter fraud that would recommend even an ID requirement?
Nope,
1)they don’t have a fiduciary duty to anyone in Europe

2) European doctrine in accounting is not that you can do anything as long as you don’t break the rules, but that you should account in a way that reflect the truth as much as possible within the rules

3) the European doctrine of tax law is that you should tax your profit where they are made

4) your headquarter for European tax purpose is not the address in your letterhead, but where the orders tend to radiate from.
Is there any evidence of Bitcoin being used by terrorist groups? Wouldn't that be a terrible idea for the terrorists?
I mean C++ isn't going to disappear anytime too soon, but I like where we're headed with language design. Python isn't just popular, it's monumentally popular, and I think that's a great sign. In my eyes, Ada and Pascal aren't missed, precisely because there are better choices for new projects.

I love what they've done with Go from my experience with it so far, they hit the target on a number of design fronts.
See for example Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Then why should I pay federal tax at all? And yet I do as an American citizen. And as a New Yorker I still pay federal tax. The government just acknowledged that my income was lower because I paid a state tax?

How about red states start taxing their citizens to pay for their services rather than get subsidized by federal tax payers.
Your assertion about generalist ~= founder is pretty spot on. I've spent decades working lots of different job titles that interest me (or as the needs of the organization dictated). Putting all that down on my resume hasn't helped me much.

I was heading the direction of very focused resumes. I've also landed a low pressure founder role too, so that's nice.
Amazon Trumpets Its Cloud Lead with N.F.L. And Other Deals
That is fair. YHIHF
That statistic came from the Brennan Center for Justice, which has a history of bias-driven research[1]. They have also taken massive donations from George Soros. I question the legitimacy of their "research."

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Brennan_Center_for_Justice#Bias

edit: Why am I being downvoted for doing research on citations? It's kind of important to be critical of these kind of things.
FTFY: That is the only way we can make sure companies will avoid disclosing breaches for sure and to have them pursue a burnt-and-salted-earth-approach towards anyone who might turn up evidence of a breach.
They could try shutting the cannon doors...
Gotcha, that's fair enough!
> Well, I have 1TB or storage on mine, so?

Where is that listed? The biggest one I can find on apple.com has a 512GB drive.

> Second, whether it has cheap replacement options is not exactly a criterion about if it's the best out there or not.

Presumably you'd be using it for a couple of years, not just right now.

> Besides, any competitor product I can buy that doesn't have "soldered RAM" and would allow me to upgrade its RAM 2 years in the future, will also have lost more of its resale value compared to an Apple laptop.

Have fun with your pyramid schemes.

> Or you know, buying Applecare for it, and having the customer support that most people have rated as #1 in satisfaction in relevant surveys in the US for more than a decade.

Yes, because I'm fond of paying more to (barely) solve the problem that they created in the first place. The $400 + $300 per incident add up to enough to just buy another laptop from a more competent manufacturer. Or you could just repair it, and keep the change.
Rust binaries are also large because they copy some of C++'s bad decisions:

1) Generics are instantiated and compiled separately with types for which the generics have identical behavior.

2) Functional abstraction is encouraged (not a bad thing!) and inlining heuristics are overly aggressive to compensate.

3) By default, almost every function call has to deal with the possibility that the callee might throw an exception. This is smaller than 1) and 2), but it still matters.
About a decade ago my ID expired. This wasn't a huge deal since I don't drive and rarely travel. About a year ago I did want to hop on a plane to visit my nephew in San Diego. So I was thinking getting a new ID wouldn't be a huge problem.

So I go into the DMV with my expired ID and expired passport and a stack of mail with my current address and a stack of debit and credit cards and my social security card. They will not do anything without my birth certificate. Crap.. Lost that when my basement flooded. I will head over to vital records.

Then the lady at the DMV told me that they closed down the vital records office in Eugene and my only option was to go to Portland. So right here I have to spend 60 bucks on a round trip to get to Portland two hours away.

So I get the bus the next day and go to vital records. Again more expense for the Max. So I get them to print out a birth certificate. I had to pay 40 bucks for them to do it. Then they want to see my ID. Wait it is expired. They will not accept it.

I am told my options are to have a parent or sibling come in to vouch for me. Difficulty.. Parents are dead and my sister at the time lived on the east coast.

So here I am stuck. I know, I will have my sister get on a plane to come out here. It will cost but it needs to be done. So she does. So now I need to pay for a last minute ticket for her. And shit, it will be a while so I need to get a hotel for the night. And I should probably cover my sisters lost wages for a few days.

In the end I got my birth certificate. Off to the DMV where I paid 40 bucks for a state issued ID.

This all was fantastically expensive.

And really.. They closed the vital records office in a city that has 200,000 people. The only option for the entire state is Portland. One office for 4 million people and Oregon is a physically large state.

So yes.. Getting a state issued ID can be incredibly hard and expensive. Even if everything was perfect and I was able to easily get the documents it would still be 80 bucks to just get a ID card.
I recently wanted to get backups going in a similar way (incremental with copies on-site and off-site). I ended up using Borg and rclone, sending the backups to s3 compatible Wasabi storage. It's been working great, and coupled with zerotier on machines that are not in the house (family members), I ended up with a pretty resilient system that only costs a few dollars per month. I wrote up the details here: https://localconspiracy.com/2017/10/backup-everything.html
sorry but my job when interviewing someone isn't to be welcoming. My job is to be fair, assess the person's qualification and experience because businesses work with restricted time and information.

The interviewer will never know your entire backstory and needs to make a decision relatively quickly. If I would start to be overly empathetic or sensible, I would arguably start making biased and bad decisions based on personal gut feelings. That's what I need to avoid, not encourage.
It has been used for ransoming such as HBO's case.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Taking advantage of others (such as lobbying for loopholes) falls under the umbrella.

Just because you can dump industrial waste into a river doesn't mean you should.
Just because you can steal doesn't mean you should.
Just because you can shortchange citizens doesn't mean you should.

Yes laws should be passed, I agree, but that doesn't mean we can't also multilaterally also go after others at the same time. Do you hold the parent responsible for the kid stealing? Yes. But you also hold the kid responsible for stealing.

Most of all, I want to get of this notion that public corporations have fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. In the Supreme Court case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the supreme court stated that "modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so. For-profit corporations, with ownership approval, support a wide variety of charitable causes."

There is a better option, we just aren't taking it. As citizens, we should be supporting multilateral action for a more ethical capitalist economy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a...

Because there are barriers, and expensive fees for many, intentional or not. The article above gives a couple stories of the issues people face trying to get ID for voting.

Until everyone can automatically and without cost obtain an ID for voting, these are new versions of poll taxes.
First commit for Helm: early November 2015. First commit for the synth: Mid-August 2013. First commit for the Emacs plugin: Mid-July 2007.

If any of them should change, it's the ones that came after. But they aren't even remotely the same kind of software, so I don't see that it matters much. There isn't much room for confusion.
"Who made it political? Who benefits from creating divisions that have made these children’s entry in a competition such a loaded question?"

I think basically 2 things come into play:

One is good intentioned propaganda, to support underprivileged poor girls, by exaggerating what they can do - to try to persuade immigration-unfriendly people into more openness, like hey they are good for our economy, if we only let them in.

Secondly, but connected:
opposition to Trump and co. and the whole power struggle in the US.

So in this context, I would see the message as, poor, lovely and technology outstanding girls beeing denied entry to the US for a competition, because of evil Trump and his politics. (which is why he did intervene personally to show that he is not so bad, and only wants to keep the bad people out blabla)

But I doubt, that any side really cared for the girls as humans.

... so high politics as usual, I think.
What is the anti-labor cartel he's talking about?
Matter-antimatter annihilation? Yes, absolutely. As one starting point, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron–positron_annihilation
While the science is amazing, why go this route rather than having a surrogate mother? I've heard the price of a surrogate is $30-50K.

That sounds rhetorical, but I'll bite anyway.

Some women really long for the experience of childbirth. This may not be entirely psychological. Giving birth has significant impact on a woman's physiology. In addition to changing the shape of the hips and often other details like that, it leaves a woman a chimera for many years. Because her blood and the blood of the baby mix, she carries cells from the baby for many years afterwards.

I have a genetic disorder. I have two biological sons. I was not diagnosed until they were about 12 and 14 years old, so I didn't (consciously) know about my condition at the time that I was making reproductive choices (though I did know I was always "sickly").

My first pregnancy significantly impacted how I eat. I removed a number of things from my diet to cope with my difficult pregnancy and many were never added back into my diet. I have reason to believe this did my health a lot of good. For example, it cured the chronic, sever vaginal yeast infections I had for more than two years prior that pregnancy. I never again had chronic, severe yeast infections.

I have read up a bit on pregnancy-induced chimerism and talked a bit with people online about it and talked a fair amount with my sons. I have come to think that some women long for a baby because it can have a profound impact on a woman's body in ways we don't fully understand and perhaps sometimes that longing is rooted in some subconscious awareness that going through the process of carrying a child to term may alter their body in ways that are potentially for the best.

This would be really hard to prove. We have no means to see what the biological outcome would be for the same woman with and without the pregnancy experience. But I am in remarkably good health for someone with my genetic disorder and I credit my two pregnancies with some portion of that fact.
France has a lower effective rate of tax than Ireland's for companies in the CAC40 - 8%. There's a lot of hypocrisy whirling around about tax. The larger a company is, the lower tax it pays in France owing to various breaks and deals. A bunch of this criticism is just another way of saying France First.
You don't, I do.

TypeScript has been a revolution in the way that I write client side code, been able to write in a superset of a language I already know against existing code in a way that I and my tools can reason about and with faith (backed up by experience) that I can write it once and know it will work basically everywhere is huge.

Is it a perfect tool? by no means, it's output messages can be a bit opaque.

That I can also use features now that won't make it into browsers everywhere for a while and that they'll gradually replace those features as browser support for them increases, ES6 was a good step in the right direction (and you can target it from TS and in many cases there aren't that many differences between clean ES6 and TypeScript's output but I can also set the target to ES5 and use it).

FWIW: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/12346

https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/docs/types/li...
Not exactly the same concept. Need-based admission requires need-blind aid, but not the other way around: especially for foreign students, many good US colleges need-based aid if you get an offer, but are less likely to admit you.
It's not about "someone getting off on it". Having a "natural" pregnancy leads to way less issues:

Surrogate mothers have to have artificial insemination/IVF. So would the hypothetical mother in this case. These eggs don't all stick to the uterus, so the procedure normally involves sticking 3-4 fertilized eggs inside the embryo.

So if you want one kid, you need to plan to have up to 4. That's a concern.

Then there's the chance of having a chimera, where the baby uptakes the surrogate's DNA. This can cause complications (I know with a transplant this is still the case). There's also the whole "mother not carrying the baby" thing.

This isn't as crazy as it sounds.
> More would be accomplished by protesting the government that allows certain loopholes.

If such a loophole exists, and it's blatantly obvious that you're a dick for using that loophole, yes, that loophole should be fixed. But that doesn't mean you're not a dick for using it in the first place.

To put it in another perspective: If there was a loophole that allowed me to kill someone without facing any consequences, yes, that loophole should be fixed. But that doesn't mean that I'm not a dick for using it.
Am I totally misunderstanding something or there is no Dockerfile referenced? If so, is this just a binary blob I pull from a public registry?

I have some trust concerns about basing my infrastructure on something opaque.
Painting Pictures and Making Games with a Watercoloring Robot
Ok, how about another study. 100k in Wisconsin alone.

http://www4.uwm.edu/eti/barriers/DriversLicense.pdf
Of course - but if you worked hard all your life to live in a place that YOU like, I think it would be quite hard to accept someone else telling you to move,no?
I think it is incredibly cool that we can essentially move a uterus from one woman to several others.

Startup idea: Uterent™
I wonder if Apple somehow lost the original key.
Big companies are a safer bet. The company should be around in a few years, they have established best practices, good compensation, normal hours (~40/week). Even if one later deiced to work at a small company, it helps to have gained the experience and credential of working at the big company first.
Do amazon AWS servers expose everything by default?
> How do you map a public key to a person?

You do that in person, at the fed/state agency, using facial tech, fingerprints, etc. Once you prove who you are, you get to submit a public key to the agency, which you can revoke at any point -- you take a unique key from them too, and some combination of the two you use when signing up for new financial accounts.
Maybe provide basic supply with fresh water for the whole country first. But yeah, whatever.
Don't blame the victim. But hiding that there was a leak? Sure.
I have no idea. But it's a great way to get relatively anonymous donations. At least, if you educate your donors to mix first. Also, properly mixed Bitcoin is great for anonymously leasing VPN services and servers, and for buying fake Facebook etc accounts, which are all useful for advocacy. And maybe black-market arms dealers accept Bitcoin now.
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Webflow founder explains how not taking investor $ led to sustainable growth
What's the problem with being required to send a plaintext copy of every encrypted email to various government agencies around the world? It's not like that would ban using encrypted email.
Curious as to the downvote. I’d love to see the argument for how partisan election judges serve our Republic.