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Of course both of those violate the guidelines, which ask us not to call names. Neither are acceptable because they degrade the quality of the discussions, and quality is the only thing that matters.

Hacker News can't escape the broader climate of political divisiveness, but we can do our utmost to preserve this site as one that gratifies our intellectual curiosity. The best way for the community to help is to 1) comment according to the guidelines, 2) flag those that violate them (and don't say that you did—this also breaks the guidelines and leads us off topic).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think he's also an "opinion maker", not just an actor. Like many pop stars etc who use their position as well-known people to spread their political beliefs. This is not a new phenomenon.
Yes. The richest people have produced orders of magnitude more value than those under the poverty line.

And yes I'm talking about value for their customers. You know, the people who paid for their products and thereby made them rich.
Then the prices would be marked up constantly but there also would be a constant increase in the money supply

This is called (hyper)inflation. They already have that, no new app required.
Here's a link to the git repo: https://github.com/MikeDombo/graphPlayground
And I condemn that by the same virtue.
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Intermittent character of wind and solar power production requires additional measures to build stable power system. Backup (fossil fuel) power plants, energy storage solutions. It is not so clear-cut.
What makes this even more annoying is that people making these decisions will not be held personally responsible. Instead the government (aka "all US citizens and tax payers") will have to pay for this. There are people undermining our democracy and they likely will get away with a fraction of the punishment a petty criminal gets. To me this kind of behavior should be prosecuted tougher than murder.

Edit: typo pretty -> petty
The poverty rate as a percentage hasn't really changed since the mid 1960's, so I'm not sure what your point is. I'd much rather be in poverty in 2017 than in 1960.
The word socialist has a variety of connotations in the U.S. For instance to a segment of the U.S. population having universal healthcare is equated with socialism. Capitalists in France, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany etc. tend disagree with this equating. So when someone says, “Not true socialism” we need to know if they are referring the actual definition of socialism or the popularly bastardized colloquial meaning.

What is for sure true is that power corrupts and concentrating too much in too few hands is bad. Ignorant people like Chavez and Maduro who have simplistic ideas and too much power is really, really bad. Think Mao and Pol Pot.

When the cause becomes more important than the truth, whether it be communism, environmentalism, religion, free markets, etc., then people will suffer if policies are implemented simply to support the cause.

Just saying, “Socialsim is bad” is not helpful because then all one has to do is paint a particular policy as being socialistic to be defeated. There are countries that have what many Americans would call socialist policies that do great. Some do not.
> That seems like an awfully high bar that presupposes the family is a single moral and ethical unit.

Not when that is how they amass their power. They pretend to be squeaky clean but JFK used to rape women in the oval office.
> For example, how would you game a flat tax?

Imagine a car manufacturer, headquartered in Germany where all of the R&D happens, and most sales outside of Germany.

Germany has invested lots of money into its education system so that the car manufacturer has a very large pool of talented and qualified personnel, but with a cash flow tax the manufacturer pays the most of his taxes in the respective countries, thus depriving the German state of the resources it needs to provide the companies in Germany with qualified personnel.

In the current scenario Germany loses tax money due to evasion, in the flow tax scenario it would lose tax money because it's paid where the cars get sold.

edit: whoops, I misread you - flat tax, not flow tax. A flat tax scheme would still put an inadequate load of taxes on poor-ish people. With a 20% tax, someone with 1M $ of yearly income has to pay 200.000 $ in taxes and takes home 800.000 $ while a poor person with 20.000 $ income pays 4.000 $ in taxes and takes home 16.000 $. The rich person most likely won't notice the 200.000 $ being gone, but the poor person will immediately notice it. It's not a question of gaming the system here, but of social fairness.
and it's only getting more difficult because the browser is turning into an operating system
In which case you probably won't even encounter them unless either you walk/drive/travel near to a military asset/base, or your government's territory gets invaded.

Unless, you mean to describe juntas as "small"? (I wouldn't, since in those cases the military takes on many more tasks than it normally would...)
That's pretty cool, but you should see a shrink. Something's wrong with you.
The EFF had also filed an amicus bried request the review, since this case (Nosal II) seems to be rather important, and the Ninth Circuit's decision essentially means anyone violating a TOS (for example, by using one spouse's credentials to access a site with the spouse's permission) is exceeding authorization, and therefore violating the CFAA.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-supreme-court-re...
>What is preventing, or perhaps more likely - disincentivizing, people of even moderate means from doing this?

Well that's an easy one.

>price-controlled chicken

Price controls (caps) lead to shortages. It's an Econ 101 concept that's been proved out dozens of times - from the oil crises to the Great Depression.
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Agreed.

If governments are invested in changing opinions on other Internet forums, why not here? These comments are very low quality and seem to me to be writen to stir up political screaming matches, not actual debate.
All: please stop.
Social democracy != socialism. Also, what "current socialist regimes in Europe"?

What you mean is that some European countries have a welfare system paid by a highly effective capitalist economy.
> The graph on education level does not include those not graduating high school.

The data appears to come from a company that largely handles refinancing student loans.
Well, M'n'E used the terms almost interchangeably, from the horse's mouth as it were. The USSR called itself "socialist".
I don't do estimates any more but I use forecasting. Like the weather, it's an idea of what might happen given what we know now. I once laughed in a job interview when the interviewer said that they expect 'accurate estimates'.
Western Europe is not "socialist countries". The traditional meaning of a socialist state is "means of production are controlled by the state". None of the countries in Western Europe work like this. They are market economies.

What people often don't understand is, by the way, that the supposedly "more socialist" countries in North Europe, like Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, are in fact in many ways more market driven and have very free economies, compared to e.g. "non-socialist" Southern Europe. But of course, in all countries the politics meddles with the economy.
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The critical feature is you can specify a credit limit and expiry period for each virtual number. By keeping the credit limit at a bit above the purchase amount you dont' have to worry about losing a bunch of money if the number is abused, and by keeping the expiry at 2 months (12 months max) you avoid any abuse channels that would take more than 2 months to transact on the dark market.

edit: And of course you have the credit card company on your side to assist with fraud awareness and refunds. You won't get this with Paypal, Android/Apple pay, and especially not with any blockchain technologies where there is no intermediary working on your behalf.

I keep a Citi mastercard just for the Virtual Account Number feature and use it every time for online and phone purchases. The BofA feature has some severe issues.
s/Or/And/

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"value" at the cost of the environment isn't value. It's debt.
Qualifiers are context-based (as lawyers usually put it, "X is Y for the purpose of section Z"). I don't see why would this qualification extend beyond this context.
Or perhaps it will help moderate housing prices and make it easier to purchase a reasonably priced house.
And the people who are affected by and large won't vote for Trump, so they know they can make this political move to offset the 'cuts' to those who will vote Republican. Very sad.
No. No they don't. Coke is a very expensive product.
Well, they've succeeded, if "need a safe space?" is upvoted and my reply calling that commenter out is heavily downvoted, why even try to discuss current affairs on HN? Let the trolls roll in their shit. Fighting with pigs in mud, etc. etc.
There will always be a poverty line, so that percentage can never be 0.
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in the 60 years since 1960 we have somehow been unable to bring everyone out of poverty despite the massive increase in productivity we've seen?

Meanwhile the gap between the richest and poorest person has grown immensely, and real wages have stagnated for 30 years.

Sure, everyone has an iPhone, but there's a universe where everyone has an iPhone and almost nobody is underwater. And we actively choose to not be in it every time we subscribe to "our billionaire benefactor" theories.
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Then Venezuela is a success too, by your definition. Its poor are not "producing value", and hence are poor.
Something I don't understand is that, even with shockingly high rent prices, no smaller units seem to be built.

As a South American and having seen European housing, the only city that has something equivalent to what's "normal" here is New York.

Not even San Francisco builds small apartments/condos. An average 2-bedroom in Europe or in Buenos Aires is 600 square foot, and that's the size of a studio apartment in the United States. I'm not saying going to extremes like Tokyo and their 300 square foot apartments (I lived in a 200 square feet studio for a couple of years, it's doable).

I did a quick search and the 1000 dollar apartments/condos for rent in New Jersey are similar in size to 1000 dollar apartments here in Montevideo... but there are no 500 dollar equivalents!

I think most people in the U.S. think they NEED that much space (even when they don't).
Whenever socialism goes awry there’s this True Scotsman argument: “Well, that’s not true socialism.”

According to those standards there probably hasn’t been a true socialist society or state yet.

The often mentioned Nordic model isn’t socialism by any narrow definition because it still involves free market capitalism and private ownership of the means of production.
Even though the game itself is simple, this is an excellent experience report to help people get started using WASM. Rust's tooling for this target is still young, but it seems to be maturing rapidly. 2018's going to be an exciting year. :)
> The Geneva Conventions are treaties between states that define how they will treat each other's soldiers if captured in war.

They also cover treatment of civilians, medical units, and infrastructure. Amongst other things.

> The Geneva Conventions do not apply to wars with non-state actors or states who are not participants to the treaty

Yes, they do.

The protections are not as extensive, but the conventions also cover any armed conflict within the territory of a contracting party, such as the Syrian Arab Republic. They also cover occupation of a contracting party's territory, whether armed or not.

> The Geneva Conventions would never apply to traitors on your own side, which is the case here.

The conventions don't make any exception for traitors. They certainly don't allow Syria to take an ISIS fighter prisoner and avoid their convention responsibilities by handing him over to the US.
>It is quite scary to me that people can be so delusional even with the overwhelming evidence of the success of capitalism for the poor and the absolute failure of socialism for everybody.

That's more what you like to believe than what is out there.

Most of the "overwhelming evidence of the success of capitalism for the poor" has been the success of colonialism and imperialism (western countries fucking the planet's 2/3rds and bringing the loot in, then using it to fuel their internal growth).

Colonialism and imperialist has been a historical fact, most of the "developing" and "underdeveloped" countries today were owned by western powers up until the 50s. It would be interesting to see how those "free market" success stories would have fared without mass exploitation of external peoples.

And socialist policies (which are different to totalitarian states like USSR and co) have worked just fine in Sweden, Denmark, France, and tons of other places, including unexpected ones like Singapore (where the state owns tons of businesses, the poor get public funded houses and so on). And of course for most of its own buildup and rise, US had strong tariffs and protections for its market.

Heck, the most boost in the US (in the post WWII era) was tied to increased unionism and post-New Deal social policies -- closer to socialism to regulating everything and then gifting 1 trillion to Wall Street "too big to fail" scum.
And yet they didn't have private property

Ride the chieftain's favourite horse and see what he'd have to say about ownership...
MySpace was ColdFusion, running on dotNet based ColdFusion runtime on Windows servers.

SunOS - which well known dotCom era startups run their web servers on SunOS? (beside Sun) There was also SGI with Irix, etc but beside some graphical niche market, etc. How is this relevant to dotcom?
That makes no sense. What if everyone is above the poverty line ? If everyone can live a normal life without being afraid of lacking food or shelter, then the percentage is 0 IMO.
You are spot on.

I am homeless because I don't work, but really all I desire is a good spot to put my tent. Of course I enjoy free food and amenities such as the library, but I also volunteer at the soup kitchens and some other functions from time-to-time at least. I have no desire to work 50 hours or more a week at a thankless job at this time. That does not mean I'm comfortable with being a "smooch", just that I think it's kind of irrelevant.

We need to give up the blame/excuses game and focus on the health of communities as a whole.
Ah, true, the EPA has been rather incompetent in fully charging the proprietors of certain industrial processes for their pollution of the environment. But I don't see why that problem can only be fixed by socialism. (Indeed my prior expectation is that this problem is easier to fix it with a societal structure that places greater importance on private property rather than abolishing it.)
Why choose sum types over exceptions?
You're describing the problem, not the solution.

If all people have to run to the ATM faster than they take a piss so they can buy food then making payments digital is an immediate improvement.

But that's just the first part. Did you read the part about issuing 2X the amount of currency to your own people for every X you issue to pay back foreign interests?

I want substantive feedback on my UBI proposal!
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This comment comes off as extremely offensive. You are basically saying that you, European people, democratically and unilaterally chose that you can extort people at gunpoint to make better living for yourself,

If you want to do business in a country, you have to live by the laws of the country. If a country's laws specify that a certain percentage of profit should be paid as taxes, it is like it is.

Some countries prefer free-for-all capitalism. Other countries prefer to have state-mandated universal health care, a decent amount of holidays, a certain income for unemployed, etc. Those facilities have to be funded somehow.

I wouldn't exactly call these values "moral".

Sure, for someone who believes in pure capitalism, it is not moral. For someone who believes in social democracy, it is. For a typical EU citizen (making a large generalization), US-style capitalism is immoral. Unfortunately, the US tries very hard to export their model to the rest of the world (which is of course in the interest of the US).

Apple should just pull out from Europe.

Even with the normal taxation tariffs (that smaller companies cannot dodge), Apple will make a large profit in Europe. So, that would be a large loss to them.
Mmmm, very interesting points to think about. The priority of space exploration is always a topic that comes up. Although I don't think I've heard the argument for focusing on DOGS (Design of Great Settlements). :) DOGS vs CATS, ha!

I think what I'm trying to do with https://spacehackers.club is to get more folks interested in hardware/software problem-solving in the context of what may be pervasive in the coming decades, which is increasing the human reach into the solar system.

Your post here has me thinking about how I might categorize things on this list: https://github.com/spacehackersclub/awesome-spacehackers

Maybe more DOGS related resources? Would love contributions and further discussion about what focus should be.
haha what

they've produced more shareholder value, but they sure as hell haven't produced more value for the world
Poverty is the problem to me, not inequality. I like the hypothetical of "If 1% of people had 100 yachts, and 99% of people had 1 yacht each, would that be a problem?"

And the type of poverty we have in the developed world is very different than the type of poverty they have in Socialist countries. Poor in the USA have enough to eat, TVs, etc. Of course life is tough, but of course there's not the kind of suffering you see in Venezuela.

Poor people choose with their feet, and they choose more capitalism! The opposite way is almost absurd to think about.

-How many of the 12% in poverty in Flordia flee to Cuba for free Cuban healthcare?

-How many of the poor in West Berlin fled to East Berlin?

-How many of the poor in Hong Kong fled to Communist China?

-How many poor in Colombia are fleeing to Venezuela?

We can have the reasonable discussions on whether Medicaid spending should be increased, but the praise of Chavez and true socialism (which I see in a new Netflix Documentary, lots of Michael Moore stuff, Bernie Sanders rhetoric, Antifa, etc) is disconcerting to me.
I don't see how a subset of HTML could be hostile. AMP is not Google Search.
If you have significantly more than $500k in mortgage interest you are either rich or choosing to live in a top-10 realestate market.
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well, that’s not what the article says that I posted:

“Kennedy said later that walking away from that deal was one of the biggest mistakes of his life.”

“Over time, Kennedy realized his own plan couldn’t succeed. Opposition from the insurance companies was too great. So Kennedy dispatched his staffers to meet secretly with Nixon’s people to broker a compromise. Kennedy came close to backing Nixon’s plan, but turned away at the last minute, under pressure from the unions. Then Watergate hit and took Nixon down.”
I did similar project with Tensorflow.
Mouse movements were captured then converted to images and DL model was trained to classify user or not user.

It can also classify classes of users I.e. new portal users are moving mouse differently from users who are familiar with portal.

To add - by itself it’s not a reliable indicator of yes/no.

But rather another risk scoring input to overall identity detection system.
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I think testing is part of quality, but it can't be the whole thing.

In every other field, the model of "have a dysfunctional process, test every output piece, throw out or rework 5-30% of the pieces" is discredited. General Motors could get away with it before they got Japanese competition, but not after.

Post Deming we know the way you get quality is build it into your process. Formal methods are part of that (hopefully will be a bigger on in the future) but there is a lot you can do to build quality in from day one.

Software is different in certain ways, but it is the same more than people think. There is a contradiction between "trying to do something fast and cheap" and quality, but not a contradiction between "completing the project economically" and quality -- look at your own experience and you will see that screwing up is very expensive.
It's not only about the woman and her body. It's also about the child and the relationship between woman and child.
Our lives don't start when we leave the womb. Our first experiences are inside of it, when we are immensely close with the mother - hell, we are inside of her body.
So... It's also about sharing this first experiences and about bonding with the child. Something that is not possible with a surrogate mother. Or rather, something that happens to the surrogate mother instead. I don't think that 'handing the baby over' can ever be easy for that reason.
There is a difference between establishing a deadline and estimating relative effort and complexity. The former is problematic. The latter is important and should be done and then revised continuously.

The process of building software includes discussing what has the best impact to effort ratio. Both are estimates and will not come out as expected.

The logical response to managers that expect you to always hit deadlines is to inflate estimates enough that you will.
>feels like several small-corps (~100) in practice due to divisional structure, even the lowest employee is only 5-6 steps from the CEO.

I worked for a med-corp (~3000 people) that was like this because they had spent 10 years growing by acquiring other companies, but had done a poor job of really integrating all these disparate products/teams.

One of the best parts of that job was that every org was very different. Some were legacy products that ran on maintenance revenue and technical support. Others were fast paced and were focused on the product/engineering team improving the product. Some orgs had "hero" culture where people would rather put out a fire than prevent it.

I met lots of different people, got to see and work with a lot of different perspectives, and learned a lot. As you said, there were plenty of great people with 10+ years of experience who were 10X multipliers on my own education.

The company eventually paid for their inability to integrate these products and teams by getting acquired by a private equity firm. It was fun while it lasted!