skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if anything they did was even illegal in the sense that there was a crime involved. I think the big mistake was to bail them out. The should have lost all their money and their companies should have been allowed to go bankrupt.

I also would question the existence of large corporations where the owners get all the upside but can avoid the downside.
C won befoee package managers and Linux distributions existed.
Some good advice, but parts overreach into the realm of career advice working for a company that may not value employees as people but instead sees them as expendable assets.
> And yes, the includes not developing close friendships with anyone I find attractive.

Which brings in all the problems with the Pence view. It reinforces the glass ceiling / old boys club, because friends talk about business on the golf course (or at the LAN party), and then women get excluded from that.

Worse, it's a policy adopted only by the self-conscious people who wouldn't otherwise have crossed the line anyway, and not the bastards going around groping people left and right, which increases the proportion of interactions with the latter category.

The problem seems to be that there are obvious benefits to standing right on top of the line (increased probability of friendship/romance) but nobody wants anybody to cross it, and that can't happen. If you tell everybody to stand as close as they can to an invisible line that nobody can quite agree on the exact contours of, every time a moderate person actually draws their version of the line you'll find a whole slew of people standing on the wrong side of it, because it's everyone even slightly less moderate than that. Ask a conservative (i.e. puritan) person to draw the line and everybody will be standing on the wrong side of it.

Rejection sucks. Nobody wants to get rejected, so nobody wants to be thrust into the position of the villain who has to reject someone. But the world where nobody ever has to reject someone is the completely sterile one.

The uncomfortable no is the price of the opportunity for yes. Nobody who internally knows that the answer is no wants that "opportunity" thrust on them, but how is the other party supposed to know that ahead of time?

And it's no help to point out the obvious cases. There are things that 99.99% of people agree are over the line. The problem is the things that 75% of people agree are over the line, because then 25% of people are doing them.
People don't really care about (micro)payments and paypal actually does work just fine for one time events. Easier for people to list an email then signup for another service to get a few dollars.

Also Flattr is owned by the Adblock Plus company now which has questionable history.
There are two trends in the car rental world that are happening today I think we'll see a lot more of in the next three years.

First, the Care By Volvo program on their new 2019 XC40, which is a set monthly fee that includes the lease cost + insurance + all maintenance + 15k miles per year, and which allows you to upgrade cars every year. It starts at $500/mo for a $35k car.

Second, the Porsche Passport program, which is a flat subscription fee for truly unlimited access to any Porsche. $2000/mo for their cheaper models, $3000/mo for any model. No mileage restrictions, 30 day commitment, everything included, and you can swap cars anytime (they deliver and pick up for you).

These are both expensive, but that's primarily because we're talking about luxury cars. Once manufacturers like Honda and Toyota enter this game the prices will come down. I really think we'll see this model, especially the Volvo one, replace traditional leases.

You're right that the capital cost of new cars is becoming too much for the average person to bear, but the rise of these new "all inclusive" lease-like programs means more people will use them. And all of these new leased cars enter the used market at some point, where prices come down and high-mileage drivers will buy them.
My 2003 Honda carries a $1000 maintenance cost per year. Capitalization costs went away well over a decade ago.

It’s still cheaper.
To catch snow or rocks falling down.
>We all know what would happen to bus stops, stations, and generally to public places if people on buses actually had anywhere near the density "made possible" by public transport. It just won't work.

And yet it works perfectly well all around the world.
No worries, thanks a lot for answering already. I should have looked deeper into wikipedia already.

Also you're right it's 100x100(miles even)² (https://www.inverse.com/article/34239-how-many-solar-panels-...)
Overall I agree with your sentiment about the options not being either of two extremes. In the case of bankers and financiers who seemingly engaged in fraud on a grand scale it’s about the idea that justice should in some sense be blind with regard to the amount of money you have. There are lots of cases where people steal things on the order of a $1000 going to jail for lengthy periods of time.

The anger about the lack of prosecutions for bankers, at least in part, is the frustration that comes from realizing things aren’t right in the U.S. The justice system works very differently for the 1% than for everyone else. I think with growing inequality comes growing anger and resentment.
Why doesnt paypal work? All they need to list is an email address, it's the lowest amount of work.
Complaining about "quibbling over semantics" is to say your arguing about how the issue is expressed rather than the substantive parts of the issue.

Many people, such as myself, want positive action to protect the environment from damage to essential ecosystems, want preservation of green spaces, protection of native species, and such like.

Saying "the videos aren't making policies to actively harm the environment and do they're not anti-environment"is to entirely miss the substance of the argument which is that they're not doing enough to protect it and are seemingly ignoring environmental issues when profits can be made.

One often finds councillors at odds with the party as they focus much more on local issues. Conservative councillors in rural areas will be inclined to protect green belt, counter village in-fill developments, oppose fracking, etc, despite these being things the Tories as a party support (because: profits).

Tories are strong on rhetoric wrt green belt, just weak on protection.
Thanks, I updated my comment. I meant that due to the comparatively low number of aggressors, most people aren't on the receiving end of common assault. At least, not assaults serious enough to worry about. (Poking is also assault, if unwanted)

To clarify, in high crime jurisdictions, lack of prosecution for common assault or petty robbery actually does become a societal problem. It's still not the case that most people commit crimes, but enough do that all people worry about it.

In most parts of North America, crime has dropped enough that common assault and muggings aren't realistic worries for most people, most of the time. Sexual assault is still done by enough people that all women have to worry about it on a regular basis.

So I think the distinction depends on how many people commit the offense, which affects the percentage of the relevant population which is a victim of the offense or realistically has to worry about it.
To prevent a large snow sheet building up that could trigger an avalanche.
If anyone inferred the above post as not supporting women and then downvoted, that is just not the case. Sexual harrassment is wrong. Full stop.
That isn’t a new model — it used to be common up until the 1970s. Prior to that leases were fully inclusive of maintenance and tax deductible.

The difference is that cars are reliable enough for the model to work without the implicit tax subsidy.

It also reinforces to argument that paying Uber/Lyft/etc by the drink is a bad deal :)
Those are avalanche protection fences

Edit: s/avalanche protection/snow/g

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_fence
There was no WASM when I made it in 2013. But I guess WASM would be like 10 - 15 % faster.
For all we have some pretty good science programming in the UK, what with Jim Al-Khalili, Brian Cox, Sky at Night and more, we're missing the Heinz Wolff and Johnny Ball style characters who bring their subjects alive for children.

It'd be great to have a science-based equivalent to Horrible Histories.
How? This has been an intrinsic feature of common assault since time immemorial. I imagine most cases of assault in the middle ages were not brought to trial either.

But, if something does go to trial, it's still up to the jury to decide.
There's quite a "circle the wagons" mentality common in programming nowadays, following politics lead I suppose.
This article falls back on the "I was just following orders" excuse. It doesn't matter if there was no intent of fraud: the issue at hand is that there is currently no downside risk for engaging in these profitable but destructive behaviors, so banks will continue to risk harming the economy as long as they are making money this way. Other professions where screw-ups tend to have disasterous effects, like medicine, law, and engineering, have legal liability frameworks in place to hold businesses and individuals responsible for the negative impact of their actions. I don't see why our financial system should be any different.
So you're saying basic income is a better solution?

Just cut the government out of it and give people the money?

I completely agree.
Hear hear on both counts.

Its gentle rivalry and lack of melodrama would be great to see again. It would need a new presenter now of course, and they’d be pretty big shoes to fill.
I don't understand this train of thought, then again I'm not married, but why do you think someone would want to have sex with you because they happen to be alone with you? This reeks of misogyny... You're basically saying you have no self control when it comes to 50% of the worlds population. That's just pathetic and comes across as extremely rapey.

People have agency over who they have sex with, you're saying they don't.
I bet somebody will read your comment and name their next method that way :D
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Some cities require them, however they are removable stickers and you can easily take them off.
Preet Bharara, former US attorney for the Southern District of NY, discussed this on his podcast recently.

He basically pointed out that there wasn't evidence to support the notion that individuals had the intention of committing a crime, which is what prosecutors need. It's aggravating because I see similarities in other ways that the law falls short (Equifax, Sony, etc.)

Acting stupidly or neglectfully in these scenarios just doesn't seem to have consequences beyond the damage of data exposure, market collapse, etc. as long as you can argue that you weren't aware that you were doing anything wrong.

So how do we properly deal with people that don't willingly commit crime but are so bad at what they do that the damage can be catastrophic?
These two phrases are actually almost equivalent. Both say "I divide people into two groups: bad people who divide people into bad and good people, and good people who don't."

Is there a more general formulation?
Martha Stewart was a fall guy for people to feel like something was being done. What she was actually guilty of was, "lying to a federal agent."

http://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/how-to-avoi...
Causing financial crisis wasn't illegal. Unethical but not a crime. Except for some cases of misselling products, banks playing against the customer etc. Bailout was.

For $3 trillion less than bailout, we could have paid off every U.S. mortgage! http://www.jameslavin.com/articles/2009/04/16/for-3-trillion... [need better source??]

Without bank bailout we'd buy banks for pennies. Market forces would work and banking sector would be incentivised to behave properly.
The people care infinitely more about "informational" memes about curvy bananas and conspiracy theories about Muslims and cultural marxism than about who picks who in some EU structure.

At the same time even the slightest EU regulations are like communism and even the tiniest enforcement of EU law or solidarity is comparable to an armed invasion on the country's sovereignty.

Cases in point are how before downing of MH17 in Ukraine Western European attitudes about sanctioning Russia were "not our problem" and "we would lose money" and how Eastern Europe fought tooth and nail against refugees because "Merkel invited them" and "all Muslims are rapists and terrorists".

And to add insult to injury every time European Council or European Parliament does something dumb the EU is being called undemocratic.

The democratic care deficit in people is not even EU specific. Turnaround is low all around in various elections and some people don't even know the name of the ruling party, prime minister, president, etc. in their own country.

Maybe the EU should actually disband and let Germany steamroll us all yet again. Maybe then people would get it.
This is totally the exact thing the article is talking about. I've spoken to American friends who tell me that public transport can just never work when talking about their experience with BART and MUNI. But you don't have to go very far away to find a place where it really does work.
Absolutely, yeah.

WebCrypto has support for keypairs that can have the private key data extracted (there are limits, though, which I cannot accurately remember) from the JavaScript object in which they are contained.

So it ought to be possible to extract the key data, encrypt it (also using WebCrypto) and sync it (somehow) to another device.
Clawbacks sound good in theory, but there's one giant barrier: the legal system and due process.

To justify taking away someone's bonuses, you still have to accuse them of some sort of wrongdoing and malfeasance, and then prove it.

The barrier is lower (preponderance of evidence vs. no reasonable doubt), but the same basic question remains: what do you charge them with, and can you prove it? Note that bonus clawbacks were instituted at many banks after the crisis, but they weren't in place before then.

I just want to note that many bankers did lose their jobs and their life savings in the crisis themselves. A lot of bankers had much of their savings (unwisely) in their own company stock. Everyone at Bear, Lehman, MF Financial, and a bunch of other places found themselves out of a job and often out of much of their wealth at the same time. Most of these weren't people greedily rubbing two coins together while thinking of how to screw the American people -- they were people who deluded themselves and thought their money machines stable and impregnable and never thought they would blow up.
Here's one such article: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

I think either Vice or MoBo had one around the same time but can't find it.
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>>This suggestion keeps popping up as though 'do nothing' and 'destroy some randomly selected lives'

"Randomly selected"? Not sure what you mean by that. We know which companies acted in shady ways.

I mean sure, there was no way to trace wrongdoings to specific individuals. But that's OK. C-level executives make tens of millions of dollars every year. In return, they must carry the burden of responsibility when their underlings do shady shit. Gotta earn all that money, you know?
Did they actually acknowledge that it was a paid advertising campaign?
> If you think the conservative position is obviously wrong, study Hong Kong and Singapore.

Or study the US, where the states with the highest taxes have the lowest poverty levels, and where the states with lowest taxes have the highest levels of poverty.
I went with my family before they shuttered the old funicular. The old funicular was expensive to maintain and prone to interruption by falling rocks. So they decided to scrap the old funicular and build a new one. However not everything worked out to plan. After all there was a two-year delay. They underestimated the difficulties the steep grades created. For example they had to tether all workers to ropes. Tools falling down turned into dangerous projectiles. Tunnel boring machines had to use a climbing contraption to bore literally upwards. An so on.

By the way would have Elon Musk helped by combining his Boring Company and SpaceX to bore upwards?
I'm humbled to learn that the experience that have led to me never bothering to get a drivers license because public transportation generally works better than private the high population density places I've lived the vast majority of my
adult life has been a figment of my imagination.
Stellar Lumens is one of the top coins working on remittances, IBM is partnered with them. It's also a non-profit. Highly recommend doing some research into this one.
Really? I could never find it. Perhaps you've got an extension of a sort installed. Nice idea anyway, I'll give it a try, thanks! I doubt it sounds great but maybe the things have actually improved since the last time I've tried a text-to-speech tool.
It is still gross financial negligence, when you build a house of cards and rent out all the rooms, you are responsible for the ensuing collapse even if it isn't want you intended.
You can't sink a big investment bank with bad mortgages. not even securitized bad mortgages. Not even corruptly rated bad mortgage securities (and we are already far from the retail borrower's culpability).

To blow up the global banking system, you need a cascading set of bets that goes bad and creates orders of magnitude more counterparty risk than retail lending could possibly create.
For anyone in the Netherlands: There is a functional programming day being hosted by the Dutch Tax Authority on Jan 5th, and today is the last day to sign up! Check out the original link to see more details
True, but the whole process becomes a bit convoluted. I feel it's easier to just stay away from HTTP caching where possible.
Oh come on. A publication like the Economist lives for stuff like this, as a story of this magnitude would have lots of knock on effects.

Daily press does tend to go after blow-by-blow stuff but you're selling the media short. The entire Trump collusion thread right now is itself crazy complicated and it's in the news daily.
"can now land reusable rockets that were only dreamed about in science fiction a decade ago"

You could have done that 40 years ago. SpaceX has figured out how to do this in an economically feasible way but technically it was possible a long time ago. Same for Mars. We could have landed there probably somewhere in the 1980s if someone had been willing to pay for it.
strictly speaking time is human construct not a dimension per se.....time is always measured by human observation against some material object's motion that appears to be regular in rhythm. Einsten addresses time here https://tinyurl.com/yc8y868s he pegs time to clocks and the speed of light.
Strictly speaking time is phenomenlogical a human construct and has no actual existence or mathematical basis outside a human mind which is not to say its a useless construct but that it is many things observed to create the construct but as such one should not allow the construct to have dimensional existence as a thing in itself....
Generally speaking bad business decisions and losing money are not against the law. Do you think they should sometimes be against the law for businesses that receive substantial government guarantees (say to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars or more)? Sure, that's probably a good idea. But did those laws exist before the Financial Crisis? Not really, as far as I can tell. So what are you going to throw the bankers in jail for? You can't pass new laws and apply them retroactively in the U.S. since the Constitution doesn't allow ex post facto laws.

There is a discussion we could be having about new laws that will apply to financial institutions in the future, to prevent, or at least reduce, the consequences of financial institutions behaving recklessly. But for some reason we're not having that conversation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s

> Memorizing state capitals won’t make anybody Governer, but skipping that step early on can be a major derailment from path.

“Major derailment”? You can’t be serious. Nobody at my school ever memorized state capitals, and as far as I can tell they’re all doing about as well as you would expect (a couple decades later) in their various careers, including careers as lawyers, activists, policy analysts, journalists, politicians, scholars of political science, ...

Anyone who does the real work (reading hundreds of topical books, keeping up with current events for decades, getting involved in political activism, engaging with peers in years of university seminars about related topics, ...) is going to end up having a reasonable grasp of the names of most states and their capitals, but being able to rattle off a list is mostly useless, except as a stunt.

> Knowing the names encourages curiosity and inspires asking questions that otherwise could not be asked.

Memorizing lists of random trivia engenders boredom and makes kids think school is bullshit. The questions they ask are things like “why are we doing this pointless busywork?” and “why doesn’t my teacher respect kids’ intelligence?”
The other answer seems to be even more radical - audio/video record every interaction as a proof of (not) wrong-doing.

At least in that way, one gender isn't staying away and keeping away the other, thus potentially exacerbating the problem of gender stratification.

But then again, now we're in the murky territory of privacy, and how many jurisdictions are 2(all) party consent.

Back and forth, round and round. Pence's answer does seem to be the logical, if completely ugly, solution.
Information Asymmetries and Paying It Forward
I often purchase electronics to then have them sit and collect dust. Thinking I need to change up the habit somewhat.
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Also can harvest energy 24/7
Has there ever been a desktop browser you could buy instead of using these ad supported/os bundled ones?
A UK newspaper that has been relentlessly critical of the Conservative government from the minute they took office. A UK newspaper that has run stories about the effects of austerity on an almost daily basis since 2008. A UK newspaper that's currently running a charity telethon to raise funds for homelessness charities.

There's no hypocrisy here.
I find something quite difficult to answer. Imagine you have all the political power, and all the money in the world. You are tasked with creating as close to a utopia as you can. Now let's consider a group. Think of those on the top of our society who have a seemingly insatiable drive towards indulgence of drug, drink, and other such harmful vices. In spite of access to the the world's best rehabilitation centers, counseling, and often wide social networks - we not infrequently see these people indulge themselves literally to death. On the bottom of society we also have the same sorts. The only difference is that in this case they tend to be unable to sustain their habit and end up on the streets instead of in a coffin.

How do deal with this problem? I suppose the 'safe' answer is to try to pretend that these people might not exist if we had an otherwise 'better' world, but I think that's improbable. This affliction is something that affects people of all classes in all societies, and has since the advent of civilization. And the reason I focused on the top of society first is that I think they're clear evidence that in some cases you simply cannot counsel or rehab the problem away. And it is those specific cases that a humane solution seems almost impossible to find.
Because the rule of law means we have to make clear rules beforehand, and it's hard to make rules about some kinds of bad behavior.
Thanks, that "Snow fence" name helps. With zero mountains/trains/snow knowledge, it's hard to google for.