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I used to work for a start up in Boston (co-lo'd with a bunch of other startups) a couple years ago, and people would openly talk about politics of the left-wing establishment variety and go around patting each other on the back for it.

The stuff rude awakenings are made of…
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I never understand why we always assume that it's extra-terrestrial.

For example, let's say time travel will be possible at any given point in the future. Well, if it were possible in the future, we might expect to see it happening across time, including the past and present.

It would of course represent technology thousands of years more advanced than the observers of the phenomenon, but not millions of years away, as might well be the case for civilizations from planets evolving quite differently from our own. It would also represent technology that evolved from our own developmental progress.

It would also address the issue of spatial proximity - of course we don't detect life outside Earth, because the "extra-terrestrials" come from Earth.

I'm not suggesting it is absolutely time travelers, but I'm quite surprised I never see that suggested on a similar frequency with the whole aliens angle when discussing UFOs.
And why is proxy wars a bad idea? A lot about war is symbolism. Hell, the whole reason armies march to a battlefield is because it's a proxy of a real battle where civilians would die.

Well-accepted movements like feminism also engage with proxy wars, such as "free the nipples", "a day without women", etc. All these are pretty much symbolism, with some actual tangible value. Male porn star income equality is not only a symbol for striving for true quality, it also serves to demonstrate that as a society we seem to be fine with tolerating inequality at some places, and that feminism is not as much about equality as about identity politics (not that identity politics is inherently wrong).
I can work in a car or a taxi, as long as I am not the one driving. Unfortunately, about 95% of the time I am in a car, I have to drive.
if it were acceptable, my s.o. would have a blog post about it that I could just link you to

Not to deny your lived experience or anything but (purely for the sake of providing a reference for discussion and not taking a position either way) TERF content is widely available on the Interwebs.
> "I believe that one of the most universal determinants of happiness is the length of your commute"

1000x this. I've done commutes ranging from 0 to 4,5h daily and I can even affirm that commute discomfort is exponential: a 4,5h commute is way more painful than a 3h commute. I would also add that the sweet spot, IMO, is not zero but around 20 minutes of daily (walking/biking) commute.

> "Live somewhere convenient and “commute to the country” on the weekend."

Once again, 1000x this.
If you plotted the altitude with a function f(x), it's just the derivative f'(x) expressed in percent.
Can you be a bit more specific? What sort of thing do you mean? Maybe name the best ones you found so far.
Though it seems to me that especially in Helsinki the trend is shifting. A couple of time I've gotten momentarily confused looks there when I've sat on the front passenger seat.
The lack of self-awareness in many of these comments is really quite shocking — Id say it’s probably better that they’re not typically expressed.
Even then, sites which lack graceful degradation aren't so qualitatively different from the few that do that they need to be moved to an entirely different platform, viewed from a different device and considered "applications" and not "documents." That seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

What does make sense to me is a new platform based on WASM, with related tooling. Photoshop in the browser or something running the Unreal Engine or .Net is not the web enough to maybe deserve its own thing. But a new platform based on what are essentially complaints about complexity or efficiency would be too messy.
One thing that immediately sticks out to me is the pace at which the pedestrians move. There is the occasional brisk walker but most everyone seems to walk rather slowly, almost like strolling. In big cities today, you'll find that exactly reversed. Fascinating.
If you're on windows I found that MS OneNote has great built in OCR.
None. I don't mean current transgender people should be outcast, but we should begin to understand its external effects.

They too are victims of stereotype. They chose (perhaps felt forced to chose) to change their body to fit the stereotype. But the problem with being unable to discuss this is that people who are beginning to question their cis identity may not see the other option: being yourself in your own body, and not conforming to what society thinks a man or a woman is.
Not wishing to be overly pedantic, but you have to report in any of the following circumstances:

* Capital gains in excess of £11,300
* Disposals (sales) in excess of £45,200
* Losses that you wish to claim

https://www.gov.uk/capital-gains-tax/work-out-need-to-pay

Worth noting e.g. if you receive stock under US company schemes and sell even if you have already been taxed on the gain versus FMV as income. You can be in a circumstance where the taxable gain is under the threshold but disposals are high.
If your company is spending a significant fraction of its capital on increasing the number of red-headed employees, and purports to be a place where you can voice your opinions about anything that's going wrong, etc., then you might consider discussing whether we as a company are spending too much much money and effort to hire more red-headed people, and that the net effect is bad whether your goal is diversity or performance.

Almost anything can be thought of as indirectly questioning colleague's competence. Suppose I saw, "U. Waterloo is a great school, let's hire more people from there.", this is indirectly questioning the competence of anyone who's not from U. Waterloo. Suppose HR decides to offer employees free LASIK surgery, then they are questioning the competence of people who choose to wear glasses instead. Encouraging employees to use desk in stand-up mode questions the competence of people who prefer to work while sitting. The list is endless.
not touching the actual issue of racists in the south, but do most people consider Texas the south? I never have. I never think of Florida either (although north Florida is a lot closer to what i think of when I think of the south).
I can't find any because I don't know what TERFs call themselves (the term appears to be solely used by their detractors). Maybe my google-fu is lacking, but it seems to be hard to find. When I google things like "transgender and gender existentialism" I get only (unsatisfying) rebuttals and some poorly-thought-out complaints about trans people.

I think my s.o.'s viewpoint is a little more nuanced than "trans women aren't real women"
Probably just me, but economist articles never load properly (windows phone, so there's that). Page keeps popping me back up to the top of the article, happened 4 times and then the text disappeared. Oh well.

At least I can infer from the headline that crime is very low in Japan. I wonder what they're doing that the rest of the world aren't
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Your S.O. seems like a bigot.

I would certainly like to promote such peoples' freedom of speech - so that I know who they are and so that I can exercise my freedom of association to not have to interact with them.

Edit wow advocacy for free speech, freedom of association, freedom of thought, freedom of expression and peoples's right to be themselves is very unpopular of hacker news today... Weird.
disclaimer: I own some of these so I'm not without some bias.

Thus far I've been pretty impressed with Raiblocks (XRB). Near instant (1-5 seconds depending on the wallet in my tests so far) and fee-less.

I'm pretty keen to check out the other DAG projects after this one.
The problem is not just deflation but uncontrolled issuance. Ie miners produce too much or too little coins to keep them stable.
now that's taboo.. so taboo it doesn't even make the list because people can't even think it :)
they sure did care for the race of the people they sold it to though. In any case, none of what you said matches actual American history.
Classic RPC functions would never be async, since the idea behind RPC is to replace a sync local function with a sync remote function, without having to make any changes to the calling code.

"Async RPC" is a more recent idea, but still gets referred to as "RPC", so the complaints about classic RPC still get raised since the term is overloaded.
EU directives are like the rule 42 of bureaucracy. If it exists, there's an EU directive about it
> Just a wild guess, the "vast majority of your adult life" are the experience you imagine the whole world has, yet they were spent unattached, without children or supporting so much as a cat, never mind children in a rich area of a huge city (and yes, San Francisco counts as huge) ...

The majority of it was spent attached, with a child, and several years of it taking buggies on public transport.

And no, San Francisco is not huge - San Francisco isn't much bigger than my suburb.

You also seem to think I'm in the US, for no good reason.

So that's wrong on every count.
I also live in Norway, my SO is a psychologist specialising in addiction, according to her this is a big step in the right direction.

She routinely have patients motivated to quit, who make big progress during treatment, who manage to turn their life around, they've broken contact with the "drug community", they might even have gotten to a point where they can hold a job, and have gotten a job, some might have started a family, they're essentially on the home run.

Then BAM!, out of the blue, the glacially slow moving judicial system calls them to court, and charge them for their past transgressions from ~2 years ago. If they're really unlucky they got caught with 2-3 days (of personal use) worth of drugs - enough to qualify them as a dealer and several years in jail.

Nothing ruins a successful treatment and break from your past like getting knocked into jail with your old pals for a few years. It happens again and again and again, it's GIANT waste of resources.
clearly not, it is missing "blockchain" somewhere in the title
To half the population.
> Your S.O. seems like a bigot.

Yes, it did seem that way at first. I had a hard time of truly listening when we first began to discuss it as I had already formed my own standard, liberal, opinions about the topic.
Was it a licensed Taxi or an Uber? Or some unlicensed driver at the airport?

A licensed Taxi is very unlikely to be stopped by the police in Helsinki, and lots of taxi drivers are black or other immigrant background.

There is something odd in this story, doesn't sound at all typical.
"What accounts for this unusual degree of independence? Not self-sufficiency, in fact, but “group reliance,” according to Dwayne Dixon, a cultural anthropologist who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Japanese youth. “[Japanese] kids learn early on that, ideally, any member of the community can be called on to serve or help others,” he says."
isn't that what non binary is all about? I see trans folks talking about non binary gender all the time.
It seems that Mozilla didn't get paid to implement this extension and force it through channels reserved for usability studies:

"We didn't make any money off of this; it was intended as an easter egg in Firefox for fans of the show." https://www.metafilter.com/171227/Your-Reality-Is-Driven-By-...

"Mozilla wasn't paid for the Mr. Robot tie-in, Kaykas-Wolff [Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Mozilla's chief marketing officer] said. "We've enjoyed a growing partnership with the show and the show's audience," he said." https://www.cnet.com/au/news/mozilla-backpedals-after-mr-rob...

It doesn't matter if the extension was not activated on installation because the check for the extensions.pug.lookingglass on line 22 https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/master/addon/bootst... can easily be gone in the next version of the extension.

Not getting paid for this ad is even worse in my opinion. Mr. Robot is produced by Universal Cable Productions, which is part of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast.

Your marketing people are probably laughing behind your back, they got the dork developers to implement this ad for free, be proud of it and even defend it in online forums. As they say: "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes." https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b...

Your marketing people got to play with the big boys in mass media and are now owned some favors. Think about that for a minute.
I was surprised to see that possibly the best vb6 book ever written, which has 96 reviews on amazon.com, is scored an F by fakespot

https://www.fakespot.com/product/programming-microsoft-visua...
> Mozilla, this is not okay. This is wrong on so many levels. Frankly, whoever was in charge should be fired over this - which is not something I call for lightly.

Whoho, calm down cowboy. Some of us don't live in the far west, and have better, proper, and more civilized ways of dealing with work issues than your "All-American-Fire-Everyone-Style".
I'm not averse to the discussion, but it was not carefully worded, by any means.
Yes, but the retailer is not, as the retailer will get any VAT paid on the 690 refunded (or in most jurisdictions will simply pay the difference).
Nice that RISC-V is in the news.

For those who follow RISC-V, this doesn't add any new information that wasn't already made public during the latest RISC-V conference. Proceedings here: https://riscv.org/2017/12/7th-risc-v-workshop-proceedings/
There's a game theory problem which is that if you have a choice of cryptocurrencies at an early stage to play with, and you think they have a similar chance of success, it makes sense to invest in the cryptocurrencies with a limited supply. The fact that this will make them bad in the long run as a medium of exchange is not of interest to the early stage speculator.
You're arguing for a technical solution to what is essentially a cultural problem.
> it doesn't promote commerce and trade

The problem is that our existing financial system probably had an intention of using inflation to encourage commerce and trade, but over the past 40 years, that focus shifted from using debt for the funding of productive enterprises to debt being used for the bidding up of fixed assets like houses, but also stocks. The only thing that mattered to this bidding process was capital growth. The solution to these bubbles wasn't to reign in debt creation, or to force the targeting of debt creation to productivity, but to simply increase it. Bubble after bubble after bubble, crisis after crisis after crisis. But not only that, a death in productive capacity, which is all too apparent to the middle-income demographic.

Because of this irresponsibility of the finance world, crypto-currency technology was developed to allow people to park their productive gains in inflation resistant financial instruments. So in order to get these people to part with their inflation resistant instrument, you will have to convince them that you will give a better return than inflation, and that means by increasing productivity. You can no longer just create more debt, because the only thing that will do is increase the value of the deflationary asset, by decreasing the value of the inflationary one. That means if you want to survive as a national currency, you better start working on education and building productive capacity, because you'll no longer be able to fleece your populace whenever banking execs are looking to buy a new bentley.
Your argument seems to be that "a lot of people do X and have no problems with it even though the negatives of X are described in the general media and its been 5 years, so therefore we should continue with X, because it's by definition 'doing a good thing to change the world'".

Is that the right pattern?

Because it seems that a lot of things don't fit that pattern.

A lot of people smoked, and continued to smoke even after the packages all got warning stickers on them. Yet it took decades before general smoking bans went into place.

People used pull-tab cans for 20 or more years, because it was much more convenient than remembering to bring a church key to open the can. This despite many warnings about how pull-tab litter caused people to cut their feet, and how children accidentally swallowed pull-tabs inserted into the can itself. (To paraphrase, "The response was at best apathy, at worst a third for injury in others"?)

Then there are substances which are now banned for general use: asbestos, DDT, CFCs, lead paint, arsenic as a home rat poison, insecticide, and coloring agent (used in everything from children's toys to wallpaper to candy). All of them had a period where sales were relatively unrestricted, but where people knew, or should have known from its coverage in the general press, about their negatives, before they were banned.

That history of protecting citizens has almost certainly lead people to believe that if a company does X or sells X then the government has evaluated it to make sure it's safe, and has good consumer protections in place.

This isn't true, and is becoming even less true over time as the cult of "let the market decide" becomes more powerful.

Nevertheless, history shows that sometimes it takes more than 5 years (Snowden left the US in 2013) to go from "X is bad, we need to stop doing it" to actually putting laws and regulations in place to restrict X.
>The core idea (deploy an easter egg via an add-on) seems pretty reasonable

I don't understand why you believe that, especially when it's not an "easter egg" but actually an ad.

When's the last time I upgraded my linux kernel and it came bundled with an "easter egg" kmod, loaded by default, which made lightsaber noises if I wrote 1 to /sys/class/ad/starwars/enabled? Would you think that's appropriate?

You're developing a web browser, a critical piece of software. Almost an OS within an OS these days. You got rid of "cookies are delicious delicacies"[1] (an actual easter egg) because you deemed that the joke wasn't worth obfuscating an important piece of information. 15 years later you're adding stealthy extensions that look like backdoors. What changed?

I can assure you, people who want novelty extensions know where to find them.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213186
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the term appears to be solely used by their detractors

I didn't actually know that, interesting.

Maybe my google-fu is lacking, but it seems to be hard to find

It's entirely possible that your fu is fine and this material is pushed down the index as a matter of policy.
Yeah your s.o. is discriminating against a group of people because they think that that group's existence damages their goals.

Stop listening and start getting away.
Yes, but that acknowledges there is a binary in the first place. You're still saying that cis (which is the default, no matter how much anyone wants it not to be) women should be feminine.
You also have to account for dealing with traffic and pedestrian crossings, lights, planning etc. The Dublin tram was a new line across existing streets. This funicular probably doesn't cross any roads.

Also things take longer and cost more in Ireland. Case in point, near my house the local council had to dig up a road and lay some pipe to channel a stream underneath. This took two months. In the UK they put a train tunnel under a motorway in 72 hours
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What is "the right path" though? Some people would say legalisation is the only path and other people, while supporting decriminalisation, wouldn't ever support legalising and promoting a health issue.

Knowing Nordic history with alcohol, I'd say they're on the right path to treat their addicts and keep drugs at bay.
When everyone agrees to a single set of cultural norms you don't need law enforcement to keep them.
Common sense could not be erradicated anyway: it's not the same to allow them to be alone for 5 hours in the neighborhood, in Times Square or somewhere in a high crime area.
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Bigots usually wrap their hate in fancy words. It doesn't make their hate less hateful.
there is a binary ATM whether wanted or not. It would be nice to move away from it though.

EDIT: new words were invented just to enforce it. Some of the "nicer" ones for women are tomboy and butch.
That's throwaway money for a large % of hn readers
The problem here is not the law, it is the people who think the fact that one person (out of over 100 million families in America) got arrested for doing a thing that sounds reasonable is a reason to change your behavior.

We need a reasonable threshold below which we do not worry about an event. Figuratively speaking: "If it makes front page news, it's not how I'm gonna die."

The threshold is going to vary from person to person; for me? if it's less likely than me dying or becoming disabled in a transport accident today, then the effort to prevent that thing is most likely better spent preventing transport accidents.

I mean, my point here is that you want the best return possible on your "prevent bad things from happening to me and mine" efforts, and there are a lot of low-hanging fruit that you can grab in the area where there is the most danger. Transportation and health are huge killers, much bigger than terrorist and crazies.

I think this might be the biggest problem with America today; this idea that systemic action needs to be taken for a 1 in 100 million chance seems like the systemic problem with our society. Systemic action should be reserved for things that happen frequently.

Even in America, the biggest danger to children is transport accidents; the chances of getting killed or disfigured are so much higher in a car than in a train that it almost certainly makes up for any "stranger danger" on the train.
I missed the discussion back then, but just having read the article, I can only shake my head. I know that the times are always changing, but if I think back what children were doing one or two generations ago on a daily basis...

"the Ministry had [...] determined that children under 10 years old could not be unsupervised in or outside the home, for any amount of time." -- even myself, growing up, we were a bunch of kids who all lived in a cul-de-sac. I don't think our parents saw much of us from the age of six onwards or so, at least not during the summer months, except for the meals.
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your whole story and this thread has basically nothing to do with crossfit, but you need to mention it twice? Why not say "sport"!
I did not mean "now docker messes with the OS", but "now docker is the one who messes with the thing in the container".
The thing is you are free to hold and expose extreme views - and I strongly support your right to do so and not to be subject to persecution from the state for doing so. However I also have the right to not associate with you if I think that you are a dick.
Yep. Sounds like this dude has fuck you bitcoin holdings and wants to gamble with the lambo fuel money
I came it from your SO's side, and then went away from it. I didn't grow up around uhmm "liberals" and "liberal doctrine", so I had to figure it out for myself.