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It's sobering for sure to realize those biases exist. I am a white man, who was extremely skeptical of the first few police shooting stories, starting with Trayvon Martin, then Michael Brown et al.

Trayvon was killed during a time when I was extremely politically conservative, but later that year I actively participated in a Republican campaign in Florida. That moment is when I really started to criticize my own political and religious beliefs.

Since then, mostly thanks to moving away from my parents and heading to university, I've continued to drift away from my old viewpoints. I can't say I am 100% onboard with every position BLM has advocated but the same story told year after year has started to change my mind.

And this case has a shock factor for a white man that the others did not. I'm ashamed to admit that. It's an uncomfortable way to be woken up to one's own biases. I hope it's not too late to help change things for both black and white Americans. And I hope it's not too late to fix my own thinking.
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In the UK, there are only two or three providers actually providing last mile, and the majority of the 50 mentioned simply re-brand the BT/OpenReach product. All you need to become and ISP is a browser and some clients. Some of the larger ones have their own backbone, to an extent, but the majority simply re-brand
I use Golang for everything.
For example I use GopherJs with polymer for the front-end and gin for the back-end.
oh, so if you are careless, that's furniture's fault. okay. your comment is not the best counter to my point either.

PS: i have a lot of furniture with rought edges. I've learned my lesson, and furniture is not a problem anymore.
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All compiled languages support static linking, nothing special about Go.
Its not fibre. Its copper. Everything is copper. BT/openreach own all of the last mile infra

Incorrect. Virgin´s backbone is fiber and they own their own last mile. BT has been delivering FTTC and FTTH for some time now.
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With Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn on the team, what could go wrong?
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I'm not sure I agree with that analogy, but it does bring up an interesting choice. Do you just want to buy a fish every now and then with money earned with your regular job, or do you want to spend the time learning how to use your boat, the best way to use bait and tackle according to the latest industry insights and plug the holes in your boat when they appear?

I'm not making a value-judgement either way. Different people have different needs.
These are huge groups. Consider religious criticism - we have Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dillahunty, Thunderf00t, PZ Myers, Aron Ra, Hitchens, etc. All with hundreds of videos. Tens to hundreds of millions of views for each of these names.

If you demonetize them all because religious people consider criticism hate, you are throwing out tons of potential ad revenue.

It's not much more work, just create more granular multilevel categories.
To me it's absolutely not okay that they have came up with a bunch of new and secret rules all on their own, against their own community and apply them selectively and retroactively over night to videos from months or years ago and blame "the algorithm" for anything that goes wrong. This is also on top of other debacles and constant layout changes that many people hated. If YouTube wants so badly to not be outraged at by the public then they are free to get their shit together or close up if they can't manage. Things like [0] are also not okay to be happening. Ad money shouldn't justify (accidentally) sweeping up terrorism under the rug and throwing journalists who risk their lives out of the platform.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/world/middleeast/syria-yo...
Fantastic news. Though a conspicuous absence is lack of any classification that deranks videos in the search results or recommendations.

Even if it's largely financially motivated, it's still nice to see some kind of assessment of what kind of content they are willing to enable.
Tax burden in Germany for middleclass is at around 70%.
Beeing a software engineer in germany means that you code 8months for the government and 4months for yourself.

The western governments introduced more and more “hidden” taxes. So just looking at income tax is not fair.

Just because he advocates for lower taxes doesn’t mean he want anarchy.
Most open-source projects let you build the configure script on your computer. They either provide a tiny script named autogen.sh or tell you to call autoreconf -fi manually. They might track the auto-generated configure script as fallback for people without autotools installed, but no one really edits those.
Seems it’s optimized for developer enjoyment and is a big language that allows for terse expression, as well as a few ways to achieve the same thing.
No but if occasionally the furniture kicks you, then it could be improved on, pointing out flaws in the best of the best is very worthwhile, it's in that pain space that the biggest usability gains are to be had.
In the second part and not explaining the principle.
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That point is totally valid. "The West" is rapidly becoming a mirror image of the Soviet Union. With half or more of economic value of your work going to uncle Sam, how this is not a state ran economy?

If I remember correctly, the split for a typical Soviet citizen was 60/40, and this is where the West will be this decade if government expenses will continue rising at the speed they do.
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Have you seen the video? It's clear beyond any doubt that the officer wasn't "scared", but a sadistic control freak. He had "You're Fucked" engraved into his rifle for God's sake, the guy is obviously far too immature or full of himself to be pointing a gun at anyone.
Java, C#, F#, C++, D, Rust, OCaml, Haskell, FreePascal, Ada, Swift, Nim look all pretty fine to me, and yes there are ways to compile Java and .NET languages to native code just like Go.

As for libraries, what matters is if the desired use case is covered, not winning the App Store count.
Just as a single counterpoint: Spotify has Mixtape of the Week and two similar auto-generated playlists, and the songs in there are at best vaguely related to what I listen to on Spotify - I haven't found anything interesting in there.

The albums I haven't listened to in a while and might want to listen to again according to the app are those I listen to daily.

New releases are not sorted or filtered by genre, so I guess it is great that some pop or reggae artist has a new album out when I only listen to metal on Spotify?

Etc., etc... in other words - I use Spotify for totally unrelated reasons and switched from Google Play Music, but it has all the same faults, it just works better for some part of the target group, but it is in now way perfect, or even good, with regards to their recommendation engine either.
> Heck, even the "final solution" orders weren't put in signing

-The "Final Solution"(tm) was basically just that - the logical conclusion to a number of gradual steps being taken in that direction, getting increasingly lethal. The original intent was to rid Europe of its Jewish population, and as the war progressed (and, conjecturing on my part, as the Nazi regime became more and more desensitized to such inconveniences as reluctance to performing atrocities), killing them all off seemed like a workable solution.

Early in the war one senior nazi (Eichmann? Sounds like something Eichmann could think up) voiced a plan to have European jews shipped en masse to Madagascar to create a Jewish heimat there; after invading The Soviet Union, it was suggested that jews could be deported to Siberia. Eventually it turned out extermination camps were more workable.

IIRC, to the extent you can say that one man was the driving force behind the Holocaust, that would be Reinhard Heydrich, an ambitious, ruthless SOB in the SS who called the Wannsee conference where various branches of the Nazi machine decided that organized mass murder was the way to go; it has been argued that part of his motivation was an attempt to gain favour with Hitler and to be seen as a man of action. (Then again, if Heydrich hadn't stepped up, someone else likely would)
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> Maybe one service is known to optimize for throughput, while another offers slower speeds, but also lower latency for gaming, or something.

This isn't just reserved to UK ISPs, afaik the situation in Germany is kinda similar. Fun tidbit about the monetization of features: When ADSL just became "a thing" it introduced higher latency compared to ISDN.

Quickly people figured out that certain ISPs could toggle something on called "fastpath", which would reduce the latency quite a bit if you called the support hotline and asked for it.

Took a couple of months until one of the major ISPs (Telekom) started charging 5€ monthly extra for it on the lower speed ADSL tariffs, luckily that stopped being a thing with VDSL.
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Try adding this to your wakatime.cfg:

hidefilenames = true
I don’t know where the author grew up, but didn’t he get anything in return for his taxes? I’ve had free healthcare, free college education, free libraries, police and fire departments protecting me, occasional grants, a social security network in case I lost my ability to work... I would never say that “taxes limit my options” because the personal record shows the opposite.

Besides, it’s not about just me: the whole point of taxes is that it gives options to everyone, not just those lucky enough to be born to wealthy parents.

I have a hard time believing that a messaging app founder would spend his money on charities more usefully than the government would spend it on basic services. (Assuming he would donate an amount anywhere close to the tax rate, which he certainly wouldn’t.)
It's not equal to "get rid of the government". It's just that their government runs on oil profits instead of taxes.
You're implying that government does nothing—or at least nothing positive, which is a specious argument at best.
I normally leave everything until the last minute which means I have no choice but to be incredibly focused and motivated to deliver on my commitments.

I've always had a reputation for delivering late but this has gotten better over time as I learn to account for unknowns and my definition of "last minute" has gotten more realistic.

Over the years I have tried fruitlessly to make myself more proactive and have consistently failed. I do my best work under pressure and am now focused on embracing who I am and finding a way to make that successful instead of trying to change it. There is a name for this - the Eisenhower method - but it's not a strategy I do deliberately, it's just naturally who I am.

So how do I focus? When there's no time to waste it just comes naturally. I take mini-breaks too, but then my subconscious very quickly kicks me back into gear.
> Tax burden in Germany for middleclass is at around 70%. Beeing a software engineer in germany means that you code 8months for the government and 4months for yourself.

> The western governments introduced more and more “hidden” taxes. So just looking at income tax is not fair.

Please don't pluck figures like that out of thin air - I worked in Berlin as a developer and I easily took home ~60% of my monthly salary (placing tax at around 40%).

Those taxes already comprise of Social Security* (roughly 20%) and income tax (the remainder 20%).

* Health, Retirement, Unemployment etc.
That's true of (most of) Europe, the US taxes are lower.
I often browse /r/4chan and I have to admit than even though 4chan is not a website I often go to or use at all, it seems like it's a much more attractive and fun place to go to.

I really don't understand the point of stating your real identity on a social media. Internet security is already not perfect to this day, so what's the point? Facebook doesn't even let you meet new people outside your network, or even interact with friends of your friends in a trustful manner.

4chan is like the local pub, facebook is like a bar where everyone has their name and interests written on their face. Evidently 4chan seems more natural.
> We are misfits and mavericks

Just because some of today's Americans' ancestors may have been misfits in their home country 400 years ago, doesn't mean every American today is a maverick.

And what about Australia? Many Australians descend from actual criminals. Yet when they thought their gun problem was getting out of hand, they decided to fix it... and they did.
Top marginal income tax rates under President Eisenhower (a Republican) were in the low 90%s.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/...
Yeah having country specific moderation teams with people form those countries would be great. But I won't hold my breath..
I thought I fixed that one :/ It's fixed for good this time. Thanks !
If the locations of his servers are merely a secret, isn't that just security through obscurity? Isn't that a serious weakness? Or is there a more advanced way his servers are kept secret than merely being a secret?
You're very much correct, thanks for pointing that out!

I hadn't seen any mention of the new 7% individual rate in any newspaper articles or even accounting firm articles. I now inspected the actual income tax law [1], and sure enough the 7% clause is there.

One one hand this means a slight net tax increase to 20.02% [2], on the other hand if the total individual income is less than 25200€/year then a part of that 7% will be returned.

--

[1] Unfortunately not yet translated to English https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/107072017022

[2] 100 * 0.86 * 0.93 = 79.98
BLM is still a harmful distraction because not that many lives are being lost by wrongful police shootings. It would be more beneficial to focus on areas like Chicago where hundreds die every year (overwhelmingly young black men killed by young black men).
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70%? How do you come up with that?

It's roughly 40.5% for most middle class people. If your salary is 4,000€ per month, you get wired 2,380€ to your bank account. Income tax, social security contributions, retirement contributions etc. already deducted.

You could add 19% VAT for all purchases on your tax burden, but that's not 70%.
I think in bufferoverflows solution the tags come from algorithms and user reports not the publisher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
What the SEC seems to be doing is 1) warning ICO promoters that what they're doing may be illegal, and 2) going after the worst offenders first. The SEC has already acted against two ICO promoters, both of which were clearly running scams. There will probably be more actions.
34% for a family with one child in Munich, 30.5% on capital gains.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(physics):

>In quantum mechanics and particle physics, spin is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles

And

>In some ways, spin is like a vector quantity; it has a definite magnitude, and it has a "direction" (but quantization makes this "direction" different from the direction of an ordinary vector).
I see no facts or genuine refutation in this article, just opinions. Therefore I can only assume that truth hurts because the article you are trying to argue with has a bunch of valid points. If you look at the history of Go you have to realize that it was created for the reason which is in the original article: to be a better C.

If you come from C it is good, sure. And you can write big projects in it like in C (just think about Linux or Unix). But if you come from a high level language like Java (which is also performant by the way) Go feels like wearing a straitjacket! Go lacks the most basic tools which any seasoned developer can expect from a language (like generics). Just look at [my response](https://medium.com/@addamsson/this-article-is-wrong-in-so-ma...) to this topic elsewhere.
In germany I'd call this tuesday and everyday that isn't tuesday. The amount of paperwar that I had to deal with at times was insane.
Since Xerox PARC, UK Royal Navy, DEC, HP Labs, ETHZ, Microsoft Research have implemented full stack OSes in GC enabled systems programming languages.

At ETHZ Oberon workstations were used during a couple of years by several users across the department.

Most of those attempts failed due to losing the political and financial wars of bringing them into the wider market, not because of lack of features.
I just want a car with OTA updates that is affordable (a.k.a. not Tesla). My current car has a bug where the crash mitigation system always gets triggered at a specific spot with white lines on the road. I can easily reproduce the issue, so the car maker should be able to fix it. This is, however, never going to happen.

People get angry when a $700 phone isn't being maintained 2,5 years after they're released. But we all accept that a $30,000 won't get updates as soon as you drive out the dealership. (Well, except for maps, which are often paid and at lease half a year behind.)
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Seriously, socialism does not mean what you think it does. Look up a list of socialist countries.
Same here, I actually find `git add -p` to be very useful.
You’re not counting VAT which is 19% of most of what you purchase. Corporate tax is largely bundled into consumer prices as well, and depending on your consumption patterns, and transportations choices there are other taxes that apply. In no way is this list exhaustive.
I agree. But people have been fighting police brutality for years and years. That's not BLM's focus, or they'd be called Stop Police Brutality or something.
Comparing tax rates with the Soviet Union is totally meaningless because the economy was fundamentally supply-limited.

It’s not that people didn’t have money — they didn’t have anything to buy that they actually wanted. The same applied to the government-owned businesses. The economy was flush with rubles that everyone desperately wanted to spend on something. The tax rate was just optics.
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This is a total BS argument. Nobody ever payed these taxes. Its far more accurate to look at what part of the GDP the government is spending. That number was the further back you go.
Completely false, there are several research OSes with kernel level GC.

I suggest reading Project Oberon source code, it’s freely available.
If you look for an oop or fp language you are also out of luck. You are only happy if you look for a better C which most people aren't.
You misunderstand. They all know there's no right to use YouTube. It's just that if they can't make money, people will stop making good shit and it will hamper or kill the whole platform.
This question touches on something I've wondered about for a while. Why are large actors' usage questioned as if they alone were responsible for their internet traffic? Bits go in and bits come back out somewhere. There are always two endpoints in a connection.

Netflix, for example, pays for Netflix's internet connection according to their usage at their endpoint[1]. The consumers cumulatively pay for the same amount of usage; it's just spread across a large number of endpoints. Netflix's ISP and the consumers' ISPs pay for the infrastucture to connect the two together, and set their end user rates accordingly. Nobody in this chain of connections is getting a free ride.

Is this deliberate misdirection from the ISPs? Do I have some fundamental misunderstanding? Is it more nuanced than this?

[1] ignoring CDNs etc. for the sake of simplyfing the argument
Why stop there when you can copyright empty files: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
While algorithms can be biased intentionally or unintentionally, it is not true that ALL algorithms HAVE to be biased because they are created by people.

In machine learning it might be easier to unintentionally create biased algorithms. On the other hand there are domains where I would trust algorithms to be less biased than people.
> ok, so he's basically suggesting to get of rid government.

Nice Strawman. So complaining about high taxes means you are either for or against having a government?
> Tax burden in Germany for middleclass is at around 70%

Even under a charitable interpretation this is simply wrong.

I suppose you have no first-hand experience, but have read that on social media?
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I imagine that he/she is also including VAT in that 70% figure (which I believe is currently 23% in Germany).

In Munich my taxes on my pay check were around 45% as a software dev (including pension & insurance). So 70% total tax might not be far off the mark (assuming that you spend most of your income on VAT goods & services). Although you have to remember it's not 23% of your totoal income, but 23% of the remaining 55%.

There are also other hidden taxes though - import duty, corporation tax and council tax (cant remember if that was a thing in Germany), to name a few.
C runtime does much more than that, depending how floating point is supported, language extensions for constructors on execution start, threading runtime introduced in C11.
Giving the app cloner plenty of time to clone your app. bet they even release the app before you do
5000 GBP for Germany per year x 3 years. If you are in the UK it is cheaper. Now I am on my last year doing it half time since I work and it is demanding, and I pay 2500 GBP per year, but spead one year course in 2.
The article itself might be a fluff piece, but Smalltalk is a worthwhile investment of time anyway.

I believe I grasped the more interesting ideas in Smalltalk when I approached it not as just another programming 'language', but rather as a complete programming 'system' in itself - a virtual computer, if you will. Instead of files, this system contains 'objects', which communicate with other objects via messaging. The entire network of objects is transparently persisted and implementation details are themselves represented as objects-with-messaging (i.e. self hosting). The UI is just another mechanism to send messages (clicks, keypresses) to some objects, etc.

It's unfortunate that something like Unix with it's primitive notion of files, processes and 'stream of bytes' thinking has become the dominant environment, rather than something like Smalltalk - where the objects are reflective and communicate with semantically richer messages.
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They have a pretty clear set of guidelines for what counts as controversial. I think they do a good job of circumscribing the worst of what they've been funding up to this point, without being too overreaching.
> Besides, it’s not about just me: the whole point of taxes is that it gives options to everyone, not just those lucky enough to be born to wealthy parents.

Then how does this thinking fit with the reality of taxes increasing everywhere, year after year? Does that mean that services are getting better? Because you know, it's actually the opposite. It's getting worse: more and more illiteracy in schools, inflation of degrees that don't get you any job, more unemployment (or stagnant at best), healthcare with less and less services... etc.
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Overly tight caps are a problem in other places too, of course people assume you have a problem at first... until you hand over the affected bottle.

I did have to use a clamp and a hammer once to get a coke bottle open.