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Okay, I travel a lot between the US and Europe (primarily Berlin, Frankfurt and London) and also between the US and Asia (primarily Japan, India and Bangkok). I have had my choice in where to live, and I would live in the USA every time.

American exceptionalism isn't a myth, it's a thing. But it has both positive and negative side effects. The positive side effects are a big reason why America still dominates the computer science world - empowering individuals results in innovation, freedom to experiment, freedom to fail (this in particular is lacking in the rest of the world) and freedom to chart your own path. Obviously, this is a range, it's not a binary switch, but over and over, I consistantly see American engineers take risks and try things that their foreign counterparts don't often do. Of course, as with everything, individuals differ, but opportunity exists here. This matters - Americans routinely identify as happier, less prone to suicide, and have higher productivity.

The second factor that this author seems blind to is that the rest of the world has become more and more American - not just western, but American. This is often sad, the difference between walking down Sukhumvit in Bangkok even five years ago - with the tuk-tuks and ethnic celebrations and baht's in the pocket - versus listening to rap, catching a uber from the airport, and using your US credit card is pronounced. But in general, Americanization (under the name globalization) has resulted world wide in a world that is kinder, more inclusive, more humane, less people dying of war & starvation etc. There is a result of the post-war strategy that American embraced and led the world on (and is now turning it's back on with Trump). The fact that Europe can focus on it's own prosperity and not the never-ending regional conflicts is built on Winston Churchill's call for "A united states of Europe" and the security of NATO.

Now are there things that should be much better then they are? Obviously yes. Health care is a obvious one. But again, that also ignores the fact that Americans are basically fronting the R&D cost for almost all of the world right now. We have to improve this. We have to improve income disparity, but without going through the devesation that collectivist systems can impose. We have to relearn how to compromise, and return to the first principles of democracy. But this article is mostly the typical European-exceptionalism ;-)
I'm at 50% delivered for my year-long subscription, one of which I had to specifically request through their support site. These delivery issues are the key thing that has prevented me from extending my subscription or buying Prime for other people.

I want them to succeed and really like the content, but success is self-reinforcing in media.
Ha, no it's worse for a startup, because you take on obligations hoping that you'll make a big sale of your new thing to a market that hasn't heard about you, has no reason to trust you, and no current intention of sending you any money at all, ever.
Take a look at crimereports.com. You might get lucky and find a good source on a per city or county basis, it's too fragmented overall too try this. Different countries might have different documentation standards and publishing guidelines for this kinda of data, might be worth a shot to look.
Individuals don't have a choice of where they are born; neither do most people have a real choice of migrating to the other side of the ocean. If the thought even occurs to them. Cultural blindness is a thing, and especially troublesome in the case of American exceptionalism and general disinterest in other cultures.
I smell a lawsuit coming. Its perfectly fine if the phones are designed to slow down as long as this information is disclosed to the customers. Intentionally misleading customers is illegal. Its probably splitting hairs, but I can easily see a law firm looking into this.
> That's when it hit me hard that my customers needn't care nor know what's behind their favorite site.

It's true! They don't care in the least, as long as it works and lets them do the thing they came there to do.
Yup. Remember, it wasn't the police who got Capone, it was the IRS.
Did you buy it second hand? Or was that on contract? If on contract, are you sure that's what you paid for it?
I'm not sure how that's relevant. The US is remarkably homogeneous for its size
I think the key point here is choice: e.g. if you want to go listen to people rail about the government, you stop by the local pub. If you want to talk about cooking you join another group / activity.

Networks like Twitter and Facebook don't really facilitate this behaviour - you're being sprayed by endless stream of opinions which aren't grouped or filtered in a way that would be meaningful to you.
> This, of course, continues further, with things such as Hollywood blacklisting (today) Conservatives

Hollywood does not blacklist "conservatives". Hollywood (finally) blacklists people who have outright abused their positions, sometimes for decades, to rape women.
The trend is towards KYC compliance and automatic sharing with tax authorities. I assume after a while very few countries will tolerate exchanges not complying.
There is no "real" sell on Vanguard to go from one fund to another, but regulations require them to mark it as a sale, and to denote the cost basis of the sale.
Another one of these, "Europe is sooooooo much better than the US." articles.

I love how he compares the some of the worst US cities to some the best European cities. All the while ignoring the issues those European cities are currently facing (mounting debt, exit from the European Union, mass immigration) while highlighting all the bad things in the US cities he cherry picks to prove his points.

I wonder if the author has ever been the Northwest. Has he ever been to Washington? Oregon, Idaho, or Colorado? I have and they're all amazing states with many, many cities with their own little cultures and laid back lifestyles. The scenery is second to none, the air clean, the people incredibly hospitable.

I won't dissect the entire article, but when you're cherry picking statistics to prove your points (most of which are subjective and not even factual) it's easy to say how much more awesome Europe is.
This reminds me of the Linux moment.

As in, back around 1999, companies with Linux in their name saw their value skyrocket, regardless of how associated their core business was with Linux.

Supposedly a key reason VA Linux (now Geeknet) named themselves that way and used NASDAQ Ticker LNUX.
Nothing says "very reliable cryptocurrency investment" like a Wikipedia page entirely written by one user within the last 24 hours.
> All I want to predict is time periods/locations which are vulnerable.

Ok, and to what end?

I assume someone else will be consuming these predictions, else you wouldn't bother at all.

What are your customers/users going to do with these predictions?

Or is that simply not your responsibility; someone else's problem?
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Given that you can buy these batteries for under $10 on ebay, I do think that $80 is expensive.

Also, Apple‘s service is atrocious. Mail it in, and you‘ll be without a phone for up to two weeks (!). I tried bringing mine to an authorised service provider in Austria, and they told me it would take 24h to get a quote, and the actual repair would take up to two weeks.

I went to a 3rd party shop, it took them about 15minutes to do the swap, and it cost a fraction.
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Stir Japanese whiskey (2 oz), dry vermouth (1 oz), absinthe (teaspoon), and Peychaud's bitters (2 shakes) well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Optional: micropipette the drink into 100,000,000 smaller drinks.
Not surprising if true. It seems swallowing the bacteria that flourish when you don't brush/floss your teeth leads to damage to your heart valves (wild!) so other immune responses, typically leading to inflammation, are quite likely.
ctrl+f tulip

Never fails.
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>One thing to consider is that it’s very unlikely America could actually cut half of all costs by simply going universal.

It was just an example, but it's pretty clear that costs would be cut.

>We’d have to ration care and implement price controls. Who knows if that is even politically viable.

We already ration care, we just do it by how much money you have. Price controls? Pretty politically viable, just march some affected people up on stage. Hell you don't even need price controls, just make overseas drug importing legal. Right now we're a totally captive market, that's why they charge so much.

>And even we could reduce it by half, the only politically viable method of funding is a highly progressive tax.

Okay? Sounds fine to me.

>People on hacker news would likely pay 20k a year and the average person would pay 2,500 or less.

I mean that's how progressive taxes work and I don't have a problem with it, although your numbers are obviously pulled straight from your ass.
> money-without-banks, first time in human history

...
please google 'salt as currency'
The U.S. is a huge country and most people have little desire to sit in a cattle-car (airplane) for 8-12 hours. A 12 hour drive to Florida is much more palatable for most people than a 12 hour plane ride to a country where they don't speak the language (typically.)
There are 1,400 cryptocurrencies listed on coinmarketcap.

Edit: 32 with over a billion dollar cap.
And again, I'm not drawing any comparison or equivalence between people who eat meat and people who are gay. As clearly shown in the portion of my comment you quoted, I am comparing the beliefs and suggestions about which beliefs are allowed in the workplace. The equivalence I'm drawing is that both sets of beliefs have the capacity to be deeply controversial and eminently nonviolent, not that the respective lifestyles are qualitatively equivalent. If you disagree with my actual comparison, attack that one, not the one you think I (or want me to have) made.

In point of fact, my entire argument relies on the axioms I explicitly and specifically outlined in the previous comment, which are:

1. nonviolent personal beliefs should not determine eligibility for employment, but violent activity, or endorsement of violent activity, may; and

2. nonviolent personal beliefs should only determine eligibility for employment if they are used for discrimination or advocation in the workplace, which is a matter of inappropriate professional conduct.

I'm happy to entertain an argument against those axioms or the actual comparison I made, but don't just keep replying insisting I've made a false equivalence about two things that I'm not even comparing.
Yeah in fact, from my experience you're more likely to be harassed walking down the street in the USA where the poor are forced to take to the street as hawkers than in Germany where you can still carry some dignity.
Of course, there's the old saying that the financial media has correctly predicted 20 of the last 3 bubbles
But the part that makes this trick even more ingenious is that you will not notice phone slowing down by 1% every month and write it off as being some sort of observational bias.
I'm going to throw out an impossible solution to this problem. It's impossible because it's very un-Apple.

Let the user choose their own fate. I know, I know, that's crazy talk, right? If given the option on my old iPhone 6 plus, I would have chose to maybe have the phone shut off suddenly at 40% battery life and run at full speed. On the rare days when I'm going to be heavily using my device (and not near constant power) I could change the setting so that it would run slower, but not freak out with battery problems.

This assumes that Apple doesn't know best, and that the user actually has a say in the matter, which goes against iOS / OS X / Apple at a deep, philosophical level.
Better put. As an aside: the headset and gun exists (https://www.wareable.com/vr/starvr-headset-review). The location soon exists with enterspace vr: https://www.enterspacevr.com
Can an atheist work with people that believe that they will be, justifiably, tortured for eternity?
> The subway shuts down in nearly all the major cities with much better and often times more expansive systems than NYC, Tokyo in particular stands out. People against shutting down the subway usually argue against it because they just want to be able to go out drinking at night and not have to pay for a Lyft or Taxi back home.

Or, you know, people who actually have to travel those hours for work or other reasons. NYC is a 24-hour city in a way that cities like London are not.

> 1. Run a night owl bus service that replaces all or most lines like Philly. Don't know why this isn't more common.

Bus service, even with optimal traffic, is way slower than subway service.

> Have overnight service Friday and Saturday for the party crowd. Apparently there are systems in Europe that do this.

Yeah, London just introduced this. It's pretty terrible compared to what we have in NYC. I wouldn't trade it for what NYC has now.
> Isn't England in a massive hole of debt?

The UK has a lower debt-to-GDP ratio than the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...

Their debt ratio is predicted to slightly lower by 2022, while ours is expected to continue to increase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_future_gr...
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Trump's election provides a counterexample to the claim that the opinions of voters count for nothing, otherwise we'd be looking at Hillary Clinton's second term or first after Mitt Romney.

Many of the promises Trump made were absurd, irrational and couldn't reasonably be delivered on, and Trump himself was the easiest candidate to read in recent American political history. Voters being unwilling to exercise their power judiciously isn't the same as them having no real power to exercise.
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The batteries are replaceable — you just need a few tools.
But if you were a smart investor during the .com bubble, you might have invested in Amazon or Ebay.

And if a frog had wings, it wouldn’t bump it’s ass when it hops. If you were a smart investor, you stayed the hell from internet stocks (because just like ICOs, the vast majority were losers). What you describe as “smart” was just someone who got lucky or had a crystal ball.

Not that I followed my own advice, but at least I learned something for the tuition I paid.
It appears they presently are: https://www.bfxdata.com/orderbooks/btcusd
symantec endpoint protection ... ? (I'm at work)
I think you missed the point - it wasn’t about brevity but about being constructive.
I'd like to be able to choose actually. But Apple has really changed over the years and choice isn't part of the user experience, everything is pretty passive aggressive. Examples:

* aggressive high sierra push notification
* "skip for now" instead of "no thanks" for icloud sign-in
* really really hard to disable features (like application resume)
Maybe I'm missing the point too, but can't that description be applied to insurance itself? So what's your point?
How is this news like 3 or 4 times? I'm serious when I say I believe this has hit the frontpage that many times or more...
Samsung charges $25 for a Note 4 battery, and the user can easily replace it. If they had kept the battery as easily replaceable, Samsung wouldn't have had to recall all the Note 7s, instead they could offer to take the phone or ship a safer, lower capacity battery and a consolation prize for lower capacity.
I like the idea of structured tree-like concurrency, fits my brains.

About your API though.

Why is there a load of inet/ip/socket functions, shouldn't they be in a separate lib? Why is the opposite of the fn int go(expr) the fn int hclose(int) and not the fn int stop(int) or something like it. open/close – go/stop – and so on …
There are means of prediction/identification that will not identify exactly when it collapses but identifies the potential.

Has the cost of the thing separated from it's usefulness? (Bitcoin is too slow and expensive for transactions. It's too volatile to be a storage of worth.)

Does slapping unrelated products with it's name boost that products purely from branding?

New financial instrument backing the bubble? In this case we have the holy grail where the backing instrument is the thing itself! https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2017/05/31/cryptocurre...

Bubble Talk Cycle: Not talking about a bubble, discourse of a bubble, denying a bubble, seeing a bubble, late investors rushing into to get gains from the bubble.

Shoeshine boy: Everyone is excited about bitcoin, seeing the large numbers you start getting random people proffering as the next sure thing.
Why would you give him money after this?
I believe the author intended that to be sarcastic. Their point being that being a Nazi should result in a stronger censure than losing a mostly-meaningless check mark.
If your battery is only reduced by 8% after a couple of years, why does the device have a artificial, significant decrease in performance after just one year?

Worse yet, Apple doesn't disclose this and it took an independent researcher to actually measure it and discover this. Wonder why? Smells a bit reminiscent of VW's diesel strategy.

"Thank you for spending your precious, discretionary income on a new Tesla! Your new vehicle will automatically slow down as it ages, because random battery parts will wear out, and going slower 'helps stop random shutdowns, which are a major pain.' By year five, your vehicle's max speed will be artificially limited to approximately 20 mph. We can help with that if you bring it in to an authorized manufacturer-owned store, assuming there is one in your country, or ship it to us at your cost, where we will replace a random part at only 20% the cost of a new Tesla. You could do this every year to maintain peak performance, but we prefer that you don't know about this at all and just buy a new car from us instead."

Planned obsolescence, with an air of plausibility to its reckless, environmentally unsound 'science' that forces you to dispose of the phone (if you don't know about this pre-programmed slowdown) or battery (if you do) before it actually ceases being useful to you.. brilliant.

But, when you get that shiny new phone home, you're blown away at how 'fast' it is compared to your previous phone.

It's actually breathtakingly brilliant, in an evil genius sort of way.
Much kudos to submitter for using the text-only cnn.io version. Instead of loading a megabyte of executable crud, moving images etc for three paragraphs of text I got...three paragraphs of text!
Do you know much about nlrp3? I read an interesting paper by some investigators who later formed a company called inflazome, but am not sure how the biology or chemistry has evolved since then
Is it a misnomer? "Injection" is not because you're injecting data, it's because you're injecting commands.
All phones do have replaceable batteries, if you're brave enough.

But Apple sets the bravery bar extremely high. The process of replacing a battery in e.g. my SE is insane: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+SE+Battery+Replacement/6... describes the teardown, and https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+Battery+Adhesive+Strips+... the process of applying adhesive to the replacement battery - yes, that second task is complex and difficult enough to require an entire separate guide of its own.

I get that the goal of this design is to ensure that the battery does not move once it's fixed into the case. And I understand why that's necessary. What I don't understand is why it can't practicably be achieved by a combination of closer dimensional tolerances and the application of some thin elastomer to the parts of the case that contact the battery. Given the complexity of the assembly process, I can't imagine that such a design would be more difficult to assemble than the one that shipped, and it would provide a considerably more approachable battery replacement process - I'm not shy about performing my own device repairs, and I'm good enough at it that I haven't ruined anything yet, but this is one where I'd rather pay the $79 to have it done in an Apple store, and the adhesive is about 95% of why.
There are genuine tradeoffs to be had, and space for cultures to take different positions on the Pareto frontier, sure. But there are also deadweight losses, unforced errors where one culture's approach is just worse by every metric, and those would seem to be cases where we could learn. E.g. US healthcare seems to somehow manage to be uniquely bad - more expensive on average, while excluding or bankrupting people, without offering patients a meaningful kind of choice in most cases. Things like a patient not being able to afford non-emergency treatment until their condition develops into something that needs more expensive emergency treatment (which hospitals aren't allowed to refuse) seem lose-lose.
The exploit is leaked from NSA, had been let open by Microsoft -> The only people guilty are U.S
It's easy to pretend to be north korea, when you get a complet vault system and access to every key.

Why didn't you use the wikileaked document for referance?
I think the outrage is a bit excessive. People buy apple phones because they want all the technical details abstracted away and they don't want to have to make the decisions on things like the tradeoff between clock speed and battery life. That's Apple's selling point in a way, making technology accessible.

If you want to tune your core voltages then isn't that what Android is for?
Careful! Your crime predictor might unfairly conclude that men are more likely to commit crimes than women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_totalitarian_regimes#N...

Just scroll down.
I would sure be convinced by a Coq proof I couldn't understand. Professional mathematicians will face that kind of result eventually, if we keep progressing.
I would assume this would require an entire change in the way Facebook handles ads for jobs.

Either that or they would have to bow out of employment ads entirely.

I'm wondering how closely Monster, Indeed, etc are handling these laws as well. Their system seems way less transparent. We could assume they are obeying these laws but who knows.
The Nexus 6P has a known battery problem which does shut off when it hits a lower percentage. I had a 6P and it was annoying, to say the least.
The difference with this story is that this is software and intended, not a bug with a faulty phone/model.
I posted this comment but this does echo what I've heard from other European expats. Certain industrial nations in Europe have more security (health care, welfare) than the US, but the US has opportunity.

I can't say Im one the same page about availability of guns and all the gas guzzling vehicles, but otherwise making Europe into some workers utopia is utterly ridiculous.

The most recent conversations about that issue was with a Frenchman who told me that seniority and hierarchy is very inflexible in Europe. There are a lot of people who are bad at their jobs but have a good position and will hold on to it for quite some time. No one ever loses their job for being terrible at it. And it makes it difficult for young people to move up the ladder where that ladder is.

And I found it very interesting that I read an article about the making of the American version of the Office versus the UK version. Ricky Gervais said specifically that the character of Michael had to be good at his job. This was due to the fact that in the US if you were as bad at your job in the US as Ricky was in the UK Version of the Office you'd be fired. It seems to be a common theme of the handful of French people I've met - there are a lot of laggards with high level positions in France.