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> The lack of a decent safety net in the US scares the crap out of me.

What kind of safety net? No you're not going to lose your job and draw unemployment benefits equal to your salary for years on end. This is also the land of personal responsibility. It can be scary at times. My 6 year old son has a chronic illness (type 1 diabetes) and his supplies cost an exorbitant amount of money. If somehow I was unable to find employment, drained all of our savings, etc. he wouldn't die, he just wouldn't get the absolute top of the line equipment (insulin pump / continuous glucose monitor / sensors / etc.) Medicaid would provide him insulin and needles. It's not ideal, but I don't expect everyone else to pay for my family's bad luck / misfortune.
$79 is quite a bit of money to pay each year, considering I can buy two batteries and a charger for my Android phone on Amazon for far less than that.
> A person can change beliefs about how you should treat gay people. A gay person cannot change their homosexuality to accommodate anti-gay people, and trying actively harms them.

I think your claim here has a high likelihood of inviting a very unproductive (and potentially offensive) debate. I'm going to try to counter it in a different way while explicitly acknowledging this fact.

I think your focus in this claim is on the wrong subject. I don't think the parent's argument relies on your claim about the capability of changing beliefs versus sexual orientation being false. From my perspective, people have the right to personal beliefs which can be considered repulsive. People do not have the right to engage in violent opposition or oppression. I think that, if an individual is not actively campaigning for violence against another group, their personal beliefs about that group should be an inalienable right, no matter how ugly or wrong we think they are. If they are making people uncomfortable in the office, this becomes an issue of professional conduct, not one of personal beliefs. Frankly, I would consider virtually all political discussion one way or the other to be inappropriate in an office setting, and an unfortunate practice which only persists because generally only the opinions politically expedient for the organization are actually expressed.

If we step back from the problem of gay marriage and abstract this to opposing beliefs, it becomes very difficult to allow some beliefs and disallow others while retaining fairness and real diversity of opinion. We can stop people from engaging in violence against others or from using the office to discriminate against others. But we cannot cultivate an environment that filters out all the Wrong opinions while allowing all the Right opinions.
I am a non-Chinese who lived in China and I would talk about this subject with a retired businessman from Beijing who lived next door to me in Sunnyvale. His view was basically what you described: there are a ton of people in China and the vast majority of them were only recently raised out of abject poverty, and on top of that the cultural revolution had a dramatic impact on public education. So the feeling is that there is a massive potential for chaos and that the iron grip of the government prevents that chaos from emerging. I don't know how true that is, but it did feel pretty safe when I lived there, and there _is_ a history of massive riots in China which seems to validate the theory of potential chaos. At any rate, he thought that as China develops and education improves the need for the government to have an iron grip will be lessened and the country will gradually become more free. Time will tell I guess.
I can't see why they would though. I don't think the RPF has the resources to sell so many units at a loss. I suspect it's probably just barely breaking even on both. The Wifi chipset the Zero W uses costs exactly $5 in quantity according to Digikey; the board layout is slightly different but otherwise the bill of materials is the same so that's the main cost difference. They're probably making some profits off of the accessories like the case or the camera (especially the camera, which is pretty expensive and I expect fairly popular).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15979024
Waitresses and retail staff are likely among the most susceptible to sexual harassment and violence.

They have much less access to media firestorms, large cash settlements, and other protective measures than high prestige jobs.
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Well, it's mainly slow in one thing: math. Why? The BEAM uses arbitrary precision representation for most numeric values(Bignum).

From _The Beam Book_:

> There are two types of integers in ERTS, small integers and bignums. Small integers fits in one machine word minus four tag bits, i.e. in 28 or 60 bits for 32 and 64 bits system respectively. Bignums on the other hand can be as large as needed (only limited by the heap space) and are stored on the heap, as boxed objects.

Outside of that, I have found Elixir/Erlang to be very resource efficient. And if you need blazing fast math, you can always implement such computations in C and expose it in your Elixir/Erlang application using NIFs. There are a few golden rules to pay attention to in order to avoid danger, but if you do, you can get great speed. I'm currently implementing a Protocol Buffer library in Elixir and expect to make use of this for increased performance once my library is feature complete(if I find performance to be an issue at scale).
Non-medical opiate use is up double digits in Europe as well. The opiate epidemic is coming to Europe. There's more to it than "life is hard".
Greece? The country where the population no longer dreams about their future due to total economic implosion?

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/08/after-nearly-a-decade-of-eco...

"We don't dream. We are fine, we continue our lives, we know that we don't live in extreme poverty. But if you want to learn a second language, if you want to do something for yourself, improving your skills, you can't or you are very limited," Eva Pavlopoulo, a 29-year-old student, told CNBC in the tourist-friendly neighborhood of Plaka in central Athens.
I'm on the Verizon yearly upgrade program which is similar to the Apple yearly upgrade, thus assured a new battery every year as well as assuring coverage during the 1 year warranty.

You send in the old phone in a pre-paid mailer once you've received the new one. Couldn't be easier.

One still has to pay sales tax (about $100 in NYS for iPhone X) and new case (usually) which for the Apple leather case is $50. So the overall upgrade fee can be about $150.

Still, compared with the cost of cellular service, this upgrade cost is a small proportion of the overall cost (about $12 per month).

With that you have new battery, warranty coverage, better camera, better cell signal service, etc. etc.
Yes NY subways are in a state of disrepair at the moment, but that misses the forest for the trees. Public outcry is already starting to force bureaucrats to address this. I hope people remain outraged here.

But 99% of the time you can get from A->B in NY without much stress. You hardly ever need a car. You have almost literally the best of anything in the world within that hour-or-less subway ride.

You may not be able to afford all the best-of-everything, but the best X is there as an option if you decide you'd prefer X instead of rent (or paying medical bills). Almost always you can turn sweat into $ to buy X without anybody saying no. Nobody forces you to live in NY, and nobody forces you to buy X. But it's there if you want it.

(Of course you can argue that X is too expensive or that the sweat-to-$ ratio is wildly unbalanced but that doesn't change the facts.)
I got a new battery for my iPhone 5 for free as part of the recall. It's now going on five years of service and still works fine.
My iPhone 6 was plenty fast and had pl not of battery life to last a day with typical use before the last iOS major update.

I think that the media are being far to sympathetic to this battery life idea. Really the ought to be tearing Apple apart for the 6S’s shutdown problem!

Who does this hurt? Consumers. Who does this help? Apple.
I am so disgusted that I have given this guy money. What a ridiculous non-apology.
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Well, then "state capitalism" shouldn't, either.
The Bredesen protocol probably slows the decline, but I doubt that it reverses the disease.
Sure, assuming the Amazon device isn't a compromised counterfeit, the printer isn't rooted, and the paper doesn't get burned up in a house fire.

Case in point: https://www.wired.com/story/i-forgot-my-pin-an-epic-tale-of-...
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Well you should have made your comment at the top-level then instead of trying to piggy-back.
The lowest/highest one you can convince the IRS is valid.
There is no sale for dollars involved in the OP's scenario. Is there an actual sell in your scenario or is it "virtual"?
Where'd you read that Wikipedia? My payslips from working in Germany beg to differ ...
The only reason I'm upset by this is speculative.

If I buy a 'boost' battery case because I know the battery is going to be getting worse with time does their software solution acknowledge this and let me keep the full speed my phone should have?
I've moved between countries with different work habits and cultures a few years ago. In the old country, I arrived in the office in the morning and routinely stayed there until 10 or 11; in the new, work shuttle made sure that I never stayed in the office longer than 8 hours. Instead of weekends of crunch time, I got labour laws. Instead of everybody around me constantly talking about work, I got relaxed people going to the beach every day, discussing art, just "living the life".

For a couple of years, it was a great, relaxing experience. But on the third year I travelled back for a few days to realize that I miss it like hell - and moved back a month later.

As I'm typing this, I have worked two weeks of crunch time without weekend, in the office late in the evening. For the holidays (which are government mandated off-days), everybody's going on away on vacation, while I'll be coming back to office to finally work on a new thing in silence. I'm full of energy drinks, coffee and sleep deprivation.

I chose this. Not everybody wants a relaxed life. I will die in about 50 years, and I have even less productive ones - I want to spend them making something, not waste them relaxing, lying around. I'm happy like this.

May be that's what's special about America, too?
Exactly. Not sure why you replied to my original comment with "calling EU collectivist is a stretch" when I didn't mention the EU. You should reply to the top most post, not me, it sounds like. It's really not a big deal, :).
this is on the front page already...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15979024
> This person is claiming that the NASDAQ listing proves that they've changed their name.

No, I'm not.

I am claiming the spike did happen, which means even if the press release is a fake, people were happy to spike a company's value massively just on a name change that mentioned the blockchain.
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.

Theres a few things that NYC could do that would easily alleviate this:

1. Run a night owl bus service that replaces all or most lines like Philly. Don't know why this isn't more common. Theres less traffic at night, so the people relying on the subway for work will not be inconvenienced significantly.

2. Have overnight service Friday and Saturday for the party crowd. Apparently there are systems in Europe that do this.
My family was a very early investor in (Stonyfield btw) that venture, and honestly Gary got lucky, not smart.
>we need some blockchain-themed cocktails for the holidays

"On the first day of blockchain, my true love gave to me: a ve-ry small pri-ime number!"
Go context is a step in the very right direction, but we have not yet the destination. First there is legacy libraries that do not implement it. Second even system-level support misses pieces. For an example, try to cancel a read from a pile using it.
It's an pretty lucrative "joke" if you happened to own LTEA yesterday. Putting out fake press releases to move a stock price is less a "joke" and more "fraud"
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> ICOs

You mean IPOs
Hi applecrazy! I'm the author of the article.

I'm really sorry that the work seems like it plagiarizes yours. I started this project as soon as HQ Trivia came out, and I did not see your article until reading this comment.

A few other comments on this thread show that others (e.g. https://github.com/nbclark/hqcheat/) also implemented very similar techniques, so it seems that this may just be a "great minds think alike" situation :/.

I'd love to support your article as well, as I love your format and videos! Let me know if you'd like to talk about plagiarism, would love for us to talk directly instead of on comments.
Isn't the maximum percentage for singles with no kids in tax category 0, which is around 40%?
Are you looking for predicting future crimes in an area (i.e. city, neighborhood, state, etc...) or predicting whether an individual will commit future crimes?
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I'm quite curious as to how many of those are python3-ONLY.
My brand new Note 4 battery costs all of $13 and took 30 seconds to change.

The last couple of revisions of phones aren't that much better than previous generations. This seems mainly due to Moore's law slowing down. Heck, Intel hasn't released a process shrink in 4 years. Apple and other vendors are going to have to start pulling even more of these planned obsolescence tricks if technology doesn't pick up soon.
Right, so why do you think they have editorial control? For that same reason, shouldn't Facebook?
we're a small start-up, so I worry about shipping as fluidly as possible, and being confident that my infra just runs (security, patch management, scalability, uptime, etc.) All of which serverless gives me much more easily, and at a lower cost (for now) than running my own EC2 instances.
I'll worry about vendor lock-in (or dumping serverless for that matter) once I start to get ridiculous bills from AWS, or hit performance issues, or whatnot. But I try to mitigate by relying on standard formats (Swagger) and keeping my code as close to the business logic as possible - which is fairly easy with Lambda. The only thing that is really tied to AWS is the framework we use to build and deploy the architecture: a large Cloudformation file basically. We explored Serverless (the app) to manage this, but it didn't fit our need (in particular, Serverless has apparently never heard about Swagger, so that sucks).
It shouldn’t and it doesn’t.

But when you discover that a system has way better objective outcomes, e.g. in the case of drug policy or healthcare policy, it’s a shame not to upgrade to a similar system.

Really, the US has a lot of good systems, but healthcare isn’t one of them.
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I wonder if religion, particularly evangelical Christianity, has anything to do with this?

America is deeply enthralled in it; in fact, atheists are considered "lowest of the low" in certain polls (like whether one would vote or elect such a person, for instance).

Brazil - correct me if I am wrong - has a similar enthrallment, but more of the "evangelical Catholicism" variety. It is (like many "south of the border" countries, if you will) is highly religious and Christianity is on display.

I tend to wonder how these similar trends play into the disparity, as Europe (as a whole) is known to not be as religious, and what religion there is, is relatively downplayed...?
Keep in mind everything I'm about to tell you refers to those in the corporate world, where many people have college educations, etc. This is not finding or losing a minimum wage job in retail. If you are of lower education or working a low wage job you might have less stress in a place like Europe. Take everything I say with a grain of salt, just like you should with the author of this article.

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.

I knew another French woman who was a consultant for a company that had a US office and spent a year here in Chicago. She did a lot of 'change management'. This refers to a few things, but one of those changes is 'layoffs'. And she walked me thru the whole process of when people lose their jobs in France and how different it is in the US.

In France if you are the victim of corporate downsizing you get a year of pay. You get job training. You get services to find a new job. And she told me how demoralized most of the French people were, how'd they'd feel sorry for themselves or be lazy. Some of them would not look for jobs at all.

Meanwhile when she had the experience in the US typically the layoff transition period some of these people only got 3 months of pay. However most of them had some hope, at least some of them had found another position before that period of time had run out.

Keep in mind this is mostly information based on France, the UK and Germany. I can't speak to other nations. I've heard nothing but good things from Norway and Sweden, and I've heard terrible stories in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Ireland, etc. In all honesty I wish we had some sort of federalized health care. The lack of security scares the crap out of me. If I were to die quickly my family would have some life insurance that would keep them afloat for a time. But I'm also a cancer survivor, it was only stage one. The US is filled with stories of people getting sick and hanging on for years and suffering and then losing their job. In that situation my family would probably be better off if we lived in the UK with the NHA. I just hate to empty drive about crossiants and better entertainment in Europe makes it a utopia.
Unfortunately, beyond the syllabus, I don't think so, no.
I highly doubt this is the only avenue of age discrimination. At 54, my interview process this year was vastly different than in the past.

I honestly felt like the token old-person interview and no one had any intention of recommending me for a job.

The hiring people are all younger and looking for fun coworkers to hang out with and definitely don't want to work with people bogged down with experience.
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What Government would take over NK that doesn't already have nuclear capabilities?

Pakistan is a different beast. I'm not an expert on the middle east by any means, but it seems to me a lot of nations around it could theoretically start the fight. I believe that would cause a US/Indian/China intervention, if not on behalf of Pakistan (in the case of Chinese and Indian territorial disputes), then in defense of their own interests in the region (the territory).
Yeah, I agree - that spike is amazing and worrying at the same time. I wonder what the outcome will be from this.
Medical bankruptcy isn't really a thing in the rest of the world. That's part of the safety net, and it's hard to reconcile with the notion of 'personal responsibility'.

> I don't expect everyone else to pay for my family's bad luck / misfortune

If you take out an insurance contract, that's exactly what you're doing.
It's disingenuous on Apple's part to slow down the phone without notifying the user. So instead of a user knowing the battery is degrading and can be replaced for just $79, the user is led to think the phone performance is degrading and probably needs to upgrade the whole thing.
Sure they can. It can be possible for a rape to have occurred, but for there to be no evidence beyond the victim saying so. That's the most usual case, and why dealing with rape is so hard.
This is how most tax advisors were treating it any ways.
Oh, thank you very much for letting me know! Already fixed.
I'd rather have more battery life. I see no problem with this.
Doesn't this exception leave room, then, for Facebook to allow employers to decide if their ad targeting breaks the law?

If I'm a strip club owner and I want to promote a job opening on Facebook, I have to waste impressions on 45+ year old males because of this issue?
I absolutely like how comments like this one confirm most of this article.