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> Trade unionism and other organizational models don't seem to have fared that well and keep getting co-opted to capitalist ends,

Trade unionism and related models on the left have been incredibly successful, without radical seizure of power, in effecting change within advanced democratic capitalist societies; Leninism has had no success either in seizing power or effecting change without seizing power in advanced capitalist societies (except as part of a coalition with trade unionists and others.)

It's true that trade unionism and related models have had trouble firmly institutionalizing changes, and that the progress they've made has suffered reversed and is under constant threat, and that fundamentally upending the capitalist heirarchy remains out of reach of those models.

Which is why it's good that Leninism—as a complete failure at doing anything capitalism doesn't already adequately do—is falling out of favor in the radical Left, because for a long time it was the only theoretical model with any mindshare outside of moderate models, and if there is going to be a successful radical model (whether successful in its radical form or providing new ideas that can transform the moderate Left), it's not going to emerge with Leninism getting all the mindshare.
There is no dishonor in that grunt work. It’s just that your work product will have limited impact.

I have a friend who has been a mainframe systems programmer for 30 years. He’s a master of his craft, and has a tool in his bag of tricks for every problem that happens. Most of his work helping people integrate with his mainframe to eventually replace it.

He’s a great guy and loves the life he wants to live. The problem is, few things in tech will live that long, and guru knowledge of some forgotten mainframe makes your options limited.
Because you're not actually trying to encrypt anything.
Yea, that's what I mean by "remove guns from the equation", ie. repeal the second amendment.
>call 911 immediately and negotiate compliance over the phone

I'm with you until that part. For one thing, many SWATings result in no-knock entries - even if you're prostate and facing away, holding and manipulating a phone, and/or continuing to talk through a phone instead of responding to the verbal commands of the assault officers are both Bad Ideas imo.
Right. The point is that someone who appeared to be a supervisor, in other words in charge of the swat team, was apparently already aware of the chance that this was a case of swatting. Going into the situation, that knowledge likely made the swat team's approach more professional and safe, thereby possibly saving Krebs' life.
Utterly unsurprising as the majority of SV employees are in a demographic that leans heavily left and has been shown (over and over) to brook no dissent. Duh.

Yeah, Trump supporters, libertarions, social conservatives and all others who are not lock-step mainstream liberals have a hard time when they expose themselves in a work environment mostly staffed by liberal millenials. This is not a surprise nor something even worthy of discussion.

Don't talk politics at work or at Thanksgiving dinner. It's not that hard.
PC, I don't play console games.

And like to be clear, I think you're right that it's a bigger problem than CoD. Absolutely. The toxicity in the other games I play isn't okay either. It hasn't been as extreme or concentrated as CoD, but it's definitely a problem too.
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Because ads and/or iPhones make waaaaaay more money
Ok uh. HN really didn't like this comment. Not sure why; just got downvoted instead of anyone explaining. I thought it was funny and on point. I meant:

"Great post. Another one that I hear way too often is go ahead and inserted into phrases, as in Why don't you go ahead and do X as celebrated in Office Space."

But I thought my initial sentence was sufficient. I guess not. Maybe people who actually use the phrase thought I was telling the guy to go back to work? Or..
Yes. It also has a much better selection of ports than a MacBook.

It also doesn’t come with OSX. Pretty sure you can find some other differences too.

I’m sure for some people the screen is a deal breaker. Others won’t care.
You can't fix stupidity in civil engineering
Working together as in consistent styling. Margins, padding, font sizes etc. are consistent and scale when you use their xs, sm, md and lg formats...up to a degree.
Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid
If we would all be honest Kodi is pretty much exclusively used for content which was not attained via approved distribution channels.

As such I would be actually hesitant to run it on a device like the Xbox One; especially in a country where the use of alternative distribution channels is actively prosecuted.
calling this homicide

"Homicide" simply means that a person died from an action of another, whether or not a criminal act was committed.
It would be negligent to respond with anything less than armed force to a threat like this. The police can and should be better trained, but that's different than failing to send an armed response. I would be surprised if a similar threat would be brushed off in the U.K.
You are literally criticizing someone who is criticizing something else. what does that make you?
On Murray Rothbard, philosophical harbinger of Trump and the alt-right
The narration is splendid! Couldn't stop reading!
Try settling an estate - 7 out of 9 on your list.
Word of caution from doing exactly that: you're signalling to future employers that that's who you are now, and forever. It's a pathway to burnout if you're not careful.
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HN members typically value substantive, constructive comments. Unsubstantial, low effort comments that don't contribute to moving the discussion forward are not uncommonly downvoted.
Of the 3 of us who took 'extrication', there was myself, the volunteer fire department president's daughter, and a fellow who actually lives in that rural community full-time. The full-timer had been to fire school the year before to take a different class (pumps? how to drive a fire apparatus? I don't remember).

The most interesting thing for me was learning about the profession from the inside. I might've liked to have learned about driving fire trucks - maybe I'll go again.
The difference in construction is not just quality per se. RVs and mobile homes are often build with non-standard material and fittings, and built such that they are difficult to repair. Tiny homes are typically built using essentially the same construction as a normal stick built home, so they can be maintained and should hold their value better.
> That fatal police shootings, regardless of justification, are homicide is uncontroversial

Justified police shootings are not homicide by any definition.
Our family car does 7l/100km on country roads, which is about 10€/100km at current prices.
According to Linus, programmers who prefer C++ are so bad that he would have chosen C solely to avoid dealing with their "total and utter crap" code, and C++ is only good for kernel development if you limit yourself to a C-like subset anyway [1].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/249460/
>My (lower status) peers' emails would meander, and read like they wanted to show their superiors how good/smart they were at their job, and that they thought of every last thing.

The last part is key. If I don't list the things I've thought off, and write a briefer email, I guarantee I will get any of the following:

1. Followup emails with questions because they don't understand.

2. Emails of the type "Did you consider...?". This is the primary reason my emails can be lengthy, so that I can list all the things I considered so that I don't get questions asking about them.

3. Even worse, people not emailing me, but with them misunderstanding and doing the wrong thing, and then saying "Well I thought you meant..." leading me to ask "Where in my email did you get the idea that...?"

Do note that I'm not in a "superior" position. These are mostly emails to peers.
Because the US has its own islands and if UK/France turn into North Korea then the US would be very quickly to touch said islands.

That said those islands are not in the flight path of Russian bombers and land launched ICBMs.

Greenland and previously Iceland were important strategic assets during the Cold War and with hostilities heating up again with Russia they are becoming more important by the day.
I'm just the messenger here, but the canned counter argument is that criminals don't obey gun laws and won't be much deterred by an arms ban.
Honestly, we can only wonder how much more will the US regress in it's undeveloping. Remembered about the 'hypernormalization' Adam Curtis documentary. So much fucked up stuff and people still try to find ways to justify, to treat this status quo as sane, and by this I mean a lot of things, not just the odd freak incident. Eh, sad..
Woah, things are really happening in the intersection of engineering and money. I was sceptical a few years ago, but now that quite a number of applications using technology in the blockchain/bitcoin world are appearing, does it really seem like all this is likely to stay. Maybe the things we see popping up today won't remain permanently, but I can't imagine that it won't lead to something really cool within a half decade or so.
> It was optimistically compared with beer, but beer is made from a recipe, of which there are endless variations to try. Some heavy users care about certain strains and the like, but I have a feeling that for most people weed is weed.

Weed is weed when it's illegal--you take what the dealer's got or you get nothing. Same thing with booze, during Prohibition. When it's actually possible to comparison-shop, you see a lot more preferences developing.
Plenty of Democrats have "reversed course" as well.

I think Hillary was against legalizing the herb wasn't she? Did she ever reverse position?

Politicians are just politicians for the most part. Whatever they think will get them in office.
In addition some electricity providers will sell you "green electricity", meaning they'll commit to buying the amount you consume from renewable sources.
I can't believe so people have died because of this idiocy
I love that this article links to the HN discussion thread at the bottom of the article.
Here is a video of a cop getting shot while trying to apprehend a man on a motorcycle (maybe NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXqoYMOkuYc

The motorcyclist has a gun in his pocket, and shoots the cop without warning.

How will your proposed solutions are going to do anything in that situation?

Sorry to rant, but this attitude of an amateur thinking they know better than all the professionals who have been doing their job for many years, and can propose quick fixes that will solve everything, is ridiculous.
15% is still billions of dollars though.
I've literally never heard of a cigarette-smuggling prosecution. I don't doubt that it happens, but it's small-time. Given the option, it seems that most people would rather pay a bit more than creep around like criminals to get their fix.
Haha, that's why I have been using a made up "mother's maiden" name for the past 5 years!
There’s a ballot initiative here in Washington called I-940 that will do exactly what you describe if passed. It’d be great to see it replicated across the country: http://www.deescalatewa.org/
I never said San Francisco was safer than NYC, but even looking at those statistics they are mostly comparable in terms of violent crimes (notice that I did say your car is much more likely to get burgled in San Francisco), and the rate of aggravated assault is higher in that study in NYC. My point is that that both San Francisco and NYC are by and large safe cities by American city standards.
It's ok, nationalism makes some people emotional, take a deep breath and calm down.

I don't actually disagree with you. The use of lethal force was the mistake here, but the presence of force was justifiable. The problem is how easily one seems to lead to the other. What should have happened is the police realizing their force was unnecessary and then standing down.

Also, if someone were to call in, say, a terrorist threat or a bomb threat in Britain, someone would show up with guns there as well. You know, because Britain also has their equivalent to SWAT teams. With guns. That they shoot people with.
The cars don't quite seem 'there' yet.

Tesla is the leader here, but I've heard many horror stories about owners' cars needing minor repairs being unusable for months due to parts availibity [1]. They seem also to have the best charging network as the rest of the industry was split between CHAdeMO and CCS.

Nissan got the jump in America with the Leafs and CHAdeMO, but they don't have the range to be the only vehicle for most people.

I learned about the Bolt EV and went to the dealer, money in hand, to trade in my SUV for one, until I saw it up close and drove it. It's just not quite there yet. The car is $37,000 and doesn't have power seats. I'm not spoiled in that I can't use a manual seat, but for long distance driving, position is important and the seat only had the typical manual seat adjustments. No tilt, no height adjustments. The amount of space in the rear is quite small, and there is no frunk.

Charging and cost of charging was another problem. There are not quite enough CCS chargers in my area yet. And public chargers are bit pricey. The ones I found were $0.30+ per kwh. That price exceeds the cost of fueling a newer gasoline car that cost half as much. 3.5mi per KWh works out to about $0.086/mile. A car that gets 40mpg at $2.50/gal costs $0.063 per mile in fuel.

The Model 3 may change some of this, and of course, home charging is cheaper. But the numbers just didn't quite add up for me. I'm looking at a Volt now. The plug in range can handle about 60% of my driving, and I have an efficient gas engine that is cheaper to run on long trips than the equivalent electric cost. There is plenty of trunk space and I don't have to wait an hour for it to charge for every 3 hours of driving.

Not to mention that the Bolt EV is just ugly.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+cant+drive+body+parts&...
I'm pretty sure your old car would have to be especially awful to make buying a new car — electric or not — the environmentally friendly option.
Anything? I'd like to ask if you could please stop using the internet.
That depends on where you are looking... there are at least six parks, and a number of trailers on their own land within a few miles of me (southeast NH).
Of course not. There's no lack of people who'd commit murder over the internet if they could.

I simply believe that the vast majority of the people engaging in this activity do not do so with the intention of actually killing the victim.

I don't expect there to be a significant decline in swattings.

I believe deaths caused by swattings are far too rare for that to be a common motivation.
> Is there any explanation why? Naively, I would assume the opposite

You may not be the naive one, as we don't have any evidence
>A great real world example of this is PUBG.

You mean, the bug-laden beta build they pushed out before Christmas and are selling for full price? Yes, I'm sure they made plenty of money, but they also hurt their reputation.
It’s a de facto platform driven by 3.5 billion users. No one “deemed” anything necessary, it just became. And it wasn’t for lack of trying, either (see Java, Adobe AIR, et. al.).
Starting a Software Consulting Business
I changed the quote to include the entire clause, but the concept still makes no sense to me in a Bay Area context (heck, I'm wearing shorts today).

How many EVs produce passenger heat in meaningful amounts immediately (even ignoring the added battery drain), and how much of a burden is 50+-degree in-car temperatures for a few minutes while you're already in outdoor clothing?
1. My EV (Tesla Roadster, updated battery) goes 340 miles on one charge. Admittedly it is a small car. The new Tesla Roadster slated for 2020 goes 620 miles on one charge. Admittedly that is an expensive car. But you should be able to get good range in a less-expensive car at that point.

2. Newer Teslas (Model S, Model X, Model 3) have charger planning built into their standard map program. About other EVs, if I were an EV manufacturer I would do a license deal with Tesla to allow my cars to use their charging network. But maybe they'll build their own. The one Tesla built is pretty good ... if a small company can do that, GM can do way more, and do it faster. So even though "there's no infrastructure" has been raised as this huge problem for years, it does not in actuality look like much of a problem.

3. Good electric cars have their own charging circuitry built in, so you just plug it into the wall. You can even charge off 110 volts, though it takes a long time. A dryer socket is much more reasonable. Just being able to plug in your car, in your garage, is much more convenient than going to a gas station. (This presumes you have a garage to park in. If you park on the street, different story.)

4. Electric motors and drivetrains are much simpler and much more robust than mechanical engines and drivetrains. Electric cars just do not tend to need repair in the same way. (I have had my car for over 7 years and it has never yet needed a repair of this kind).

5. Tesla Roadsters still hold their value very well, considering. But this may be in part due to the fact that it's a rare car. I am not sure about the Leaf, etc.

6. Maybe, yeah.
Well still, even in a perfect set up something like 20% of your display clicks still won't be counted as sessions. Lots of misclicks, exits before analytics loads, etc.

Edit: Oh did you mean advertising reports for sessions?
Greenland voted to leave and become an OCT all Greenlandians are still EU citizens but Greenland is not part of the EC or EU.

EU territories are unot quite complicated often by design as most of the non EC/EU ones are effectively institutionalized and purposeful legal loopholes.

Greenland isn’t one of those cases really it was just financially non viable for them to be a part of the EC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territo...
> someone has murdered several people and is armed and has taken hostages

Should this not be responded to with lethal force available? You're going to get a lot more people killed that way. Obviously the error rate should be reduced as much as possible, but a naive approach of ignoring calls without a lot of validation would be a disaster.

I imagine it would be really easy to fake some verification anyways, and coordinate a SWAT with two callers.
Every time I'm confronted with these types of questions I just roll my eyes and add a 'Mothers maiden name' text entry to my password manager with a 16 digit random string.
I know nothing about emulators, so it would be nice if the README provided instructions for how to build and run the emulator.

Here is some inspiration: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
Majority of paper is used as toilet paper while rest of the paper usage is being slowly replaced by digital means. So stop using toilet paper. Use bidets. Having diarrhoea equals many trees ! As long as there is demand for toilet paper, there won't be a paperless world. Western world will find this difficult to admit this, but any counter arguments are welcome.
In all honesty this is what I've been waiting for in terms of a useful cryptocurrency. Now if we could only decentralize the control of what projects the processing goes towards with smart contracts then we could have a coin with more actual utility. Imagine the hash rate of the BTC network going towards some useful calculations.
Plex is basically the same and is also widely used on the Xbox, and has been available on its store for some time.
That's a fine rant on the trade-offs of automation vs manual intervention. It's one reason I used the word "might".

Perhaps another way to put what I was trying to say is that top performers are constantly looking to maximize the amount of value they're adding, and a day filled with grunt work is seldom that; while a job filled with grunt work and little else is actively damaging to your career, if you're capable of more.
Does anyone know the cause of the large and long standing difference in banking in US vs Europe?

In europe:

-for 15 or so years already, web banking has been with 2nd factor authentication (since its inception I assume). In previous decades we would get devices where you need to type numbers from its lcd screen into the webpage login. Today mobile auth apps are taking over.

-I have never seen a bank have security questions like "mothers maiden name" as backup. No backup questions at all. I guess you go to the bank's office if you forget it?

-"wiring" money between european bank accounts is free (and not called wiring, not sure what in english though), for as long as I remember. It's not some special type of transaction, it's the main way to pay bills, get salary, pay each other, ...

-paper cheques don't exist since over a decade

When I hear how US banking is, it somehow evokes images of an old stuffy 70's office to my mind... lots of paper, maybe a slow cobol mainframe somewhere, which can only support 8 character passwords in all caps or something like that...
"For all we know it could have saved his life."

It says something pretty sad about American society that your assumption is that calling the Police will result in them murdering an innocent person.
Electric cars are baller. They are fun to drive.

My Tesla Roadster does not corner like a Porsche 911, it's true, but it does not matter for everyday driving, because it is so effortlessly faster than anything else on the road, when I pull away from a stoplight, whoever I want to cut in front of is 50 feet behind me.

Instant acceleration is worth a lot, too.

For comparison: My previous car was a BMW M3. I would much, much rather drive my 2010 Tesla Roadster, and that is an old car at this point ... 2020 Tesla Roadster is going to be amazing.

> The range and the charging times are still an issue, especially if you don't live in California.

My roadster goes 340 miles on one charge. The upcoming 2020 Roadster goes 620 miles on one charge.

Admittedly, battery capacity costs money. Price-sensitivity is the reason most of these newly-announced cars don't have as much range. It is not a technical limitation.

And as with any such technology component, battery costs will continue to drop over time.
> I'd argue that Maven is lightyears ahead of NPM or pack or gulp or whatever the fuck the kids are using these days.

Would you? You think a build system that’s so pointlessly convoluted and verbose that you’re literally encouraged to resort to copy-pasting blocks of XML and using fucking Eclipse to accomplish even the most basic tasks is somehow superior to package.json or Gulpfile.js setups?
although, not a commercially available product, the SOTA for text-to-speach just came out this week and it's called TacoTron 2 https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...
This article seems to make the case not that XRP could be worth nothing, but that XRP will most likely be worth nothing, that it is very unlikely that banks would tie their entire international trading system to a speculative currency. Is this bullshit, or is the gigantic spike in interest in ripple just speculation?

If banks do end up using xcurrent without xrp is there any benefit to xrp, such as easy transfer using xcurrent, or will it just end up a dead fork, or at best a speculative store of value with no special features?
>Swatting needs to stop, and unfortunately as long as there are few consequences for swatting someone, it will continue to be a potentially deadly means for gaining e-fame and for settling childish and pointless ego squabbles.

Penalties are hardly an effective deterrent to crime. As with all forms of undesirable/antisocial behaviour, proper education would be far more effective.