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This is the worst argument against anything, because it only logically follows that criminals won't care about ANY laws and therefore everything should be legal.

It doesn't matter whether they care about the law or not, it's about making it harder for them to get a gun regardless, and being able to confiscate them if we catch them. It worked in Australia.
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For me, the big barriers are cost and body style. (We just replaced a pickup truck with a luxury ICE pickup). I get 14 MPG on a 10 mile, 60 minute bay area commute (it does better driving up a mountain, FWIW).

Clearly, if Ford’s electric F-150 existed for ~$60k and could make occasional long distance trips (like Teslas) I would have bought one instead.

The only Tesla big enough to start to make sense for us is the model X, and those cost twice what we paid.
Private contracts with huge risk fallout should there be either unauthorized viewing, copying, or modification, are highly useful to keep on paper. All parties get one or more copies, and they can be put into physical safe deposit boxes. This helps prevent or at least better assign liability to catastrophic events like deed fraud. If county governments with poor IT security should have an undetected breach, it could be a real mess without a paper trail.
> between european bank accounts is free

Between European bank accounts in the same country. Also, not every European country, unfortunately.

> paper cheques don't exist since over a decade

They still do. They're very rarely used, but they can be useful for cases where you want to buy something like a car without changing the card limits.
Raising a privileged family takes just one generation to sacrifice.

As numerous financial books will testify, if you are frugal (no matter the income) and invest wisely, it is possible to accumulate some measure of fortune. If you teach your children to do the same (as they grow up in a frugal household), they will become the next tier of the pyramid.

I really, truly believe this. I was raised in a large family and inherited nothing of worth. I'm not done working yet, but I'm encouraged by the way things are progressing and have hopes all of my kids will go to college and emerge without a mountain of debt.

In America, the dream can be obtained. It will take time, though.
Try and find just 2 real estate listings you think this family of 4 could live in within an hour of SF.

Maybe if they got a rent controlled place 15 years ago.
> For every one of these fledgling anarcho-syndicalist collectives, there are a thousand or a million kids alone in their bedrooms staring at Protools screens wondering what they have to do to get the Swedish cabal to write a hit song for them.

There's always been pop music. More people were listening to Ace of Base and Hanson in the '90s than to Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

I get it's a personal essay, but I wish he had spent some time talking to young people who are making music about their actual practices.

To bring it back to HN, nobody's typing Basic code out of Creative Computing or swapping homebrew code on the local BBS anymore, but there are more people making video games than ever.
US banks really hate being required to spend money on things, so they lobby the government against any stringent regulation.
> maybe a slow cobol mainframe somewhere

Inter-bank money transfers in US are handled by a system that needs multiple "business days" for a transaction to be finalised so you're on the money here: https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers...
Archive.org has a mediocre scan of the bill of materials for one of them:

https://archive.org/details/SpecificationsAndBillOfMaterials...

It seems like there should be a collection of historical lumber prices somewhere. Just that comparison will be pretty informative about the relative material costs.
One of the compelling things for me is the ecosystem of bootstrap-based "themes". As a developer with enough design sense to realize I can't do design, I love I can work with a simple markup format and more or less drop in a theme to get a decent look, without having to think a lot about design or have an actual designer. For the internal tooling I primarly work on, bootstrap has meant a vastly improved look and feel over what I would have done before.

From this perspective, Bootstrap is basically an API you can develop against.

For customer-facing products and websites (where you can have actual designers involved) it's maybe not as compelling, or even a negative ("oh look, a bootstrap site"), but it's fundamentally not a worse choice than any other framework or programming language.
It would be really cool if someone web-assemblied the best of class game system emulators and exposed them all through a uniform web interface. All vintage game consoles accessible through a single site!
I have a real hard time caring about cops' fears in such a scenario. Innocent until proven guilty is a time-honored maxim of the U.S. justice system, and a cop deciding to kill you completely invalidates that.

Is being a cop scary? Hell yeah and I feel bad for those folks, but if you don't want to constantly be in fear of your life, get another job.

Put cops who murder innocent civilians in jail. End of story. This shouldn't even be a debate in the U.S.

EDIT: Since I had the goal posts moved on me, I want to make it explicitly clear that a cop should be allowed to kill in self-defense, just like any other lawful citizen.
I can't find the link but this isn't the first time that someone has wrongly called the police on a household where one of the innocent occupants was killed. The person making the call was charged with manslaughter I believe, so that person is being held liable.

That is because there is intention behind the action, that has caused the death of another.

It is the same as shouting fire in a crowded movie theater, which again is for the intent to cause potential harm.

So the person making the call in this case when they are identified will 100% be charged with a rather serious crime.

There are probably other charges that the person can be brought up, but most likely there will be something manslaughter related.
We should just get rid of the fucking police. We've got guns DIY. The american way!

it's a country of mindless self indulgent entertainment obsessed wacko.. i say let them embrace it
The projects SONM and Golem are trying to do what you describe. Their plan is to use the Ethereum blockchain to sell miners' computing power in units of their coins, thus giving the coins practical value. Neither one is ready enough to buy from yet.
My Japanese bank (UFJ, and Shinsei... I think, haven't touched it in forever) did this long before the USA as well.
https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom
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And now...Take out the spam emails. Take out the porn. Geez, how much of the internet is mainstream legit?
My bank (Fineco) requires passwords to be 8 characters.

Yup, I don't mean minimum or maximum, but exactly 8 characters.

That's got to make brute-forcing about 1,000,000 times easier, and I cannot think of a single good reason to impose this.

I bet huge numbers are "12345678" and "password".
Paid administrative leave is the norm because that's how most union collective bargaining agreements are written.
Yes, agreed. Just because he was handcuffed for a period doesn't mean they weren't trying to be careful and already under the impression it would be a false alarm. That doesn't mean they let their guard down and don't take it seriously, which depending on the reason they are there may mean securing the area and people in it.
And? Worth it? I don't spend a lot of time on YT but sometimes I wonder how much I'd save in time, inconvenience and distractions if I did Red.
Yet it seems to work in other western countries.

In 2015:

Killings by officers in US: 1140
Killings by officers in England: 3

Deaths of police by shootings in US: 41
Deaths of police by shootings in England: 0 (about 1 every other year)

Population of England: 54 million
Population of USA: 325 million

England has 7% of the deaths per capita compared to the USA. I couldn't find data on Germany, but I suspect it's similar.

In general, I think the idea of having people being able to defend themselves against the government is a good idea, and people having the right to have guns was a way to achieve that. But with the amount of power the government has nowadays, I don't think it's a justification anymore.

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_police_officer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
Says quite a lot more about American police, I'd say.
> Between European bank accounts in the same country. Also, not every European country, unfortunately.

As far as I know, it's free between all Eurozone countries. At least I regularly do transactions between countries, and I've never heard it costing a cent.
>I've been playing CoD WW2 online off and on since it came out last month. I have been astounded by the behavior of many people in those games. Players with racist and genocidal names who spout horrible things on chat about minorities. Threats of real world physical and sexual violence. Homophobia and misogyny.

I don't understand what your point is. Communities exist that have other political views than yours and...?
Of the many and varied lies that could be told to cause incredible inconvenience through the medium of misinformed police, only a few will trigger a SWAT team.

SWAT teams are not deployed by the police when they think that it is likely that they will need to behave inconveniently to someone, they are deployed when the police think that it is likely that there will be a need for overwhelming deadly force.

The point of falsely triggering a SWAT team is not to cause inconvenience through police.

The point of triggering a SWAT team is to deliberately risk someone's life.

Great white sharks rarely eat people.

However, if I admit to having deliberately pushed someone into the water with a great white shark to see what would happen and then they get eaten, quoting the probabilities is not going to impress a court very much.
Those of us with double-barreled surnames have been keenly aware of this for quite some time.
Public policy does more than enough already to reward sprawl and punish urban centers. Billions for freeways and a pittance for transit, FHA bias towards single family homes, etc. For the environment and the economy, we should be rewarding and encouraging people who move to megacities.
I use Plex and I don’t use it on the Xbox for the same reason; I don’t have any control over the data collection from it and technically it’s a violation of the EULA which can be used to have my XBLA account suspended, while this is a small risk it’s still not worth it considering the number of affordable NAS appliances that come with HDMI, support Plex and 4K playback as well a plethora of other affordable platforms ranging from SBCs to NUCs and streamers.

And lastly while Plex did implement channels Kodi is effectively used as an interface for PopcornTime like services where you can directly stream from Torrents and other sources.
A properly-calibrated scale/balance will correctly determine the mass of any object in any gravitational field (gravity gradients excepted).
Can we stop talking about quadcopters as if they're the only kind of drone on the planet? There are other kinds of drones with far better endurance, e.g. Predator drones which can stay in the air for 24 hours.
Try again using order of operations. It does not expand to (2*x)^2, it is simply 2x^2.

To say it another way: 4x^2 != 2x^2
> in the future they might be marketed in terms of THC:CBD ratios

I don't know about marketing per se, but I was at a dispensary in a recreational state a couple of years back and the THC:CBD ratio was prominently displayed as part of each strain's description, and the staff seemed very well-versed with helpful advice for noobs on the expected effects.
But it's been shown multiple times that a camera doesn't make a difference. People still die from bad cops and bad training, but the punishments are just as rare.
A proper shaggy dog story if I've ever read one! Entertaining and interesting along the way, and the ending snuck up on me.

Thanks for a good read :)
That doesn't seem like a very good deal, though. You have to pay a sizable chunk of cash to improve somebody else's property and insure it for a million dollars. That is a much worse proposition than installing a charger in your house. I'm not sure how useful it is to your average renter who is just looking to buy a car.
> "wiring" money between european bank accounts is free (and not called wiring, not sure what in english though)

Transferring? That's how it's referred to in my family and social groups.
That's what happens when you rent out concrete slabs...

"Be the change you wish you see."

"Friends don't let friends rent out concrete slabs"
Raise your hands slowly and don't move. If possible, sit down with your hands visible in the air, in the middle of the room. Talk to them if you can. But don't move. Just let them kick the door in. Don't go open it.
I've never understood why GridCoin hasn't caught on yet. One of the chief complaints about Bitcoin is the utter wastefulness of its hashing mechanisms, with hundreds of times more computing power than the top 256 supercomputers combined devoted to pointless busywork just to secure the blockchain.

Imagine if you could have an equally secure cryptocurrency where all that computing power was diverted to curing cancer, discovering new drugs to treat dangerous diseases, understanding the human genome, researching dark matter, and so on. That's GridCoin.

And yet today Bitcoin is worth $14,484 and GridCoin is worth 12 cents.
It's not a US vs Europe thing. There have been past incidents with Korean websites asking what city you were born in, and since the Seoul area has half the population, that worked for roughly half the users.
Talking to police is the first step. Not sure if he mentioned this in the article, but Brian Krebs himself has done it, since he was getting swatted with some frequency on account of his reporting.
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Oh european banks also like to keep the money for a day. Other than that day of interest it's free though :) no 25 dollar wiring fee as seen in US
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That's not really any better. If a site is hacked that has your made up name, that gets published on the carder sites [1] along with your other information (email, credit card number, phone). It may not work to get a new credit card in your name, but it can be used to reset your password on some other crappy site that uses that information for "forgot password".

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/the-market-for-stolen-ac...
I don't know about the cause, but I just want to say that it's extremely frustrating and at least a little distressing to deal with US banks in 2017 that don't offer proper 2FA, with SMS being the highest security option.
Ok thank you!

I guess I shouldn't have said thanks. It's a low effort comment. Last time I thanked someone for something I was downvoted.

>Attempts to add something substantive< It's very interesting, (I'm new here) the feeling of direct voting - a little like if in the real world, people could affect your (say) bank balance immediately by voting on what you'd said. It would really affect and whether how you spoke about everything. Maybe the result would be like the voting on IMDb, where the best ratings awarded not the best movies, but those that everyone understood and liked, that offended nobody etc. Well, the frustrating part about being downvoted is not understanding why. It's hard not to conspiratorialize..

But who cares about votes. They're only good for..being able to downvote others, aren't they?! But it seems natural for people to care about their points e.g. on Stack Exchange-type sites. It's the pecking order/social standing we have been evolved to be good at computing, I guess. Hard not to care too much about it.

Edit: Also, I have a strong sense of humour, I mean in almost everything I write online, which it seems I will have to leave at the door. Total humourlessness seems to be desired and rewarded here.
If we're just saying that the rental companies can charge $900 for the TV because that's what people are willing to pay, the same applies to paying $450 for bracket installation. In a competitive environment, you should expect the price to be close to the marginal cost of providing the service.

The marginal equipment cost for providing a TV is the cost of the TV divided the number of events you expect it to last through. This doesn't change if you have spares. To get close to $900 for a $500 TV, you either need extremely high overhead and labor costs or TVs that break a little more than halfway through the rental. If a TV can generally survive 30 days of use, equipment costs only justify $50 of the bill for a 3-day rental. I don't see how you would get anywhere near $900 from there.
Having worked at a “name” company is not the big boost to your value lots of people think it is. That’s a lie that those big companies use to get people to accept bad working conditions.
While most of those points generally are true I'd say that banking in Europe is only marginally better.

They still have weird, mostly paper-based processes and decades-old mainframes (though that's not necessarily a bad thing). Not long ago the 2nd factor consisted of a paper slip with enumerated transaction numbers.

You'd have a hard time finding a bank that allows you to easily export data to accounting software. APIs accessible to customers are something unheard of.

All that nagging aside, a reason for US banks being even more stuck in the 70s might be the success of credit cards. Until the mid-90s hardly anyone used those in Europe and they're still not all that common, which in turn means that most cashless payments happen via some sort of card issued by banks directly.
Actively throttling is different to slowdown due to a bigger load being placed on the system. Apple have stated that they intentionally throttle. Their reason is battery conservation.

Also please don't talk down to me. You're way, way off base with your assumptions.
True, South Korea is also something special... everyone was required to have internet explorer with activeX for a very long time there to do banking and online shopping
Whenever I fill up PDFs for my work visa to the US, I saw paperwork reduction act or something written on the PDFs. I thought it was to reduce paper usage or was it paperwork ?.
But in the end, there is always a pile of paper. I would say in the last mile of the process paper is used. I applied for Canadian immigration fully online. But in the end they asked "signed certified photocopies", statements, declarations, consents, affidavits everything in paper with notary's ink seal and sign.

Maybe the laws has to change too. Many laws & processes still needs ink seal and signatures. A digital signature or a digital photo is not enough.
> Innocent until proven guilty is a time-honored maxim of the U.S. justice system, and a cop deciding to kill you completely invalidates that.

Consider two civilians. If A shoots at B, and B shot back and killed A, should B go to jail for murder?

Now just because B happens to be a cop, does he lose all his rights?
That's certainly one thing I don't miss about old DOS gaming, having specific boot disks around with the proper config.sys/autoexec.bat magic to make ornery games work -- base RAM, HMA, EMS, XMS etc.. I had to play some game without the mouse, as that cost precious kilobytes…

But yeah, even when you moved drivers to the higher memory areas, there had to be the actual memory manager loaded to do that, so the full 640k wasn't really possible. And despite Origin games like Wing Commander and Ultima basically needing the next generation of PCs not released yet, they didn't really demand the impossible.
... and those belong to the local government, not Denmark.
> Between European bank accounts in the same country. Also, not every European country, unfortunately.

Unless I'm mistaken, transfers in Europe are by law required to cost the same inside and out of the country. My Greek bank charges 1 euro for a transfer, no matter if the bank is in Greece or anywhere else in the EU. My German bank doesn't charge anything, and I pay my rent from my German account.

> They're very rarely used, but they can be useful for cases where you want to buy something like a car without changing the card limits.

None of the banks I have accounts with ever gave me a chequebook. If I want to buy a car, I will transfer the money through SEPA, as normal, for free.
I use an adblocker for most sites, but I enjoy the fuzzy feelings Red gives me. Also, I get Google Play Music All Access, and adblocking doesn't work on mobile.
I have a hard time finding my preference of 15% THC unless it's CBD-dominant (and then THC is usually below even 5-10%). Here in WA, THC amounts are generally 20-30%.
Same. It's funny because occasionally when you call support they require you to answer one of those questions.

"That's correct, my childhood pet's name was 1xs3^&szx!@!24"
> 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.

I disagree. The costs will drop, sure, but that's not particularly relevant for performance cars. The weight, on the other hand, will only increase with every bit of range you add. While electric cars can easily produce enough torque to still accelerate quickly (though how much range you'll really have driving that way is another question...), even with adaptive suspensions using magnetorheological dampers you can't cheat basic physics in corners.

And that's why I'd much rather have a BMW M3 (well, I'd prefer one of the AWD 911s, a V10 R8 or even an Audi RS4, but YMMV) than any electric car. Even if you value raw straight line acceleration that much, do note that the Tesla Roadster doesn't really compete with the BMW M3. You can get ICE vehicles with much better acceleration than an M3 that are still vastly superior in terms of handling to any Tesla.
I shares worries I've seen expressed elsewhere that this opens up a social engineering attack vector where an imposter gets through to phone support and says "oh I just typed a bunch of gibberish for the answer and can't remember it." Wouldn't a false, long, maybe hyphenated, but plausible surname be better for this reason?
Which is a bad idea in general. I think HN uses some kind of vote ring detection scheme. And checks if the referrer to a link is from HN or another source before counting their votes.
> I have a feeling that for most people weed is weed.

That oversimplification works both ways: For many people, beer is just beer.
And just like with beer, there are endless variations of cannabis strains, different ways or preparation and different ways of consuming. Just the way cannabis is cured can make a vast difference in taste and effect.

With alcohol, many places often have centuries-old traditions for consumption and brewing, cannabis just started going down that route, so imho it's just logical that there's a lot of catching up to happen because most of the knowledge we collected is stuck in the realm of "illegality" and spread thin between users, with no real way of consolidating it in a useful way.

It's gonna take a lot of time to lose the stigma which has been, purposely, build up around cannabis for decades.
The first dozen or so dictionaries I checked disagree with you.
True, but it skipped the Xbox 360', so maybe spin 1/2?
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