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>"If he really didn't care, the connected companies could pay a reasonable amount"

He probably thought that the money would be better spent for the good of society by private institutions than by the government.
Sorry, but why is it the EU's fault if countries create tax incentives? I've read that previously in UK pro-Brexit media but never understood how that can be true. I'm pretty sure that neither the Netherlands nor Ireland were forced to create low-tax regimes.
> shoddy laws that aren't well thought out

The preservation of these loopholes is not accidental -- they are deliberately left there for avoiders to take advantage of in exchange for political donations. The two groups work together in a corrupt and unethical partnership, while the populace can only watch from the sidelines fuming.
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I agree that there's much more to life than capital/money.

What I'm saying is its very very hard to put a value on life saved/changed and compare that to money. Is donating $1M to an NPO distributing malaria vaccines today better or worse than donating $2M worth of malaria vaccines in 2 years? Who knows? How would you even begin to compare those 2 scenarios? You'd have to translate the subjective costs of being sick, costs of a life, all the uncertainties around effectiveness of the vaccine, uncertainties around how well the NPO uses its capital etc. into a dollar value to compare.. there is no right answer there, its just too uncertain.

So if he did a similar calculation and decided more money later is better for the world than less money now, well I can't fault him because that calculation is infinitely complex. Seems like you are saying donating say 1% every year is better than donating 0 and then 100% at the end, but it is very hard to tell.
I think everyone seeks loopholes. And certainly all businesses are seeking as many loopholes as possible. And as long as politicians are either business people or bought by business people the loopholes will exist. And we will be paying for those businesses in one way or another.
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I wonder how much corruption is at play here - normally it would be the primary job of a food safety agency or the agency controlling medical supplie(r)s to prevent colistin going into farming.

And that's not an Indian (or Chinese) only problem - pumping up livestock with antibiotics is common practice. I wonder when I won't go to a doctor to get antibiotics, but to the next butcher...
This title is very dangerous, since it implies that it's the Internet that needs to be regulated and not the toxic enterprises that use it. It's like regulating breathing in a classroom because some guy keeps on farting in it.

Internet by itself is not addictive; enterprises that abuse their users are. They have to work like this, since their profit depends on how much attention they can steal and therefore how many advertisements they can display and how much data they can gather to further process and sell.
Even Nazi Germany had some Jews stay, often because wanting something does not always makes it feasible.

People die while attempting to become refugees. They might have plan, but they don't get to live to see it successful. And once they are in refugee camps and their children unhappy due to no future available to them, will you tell them they should have stayed at home?

Illegal immigrants are getting deported, like today.
In fact authorities are pretty lenient on tax evasion by the hyper-rich. The number of convictions and jail sentences isn't zero, but given the sums involved it's pitifully low.

This is partly a resource problem. If you can pay advisors to create an impenetrable network of shell companies through which money disappears five levels down, you can pay lawyers to defend you if something goes wrong.

The authorities are far more likely to go after - and jail -
sole traders, smaller SMEs and consultants for five or six figure transgressions than near-billionaires with six, seven, or eight figure creative accounting.
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As nobody mentioned it yet, I think: I use the smart referrer plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer...
Would you like an AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean with that?
2017 had a few metrics that were better than other years. That's all.

Also, there's a difference between 'thriving' and 'surviving'.

Less people starving is good, but, less people around the world are 'thriving'.

Fascism is on the rise, nuclear war, environmental devastation, Inequality is massive.

This article picks a few metrics but they're not the full picture.
I think to win that game you have to wait a few years and then compare the aggregate value vs the pre-split value adjusted for average sector gain over the period.
List<string> myList = new ArrayList<string>();

shows up as

List myList = new ArrayList();
"Do the ethics of age reversal concern you?"

I dislike how that question is phrased, implying that the ethics of fighting aging are inherently concerning. If you really think through the ethical considerations of aging being a universal cause of death and the major contributing factor to cancer, alzheimers, and any other age related disease, the only "ethical" thing to do is fight against aging.

People never discuss the ethics of curing cancer because we have a clear moral imperative to do so, but the second the question turns to aging the waters are muddied. Questions about overpopulation, wealth concentration, etc. may arise, but are all thoroughly rebutted. Aubrey De Grey's original Ted talk does a great job of arguing against these concerns.

Maybe I am wrong. However, I think that ethical concerns over the fight against aging are not rigorously thought through. It's as if we constantly ask the question, "should we fight aging?" but when the answer is thoroughly answered "Yes" society (and very much so the media) don't remember the answer and its reasoning.
The feature does not know the type of "this".

It doesn't complete "this." but rather when you type a member variable it inserts "this.member". ex. type "width" and it replaces it with "this.width".
I was not expecting to find this reverse engineered piece of logic from Facebooks stream of nonsense to appear on HN.
Gotcha, yeah it's RustyCode that's the outdated one. Rust(rls) is the one provided by the Rust team.

> How do you configure that Native Debug plugin for Rust?

exactly the same way that it says on the page; choose gdb or lldb, change target to point to the executable, and you're good to go.
Amazon’s Alexa is a big win for the company. It will directly increase shopping on Amazon. Integration with music and Prime Video impact Apple

It might soon be the most popular, and perhaps best, consumer voice assistant:

http://h4labs.org/amazons-alexa-blindsided-apple-and-google/
This is in Tamil Nadu. As usual, Central Government will stop excavation like they did in Keeladi, because the site was from Sangam Era.
Exactly. The post I replied to said "One wouldn't be transmitting to pulsars and awaiting a response", and I expanded on that. The whole subthread of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288955 doesn't make much sense because nobody defined what they mean by "latency" and people are talking about different things.
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This may be depressing to you, but there will never be a point in time where there are no problems to be solved. You better enjoy the small wins when you can.
Discussion of a related project, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16157773 because I find the topic fascinating.
Going to need internationally enforced regulation to make a difference. Penalties heavy enough to kill companies that dump, and enforcement policies for other countries that have real teeth to them.

People will always consume as many resources as they can, it's how you get ahead. Especially at a macro scale (corporations and nations). This will get worse in any region where there are not severe penalties for destroying the environment
I already have a big network on Facebook.
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Eecs 370 or 470?

They both use one of Hennessy's book. Although I think 370 used Tanebaum's years before that
Probably violates the second law of thermodynamics.

All living things have to destroy more than they create.

if evil = chaos and chaos = heat than all living things create more evil than good.

which leads to the conclusion that I'm completely full of sh*t.
Yes, I agree they're not paying enough, and should be paying more. But that will only happen when laws are changed.
Based on other comments and my experience in Romania/Luxembourg/France, it seems to be like this in Europe.
Setting `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` to `1` in Firefox’s `about:config` is actually a pretty reasonable choice for all browsing, and balances privacy with preventing your favorite sites from breaking.
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I cannot understand for the life of me why this is being downvoted.

We all agree that the macro trends are positive, but you don’t have to look that far back in history to find times that were really good but clearly (in hindsight) contained the seeds of their own demise.

Inequality and polarization are completely reasonable things to worry about. We are fools if we think that nothing could upset this wonderful apple cart.
It's also totally possible for the actual reason to be neither a targeted attack nor mass hysteria. The FBI's conclusion is evidence against the attack scenario, but it doesn't specifically elevate the hysteria hypothesis over everything else.

I prefer to remain skeptical of diagnoses that are advanced by someone with no actual patient contact and appear to be geared more towards self-promotion (talking to the press) than helping the patients.
This article gives a much better explanation of the intricate arrangements.
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>Less people starving is good, but, less people around the world are 'thriving'.

Do you have a source for this, along with a clear definition of your 'thriving' metric?
It's going up/down because financial institutions are cashing their earnings using contracts. I thought it's obvious they want to destabilize cryptocurrency as it's threat to their business model and it's same threat to the capitalistic culture nowadays. When they fail or get bored they might force IMF to ban cryptocurrency exchange for national currency. As always banks would suck your money :)
The authorities where I live are trying to dissuade people from feeding birds, due to a rat problems, and instead focus on putting out clean accessible water or growing bird-atttacting plants.
That doesn't always work, depending on the shape of your head, the texture of your hair, etc.

I for one don't care about it much, and my job allows me not to care, but many people do care for both personal and professional reasons. Any kind of job where you want to persuade people basically requires the best look you can afford. It's basically an investment.
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HAHA wooow. I used this to make tones to allow asterisk to control an emergency alert system from the late 80s early 90s. This was in 2013 I believe.
If the air is addictive, why don't we regulate it?
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Here's some passages from the bible that rich Christian people use to justify their wealth:

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

Of course most people are Jesus Christ so take it for what it is.
Takes the block-as-a-unit thing from Minecraft and has a side scroller engine to start with. There art editor cleverly separates the pixels, though I prefer more traditional paint programs.

Reminds me of Klik & Play. That product relied on a spreadsheet or prompt-based effect definitions.
Just incredible this is legal.
> she was overprepared for the debate

Stealing the questions from the moderator (and still losing) is now being described as overprepared?
> “Our intention is to prove, with modern science, that it was possible for this trip to be made,”

> To be clear, there is no firm evidence of the ancient Greeks’ purported voyages. There are no known physical remains of these historic Greek settlements in North America, nor are there first-hand descriptions of such journeys in anything but one account from antiquity.
Well it won't last - greed will takeover when the employee realize he can be fired - so what to do; OUTWIT OUTPLAY OUTLAST a coalition of family members is how it all starts
I just looked at the documentation, which is "Powered by KiwiDocs" and it´s extremely slow, a few seconds "Loading"
At some point, the addicts themselves have to be addressed. Sure, pushers are contributing to the problem. But internet addiction was a thing before the pushers found the internet. In fact, the first Internet Addiction diagnosis was made at my local University Hospital about 20 years ago (I knew the doctor).
You find the introduction of definitional precision to be an annoying, cheap trick?

What exactly are you achieving if you don’t rigorously define your terms and agree upon them? You make it sound like insisting on that is just a method of sophistry, but it’s the foundation of human communication. We cannot possibly talk about anything in a productive way if we’re not being precise in our terminology. Nuance and context have a meaningful impact on our conclusions, and legal definitions aren’t pointless. You can debate the merits of those definitions, but to hand wave them away because the conversation is “informal” is silly.

It is objectively false and unproductive to conflate tax avoidance and tax evasion. If you have a disagreement about the ethics of tax avoidance and believe it is meaningfully similar to tax evasion, that argument can certainly be made. But it is a legitimate point that tax avoidance is a separate thing from tax evasion. If you want to challenge that, you need to essentially debate the axiomatic legal foundations - i.e. do you find the relevant legislation unethical? Do you think tax avoidance is a net negative even if it’s illegal? Etc. The legal context isn’t pedantry, it’s intrinsically relevant to the topic.

On the other hand, what you’re doing is dismissing an attempt at precision, which actually bypasses attempts to have these very legitimate debates. No conversation has been hijacked here. Moreover, even if you call this an “informal conversation”, it will persuade people to change their opinions or reinforce them in a meaningful way. You cannot avoid that reality by temporarily surrendering rigor and selectively choosing what’s relevant to the topic.

If you disagree with the legal distinction between tax avoidance and tax evasion, make a compelling argument for it. But don’t dismiss a well established legal distinction without a commensurately compelling reason to do so.
Unless we're talking Ballmer Peak, in which case Hennessy can be the correct answer to either.
This is not really the same though, because the Rust version compiles after the bounds have been added:

use std::fmt::Display;

fn f<T: Display>(s: T) {
println!("{}", s);
}

fn main() {
f(7);
}

whereas there would be no way to get `f(7)` to compile in your C++ version since you can't make `int` inherit from `Display`. _A_ downside is that the library author has to add these sorts of checks, but for me a bigger downside is that anyone who then wants to use the library has to inherit from the library's types.
One thing which is sorely missed in such discussions is the employee efforts. Out of all the companies, Amazon's hours seems to be the worse of the lot.

That said, I really like Bezos (or Amazon) that they took risks on thing like AI, AWS etc. I find that lot of companies lack that insight. Even when they are not doing great, I routinely find executives hem and haw about their "core business". Most of these companies end up scraping the bottom of the barrel for profitability and keeping the company afloat for couple of years more.
And they need/will trust the gloves to tell them if the wreck is or isnt on fire? Fire and/or danger of suffocation happens long before anything these gloves could detect. I know that this data is medically interesting but cannot see how it could impact actual procedure trackside.

Someone will be at the scene asap regardless of data. They will check for fire and breathing issues. If either driver isnt talking or car on fire, driver is comming out now. After out, or sometimes before, gloves are off and other sensors applied. Decisions such as the use of a spinal turn on danger, not medical data: always a spinal unless car about to explode. I dont see the case for this data as it only means something long after more apparant dangers have already dictated decisions.

(In my work i regularly draft ERPs for aviation crashes, a similar senario. I just last month completed a hypoxia course in a hypobaric chamber where o2 sat was a very big deal)
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I understand parent commenter (who I agree with) and I are outliers, but the utility of advertising to me boils down to one comparison.

advantage of product discovery << lying and inappropriate product suggestion noise

I appreciate the discovery aspect has some value (to customers), but I'd assert that it's always less than the latter two detractors
Exactly like how Homeopathy forces us to talk about real medicine? Or UFOs forces us to talk about Rocket design? Take Ancient Aliens at face value? There are other avenues to get your thinking fix from: real books and real research. That's hard to do for an average couch potato addict I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men is a good read, and very memorable if you've read it.

Not sure, off-hand, which of the two books the quote comes from which I guess is my cue to re-read them both!
That's sort of my point. If Bitcoin and gold lose all financial value, at least with gold you have a heavy rock and to most humans, visually appealing. You can do something with that - build a house with enough of it, make jewelry out of it, forge weapons (would they be any good?)

You can't do anything with Bitcoin if is exchanging at $0 USD.
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I bought this for my kids about a year ago. The novelty wore off quickly, and they ended up only playing the demo game included with the app. The process of creating an image with the blox takes so long that the effort doesn't seem worth it. I've purchased a lot of these "get kids into tech" type toys over the years. I find that none of them have kept my kids interest nor have they really actually taught anything technical. Some were downright patronizing (I'm looking at you GoldieBlox).

If we want to get kids interested in technology, we should be teaching them about technology, not creating abstractions on top technology and then teaching them the abstractions. I learned about computers with Murphy's Laws of Dos and Dos 4 on a monochrome screen. I knew that what I was doing was the same thing that professionals did, and I knew that the knowledge I was acquiring would be applicable in many settings. Later I learned Basic and HTML, and again these were tools used by professionals.

We should stop lying to ourselves that these toys teach technology, and sit down with our kids and teach them how to build Pong with Pygame.
That is such an awful toxic viewpoint to take.

"Fix my paths"!? Fix your software! I work from a network share that is about 70 chars long to get to my one project's folder. The beauty of hierarchical file systems is that I can cognitively ignore all the previous paths and just work from there. However when your software doesn't work because "the solution is a misdesign", it's not my path that is wrong, it's your software that is broken and you that are stubbornly refusing to use solutions to well known problems.
As a learning/teaching tool that fosters creative thinking, this looks really cool. I think the idea of having a physical medium that represents an abstract model of an area of your world is also a really neat idea. I will definitely be picking this up for my kids (once they're a bit older).
They have a high chance of not being addicted to the Internet, but addicted in general. The main question isn't what addicts are escaping into but what they are escaping from.
> It seems to be for meteorology

Not quite - meteorolgists study the atmosphere, while the ocean is studied by oceanographers.

> What does someone use a ocean simulator for?

Ocean models are used to further our understanding of the dynamical system that is, well, the ocean. Ocean dynamics are governed by a set of partial differential equations (usually a simplified form of the more general Navier-Stokes Equations), which are coupled and nonlinear in the general case. Analytical results are only available for highly simplified setups, and many of the large-scale phenomena in the ocean are inherently unmeasurable (even more so since we are not able to observe the ocean in isolation, i.e., without atmospherical fluctuations). So we need numerical models to be able to setup more sophisticated experiments. A classical study is e.g. Kawase, 1987 [1], who showed in a simple model how the global large-scale ocean circulation is setup and maintained by only a couple dynamical effects.

So there are two kinds of ocean models: One is used to study the ocean in isolation, either using idealized or realistic models (which are both supported by Veros). The other kind are hyper-realistic coupled models, which are one crucial component of climate or earth system models like CESM[2]. Those are used to make projections of the world climate (and they're a major data source for the IPCC reports). Those are usually huge setups that run on the world's largest supercomputers, so only extremely optimized Fortran ocean models like POP[3] are used for that purpose.

Overall, earth system modelling is still a Fortran bastion, and Veros is the only higher-level programming language simulator I know of.

[1] https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0485(1987)...
[2] http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/
[3] http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm1.0/pop2/
Not to be a grump, but if you were using a staticly-typed language with any half-baked IDE 20 years ago, this behavior was available.
I agree with that. There are always shades of grey to every argument.

However the point that I'm trying to make (maybe badly) is that the Police are different to most other organisations. They're probably closest to healthcare in that the population, or maybe even distinct communities of a country needs to be able to trust the entire police force has its interest at heart.

From an outside perspective, this is failing in a bad way in the US. It is more than likely the actions of a few that is causing it.

That failure has bad repercussions, things get worse because people start taking justice into their own hands ... it leads to riots, clashes and worse. That's why you can never tolerate any corruption in a justice system.

I've witnessed first hands the riots here in London that resulted from questionable Police actions (we still don't know the full story of those events). It feels like society is crumbling when things get that bad.
How would serious historians weigh in? Im skeptical because the tendency to assume we are always think, THIS is the greatest moment in human history. The last few centuries built up an amazing amount, but also tore alot apart.