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> Napoleon going around Europe slaughtering is somehow "how we got meritocracy" and a "goodie"?

Pardon me, a quote from a better source:

"Prussia, notwithstanding the reforms of Frederick the Great, had retained its half-feudal institutions down to the decisive defat of Jena. The agricultural classes were serfs bound to the soil and compelled to work a certain part of each week for their lords with our remeration. The population was still divided into three distinct castes, nobles, burghers, and peasants, who could not acquire one another's land. The disaster of Jena and the losses at Tilsit convinced the statesmen of Prussia–among whom Baron von Stein and Prince Hardenberg were conspicuous–that the country's only hope of recovery was a complete social and political revolution not unlike that which had taken place in France. They saw that the old system must be abolished, the peasants freed, and the restrictions which hedged about the different classes done away with, before it would be possible to arouse public spirit to a point where a great popular uprising might expel the intruder forever."

Beard and Harvey, James Robinson. Outlines of European History. Ginn & Company, 1907.

https://books.google.com/books?id=z14AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA220&lpg=...
I think vendoring is very useful and it would be a step back if it becomes harder.

Caching proxies for zip downloads sounds nice, but it's more than just "a bit more infrastructure". I think it would be a huge burden to package publishers if each of them has to manage their own dependency zip mirror as a separate piece of infrastructure. You need version control anyway; checking your dependencies into that same version control does not require a new piece of infrastructure.

Coming from Ruby, where rubygems.org is a very painful point of failure, in my eyes the fact that Go dependencies are not a separate download is a big plus.

In fact without a single blessed dependency repository such as rubygems.org, in the Go case you have as many points of failure at build time as there are different code hosting sites in your dependency graph.
My take (just the first five):

1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom.

Spotify & Apple Music. Pay $10/mo for unlimited access to most music. Took the wind out of music piracy. (TV & film are undergoing a similar transition to subscription models, more slowly.)

2. Simplified browsing...Grandparents and small children don't want the full web...

Apps. Remember this list is from just one year after the iPhone launched, so everything was still "the web". It was almost unthinkable that native, installed apps would have such a resurgence. But the iPad is exactly this, a simplified computer that young kids and grandparents love to use.

3. New news.

Still in flux. Nobody has figured out a business model. Over the past century consumers were trained to expect free, ad-supported news. Surprisingly, online ads have not worked out well for publishers.

4. Outsourced IT. & 5. Enterprise software 2.0.

AWS. There's a lot of higher-level SaaS packaged services too and it sounds like that's what pg was envisioning. But the real hero here is AWS and its "primitives"-based, bottom-up approach to outsourcing all computing.
Quora article on issues in US export of products using strong encryption => https://www.quora.com/What-regulatory-issues-have-to-be-cons...

I hate these regulations but EAR and ITAR with respect to crypto seem to be concerned with the key length and algorithm. Over a certain strength the software using the encryption seems to be still treated as a munition!? I've heard of people who ignore this getting huge fines.

And any export to Cuba, N. Kora, Sudan, Syria, and Iran is banned by OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control). Yes, the very countries that need Signal the most are banned!

Hopefully I'm wrong and we are free of regulatory issues in the US so I'm asking a serious question here - how does Signal solve this problem?
Only in SV is $40,000 profit not making a living.
The strategic nuclear weapons only apply in extreme situations:

The great bulk of international relations happen without conflict, and they strongly depend on the perceived military power of nations. The United States' overwhelming conventional military power has been a guarantor of peace in the western Pacific for decades. If countries there no longer believe the U.S. can or will protect them, then they may arm themselves, which tends to lead to conflict, or they may side with China.

Regarding U.S.-China conflict, unless survival of either country is at stake then there's reason to believe (and hope) that conflicts won't escalate to strategic nuclear weapons and destroying the world. For example, if mainland China attacks Taiwan, would either side use nuclear weapons? If not, then conventional forces come into play.

I don't mean to downplay the risk. Conflicts escalate very easily and unpredictably; that's why the professionals in diplomacy and military affairs are very careful to avoid it, and are careful to choose options that don't escalate it. It's always the amateurs who want to escalate with an angry response, and as a result get masses of people killed and incur extreme costs - because they were angry.
"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it."

-Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went, John Kenneth Galbraith

>Why don't the people at the top want to share?

Ideology and power

>What are we even sharing?

Money

>How does sharing happen?

>By what means does sharing occur?

Computer databases

>The only reason you believe the people at the top don't want to share is because of centuries of thinking that has lead you to see the structure of the world in a way that this is useful.

The history of union busting in the US clearly shows that many people don't want to share their wealth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_...
American ties to Europe were never entirely altruistic but about maintaining it against Russian influence and control.

Whereas the US presence in South America has always been about anti-communism at any cost, including overthrowing elected governments to replace them with dictatorships (Chile); then secondarily about maintaining the drug war and its associated violence. If the US wants to get started there it should see about bringing peace to Mexico and work downwards.
I think the streaming business is really interesting, I assume the reason Twitch (Amazon) is so successful is that they own their own infrastructure. Youtube is a competitor for the same reason.

Using Akamai/other CDNs is just crazy expensive, wonder what smashcast (formerly azubu and hitbox), Mixer (microsoft), AfreecaTV, and I assume there are some large chinese streaming sites use

Is this being used right now by Vimeo and Livestream?

I kind of get the use case, I wonder what the cost is like with traditional CDNs.
Porting Riscure 2016 CTF on Chipwhisperer
> By that logic, China never would've dared to send a million soldiers to drive UN forces from North Korea during the Korean war.

That happened before China had nuclear weapons.
Sure...but can any business continue making their support hard to find if scams start to pose as your support and are easier for customers to find?
My company has private offices for everybody who wants one, and little pod areas outside the offices where you can work together if you like.

Teams who want to work in an open space can forego the offices and get a nice open space instead.
British Columbia Cracks Down on Foreign Housing Speculators
Replacing pen and paper is hard but I use Google Keep quite a bit for saving links and small notes. I like Keep because:

* No need to create accounts on multiple websites

* Accessible from web and phone

* Clean interface

* Allows checklists, drawings, images and has OCR
Apple offers the refurbished Apple Watch Series 3 for $ 279
The DNA thing sounds dystopian. Maybe that’s where we’re heading, anyway, but it doesn’t feel right.
Just in case you’re curious;

The top 1% of earners account for ~20% of all income but pay about 40% of all income taxes. The bottom 90% account for about 50% of all income but pay about 30% of all income taxes.

45% of Americans pay no (or negative) Federal tax.

So yes, I think even if it’s a constant percentage (which it’s not) I do respect the top 1% of earners for their massive contribution to our tax base. I don’t personally believe the government has a moral authority to a progressively larger percentage of a person’s incone. And I do believe a person who works harder to earn a larger paycheck is absolutely subsidizing Americans who pay no Federal tax at all, and I’m very thankful for the 1% who pay 40% of the load.

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
I have trouble countenancing people using the Korean War as justification for North Korean belligerence today. Yes, many North Koreans died during that war, but many South Koreans did as well... and those at the hands of their North Korean brothers.

Not only was North Korea the aggressor in the Korean War, it was not the United States acting unilaterally that opposed it but the United Nations. This was one of the only times in history that the United Nations declared war on a nation acting as a clear aggressor. Had the United Nations not intervened, then we would see an entire Korean peninsula run as foolishly and cruelly as the North is.

The DPRK's mythologizing of the war has done nothing but dig the North Korean people in general and the Kim regime in particular, into an ideological hole that they can't really get out of.
We transitioned from freeware to subscription (it's B2B), a subscription model shares a lot with freeware logistics, for example most users are in the last version. Another advantage has been to be able to add features any time it was fit, no need to save them for the big upgrade. We decided a price at the beginning (EUR 99/year) that we thought would allow us to expand our offering under the same subscription umbrella. We run several promotions to experiment with pricing (in particular a Dutch action which was very successful at EUR 29/year, that brought a big revenue spike and also many new paying customers). But even after experimenting with good results we always stuck with our EUR 99/year price point. Due to the rather low price pint, we chose not do any type of customer segmentation (all customers pay the same per user, regardless of quantity of users). We do not do promotions anymore to avoid confusing users with pricing (since it is a subscription, we want to avoid that users wait for the next promotion to renew). Curiously very few potential customers ever asked for a permanent license. We have a extremely generous trial 30 days of actual use, not calendar days. Conversion at the end of trial is high, about 30%, probably because by the end of trial, users probably found a few use cases that somehow justify the price.
I think the other critical feature you need is destructors, before you can build really helpful containers.
If its easier to use than bittorrent then piracy people will switch over too and soon the name sounds just as frightening. The problem with bittorrent wrt popularizing legal use was that browsers should have shipped with BT support, the experience would have been just like clicking a traditional download link.
Managerial class wants people who have college degrees. So send your kid to a school that costs you less.
Got the ole' Hacker News hug of death

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Er, since when has there been a full scale conventional conflict between two nuclear-armed states?
The CEO is not a middleman. The CEO is the one who does the market research to decide if the market can absorb making 1000 widgets/hr, or if it will saturate and cause him to be unable to make payments on the robot and thus go bankrupt. The CEO is the one who decides if they put R&D into making widget 2.0 (which the robot wouldn't be able to make but the humans can), or if widget 2.0 couldn't be enough better to be worth the R&D and thus isn't worth it. The CEO is the one who sees competition coming from China and realizing he cannot compete and comes up with a plan to do something else so that as China is ramping up he is ramping down and transitioning.

The above is a very hard job with hundreds of places where some decision could be wrong. A good CEO generally makes enough good decisions that the company stays open for years, while a bad CEO will make decisions that cause the company to go out of business.
Stealth is just a tool. It can be defeated. It doesn't matter who has superior weapons. The question is if those weapons can be combined with the implementation of specific tactics to gain some kind of strategic goal.

This has a much longer range than America’s new F-35 fighter and will be a serious threat to American warships in the Pacific."

In the 21st century, serious threats to warships abound. However, when it comes to China, the real question for the US is how well the US can keep China contained, curtailing China's projection of power towards Taiwan, Japan, and other parts of the region. Superior weapons can help, but distance and logistics are still huge factors, which can work to China's advantage sometimes, and against it other times.

In other words, the issue is a lot more complex than who has the "best" stealth fighter.
Scott Helme, a security researcher has an article on EV certificates and some of the issues with them in an article from December 2017 (https://scotthelme.co.uk/are-ev-certificates-worth-the-paper...). There was some discussion on this when it was originally submitted to HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15850837.

Adam Caudill also has some insight here: https://adamcaudill.com/2017/04/09/looking-value-ev-certific...
People who really struggle with time management and planning, yup. The lack of an ability to reason about time - to, fundamentally, exercise executive function - leads to these problems where the time estimates are always short.

For some people, it's hard to see all the pieces ("take a shower, brush teeth, put on clothes, pack your bag, take the elevator...) that go into one larger task ("getting to work") and reason about them. It's fundamentally a working memory/executive function deficit.

It's also shocking to me how every intent of leaving well and truly earlier than I thought can also fall apart. The lack of adrenaline in such situations allows a million distractions to creep in. "Oh, I can spend a few minutes to fix my makeup". "Oh, I haven't watered the plants in a while!" I can try to wall some of them off (I will NOT use the computer or look at my phone), but there's real limits.
> The historical evidence demonstrates that countries with comparable conventional military capabilities will absorb fantastic losses to projected (expeditionary) forces and will negotiate peace before using nuclear weapons.

While I agree with the main point, I don't know about the evidence. Two nuclear-armed countries have never directly engaged in conflict, that I can think of. The Cold War was 'cold' precisely for that reason, afaik: Neither side wanted to risk a conflict that could possibly escalate to nuclear war.
>certainly more [productive] than Go when used as a general purpose language.

Come on, there isn't really any evidence that Haskell is more productive than Go. It's not as if anyone's run a controlled experiment.

Anecdotally, I've written code in both languages and not found much difference in productivity. I think a lot depends on the size of the team, the size of the code base, the nature of the algorithms being implemented, and the amount of IO that's performed. Haskell's abstractions have saved me time in some cases. But then again, I've also spent unproductive hours figuring out the complex abstractions that someone else decided to use. Haskell's so-so tooling and culture of using unqualified imports compound this problem.

And then there's the issue of compile times. Do monad transformers make me more productive? Do functional dependencies make me more productive? I'm not sure. In contrast, I have no doubt whatsoever that fast compile times make me more productive. Most go codebases compile in under a second, whereas GHC's compile times are absolutely abysmal.

Go is a language without intellectual insecurity. It doesn't care if you think it's stupid, or if you think that go programmers are stupid. It focuses on features that are known to make everyone more productive (e.g. fast compile times) at the expense of features that make you feel smart.
I just posted some details below.

I think my main mistake was trying to be an accelerator as opposed to simple shared space for rent. We couldn't find a way to make it work financially, considering the amount of time and energy it was demanding.

I also underestimated the lack of interest in innovation and startups here in CT.
You're obviously a True Believer. Nothing I say will convince you.
Beyond that, they aren't made anymore, and require a land base. (Okinawa, for example.)

In a carrier v. carrier battle, the F-22 likely won't be a factor unless the chosen "ground" is in the operational vicinity of a land base. Granted, Wikipedia believes the avionics range for the F-22 is 250 miles.

That shows some of the advantages of China's South China Sea strategy (taken straight out of the U.S. playbook with Caribbean).
Bigelow Space Operations – B330 Space Station
> I reject the notion that humans have a propensity towards evil. That's a fundamental tenet of Catholic and Protestant theologies

Perhaps, but not in the sense that this...

> Given that humans are by our biology and history a social and cooperative species, it stands to reason that humans have a propensity towards "good" instead.

...is a mutually exclusive alternative. In fact, I think most Catholic and mainstream Protestant theologians would agree with you that humans have an inmate propensity for good.
> And indeed, even in countries with high inheritance taxes, the richest families tend not to change much inter-generationally

inheritance taxes are designed to restrict upward mobility on a timespan of generations. of course the richest families don't change much, the cost of becoming a "richest family" is much higher than the cost of staying a "richest family."
There was also a fairly long-standing set of licensing and royalty practices in the music industry that you could more or less use whatever you want so long as you pay the appropriate royalties for it. Of course, this could have all broken down with the shift to digital but it didn't. I expect the market position and determination of Apple and Steve Jobs played at least some role in this.

Of course, the dollar amounts involved are a matter of ongoing debate. But, for the most part, if you want to setup a music streaming service or store, you could probably get access to at least a very large library at rates comparable to your competition.

The basic problem with video seems to be that the content owners by and large aren't jumping to broadly license content, even much of their back catalog, at rates that would support an all-you-can-eat subscription service. So all the services are basically doing original content that they pad out with the mostly mediocre stuff that they can license for a reasonable rate.
Financing development is a big constraint - loans that conform to existing types can be resold. This is why strip malls, industrial parks, malls, and housing developments look the same all over America. If a developer wants to build a multistory, mixed use development, they have to negotiate exceptional financing as well as zoning variances. Even if a city greatly loosened single use zoning, it would still probably be slow and expensive to redevelop.
Prices are useful to indicate whether or not supply should be increased or decreased. Decreasing prices (wages in this conversation) indicate that people should be looking to sell their product (time and effort) to another market or buyer.

Rather than force buyers to pay more than what the market says, the better option would be for societies to provide opportunities for people to re-tool and become more valuable again, for where this sufficient demand.
Is there any reason why this is a mobile only app?

I have a strong preferences not to use apps that are mobile only. And I firmly believe that communicating on mobile has a hard time turning into something more substantial. People nowadays are used to quick status updates while on mobile. Look at the popularity of Snapchat. Why bother writing something when I could just post a picture on Instagram?

It is difficult to make friends when you are over 30, and I think with society stuck on the internet and mobile, it will be even more difficult. At least break free from mobile.
U District. It's been there 24-7 since it started.
From the "Avoiding Singleton Problems" section:

> Another problem would be if there were two HTTP stacks in the program. Clearly only one HTTP stack can listen on port 80; we wouldn't want half the program registering handlers that will not be used. Go developers are already running into problems like this due to vendoring inside vendored packages.

This is only a problem if you allow nested vendor/ directories, which "dep" (you know, the "official experiment" that suddenly got discarded to the surprise of its developers) doesn't have because it recurses through the entire dependency tree and reduces it to a single vendor/, just like many (most?) other languages.

The whole post reads like the author thinks Go has a very unique dependency management problem that no other language ever had which somehow necessitates a completely unorthodox solution. Three blog posts into "vgo", I still don't see why...
This. It's really good at things because Lockheed Martin will spend $2 trillion building it and says it is.
The attributes are real-valued. You cannot choose to use discrete probability functions. You have to make use of probability density functions.
IPFS has some benefits if I understand it correctly, e.g. I think it can share duplicate data between multiple trees, while Bittorrent can't share blocks between multiple torrents. Still understandable that distros with working infrastructure won't jump on every new thing.
What historical evidence can you cite? While I generally agree with the idea, I haven't actually seen an extended war between two nuclear powers happen.
> taking on the weird regulatory risk and all the other weirdness associated with Telegram's (IMO crazy) ICO

To make this more tangible, doing an ICO means a prosecutor can personally threaten anyone on the team with violating securities laws. That's a stupid risk to take if you know, as an organization, you're going to fight the U.S. government in court one day.
My work has a number of private offices, cubicle space, and open space.

There's a funny thing that happens: the private offices are always occupied and apparently work is getting done in them. The cubicles are a step down, with those workers stepping out occasionally for some fresh air away from the office. The open areas are only ever occupied by new employees or not at all. Nobody wants to work in them. And it's true that my workplace is full of introverts (basically exclusively). But it's telling, to me, that the offices are the most productive places.
I like how you could throw one of these up on a single Falcon Heavy launch. The lack of windows seems challenging to me, if you're going after tourists I would think this would be a priority feature.
You're asking why people are OK with a noisy pub but not a noisy office? Surely you can see the difference if you try.
For sure! I actually think I prefer the points over the lines, since the lines make you think that there is data where there isn't.