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I don't disagree with you. I'm just explaining why you were downvoted/flagged.

HNers are going to downvote anything that looks like a "+1" so maybe try rewording your comment in the future. Instead of just a pulled-out quote and a thumbs-up, quote and then add a couple of sentences explaining why that part was very important.
Filing personal taxes is not fully automated in Canada, but it is damn close to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29_trGJOiwY

Unless you have a business, filing your taxes would take somewhere between 10 to 30 minutes. The downside is that there are few tax credits available to individuals. For example, mortgage interest is not tax-deductible. This is one of the reasons filing taxes is easier. There are just not as many things to consider or documents to keep as US.
> Change them; if the electoral system isn't very good at that, probably fixing that is a more reasonable fix then abandoning representative democracy.

In particular, an individual state can[1] change to preference voting (for example) without having to change the US Constitution.

[1] I think. IANAL, and still less am I a constitutional lawyer. There would almost certainly be a supreme court case by some election loser, claiming unequal representation or something. What the supreme court would do... I have no idea.
I mean, you could build an active cooling system for the tube, and start it up whenever you have a broken-down pod radiating heat into the tube, though that seems like a lot of effort / complexity.

Maybe the focus should be on how to get people out of a broken-down pod within a reasonable period of time rather than cooling said broken-down pod. Unfortunately I don't have any ideas on this front.
It works for me but I'm using google.ca if that makes a difference.

Edit: It worked about ten times in a row but now I have the error:
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Edit2: I just realized that using the link in the article works but typing the zipcode in the search box or clicking the magnifying glass next to it in the result pages will not work.
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I know what you mean, sadly users sometimes don't have the awareness to take care of themselves properly, and will be taken advantage of by malicious software.

Even though I know Androids rather flexible API's and Intents system are all exploitable, I really appreciate the freedom they give me.

While I find Apple's approach to functionality and UX condescending, there is a large swath of users who either want somebody else to take all the effort away from them, or need it.

I guess its nice that both kinds of users have something to cater to their needs, but I wish the mobile OS space wasn't a duopoly.
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Interesting concept, the "reverse Narcissus", especially in this case. Because you see, in the same breath as they complain about their country, Brazilians will tell you that "God is a Brazilian".

Perhaps jingoism and mongrelism are two sides of the same coin. It would certainly explain how Trump got elected after a campaign based on complaining about his own country.
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Yeah, I should have clarified: I was responding to the "having a lot of applications" remark, which to me implied other places than low earth orbit.
Could this be one of the reasons why there are so many conspiracy theories these days? That is, with so many dimensions of data available, one can find close connections between any two things?
Ah, here we have another self-annointed "idiot savant", who from hundreds and possibly thousands of miles away, has ignored reality to distill a widespread social problem as a simple econ 101 problem.

Brilliant consideration of all the variables in these situations.

It's a bit more complex a story. Rural communities have been hit hard due to Wall Street gambling, offshoring, migration to urban areas. No one wanting to re-invest there afterword, but there a lot of people that don't want to give up that life.

But yes, it's basic main street econ 101 that's their problem. Free folk and diversity of human experience distilled down to "the market has spoken."

People go in a room and say "Hey, we're cutting taxes for us, and pushing austerity on you all." but it's clearly the blue collar folks fault for not having been invited to any of those meetings.

In an abstract way, sure it makes sense. But it impacts real people with little other options. Abstractions like that don't offer new options that make sense in the rural context.

The ignorance on display in this community regarding how the world outside SV works is stunning.
This is an underrated problem and also contributes to some grimly hilarious public policies that offer funding to build housing for the homeless on the one hand, but forbid most housing from actually being built on the other: http://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-f...
I trust Walmart because its really in their best interest. If you are in a poor area on the 1st of the month, you know exactly why they would not screw this one up. I grew up with Indian Health Services (and the 3 operations to correct a poorly done root canal) have taught me that a group with a profit interest is probably going to do a better job than a disinterested government agency.
Manufacturing a solar panel does have carbon impact, but the amount of that impact, relative to the total amount of energy it produces over its lifetime, is an order of magnitude smaller than that of coal, and several times smaller than even natural gas.

Ref.: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn268.pdf
A better analogy would be IBM releasing a tutorial for an unsupported version of COBOL and calling it a tutorial for "modern" COBOL.

In a nutshell, it's not about Python 2 being old, it's about calling Python 2 "Python" when that hasn't been the case for a few years now at the least.
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You do know this resource was published circa 2010, right? It's not a new course, and back then Python 3 wasn't anything.

Also, you should note that most systems that come with python pre-installed still come with 2.x, so the last update to this (March 2016) could have been accommodating that fact.
It's not even amnesia - any life event that's serious enough to simply force you to not use some password and require you to stressfully think about something else for some weeks can be sufficient to misremember anything that's complex/random enough to be secure.

E.g. a loved one getting a near-death event and suddenly needing lots and lots and lots of attention isn't really an "amnesia scenario", but might be sufficient; the same applies for the (admittedly rare) scenarios where travellers have gotten kidnapped by criminals or detained by third-world authorities, and people who have had to suddenly evacuate out of, for example, Syria. If you're out of action for some time, you may realistically be unable to recall exact details that aren't relevant to daily life in your changed environment - such as passwords. I've even seen breakups or divorces being traumatic enough so that people wouldn't care about anything at all for quite some time; and I can also imagine that a "less than perfect" childbirth and its consequences occupying all your thoughts and cares (and sleep!) for a week or two would also suffice.

There are all kinds of scenarios that trigger mental breakdowns so that, for example, people don't care about eating for days simply because what's happening right now is more important, immediate and overwhelming. In such cases they wouldn't also care about their digital suff, and when (some time after) the situation normalizes, and they get back to caring about access to their digital resources, there's no guarantee that they'd be able to recall anything that's not a basic, instinctive skill.
Agree. Baffling how many developers spend 1/4 of their life programming yet are too cheap to spend money on tools...
Ethically, I wonder if this would be any different if Google built a similar software for consumer applications and licensed it similarly to Android being used for surveillance in both the US and far more paranoid governments.
I would imagine that this allows both Google and the US government to have far more insight and control over the direction of this and possible applications.

Not to dismiss the obvious ethical issues of Google having possibly harmful incentives and having their hands tied by the US government financially and legally, but all things considered, I think the main difference here is that Google is already doing this on a massively large scale for the sake of selling ads. It is possible this can help save lives.
> The USPS lost $2.7B last year

The USPS spent $2.7B more than it gained in revenue from sales of stamps etc. The idea that a government agency is supposed to be profitable, and the use of the business term "lost" is appropriate, is a politicized, partisan one. (The extent to which the USA's post isn't really a government agency any more is also extremely politicized and partisan.)

One way to tell that the profitability model isn't appropriate is, what would happen if the USPS did achieve profitability? The USPS's own press release attributes $1.1B of their "loss" to a refusal by regulators to let stamp prices remain at 49 cents, requiring them to go back to 47 cents. How is a "company" that already has extremely below-market prices and can't even get regulators to permit them to keep a 2-cent increase supposed to maintain profitability, should they ever achieve it?
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Let's be completely speculative and alarmist about the potential of AI: It could be like developing nuclear weapons first; if the US gets military AI wrong, it could quickly become a poor vassal state to the world's new superpower.[0]

People are alarmist and speculative because AI's potential is unknown. If the potential of the new blockchain technology is unknown then you can wait and see what happens. But given the stakes with military AI, you can't take even tiny risks; you can't wait and see if your country will be in history books as an experiment that lasted 250 years.

By declining to help the US military, Google engineers take that risk to a degree. But if they participate then they gain enormous leverage: Given the stakes, the US military can't afford to alienate them. I'd hope they can use their leverage to achieve related goals: Agreements banning the use of this technology against civilians, foreign or domestic, and banning sharing the tech with law enforcement. Leverage Congress into passing privacy and civil rights laws protecting Americans against abuses of the technology.

[0] Note that AI changes things in another way: For all human history, military power was tied to population size. In the future, with the right AI and some underground robot factories, potentially a small country could dominate. Maybe Singapore?
I saw them once at a job fair back in 2013. I honestly couldn't figure out what they were about. They did an extremely poor job at explaining themselves, and I walked away wondering if they were just a Google Docs ripoff.
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Oh wow had no idea this tutorial was by the coding bat guy. I really loved both of those resources back in the day.
Python is the #1 fastest growing programming language on Stackoverflow.[1] and #4 on TIOBE index[2]. There is a huge need for good and current python tutorials and/or online classes for the growing community. I applaud the intent for Google to contribute.
BUT if your content is not current or not up to the bar, perhaps you shouldn't even consider releasing it? Google internally has a lot of Python 2 code no doubt, but for the beginners that want to learn python, Google's python class is not even on par with the expectation out there.

COBOL doesn't even make it to the top 25 on TIOBE index, so your comparison doesn't matter. Who wants to learn COBOL these days if they weren't mandated by the job or for teaching?

[1]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-pyth...

[2]: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
And what do you call refusing to run special elections illegally

Election shenanigans, not Free Speech per se.

and passing anti-speech laws at the state level exactly?

Those should also be fought, no matter who is doing it.

The GOP does that as well and pretending its only one side is absurd on many levels.

The lion's share of the mainstream media is biased to the left, and even at first many in the mainstream media gave a free pass to even to Antifa. It's well known that the GOP has an advantage in local politics. No one is pretending this isn't the case. However, the widespread conceit that the mainstream news is anywhere near unbiased still needs debunking. Badly. As in, society's survival is at stake levels of badly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qmiPWgCYb4
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Basic housing and a sense of security are things that we should like all of our citizens to have access to.

I don't see that it's particularly unreasonable to remove those costs from consideration when we consider a person's wealth. Sure, they are enormous assets for the individual. But if the individual didn't need a place to sleep, it would be a gobsmackingly terrible investment to put most of your life's earnings into one basket like that. It's an investment made under duress, and the anticipated appreciation in value comes from the fact that future generations will be similarly forced.
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From my POV, I wouldn't call that an advantage. What happens when the customer (or a potential customer who is doing diligence before purchasing) realizes there's a cheaper, and in most cases, just as easy to use option with something like Themeforest?
I can understand where you're coming from. I would say that we should be building processes and systems that enable those who are interested in delivering results to achieve roles in positions of power in government, while disempowering empire builders and self-interested parties.

To your anecdote, would you not trust the US Health and Human Services to deliver national healthcare if the team behind Watsi was in charge? Because that is quite literally what they're doing; building a transparent [1] and ruthlessly efficient [2] healthcare management system for third world citizens. Cleary, YC believes they can do it [3]. I also believe it can be done.

[1] https://usenotion.com/watsi/transparency/

[2] https://venturebeat.com/2017/02/07/y-combinator-and-watsi-la...

[3] https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-research-universal-healthcar...
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Not the best examples. The US entertained annexing Canada and did annex large swathes of Mexico (not in the last 75 years, true, if you want to arbitrarily draw the line there). China has plenty of stable agreed borders with weak and troubled neighbors. You have your rose colored views but they are somewhat laughable.
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that doesn't change my point though: regardless of how easy it is for a human to respond to, they can't respond if they're sleeping.
> direct democracy was too prone to degenerate into mob rule

Do you think its possible that new advances in technology since 1776 might just enable direct democracy to avoid the degeneration you cite?

> to actually implement it, you have to amend the Constitution

I think we would actually have to rewrite the constitution. The definition of congress is a major section of the constitution and any amendment would basically have to rewrite large swaths of the original document.
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refusing to run special elections illegally

Examples?
Steven E. Foster, a bartender whose magnum opus was at one point available at mixdrinks.com[0] and later at brightredlipstick.com[1], had a section on the latter site labelled 'Look At Old Pictures Of My Relatives,
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He wrote 'Live Each Day - Make Your Life Extraordinary - To[sic] Soon It All Ends' in the header of those family pictures, and sadly it ended too soon for him; he died in 2016[2]; his obituary notes the he 'aspired to publish his self-written bartending book "Drinks for the 21st century."'

But his family photos were indexed by the Internet archive, and maybe now a few HN readers have seen them, and seen his own picture, and his memory lives on just a little bit longer.

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Hey, I was one of the people talking with you in the comments of that original thread. Thanks for sharing with us.

I can't give a very long reply now (it's approaching bedtime in the UK) but I will tomorrow.

Just one thing to ask right away, though: are you sure you can't get on disability? Would you mind telling us more about your condition and the appeals process in your state?
I get stuck on that too, but viewing the text version + browser "reader" mode gets it for me :)
If you want very brief, I made this Google doc that describes the top ~500 cryptocurrencies in 4 words or less:

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This is perfect for jq[0].

[0] https://github.com/stedolan/jq
Again baffling. yeah I bought it but I feel entitled to version 3 because I had version 2. Development costs money...why not pay for it to support people creating great tools.
What about paying off your student loans..... :)
Offices are not an issue in Krakow, there is oversupply and the space is cheap. What I heard there is a lot of sour grapes and back-and-forth blame (still) going on about that Krakow failure. But what is clear for a bystander: the office stayed at the same headcount since being opened. They changed buildings and were mulling over expansion for many years. Some Warsaw people were generously compensated to move Krakow, then the other way, then the manager jumped ship prompting a wave, and then management gave up on Krakow entirely. And Warsaw doesn't grow either. Facebook too explored growing a tech branch in Warsaw and backed up. Samsung decided to make a sweatshop approach, they are big, pay peanuts even for Poland and have a lot of churn. There is a large, established for decades and recently quickly growing Intel office in Gdansk, that's where all the buggy drivers allegedly come from.
Certainly. I supposed the point I am trying to make is that a lot of old windows behaviors that lead to security incidents are finding their way into non-desktop linux machines. My servers have binfmt mounted, for example. SystemD appears to be bringing in a bit of desktop behavior to both desktops and servers. Maybe this is ok if people are aware?
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