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Sweden did well after WW2 for much the same reason that the US did: it was industrialized and not destroyed.

It's always tempting to believe that there was something special about their "ideological prowess", but that isn't really the case. With or without laissez faire they would have done well. With or without a welfare state they would have done well.

Econ 101 is "people respond to incentives". Think tanks representing the rich and wealthy (of which libertarianism.org/CATO is one) have a strong incentive to try and give laissez faire credit for every positive economic development ever. It's what makes their donors wealthy.

The Kochs (a major source of funds for this website) would particularly like you to think this because of some of the truly epic fights that they have had with the environmental protection authority. To them, "regulation is bad, mkay". Guess why?

Hence why, even though I'm sure he honestly believes it, Johan Norburg gives free markets credit for Sweden solving their infant mortality problem.
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Improvements in technology are undoubtedly the centrepiece of any sane economic history theory of the last 5-10 generations, and longer. Interestingly enough... Liassez-Faire theories, marxist theories, or macroeconomic theories and other "Big Idea" economics don't tend to have a theory of innovation anywhere near the core of their concepts.
You can put them on svgur.com and share them to twitter/fb
This is quite a good solution. It reminds me of public transport in some European countries. Yes, you can get on board without a ticket. But there will be a guard who will be on board maybe 1 in 10 times and the fines are substantial.

The problem is you can't really issue substantial fines in this instance. I suppose you could pay less for the first few runs where verification is more likely.

I really want this to succeed, and I think these problems can be overcome.
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South Korea did a shockingly similar thing to your example in 1999, which enshrined Internet Explorer's use long after the rest of the world had moved on.
> Even Russia did kind of ok.

That may be true from 10 thousand miles away. Upon closer inspection, there's a huge difference in current wealth and standard of living between Russia and say Finland, while 100 years ago they were roughly the same. Not to mention the unimaginable wealth of natural resources that Russia has, which, under proper political and economic policies, could make it into a Norway-like paradise.
That one is easy to understand. hettps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planimeter is more interesting: trace the perimeter to measure an area.
This is slightly off topic since the focus of this article is racial demographics and economic standing in a culture, but it's interesting that Brazil, a country which has whole heartedly adopted chemical agriculture and monocropping practices finds themselves in a place where fertility rates per woman are lower than in the US, which has one of the lowest (and also heavily relies on chemical ag). As an investigative journalism piece, I think teasing out the effects of industrial agriculture from other social factors that contribute to people CHOOSING not to have children and relating that to fertility rates would be a much more substantive article than looking at sperm imports where n=500.
Even if she would have crossed illegally! Drivers have to be prepared to handle situations where others violate rules!
If you presume that everybody around you follows the rules, you make very dangerous assumptions:

1. that they perceive the situation in the same way you do

2. that their interpretation and application of the rules to the current situation is the same as yours

3. that they are currently able to control their body and vehicle sufficiently to follow the rules

4. That their vehicle does not malfunction

Can we accept that people walking across streets is a common occurrence? A driver, be it software or wetware, must be able to handle this.
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This article leaves a lot out. For instance, the loss of population to North America. In the early 1900s Sweden had a population of 4 million and it also had a diaspora of 4 million. In other words, it had lost nearly half its people overseas. The ruling class was terrified by the loss of people and so subsidizes for housing were introduced. Sweden thus became the first Western nation to introduce housing subsidies. The subsidies were for a particular kind of house, of which several survive. You can see a few in Stockholm near certain parks.

But more so, the standard of living in Sweden remained well behind that of other Western nations till after World War II. The big increase in the standard of living was something that happened during the post war boom. All Western nations grew rapidly then, but Sweden was able to close the gap between itself and other Western nations. We could argue all day about whether the boom or the socialists deserve credit, but it seems clear that laissez faire had nothing to do with it.
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What do you think about banning high capacity magazines?

It is much easily defined and codified than "assault weapons".

Personally I'm surprised the anti-gun people don't go after magazines, instead fighting the same battle over and over again.
By extension of your statement, would solving International Math Olympiad questions only require intensive preparation and not creativity as well? (IMO topics are limited by design.)

How about writing programs to solve problems someone else has solved elsewhere (and you are not privy to the solution)?
Q: What does it DO?
A: It's intended to....

Those are two different things.
In Portugal Macs were never an option until NeXT saved Apple and got it reborn.

There was only one reseller located in the capital, and the prices were way beyond other systems that were available in any major city.

The first time I ever saw a Mac live was when I arrived at university, where the student campus had some LC (the pizza boxes ones) for doing the usual word processing stuff.

Programming, at any level, was done in PCs and UNIX terminals.

At home, it was split between Atari, Amiga and PC.
The only way to transmit credentials, I believe, unfortunately, is via out-of-band communication, e.g. sms/IM/phone/face-to-face. Not exactly convenient, but if you need the message to stay secure from human adversary, it is probably the only way. If your adversary is a machine (your peer in gmail is in control of his/her account, and is not wiretapped by an actual human/you simply don't want google to feed on your emails/you are not an enemy of mossad), a captcha would probably do, along with something like we see in email verification links.
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The negation of “there is little science to support a genetic relationship between races and intelligence” is not “achievement and behavior is strongly genetic”. I suggest you learn about heritability. And yes, he has published extensively on the genetic risk factors of MS.
I think the leading cloud provider going all in on it is a pretty good marker- https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
Not everyone gets the luxury of traveling around the world.
Why are you getting a hack license?
I went from 66 kg to ~55kg, eating only one lunch a day plus some fruits. I think I've gotten way too thin, that around 58 kg would have been better, and that's why I'm thinking of starting to supplement.
I also have kept on exercising plenty, muay thai and boxing, and that might be why I've lost this much weight, even though I wasn't obese when I started.
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The work that goes into "external code" is higher quality than most companies can achieve. The cost of developing a similar tool may also be outside what the company can afford to invest.

If your business is online schema changes, then inventing it yourself makes sense. Otherwise you are likely throwing money away to create an inferior product.
If some random guy had posted this it would be down almost immediately because it was downloaded by too many people at once.
I really don't get why this statement is so common. More or less every other hosted reader immediately offered a migration path, so getting out of Reader and up and running somewhere else was really easy.
Dropbox has the most number support for integrations

Gdrive has some really backwards folder integration and Ive been told inferior API compared to dropbox from developers who have used it

Dropbox handles complex folder structures easily compared to gdrive and other services

Dropbox came first as well

Dropbox gives you exactly what you put into it. Gdrive and onedrive this is not the case. More so onedrive if anything it feels close to PUPware since it forces itself in the OS. Gdrive integrates automatically with google services, giving you less refined control over folder structures.

Theres many cloud software solutions out there but have you tried putting them under stress tests? They have always given me problems (e.g. high CPU usage , long sync times, no revision history, lack of integration to common applications such as wordpress, forced integrations on install, poor UX UI upfront on website, poor mobile integration, lack of easy sharing and collab). I think users who consider cloud storage a commodity dont put high valuation on their data (e.g. users who think cloud software A is better than dropbox because its cheaper per GB storage). Its like going to the grocery store and buying the cheapest meat possible(ground beef), stating there all nutritionally similar, and missing the point on key differences on higher quality meat / taste.
And if you put the starting point of your charts to the end of communism, you will see a radical growth in the average wages and the quality of life of citizens.
well said, to the contrary, it appears we -- americans/europeans -- are the brainwashed ones. instead of finding common cause we our fellow human beings we all too easily follow our leadership's narrative that the people of China are our enemies.
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No, I disagree. that may be a story, too, but it's not this story.
This story is about horrible situation of workers' rights in the US. It's pretty much a house made problem.
Your suggestions make sense, but I can't help but think that there is something fundamentally weird about basically having to use generic programming just to take a string arg.

Indeed, it's the hard trade-off to make every time need a string reference, do you want a function that is slightly more general or one that has an easy-to-read signature?

It becomes even more interesting when defining trait methods. E.g.:

trait Hello {
fn hello<S>(who: S) where S: AsRef<str>;
}

Has the benefit of being more general, but cannot be used as a trait object (dynamic dispatch), since it wouldn't be possible to generate a vtable for &Hello.

I generally prefer the generic approach for functions/methods that want to own a String, since using some_str.to_owned() to pass something to a method is not very ergonomic (relative compared to &owned_string for a function that takes &str). But you have to be certain that you don't want to use the trait as a trait object.
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People already poited out that a) Sweden wasn't very poor in the first place b) didn't participate much in conflict during the time; and, most importantly c) technology was extremely influential in the sense that there was just more to go around.

I want to point out that I think (c) is by far the most important fact but that the post ignores; however, it also ignores lesser factors such as the widespread participation and effects of labor unions.

I see the post as grossly oversimplifying (by conveniently ignoring many other historical factors) while the last time I check, this is something that's still very much debated by modern economists.
The problem is that a low level employee can single handedly (and even inadvertently) cause such damage to a company. This is obviously a management and process problem, not a some-hourly-guy-in-Omaha problem.
It doesn't do anything yet, the project hasn't even started.
Choosing a phone has become too complicated in 2018, so I wanted to create something simple and objective to find the right device.
No marketing gimmicks nor biased reviews. Just features and benchmarks, for real people.

Hope you'll enjoy it, would love your thoughts!

Here's the HN thread that gave me the idea :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14561498
Did you look at the READMEs of those libraries? Most of the common use cases are documented fairly comprehensively there - I pulled those examples almost directly out of those documents
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Death rate doesn't matter, we're talking about frequency of occurrence.

Got relevant stats?
I’m very curious to learn more about the shot they pulled with the kiosks in New York. Could you elaborate?
You can spend a month or two and get used to the bulk of Rust out of raw exposure. After seeing the same compiler errors over and over, you start to pattern match and learn how to jiggle the handle to get what you want.

For example, have you ever accidentally passed &Request across a thread boundary? The compiler explodes with UnsafeCell errors deep within the inner sanctums. It feels impenetrable for a while. You throw some clone() at it and whatever your go-to guesswork is. Then 30 minutes pass and you realize you just needed to pass Request instead of &Request. And at the end of i you really haven't learned much beyond "I'll try that sooner next time."

I think that's the hardest part about Rust. It takes quite a bit of mastery to actually understand and work around the more difficult compiler errors, like one that seems to threaten the whole abstraction you were going for. But adding a `+ Send + Sync` somewhere suddenly fixes it and it's not obvious why. It can feel very precarious.

Anyways, I think most of Rust's issues are just tooling issues. For example, imagine being able to hover identifiers to see their scope shaded in and where they'll get dropped -- instead of just error-message ASCII art. Or being able to hover something to see that it can do something because it implements this certain trait.
From your quote, I got that you work for Alphabet.
Copy and clone have specific meanings and must resolve to the type of the class itself - basically copy or cloning a class of type A gets you another class of type A always.

It's possible, from a language sense, to have an implementation of box that could directly clone the trait, but I don't believe it would have a reasonable api.
Ruby 1.8 -> 1.9 was quite successful; it was painful at the time, but eventually worked out. Contrast with Python 2 -> 3 or Perl 5 -> 6.
The recourses available in court are few and far between against officers of the company as a shareholder. That's not how this gets resolved or what the officers are concerned with. The shareholder power is to vote in a different board of directors that will do what you as a shareholder want done -- virtue signaling against China included. The best example of that, and the amount of power it actually takes is probably Carl Icahn.
I’d just show up with a large cell jammer on the roof of my logging truck. Probably cheaper than continuously modifying the sound of trucks and chainsaws?

Until of course they’re using decent newer phones that can do edge inference
This is the answer I wish I could write :)

The only thing I could think to add was that so much of the urban infrastructure is horrendously poor, and it will need to be ripped apart pretty much wholesale within the next 30-50 years. I’m thinking of all the awful quality apartments, road networks, pavements, sewer and water systems, terrible electricity grids, commercial spaces.

They managed to do all of that the last 30 years with cheap labor, the whole export fueled boom, and a population that will pretty much tolerate anything because it’s still better than the chaos of the past.

Now project that forward with the same disruption and cost, but now you’ve got higher wages, no Mao-baby-boom generation, higher standards and much less credit. It won’t be easy to do.
Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
I'm curious what you consider your "mission" in life & work?

I recently read "So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love" by Cal Newport [1].

The book is divided in different "rules". Rule #4 states that having a "mission" is important to having a meaningful and happy life, which, I understand and can agree with.
Chapter 12 uses Padris Sabeti, a "Professor @harvard @broadinstitute using computational genomics to understand & impact infectious disease." [2], as an example. The chapter tells her story and concludes with her having a clear mission "to use new technology to fight old diseases".

I try from time to time to take a few steps back and review my own career and the path it's taking. Having my own mission statement seems to fit into this review process quite nicely.
Currently, my most accurate mission would be something the lines "(using new technology) to help people build what they themselves can't build".

I find this an interesting topic and simply wanted to know if any of you was willing to share their own "mission" :)

Thanks in advance for your precious time! =)

- [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-can-t-ignore-you

- [2] https://twitter.com/pardissabeti

// edit: formatting
Well, if it'll cost Marriott so much money that they're concerned about it, perhaps they should be hiring someone with more such knowledge at a higher salary.
PayPal is very good for buyers, terrible for sellers. If you want to buy something and do not fully trust the seller, definitely use PayPal.

If you are a seller see if accepting PayPal is worth the trouble.

Almost all complaints are tied to this bias.
So, both Google and FB track people around the web, as do many web-retargeters. The web-retargeters have no reasonable way to get consent, but big G and F do, so it's likely that they will fill the gap in the advertising markets created by the lack of web-retargeters, thus increasing their power.

That's my understanding of the point anyway.
The article clearly mentions that they had to punish someone. Also, China imposed harsh consequences in the form of lost revenue for Marriott due to the liked tweet:

"China forced Marriott to suspend all online booking for a week at its nearly 300 Chinese hotels. A Chinese leader also demanded the company publicly apologize and “seriously deal with the people responsible,” the Journal reported."
Code is not lost forever, but you lose commenting on commit history, image uploads on comments, issue trackers , etc
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In first quarter of 2018, what percentage of you users have been using social login (Facebook/google/etc) for you projects? I've never liked the idea of using social login as a customer, but I don't want to alienate users as a dev.
Undoubtedly, Laissez-Faire and socialist economies have different technology improvement rates.
What?

Back to the original question: Is it, for the most part, a consulting firm? A developer? A construction company?
I don't think so:

> we launched Sidewalk with the broad belief that if we combined the best in urban planning and design with the latest in technology and open digital infrastructure, we could meaningfully improve quality of life for people in cities [...] That’s what we hope to achieve with Waterfront Toronto: neighborhoods that pilot ideas, new and old, to solve big urban problems that cities everywhere are facing. [...] We see our role with Waterfront Toronto as trying to put in place some of the underlying infrastructure [...] On top of those systems, all kinds of local innovators, civic groups, academics, etc, will fill in the details will their ideas and creations.

How is this meaningfully different from what I said? Suppose we rewound time to before cloud infrastructure like AWS and Google Cloud existed, and Google came out with App Engine saying, "we put in place the underlying infrastructure so people can build useful things on it".

And people just keep asking, "but what does it do?" In both cases, the answer seems to be that it provides a platform for other people to implement their own innovative ideas. Given it's Google, this neighbourhood will probably provide ubiquitous wifi and power availability, fiber internet everywhere, and the "livable city" constraint means it will be a walkable space, so few cars, if any. I'm sure there will be plenty of other useful infrastructure I haven't even thought of.
It's interesting how mental gymnastics end up making people less mentally agile. Anyway,

> By saying that a person can't voluntarily agree to become a slave, you are saying that you, not they, have the right to determine what happens to them. That is the essence of slavery right there.

It's the same mechanism by which I wouldn't allow a small child to drink bleach. Masochism isn't a good substitute for therapy, get mad all you want.
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They are using postgres 10.1 for RDS so weird comparison, isn't it?
You're missing the fact that any time someone takes a drug, they're essentially testing it against their unique body chemistry. The same as self-driving cars in unique situations.

The only difference is the car feedback loop is way better instrumented, and doesn't have to rely on mass statistics to inform recalls.
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>a fork pointing at different servers could be instantly created with complete feature parity.

But not federation. No one can talk to people on other servers. Such forks already exist, none of them are successful.

>Yes, Mastodon is inter-operable with OStatus and ActivityPub. However I do not know of any significant user base that interacts with Mastodon through an alternative platform.

I know of many people on both of the platforms I mentioned. Collaboration between all of these platforms is frequent and they drive improvements in each other.
Is this the Onion?
Figma has some export functionality though, via SVG.
Please keep swarm mode going. It’s a pleasure to use, easy to set up, works well with Compose and overall satisfies a lot use cases. Thanks for your work!
Err, no, I'm a freelance software developer living in Toronto actually.
Thanks for finding this, the lack of explanation in the Wikipedia article was driving me crazy. Here’s what the `TeachingDemos::faces2` documentation says about the feature mapping:

> The features are: 1 Width of center 2 Top vs. Bottom width (height
of split) 3 Height of Face 4 Width of top half of face 5 Width of
bottom half of face 6 Length of Nose 7 Height of Mouth 8 Curvature
of Mouth (abs < 9) 9 Width of Mouth 10 Height of Eyes 11 Distance
between Eyes (.5-.9) 12 Angle of Eyes/Eyebrows 13 Circle/Ellipse
of Eyes 14 Size of Eyes 15 Position Left/Right of
Eyeballs/Eyebrows 16 Height of Eyebrows 17 Angle of Eyebrows 18
Width of Eyebrows

So there are 18 visually distinguishable features, and the code maps the columns 2–9 redundantly to two features each, and columns 10–11 to one feature each. I don’t understand how the scaling was chosen — the function requires the values to be in the interval [0, 1] but since the original scores appear to be in [0, 10], a more natural transformation would be to just divide by 10 instead of `x / 5 - 1`. Obviously these two transformations result in markedly different faces.

If I find time later I’ll upload an updated plot that includes a legend. Unfortunately that’s not easy since the `faces2` function overrides R’s plot layout so there’s no space to fit the legend.
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