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This breaks the HN guidelines by name-calling. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do that here.

Edit: it looks like you've been posting a bunch of ideological-battle-style comments here. Would you please not do that? We ban accounts that use HN primarily for this, but I don't want to ban you because you've posted a bunch of good comments as well.
I think you need to go and read your original comment a bit more thoroughly then, I just did and it seems pretty clear to me what you were intending to imply.
That’s not true either. The top quintile accounts for a slight majority of income in the US, and someone at the 20% mark, while doing quite well, is far from rich.
Most boards would likely block any kind of cash compensation approaching eight or nine figures, and will strongly insist on stock options.

The headlines you see about 9-figure CEO compensation are mainly related to companies whose stock has outperformed. CEOs whose stock languished and didn’t amount to much compensation rarely make magazine covers.
China spends less than half what America spends on defense, and yet nobody is crazy enough to want to attack China. I'd also argue that a de-escalation in defence spending is entirely possible without sacrificing national security.

Would China invade Canada if the world's defence budgets dropped precipitously? Probably not - it has far more to gain through trade than by attempted colonization.

In fact, last time I checked nobody in Canada or Western Europe was asked to vote on the US defense budget. I'd gladly vote to cut it in half and devote more to shoring up your healthcare system, but it's a sovereign issue and it's up to Americans to solve it for themselves.
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I agree, the responsiblity for this flaw ultimately lies with netflix. And if laying blame is a helpful thing to do, the blame lies with netflix.

But at the same time, in a purely practical sense the mockup at the end of the article showing an explicit warning about email being sent to a non-canonical address is clearly excellent and should be implemented.
After you spent some time working that much, you forget what to do when you are not working. You will forget how to socialize out of work, you will not know activities you might like, you will loose friends and family will be alienated and used to live without you (you being suddenly at home will be distracting to them).

You come home and it is empty and lonely - you can watch tv or play game, but it likely feels pointless. Staying long in work allows you to drown the pointless feeling, at least you can feel good about yourself.
I know I am supposed to find it deep and like it to the bitter end. And boy have I tried.

There'a lot of Kubrick I don't get. I have actually read A Clockwork Orange, the novel, and liked it despite its Burgessian lapsed catholic babble, but I intensely dislike the movie.

And don't get me started on The Shining.
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Apart from the obvious advantages, are there any downsides, for example: biologically ?

Are touch typists more prone to eye strain as they constantly look on the computer screen? Or touch typing is actually beneficial because it reduces head/eye movement.
Celiac is an auto-immune disorder, an allergy. Celiac sufferers who consume even small amounts of gluten will have their digestive system more or less shut down for a period of up to several days afterward. Gluten sensitivity is similar to lactose intolerance (and is closely related to FODMAP sensitivity and IBS), for those folks consuming gluten leads to digestive problems. Just as many people with lactose intolerance can consume some lactose if they are careful the same is true for many people with gluten sensitivity, but also the severity of symptoms vary greatly and some people find that playing russian roulette with their gut is too dangerous so they seek to eliminate it from their diet entirely.
> The core issue being that for the poorest of the poor, privacy is secondary to survival.

Privacy is probably not on their radar.

However, Aadhaar is an authentication system not a tracking system. So privacy is not even relevant here but please correct me if I am mistaken.
It is against the rules to comment on voting so I won't. But the lack of any counter-arguments is astounding, let alone coherent ones.
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> I answered that as long as there are subsidies there is going to be leakage

It used to be the case before but is no longer the case. Aadhaar, even by this very article's admission, states that "Officials estimate that taxpayers have saved at least $9.4 billion from Aadhaar by weeding out “ghosts” and other improper beneficiaries of government services."

$9.4 billion is a huge amount of money saved by the exchequer. That is almost 2% of the India's annual budget. In a country with a very small tax base, every rupee saved is an earning in itself.
Exactly. I once had a manager who tried to incentivize my team to work overtime for two months to hit an unrealistic deadline set by the sales department. The incentive was that we would have a pizza party IF we hit the deadline. Monetary compensation was never even discussed.
> Matching that with an open source effort seems implausible to me.

You don't have to because it is an inadequate comparison.

You don't need much effort to continue using old software. There are people who still use SNES with the original OS. Where are the people maintaining that? There are none, because none are needed.

If you think an "old" OS isn't sufficient because we now demand things of an OS the old one doesn't deliver, then you would rapidly stop missing it after using it for a while. So, not much development needed either.
I was very let down when I watched it some years ago--I was like, 'where's the climax?' But I've watched a few more arty ambiguous movies lately ('Under the Skin', 'The Neon Demon', 'Mother!') and recently liked 'Annihilation' despite its slow pacing and ambiguity, so I've been thinking maybe I'll like '2001' better this time if I check it out again...

Something I've noticed about '2001' in the meanwhile is that its aesthetics seem very future-proof. It doesn't seem dated or plastic-y like other stuff from that era.

An interesting article about the setting and social environment: 'HAL, Mother, and Father: Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien.' https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/09/hal-mother-an...
My understanding is + sign is in the RFC, so of course it should be supported. If you want to identify your users by email, you should probably strip the + and everything after before checking for uniqueness. On the other hand, dots matter in the RFC and Gmail is breaking it with their "feature".

edit: I was corrected in other comments that the + labeling is optional part of the standard.
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Gmail could let you specify a list of valid addresses:

first.mid.last, firstmidlast, firstmid.last

Any others bounce or display the warning header suggested in the article.
>Explanations were his forte. He was uncomfortable with most forms of ambiguity.

One can enjoy good explanations without necessarily enjoying them in movies. I think it's more fun like to try to explain what's going on by oneself from the few clues available. It seems to me that many works of art are polysemic. For example, a passage of Shakespeare can light up several different ideas in one's head thereby creating a stimulating, almost psychedelic experience. It makes the bare plot worthwhile (and worth explaining).
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're all the same, which means they're off topic here.

Repetition doesn't fit with intellectual curiosity, and the purpose of the site is the latter.
> A small and limited government is a weak government. A weak government is susceptible to corruption.

Your assertion isn't self evident. A government could have great power within its defined scope of power and little power outside that scope.

There is also a reasonable argument that as the scope and strength of government power increases so does the desire to corrupt and control that power.

Which is more dangerous a corrupt but weak and limited government or a corrupt strong and expansive government?
The anthropologist Robin Dunbar (of Dunbar's number fame) has written about this:

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9...

From the abstract: "This chapter suggests that the original function of music is most likely associated with social bonding once group sizes became too large to be adequately bonded using grooming alone. It also contends that music served a natural bridge to language as language became inevitable as a mechanism for group bonding and cohesion."
Yes you are right in that Aadhaar is currently an authentication system and not a tracking system. But there are definitely instances where Aadhaar data has leaked (not the biometrics, but identity information like Name, Address and Phone numbers) which rightly calls into question privacy related issues.
It's about risk management. In this case they decided to take on the risk of account information leaking by not verifying the address instead of the risk to account conversions. The former shows more care toward their users and the latter shows more care to their bottom line. You can argue which is the right decision all day long but ultimately is a question of risk tolerance.
The module takes an extra reference count to itself upon initialization and never decrements it, so rmmod will fail because the module will be "in use".
What's the point of a conversion funnel that creates exactly one conversion and then a huge amount of customer grief when they can never use the account again?

If the email address matters then validate it, if it doesn't need to be validated then don't ask for it.
My grandparents didn't have a freezer until the 1950s. They kept a beef in a commercial freezer 15 miles away in town. They grew vegetables that they sold to grocery stores, so I guess they had good access to that sort of thing.

I doubt any of the stores my parents shopped at in the 1960s Midwest particularly had things like avocados.
Kubrick was fairly known for heavily adapting the novels he used for inspiration. There are huge differences between the novel "Lolita" and Kubrick's adaptation. Same with "Shining" or "Clockwork Orange".

TBH, I'm really happy we didn't get a version with voice-overs and all. Hard to imagine a concept of "documentary" would have been better than what we ended up with.
The thing is, philosophy in this case was using the knowledge available and applying reasoning to drawn conclusions.

While it was entirely possible that Locke's prediction would prove to be incorrect. It was not 'dumb luck' it was an 'educated guess'. 'dumb luck' literally is pretty much exactly the opposite of what occurred here.
> it must keep growing. The reason businesses must keep growing is that investors demand it.

That's true of growth investors, but rarely represents the entire investment community.

Bond investors (whose market is an order of magnitude larger than stocks) want fixed yield - they could care less if the business grows or languishes during that time, as long as the coupon checks keep coming. Real estate investors (whose playing field is also orders of magnitudes larger than public equities market) also usually sign up for a preferred fixed yield, growth being secondary.

Even within the equities markets not everybody is a growth investor, with a lot of people buying for value or dividend yield.
Hmm, ok. There may have also been a C/C++ difference somewhere in there. We ended up being able to compile our journey planer code for Windows Phone after quite a few hours of rewriting stuff and wading through compiler errors. (incidentally, at a Microsoft hackathon, hosted at a former/historic prison complex)
They don't. I'm not even sure what the "means of production" are in a service economy like the US.
The use of these anti-depressants is extremely irresponsible. Most people who use them dont even have an inherant chemical problem. This will all be looked back upon as very stupid indeed.
Jeez, this community is harsh, not even a little bit of constructive criticism.
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I guess we're not really communicating very well.

Let's change tack slightly. Say that we had a vaccine for a deadly disease and 1 million people were vaccinated with it. And let's say that out of that 1 million people, 1000 died as a side effect of the vaccine, while 2001 people avoided certain death (and let's say that we are in a position to know that with absolute certainty).

Do you think such a vaccine would be considered successful?

I guess I should clarify that when I say "considered successful" I mean: a) by the general population and b) by the medical profession.
Here's an alternate and more informative headline for anyone who wants a bit more detail rather than clicking through and trying to skim for the needle in a digital haystack:

>>> "At 88, doctor pursues clot-busting medication combination to aid in treatment of heart attacks and strokes"
Maybe, or maybe they just test the password you enter against all of the accounts when you try to log in.

However it's implemented, this is a well-known, long-standing "feature" of Amazon. I think it happened to me once when I first tried to sign up for AWS, and accidentally ended up with a second Amazon account. See http://adaptivepath.org/ideas/the-woes-of-multiple-accounts/
When people talk about the top 1% owning almost all the wealth, they're typically referring to the global top 1% (at least that's the case with this article). The top quintile of the US is certainly considered rich globally, even if they don't feel like they are.

I'm interested to see your source for the US tax receipts by quintile, though. I could definitely believe I was wrong about the richest portion paying "the vast majority". I probably should have said the top half.
And yet a powerful government is really good using its power to limit competition, discourage competitors, protect incumbents, and so on.
> Don't named variables serve the same purpose as pronouns?

Variable names are closer to real names, than pronouns. Try taking any piece of narration and remove the pronouns; it'll read something like:

Mark woke up in the morning when Mark's alarm went off. Mark dangled Mark's feet over the side of Mark's bed, and slipped Mark's feet into Mark's slippers.

A lot of code reads like that, too.
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The high student debt and unaffordable housing are almost entirely due to policies of the Democratic Party, a.k.a. the party that is supposedly trying to reduce income inequality.

Interventions often don’t do what you wanted them to do.
> Mebbe we should focus our anger on this, and demand no microtargeting using socially derived data for elections

Just one out of the many links for the lazy, written just after the 2012 elections: "How Data and Micro-Targeting Won the 2012 Election for Obama - Antony Young-Mindshare North America" (https://www.mediavillage.com/article/how-data-and-micro-targ...) .

Reading it now is just, I don't know how to say it because English is not my mother tongue, but maybe ghoul-y is the word? That feeling when you watch a series-B horror movie and you can see the monster is in the house, is just in the room next to the victim, but you can't tell the victim because, well, you have no psych powers. Just copy-pasting some of the paragraphs from that article (which I had found after a quick google search) shows that we should have known about this monster since at least (now) 6 years, we should have seen that it was in the room just next to us, but we did nothing, we only made it worse:

> How did Obama win? (...) At the heart of these two strategies, was micro-targeting.

> Micro-targeting is the ability to dissect in this case, the voter population in to narrow segments and customize messaging to them, both in on-the-ground activities and in the media. (...) But it was the sophistication and the scale of how they executed this strategy that in the end, proved the knock-out punch for the Democrats.

and especially

> The Obama camp in preparing for this election, established a huge Analytics group that comprised of behavioral scientists, data technologists and mathematicians. They worked tirelessly to gather and interpret data to inform every part of the campaign. They built up a voter file that included voter history, demographic profiles, but also collected numerous other data points around interests … for example, did they give to charitable organizations or which magazines did they read to help them better understand who they were and better identify the group of 'persuadables' to target.

and

> That data was able to be drilled down to zip codes, individual households and in many cases individuals within those households.

and then it gets WTF-y (pardon my French):

> Volunteers canvassing door to door or calling constituents were able to access these profiles via an app accessed on an iPad, iPhone or Android mobile device to provide an instant transcript to help them steer their conversations. They were also able to input new data from their conversation back into the database real time.

> The profiles informed their direct and email fundraising efforts. They used issues such Obama's support for gay marriage or Romney's missteps in his portrayal of women to directly target more liberal and professional women on their database, with messages that "Obama is for women," using that opportunity to solicit contributions to his campaign
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I think the best solution for this problem is to move the password setting after the email verification, so that if someone has an account attached to their email, it has a password that they sed.
The integrity of a weak government is uninteresting. Let them be corrupt, what will they do? Reprimand you?

If the government has power. If is an authority in the eyes of the people. In those cases we should care about the integrity of the government.
This seems to come down to prescriptivist / descriptivist. The word communism is used to label the empire of Lenin & Stalin, and their friends and admirers. That's what it means.

They didn't all call themselves communists. The germans also don't call themselves german. We do.

It was invented long before, as a label for some imaginary perfect system which did not need to run gulags to keep the lights on. This perfect place played an important theological and rhetorical role in these kingdoms. If discussing such issues we use the word for this too. Words can have several meanings.
Going through this right now, albeit with Robinhood.
I have to report my earning in Canada and the US, but I have a lot of transactions.

The IRS is okay with the condensed transactions; but the CRA want everything line-by-line. So now I have to scrape my transactions via the "unofficial" Robinhood API because they conveniently don't allow you to export anything.
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> Certain control flow structures are inexpressible in goto-less C.

I'm not sure about that. C contains while loops. And every GOTO-computable programs should be expressible by WHILE-computable programs.

See (slide 21):
http://ai.cs.unibas.ch/_files/teaching/fs16/theo/slides/theo...
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> airy theoretical concept

This is personal for you - I am not directly affected by Aaddaar. Perhaps you should step back and ponder the question I had posed. Aadhaar strikes a raw nerve among many. Similar to the debate over ACA in the US.

I am simply trying to understand why.
I literally had to scroll all the way to the very bottom in order to get to the point. If journalists want us to pay them then they must abandon this cancerous writing style of endless fluff and nonsense.
I think a point can be made that most of those voters rejecting universal health care are persuaded to do so by the very interests of those very wealthy.
People can't automatically derive those other email addresses. The existence of xapata@somehost doesn't allow assuming the existence of xapata.spam@somehost, but the existence of xapata@gmail does allow assuming the existence of xa.pa.ta@gmail.
This is to a large degree explainable by way of "rosy retrospection".

Quality has many facets - for example, I doubt they could tell you how often people in their youth died from salmonella, e. coli, or the like. Food was also significantly more expensive, and in colder regions fruit was nearly impossible to come by in winter months.

Was an apple from 1918 more nutritious than one bought in store today? It's possible, but then again nobody (in the developed world) in the 2008 recession was in danger of starving - a very different proposition than during the Great Depression.
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I'm pretty much certain there is something to gluten sensitivity. Starting from when I was a teenager I used to have stomach cramps and diarrhoea about twice a week. This went on for 10+ years. Being a kid I assumed this was just a thing some people have, and never really spoke about it to anyone. The day I stopped eating bread and other large portions of gluten was the day this issue went away in full. I have since taken the blood test for celiac and it came back negative (my doctor said soy sauce in my diet should be enough to set off the test, although to be fair he was not 100% confident on this point). Any time I try reintroducing bread, egg noodles, etc., the cramps come back like clockwork. I can take unlimited rice and gluten-free bread without triggering symptoms.

My suspicions are that (1) there is a sub-celiac-diagnosis level of irritation which people are experiencing and addressing by cutting out gluten, and (2) maybe many people are not comfortable being vocal about their digestive issues in public?

The medical industry has a big track record of treating unknown disorders as psychosomatic and writing off sufferers until they are lucky enough to figure out that particular disease. Consider that IBS is a disease of exclusion and how poorly understood gut bacteria is right now. It's not always going to be reliable, but it is worth listening when a ton of people complain and proceed to vote with their wallets as well.
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My heart and sympathy goes out to anybody who's on antidepressants and is trying to get off. From what I've seen and heard, it is just an incredibly painful and unpleasant experience, compounded by the fact that you need to be constantly negotiating with your insurance to cover the changing prescriptions as your dosage lowers. The withdrawal symptoms can be incredibly oppressive and disruptive. I wish there was more research into this, because I think it could help a lot of people.
> The quality of food is better?

The quality of food is immensely better.

For one, you can get actual fresh veggies and fruits year 'round, even in the northern regions.

They didn't have Whole Foods in 1960, dude.

In fact, 1960 was the era of Cheez-Wiz, TV dinners, Tang, Velveeta, and Wonder Bread.
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If you're engaged in a voluntary business relationship with a corporation, they're going to have their own terms, reasonable or not. And yes, the more asymmetric the relationship, the less reasonable the terms.

Fortunately, working for any particular corporation is voluntary. And thankfully, it seems that sunlight has disinfected these specific extreme practices. Hadn't heard of either.

Off-topic: This is the first I've encountered explicit citation of negative/positive sources. I like it.
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