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There's not going to be rocket thrusters on the tesla roadster. Some things that the Elon says irritate me. I really really wish he wouldn't make twitter posts like this. Why does it bug me, maybe because I want him to be that shining saint on a hill for technology and science.
Upto what extent HN provide the useful news from day to day life? Can somebody tell about it. Please.
Couldn't uber tell if you had one night stands? Wasn't there a telecom tracking service that was until recently open to the public, where you could get locations of phones just by the number?

If there was some geolocation between two devices registered to accounts owned by opposite sexes of similar age spending time together, overnight & with time, then you have the data you need?
Some Hong Kong sims can roam in China outside of the great firewall. Also, it used to be kindle would work in China on twice of the GFW to, for some odd reason.
Nice. I too have interest about politics but news.google.com is what I use to get latest updates about it.
> You rested your argument on the fact that we should take away someone’s right because they got annoyed. So no, I am not being unreasonable.

You are being unreasonable. You seem to be unable to imagine things except from the POV of a person who wants to rent out an apartment as an AirB&B, which may be the root of your unreason.

Anyway, this thread is dead and you seem immune to the insight that what you seem see as an "inalienable right" (turning an apartment into a dedicated AirB&B) might actually be an oppression on others. It's pointless to continue.

I'm glad you're not my neighbor, and I'm glad there's government to keep you from being too much of an inconsiderate asshole if you were.
Well, those actually seem totally different from what I'm getting at. I think people who understand Richard can still have valid arguments about his positives and negatives as a leader etc.

I can't tell quickly skimming those threads (even their context) whether these are people with real understanding bringing up particular reasonable complaints in just absurdly hyperbolic fashion or whether they are ignorant people with invalid criticisms. Either way, the comments aren't of the simple style where they just say that RMS thinks X and are factually wrong.
Erlang is badass in this way
You're presuming that in these fatalities that the driver's eyes weren't on the road. What if the autopilot executed a maneuver that attentive drivers couldn't recover from in time?
> Autopilot would have worked fine if the lane markings were properly painted

So in other words, Autopilot works reliably only in lab conditions. In the real world, not so much.
their on the right track. But, why not just lower the tax to say 0.5% from 1%, and then make it apply to everyone at their Current home value. That would be fairest.
There is quite a bit of apple crapware on my ipad pro that i can't delete but instead must move to a folder called bloatware
I've wondered if the 16 byte paragraph size came from prejudices of engineers who were involved with the iAPX 432, an "object oriented" processor that was canceled after Intel realized it had significant, architecture-level performance flaws.
It depends. But, in general, no.

Startup employees generally get equity in the form of stock options. In order for employees to get preferential tax treatment on these options they have to exercise these options at the time they are granted (which can require a large outlay of cash) and then hold them for at least one year.

Due to the cost and risk of this exercise, most employees do not do this. Instead they wait to see if the company becomes more valuable (and liquid) and only exercise the options if so. At that point any realized gains are taxed as ordinary wage income.

There are a great many resources online on this topic if you are interested in more details.
i'm a regular reader of this blog; there's always something non-obvious (at least to me) plus just really fine, fine writing--eg,

"Some Dart users really dig a functional style and appear to be playing a game where whoever crams the most work before a single semicolon wins."

sort of the Dave Eggers of software engineering
I know, right? I'm actually leaning in the direction of making it a little less spartan by having it either accept a parameter for a project name to go directly to that folder, or prompt me to enter a number to select from a list of projects gathered from the folder names in my parent project directory.
C++ already has compiler-enforced null checking by virtue of not allowing non-pointer variables to be null. But sometimes we want a variable to be null and not be a pointer.

Consider:

struct stuff {
int required_value;
int optional_value;
}

What would you do if you had no value for optional_value? Probably use 0 or -1 but that can be problematic, and not even an option if optional_value is not a primitive type.

You could use int* optional_value instead and just assign NULL, but then you have to malloc/new and make sure to free/delete later.

You could use std::unique_ptr to handle memory management but you are still invoking dynamic memory.

std::optional allows you to have nullable variables without using pointers, even when hidden behind the scenes.

You could ask, what is the point of optional if you don't want to check if it is null? Well...I guess it's the same as no bounds checking, sometimes the programmer just knows. Most of the time, hopefully, a check will be done at some point, and subsequent accesses can skip the check.
Isn't this accounted for with the standard deduction and marginal tax brackets?
Here’s why iAd failed (2016)
aren't all apps deletable since iOS 11? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208094
Wow! That throws much of the western world out of the water. I'm wondering if there is any requirement for continued residency. For example, in US if you don't live 6 months out of a year in US then you risk your green card getting cancelled.
Capital gains taxes resulting in less efficient resource allocation does not imply that it is instead allocated in an ethical way, nor distributed more equitably, or any of the other notions mentioned.

Having a more efficient economy means there's a surplus that enables resources to be expended on environmental and social concerns. Hungry people don't care about those things. There's a reason poor countries tend to be the worst polluted.

Lastly, efficiency isn't about maximizing production. It's about maximizing productivity, i.e. production/cost.
> Western countries appear more and more dysfunctional as an emerging result of their citizens inability to collectively take action

Well said. I feel like people have slowly been taught to fear standing up for themselves.
Unless companies like Tesla stop worrying about being the next "Great American Industry" and start focusing on real world problems and their solutions.

If Tesla could develop a network of self driving buses, that would have far greater reach and impact than trying to solve how to make a private network for charging and all case-considered self-driving system for asshole-mobiles. Not that Tesla cars aren't amazing, but they seem like a giant waste of resources for self-centered people. Not to mention in situations like self-driving, buses have completely predictable paths and because of that, it's much easier to optimize for corner cases to work toward a general solution.

With the exception of the handicapped, people don't really need cars. Bikes/e-bikes work great for any type of commute <30 miles and hauling cargo <100 lbs with a trailer. Electric skateboards are also great if you have little to carry and <12 miles to go. Beyond that, self-driving delivery fleets in the vain of UPS and buses make sense. There's really no valid reason to use a car unless you're an invalid.

But guys like Elon Musk are happy to burn the earth to the ground to terraform Mars instead of working on how to terraform places like Arizona or Pakistan because it looks better to them on paper. Or so it would seem.
Sales is like marketing. Certain techniques work for certain periods of time, but then they become outdated / the public becomes used to them.

It’s hard to say cold calling works anymore. If a business is able to get it to work, it’s usually only by firing sales people so frequently they aren’t able to collect commission, improving margins.

I’m not saying cold calling or cold emailing isn’t a useful skill / tool, but just that the massive “smile and dial” campaigns that Xerox successfully waged in the 70’s and 80’s probably wouldn’t work today.
Thank you so much for creating this, it solves one of the biggest problem that I face everyday while lodging sales online. Now I can include this js file in my php file to convert the amount easily. Thanks bro :)
I wasn't aware of that. I must try again. I guess i was running iOS 10 the last time i tried. Thanks for the link
A few years ago, I visited Tibet with friends. One of our group was a T-Mobile subscriber, and was able to leverage their roaming agreement with the PRC (and its bypassing the Great Firewall) to read and post on Facebook, among others.
> Morality should not be restricted by geographic borders.

Conquest & colonialism want us all to see things with the same glasses.
This post is 100% spot on. Ask the folks at Palantir under what conditions a person stops being identified as a 'target' in their database... Hint: everything you do, on a daily basis, can be construed as incriminating.

Source: Worked in an intelligence battalion for 5 years.
It's not too far off from drunk drivers --- while walking past them, I've had far too many of these "zombies" suddenly drift directly into my path.
Letting you through the GFW and not actually touching any servers are two completely orthogonal concepts though.

Also, if your iCloud country is set to China it doens't matter which country you're in or what SIM you use; your iCloud account will be stored in a Chinese data centre: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/apple-sends-icloud-c...
As someone who has loved mechanical watches <insert other qualitative hobbies I’m sure> for years and seen them become a financial product over the last decade or so. I’m not convinced making art a financial product is a net positive.
Wait, people invest in art?
True, but the actual percentage of “vast” is debatable. There are many ways that your DNA can be collected including when being arrested, for medical treatment, military or civil service, or just at birth [1].

1. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/ind...
Perhaps I jumped the gun. I assumed you were implying that suggesting someone read a newspaper is asking too much because of the person's particular background. Unfortunately, I encounter too many folks who hold similar views.
Yup, there are exceptional engineering talent in these mega corps, rare but it does exist. Usually the talent gets filtered by Division X progression. Eventually the best end up in Division 1, which is good but it takes a long time for this process to do its magic... but thats ok you`ve signed up for 30 years of service.

Thats the theory, sometimes it works in practice, sometimes other shit screws it all up.
>To be clear, we have no certainty of what Apple’s grand plan is

Sp, the author don't know what apple want, just a conspiracy theorist? But under the same argument or deduction, any company isn't my friend, this author is not my friend, too.
Sorry, I’m sure you didn’t mean to ignore the question.

The commenter asked how the performance compares to an NVidia 1080Ti GPU.

A precise benchmark may not be necessary but in general, it will take for example how many Skylake cores at 3.5 Ghz to approximate the GPU example?
Why don't you login and check for yourself?
> Jeff Bezos is literally the richest human being on Earth. If anyone could afford to pay his workers a fair wage, it's him.

Actually it wouldn't be so simple. Amazon is one of the lowest margin businesses on earth. The vast majority of Bezos' wealth is in Amazon's overpriced stock.

It wouldn't really be possible to pay workers a larger wage both from his wealth, seeing as its stock, nor from cutting margins further.
Economic theories do take into account what is produced and why. No one thinks that we should devote 90% of our economy to paperclip production even if that meant we would be producing more total stuff than otherwise. When people talk about economic efficiency they actually are talking about utility.

Economic theory can also address questions of equality. There are efficient ways to redistribute income and there are less efficient ways.

Economic theory can also address environmental questions. There are efficient ways to address resource usage and there are less efficient ways.

Philosophical and ethical concerns are indeed outside the realm of economics. That part is true (which is why I said "there are certainly fine arguments against that point of view"). But much of your rebuttal understates the range of topics than can be reasonably addressed by economics.
For state heavy applications, you want graceful restart even if you can tolerate hard failures.
The author paints a few overwrought scenes and meanders around a point, but never quite makes one that truly stands out, and doesn't deliver meaningful insight.

Countless people have wondered, amateurs and professionals alike, why so many people commute even when jobs and housing are available in proximity, and not just concentrated in the employment centers like SV, but it always boils down to the same basic setup: supply and demand feeding into pricing, disposable incomes feeding into pricing, zoning and regulations feeding into issues with the demand-matching supply, and a bunch of individuals trying to optimize their circumstances given several constraints.
Looks like a comment destined for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17276184
These arguments use a simplified model where capital income occurs as the consequence of investing wage income. They don't address the modern reality that capital income replaces wage income, through accelerated depreciation, inheritance, carried interest, etc.

And yes, of course taxing capital is distorionary; but so is taxing labor, and exponentially so when capital income may be substituted for labor.
Koreans in Japan had their citizenship revoked in 1952 and have issues receiving promotions and access to pensions: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%20Documents...
> You have a dogma yourself. that's ok, just be aware that you have one, and are espousing one.

I completely deny this. I am anti-dogma and presume at this point that you are either just lumping me in with dogmatic people who say things that my points remind you of or that you are otherwise misinterpreting me.

What's my dogma? Are you just conflating "dogma" with things like "bias" and "perspective" because I certainly have those, I'm just one person and not omniscient.

> The free market is one of the most tested ideas out there.

The free-market as a MODEL is well-tested and understood. There are cases where reality fits the model pretty well, but they are isolated. The vast majority of reality is far enough from the free-market model that it's impossible to use reality as a test of "the free market" because most markets in reality aren't fully free.

I suspect you're equating "market" with "free market". All the complex parameters of pricing, supply-and-demand, basic market economics… that's all present in most markets, free or non-free. It's not like when there are regulations or power imbalances, cartels etc. etc. that all of market economics disappears. But there's so rarely any example of completely free market to even study, we can't accurately accept that it's well-tested.

We can't study free-markets in a lab the way we can study basic physics or cell biology or whatever.

Besides, the vast majority of economics as a field has been practiced in ways that are nowhere near the scientific rigor of many other fields.

> [your last two paragraphs]

I'm not sure I follow the relevance here. Are you assuming that you're talking to some dogmatic ideologue such that the plain things you state which seem sensible enough is a counter to anything I think or wrote?
If the US has this, can you imagine what the Chinese database has?

It’s very probable that the Chinese have a database on every person in the world. Everything you ever posted, and who knows what else, all sitting on some server, lying in wait. It wouldn’t take much more than an Oracle DB on a single Dell server.

The purpose of this would be something akin to the Soviet “sexpionage” of the 60’s and the 70’s. It’s incredible blackmail material. It doesn’t need
to be used now, but as people grow older and move up the ranks of organizations, all of the naked
photos that were swiped from their iCloud account 17 years before can prove incredibly damaging.

EDIT: Singled out China as an example, but should have said most governments.
Or maybe instead of based on market price, make the property taxes based on the size / features of the house ?
I think what the sentence says is that the Amazon factory pays well below the city average?
You asked a question. I gave you an answer. I agree that it is a complex question with many competing arguments on both sides.
Or volunteered to an online genetic testing service.
While you could argue that, you could also argue that this activity is prevalent in a 'very similar' way in the consumer's life already. Not so much for violence.
I am the director of sales at a 5 person firm. I manage sales and marketing from cradle to grave.

Cold calling delivers an extremely poor ROI. I've seen random, large successes from cold calling with my own eyes, but these are quite literally 1 in 1 million. It's the equivalent of finding a bunch of $100 bills on the ground- has it happened to you often?

What you really need, realistically, is strong PR and referrals. If you aren't doing Youtube, in-person speaking engagements, and asking customers for introductions, then you either are selling B2C or you aren't selling much of anything B2B.

Direct-outreach B2B sales has poor ROI. Period. Cold calls, cold emails, cold letters in the physical mail-- this is grunt work and usually it ends poorly, even if you are giving your service away for free.
Please note that capitalism means private ownership of core resources and means of production. It doesn't specify whether we have free or semi-free markets or whatever. Markets (free or not) have great value and are bigger and independent of capitalism (for perspective, markets are much older).
Every point you make applies equally well to labor:

1. The higher the labor tax rate, the fewer people will work.

2. Higher labor tax rate makes for less efficient economics because workers will prefer lower-paying (less stressful) jobs.

3. Wage tax brackets are not indexed for inflation.

Given these, why should the tax code prefer capital ownership to labor?
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What makes it satire is that it exaggerates the facts to shine a spotlight on their absurdity. The Tina Fey bit isn't literally true, but it does show the absurdity of Palin's statements pretty well.
> No one wants to be crammed in a small space with a bunch of strangers every day.

I take 15 minutes crammed in a small space with a bunch of strangers over one hour of solitude in a small metal box with windows any day.

Nobody has managed to explain me how self driving cars reduces congestion. It is space that is the limiting factor, and I do not understand how autonomous cars reduce the need for that.

Vice versa, rudimentary economic analysis says that if you do not need to concentrate on driving, you can spend more time in the car, thus sitting in the traffic is not that bad and more people are willing to do that -> more congestion.
The fundamental research on aero-spikes has been done, and they flunk the rocket equation.
> Hopefully the US military will be able to upgrade the nuclear triad in time to maintain MAD and eliminate this potential threat.

I consider MAD to be a greater threat. We are talking about extinguishing all human life.

Some reference material:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16884.The_Making_of_the_...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452798-command-and-cont...

Just recently published:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663779-the-doomsday-ma...

> But I think the best solution would be for the entire G7 to develop independent MAD systems so there's never any doubt that it remains in effect.

Comprehensive MAD would be a wonderful thing, if you had utter certainty that the chance for accidental launch was zero. If the chance is nonzero, you've put a time limit on civilization. How long? A hundred years? Three hundred?

You refer derisively to "1950s-era" technology. And you have a point. I'm agreeing with that point, and using it to make the case for a real chance of accidental nuclear war based on flawed or worn-out technology.

The third book in the list above goes into stark detail about the other danger - that of nuclear war based on flawed human decision-making.
You just mean the market as we know it today. There is no generic "the free market" in existence.

Even Somalia, the market is affected greatly by the military context of what's going on. It's got less centralized control, but it's not an actual free market entirely. A true free market as a complete overall social system is probably just a fantasy idea.
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There might be a term for it, but I didn't say there wasn't one, only I was curious what program was self-aware as I wasn't aware that one existed!

If one does exist, then that would be truly remarkable.
1. only if they have alternatives to work.

2. are you sure about that? Lower paying jobs tend to be more stressful.

3. they are last time I looked, though those things change over time
Agreed; not attacking you, I just feel like the pro-differential-taxation arguments are too theoretical and ignore political and economic realities.
> Countless people have wondered, amateurs and professionals alike, why so many people commute even when jobs and housing are available in proximity,

Can be explained by this.

> Moreover, the use of motorized transport is no longer optional. Since the introduction of motorized transport the arrangement of our cities has changed in such a way that the majority of people no longer live within walking distance of their place of employment, shopping areas and recreational opportunities, so that they HAVE TO depend on the automobile for transportation. Or else they must use public transportation, in which case they have even less control over their own movement than when driving a car.

Source: [1995] Prof. Teddy in https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
A fair point.
I agree with you, except in your singling out of China.

Can you point to anything in China and say with reasonable confidence that it's not happening elsewhere?
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It seems like people whose properties are worth much more than their incomes should be able to reverse-mortgage their property to pay the taxes. Why does that not work?
Fair enough. When he actively supports that bipartisan effort, then I'll believe him!

With Trump, actions speak louder than words.
This PR campaign is bullshit.
That's income taxes, the poor pay other taxes too. Also, the poor comprise the people who cut your hair, clean your yards, make your food, essentially provide for those making over 200K. Just because we don't provide the means to live to them like we do for other people doesn't mean they aren't important and don't equally sacrifice.
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Post-"representational" Painting is also strangely like this as well, even, strangely enough, with a certain time pressure: the first mark/stroke will, most of the time, be be better than the marks that come after that, and a corrected stroke almost invariably worse. Plus, as time continues, the surface ages.

Here's a concept from 19th century music that seems connected to the question of thematic refactoring/development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_transformation