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This is only one part of a system that the rich have their rules, and the rest have "their rules".

It also goes along with the idea: pay for a bigshot attorney, get out of murder charge. Be poor accused, get public defender and a guilty charge.

In Indiana, you can even expunge felonies up to a certain criminal threshold. Do you know what the primary criteria is? You have to PAY for them to expunge.

The USA has always been pay-for-play. Now, its being called out for what it is. This country, the legal system, elections; you name it. The more money you have, the more influence you have, and the "better" the system is for you.

How do we fix this? The simple answer is to elect people who have more liberal mindsets that try to get rid of these poor=disenfranchised laws. That's a long term, and not even guaranteed to work. What do we have short term? I have no clue.
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What would you say are significant differences between the books and movies in regards to geography, landmarks, and structures?
Yep. Microsoft has a huge dominance in personal computers and office suits, two of the most profitable product lines of the past 25 years, and this does not look like changing anytime soon.
There is a difference in the level of "fulfillment", the degree of satisfaction that one can only earn from active engagement. Binge-ing on Netflix series is easier, more passive, to the extent where it has to poke you after 3 episodes to make sure you're still conscious.
Hmm - seems like Amazon is now borrowing from the EBAY playbook. My EBAY usage is maybe one or two items in a year and rarely anything high-ticket. EBAY clearly favored sellers over buyers and after one or two run-ins with (a) leaving negative reviews for poor sellers and (b) fighting their policy where you had to wait a month before even filing for a refund - I left for Amazon prime. I'm probably going to drop Amazon prime at the end of this year.
This never will happen. People will never agree to upending their culture and language, even in supposed interests of humanity. [Whether this would actually work is arguable].

> You can preserve culture and language, while simultaneously forcing everyone to learn English.

Nope, because culture and language are deeply intertwined. Over time, people would use their native languages less and less, and then entire cultural swathes of knowledge will be lost.

Next, no one will ever agree on one language. Not English, not Chinese, nor any made up language. Especially not an existing real language, for any number of reasons.

There are also concepts in different languages that are difficult to translate or grasp in other languages. Translation isn't a 1:1 rote task.

> I think it's about time humanity decides to stop the ego trip and declare english as the earth official language.

There is no "ego trip" going on here. The only "ego trip" is assuming that we can simply force everyone, unilaterally, to speak X language.

> Peace, democracy, exchange, cooperation, archiving, education: they are too hard to do in hundreds of languages. It's a waste of resources, and a hindrance to the most important challenges of humanity.

[Citation needed that this is better than forcing 1 language on humanity, which will almost certainly only happen with supreme military force, aka wars.]

> written chinese is way too complicated

Subjective.

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Translation is a problem that we have to deal with, but it's better than trying to force one language.. People and societies cannot be engineered with a hand-wavy solution of "oh, just 1 universal language".

This is a very stereotypical hacker news viewpoint of blithely trying to "engineer" life and humanity, as if it were so simple.
I think you're adding an emotional component that might not be there. Journalism is always a race to break stories first and in our new world of web journalism that means immediately and not just when you have to send the paper to print. It also means they can do the normal "this story has been updated with XYZ's generic PR response."
I wonder why they haven't developed a more human-friendly successor to JCL. I get that IBM's all about backward compatibility, but would it kill them to add a more accessible alternative?

I once spent three days figuring out how to deal with an invocation that did not fit in an 80-character line. sigh
So QE dollars were used to buy down our systemic risk. Not a bad way to spend a buck in my eyes.
I think the goal of these efforts is to provide material that gets picked up and spread by others, amplifying their message. They help to normalize an environment of divisiveness and extremism.
ArsTechnica also does this routinely and they often post substantial updates (e.g. updating the title, bumping it back up on the homepage) once they get a response, so I’m really skeptical of claims that this is anything other than the balance you described.
Which is insane. We acknowledge that someone making a statement when they are kidnapped is under extreme duress. Yet when the state does it, somehow the "confessions" aren't under duress and are legally binding?

Hardly.

Edit: Currently at -1. For those who -1'ed me, I'd like to hear your arguments why state imprisonment prior to a guilty verdict isn't extreme duress, or a violation of "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
Speaking of bad reviews, trying to buy any kind of computer hardware off of Amazon is infuriating - all of the reviews for every version of an item are mixed together, so you'll have several motherboards treated as if they're the same, and monitors with different resolutions all lumped together.
I apologize if this an insensitive question, but a Google search wasn't very enlightening.

Did Robert Voit die, or was this prompted solely by the author's reminiscence?
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Does it? I'm seeing RGB(0,0,0) for body text in my browsers inspector. Lighter shades are used for other elements though.

Be careful when using both (or going too far with either). I see many sites where the contrast between the text and its background make them uncomfortable for me to read, and my eyes are fairly OK so people with vision problems probably find such sites impossible.

If you want a commercial incentive to not do this: I just hit the "read mode" button or similar, and that strips your adverts as well as recolouring and enlarging the text, and if that doesn't improve things enough the same content is often available on another site a quick google away...
Are you going to release Xylon for people to play?
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I am 32 years old. I want to quit my current job in call centre, not earning enough. I have a few ideas that I want to execute. I am planning to start a startup. Before that I want to learn a bit coding. I prefer web programming as I have tried to learn js, html, and css in the past(2010-12). What are the current trends, what language should I learn? Help me build something that world want.
By that logic, would you say that fossil fuel subsidies are also unfair?
Well, its a hacker news comment. However I can tell you that evidence of the fiscal multiplier has been a terrible and if you look at where monetary policy was contracting fiscal multiplier is negative.

Also, there are tons of countries who already have successfully eased monetary policy at the ZLB. Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and so on.

It was also in all monetary textbook before the crisis and was considered standard knowledge by many monetary economist. Even people like Krugman would agree that with setting a higher inflation target the Fed could have been more aggressive.
I bought a couple of VAXStations on eBay in 2004 with the idea to preserve the "VMS experience". I got one of them up and running with the then current VMS version, and connected to the Internet. They're still sitting in my office, not powered on in 14 years.
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Part of the problem about mainframes is that it has become really difficult for companies to find employees familiar with the environment. And learning the environment makes learning Unix look like a cakewalk.
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AAPL isn't really largely owned by any of the executives. In comparison, Page, Brin and Schmidt at Google own a large chunk of stock. Also AAPL isn't trying to be as diverse as GOOG is trying to be. GOOG is trying to compete in all sorts of markets.
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I'll give you mobile, but how did it lose any of the others in your list? Edge + IE maintain about 25% of browser market share compared to under 10% for Firefox on desktop. Bing is somewhere around 30% of the US search market depending on whose stats you believe and generated $1.8B last year, and growing. And .NET + visual studio are still very popular in the large enterprise space. Azure (not in your list) is also doing quite well in the cloud space, taking market share away from AWS to get to about 20% last quarter.

If your measure of "losing" is "not #1" then everyone is a loser in at least one of your categories, especially Apple.
Thank you for the executive summary. Academese is generally incomprehensible and this is no exception.
Yeah, I wish the author looked into the first issue more. What if you review it from your "past orders" page instead of searching for it in the store?
It does, In a similar vein Cobol has the ACCEPT DATE (YYMMDD) and ACCEPT DAY (YYDDD) constructs for retrieving the date. There's an optional argument for supporting four digit year codes however. Julian dates pop up in some wonky places across the system.
They are a fairly close 2nd in cloud computing, and growing faster than AWS.

And remember that Oracle is an enormous company just by focusing on enterprise, but MS is way larger just in enterprise. Sharepoint, SQL Server, etc etc.

And even though they are a very distant second in search, that product alone produces more revenue than most companies can ever dream of. It is actually a huge financial success.
This is not a new problem. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in "Democracy in America" in 1835:

"It is evident that such a legislation is hostile to the poor and favorable only to the rich. The poor man has not always security to produce, even in a civil case; and if he is obliged to wait for justice in prison, he is speedily reduced to distress. A wealthy person, on the contrary, always escapes imprisonment in civil cases; nay, more, if he has committed a crime, he may readily elude punishment by breaking his bail. Thus all the penalties of the law are, for him, reduced to fines. Nothing can be more aristocratic than this system of legislation. Yet in America it is the poor who make the law, and they usually reserve the greatest advantages of society to themselves. The explanation of the phenomenon is to be found in England; the laws of which I speak are English, and the Americans have retained them, although repugnant to the general tenor of their legislation and the mass of their ideas."
>Both people should have equal work ethic. I would say that the person who has been to private school, taken hard classes, is physically fit, and a practiced debater has a higher chance to succeed at Harvard and afterward due to having better cognitive skills.

The whole point of my example was to pose two people of equal intelligence with equal work ethic. I'll admit the Asian girl has a higher chance to succeed at Harvard but I don't believe that's due to her merit, it's due to being placed in a more challenging environment, something that is completely out of her control.

>I would say that Asian culture has done a better job, on average, of preparing its children with good study habits, work ethic, and cognitive skills than Black culture has.

1. Culture doesn't just emerge spontaneously, it's a response to environment. Asians and blacks have very different historical circumstances thus different cultures.

2. It's completely unfair to hold an 18 year old accountable to the 'culture of their race' (if there is such a thing). The 18 year old black girl didn't choose to be born into her culture any more than the 18 year old Asian girl chose to be born into hers. The black girl didn't choose to live in a poor area or have poor parents or go to a bad school just like the Asian girl didn't choose to live in a good area or have middle/upper-class parents or go to a good school. These things are irrelevant to merit and yet they all count for one girl and against the other. That's not really a merit-based system.
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Let's be honest with ourselves for a minute.
We have a disdain for PHP, not because it's that terrible, but because too many people know it.
The more people on the market, the cheaper our wages. So we move to something else, even if that something else if 10x harder to deploy.

We unknowingly restrict the supply of competent developers by constantly reinventing the wheel. Because once it becomes too popular, our wages go down.

Am I overthinking this, or is there some truth to this?
Along those lines, the accompanying MIT class (MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986) is available on YouTube[0] and MIT OCW[1]. It's worth watching, if only for the following:

"I'd like to welcome you to this course on Computer Science. Actually that's a terrible way to start. Computer science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, it's not a science. It might be engineering or it might be art. We'll actually see that computer so-called science actually has a lot in common with magic. We will see that in this course. So it's not a science. It's also not really very much about computers. And it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators. And biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes. And it's not about computers in the same sense that geometry is not really about using a surveying instruments."

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY
[1]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
As part of a startup, I wrote an automated trading platform in SBCL Common Lisp. It is about 70,000 lines.

I use lisp these days when hacking some automation around common tasks like scraping web sites, extracting info from xlsx or rtf files, and producing LaTeX documentation.
This behaviour is happening in sales departments in companies all over the world. The only reason it's of any interest here is because SolarCity has Musk's name associated with it.
I'm sorry, why is this posted on Hacker News and why is it getting upvotes?
put my contact info in a public gist and say goodbye to me as a business partner.
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The Tesla purchase of Solar City cannot be thought of like a normal purchase- because of Musk's role. Solar City had all sorts of problems before the purchase - it lost >20% of its workforce in 2016 and cut the salaries of it's founders to $1. There was also some really questionable self-dealing like SpaceX buying SolarCity bonds.

It makes perfect sense for Musk as a person to use Tesla to support Solarcity - one of his enterprises supporting another. But that's not how public companies work, you can't force Tesla shareholders to overpay SolarCity shareholders for a buyout simply because Musk personally wants to see SolarCity succeed.But when you view it in that context is makes perfect sense to see why Musk didn't try very hard to drive a hard bargain purchasing SC.
Because reading goosebump books is easy and relaxing while reading Art of Computer Programming and doing exercises takes a lot of effort. You can do dozens of pages per evening even if you are tired, Knuth can not be read by that speed unless you already know it all. It is difference between going for a walk and running 10km. You can contemplate fun adventure books if you like, but it is not the same as learning algorithms.

Likewise, you can read hundred of pages of fun page-turner detective stories or pop science easily, but going through algebra or philosophy or something like takes way more effort and proceeds much more slowly - sometimes you will move by 2 pages per evening because understanding it requires more effort.
> But does this effort develop into skills useful in life?

If you don't think that having an active imagination and being able to visualize a concept is a useful skill in life, then I don't know what else to say.
We can also build homes with simpler construction materials and lots of hard work. We can make our own bricks and panels of wood.

Think of it this way: what would people who have lots of free time (no job) and lots of unfulfilled needs do? They would work to be self reliant if that would mean having a better life. There would be plenty of manpower. All we need is land and raw materials.
Not only this, but they state "'thousands' of bogus SolarCity accounts may have been created". The average install is $15K-29K [0]. So even is there was 1000 fake accounts at $15k that's $15 million in missing sales?

Add to that even though SolarCity's revenues were about $480M it looks like almost half of that was from leases and incentives [1]. So on the lowest end we are saying 5% of all revenue was faked?

[0] https://www.sunrun.com/solar-lease/cost-of-solar
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/505770/revenue-of-solarc...
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If you have a rotating spherical body with a (sufficiently) heterogeneous fluid composition, it seems like you'll get plate tectonics. When you realize it's just a fluid with convection currents and the surface of the fluid "freezing", you realize it should be relatively common for across planets for a portion of their existence.

ps - if any actual physicists out there are reading, I've been curious about the case of Mars and if tectonics there could have been halted by whatever caused the hemispheric dichotomony for a long time, in case there's any good reading/research on that out there to pass along...
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Recession is a technical term, maybe I should have said that rather then crisis. There was no recession.

The problem with the 'its all resources' is that countries that do have natural resources got hit by the depression as well.

Also, if the NGDP of Australia had dropped, there is absolutely no way Australia could have avoid a recession.
My own experience is of getting sucked into the fear and subsequently allowing it to cause me to fail, like some sort of slow-mo target fixation. This is unpleasant and leads to undesirable outcomes, so I can't recommend it.
SolarCity was founded and run by Elon Musk's cousins. The conflict of interest has been a topic of discussion for quite some time, and some claim that Tesla intentionally ignored problems at SolarCity when deciding to do the deal.
I had a (ahem, cough, shh) hooky copy of Photoshop back in the mid 2000's but always got frustrated with it and reverted back to PSP. PSP always made more sense to my non-graphics designer brain.
Hmm, I would arrive at the opposite definition of "information density" than you, and I'm guessing the GP does, too.

Your definition is "musical notes played per surface unit", but I think that's inverted. Taking a musical note here to mean a fixed note length, more surface per note allows for additional expressiveness. You can even "fit more notes in" if the notes are a shorter duration.

A time span on the outer part of the record has more groove length dedicated to the same amount of playing time, so it has a higher information density in my book. I guess my definition for density would be groove length divided by playing time.
I’d highly recommend perusing the http://www.creativelive.com library. They have 100’s of hours of videos on photography, and at least dozens on the business side of things, including “getting started.” The videos cost money if you want to watch on demand, but you can just keep an eye on the “upcoming” schedule to watch them for free when they stream them live.
Those kind of thoughts aren’t really fear of failure, and you can’t just make them go away. If they burden your life, you should probably see a psychiatrist about involuntary negative thoughts.

If they don’t burden your life, think them through. Is it true? Would nobody use your product? Would you? Ask someone else if they would.

Another good thing to start with is the why. Why are you making the product? Are you trying to become rich? Are you filling a need? Are you doing it because it’s fun? Are you learning something?

Everyone fails though, what matters is that you admit it when you do.

Knowing when you’ve failed can be a bit tricky though, especially when you haven’t made an exact mistake. So set some goals for your product, and evaluate how you meet those goals, and if you don’t, evaluate if it’s worth setting new goals or trying something else.
Thank you for saying this.

We conduct business in a similar way, as do (I suspect) most other very small software companies. It's one of the things that irks me the most when developers rail about proprietary software and use MS/Adobe/Oracle as the examples. There are a lot of good, small software companies out there that have been doing proprietary products for years, and they possess a lot of qualities that we all seem to value quite a bit (responsiveness, understanding, flexibility, loyalty, etc.).
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If solving the halting problem were necessary to understand language, humans wouldn't be able to understand language either.

I think that the confusion here is that you're conflating "comprehension" with "execution". You can write out a set of instructions in English that describe a non-halting algorithm, but I don't have to determine whether the program you've described halts to understand what the algorithm does. And I certainly wouldn't need to determine that in order to translate the instructions into Spanish.
The Plea Bargain system is really a result of the problems with the money bail system. There's less incentive plead guilty if you're not in jail.
There definitely needs to be some kind of balance. For example, when I was in Asia, one city had random holes in the sidewalk at least every 100ft. They looked similar to the below and went into the sewer.

https://i.imgur.com/pw4iYk8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1Am87Yq.jpg

If you accidentally stepped in one of the holes, you could be seriously injured, or potentially have a life threatening injury if you're elderly.

At night time the street lights are very dim, and I only walked on the road, because I didn't have a flashlight and the sidewalk was too unsafe.
The ISPF editor is actually more than decent. About 20 years ago my father was writing COBOL (on both AS/400, now iSeries, and PC) using SPFPC, an MS-DOS editor inspired by ISPF. The line command/primary command mechanism is really no more quirky than vi's movement and insert modes, and it makes a lot of sense for languages like COBOL.
Central PA has a strong Germanic/PA Dutch influence and most of the time folks are still very punctual, the two notable exceptions having already been mentioned - informal get-togethers like BBQs and late night parties.
Hah I ran Fedora PPC on a Mac Mini around the same time. It was super cool because could could read all the firmware info - serial numbers, memory slots etc - as files in /proc rather than using 'dmidecode' like an Intel machine. Felt way more Unixy.
PS Raster was very limited for years after this.
Why specifically once VR is mainstream? I don't imagine VR will be any more standardised in its formats than any technology before it.

(In fact if I were a betting man I'd put money on seeing even more virtual worlds, even more work being put into games whose servers will eventually be shuttered.)
I much prefer unhurried cultures, the west takes itself way too seriously.