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>I’m sure the people of Germany never thought their fellow citizens would turn against them either.

This is an interesting one, because this actually is more of an argument for 2A then you think. For one the Germans didn't turn against what they saw as their fellow citizens, they turned against a minority...and had that minority been armed...well I doubt it would have been as easy as the gestapo raiding houses in the night and putting them on a train to a camp. At least a few gestapo would have gotten some rounds in the chest for their trouble.

If anything, much like the LA riots when the police derelict of duty, chose to not protect the Korean neighborhoods, but white ones, Koreans as a minority, were able to protect themselves in the famous "roof Korean" incident. 2A if anything protects minorities (and women who are usually at a physical disadvantage from attackers and makes them equally lethal in a situation) from being targeted with outright violence, and the first gun control laws, like those in California were a direct response to minorities (e.g. black people, Black Panthers) arming themselves to protect/assert their rights.

You don't even have to go back that far in American history to see things like coal miners arming themselves against corrupt mining companies who were literally bombing citizens.

You have a short term view of human history, you assume the status quo is permanent, and its almost like the history you were talk in school or chose to read about is selective.
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If this project relies on the GraalVM, I think it could go even further by implementing the GraalVM Polyglot interface [1] and becoming a first class language on the GraalVM. Then it wouldn't need to share Lisp syntax, and could use the real Lua syntax. It would also be much faster since it would be compiled into JVM bytecode by Graal compiler.

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/docs/graalvm-as-a-platform/implement...
That's what the page claims, not my words, so...?
> and Blackrock keeps ~half.

This is untrue. Per iShares(https://www.ishares.com/us/literature/brochure/securities-le...):

> Q: How much of the securities lending proceeds are paid to iShares ETFs?

> A:. iShares ETFs receive 71.5-80% of the income generated from securities lending depending on the asset class held. For example, iShares ETFs that predominantly hold US equities receive 71.5% of the income from securities lending. All other funds (i.e., fund-of-funds and funds that invest predominantly in fixed income or international equities) receive 80% of the income from securities lending. Once the aggregate securities lending income exceeds a certain income threshold amount, each iShares ETF will receive an increased percentage of the income above original levels, i.e. from 71.5% to 75% for US equity iShares and from 80% to 85% for all other iShares, for the remainder of that calendar year.

By the way, Fidelity isn't making money off of securities lending on these funds, or at least has pledged not to. I still wouldn't use the funds, though.
Scrum vs Kanban https://thehftguy.com/2017/12/06/scrum-vs-kanban-arent-they-...
I still trust Vanguard now because they're not-for-profit. I own a certain percentage of it by buying their index funds and I know their interests are beholden to mine.

The ER for Vanguard still only 0.15%, which is about $12/mo per $100k invested.
The vast, vast majority of police officer aren't shooting blacks under super fishy circumstances but it still happens.

You tell me how many dogs, blacks, children, wtf-ever. is required before it's OK to 1) Earnestly hold police and the system accountable and 2) To have a healthy wariness, if not outright distrust, of cops and LEOs in general.

Seems to me like we've passed those thresholds and then-some a while ago.
Yes, it's an example of disrupters entering the market (Vanguard, Robin Hood) and an established brand reacting correctly, and consumers gaining by it. Other examples are Uber and T-mobile. Too bad there's been no similar disrupter in health care yet, but maybe that's coming.
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I'm not really defending Amazon, but I'm certainly playing down the importance of corporation tax. I think CT is a timid and outdated tax (for many of the reasons leading to this thread) and should be replaced by something else that keeps the taxes closer to the point of consumption. Tax large corporations in ways they can't avoid, not on profits they can manipulate with cross-border transactions.
The problem is that the government and the corporations are in many ways the same entity.

Corporate execs go on to work in government, and when politicians retire they're often hired by the companies they used to regulate. There's no clean separation between the two as it's often portrayed in the media.

So, yeah, they often scratch each other's backs, and when the government rules one way against one corporation they're usually benefiting some other one.
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>Those same mathematical techniques are also being used to more accurately detect cancer in MRI scans. Saying everyone needs to be held responsible for second order effects is unrealistic and ultimately damaging to society. Blaming the toolmaker for things they cannot control will only cause no tools to be made.

As a matter of fact, my work covers fMRI scans of brains for a neuroscience lab, so I'm entirely with you here, but again, with a small caveat:

If society wanted the "toolmakers" (us) to take responsibility for which tools we make and how others use those tools, they would have to give us the actual power to decide what we work on and for whom. Instead the rule has usually been, "if you have ethical qualms about this, we'll find someone who doesn't". All exit and no voice means a society where nobody takes responsibility because everyone self-selects into positions where they can agree with what they're doing, and if broad masses and the hysterical press want to excoriate those doings while also materially demanding they continue, it gets to do so.

It's like when people say that engineers should refuse to work on weapons that would violate the Geneva Conventions -- but the same people then vote for a government that moves funding from the NSF to the Defense Department!
It's common in France with the Overhead lines on railtracks, it's not as if we needed more delay in our trains.
It’s been discussed here before that 9 of 10 venture capital investments fail, and so you should make 10 potential big bets to make up for the losses. So Poloneix could be one of those 9. Why do you assume there are assurances?
Agree - I applaud the effort but I will stick with Vanguard for the foreseeable future.
I mean they just called it a Mega-Corp. Reaching or have reached?

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Can you articulate an example of a good versus a bad standup? Because your response is pretty vague. I've been on a lot of teams, read a lot about Agile and SCRUM, and just about every single one communicates stand-ups as a status update, not what you are indicating at all. If this was an isolated thing, I would agree with you, but when almost everyone is doing it this "wrong" way, as you say, I think the problem is with "agile," as loaded as that term is these days.

I don't even understand how you can get together to "move the project forward" and it be under 5 or even 15 minutes. What does that even mean in practical terms? That kind of open-ended question usually devolves into many different unfocused discussions and then pretty soon everyone clearly wants to leave.
Indeed, reminds me of this lecture series:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76483D7434812A0D

At some point there's a (not entirely) rethorical question about what's a "good" growth rate for a town, and a politician indicate 5% is good. 1.05^15 ~ 2. So that's a doubling in the period between someone enters kindergarten and leaves high school.
Been following SatNOGS for a while now. Building on of the ground station designs has been on my to-do list for a while.

Recently checked in on the website and saw the building instructions have gotten better and much clearer.
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I'm fine living in a world where there are many ways to "beat" type 2 diabetes. Intermittent fasting (I eat one meal a day) has dropped my A1C from 8.9 to 5.5 (probably less, now). I've been doing this for about 15 months so far. My type 2 diabetes is not cured, if I drop off the diet and go back to my old habits my A1C will undoubtedly go right back up. But it's an easy diet to live with, especially since I don't limit myself and can eat whatever I want, though given the choice I'll try to reduce the worst refined carbs.

The high carb / low fat diet isn't one of the ways to beat type 2, though, and it's still the one pushed by many dieticians.
Pretty much any site with a login is using cookies to do it
But is there any evidence? The usefulness of Nortel's network tech is generally limited by the hardware platforms it was designed for, you really aren't going to run their PowerPC binaries for their PBXes and cellular gear on any other platform, and IBM isn't going to sell you the CPUs for making knockoffs in quantity.

Reimplementing what Nortel had is non-trivial, but look at where Freeswitch and Asterisk are today. The closed competitors are limping along, with most repackaging the two main open source solutions.
There's a warning on the box that says contents may settle during shipment.

As far as having a box too large; well that's just settling for the box maker's specs. (Almost) No one makes their own boxes.

I noticed Amazon starting shipping in frustration-free packaging. I'm quite a fan of that. Assuming it helps (if you compost the cardboard maybe?).
I think it is simpler than that, it's web and unix devops who just don't want to learn new tooling and are upset that it isn't exactly like bash/core-utils.
>Again this dynamic is sort of terrible! In a perfect world you’d want clients and banks to develop relationships, to know and trust each other, to build mutually beneficial sequences of repeated interactions rather than just trying to gouge each other in atomistic arm’s-length trades.

Why this should be the case? Ideally, you want maximally impersonal bulk markets for buying and selling assets. Finance industry should have smaller and smaller profit margins. Only those relatively rare cases where someone can provide value over others the trend is reversed.
Again, I don't disagree with anything you are saying here, it just seemed you were implying before that corporations hold some kind of responsibility to ensure trash doesn't end up on the ground.

When in my (limited) experience, 99% of trash on the ground is from the public, while 99% of pollution of the water ways (edit: and landfills) is from corporations/industry/government. (1% being the exceptions, and these being made up numbers anyways...)
As an American that's always been my feeling. Bullies and petty people seem to be drawn to police work in the US for that "authority."

An idiot with authority is a bad time for everyone.
> It's 95% profit once you've paid off the loans for the infrastructure.

This is FUD, and it doesn't even pass the smell test.[1] Maintaining broadband infrastructure is incredibly labor intensive (and the required labor is high-skill and often unionized). To use Chattanooga's EBP as an uncontroversial example: https://static.epb.com/annual-reports/2017/media/EPB_2017_Fi.... In FY 2017, it's fiber optic division had revenues of $150 million and expenses of $122 million (not including interest on the underlying fiber optic system, which it looks like is accounted for on the electricity side of the business). That's an operating profit margin of about 20%,[1] which is actually pretty good. Verizon's wireline division in most years has an operating profit margin of under 5%. (EBP, being in a right-to-work southern state, almost certainly has lower labor expenses than Verizon, with its primarily north-east footprint.)

[1] And that's before taxes. A telco can't pull a double Irish with a Dutch sandwich because all its revenues and expenses are domestic. Verizon's effective income tax rate prior to the Trump cuts was 34%: https://247wallst.com/telecom-wireless/2018/01/23/verizon-ea....
I do miss editing those with Resource Hacker or XN Resource Editor. I translated tons of Japanese and Chinese software into English that way back in high school and early college.

Good times.
0.04% for Admiral shares, aka the ones for people who have $100k.
Ah, the Roma, I think they are the only one to stoop low enough to use children to steal clothing from donation boxes in broad daylight
If you are accidentaly doing something wrong and you find out you will hopefully apologise and change your behavior.

All the big metoo cases, for example, are not people who didn't know. They are people who were activly predatory over many years. The accidents aren't what are being targeted here. It's mostly men activley and knowingly abusing the fact that they can get away with it.
I didn't vote you down - but I suspect the downvotes are because that is the often repeated "taxes are bad" argument. All I would offer to counter your argument is:

"Taxes are the price we pay for civilization"
I had a similar experience at hazardous waste day. I think they need to train the workers better (at all).
I had a similar experience when I forgot to take my SNRI antidepressant. I woke up in the middle of the night, and when I tried to continue sleeping I had these ultra-detailed geometric patterns dancing before me. The visuals were nice, but then my ears started ringing too which started bothering me, so I opened my eyes and woke up completely, which stopped the visuals and the ringing.
I'm not going to flag this because I think we need to have a discussion, especially since people are up-voting this story. Do we believe this kind of story belongs on HN? Mind you I'm not debating American politics or police brutality in America. This is an extremely serious issue. But is it the kind of issue we'd expect to see reported on HN?
Isn't society supposed to democratically control the impacts of various things upon itself?
Appreciated! I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17679792 and marked it off-topic.
The first rewind moment in Braid is stunning, but I was _blown away_ when I had my 'a ha' moment about the perspective-based puzzles in The Witness. We all know—intellectually—that games have a creator, but this was one hell of a wake-up call that everything around me was meticulously placed by someone who came before.
Reddit had a few good discussions of this if you are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/940jdc/fid... ; https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/93s4mj/fid...
Population growth is good for nominal GDP growth, but doesn't do much for per-capita growth. Since our labour market has very high levels of labour underutilisation and underemployment and the main population growth is from a very large skilled migration program, some of our record-low wage growth is probably driven by that too.
Sure but to create a login there is a transaction of consent.
Very nice! The landing page explains everything very quickly.
FYI the public transport calendar is in French :)
Is this essentially a margin call situation, or is there more to it? While searching "bitcoin futures margin call", I found this article from December, which seems to be predicting this sort of thing.

https://www.fi-desk.com/margin-calls-for-bitcoin-futures-pos...
This gets to the core of our disagreement. I don't believe second order effects (i.e. things that involve another human decision maker using your creation) to be knowable in the general case. The exception being if you specifically advertise it for that purpose or similarity to existing tools makes it obvious.

In the case of a scientist - the ultimate effects of their discovery will always be second order as they are not the engineers applying the science.
There is an xkcd comic for this one on JavaScript Frameworks.
I was thinking of how Trump supporters call liberals "snowflakes," but the meaning didn't seem to fit here. Thanks for the clarification!
That article says that Harvard tends to describe Asians as "industrious" but "indistinguishable". That's bad! But that's not the same thing as having a formal standard that Asians, as a class, are indistinguishable, which is what the Japanese medical school did with women. The rest of their admissions program just aims to optimize ethnic diversity.

Again: while I am personally fine with affirmative action and see the rationale for it, my argument doesn't demand that you be OK with it. All I'm arguing is that it isn't the same as what this Japanese school did.
And the related blog post: https://open.nytimes.com/announcing-a-new-ios-feature-that-h...
Neat post, but I was disappointed to see cartoons instead of photos of the buildings.
That requires wasting water though. Maybe the container for yoghurt should be changed to be reusable after washing or recyclable without wasting resources on cleaning?
Exceptions from known best engineering practices happen all the time on production servers. Heck, the entire concept of a "NoSQL" key-value database violates best practices for database normalization in pursuit of faster performance. Anyone running MySQL in less than an ACID-compliant configuration? Yes? (Like, almost everyone?)
While the new funds are attracting all the attention, I find these other changes more interesting:

Expense Ratios have been slashed across existing funds: https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/investing-ideas/index-...

Premium, Investor, and Institutional classes are all being merged into 1 class with lower fees and no minimums:
https://www.fidelity.com/bin-public/060_www_fidelity_com/doc...

For people holding existing Fidelity index funds, you just start paying less now without having to do anything.
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I'm pretty well off but I still get annoyed at how much vacations cost. It's not the affordability that is at issue, it's just how bad they gouge you at typical destinations. Also, I can eat at restaurants for maybe two days in a row and then I absolutely can't stand restaurants anymore. Restaurants are disgusting, actually. I don't care how posh they seem, they're still disgusting in the back.
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Wooooow dude, I bet noone came up with this idea before! Very trippy! 420!
I put together https://github.com/gjvc/PY-TEMPLATE which is similar in purpose.
But the media only reports auction prices when they're obscenely high, like in hundred million ranges. Art thefts can get widespread coverage even when they're only worth a measly 18 million
Maybe they were being toxic, but it simply seems like they took a little time in the morning to go over things and he chose not to join them. So what should they have done, each staged separate little talks with him to go over everything that was discussed in their morning meetings? Compile meeting notes and send them to him?

It doesn't sound so much like sabotage as it does that he chose to put his head down and eschew the meeting and struggled because of it.
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It would be cool if we could develop a protocol where users could flip a setting on their browser that tells every website they visit that the user has consciously, legally opted-in to all cookies. Heck, it would be cool to also have an option that says I accept all your Privacy Policies and Terms of Agreement, so don't show me any banners related to those either.
I am using Instabridge for a few years and it is really great! I wish more people knew about it and use it.
Often you can't even easily pay for it. If they would just put an "ATM" where you insert your card/cash and get a WPA2 password in exchange it would be so much better.
If he(?) wouldn't use it for daily scripting then it isn't meeting all his needs. IME being able to use a single language for both scripting and "real" code is an underrated advantage, since it lets you reuse all your helper functions etc. in your scripts.
Good trick! Do you also know the Turtle library? I just got across it, and it looks like a neat shell library from the outside.
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This is how propaganda works, too, unfortunately. Propaganda isn't usually false, but just gives an unbalanced impression, e.g. where is the news report of every other trade-secret violation?
When was the last time you paid for something in real-life using your phone? That's the standard in China and considered futuresque here.
That's not nice, nor helpful. I did read the article, a couple times actually.

Care to paste the line which give a list of specific cars?
It gets abused.

https://youtu.be/iQBjhZtLtRk
The book uses a virtual stack machine that may be thought of as an ad-hoc implementation of the SECD machine.
The iPhone's default mail application uses 3rd party email services just fine. I suspect that's how most people use email on Apple products.
* shrug * Why was there even one?
What is leadership really, and how do you measure it?
Microsoft's marketing: "Performs like a laptop, travels like a tablet."

It it performs like a laptop, it should be tested like a laptop.
Is there? For large index ETFs that is surely done by broker dealers arbitraging miniscule pricing differences between the underlying and ETF price.
> You can develop an application in python that utilizes distro-supplied python libraries.

And unless you're aggressively tracking your distro's package releases you'd better hope that the new libdep doesn't introduce any breaking bugs. Also your app is no longer for Linux it's for Ubuntu 18.04 updated roughly on 2018-08-03.

The same goes for the actual python. Distributions apply lots of downstream patches and backport fixes so your python 2.7 is really redhat-python2.7-13 so you might want to test against that -- or you can bundle your own and be done with it.

Unless you have the wall clock time to actually define and test supported distributions you probably want to pretend the system python doesn't exist.

> pypi via pip, and especially into a virtualenv

I would never subject my users to this workflow. What you're describing are source distribution channels which are (ab)used to distribute applications. I have no idea if some dependency's native extension will even compile on their system. Do they even have build tools? Why would they?
Hey Jacob, thanks for the kind words, and taking the time to leave a comment. I'd love to meet up, pinging you now!