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How would you define 'entertainment'? Is it simply something that distracts from 'work' being done? Or, time spent on something from which no 'value' can be obtained?
Yeah, it's unfortunate that the word "socialism" has completely lost it's meaning in the US. I don't think Americans truly comprehend how radical Socialism actually is. To compare increasing the minimum wage with Socialism is beyond absurd. Terms like "welfare state" are also loaded with negative connotations.
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I don't see how Google can afford not to do this. I thought the same when they pulled out of China over censorship years ago.

Morally, of course its wrong, but what's the alternative over the long term?

They would cede the market to a more accomodating competitor (e.g. Baidu), who would then have a strategic advantage.

Google's potential market share is (world - China - whichever other country wants to censor them)

Google is big. It's not invincible.
It sounds immensely uneducated though. But the distinction between plural and singular seems to be abolished in other useless taxpayer-funded fields, too...
"Does the public care about privacy?"

Does the public care about anyone in China's privacy?
The GOPATH nonsense was the reason why I've decided to take a hard pass on Golang, and instead pick up Rust. I'll stay away fron Golang until that braindead idea is officially dead and a thing of the past.
Yeah, it was difficult for me to see from the FDA's website how exactly you'd get approved. If you did have to go through De Novo or PMA then you're probably looking at years and years if you can even get the regulators to accept it. It's not like there's a predicate device for what you're doing so there's nothing you can point to. From what I understand, De Novo is where cool ideas go to die.

FDA protects people from a lot of bad devices, but it also makes it really difficult for people to innovate here. My last job was with a company doing a 510k and we were delayed 6 months while the branch of the FDA that handled ventilators tried to figure out how to work with the branch of the FDA that handled oxygen concentrators.

I don't blame you.
> Does the public care about privacy?

The answer is certainly “yes”. There’s a difference between caring and having any power to do anything about it.

It’s time to move on from
Consumer activism. This nonsense of blaming people for their purchasing decisions is so rotten and useless. Judging others this way requires vain assumptions and we can do so much better.
I didnt mean to imply that the donors were doing anything wrong, but that the government should do more to make sure that there are enough qualified general practitioners and obstetricians. There is far more of a need for those specialties than higher paying plastic surgeons.
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Geez you don't seem to be able to scrape up any sympathy for someone that felt suicide was their only way out.

I believe the converse - if there was a way for people to end their lives painlessly and surely (with the proper safeguards, blah blah blah) it might have served her better.

But in our reality I'm pleased society has stepped up for her.
I left my career path in local government partially due to financial concerns related to undergrad debt. This is not strictly a medical sector issue.
Just s/university/federal student loans currently.
But that’s not really free.
Unfortunately this plan relies on you knowing that they are after you. In the case of a raid when you're not home, you won't have access to the hard drives to erase them.
It's an easy out to the reality a lot of people with no economic success or vision for their future because of economic circumstances. The country is really not great for a whole lot of people. 50% of the entire population is poor or low income [1].

[1] https://kairoscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Poverty-...
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I just want a world where you go into a cell store, and they don't tell you they've got a great idea, just make your PIN your birthdate.

If they actually took part that seriously, most identification could be done with a PIN or a password or whatever and the serious identification could be reserved for people who've actually forgotten.
So if you don't unlock your phone, it's an admission of guilt.

I understand the evidence indicates that some people do choose not to unlock their phones on demand by police, even when they are innocent. You can interpret that as an admission of guilt if you like; this puts you in the same moral boat as police who write up a confession for someone and then fake their signature, because they just know the guy is guilty.

You can say what you think all you like, but the evidence is against you.
>Can you see how the guns aren't working?

I can see that they're not an automatic cure-all for violence. There are parts of the US with extremely high gun ownership rates, and virtually no crime. And there are parts of the US with high gun ownership rates and high levels of crime. The fact is that there are many people in this world with violent tendencies. There always have been. Their violent tendencies are not a consequence of guns being around.

However, guns are a very effective tool for defending one's self and one's family against such people.
The Pacman port was very good considering the limitation of the console but is an obvious disappointment for the consumer.

I rhetorically wondered what lesson we as engineers could learn from this...
All those wasted sword fights. https://3d.xkcd.com/303/
Users flagged it.

HN is a complex system, so I don't think it's possible to come up with a consistent model for it. That's a wild goose chase. I know it can be frustrating (I like Aretha too).
The same "they" you are referring to. The ones writing the checks. I don't care about the precise technicality that enables wage suppression. I literally don't care. The constitution also says no spying on Americans, but somehow that precise word of law was elided. The bottom line is: they have billions, they suppress wages for employees, and they enrich billion dollar contracting firms. Nothing I claim is untrue.
>A proposed fix would be to stop giving tax cuts to the rich/businesses in hopes that the not rich will somehow magically get some trickled down benefit and instead do things that actively benefit the lower economic classes.

So it seems like you are saying, tax the rich and do something to benefit the lower economic classes. What specific policies to you support that would benefit the lower economic classes?
...like how a monarch with a queen as supreme formal authority is still not a matriarchy because the overall informal power is held by men.

In that situation most of the formal power was held by men. The members of parliament, the generals, the treasurer, the postmaster, the judges -- all were men.

If a dispute between two families is about marriage, do the male chieftains hold authority to decide on the matter? My guess would be that they do not as that would cross the boundary of power.

It is possible chiefs hold power in that area because marriage is a matter of official, formal record. Having power doesn't mean they don't have to take into account the informal power around them. This is the difference relative to modern societies -- the balance of power between formal and informal power.

It sounds more like this society have male gender role that give them official domain over war and trade with other tribes, and a female gender role that give them domain over all other areas. This would be very similar to many other tribal societies, with the rare exception that allow individuals to choose which one of the two roles a person want. Many people object to this classification since it would mean that most historical societies are neither matriarchy or patriarchy but rather structured around gender roles where power is held supreme with in each gender group.

When a society is labeled patriarchal it is not, in practice, a statement about all the power in that society. It's hard for anthropologists and historians to gather that information. It's a statement about formal, political power -- about offices which people can be procedurally added to and removed from, in an open and accountable way. There are some societies were women had substantial institutions like this. In modernized liberal democracies -- for maybe the first time in history? -- women participate in men's institutions to a substantial degree, and that is pretty much their only gateway into public life. Matriarchy is the idea -- perhaps comical on the face of it, because anything so symmetrical in its construction should be suspicious, but it was not so back when people were asking this question -- that women would be the presidents and generals and judges and men would basically chill at home and smoke the fish and do the knitting and not (overtly) control public policy. No one has ever found a society like this.
Completely different situation, but something like that is discussed in Italy too, where the majority and most prestigious university happen to be public: why should we make the tuition free for everyone, specially when it's so low here, refusing the moneys of more riches people that pay more?

The natural solution is invest more in scholarships, at least here. I'm sure that the situation in US is fully different though.
There has to be a way to represent a missing value, but the key point in languages that don't have NULL is that you can only represent missing values using a type that supports missing values - e.g. option types such as Haskell's Maybe.

This achieves two things:

1. It allows you to define functions that cannot return NULL, and the compiler guarantees this. This is a huge win - you no longer have NULL as a possible return value for many functions.

2. Values belonging to the option type have to be unwrapped to access their contents, so it's not possible to unknowingly dereference a missing value. This is an even bigger win than #1, because it can literally eliminate null pointer errors.

A caveat to #2 is that depending on the language, it may be possible to override safety, for example Haskell's fromJust can throw an exception if used on a missing value. But this tends to require conscious effort, and can easily be checked for automatically, since it involves the use of unsafe function calls.
It really is huge. It is so high experts describe it as a "demographic change," It is literally changing the demographics and population distribution of the US.
Ok but things are very different at Google. Little risk there. (Or at least there wasn't when I was there.)

On the other hand, the person who leaked this to the NY Times will get fired if they can find them.
Which is essentially what I'm saying, that higher speeds on the Autobahn may be safe because the drivers are better and the cars are in better condition, but that that wouldn't work here in the US because our drivers aren't as competent and their cars are more likely to fail at Autobahn speeds.
Love this. Especially this part:

When Implementation mode fails it means the architect needs to reevaluate why and make changes

Every plan I've ever put together to improve myself or my life has failed on initial implementation. It wasn't until I expected the first iteration of the plan to fail that I learned how to succeed.

Plan. Fail. Tweak. Retry. The goal usually doesn't need to change, but the plan often does.
I was active duty military for over 10 years. I went to bootcamp shortly after my 18th birthday. My job required 6 years service obligation; air traffic control. Before I separated I had my bachelors and two masters degrees paid for.

Most of your tuition is covered while you are active duty, $750 per credit hour. If not you can tap into your GI Bill to pay the rest; I did this as I didn't want to fund any of it. Though I could have paid the difference, saving my GI Bill, which would have netted more money for school.

Overall, you analogy is correct. But the military is an easy route when you are 18 - 22 (easier than most people think), as most jobs are not combat related. My job provided services to the general public as well.
Nobody keeps track of this stuff.

Google probably runs sentiment analysis on all its internal lists and tags everything to each persons HR file. They analyze Gmail already after all (tho’ having switched off or at least hidden its link to the ad system)
> How is a federated and decentralized network reinforcing bubbles and increasing polarization?

Because users see completely different local and federated timelines depending on which instance they join.
So they are not going to help invalidate the troll's 15 patents?

That means the troll lost one battle but will still win overall.
> Well said. Even as our culture purportedly idealizes the value of a person's inner being rather than appearances, one of the uncomfortable things this story drove home to me is -- I can't say it better than you have: "how intimately our humanity is linked to a face".

Thanks. I was thinking if this is one reason why facial recognition is so anathema to most people (as is to me). Not just because it's a violation of our privacy but it uses the very feature (our face) which as I said in so deeply part of being a human as a weapon against us.
> On average US doctors earn 2-5x more than doctors in other developed countries

Software developers also make 2-5x more than developers in other developed countries. So do many other professions.
> Why do you need wider streets?

Moving goods.

> Moving people is what the metro is for.

People aren't the only thing that needs moved to support a city.
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Kinda have to agree here. Wayland is clearly the way forward for Linux desktop, but it's still at least 10 years behind WDDM, and Linux desktop people have maintained their love of needless fragmentation so I doubt it will ever catch up.
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It's techcrunch, they weren't thinking.
For all of the numerous faults of my employer, the fact that our office manager only buys the nice Pilot G7 pens in massive bulk makes up for more than I would ever admit to them.

It amazing because no one tries to borrow your good pen because all pens are good pens in our office!
Thanks, I'll give it a try!
I'm sure many of them do. I'm skeptical most do, and "Antifa communists" seems like a glib way to dismiss/denigrate the collective, much like "Infowars white supremacists" would be an inaccurate collective term for fans of Alex Jones.
It depends on which sect and tradition of Christianity, there's a lot in the south eastern USA that preach about fire and brimstone like that. They don't usually go on about specific people, but people in general so they're skirting the whole without sin thing. I remember in particular a number of Southern Baptist preachers that were like this. I can't say that it's their chosen doctrine since I was never a Southern Baptist nor have I studied anything around it, but they were always prevalent where I grew up (middle of nowhere North Carolina).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_brimstone
From Google Maps it seem like it currently is possible to walk all the bridges, although you can't end where you started. Two of the original bridges have gone, two more have been built (not in the same locations as the destroyed ones), and there are two additional bridges that are within the city limits now but wouldn't have been in Euler's time.
You make very good point. I do 3D rendering from time to time and i dont actualy play games anymore. Most of my work would greatly benefit from powrful cpu not so much gpu. Interesting i should reconsider.
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> It publishes all content that doesn't break its rules.

And some of those rules are about the content of what's posted (no nudity, no harassment). Therefore it's behaving like a publisher, with editorial discretion.

If you don't like the book publisher analogy, consider a newspaper that runs letters to the editor. They don't officially endorse the opinions in those letters, and anyone can write one. But the newspaper can still pick which letters get published.

> Do we want Facebook, Google, and other social media companies deciding what we can and cannot say?

They aren't telling us what we can / can't say. They are telling us what we can / can't publish on their websites.

But to you, it doesn't feel that way. And me neither. Why? Because Facebook and Google have a near Duopoly over communication on the internet. That's the real problem. We need to break them up. We need to acknowledge that network effects create natural monopolies, and perhaps regulate or force interoperability on some social networking sites.
This is long, and it's a lot to digest, but I find it pretty applicable to software systems.

And it's funny how often we see software teams twiddling at the edges of a system, spending a ton of time on things than don't meaningfully impact the system's overall success. To give a concrete example, I've seen teams with crappy, slow, and unnecessarily expensive system architectures spend a huge amount of time on decisions like "should we use Vue, or React?".

Granted, there will be occasional times when your front-end framework is a make-or-break leverage point. But usually it's not. Maybe the problem is that the teams who are doing this yak shaving aren't authorized to alter the overall system. And so they spend their time arguing about the things they can change. :)
Exactly.

Consumer activism and job shaming is a moot effort. Useless.

What have they ever accomplished?

The only way to make a difference here is by standing together.
Were these British spies the same as the Jeds? Stories about them are fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jedburgh
Wish you could configure a finger to erase all data if needed.
Yea but it left me feeling that the product is only intended for silly/stupid things.
> As it is now, my primary concerns are the increasing concentrations of wealth to fewer people, and consolidating ownership of communications media, broadcast and network channels, and intellectual property.

All of those issues, as far as I can tell, are actually a BIGGER problem in the various parts of the world (and of world history) with weaker state mechanisms, in terms of the ability of the largest portion of their populations to reach as far as possible up Maslow's heirarchy.
But that's not what Google is doing either.
1. Google builds state of the art censored search engine for China

2. China steals source code and gives to Baidu

3. China kicks Google out of China
A strategic advantage in what way? Unless you assume that Baidu can surplant google in markets other than China.

Perhaps that is so, but you need to explain how, given Google’s massive lead everywhere else.
If a politician taking office was a defining moment of your life, you may need to adjust your priorities. I live right outside of DC, and other than it being extra crowded on the Metro I couldn’t tell you a thing about any inauguration ceremonies.
Isn't that just SRI in a bookmarklet? With SRI you give the browser a hash and if the resource does not match it does not load.
Ooooh yeah, that sounds awesome! Going to share this with some people on our team (lots of folks love and use Hyper already, but we're always looking for new stuff to play with).

I would highly recommend you check out the excellent HistoryPx module[1]. Among (many) other things, it supports automatically saving the most recently emitted output to a magic `$__` variable. Theoretically, you could save a lot further back, but you may start to run into memory constraints (turns out .NET objects are a little heavier than text... ;) )

[1]: https://github.com/KirkMunro/HistoryPx
Re-read the parent as well, because it also doesn't claim you did.

You absurdly oversimplified the situation, which is the criticism, please address that.
I fully agree with your assessment - eno allows arbitrary types, therefore if and to what extent non-primitive type loaders should be included as core functionality needs to be thoroughly considered and negotiated soon. I included non-primitive loaders (also the exotic lat/lng ;)) to (a) show that this is a possibility and (b) get hands-on insight how well this works in real world usage. (in short: I love it so far, but I'd love to hear other experiences!) It took months to get the whole ecosystem jump-started as a one man show, so that's why some loaders are ... pragmatically coded, you're of course right on that, although admittedly I had no idea the email spec was that complex, thanks for making me aware. ;)
Not to mention fungicides and herbicides, which are also permitted with "organic" farming. https://tilth.org/app/uploads/2014/12/can-i-use-this-pestici...

"Hydrogen peroxide and potassium bicarbonate, two familiar substances that are relatively
new as fungicides, are also permitted."

"Various natural substances have been tried as herbicides with mixed success. Clove oil is a botanical that is effective."
IDK. The same thought process led me to not being able to complete college due to financial reasons.

Despite being emancipated, FAFSA still considers you a dependent until you're 24. I was told that only with documentation of leaving an abusive household would a dependency exception grant be applied. So according to FAFSA I was supposed to use all this money that I didn't have to pay for college. By 24 I had dropped out and gotten a development job, now putting me outside of the income level where I'd get even federal loans (and quite frankly I still can't take on that debt load).

Just make college free. Trying to make all of these complicated rules to make sure that a few people aren't "getting one over us" is just making more cracks for people to fall into. If you're concerned that the rich are going to somehow use the system without paying, structure the backing tax so that they pay their fair share. No one cares that high school is free for the rich too. Everyone pays in, everyone can participate.
They are giving up interest on a rather large endowment.
Some of the described problems are unique to flight (low air-pressure, dehydration, etc), but a lot of them sound like they would apply similarly to other very long stretches of travel by vehicle. (E.g. the bits about exercise). Maybe it would be interesting to research how people on very long train or bus rides deal with those.
Does this only work with a node.js backend? I was a little confused since none of the description mentions that but the config expects a server.js value.
Now we're talking. I'll take a vodka and a valium, see you when we land.
> I can have a beer every night for the rest of my life and experience little to no permanent effects.

And a certain percentage of people that tried that would get addicted and die from either acute or chronic effects.

Addiction potential and usage patterns are part of the harm profile of a drug. Alcohol is measurably worse.
> The only mistake I’d warn against is letting this influence your judgement of others, or your prescription for future generations.

I’m curious what your segue is from contextualizing and rationalizing decisions I’ve/we’ve made for myself/ourselves to judgements on others.

My point, I guess, was that it’s easy to think of university costs purely in monetary cost and ignore the inherent time-cost required to pay.

The calculus I did when looking at schools was: it costs X much, median starting salary for this field is Y, I’ll have to “do my time” for Z years as payment for my education. Looking at it that way, I’m paying for school with time, not money.