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> all of the international relations theorism that has been dominant in the last 70 years says that for every inch they gain, we must lose an inch, and vice versa

I'm almost certain that the above is false, but perhaps you can cite something? Trade, as an easy example, is believed to benefit all participants. A rules-based international order and sufficient international institutions to support it, is believed to benefit all, just as the rule of law is necessary domestically. Specific rules such as human rights, including liberty, the outlawing of war (with exceptions), sovereignty, and others also are believed to benefit all. Those things are not only theory, but they have produced outstanding results: An era of peace and prosperity that is orders of magnitude beyond anything in human history.

There still are zero-sum situations, but that is what the rule of law is for, both domestically and internationally.
> Together, the AGs represent states totaling 165 million people — more than half of the U.S. population.

By this logic, the executive branch represents 100% of the population.
"Don't most of them include a provision forcing the company to pay a share of your salary if they decide to activate it?"

Almost none of them do that. That's one of the reasons why they're so shitty.
When you signed the loan for the mortgage, you made a business transaction with the bank.

Looked at through this light, there's a strong ethical argument that no agreement was made, as very few single humans are informed enough to have the capacity to genuinely consent to an agreement as complex as a modern mortgage.
>Huh, I dunno I've been watching first hand how russians on social media have been stirring up conservative vs liberal shit storms.

I don't know how you jump from organic "shit storms" with a declining economic and social future for a lot of people, to a blanket Russia is doing this.

It's exactly what should be happening as we have a racist shit-for-brains in the White House. People are pushing further right and further left and the political atmosphere is exactly what you would expect. Things shouldn't be calm.
So USA is not smart enough to get this going.

Ok
Like legislators, attorneys general represent "the people," not just those who voted for them, and that is the case even if no one voted for them. (As an interesting side-note, there are a few states whose attorneys general is governor-appointed and even one whose attorney general is appointed by the state's Supreme Court.)

I believe the point being made was that it has been too difficult to get Congress to act on reinstating something that is overwhelmingly popular across the nation. The FCC won't do it. Congress won't do it. Yet, when we put some numbers behind it, WaPo reported in December of last year on a study concluding that 8 in 10 Americans disapproved of the FCC's handling of net neutrality.
It is true that Russian electoral interference is probably only having a marginal and low impact effect on actual election outcomes. That's not the primary objective though.

The goal is to incite and inflame partisan distrust and anger in order to foment political paralysis, hence the Russian support for extreme fringes of both factions. This strategy has been incredibly successful.

Every time Trump mentions Russian interference it's to blame it all on fake news from the media and Democrats. Every time the media or Democrats talk about it, they frame it in terms of Trump providing cover for the Russians. Both sides expend all their ammunition on each other.
One of my Slack channels (not servers, no idea how many are on this workspace) has, no exaggeration, ~45k users. It's a hosted FOSS project so they're not making money on those users, though. I'm curious what the largest Slack instance is if it's not k8s.
Lol. Come on..

If you read the article, the two properties were listed for sale for $245,000 and $250,000 in 1997. They are two luxury condos, literally on Central Park, in a doorman building in NYC. They were previously listed at $800k (without the ability of a unrelated party to combine them with Eric's other unit in the building). A similar unit sold for $700k in 2014.

What do you think the Fair Market Value of those condos is? More or less than the $350k that Trump sold them for? Do you think the annual real estate inflation rate in Manhattan from 1997 to 2016 is more or less than the 1.7% implied by the sale price?

Several different tax lawyers weighed in for the ProPublica piece listed above, and as well as the Washington Post piece here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/this-trump-real-estat...

And Newsweek's treatment of the sales when it turned out Eric had applied for a permit to combine the three units to turn them into a multi-level penthouse on Central Park:

https://www.newsweek.com/eric-trump-making-penthouse-real-es...

Would you honestly be surprised if Trump was engaging in low-grade real estate tax fraud to benefit his family?
Same here but for Windows...
N. N. Taleb always says you shouldn’t read any books that are less than 200 years old. If a book survives for 200 years it must have something genuinely valuable to say.

I think this is good advice. I try to follow it for the most part, but obviously I don’t apply that to technical material. Still, I bet if you read Euclid instead of O’Reilly you’d end up a pretty good programmer.
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> A proof-of-work approach (or proof-of-whatever, as long as the incentives are aligned) imposes a cost to rewriting history.

That's not exclusive to blockchains. Blockchains impose a cost to rewriting history because peers follow a set of rules that make it so. You can impose a similar set of rules in any alternative solution, blockchain or not. Simply do not accept non-fast-forward branch updates. Validate all proposed updates against your standard rules, and if validated, use your custom merge driver to implement any required merging rules.

I have yet to see an description of a threat model here which explains how such a blockchain's decentralized consensus system solves this particular real world problem.
For those not familiar with benefits, it's mainly about scaling from zero to heavy traffic fast. If for example, you are running CRM behind call center with crazy traffic during TV ads, and no traffic on weekend your infrastructure can scale from 0 to multiple instances instantly.
The gov't has already been so difficult to get with. With algorithms, doubly so.
It's also been latched onto by a lot of articles about the alt-right/Charlottesville, they were apparently using it for a while before they got banned there - and Discord have been subpoenad and things. Nothing that's Discord's fault (actually I don't think it's even encrypted?) but I can see why it'd get a bad look professionally based on that sort of coverage.
Wanted to give an example showing that not everyone in tech is progressive and has good intentions.

Anyone who goes out of their way to congratulate Trump is not someone who sympathizes with the population as whole, and find it impossible to believe Zuckerberg has good intentions in how he makes major business decisions because of this.
Was it just talk therapy that solved it?

Or does your son have to do ongoing treatment like meditation / prescription medication?
I have not personally ever had an issue with a non-compete but I've been directly told a couple of the largest firms in a particular consulting industry sector vigorously enforce non-competes to a degree that people basically take a year off if they want to go to a competitor or hang out their own shingle.

In addition, as someone who worked for a small firm in the same space for a number of years, we wouldn't even consider someone who had an even vaguely relevant non-compete. It was just too much risk for a company our size.

That said, I think the role of non-compete enforcement or not is overblown when talking about the relative success of different states in various technology areas. Certainly, Massachusetts is far more important than California in areas like biotech and pharma.
Is this an issue that relates to data rights? Who gave facebook the right to slice and dice my usage habits into a social model? What data relationships does facebook rely on to aggregate the signals into their prediction algorithm? Does Alphabet have any agreement or contract pertaining to data exchange? Does facebook rely on their billions of listening nodes, the social sharing button on most every website you visit, to incorporate your web browsing habits into the social trust score? Alphabet and facebook worked together in China to build the Chinese Social Credit Score. Is this the prelude to the US version?
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at best it's subversion of a policy that is intended to enforce some amount of competition.
Because internet is more important than binge watching Netflix. To many of us, we're thinking of it on par with water, electricity, etc.

With that said, I would agree that some other services such as information seekers ought to be regulated somehow. Ie, Google/Facebook can do massive harm these days, and their reign of independence is failing here.

Another point is that, many companies have previously ran into issues of anti-competitive behavior. This in recent years has become very very lax, too lax I feel. Windows should be providing an equal platform for everyone to run on. They shouldn't be blocking competitors applications (a hypothetical). Same goes for ISPs. My ISP shouldn't block Netflix because the ISP prefers their own media site.

To be honest, your objection really confuses me. You seem to argue that ISPs can do whatever they want, because we're inconsistent with other sites/etc. So rather than enforcing other sites, you want to give free reign to ISPs? How does that make sense? I agree consistency is important. Lets fix all abusers, not just ISPs. That should satisfy your argument, no?
> You're assuming that "human prosperity" is the game being played, as opposed to "national power", which very much is zero-sum.

Nationalism is a choice, one embraced by the current U.S. administration (and others), but it's not the norm: Since WWII the U.S. has been the leading supporter of internationalism.
I just came off of finishing Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' and I couldn't tell who they were talking about. It sounded far too benign to be US foreign policy even!
No. The staff may lean left, but Facebook leans towards the interests of Facebook's business model, and occasionally the pet causes of the C-suite.
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That is interesting, but isn't there a point in the house selling process where they look for every party that might have an interest in the house and such? I mean I think that is part of the chunk of paperwork that realtors / title search companies or whatever do, right? What happened then?
> what’s the advantage over bottled seltzer from the store?

Not needing to buy plastic bottles and trashing them when you are done with them!?
> they're an expansionist power

That's somewhat debatable, if you mean 'expansionist' like Russia would like to rebuild the USSR or a new Russian Empire.

What Russia is trying to do is ensure it has a strategic buffer zone between it and the West and friendly rulers and states on its borders, much like any state with Russia's military history would be interested in doing. Combined Russian/Soviet casualties in WW1 and WW2 were on the order of ~60mm people out ~160mm total.

Both NATO and the EU have progressively expanded towards the former Soviet bloc since the fall of the USSR. From the West's perspective, this is bringing liberal multiparty democracy and stability to an unstable Eastern Europe. But from Russia's perspective, why should it fully trust the West that was so recently its enemy, and when the attempted adoption of liberal democracy and capitalism in the 90s failed so spectacularly (Russia's GDP fell by a full 50% and life expectancy dropped by years [2]).

Not trying to shill or defend Russia's invasion of Crimea or Ukraine here, but if you just look at the map of a formerly hostile alliance moving steadily eastward and you were Russia, would you really just throw up your hands and say 'yes, that is how the world should be' and tacitly accept it? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Vilnius_Gr...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1116380/
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Stepping back a bit. My impression (from afar in the UK) is that US capitalism, which used to be dynamic and innovative, has slowly become like a shark tank in which the sharks have eaten everything else and are now trying to eat each other. I know that's very vague and high level... but is it fair? What's up with you guys... are you OK?
The northern city of Rongcheng, for example, assigns a score to each of its 740,000 residents, Foreign Policy reported. Everyone begins with 1,000 points. If you donate to a charity or win a government award, you gain points; if you violate a traffic law, such as by driving drunk or speeding through a crosswalk, you lose points. People with good scores can earn discounts on winter heating supplies or get better terms on mortgages; those with bad scores may lose access to bank loans or promotions in government jobs.

Some parts of this seem analogous to USA's Credit Score system. A total surveillance state isn't a great idea but this small part of it seems reasonable, no?
So, if not cron, what is better?
Why C# exists isn’t very relevant to that, Microsoft actually made the IDE team a first class member st the table during C#’s design and evolution. Such and such feature thought to be difficult to tool even if it can compile? Well, fix it or cut it.

Microsoft intellisense (aka code completion) was truly a first back in 1997 (then just for VB and C++).
Wait are HN commenters supposed to be the smartest people in the world? Then what do we need all these commenting guidelines for?
The link has changed. This is the correct URL.

https://zen-of-programming.com/design
Scene 1: Trump meeting Putin in 1997. There they plot Putin's rise to power in 1999 when they scheme to have Yeltsin poisoned over time to look like alcholism. Trump meanwhile starts learning how to be blackhat with the cover of being a property billionaire actually being funded by Russian oil money.
I think checked exceptions get a bad rap, but Cliff makes a good point: defaults matter and rethrowing should be the default.

go's error codes are better than in C but just act like "all exceptions are checked" from a Java angle.

I think checked exception make sense at module boundries. If I'm calling into Zlib or Guava, their function's type signatures should call out error modes and thus be checked.

That's my "solution": keep checked exceptions based on the function signature but NOT based on the exception type. It's roughly what best practices are now. Wrap it in runtime.

I think Optional/Either/Try/Manad versions boil down to about this same scheme.
Exactly.

The vast majority of media websites that make their money by delivering other peoples' content have an interesting problem. They skirt the line between curating and merely providing a form of storage for everyone. The minute you curate, you fall down an interesting rabbit hole.

That's not even to mention the business model of youtube which is largely based on copyright violation.

In any case, the difference between ISP and major media website is insignificant to the average user. It's one big blob.
I think it does affect them but they would find ways around it because they are at the center of the operation. We are always one step behind, doing hard work trying to untangle what they machinated. I think we should fight politically, we should strive to make scamming more punishable than it is now such that if they're caught, not only should they give back what you stole but be taken out of business completely.
>Democrats would rather see fair treatment of employees and consumers

It's been a strongly Democrat-controlled MA legislature that has avoided passing non-compete reform for a decade or more.
I'm not interested. I get it, you don't like libertarianism "as she is spoke". I don't either.
Yes, I have a couple contacts marked "ICE" on my phone—In Case of Emergency.

(An unfortunate acronym in these times, but it's a term some subset of the population recognizes.)
after careful thinking, I decided applying was not worth the time I could invest in improving the product.

now that everyone gets a trophy, I am glad I dodged the bullet
Russian interference and manipulation went far beyond that. They've been buying election machine companies, sending spies to funnel money and influence to U.S. politicians, hacking and offering stolen information on opponents (which they've done for decades, but this is the first known time someone accepted rather than reporting it to the FBI immediately, and in fact ignored the FBI's warnings that it might happen), not to mention the years of deliberate manipulation and radicalization of people online through advertising and sockpuppet accounts.
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They do. Donald Trump represents us all.
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Hamas was democratically elected. they don't rule democratically. they break the knees of people whoe speak against them, for example.
"Lets fix all abusers, not just ISPs. That should satisfy your argument, no?"

Yes.

Of course, people want to build an internet that suits them personally, so there are a million answers.
Perhaps we should recognize that buying property is not an intrinsic good: https://affordanything.com/is-renting-better-than-buying-sho... or an automatically good way to save or invest money.
To target the web, you need a team dedicated to building HTML library stuff like interaction with the DOM. It's unclear whether Go even has that, and it will take longer to see if it proves popular, so waiting for Go for generic UI seems very premature.

On the other hand, Elm is not 1.0 yet. They are still breaking the ecosystem with new releases.
I worked at a company that had this problem and while I was not involved with the solution, I did sit near the guy that was and had extensive talk with him on how to resolve the issue (Or solve the issue well enough).

* Require accounts with good robot account creation detection. Actually, not hard since there is a lot of canned coded for this.

* Subscribe to Tor and Proxy IP collection services and then block all of the Tor and Proxy addresses. Tor IP list is free from the Tor Project and Proxy IP's can be found through various services.

* Put in crawler detection code. Most scrappers are really simple and are really easy to detect. I think Apache even has a module to detect simple scrapers and autoblock them.

* Feed bad data to scrapers once they are detected. This was the thing that made scrapers go away. Once they know you can detect them and feed bad data, they know they are screwed and will give up. I did get a kick out of looking at the scrapers website and seeing "Penis won the 5K Penis run". Of course, you should really feed the scrapers bad data that looks believable.

* DMCA their website with their provider. The company I worked for did have several scraper sites deactivated.

* Ask Google to delist them. The company I worked for did have several scraper sites removed from Google.

* There are a number of services that will help you with all of this but your website is only 5K unique users a day and not really worth the cost.
Yes, but none of those IDEs were developed concurrently with the language by tightly integrated teams (well, except smalltalk).
>What is really sad here is that all of this “Russian hacking” has accomplished a few goals. - invalidate news organizations.

Good? Read Manufacturing Consent. Mainstream media shouldn't be trusted at all. They lie us into war, into conflict, shift opinions on our rights, and ultimately help us in no way, all for the benefit of shareholders. Independent third party media should be the fallback.
A store that sells everything is attempting to appeal to everyone which fits the colloquial usage in particular imparting my negative opinion of that lack of curation.
Jitsi Meet just works for me: https://meet.jit.si/
Of course, prototyping only + test runs; then moving the code to proper source files (or writing them separately and including them in the notebook). Usually I write everything in the notebook, make sure I catch all the bugs, do some initial test runs to see if I am getting anywhere, then separating code out to individual Python files. The good thing is I can immediately showcase principles and progress to clients by interleaving markdown with the code, throw in some visualization and stats to the mix, add links to arxiv papers and github repos, showcase multiple approaches/models with preliminary accuracy results or heatmap visualizations etc. Then (reasonable) clients are properly informed and can decide which direction they want to move forward etc.
You are lucky to have 3 comparable ISPs. In the area where I live each town has at most 2 ISPs. One of them provides DSL and the other cable. This means if you want speeds above about 5Mbps you have 1 choice. We were forced to switch to cable because our DSL provider couldn’t even manage to maintain a consistent connection much less the 5Mbps we were paying for. All this to say there are plenty of places where there is effectively 0 competition between ISPs.

On the other hand if I don’t like Facebook I can choose not to use it or I can use another social media platform. If I don’t like Google I can easily use an alternative (at least for all of the consumer products I use from them). I can’t easily go to a new ISP that is comparable if I don’t like my ISP.
I don't think we're reading the same indictment, because the one I'm looking at is wall-to-wall quotes from Backpage staff and emails, and virtually nothing about the evils of prostitution.

Further, the indictment I'm reading doesn't simply talk about them filtering out the word "lolita", but a variety of keywords, and has examples of instances where they had known problematic ads with human review and stripped out problematic photos manually before running the ads.
I also had a mind/body anxiety snafu. I was experiencing that crushed chest anxiety sensation without any emotional triggers.

Turns out I had a pinched nerve in my spine. The pain and nerve stuff caused my body anxiety sensation, which then caused the emotional anxiety.

Resolved with a lumbar fusion.

Which explains why most of my prior efforts to mitigate weren't effective (drugs, meditation, exercise, sleep hygiene).
Ridiculous. Bigwigs placing congratulatory phone calls to the President Elect after victory is traditional. Lots of people did it. He would have done the same for Hillary if she had won.

And it's not going out of your way, it's 5 minutes of someone's time.
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> Except the case against Larkin and Lacey isn't premised on "preventing a woman from consenting to sell sex services", but rather on what they did to enable and surreptitiously profit from child sex trafficking.

Except neither of the criminal actions have had that as a central premise. That's been prominent in some of the PR, especially related to the State prosecution and to the federal legislative efforts the case was used as part of the (mostly dishonest) pretext for, but neither the state nor federal criminal prosecutions were centrally about that, they were about facilitating and profiting from anfd concealing the origin of profits from prostitution.
Everything is biased. True objectivity is effectively impossible, and it's not even clear that perfect objectivity is desirable.

People will report any negative coverage of their favorite party/politician as biased, especially now that the current U.S. president hoists that banner every day.