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Intent is built into the very foundations of US criminal law (very rarely is any crime strict liability, where no intent is required). I’ve never seen a system of insurance that insures willful acts, seems like insurance reform would be step 2 after the proposed criminal reform.

It seems very strange to suspend imprisonment for a system where everyone has to buy insurance for their own potential criminal conduct and allow the insurance companies to resolve the cases based on damages.

I think criminals will be more than happy to buy their right to commit crimes.
Yes, but I suspect it is far more common (I have no evidence to supply however) than the grandparent comment appears to imply.

We (the HN crowd) can easily get caught in a 'bubble' where because we known the details, and those with whom we typically associate also know the details, that we extrapolate those observations to conclude that "most people" know the details.

But until one's been in a situation of providing support or training for a diverse user group, one does not see just how little technical knowledge the "average joe" (a set of which we the HN crowd are very much not a member of) has of these things. The "average joe"'s level of technical knowledge is astonishingly low compared to the HN crowd's level of the same.
> but from what i've heard, China has some kind of system like this. Where if you go to the police about something, they just sort of force the two parties to work it out and one of the parties pays the other a fine.

IIRC, if you accidentally run over someone with your car in China, it makes legal and financial sense to back up over them to make sure they're dead. The restitution payment for accidental death is much less than the lifelong restitution payments for the victim's medical care and disability.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...

> In China the compensation for killing a victim in a traffic accident is relatively small—amounts typically range from $30,000 to $50,000—and once payment is made, the matter is over. By contrast, paying for lifetime care for a disabled survivor can run into the millions. The Chinese press recently described how one disabled man received about $400,000 for the first 23 years of his care. Drivers who decide to hit-and-kill do so because killing is far more economical.
Interesting. All my experience is with the hosted version, and my comment about support was related to that as well.
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I mean, it's not perfect - I have seen my fair share of "experts" but I would say as a general rule the answers are fairly high quality.
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There have been hundreds of articles about those topics, and maybe a handful about Elon toking up.

It's an issue because Elon had already done a bunch of crazy shit and this just plays into the narrative of him being unsuitable for the CEO role.
Are you talking about “Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google”? Because that’s not what I am talking about. Even if you turn that off, autocomplete still works in the location bar. Type “h”, it offers to complete “Home Depot”, “Hotmail”, “Huntington Bank”, “Hurricane Florence”, and “Hungry Howies”. It does that by sending the character “h” to the google servers and getting back a list of results.
I find Sam Harris to be helpful here. He's an athiest intellectual and speaks a language closer to HN than hippies.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/chapter-one/

ctrl-F "mindfulness" if you don't want to read the whole thing, though I'd suggest it.

Even better, this is also available as a reading on spotify. He's got a really soothing, compelling voice. Worth a shot.
Many of these arguments have been made (and argued) between some of the best and most respected economists and judges over the years. But of course you are just so far above all this people that you can just 'predict a dystopian society' probably without studying any of the related subject at all.

Efficiency is actually a very high goal because in the context of a legal system it means that more people get the service of justice and get it more effectively. Its sort of a meme of modern politics that efficiency can be thrown overboard and as long as everybody can feel good about it we can move on, but that is the wrong attitude to take.

Also, these problem don't vanish if the government does something. Your proposal about ending the war on drugs for example, do you think profit has nothing to do with it continuing. I'm not saying its all about money, but stopping something that consumes billions will be opposed by many people. The same goes for many of these other things, like jailing people and so on.

The economists and judges who look at these things systematically try to understand the intensives faced by different actors in the system and to change the legal system to get a better outcome.

You might not agree with the person in the video, but you would learn something about Law&Economics at least.

> If all of thst is done and we still see a need for greater efficiencies in a much reduced system, then we can talk.

So any conceptual discussion about an ideal system should not be had because the current system is not ideal? Contrary to what you seem to imply the people who are having these arguments don't want to implement a new system tomorrow that changes everything. They are arguing about principles to inform the direction reform should take.
This is the Mac App Store - not iOS. The app requests global permissions on launch.
Yea, I agree. I'd also add that we know so little about the gut biome at this stage that it feels presumptuous to assume that just because the biome looked 'different' afterwards, means that it's a 'bad' outcome. Even among healthy individuals there seems to be a lot of variability in the gut biome, and I'm wary of claims that one is 'good' and the other is 'bad' without more evidence. On the other hand, seems like we can say with a high level of confidence that antibiotics are devastating to bacteria :)
They could have sent you an email that says nothing, is that preferable about one that communicates what they're really going to do?
Nope, just to deploy to or configure a remote machine. So you write some Go code as though it's running locally that may run some apt commands, or may extract a tarball, or may setup a systemd script or whatever. Then the tool builds that binary and runs it on that remote machine (fetching resources lazily from the home computer such as the tarball you might need), then it deletes itself. I've used it for multiple server things that require more of an upgrade approach than a ephemeral container approach...I welcome anyone to take the idea and run with it.
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Freedom from constant meddling is appreciated. Not having your lead investor cheerlead for you externally is not great signaling though.
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> There is zero contract that enforces what memory you can/cannot use.

There is, though; malloc's specification forms a contract. You are not allowed to access outside the bounds of the returned pointer. That some hardware allows it sometimes does not mean that there is "zero contract".

The function represents an interface, and an interface is a set of rules and behavior both the user & consumer of that interface expect. If you stray from that, it's UB, and the machine can do whatever at that point.

In this case, that's what matters. We don't know what hardware malloc or mmap will run on, and it isn't impossible that someone could implement a malloc() implementation that did enforce those bounds. valgrind, for example, is very close to this: it already knows when you access memory outside of the bounds of a malloc'd region (as that's its purpose: to report such accesses), and it would be a trivial modification to it to kill the program on an illegal access.
Being a renal patient, I take a whole bunch of medications. One of the medicines I take became generic 1 year ago and now it is only $5/month under my insurance. Meanwhile another one became generic 4 months ago but it is still $90/month under my insurance. I just cant wait till next year when hopefully my insurer renegotiates the second one down. I think when 3-4 generics manufacturers start selling a medicine, the prices go down a lot.
I think if you have wet sand it's then possible to make a well and get clean water.

Basically it seems like the water flows more slowly and then sinks into the water table, which can then be accessed by wells (also lets plant tap into the water in the water table). Could be wrong though
X11 doesn't have native controls. The closest would be motif, or Xaw, but nobody sane uses those. GTK and Qt are both equally "native". Chrome uses its own GTK-derived UI lib, IIRC . As long as OP's ui implements accessibility and follows the desktop's settings as close as feasible, I see no problem.
Do you have any more specific criticisms? This didn't add much to get discussion started.
There's always this bizarre obsession with moonshot technological solutions to problems that are social in origin.
> And replacing criminal proceedings with cash fines improves this how?

Because apparently the solution for not living in a utopia is to deliberately construct something that will obviously be a dystopia.
They posted the issue, then archived it immediately.
It is not visible, unless you scroll all the way down to the page. Weird move Heroku.
This would mean that Einstein was right after all, and there is a scrambler on the path of the signal coming from the processing entity in the background.

Oh, and Cryptosystem sounds too much like something referring to cryptcurrencies. Cryptographic system would work as a better title!
Non profit hospitals overcharge just like for profit hospitals [1].

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/1...
As more and more apps are web based, this seems like an antiquated notion. Consistency lost, and I doubt it's important any more. Why should "desktop apps" follow those rules at all? Even Apple and Microsoft violate their own rules with their flagship applications.
> Go explicitly focuses on language stability over fancy new features.

I think that might be the problem... C is probably the most stable language around in terms of features, but it is probably the language that is most prone to bugs and security flaws that is in common use.
Normally people's attention is being drawn back and forth by various stimulus. "I have to schedule a meeting. I should reply to this email. What am I going to eat for lunch?" And so forth. If you meditate you will see there is a constant flow of these types of thoughts.

Being mindful means sticking your attention to direct perception. Somehow, you resist applying labels or analyzing things. Instead you just experience them as they are.
Did you mean "cannot do"?

It does seem like a tradeoff.
Ooooor, move people from the public system to the private one, creating inefficiencies. Let's not call conspiracy, this is getting silly.
They explain in their videos that the dams are there to prevent the sand from running off, which then acts as a sponge/filter to retain water.

Having such a huge water supply also helps vegetation, which prevents erosion and helps the soil absorb water, so I guess it's a virtuous circle, at least in theory.

Very interesting concept.
I'm sure this isn't entirely accurate, but I think it can be analogized to Sherlock Holmes' powers of observation. Everyone sees but they don't observe. They don't notice details about anything. Mindfulness is like that but more internal. Of course everyone is "aware" of the present time in a trivial sense, but lots of people spend a ton of their time lost in daydreams or reliving old arguments or mindlessly browsing FB or Hacker News. And it's not that that's a bad thing, just that they have no idea what their brain is doing, they just let it go wherever it will. Mindfulness is actually witnessing and understanding your state of mind.

I feel like the opposite of mindfulness is when you're driving to work in the morning and you realize you're already there and you have no idea where the time went.
...or anybody I guess.
If you're not from the northeast, the fact that Delaware is the state of incorporation for so many companies is a huge pain point when bankruptcy is involved.

For example, why should a company who exclusively does business within 200 miles of their headquarters be able to file bankruptcy thousands of miles away? Is that the justice intended by our court system? Any parties involved (suppliers, employees who are still owed money, and customers) must hire an attorney to represent their interests, and furthermore must hire local council in Delaware to be able to submit documents to the court.
As an old time sysadmin I'd expect you of all people should know better than to make assumptions about a programming language based solely on a small handful applications written in that language.

The ironic thing is what you described ("fast but fragile") better describes the traditional systems languages that are used to build X11 components: C and C++. If I had to describe Go as a systems language I'd say it was the exact opposite: slow but stable. Sadly it's also pretty inflexible for any real low level stuff (in my experience).
There are several delegated Proof of Stake cryptocurrencies which achieve similar results as PoS and have been running successfully for years. E.g. Lisk and EOS.

The reason why Ethereum is taking so long to move to PoS is not because PoS is impossible but rather because a seamless migration between PoW to PoS is challenging. If they implemented PoS from scratch, it would be a lot easier.
I've no idea why, but all of your comments were dead. I've vouched for them, so hopefully people will be able to see them now. Seems a bit silly to have the author in the thread, but all of his comments hidden!
Amazing. There's actually worse popular science reporting out there than what Popular Science puts out.
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So essentially your solution is to crowd source trust?
Qubes OS (https://www.qubes-os.org/) seems relevant: that sandboxes every application into its own VM. It's a hell of a brute-force approach to application isolation, but I guess it's the most robust strategy available.
Another lib crying for direct democracy, aka mob rule. To quote a movie that takes place in the state, "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise"
Yes, but it is very difficult to introduce the same kind of bugs in Go code considering you are no longer doing intricate memory management, etc.
I know settling to the sea floor is the intended result, but locking up more carbon in the steady state biomass of creatures would do the trick too. If we did this continuously could we just grow the biosphere?
It's also very common for these contractors to sub-contract all of their contracts to the big companies who actually do the work. So the government contracts to a one-man Veteran Alaskan Native owned "company", who has a pre-arranged agreement to sub all incoming work out to the actual contractor. The prime contractor's only job is to be the prime contractor and forward communication back and forth. He can do that from home without even going into an office. Sweet gig, and on the taxpayer's dime!
I have struggled with the term "Mindfulness" myself for exact same reasons. However, through some readings and discussion, I came to think of it as "Self focus".

Random examples that worked to enhance my understanding:

- Meditation, which typically starts/involves training yourself to focus on something to exclusion of external distractions; frequently it starts with body focus - think of your breathing, think of your body parts. While I still suck at it, I do see the value in continuing the effort of being able to concentrate and focus on what I choose to,and not be continually a slave to random external (and internal!) inputs

- As a completely different example, my way of dealing with many difficult items was to "push them out of my mind". But that never really works for a long time. Being mindful of them to me means diving deep into the anxieties and issues, facing them and through them, and typically they become less scary afterwards.

- Related to both, being mindful of own body is a trick I started learning very late in life. But I now notice when my breathing patterns, posture, etc indicate internal anxiety or stress long before my conscious mind is alerted.

So I'm maybe 1% on my way through the journey, and approaching it from very much the skeptical/rational/scientific side, but again, I do see the value in the goal and method.

Not to say that there aren't million people/instructors/guides/therapists out there who DO make it into woo-woo! But like anything else, you can separate wheat from chaff with a little effort :)
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The idea that libertarians don't understand negative externalities is simple wrong. Maybe you talked to some people in collage who just don't know a lot of economics.

But in actual economics people who one could describe as libertarian politically have been on the forefront of research on externalizes. In fact the most important work on that was done by Ronald Coase. And since then many people like that have worked in that space.
He should try replacing all the "we"'s and "you"'s with "I"'s and "me"'s as as far as I can tell, he's the only one that had to really be dealing with bad news recently.

Also, would drive his point home further as he'd be speaking from personal experience of using those very techniques during the whole Cambridge Analytic scandal.
Weird that they decided to use the controversial master/slave terminology when the Postgres community at large has been calling it master/standby since at least 2010 [1].

I don’t have strong opinions on the issue, but it’s a curious choice to go with terminology not only controversial, but non-standard for the product.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4BFE7213.80603@enterpr...
If you're not interested in .NET or the CLR, what is it about F# that interests you over OCaml?
Although there are counter-examples of this (F# on the web via Fable[0] is one), F# is fundamentally a .NET language. There were many decisions in its design that are a direct result of running on .NET:

* Object programming with F# is based on .NET objects

* Generics in F# are based on .NET generics

* Reflection-based features are based on .NET reflection

* Structs in F# are based on .NET value types

* Newer features in F# 4.5 are based on newer .NET features

* Forthcoming nullability features will be based on nullability annotations in .NET metadata

It's impossible to divorce the two, even if the target runtime environment is not necessary a .NET runtime. Those other environments inherent language design decisions made with .NET as a target runtime. The .NET runtime with .NET Core is indeed minimal, is natively supported just about everywhere, and was built with cross-platform in mind. F# is a part of this, for better or worse.

[0]: http://fable.io/
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If I were to hear interest rate mentioned in relation to a bond, I would assume they were talking about the coupon which in this case is fixed. I think you have the right understanding, various yield methods basically are just the IRR of the security under different assumptions. If you bought at par and held to maturity, the yield would be equal to the coupon which in this case is 5.3%. Without knowing where the bond is actually trading, given that it has a yield higher than its coupon, you know that it is trading below par; the difference is how much it is trading below par under the assumption you get 100% of the principal at maturity.

I wouldn't normally refer to the return as "fixed" as that is primarily only used in reference to the coupon and because of the fact that you mentioned earlier in that sentence; bonds fluctuate in price so the yield is regularly changing given a change in price.
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The word "mindfulness" in the context of a particular faculty or practice derives from attempts to translate the Pali word "sati". Cultivating sati correctly is part of the Noble Eightfold Path described by the Buddha. Unfortunately, the constituents that comprise "mindfulness" don't really convey the meaning behind "sati," so it's only really useful if you know that this is a token pointing to a foreign concept and you understand that concept. Because mostly Westerners don't, it has certainly been broadly misused to cover all kinds of unrelated things, including many practices/ideas you might call "new-age nonsense." (You may also think of Buddhism as nonsense, but the cultivation of sati being a practice with several thousand years of history should at least exclude it from being "new-age.")

Hopefully you can find out a lot more about the concept by googling for it under its real name. I'm happy to point to additional resources, please feel free to pm.

[Edit: typo]
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The truly insane thing is that Safari's original extension mechanism was close to the model used by other browsers, was more capable than the API that replaced it, and was totally free and open to develop for. Apple intentionally killed their small but growing extension ecosystem in favor of more-limited, native code, App Store-only extensions that require a yearly developer subscription to write.
Then, presumably, if the criminal doesn't follow the contract the case ends up in civil court.

And if the criminal refuses to submit to the judgement of the civil court, that's contempt of court which needs to somehow be enforceable.

You could make the contempt of civil court a criminal matter, but then the same insurer ends up having to pay restitution to itself and this doesn't seem to end well.

Or if the civil court has its own enforcement arm then we don't seem to have moved enforcement to the place he thinks we have.
I think the opposite of mindfulness would be anxiousness. Like, if your car breaks down and you start worrying about being late to work, then worry that it's going to cause you to get fired, then your partner might leave you, that's the opposite of mindfulness. But if your car breaks down and you just focus on fixing the immediate problem at hand instead of the potential problems in the future, that's what they normally mean by mindfulness. By awarness of the present, they don't mean "aware" in the literal sense, but more in the act of actually thinking about what's happening instead of living life on autopilot and reacting to situations based on instinct and emotion.