skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slavery brought about a substantial percent of that wealth and standard of living. Did the forefathers pay a higher price than slaves? To what degree is that cost, disproportionately shouldered, responsible for today's security and liberty? And to what degree is it an on-going contribution? That's a contrarian view.

The standard view? Pax Americana is unquestioned by American political leadership regardless of political spectrum. Of course it brought peace, wealth, and improved the world, and continues to do so, and should continue to do so. Of course American interventionism is, on average, a moral obligation and achieves moral good. And Pax Americana achieved, is still impermanent, and must constantly be renewed. And further, it cannot be questioned by international law. That is the pre-9/11 position of the vast majority of Reagnite and Bush 2 foreign policy officials, as stated in the position paper "Rebuilding America’s Defense" (2000) by the Project for a New American Century think tank, 10 out of 12 founders of which were Bush 2 administration officials. And one of those officials who is also in the current administration, John Bolton, just said yesterday, the United States will not be held accountable by the International Criminal Court. Period.

While there are data points suggesting this is more of a right wing ideology, you won't see the left wing aghast at these plainly spoken positions. They merely present a less verbally assertive version of it.

It is not at all controversial to say, American political thought is still today, insisting Pax Americana is believed in, cannot or should not be questioned, is morally good and proper, and any international institution that disagrees, is instantly discredited. I would expect a Clinton administration would be quite a lot more diplomatic about it, but the policy would be effectively the same. Clinton did vote, at the time, in favor of interventionist wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

And "Rebuilding America's Defense" is often cited as pretext for these wars, as it spells out Pax Americana is under threat without another Pearl Harbor-like event to motivate the American public to the cause. And then soon after 9/11 happened.
so you're claiming this isn't a functional perpetual motion machine that (bonus) outputs useful building materials? come on
Sure they could, but with a proper approach to supply management, like the whole of the traditional sector is used to it gets caught. The lower quality switch would get caught in the random checks of incoming product in your first years as supplier, or rapidly from customer feedback. Then simply drop them as supplier.

Amazon would look far far better to their customers if they started cutting some of the crap as "not good enough to go in Amazon" and dropping suppliers for shoddy manufacture or too high a return rate.

There is a big difference between cheap, good value and all the world's unfit for purpose and counterfeit crap, for me anyway. They can pretend marketplace is separate, and outsource returns and customer service to marketplace sellers all they like. If I buy something dangerous or shit on marketplace I resent Amazon as much as the RNGFake4u brand I accidentally bought.
I wonder which is worse. If they were arguing that way for no reason OR if they were arguing that way because their livelihoods were dependent on it.
Hardship and misery aren't the same thing.
> onion routing to exit nodes on the internet has diminishing efficacy

How about onion routing to peers? Tor provides a great backbone to do this yet so few applications employ it. I have ideas of course, but in general, it's very easy to have a desktop app on your home computer that fires up an onion service you can access from anywhere including mobile. Why more apps that don't have high bandwidth requirements don't use it I'll never know.
last time we fought a war to secure and maintain pax americana was 1945
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So lets see... this was for the customers benefit AND was allowed by the EULA anyway AND was accidentally enabled on non-security products AND this feature is so important that it is being disabled and the collected archives purged.

I'm skeptical that this is the whole story. And really, why should the benefit of the doubt still be given to companies collecting this kind of data for dubious (stated) reasons without an explicit opt-in?
A repeat of 2008. The idea being that there wasn't sufficient laws in protections in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening again, or that people most directly involved can't just skate.

Problem is though, even if laws were passed, once 2008 fades far enough into the past you'll get someone with a really bright idea, "Hey there's too much regulation stifling our economy. If we just got rid of all those pesky laws the free market would create a utopia!" Because every tom, dick and harry wants their chance to repeat history after the last tom, dick and harry have died.
Because a particular group entrenches themselves in power.
If you have a baby, the prices are even more pronounced. Even 5 years ago, diapers on Amazon were way too much. Costco shines in this segment.
What the vulnerability?

You find out that an email address belongs to a Swiss citizen?
> Smoke less

This. Seriously. Being just a little high can be really fun!

It’s so easy to just keep smoking until you’re a fucking mess, especially if you’re someone who used to smoke more. I feel like smoking all the time is very unhelpful for me, so I smoke rarely these days, and when I do I just smoke a tiiiny bit.

I think this may be a much, much more mild version of the phenomenon where opiate users who get used to a particular dose, quit for a while, relapse, use their prior dose, and die. You get a “serving size” in your head, and for those of us who have smoked quite a bit of weed in the past it’s easy to be like yeah sure I’ll go ahead and smoke this half gram joint and then I’m fucking ruined and not happy about anything.

But overall I’m with the grandparent; habitual smoking feels like a terrible habit to me and does NOT correlate with me reaching my goals. It most certainly does not help with my depression — quite the opposite.
It's politically unpopular to vote against defense spending or to decrease defense spending, also military service is fetishized to a high degree. It's generally a winning political strategy to put forward nationalism as patriotism. There is so much defense spending it's like welfare spread out to all the states in the form of defense manufacturing, and we have military bases in economically otherwise not very useful areas. This entrenched political base has proved to be impossible to reform due to the outsized political influence of those rural, thinly populated areas in the Congress and presidential elections.
Have you established that there are "numerous and credible indications" for all counterfeit products? I would, perhaps naively, think that this is just shifting the exact same problem to the reports.

That is, reviews and reports are likely easier to manipulate/game than physical products. Not just in "ballet stuffing" but through many other means. (That is, it is probably easy to get credible people to also vouch for products while you are shipping counterfeit ones.)

To that end, I'd imagine it is easy to get rid of someone that sells 100% fake items. But how hard is it to drop someone that sells 10% fake items? In bulk, that is still damaging. And is still probably lucrative for the seller.

Basically, I'd expect (again, perhaps naively) that painting it as a boolean trip actually makes it easier for the cheaters.
This is an inevitable consequence of the commodification of housing.
Why not a quick scan twice a day if all static content looking for ip addresses and domains against a whitelist of allowed domains? This would have found the issue same day.
To be fair I always thought MiniKanren was supposed to be more of a tutorial than a full fledged prolog. I once tried my hand at 'porting' it to Mathematica: it's been mostly an exercise in adapting the semantics rather than the syntax.
Ok, thanks I see. I suppose that it was a bit too much for a stackoverflow-prone noob like me, with only 5 minutes of rust flight time.
Chrome: www subdomain is removed even when it isn't the leftmost subdomain
To offer a dissenting opinion, I have found stimulating work in actuary - having worked in economic scenario generation and market risk modelling.

But I have also had actuarial work that was closer to accounting than I would have liked. Certainly you have to pick your roles carefully - which is perhaps only feasible in large markets.
I've actually thought about this recently. The more equity that a smaller number of elites acquire, the less value they place on their own money, the more willing they are to throw money around and drive up prices for certain items, such as real estate - this warps the market. It's almost as if the top 0.01% become an economic black hole consuming more and more resources to acquire what's left.
In addition to blatant racism, I suspect much of it is due to the potential for cultural and spiritual revolution should marijuana (or psychedelics in general) become legal. We can look to the 60's for an example of what can happen when mind-altering substances become widely used recreationally. There were a lot of other factors at play then, but the growth of counterculture and subsequent pushback was the origin of many of today's political battles. I can see why conservatives are afraid of that rapid change - it will be incredibly disruptive to the established order. (I disagree with their fears).
The UI sucks but it gives you the most info: https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php
As a norwegian(who has even less access to Amazon than swedes) I don't care about Amazon at all.

Komplett is becoming more like Amazon and recently started listing products from other companies. But as in Sweden it's quite common to use Prisjakt to figure out what web store has the best price on a given product.

Also, I think UX on the Amazon site is terrible compared to Komplett.
At least with respect to South Korea, your history is wrong. The US endorced a "capitalist unfree dictatorship" until 1988. The military rule of Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan are strikingly similar to Pinochet's in Chile (which I bring up because you mention Allende), including throwing political opponents out of airplanes.
Optimizing revenue given a particular supply and demand isn't price gouging. People are paying for the convenience of buying anything they want with two clicks from their computer chair, turns out that's pretty valuable.
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Former actuary here. Let me try to explain some of the frustrations that occur in the profession:

Technical ownership is distributed from the top down and can not be overridden from bottom-up process improvements. Even if it made sense to integrate two departments that regularly pass each other data, that will be fought because that interferes with someone's corporate fiefdom.

There is no clear high-level diagram of how the whole company functions. So unlike a web-app with a client-frontend-routing-backend-database pipeline that a smart 15 year old could learn to conceptualize, instead you're expected to learn the inter-process requirements in a piecemeal fashion, one detail at a time as it arises in a weekly task. In the best case, this big picture starts to emerge ~5 years into a full time job. In the more likely case, your tasks never expose you to some part of the company's operations and they remain a blackbox and you'll be unable to reason about.

While inter-process communication remains opaque, complexity within each process proliferates. If you do life insurance, you need to support every product you sell for fifty years, so you deal with often poorly documented product rules and hard core legacy systems. Note - you can't deprecate anything because must honor those complicated agreements made decades ago.

Basically the frustrations boil down to doing interesting systems/data work but with being forced to do it in a worst-practices fashion.
Generics spreading throughout your app is not a problem, it's that a specialized code-generation solution would work this way. Both apps and libraries would need the same level of support, and at the end of the day you've invented a new language that happens to transpile to Go, on which you'll want to build everything. (In fact, such a language has already been created [1].) It's the awkwardness of the split between ordinary code and transpilation that causes the issues, and the resulting interop issues and fragmentation/competition between flavours.

[1] https://github.com/albrow/fo
Interesting! This is the same Insys that is currently under investigation for paying kick-backs to doctors to prescribe fentanyl![1]

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/nyregion/fentanyl-subsys-...
You could burn it – the ash from burning a tree takes up only a fraction of the original volume.
But is it worth millions dead?
There's actually a fair amount. This SA article summarizes some of it [1].

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...
Nextcloud combined with collabora code is a pretty good office suite. I have been using it for a couple months now. Nextcloud also offers several other apps that intersect googles offerings.
The point is that there are plenty of people that stuff get delivered every few days. There are local alternatives. Just because Amazon doesn't exist, doesn't mean that you can't order things online. At least in the Netherlands almost all shops offer next day delivery. We have some vendors that offer same delivery. None of them are Amazon.

If Amazon _did_ turn up, would it have an effect? Probably. Would it be game and/or life changing? Unlikely, since these capabilities are already available in here.

You are correct that we are not used to getting everything from the same vendor. But it is absolutely common for people to order stuff online. Our "high streets" are just as empty as those in the rest of the world.
Just so you know, B&H was years ahead of Amazon on warehouse worker abuse: http://www.boycottbnh.com/#a11y-abuse

Any tips for buying on eBay?
Why Retailers Are Losing Ground by Failing to Utilise Big Data
Sure if you completely ignore how research is funded, how one makes a career out of performing research and why research is performed in the first place. Specifically, anyone performing medical research on marijuana is likely to lose any grants they have, is likely to lose their job for putting their employer at risk, is likely to not be able to find future employment for being so cavalier in their research and is likely to not see any meaningful result from their research because the drugs can't be produced in the first place.
Motion Blur for Mobile Devices in Unity
Taking your business elsewhere only works when individual customers represent a significant proportion of a company's income. With the volume Amazon handles, any individual attempt to send market signals is completely drowned out by noise and marketting. To send such a market signal strongly enough to be received, you would have to have an advertising campaign on the scale of another massive corporation. That indicates market failure. It is well known that markets are not resilient against tragedy of the commons, prisoner's dilemma, and similar phenomena.

While I am no fan of the federal government, I am even less of a fan of a federal government that is dwarfed and captured by the power of giant corporate conglomerates, nor am I a fan of corporations large enough to act as governments in their own right. Therefore it is necessary for the size of the largest businesses to not exceed the power of the federal government, and it is necessary for there to be actionable antagonism between the interests of business and government.

Markets can only be free if this balance of scale between public and private interests is maintained.
"Now, keeping in mind that the username is your email address and that many among us like cake and presents and other birthday celebratory patterns, it's reasonable to say that this was a ludicrous statement."

This is when I lost it. Bloody good read.
You shouldn’t need the access keys at all to publish to the bucket.

How are you trying to automate publishing?

If more than one developer can publish to the bucket, you shouldn’t be sharing access keys. Each developer should have thier own user name and access keys.

Really I would automate the push to S3. There are two ways. Either have a custom lambda function that gets called as a stage in code pipeline or create a code build project that runs AWS CLI commands to push to S3 after a commit.
Sure maybe the Nixon campaign/administration used laws that were on the books to target certain groups...but the laws already existed for more than a generation.

Similarly, private for profit prisons, while they existed earlier, weren’t really a thing (as we know them today) until the 1980’s.

So the idea drug laws were created as a weapon against hippies and blacks (30 years in advance) or to line pockets of prison owners (50 years before the true for profit prison system) seems off. Even political suppression, women just got the right to vote, blacks were already actively being suppressed from voting by Law when marijuana prohibition laws were created (and continued to be until the civil rights movement and the voting rights act of 1965).
Sounds like a great review!

Regarding the specific rather than the meta: I'm very satisfied with the "filament LED" candelabra bulbs from Amazon. I've bought several brands, usually whatever is cheapest. I'm even using e12 to e26 adapters in some fixtures so I can standardize on them. There are lots of comparables on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=e12+filament+led.

I don't know the actual spectrum, but I like the light quality, and haven't had problems with durability. If you haven't tried this style yet, you should. It's a good design, since it works directly off mains voltage and thus avoids the quick-to-fail heat-sensitive capacitors used in standard LED bulbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_filament
I was in continental Europe at the time and the sentiment here was "they're going to do something stupid" and far from a free pass.
We have two major online book shops and some minor ones.

So we have.. competition! And book prices are not regulated like in Germany either.
"solving" homelessness or world poverty is not a one-time expense. You can throw $82 billion dollars worth of food at the starving populations of the world and they'd just multiply and require even more later on, it's not that simple
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Ah, sadly I'm not a seller, so that's not something I've explored. You should follow up with the original commenter.
credentialed or not, if somebody told you you could afford something because "prices will always go up", would you believe them?
The timeless stack
Seems clear that it negatively impacts a developing brain. Other work that’s coming out seems related to the adult mind.
The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA)
Yeah, the big thing is how comfortable you are with bit twiddling. If you are, it's no big deal, but if you're not, it'd be much harder, for sure.
>why not?

Because it's illegal?
If I had had the developer console open in chrome while going through the booking, would I have seen in the network tab the posting to baways.com...

I think the answer is yes.

So I wonder why this issue was not reported earlier by some techie guy who's just booked a flight
Can we not agree, though, that scare tactics around victimless crimes (in the sense that the victim is also the perpetrator) are demonstrably ineffectual? Abstinence-only sex education, for example, correlates positively with teen pregnancy rates [1], whereas opioid overdose education is shown to decrease opioid death rates [2].

Without getting into the moral argument of whether or not people should be able to choose to alter their mental state through drugs (are we cool with coffee as well?), it seems clear to me that the best policy is one of education and harm reduction, not FUD and prohibition.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194801/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4688551/
Those sort of cooling towers aren't just for nuclear power. They're the most efficient way of cooling anything, unless you're next to a river. Judging from the railway and storage around it, I think that's a coal plant.
Tesla Bull Capitulates, Says Stock Is 'No Longer Investable'
I get full-blown panic attacks for up to two weeks after a single drag. It's a very rare, but known, side-effect that follows from a long period of heavy usage (2 years in my case, during which time it vastly improved my life). If you're not comfortable taking it then don't, you don't owe it to society to use it: it's just a recreational drug. There's nothing wrong with your brain.
It is like virtualization of air interface. Multiple standards with different metrics.
You’re repeatedly describing a workplace where people who don’t fit into a narrow set of non-work-related criteria are excluded from significant work decisions, then somehow not realizing that’s the textbook definition of a discriminatory work environment. It’s no different from making important work decisions in the men’s bathroom and saying you won’t hire women because they would feel “alienated”.

Feel free to hang out with your friends at bars, but don’t make them mandatory for work. This principle is not complicated.
The difference is that JS has to be backwards compatible in order to not break 50% of the internet. With PHP, it is theoretically possible to make a major version upgrade that fixes most if not all the issues without worrying about breaking backwards, since upgrading is opt-in.
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it's just harder to find the good, cheaper places in california because they don't have the budget to advertise like the expensive places (by that i mean acquiring "free" press from local food critics, newspapers, and the like, not just literally paying yelp).

also, good western european(?) food (spanish/french/italian/etc) is more expensive than, say, good asian or latin american food. the plating of food into courses will bias you toward those more expensive restaurants, by the way. my favorite restaurants are typically single plate/bowl by design, which you can then share family-style by ordering a few items.

i'd also echo the point that good food costs way more in northern california than in southern california. socal just has many more cheaper, good restaurants to choose from.
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There's a parallel comment to this one talking about some of the drawbacks (though TBH I think it's a reasonable risk/reward tradeoff).

But I haven't seen any actual justification that the no-fly list is actually useful, and worryingly the regulations around it are classified.
You don’t allow third party sellers and the problem goes away real fast.
Once the framework was in place to give out garbage loans, people across all income levels leveraged the opportunity to get houses they shouldn't have.

This just shows how poisonous it is when the government screws up a market by essentially mandating that banks throw away their normal risk assessment process.
Saying that it's federally prohibited within the state is dubious, because of the issue of states rights. Constitutional scholars would argue the federal government has little to no ability to control what substances a state wants to prohibit within the state itself. The only way this was worked around to begin with is the stretching of the interstate commerce law, which only applies when crossing state lines.