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> Wouldn't you say humanity started out in an anarchistic state?

Back when all humans were hunter-gatherers, this was probably true, yes, given what we know.

> It seems that the "workable solutions" tended towards more and more governing until we ended up where we're at.

Only after the invention of agriculture. But the period since that invention (about 10,000 years ago) is somewhere between 10 percent and 1 percent of the time humans have existed. So for most of the time humans have existed, the "workable solution" was (most likely--see above) anarchy.

The invention of agriculture had two key effects: it allowed the human population to grow dramatically, and it caused the population density to grow dramatically since agriculture requires fixed dwellings and more concentration of people into towns and cities. These two changes drastically increased the need for mechanisms to regulate social cooperation, which became what we know as governments.

Since the conditions that created governments in the first place (large human population and high population densities) are still present, we might be stuck with government even with all its downsides. However, advancing technology might open up possibilities that were not there before.

> Sure, there were imperialist powers that forced their wills and ways upon other regions, but those powers were still a product of the same initial government-deficient base state.

No, they weren't. While there were inter-tribal conflicts during humanity's hunter-gatherer period, those were nothing like "imperialist powers that forced their wills and ways upon other regions". Those powers were the product of governments, which were in turn, as above, the product of agriculture and the growth of towns and cities.
I guess there's .co.uk, .de and .fr, but are there others?
I would definitely seek some help and medication. I have a few friends that are bi polar and that has worked for them.
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This particular crate, serde_json, lets you create any type that implements Serde's Deserialize trait when you're parsing.
Nearly 6 in 10 workers are still recovering after the Great Recession
Perhaps increasing the US presence in key shipping areas such as the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa?
Oh come now, that's a truly silly claim.

Social Security was designed to reduce senior poverty (it did work), but spends > $900 billion every year to continue working.

No you cannot spend $20 billion and solve homelessness or poverty. You probably can't even make a double digit % dent in homelessness or poverty for a single year with $20 billion, even with 100.0% efficiency of payout.

Statements like that totally mis-characterize the kind of problems you are putting on our intellectual plates. They aren't point problems like a leak in a gas line. In fact, they're closer to, ironically, a complex series of conflicts in the middle east...
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Why Did Peter the Great Levy a Beard Tax?
The counterfeit items come from items shipped from amazon too thanks to their commingling inventory.
I'm in Mexico, Amazon entered the market a couple of years ago here.

It was night and day, the existing competition (Mainly Mercadolibre) started getting way better, but still Amazon is a superior shopping experience.

Prime shipping is way faster than anything else, piracy is not a problem, which is a huge issue with Mercadolibre (Although I've heard people in the US complain a lot about that)

To clear up how piracy was an issue, and how Mercadolibre is complicit in it I once ordered a LAN adapter for my Wii U. The pictures in the post were the official Nintendo ones, the adapter cost around what the official ones did. So I bought it, anyway I instead get a Chinese knockoff I saw on Aliexpress for somewhere around 1 dollar. I contacted Mercadolibre customer support, and they mentioned that even though the image was the Nintendo one I would not get a refund, because I didn't ask the seller if the product was original before I bought.

Anyway, I'm a happy Amazon user. As for the underdog narrative in the article: Screw that, underdogs mostly suck.
When a tech company is hegemonic it usually isn't a matter of pure supply, or location: It's because for the most part they do things right, or at least better than their competition.
So an eye for an eye, huh?

The thing is, publicly shaming someone is a very lazy way to effect change. Sure it might work for corporations, but if there's resistance it may be necessary to try reaching out to the decision makers via a different communication channel. I don't think it's appropriate to ratchet up the shaming and outrage.
I'm always amazed when cannabis is more tightly controller than cocaine — which is also an illicit drug that has legitimate medical uses.
A company going bankrupt does not mean any decision makers were negatively influenced enough to not repeat the actions. I doubt THEY went bankrupt.

I don't know enough to say if your conclusion is true or false, but I dont follow your logic. Why can't bad actors, if they are pervasive, cause a systemic collapse? From what I heard, incomes were fabricated, risks downplayed, and policies ignored. The insurance against the risk was priced on false premises. How can these bad acts (by bad actors) not cause a risk of systemic collapse?
“when they might have previously ignored you”, until they have reason to pay attention, when they can query metadata about all of your previous unanonymized traffic
It was impossible to get most of what I was used to at a competitive price when living in Sweden. I paid, for example, about $70 USD in tariffs in order to retrieve the light bulbs I ordered online from post office. Your package is basically government property until you pay the taxes on it which are rarely specified at the time of purchase.

I missed Amazon when I lived in Sweden. The issue is not the value Amazon brought us from their excessive competition. It is the relationship with government that should be illegal. Americans pay taxes and those tax dollars go to support Amazon's workers with food stamps, welfare, etc - this is not capitalism, but the socialistic policies that have been growing for nearly a century now. Also, if the government cannot defend the people against The Washington Post's propaganda, then it is not doing its job. It is treason to support other governments and foreign entities above one's own government - which the Post and others very often do. If the US was a free market for the people, then the government would have raided Bezos' home & business a long time ago... But I don't blame him - this is the type of behavior we are promoting without enforcing separation between government & private entities.
You're right, there were at most 2000 Arab mujahideen in Afghanistan during that war. The afghan resistance did most of the work, and most of the damage was done thanks to US-provided Stinger missiles -- they managed to shoot down 100 aircraft and 300 helicopters.
It was great to chat with Forrest about this, particularly given that he stripped out all of the stupid things I said and made me sound smart.
It did help out some families though. We were able to get into our home using a 5 year 0% interest loan. It was the only way we could afford it. Later we refinanced it to a normal 30 year loan, but there is no way we could have afforded that when we were first getting started. I'm not sure how people just starting out are able to afford homes now. Our home's theoretical value has doubled in price in the last few years and there is no way we could afford to rebuy it now, even with a 0% 5 year mortgage.
But where is the interview???

I dont trust any of these sources.
I challenge the relevance of your point of view. Always bringing up federal reserve banking is not relevant.

World has changed and narrow money under fractional reserve is less relevant today. Crypto or gold coin can't change the system when the system does not run on narrow money. That's why federal banks have less control today than ever before.

Capital ratio requirements limit banking more than reserve requirements. Do you agree or disagree?

Swiss people had a change to quit fractional reserve banking few months ago using popular vote. When the facts were presented, many people were surprised to learn that only 20% of the money assets in Swiss banks were under fractional reserve banking system and only thing abandoning it would do is that normal people would have to have to keep more cash in their account. Massive financial industry in Switzerland is not running on narrow money.

Financial crises don't start with narrow money. There are more and more assets that are almost as liquid as money under normal circumstances[1] but they are not money. Within just few hours you can turn them into cash [1].

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[1]: Normally very money-like liquid assets separate from broad and narrow only during crisis. Other asset types stop being liquid but central banks provide money so that shops can stack their shelves and people can buy food and gas and not to loot to survive.
> raise taxes to pay up and stop kicking the can

Does the US have the same old vs. young divide in politics as seen in Western Europe?

A policy change asking the young to pay even more for the older generations who arguable had it better/easier would not be an easy thing to pass in France, Germany or the UK.
Never trust someone who's trying to sell you something.
Regular supermarkets have been doing this forever, they just aren't upfront about it.

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotti...
Ask HN: Low cost screencast tool?
I wanted to make a few screencasts for my blog. Are there any free or inexpensive tools you use to make them?

What features really stand out for you in the tool you use?

Ideally, I am looking for suggestions that will work on OSX.
What drives me crazy is, if you go to a psychiatrist today and lie about having hard time sleeping, they can immediately prescribe you Ambien which not only causes dementia and other neurological problems in long term use, but systematically makes people do absolutely batshit crazy things they'll never remember the next morning. In the US, drug regulations are absolutely ridiculous and have no scientific basis, it is randomly decided by a few individuals and systematically affect the lives of each and every person living in the US, citizen or not. I can't even begin to believe how&why we let things like this happen.
Slightly off topic, but I just wanted to point out that this technology they're working on is largely within reach of you as a hobbyist today. What's impressive is the engineering resources and software control systems they're adding.

But for less than $300, you can build a small 6" quadcopter from base parts, purchase a small control radio, and a pair of inexpensive FPV goggles+transmitter+receiver. Yeah, less than $300. China's amazing at this.

If you get a permit for it in the US (or ignore the law), $50 more gets you radios with miles of range. Your primary limit will be batteries (solutions exist, but bust the budget a bit, fixed wing drones are a lot of more economical here).

But there is nothing magical or special about Switzerland other than a concentration of interest. If you wanted, you could start competing with these folks and stand up in front of a shady incubator looking for your economic kickstart really, really fast. You don't need to fabricate parts to build prototypes and most of this stuff is mass produced.
> You're the one basically imagining our society but with government and "governmental law enforcement" suddenly removed.

I don't know where you're getting that from. I have not only not imagined any such thing, I have explicitly said several times in this overall thread that that's not the way to imagine a functioning anarchy.

If your argument is that "we can't get there from here", I have already agreed, in response to another poster downthread (PeterisP), that this is a valid point. But that is not a criticism of anarchy; it's a criticism of us humans, who have painted ourselves into this corner where we can't trust governments to uphold our rights but can't get rid of them either.
Woah, my apologies, thanks for the correction.

I had meant to compare Australian Medicare to when something equivalent was introduced in the USA. However, I really don't know much about the US system. I had very much incorrectly assumed that the Affordable Care Act had introduced legislation bringing in changes making it fairly comparable to Australian Medicare. Alas, that doesn't seem to be the case, they're still extremely different systems.

Also, a little extra research tells me that what I consider to be "Australian Medicare", wasn't actually introduced until 1984, which is when our healthcare became universal.
You seem to have read a lot more into the parent comment than I did. I read it as a simple rebuttal to the articles opening statement saying climate change is killing the planet. While it's impossible for climate change to kill the planet, it is possible to render it too hazardous for humans if left unchecked.
The two don't have to be mutually exclusive. Plenty of businesses pride themselves on customer satisfaction with the knowledge that happy customers are frequent customers.

The problem is the American free market model encourages market capture through "less noble" (for want a better description) means; it encourages monopolies and discourages regulation nor oversight thus allowing businesses to ignore all other consumer, social and even ecological concerns. In an ideal world market forces would filter out that bad from the good but we've seen time and time again that you simply cannot trust businesses to do "the right thing" - and why should we, they're a business not a social club! But the fact remains it gets increasingly hard to compete in any market when your competitor has comparatively infinite resources and zero scruples. That results in a net less for consumers and society in the more general sense too.

At least here in the Europe we have the EU who are willing to challenge companies who are proven to overstep. I'm not saying the EU get it right all of the time but better that than giving businesses free reign to do whatever the hell they like.

Anyhow, I've waffled on about a fair few points so to get back on topic: You do businesses who are customer-focused. The problem is they usually get overshadowed by the businesses that have learned to play the game better / more aggressively.
Amazon is equally repulsive.
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IPv6: blacklist similar address ranges. Multiple A records: be sure to check against each record before connecting.

Connecting first and then checking the remote IP before sending anything could work I suppose, but I think you'd still need to check against a blacklist.
Thanks for reading!

>What is the current disposition of Zestful, have you ultimately found any users?

It's currently in maintenance mode. My only cost is a single Heroku instance, and I can actually downgrade to the free tier if I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of performance.

I haven't found users. A few clients said they have project plans that will include Zestful, but they don't sound very definite. I think it's possible that it will eventually get a bit of business if a new project searches for an ingredient parsing API and chooses mine among the options available.

>What technique did you settle on for parsing ingredient lists?

I used linear-chain conditional random fields. I based my design on similar work by the New York Times a few years ago:

https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/extracting-structu...

I have a blog series about how I cleaned up their code and used it as the foundation for Zestful:

https://mtlynch.io/resurrecting-1/

>Do you use Zestful yourself, did you retrofit it on to any of your prior project ideas?

Yep, I use it on KetoHub, my keto recipe search engine:

https://ketohub.io/

>Besides validating demand sooner what else would you do differently next time?

Good question. I'm not sure. I might adjust the money I spent on contractors. For this project, I spent about $8k on a Python developer to assist me with development, but I know Python pretty well. The money might have been spent better hiring someone to make a basic website because I'm not good at web design and I'm not crazy about the page I created. At the same time, I do want to get better at web design and not be dependent on contractors for all my web stuff because that slows down the process. I might try hiring someone to create a boilerplate site/theme then work from there.

>What project are you doing next?

Someone has approached me about potentially building a product for curating cryptocurrency news. I'm interested because I like cryptocurrency and it feels like it plays to my strengths, but we're still early in the process.
> You have a very naive view of other people.

You have a very naïve view of government:

> Government is the enforcement of the social contract on a large scale.

Government is supposed to be this, yes. But that's not how it actually works out in practice.
Look how patriotic Democrats (and I don't have to mention, #resist Republicans) get all of a sudden when Trump seems a bit too friendly to North Korea or Russia. Or the echoes of "We have to do something!" that popped up about Syria. It seems for the political class its literally impossible to learn anything. Or that they don't actually regret Iraq, it's just in vogue to do so.
You think Macy’s is getting higher quality goods? Hah, that’s too funny.
The downvote is fine, but the comment explaining it is excessive. Different people will have different senses of what's relevant vs irrelevant. Although this specific article is about ads on Amazon, I'm personally more interested in the larger question of why/whether Amazon is shooting themselves in the foot with bad policy choices. As such, 'jrockway' was on topic for me.
"In 2006, Fannie and Freddie insured 70% of all subprime loans so they needed to keep these loans viable"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_takeover_of_Fannie_Mae...
It also drove house prices crazy, a process that continues to this day and has ironically made housing permanently unaffordable for huge numbers of people. The housing bubble created a "new normal" for house prices that's frankly absurd when considered as a fraction of median income.

It's very similar to the story with student loans. Easy student loans have driven tuition costs as crazy as housing costs.
haha whaat? they had a limit of 8 chars MAXIMUM? that's usually the minimum limitation!

at least they had implemented the first rule of it-security:
perform all checks client-side only ;)
Www subdomain is removed even when it isn't the leftmost subdomain
When NewEgg started the 3rd-party sellers, I quit buying from them. I don't buy from Sears for the same reason. If I wanted a flea market, I'd go find an shut-down drive-in theater.

And that's the trick: I'd buy from NewEgg based on their reputation, not the reputation of some company I've never heard of. Back in the day, if I bought from Amazon I assumed (probably incorrectly) that it was somewhat curated. With 3rd-parties, NewEgg is no longer a trusted vendor, they're just a big ol' barrel of random shit that I have to try and fish through to find what I want. Amazon is just a big ol' barrel of random shit where I hope to not get tricked. Is that really the reputation you want, Amazon? That I wander down your virtual aisles constantly looking over my shoulder?

I "prefer" a vendor because they have demonstrated that they "carry good stuff". These days, hell, even they don't know what they carry.
Same way every other retailer (Walmart, Target, Sears, etc) prevent counterfeit goods?
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Wow, it's like capitalism actually works.
What I mean is, if the US had decided to do something that seemed sensible, even if it was outside the usual bounds of behavior, I think most people would have looked the other way. Indeed, we did do something stupid, but we did even that with a coalition of other countries.

More importantly, I like to think other countries would have signed on to something constructive quickly as well. Wasted opportunity.
a big a-ha moment for me was understanding tor’s simple utility for punching through nat. it really has a lot of cool uses beyond the usual
Safari does it best. I does not fills the box, until you click on it, then it gives you the choosing list to click an entry.

That prevents the page's JavaScript code to read autofills before user action.

Regarding can you trust Troy, check this out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398821
Any many people (like me), think Kubernetes is a better way to increase utilization compared to Lambdas. Especially with things like autoscaling, you can keep a kubernetes cluster pretty highly utilized, and no cold startup dance.
I'm curious about your situation. Can you provide additional financial information? Price of the home, area of the country, salary at date of purchase.
Yeah, Bin Laden was engaging in a bit of PR with those statements. In such circumstances people always try to take as much credit as they can, no matter how exaggerated it is.

And for Bin Laden that war was probably center of his universe. For the USSR it might have been kind of a big deal, but probably not the only issue they were dealing with worldwide and domestically. Bin Laden was probably never that concerned with representing that accurately, you know, because who's going to set him straight?
Product placement may help power NASA’s next big space mission
Regardless of whether that's true, the posters above were talking about employees of investment banks, which are not the same thing as credit rating agencies.
>“Nobody is scrolling beyond the first page when they do a search,” Jason Goldberg, SVP of commerce at SapientRazorfish, a digital marketing agency, told Recode. “If you want to be discoverable, you have to find a way to show up in search results.”

Bullshit. Amazon search is sketchy and reviews (both number and quality) are often unreliable, so I spend far longer than I want to looking through reviews to spot the fakes and try to find products that are actually of good quality.

I've actually started buying important things from elsewhere again. Many companies on Amazon are in a race to the bottom in both price and quality. That's fine for some products, but not for anything that's going to get regular use.
http://www.3gpp.org/news-events/3gpp-news/1929-nsa_nr_5g