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> More importantly, I like to think other countries would have signed on to something constructive quickly as well. Wasted opportunity.

Personal anecdote:

I was in a tiny town in Portugal during 9/11. In the following days, I read all of the available papers and saw that even China was ready to share intel with the USA. Random Portuguese people offered me a place to stay while my country was "a war zone." The outpouring of global support was unprecedented.

Meanwhile, I called my younger brother who was normally well informed, was attending a very liberal university, and yet was worried about ME! All he knew about was all of "the anti-American sentiment" around the world. That was the day I truly understood the power of the reactionary idiocy of US media.

The USA could have used 9/11 to really start A New American Century, but the morons in charge were truly just morons. They were all part of a think tank named The Project for a New American Century, yet they let that opportunity pass them by. This was the moment that I understood the idiocy of neo-cons.

When future historians analyze the end of the American era, this will truly be the turning point.

Note: I have been careful to avoid being political on HN, but this topic deserves no less. I will never forget.
At any retailer that isn't running that experiment constantly, at least half of the executive team should be fired.
But it's not... the feds will utterly fuck you over for possessing cocaine. Just 5 grams of crack in many states is going to land you in jail for a long time. Maybe you mean for research purposes, but even that I would doubt.

Such a shame because cocaine is a blissful, perfect drug and smoking crack is an especially excellent way to consume cocaine.
To you and me it might “pretty obvious”. It’s viewers are a different case. They really think there was a liberal conspiracy at Google to vote Hillary.
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> the meritocratic myth

I've been around to see people over decades, and how their decisions affect their lives. Meritocracy is not a myth. Where people wind up is very much a consequence of their choices.

This isn't the Soviet Union where one is assigned a career, a job and an apartment.

I've seen immigrants arrive here with nothing and become millionaires. That's why everyone wants to come to America. The opportunity is here.
Walmart is a profitable corporation.
According to trickle-down economics, Walmart employees should be doing very well, but no: many of them get paid minimum wage and are on welfare.

Walmart sells products manufactured in places with weak labor laws, including prison and child labor and no American manufacturer can compete with that. On top of that, they evade taxes using tax havens.

All remittances sent to Mexico by legals + illegals are lower than the amount of money Walmart saves through tax evasion tricks.

By doing all these things, they maximize their profits and tribute fewer taxes. Once in a while, they lobby for a tax holiday so they can bring back that money to the US. They are also not alone, most large corporations are doing exactly the same.

On top of that, while the US is #1 in healthcare spending, most of that money does not result in people receiving healthcare. Most of that money stays in endless loops of self-reinforcing bureaucracy and the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry that sells 1 liter bags of "sodium chloride solutions" (saltwater) for as low as $500.

The US is also #1 in defense spending. But what does that defense spending gets you? development hells like the F-35 JSF, and million dollar rockets shot at random empty tents in the middle east. That's what is in the best interest of the military industrial complex.

I would say that corporations are the ones to blame rather than random guys picking fruit for nothing.
>Child support is sometimes inadequate, or effectively not collectable. And women traditionally contributed unpaid labor, in the form of housework and childcare.

By my thinking, this is #metoo level stuff. If we're to have equality, then it is time to stop pretending that women are the only parents and that they can't also hold professional jobs. I would posit that equality cannot exist so long as we continue to hold these outmoded views on gender roles. And yes, I agree that means that it is imperative that men continue to step up to the plate, whether within marriage or outside.

>Even if they could even get a divorce.

I'm male. It took me two+ years of legal battles to get a divorce. Tell me how this is a female-only issue?

Side note: I have my kids > 60% of the time, but pay out child support, as enforced by state law, as though she has them 100% of the time. I pay all of their various expenses - clothes, medical, camps, activities, etc, because despite what the divorce decree says and despite what I pay her in spousal support AND child support, she will just continue to whine that she has no money. She walked away with a net worth > $500,000, I walked away with a net worth of approximately negative-$100,000. So anyone that tells me how women get screwed... well I have some words for you.
Let's substitute some words here:

The slaves are all picking cotton for below minimum wage so we don't have the bear the true costs of our clothing. Remove them and there would be serious repercussions for those at the lower strata of society.

This is not looking very nice, to put it mildly.
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Because it is deceptive. People think they are getting search results when they are getting back ads.

There is nothing implied in product shelf placement - no-one thinks the items within easy reach are the best/cheapest, quite the opposite in fact - most people know it is the shiniest, most expensive, branded items which get the best placement.

Both Google and Amazon try and deceive users into thinking their ads are genuine, ranked search results. Deceptive, misleading conduct in order to make $$$ is not far away from criminal fraud.
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While the paper prominently mentions Monero as an example of browser-based mining, the first part of the analysis is independent of specific cryptocurrencies because it looks for heavy wasm usages. (The second part of the analysis is specifically targeted to Coinhive as it had the largest share, however.)
Second in a car is optimistic. I often have to put it in first and just let the engine tick over. Some people don't think their car can do this. I'm not sure if that's true or if they are just bad drivers, though. My car will happily roll in third if it's flat.

I find I'm usually able to keep rolling in gear, which doesn't use any more fuel than just idling, and not apply the brakes in most "stop and go" traffic.
I've gotten a Nissan Leaf v.2 which comes with e-pedal. Essentially single pedal driving. Best described as someone who drove stick shift as staying in second gear but without none of the noise. Push the pedal down and it accelerates normally, but start lifting off and it goes from "neutral" to "engine braking" (regenerative) all the way to a complete stop.
https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/e_Pedal...

While I do miss doing 3 -> 2 heel toe downshift for corners, trying to figure out when to lift off to scrub enough speed without touching the brakes for a corner is just as entertaining.

I think shifting gears in general, whether automatics or manual, will fade out as electric drive-trains take over.
the problem is not as simple as the headline makes it out to be. Its VERY easy to get a birth certificate. you know what proof I had when I got mine? I knew my mothers maiden name - thats it. Meanwhile, a passport is a very highly accepted form of authentication. if you can show one, its not refutable to not say its not you.

so as you can imagine, a birth certificate isn't enough. it wasn't even enough for me to get a job in a sanctuary city. I had to show a passport.
It would be interesting to do this experiment with people who had high abilities in drawing lifelike pieces.
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Europe for travel within the Schengen Zone has at least been moving back in the right direction of no papers required for travel. Meanwhile, in North America and the Caribbean it was perfectly normal to be able to travel around with no passport up until just a decade or so ago.

I remember being able to go to visit Canada from the USA with nothing more than someone asking if you if you are a US citizen.

That freedom to travel is yet another right that was thrown out the door because of 9/11 via the "Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative" [1] which would be more aptly named the "Western Hemisphere Restriction of Travel Initiative"

Sad.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Travel_Init...
Yes, but with Flash pages scrolling rarely worked at all (people were too lazy to implement it), text wasn't searchable or copy-pastable, and no keyboard shortcuts worked, anywhere.

JS SPAs are bad, but not that bad, because browser defaults are sane, and getting around them is hard. Or in other words, web starts working by default, and developers have to work to break it. Flash had no defaults, you started with blank slate and implement everything yourself.
The US went from subsistence farming in 1800 to superpower a hundred years later. Nearly the entire population that made up the US arrived penniless, and moved up into the middle class and higher.

To say that American capitalism somehow "caused" poverty is contrary to about every statistic.
These articles are quite disingenuous as they constantly focus on hourly pay without giving a any context whatsoever to compensation : bonuses, matched retirement/investment plans, insurance, profit-sharing/equity plans, paid time off, paid sick leave days, etc. This really seems just disingenuous to me since this is a major part of compensation as the figures show.

And the worst part is that this measurement of compensation is actively measured and quantified. Here [1] it is. I'll take their word that productivity since 1973 has increased 77%. In that time real hourly compensation has increased 50% and growing.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPRNFB
> The suppression of dialogue surrounding immigration far exceeds downvotes in scope and severity.

The problem with the anti-immigrant zealots is they never provide any evidence for their paranoid fantasies about immigrants increasing unemployment or supressing wages. People who actually study the economic impact of immigration in the West have generally concluded it has insignificant impact or improves the economy.

What do you do with people who, with absolutely zero evidence, continue to blame immigrants/Jews/aliens? You downvote and move on.
good catch, but add those two peaks together and they are still shorter than Mount Whitney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Whitney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.)
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You say “in lisp”. But which Lisp? Common Lisp or Scheme? And then which implementation of scheme? And which object system? See, that’s kinda my point. If I talk about Python or Java or C# we’re not even having this discussion, because they’re monolithic languages and features are core to the language, not built on top. On the other hand I can’t really move my code between Lisps.

And I don’t buy the argument that it’s just because Lisp has been around a long time. Python is almost 30 years old but there’s one canonical version. And seriously, I bet there are a lot of pythonistas that would change things about, for example, the object system if they could (explicit “self” comes to mind), but if they did that the community would fragment with some people using the original system and others using an alternative and it would be hard to integrate new libraries and know the rules of the module you’re working in. It’s a trade off no doubt, but it seems like most people have voted that a rich ecosystem of libraries without compatibility issues is more important to them.
European cars have cruise control on manuals.
Yep, I can visualize images of some things, especially things I am familiar with or that left an impression on me (incomplete and with inaccuracies, I'm sure). I think I am also fairly visual/spatial in my thought processes.
I'm Sweden we are labeled as racists if we talk about it, so downvoting seems minor :)
True. But what does this have to do with poverty levels discussed here?
There's enough people out there who take this more as a hint that this is an inherently hostile environment through and through and just close themselves off forever/become closet hostile towards all members of the group
...or Amazon will operate without a profit until it captures the entire market and then things won't be so rose tinted.
You should probably roll back the commit that broke production though, instead of hastily pushing something out hoping you'll fix it.

And ideally you should've been doing a gradual rollout, deploying on a few machines first then slowly ramping it up.
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It seems like you're lamenting what is basically an immutable biological trait without proposing any solutions. I don't think this adds much to the discussion.
They were a jerk in a situation where both parties are supposed to be on their best behavior. Can you imagine how it must be dealing with them on a day-to-day basis?
IIRC even Skype has that option. Can you not bind this directly in Windows/macOS?
In belgium the rising healthcare cost is almost entirely due to an aging population. To take care of those elderly you need nurses and care workers, 46000 extra per year for the coming decade. Meanwhile the schools only graduate 5000 per year, due to lack of interest by the native population because of the odd hours in nursing. The only way they’ve found to bridge the gap and take care of the elderly is bringing over people from the phillipines, because it turns out this problem exists across europe (aging population = care gap). Those immigrants are not taking anyone’s job away, they earn a decent wage and they’re doing a net positive contribution through work, taxes and commerce.

That’s an anecdote but there are plenty more like that. All of which is to say that the story the right pushes about immigrants being bad for the economy is just a story and doesn’t necessarily fit the facts.
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Stupid, slightly off topic question: With costs this high, the huge financial burden and the unclear advantage one gets from a US university education, why do Americans not simply study abroad, say in Germany, where University is free?
Have you checked minimum wage vs inflation chart? Seems that not having a minimum wage that goes up yearly to catch up to inflation has the biggest impact in wage growth. There are bigger fish to fry rather than speculate on the impact of immigration (but not as easy to sell to angry constituents), the current population is at ~320 million and you receive ~1 million immigrants a year, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and let's more than double it and say 5 million. That represents 1.5% unwanted growth via immigration, I have my doubts that a change so small can have an impact so big on an economic system.
Basing this on my rough memory of abnormal and developmental psych, the article and example you’re presenting is a type of Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rey%E2%80%93Osterrieth_complex...].

Some people may be able to produce a bicycle in more details than others but that depends on how developed and healthy their brain is to use their executive functions. Without knowing all of the subjects medical history—early dementia, strokes, all the good stuff- and current health, it’d come as no surprise that even consciously we cannot produce true representations of what we saw.

Police sketches from eye witnesses may be a good thing to look at when thinking of producing images from memory. Some people have better brain health and are able to utilize many different high and low-level functions to produce more accurate descriptions. Others not so much.
It's an incentives problem.

We could solve it if we checked performance like we do unit tests, and held developers accountable to a literal performance budget set by the business.

> Few teams I’ve encountered have actionable metrics associated with the real experiences of their users.

Imagine getting latency numbers on load times, bundle sizes, TTI, and so forth on every commit. PRs that blow the performance budget would be immediately flagged. You could plan for performance like any other business cost.

Even nontechnical business leaders can understand reports like "3s load time", and set tech team goals based on a relationship between load times and lost sales. "Load time must be under 2s, even on old Android + Edge" is something everyone can understand.

The article is right: what's most pleasant for the developer isn't necessarily what's best for the business. If metrics like load times are only being seen by developers, the developers have a moral hazard: either they

1. make choices that benefit themselves, at a cost to the business

2. make their own lives voluntarily worse, without recognition

The article is right again that sometimes, better DX is in fact worth worse performance for the user. As with anything, it depends on the business.

But businesses won't accurately and fairly decide on their preferred tradeoff if only engineers are in charge of it.

We need better performance infrastructure!
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Yeah, that is a transparently silly argument GP made. It's just that weird self-righteousness people get about driving manual. They're sooo much more in tune with their cars, you know.
> Anyways, in Western Europe, the increased demand (which is probably smaller than in the US), those things are easily canceled by the added costs to public healthcare + social benefits.

No it doesn't. This narrative is nonsense. There's a lot of research on the impact of immigration on, for example, Germany. None have concluded that such immigrants are doing anything but supplying desperately needed labor to Germany's economy and have had significant positive benefits [1].

The fact that it is so easy to learn about this (there's plenty of data, much of it free and easily available) and yet people continue to spout this narrative speaks volumes.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/
> Where people wind up is very much a consequence of their choices.

True.

But we also have lots of studies showing that the best of the lowest socioeconomic class almost never do better than the laziest of the uppermost socioeconomic class.
Thank you for introducing me to "brigading", I wasn't aware of such term.

I'm not the type of person who believes in coincidence, especially when such events require many variables to occur at the same time. These events have happened on more than two to three occasions now so I strongly believe there're credible evidences there. I'll keep observing and monitoring it, but it's likely I won't be staying on Reddit much longer, it just seems too easy to abuse and manipulate this platform.
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I'm a car noob, but how is physically fitting automation into a device difficult? Isn't it a tiny chip on a board?
It’s actually even better. There is no server side authentication on the application. And this keygen type of crack removes the client side authentication too. Full firehose access.
> concluded it has insignificant impact or improves the economy

Just because it improves the economy doesn't mean it's improved the lives of all people in it. With the detachment of wage growth from economic growth in recent decades you can probably expect people to stop caring about what's good for the economy altogether pretty soon, economic growth is just an abstract number disassociated from the reality of most.
They said "adaptive cruise control". That's where the car will speed up or slow down based on the traffic around you automatically. Sort of like self driving but not nearly as demanding.

Obviously manuals have had normal cruise control for decades.
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Oh some do that already
Where media struggles is in spending hundreds of dollars per page of content that has an effective lifespan of about 1 to 5 days before it goes off to the virtual landfill (formerly a real landfill), never to be seen again.

Maybe they need to ditch the daily blog-feed style of journalism and direct their resources toward building a more cohesive/holistic archive of events that provides some lasting interest and value, so they won't need to desperately squeeze revenue from each article as aggressively as possible before the aggregators drop it.
How does a $50M raise compare to other recent open source DB companies? This seems huge to me but no comparable companies come to mind.
> You decide to try running with optimizations 1-128 enabled, and 129-256 disabled. That run fails. Now you know that one of the first 128 optimizations is to blame. You try again with 1-64 enabled, and 65-128 disabled, and that run passes. The bad optimization must be between 65 and 128. Continuing in this fashion—a binary search—you're able to locate the faulty optimization in just eight steps.

This doesn't work for the case where the failure(s) might be caused by a combination of a subset of the optimisations. That is,

1000
0100
0010
0001

all succeed, but

0101

fails.

A binary search is not possible for these more complex bugs. We had such cases in the reproducible builds project.

For the case where you can assume (subset A exhibits a failure => any superset of A exhibits a failure), then you can just go through all the options (in the OP's case 256) and switch them on, one at a time. Then the running time is 256, not 8.

For more complex cases where you can't assume even that, then you're stuck indeed with 2^256 test cases.
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> so as you can imagine, a birth certificate isn't enough. it wasn't even enough for me to get a job in a sanctuary city. I had to show a passport.

I can't imagine this at all. I've never needed a birth certificate for a job, let alone a passport. What do "sanctuary cities" have to do with this? SS# and an address for healthcare; bank account for direct deposit. I can't think of anything else I've ever needed.
If your above assertion is correct, what should Joe 401k do to best weather the pending storm?

Presumably buy and hold still rings true as A Random Walk Down Wallstreet shows us that ultimately, it's just best to ride it out without selling.
> just let off on the gas a little and the engine brakes a little, no brake lights to create cascading braking

Same thing with an automatic transmission. With DSG it's obvious why, but even with a torque converter you tend to have a clutch that locks up once there's no need for slip to improve efficiency.
I find GoCD a very good candidate. It's a Continuous Delivery first, free & open source software. Do have a look.
I have a casual theory that driving in the US relies upon every individual enforcing their own idea of what the rules should be, inherent to our culture. I really enjoy driving in Europe, but maybe it's delusional. There's an aggressive indifference that I perceive.

We should mostly be on bikes and scooters anyway.
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> With the detachment of wage growth from economic growth in recent decades

And you think immigrants are responsible for this?

Or are they simply being used as a sacrificial scapegoat because nobody wants to address the raging inequality in the West?