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> a trained expert will find a lot of inaccuracies. This is not true for the journalist who reports international events and affairs

Are you an expert of international events and affairs? Have you spoken to one about whether this is true? I'm not and haven't, but I would bet they have plenty of examples of terrible coverage.

(I imagine many examples would be of the form "they focused on irrelevant detail X when what matters is Y" or "they said X implies Y but it's actually unknown what the consequences of X will be" or "they only quoted people with opinion X" or "they oversimplified X to the point of caricature" or of course "that's just factually wrong, I was there and X never happened".)
> Actually the focus should be on increasing household discretionary income. The part of a persons income that is left over after all the mandatory expenses of food, shelter, tax etc are taken care of.

Arguably the US already is focusing on this; the US has the highest real net disposable income of all OECD countries.
Every time I see in the news about how Georgia or Ohio or some other barbarian backwater is having trouble doing something as straightforward as having a reliable and trustworthy voting system, I want them to just adopt our model wholesale.

I'm sure the Great State of Minnesota would be happy to host representatives from other states, offer them our laws and process documentation as a model, and advise them in joining the world of effective and trustworthy democracy.
Enforcing any law inherently does violence to people. Do you wish to pedestal law above people? And if not, do you want them on equal footing?

I personally would like to work toward a culture that doesn't require law and, barring that, law that peacefully respects a person's decision to revoke consent to be governed at any moment's notice.

Blanket consent for government isn't realistic or sustainable. And even if it were, it isn't consent without being free to revoke it.
I think that most workplaces you wont get 4-5 hours of useful work done on average.
Working at Amazon != selling your body parts.

Some things are immoral and necessarily harmful, working for Amazon is not one of them.
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This opens the door to rolling back devices once you've waited for them to become obsolete and then reading their contents, though.
Just to test out the Gell-Mann logic, let's change the content:

"In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the low quality of a poem, and then turn the page to 20th century poets, and read as if T.S. Eliot's work was somehow more serious than the baloney you just read."
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What kind of health plan is that, if you don't mind my asking (Context: I've been living abroad 10 years, had a family while down here, we are thinking of moving back but the cost of healthcare and its quality is a big issue for us).
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Definitely depends on the product but any company doing business on the internet should have some kind of decent branding. A mom and pop shop you might see every once in a while on your way to a friend's place but with the internet being so vast a company needs something to stick inside peoples heads.
We could just fire 3.2% of the nation's lowest wage earners so unemployment equals Europe's and the average wage would instantly be higher.
Yeah, I don’t know much about PG’s communication style, but in intra-VC communication, this is 100 max over the top support, hair-on-fire. Good for PG, and his words were prescient in ‘09, prescient in ‘11 and still prescient in ‘18. Not many times my you can say that.

Ps funny on the eBay name drop. The original marketplace model, and still doing well, but dot think vc’s reference it as often anymore.
I would expect there to be a high number of cases where a person goes to vote and is rejected because "they" already voted. Is that not sufficient to raise the voter fraud flag without adding additional friction at the frontend?
Here's an alternate list with English resources:
https://github.com/dzharii/awesome-typescript
As in lower or higher?
A lot of cost is driven by the need to build in a lot of redundant safety features because you are dealing with a fission reaction that can melt down and cause real problems. You also have to deal with and store waste on site. A nuclear plant is a lot more complex than a wind turbine or a photovoltaic plant. Hence it will cost more.

The fact that Illinois and New York had to recently bail out their nuclear plants shows that they are expensive to run (even after they are built!)...
Does anyone else know about an announced Apple product that never came to market? This feels like a first and pretty crazy they would announce it before ironing out the bugs. My guess is they thought they were close and wanted a piece of the wireless charging market so they announced it with 8/8+/X so that some of the population would hold off for an Apple charging mat instead of third party. I am very happy with my iPhone X and Anker charging mats everywhere.
Every time an email client is mentioned here there's this classic and repetitive comment thread under it that goes like this:

- I run my own postfix, dovecot, mutt, emacs, gnupg, gpg, pfsense yadda yadda (on OpenBSD!) works great ...

- Email is too tricky to run yourself nowadays

- Works fine for me for the past 100 years (OpenBSD vry stble, much solid)

- ...
I've always thought this. The best lawyers seem to have crazy hair. When lettermen appeared with that beard on his new netflix show it told me he made it.
> Lastly, I think NeXT without Apple was failing not because of technology

Agree, mostly. In the end it took almost 10 years to get OS X to market anyways. Apple wasn't missing an operating system, it was missing focus.

Of course had they not invented the iPod/iPhone in the noughties, they could very well be extinct today and this conversation could look very different.
Imo I think its the opposite. I haven’t had a need to change battery or repair anything in my SE for few years now. Its so “reliable” that i dont even think about it. Reliability is what is more important.
shagadelic!
I think this helps answer your question https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/252015/gravity-v...
Curious what your thoughts are on the [lack of] long term storage plan for the worn out and shuttered San Onofre power plant nuclear waste?
As others have pointed out, the text of the bill does not target Amazon and will likely affect others more. You're complaining about a name.

On the broader point, I think it's highly debatable whether bills should target individual companies. Certainly the arguments against bills of attainder do not apply, because corporations are not people and any doctrine to the contrary is loathsome. They are already given every right that people have, in addition to being immortal and shielded from full liability. The bargain under which they are even allowed to exist has become very one-sided since the abandonment of specific time-limited charters, so allowing them to be regulated individually seems like the least we could do to even the scales.
No offense, but I think the problems you haven't been solved by any phone vendor. They seem to be "you" problems. Protecting an iPhone when you drop it would (with current technology) require a bulky phone–though water resistance has significantly improved since iPhone SE.
Oh, the rocket scientists made it up as well. See https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd... for an entertaining and enlightening history. All sorts of things, such as rocket fuel that was produced in large quantities and put into storage containers before discovering that after sitting on its own for a few years, it became dreadfully unstable.

My favorite "WTF" experiment was a calculation that adding mercury to rocket fuel would result in better thrust. This went all the way to a full rocket test, proving that the calculation was absolutely correct. Then the line of research finally got abandoned because spewing horrible poisons into the air is not something that we want to do...
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> If you vote wisely, your votes usually get returned to you. If you vote poorly, they usually don't come back.

Depends on what you want to do. If you are rich want to fund cancer research you might to do it right away and never see your money back, or invest it in a successful business, earn twice as much ... but die of cancer because you didn't use your votes soon enough.

Was it wise to get your votes back?
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Are you talking about Apple themselves, or third-party developers?
You can use custom domains with any go-ipfs gateway, it'll transparently turn `Host: example.com` into `/ipns/example.com`.

What Cloudflare adds to the mix is their infrastructure for automatic TLS certs.
Instead of cramming all functionality into one textbox, Firefox gives you the option of having a separate address and search text fields.

It can set so that the address box only searches local tabs, history and bookmarks for suggestions, while the search box hits up google or wherever.
I know people who did it and they tell me it takes at least a few weeks or a month before you just plain lose the appetite and it becomes the norm. Habits are hard to change, even when the change positively affects the quality of your life.
The problem is that many sites will break if I hide the consent banner.

Some sites will hijack the page, take you to another page, and if you reject then they will take you to a page saying you must leave if you do not consent.
Computer of Theseus.
> And yet, employers prefer the employer-provided health insurance model, because it increases the friction of switching/quitting jobs.

Where do people get this idea from?

No, employers do not prefer the employer-provided model. Especially at scale (employers with more than about 1000 employees), it's dramatically more expensive for them than it would be if they didn't have to operate health plans themselves, and instead could pay employees more to purchase comparable health insurance independently. However, employers aren't the culprit, because they can't change that part of the system. The only choice an employer can make is what kind of health insurance to offer.

There's one backdoor - employers can offer a cafeteria plan, which is what a few employers (like Netflix) do, but in most states, there simply are no good plans (at any price) for health insurance that are comparable to what an employer can provide, so this option is rarely used.
Apple at least sits on a huge pile of cash, yet Jobs colluded to steal billions from his own employees, the very folks who made the whole thing possible. You can't police that sort of sickness, it won't be healed by passing the right laws.
> but I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was when someone parked a Lime bike directly in the spot I usually place my garbage

Granted that's a problem and hopefully they're working to discourage bad behavior. But traffic and pollution are bigger problems that bikes and scooters help with. Does the fact that they're sometimes misplaced mean it's a net negative?
> So if you are happy with Android Oreo you don't have to upgrade to Pie to keep receiving security updates.

Of course there is: just buy a phone from a company that's not Google, and you'll never get an OS update every again /s
> The American Dream is about inter-generational mobility.

You're making that claim without any evidence to back it up.
Not necessarily. Some OSes will not allow you to assign unicast IPs in that space. You may not even be able to route it locally.
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I have to fall back to Google for almost every search for specific coding information. I want it to work but it really doesn't.
It is not just about Google Search vs DDG. If you use DDG via Google Chrome, google can still track you.
My iPad 1 aka "the tank" (as we call it in my house) is still (hardware wise) 100% functional. Software is another story. I believe the only thing it's used for is Netflix (which shockingly works). Web browser/Safari is a complete no-go.
I think it's really a combination of all of these. The only thing Apple really has control over is the last one, but even improvements there have measurable advantages as iOS 12 shows.
It's not like the only alternative to business dress is skimpy clothing. T-shirts and jeans, or overalls, or a long casual dress, for example.

I envy women because I feel like they have way more options for dress and style than we men do. My choices are: t-shirt and jeans, button-up and khakis, some variant of those two, or one of the many contemporary men's styles that seem closer to caricatures than real life
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"In accomplished leaders, we often mistake vices for virtues.

Steve Jobs succeeded in spite of his cruelty, not because of it.

Every great leader has flaws. What defines a truly good leader is the humility to recognize them and the courage to rise above them."

@AdamMGrant
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The things said in this article about natural gas' reliance on massive amount of cheap capital sound similar to what was being said about banks and commercial paper in 2008.
I would imagine the illegal shipping activity they are mainly targeting is the bypassing of sanctions. For example oil being transferred between tankers on the high seas and then shipped into North Korea.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-russi...
But you're also not triggering ketosis much if at all. The benefits of that go far beyond weight loss. There are test strips you can use to see if you're in ketosis.
that's ok. i'll just make a new github account or host a static file somewhere else
Where do you pay your tax to then? That's a reasonable enough definition of where you live.
> "...putting a graphical user interface on it to dumb it down for grandmothers..."

I actually hate how this attitude often seems to be the focus of GUI environments in the Linux world. The effect is that if you have to deal with anything not nicely wrapped up in the dumbed down environment you're presented with, you immediately need to drop down to a CLI world that's difficult to figure out and constantly changing.

Meanwhile, both Windows and OSX actually focus on more of a middle-ground with their UI (to different extents, I'll admit). All the mundane admin tasks, and even those scary super-technical admin tasks actually can be done from within their GUIs.

And then you have FreeBSD, which doesn't even try to target the GUI user. They admit their user is a technical sysadmin, but embrace it by actually making the CLI quite friendly to that set of users.
To me (as a European), the concept of "denying sick leave" is just bizarre to begin with. When I present a sick note from my doctor, there is literally nothing that the employer can do about it.
> We hold people with power to account.

Do we really? I feel like the age of "the buck stops here" ended about 30 years ago.
I'm not sure if it's the same in the states, but in Canada it's remarkable how all the gas stations, owned by different corporations, all seem to have price fluctuations at the same time, and even though crude oil is half the price it was half a decade ago the gas prices seem to have crept back to where they were pre-plummet.

If all the distributors know the game, they find ways to work together.
>> Losing weight too fast is bad

I disagree. If you can find a reference it must also be one where the subjects were in ketosis or it doesn't count.
You should submit this as a new link.
Trust busting was all the rage back with Teddy Roosevelt and Taft against standard oil
> Ad blockers have a performance impact.

compared to the performance impact of loading ads?
tl;dr, a summary of a self-help book that posits that following your passion is bad career advice and that you should seek mastery, autonomy and purpose instead. This post was designed to completely replace the article, so you can read this post and skip reading the article entirely.
I have noticed this...

For instance, searching "dribbble -shots", the first result contains the word "shots" in bold. I'm not entirely sure what makes this happen and is sometimes frustrating when making "advanced searches".

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dribbble+-shots
Short sellers by definition are not shareholders.
The original intention of the NFA, back in 1934, was to restrict handguns. The "short-barreled rifle" and "short-barreled shotgun" provisions were designed to limit how well a long arm could be concealed.

The handgun portion didn't survive, but the minimal length requirements did.

Also, interestingly, it wasn't a ban but a tax. Congress at the time believed they didn't have the Constitutional authority to ban any class of firearms, so they instituted a prohibitive tax ($200) on short-barreled rifles and shotguns, "destructive devices", and automatics. There's a $5 tax on "any other weapons", which these days mostly applies to guns that don't look like guns.

Bear in mind that $200 in 1934 is about $3,700 today. At the time, you could mail order a .45 Thompson submachine gun for about $200, so the law effectively doubled the price. They were advertised as self-defense weapons for property owners: https://gastatic.com/digest/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/tumbl...

Automatics weren't banned until 1986, and even then, they weren't technically banned - they just require that $200 tax, and it's not possible to pay the tax for one made after May of 1986.
I think ads are useless when you want to decide within a product category ("Which 3D printer should I buy?") but they can help you become aware of it in the first place ("There are affordable 3D printers now? Maybe I should get one.")

Unfortunately the majority of the consumer market revolves around a few common products and so most ads are about shifting revenue between functionally identical brands.

But I do occasionally see ads for relatively obscure stuff that might cause such an "I didn't know that existed." experience for other people. (I'm apparently hard to target.) For example https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=viva64.com are essentially ads, but they are still interesting to read, and afterwards you might be in the market for a code analysis tool.
And let's have less people whose only job is to report to each other about work instead of doing work. Unfortunately managing is paid better than doing so I don't see that changing.
We as a crowd, as technical peeps, are really hard to please.

You simply can't get it right. Track your users to oblivion? Evil, shady company.

Start integrating features in your products to limit invasive tracking..it's not genuine, it's a ploy to screw other companies' revenue.

I like the skepticism, but taking a step back to reflect on this nowandthen is good IMO.
The complexity of this problem is absurd. If the biker precisely know the terrain then he is capable of knowing where he is in that terrain. This is the basis of terrain-association.
This doesn't seem like an overly complicated problem to me - I wonder why they're having issues.

And by that I mean, I can buy wireless charging mats everywhere - hell, my desk has one built in, cars are coming with them.

There's something "odd" about a product when a company can build things like the XS, but not a charging mat that uses a well-supported standard.
Personally, I do not have 10 hours of work in me per-day. Honestly: I don't have 8 hours of work in me per-day, but my employer demands it. If they want to pay me to browse hacker news for an hour a day, so be it.
What wsa done to these entities, with individually-targeted laws?

Antitrust law applies to the entire economy (except Major League Baseball and a few other bad cases).
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> The one much more important thing that OSS never did well is managing/making device drivers. I know it's not primarily OSS's fault, but it has made Linux on consumer devices unusable for me and for many others. Unusable or simply non-existant in the case of mobile devices.

This isn't OSS's fault. It is Linux's fault, plain and simple.
Because Linux refuses to have a stable driver interface, and goes out of its way to make binary/out-of-tree drivers difficult, we end up in this situation.
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This cannot be stressed enough IMO.
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Seems like a no-brainer. I see Square terminals everywhere, so the market seems proven. Anyone know if their pricing is comparable?
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No, it does not happen with the iPhone or most other Apple products. They are incredibly hostile to 3rd party repairers.

Apple is notoriously draconian about ensuring that 3rd parties are blocked from accessing schematics and repair manuals. I'm talking, they threaten lawsuits to anyone publishing schematics, and there is no legal way to obtain those schematics unless you're an Apple authorized repairer - in which case you'll never need them because your job is just to replace entire logic boards after minimal diagnostics. This creates enormous waste and costs a lot more than an actual repair would. In some cases they don't even do that and just tell the user tough shit, get a new device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-NU7yOSElE
A hiker, I mean. The distinction is not important.
It's because inflation where the jobs are is much higher than the national numbers let on (because many regions are stagnant).

The CPI in 2017 lists ~2% .

But then look at housing, more than double that.

Or consider the "burrito index" You cant get a decent burrito <$10 anymore.

I know all of this is not academic, it't not my job so I cannot dedicate the time to truly lay it all out, but even for the tech "working class" we're feeling the pinch of inflation.

Companies dont want to pay rising salaries because they're inflated. Workers demand them because the standard of living @100k is dropping precipitously.
I agree that the incorrect framing of what I understand is the claimed count of which documents Snowden "accessed" during his job (as opposed to "released," with an implied "to the public") does not make the entire article bad.

I would also agree that it's a tragic situation when unelected NSA officials engaged in massive violations of privacy and didn't take internally-raised concerns seriously. It's tragic that Obama's extremist prosecution of whistleblowers may have created the only workable course of action: supermarket-sweep all the documents you can in a short amount of time and splash them against the vetting filter of the fourth estate before the alarms go off.

"They turn around in their chair and show their coworker. And their coworker says, 'Oh, hey, that's great — send that to Bill down the way,'" Snowden said. "And then Bill sends it to George. George sends it to Tom. Sooner or later, this person's whole life has been seen by all of these other people." But let's shoot the messenger? It's always tempting to add another leaf node to the discourse tree and stake the claim that this is the correct depth of nuance to apply and path to end up at relative to the root. But I am satisfied with conclusion that Snowden was smart enough to know his options, and that the karma of the US government's culture of authoritarianism created this bad situation, and we should be having at least two opinion pieces demanding where all the reform went per one "Reconsidering Snowden" contrarianism-fests.