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What are the supported TLDs going to be? I.e. codes, app, ca? WHOIS protection?
The low emotional intelligence on display throughout this thread is both disappointing and unsurprising.

I have fired "nice and really trying" people. Because they were decent people, I have also then recommended them to my personal network for positions that are better suited to their skills (and more than once have they gone on to success at a friend's company), because hiring somebody who can't do the job is management's fault.

I also fire people who are toxic assholes. I do not recommend them to my network because I would not inflict them upon people I like. Even if they're competent.

You can, in fact, do both, and hats off to Linus for at least making a goddamned attempt to not be the latter.
Yep, I have a relatively common name and @gmail.com address. Last week, some guy with my name signed up for Instagram with my email adddress and started posting without ever verifying his email.

I reset his password and tried to close the account after he kept trying to access it by resetting his password again. Instagram support asked me to send a clear photo of myself holding up some random number to prove it was me. Nope lol.
Ask HN: Does a wholly owned US subsidiary increase litigation risk?
We’re considering incorporating a US wholly owned subsidiary to sell our product to US customers.

We would set a fair transfer pricing but officers would be shared.

We are already selling to US customers from Europe (except US Government).

Does having a US subsidiary (distributor subsidiary) increase substantially the risk of litigation compared to selling directly from Europe?

Since officers/directors will be shared the risk of “piercing the corporate veil” is high, but our question/concern is if the mere fact of having a US subsidiary makes litigation a lot more prone than without it.
Re [1] you have to give pg_bot that the argument was "why America has a culture of innovation"

and your counters are all basically non American. As to "8 million tons of plastic garbage going into the oceans every year[1], a depleted Ozone layer, black lung, asbestos, and unbreathable air. " America does rather well at getting rid of those, China is the biggest offender.

It works in America because they do pass laws to reduce that stuff, China could try harder.
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Also, what options are available on the backend? Will the buyer be asked for a billing address? Can I turn this off? Can they be asked for a shipping address? What happens when someone buys something? Do they get an email? Do I get an email?

I'd consider answering these questions either as documentation that goes through all of the options available on the backend and/or as a walkthrough of the complete process from signing up to getting an order. A demo Trolley account that's set up with a Stripe test key wouldn't be a bad idea either.
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Unfortunately, we've come to the point in online discourse where any form of self-restraint or politeness is seen by some as excessive political correctness, and accepting any form of nuance is giving in to SJW propaganda.
Interestingly, Bitmain sold most of its Bitcoin and accumulated tons of Bitcoin Cash, leading to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, so they also seem to have burned themselves on the gold rush as well.
GR (amongst other things) is a generalisation of Newton's law of universal gravitation, Newton's laws can be accurately derived from both QM and from GR with the PPN framework being the most common tool which derives it's parameters from the predictions set by GR.

Newtonian gravity works perfectly well in weak fields so it is not "wrong" but rather it's just not a generalised theory.
A good way to look at it is that the laws govern the flow rate in a pipe are not a good generalisation of the behaviour of fluids in motion but they are as sure as hell good for calculating how liquid will flow in a pipe.

And wile GR tied everything together the signs that Newtonian laws were not a generalised theory predate Einstein in fact the Lorenz Transformation which serves as the basis for GR pretty much proved that as if the speed of light must taken as a constant and be finite which as defined by Newtonian physics then we get variable length and time.

So no GR to Newton isn't the same as Heliocentrism to Geocentrism if anything is that Geocentrism didn't actually work even with the math and observation we had.

The Greeks understood the Helicentric model quite well and even considered stars as distant suns the only problems with their models were primarily due to measurement errors for example Aristarchus's measurements were wrong by a few degrees but that was enough to alter the distance and size ratio of the moon and the sun to being about 20 times which what the greek calculated from being about 400 times which is what we've eventually measured correctly when we had better tools.
Why the arm?
IMO the most interesting part - especially relative to the discussions I've seen right here - is near the end.

"But if people at least realise that I'm not part of the disgusting underbelly of the internet that thinks it's OK to show the kind of behaviour you will find if you really have been reading up on the 'discussions' about the code of conduct, then even that will be a really good thing."

Yes indeed, if you look at many of the anti-CoC comments (e.g. in the "killswitch" thread) you get to see a lot of that underbelly. There are people who will oppose any kind of general rule restraining behavior, because that would prevent them from exercising their own more personal and arguably more subtle kind of coercion against those they don't like for whatever reason. The other alternative is for an even bigger bully to keep them in line, but I shouldn't need to explain how "might makes right" is even more problematic. Linus is deliberately stepping away from that bigger-bully role to give the alternative a try, but in the above excerpt he makes it pretty clear that he thinks there's a problem to be addressed. The creeps should consider themselves on notice, whether there's a CoC or not.
Personally I consider fake it until you make it an incredibly dangerous ideal. That is how you get the Great Leap Forward, Banzai Charges, and Theranos. It leads to far too many delusions that become the seeds of downfall.

Better to say in the case of Theranos state that the initial idea is proving non-viable but we have assembled a good talent base in biotech. We technically could liquidate the existing investment but that wouldn't work well for recovering the assets. We can pivot to find tests that do work on fingertip blood other than existing glucose or other areas of research instead would have kept Holmes out of prison and potentially gotten a success out of it. Failure happens and an honest postmortem with a way forward is better than going ponzi.
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>But the language as it exists simply isn't ready for systems work, and (due to its underlying philosophy) probably never will be.

One of the flaws with this argument is insisting that comparisons be made between CL and standard Scheme. No one uses strictly standard Scheme. It's better to think of Scheme as a family of loosely connected languages. I know that both Guile and Racket are languages (and they are their own unique languages) capable of serious systems work. CL is great, too, but I don't know why you keep insisting that it's the only lisp worth using. The Guix developers have shown that Guile can be used successfully for the initial RAM disk, init system, package manager, configuration management system, continuous integration system, web site generator, etc.
The world could descend into apocalypse and he'd still be typing curt dispatches about terminology from his libreboot thinkpad.
> Something a government might never bother with.

Maybe because colonizing Mars is a massive waste of resources that could be better spent fixing the planet we already live on? Or do you think the solution to scarcity is to have billionaires play with their space toys?
Does it take hours to learn not to write "$people should be retroactively aborted"? Weeks?
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Copyright doesn't turn public domain if you don't exercise your rights. A work only becomes public domain if the copyright period lapses or (in some countries) if they make an explicit declaration to that effect.
I'm not sure why that was suggested. Our team has migrated to utility css (Tailwind) and we never do this. The basic approaches are either to create a component or template for the button and put the utility class there or use Tailwind's `@apply` utility to create a `.button` class with the utilities applied to that class.

I had some reservations at first but in practice it's been pretty much universally agreed to be great for us. It removes a huge amounts of css cruft that happens over time (unable to determine which classes are still being used, where, etc), keeps colors, margins, etc. standardized through a centralized config file and prevents you from constantly bouncing back and forth between style and markup files.
Hire people who aren’t proven
Except, you can't deny personal experience. The onus on science is to explain experience, not the other way round.

If you have an observer giving a truthful account that conflicts with an established fact then surely something must account for that discrepancy.

See for instance radio-waves vs Kirchoffs law. It's not that Kirchoff was wrong, it's just that he didn't account for frequency as a variable, which was solved by Maxwell.

Now, that's for established facts. If you're talking about commercially adulterated science
then you have an even higher burden to bear.
"what’s striking about capitalism is that we’re all trying to escape it — even most of the capitalists — because it makes us so miserable, mean, and foolish."

No, capitalism makes us happy, nice, and smart. More importantly, capitalism makes us rich.

It's really easy to hate on capitalism because everything that's wrong in your life can be reasonably explained away with "if we didn't have capitalism this wouldn't be a problem." But the fact us, most of the things that capitalism does for you (the average reader of HN who most likely lives in a capitalist country) are invisible. You don't realize how much capitalism is responsible for everything in your life that isn't making you miserable. Things like:

- Affordable food from all over the world available in all varieties in all seasons, fresh and uncontaminated by toxins or spoilage
- Abundant, cheap energy that lowers the cost of everything from raising children to acquiring knowledge to healthcare (not to mention travel and leisure)
- Access to aspirin, toothbrushes, toilet paper, shaving cream, dental floss, tissues, towels, soap, and thousands of other daily necessities that allow us to live more hygienic and healthier lives
- Higher level education (which would not be possible without a basic level of societal comfort) which unlocks advances in science, mathematics, medicine, economics and other areas that improve the human condition
- Riches and wealth available to a wider net of people that have ever had it before, in a way that doesn't deprive or prevent more people from acquiring more wealth...this has of course downstream effects like reducing crime and increasing camaraderie and mutual respect (you gain more from trading with a rival than fighting with them and trying to take their resources)

Take away capitalism and what do you get? Well, you can easily visit Cuba or Venezuela right now to find out. You get:

- Kids with no shoes
- Crumbling infrastructure
- 'Free' healthcare with no aspirin
- Violent revolution or suppression of revolutionary activity
- A population of greedy individuals and families doing everything they can to protect their own resources and take others' (this isn't an indictment of these people, this is exactly what humans need to do when their livelihood is threatened)
- People with no education because they're spending all their time scrambling to survive

If you want people who are really "miserable, mean, and foolish", take away capitalism and that's exactly what you'll get.
You are highlighting the false dichotomy that a lot of folks in this thread--and, if I'm being frank, not for good, decent, or ethical reasons--are piling in on.

You can do something that makes people upset without being an asshole.

It's really that simple.

"No, I won't merge this pull request because of X, Y, and Z." Somebody's probably not going to be happy. But you have not needed to stoop to insulting them. You have not been an asshole. You have done your job, you have kept whatever level of high technical quality you care about. But you have not been an asshole.

It is not hard to do both, and if you are but-forring Linus's decision to maybe be less of an asshole it's probably look-in-the-mirror time.
The rates are still probably negotiated by contract between record label and artist (now artist/producer/engineer), which I think is what happens currently. The database would mostly just track play count, and who gets their share of that play count.
"We need to instate the rule that only preregistered studies can be published or at least used by the FDA as for decisions."

I like that idea a lot. And if the study finds something unexpected there should be a thorough explanation why they deviated from the original plan.
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> Empathy as a way to not communicate directly is just a waste of time

It is this attitude that drives people, and especially women and minorities, away from tech.
You can do it with Gmail to some extent already. E.g. instead of using myemail@gmail.com I would use myemail+facebook@gmail.com. Gmail ignores anything after the plus. As someone mentioned, marketing companies usually share just the hash of email. The trick is not too popular and I didn't experience a company handling it yet.
Do you actually work in these environments, or are you making assumptions?

Resource contention is a problem in pure software companies, too. I used to work for a small pure software company in rapid growth. What did we have? Legacy code nightmares that were as bad as or worse than anything I've seen in the Fortune 500 (like building the core product on antique Borland C++ where there were only 9 licenses in the company and new licenses were no longer for sale and hadn't been for years, while the UI was written in Java Swing with a table kit from an out-of-business vendor). And almost all growth money went to expanding sales staff... engineering got screwed. They sold (and sell) terrible quality software, and they make a fortune at it.

Meanwhile, I'm at a massive health care company, and they hired me because they're committed to radical improvement in how the already-okay software is built and deployed. We're working hard on a serious continuous integration pipeline, and I expect us to be as good as anyone in a year - our reference points for "Why can't we do this?" are companies like Netflix. We're after that level of smoothness in the process, and we'll get there, or at least get close.

Don't let conventional wisdom tell you who is and isn't good at software.

edit: I'm reminded of going to a meetup about selling to the enterprise in Silicon Valley some years ago, and the twenty-something Stanford crowd were convinced that because these big companies have big failures, that they must suck. I pointed out that if you worked at a startup with $50M revenue, they'd be pretty successful, right? I've worked on several projects with annual development budgets larger than that. It's expensive and risky because they're operating at scales that most of the HN crowd can't even comprehend.
I think he means it as in "I'm not one to cater to people's feelings"
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I visited Seattle a few weeks ago, and had the pleasure of learning about their involvement with the Yukon gold rush. Seattle branded itself as "the gateway to the Yukon" where thousands of miners would outfit themselves, and depart - by either boat or trekking through Canada (usually some combination of the two). It was pretty fascinating to see all these historical archives. Some companies that were born out of this frenzy (Nordstrom for one) are still around!

Anyway - I couldn't help but the whole time imagine being in the year 2078. And viewing a museum (of course a VR digital-museum) about the Crypto rush of the 2010s. Likewise digging up old messaging board posts about striking gold in Ethereum. Outfitters claiming their boards could mine faster than the competition! The wild-west mentality, and the crime that occurred around it. You press a button on a wall and hear an audio recreation of someone leaving their job to strike it rich.
You are wrong.

There are a whole raft of people who truly believe that black/gay/trans/religious/whatever people are not worthy of treating as equals. That they shouldn't be granted the same rights as "normal" people and, in extreme cases, that they aren't really human.

A CoC says "These are the ethics of our community." It isn't Politics (which party you vote for), but it is necessarily political.
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Absolutely! This reminds me of https://compassionatecoding.com/ - there's a lot to be said about this industry and the "cold" work environments that are associated to it. I support the compassionate coding movement. Software engineers should support and help each other improve as a whole. It creates a much better work culture and more effective team communication.
Copyright would cover the original design documents for the sets and props, but not the shapes and colours themselves 'as seen on TV'.

From what I understand unlicensed clean-room reproduction of sets could violate design marks, if those were even registered. Like other trademarks those do indeed need to be enforced.
Because 0% parental influence is a pretty extravagant claim.
The thing is, on most political or religious topics, people leave that stuff at home and don't bring it to work.

The SJW people are bringing it to work and right into everybody's face.

I'm not saying "guess what, then, I'm the opposite, let's go be racist". I'm saying "could you please get that out of my face".
I like GRAMMY's overview of it a lot.

https://www.grammy.com/advocacy/learn/music-modernization-ac...
Perhaps he will be validated when we develop/discover a deeper theory.

After all, we have physicists going around now (e.g. Nima) saying 'spacetime is doomed'
> I didn't see any predictions or studying of real-world data in my whole time studying it

Econometrics is a major part of modern economics and attempts to do just that
But the difference between Oracle branded and OpenJDK is almost non-existent anymore.

Do you use Oracle specific features that are not in OpenJDK?
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I get where he's coming from. I have no problem speaking in front of people or participating and leading groups when it comes to technical/professional/job related things, but dealing with groups and people in a more ambiguous social contexts just makes me want to run and hide in a corner.
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Oh, I forgot an important detail. I should have added another aim I would want is that as a result of paying this money, you wouldn't receive any advertisements from the service.
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But it seems as if the politics being discussed here apply to the project and its contributors, it's not as if a Code of Conduct is being applied to you, the end user. Unless they add something political to the license itself, I don't see why it would matter.
> Isn't this it though, the engineers designing the ad targeting system at Facebook is linking the random emails you use as "catch all" to your main identity so you can be targeted specifically even though neither party has full knowledge of the linkage between your catchall email and your main identity email.

If you use the method described in the grandparent, you use a unique email address for every site (e.g site1@yourdomain.tld, site2@yourdomain.tld, etc). The domain will be the common part, which would be very hard for a company to use because most domains are shared between many separate users.
すごいよ Sugoiyo! Super! Cool! Wow! Awesome achievement Japan.

I really admire that its means of propulsion doesn’t involve wheels (since the gravity is so low)
>This would obviously feature the bridge of the Enterprise D.

The enterprise D was destroyed.. what kind of trekkie are you?
I remember when i first heard of this, i was so amazed at the cleverness of the whole thing.
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Capitalism (especially the free market kind) has been most successful when it has been used as a pragmatic tool, instead of a dogmatic philosophy.

So basically, my answer to "Why Capitalism" is that "it works".

Capitalism cannot (rather, should not) provide you with a set of ideals or principles. Capitalism is a tool to achieve those set of ideals or principles, and should be used where appropriate in order to achieve those ideals and principles.

The ideals and principles have to come from elsewhere.

Elon Musk and Bezos believe in the principle of a backup planet, so they leverage capitalism to reach Mars. Bill Gates believes in book recommendations and charity, so he leverages it for that purpose. Someone who is closer to an employee believes in a building a good life for themselves and their family, and they use capitalism for that.

The article is like asking "What's the point of a hammer when once you've used it to hang a portrait you put it away?"
>There are people who will oppose any kind of general rule restraining behavior, because that would prevent them from exercising their own more personal and arguably more subtle kind of coercion against those they don't like for whatever reason.

Do you really, truly believe this is the reason why so many people are against Codes of Conduct in open-source projects? Can you point me to this mass of disillusioned bigots, expressing frustration at their inability to continue to act bigoted while within proximity to open-source?

Either you've been going to wildly different parts of the Internet than I have recently, or your understanding of the side of the argument opposite you is based on a practically-nonexistent strawman, which is causing you to be completely unable to understand where "the other side" is actually coming from.
yeah that's better than nothing, but your markup is still super noisy and hard to scan.

> Other than that, I rarely go through HTML without Dev Tools, which shows me exactly what a certain div is for.

I do all the time. I'd much prefer to work in my text editor, without being obliged to use chrome tools to extract semantic meaning from my code.
I quoted the wrong sentence, I meant to reply to the "you'd have to edit the HTML" aspect. Functional CSS lets you wrap up composite styles in various ways, similar to abstracting a function in normal programming, so you don't necessarily have to do this. You can though, and it's often simpler to do so.
'Empathy' in most of these cases mean: don't act like a vitriolic douche.

Don't insult or belittle the person. Learn to critique without being an asshole about it.

On the other hand: take criticism of your work without taking it personally. That's arguably a lot harder than the former, but it's gotta be done. It helps a lot when the person isn't being an asshole about the criticism though :)