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> All EU countries should offer the ability to transact with their bureaucracy (tax returns, permits etc.) in the native language or English.

They .. already do this... usually fully electronically, usually done by the government, no need for 3rd party tax filing software.

> Finally, welfare should be ended for anyone fit and healthy below a certain age, and the retirement age taken to 70 immediately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_in_Europe it's already usually 65 for men and 60 for women (it's 65-65 in France, Spain and Germany, 66-66 in the UK and Ireland, 68-68 in the Netherlands)

> Pensions should be phased out for anyone under 40 currently.

There are a lot of people getting disability pension, are you thinking about that? I'm not familiar with any other situation for receiving "pension" under 40.

> The refugee intake should be taken to zero, and borders strictly enforced, since the net economic contribution of MENA migrants currently is negative.

Citation needed.

Furthermore, the current problem of Europe (and it's basically the only real and serious one) is the decreasing and aging population. Immigration is almost the perfect tool to solve this.

> Access to Master's degrees should be limited to only the best students, to encourage people to enter the workforce earlier and to allow a reduction in education spending.

Education spending is the best way to lift people out of poverty, it correlates best with future income. It pays for itself. And it's not even the biggest expense. (Healthcare and pensions are.)

> Income tax/payroll tax savings could be preferentially targeted to couples with 3 or more children, to encourage higher birthrates.

It's already happening (and has been going on for decades) in a lot of countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_benefit#Comparison_in_Eu...

So, all in all, citation needed for "Europe's problem is simply high taxes, inefficient bureaucracy, and over-welfare."
They tried four different types of separation: centrifugation, thermal diffusion, gaseous diffusion, and electromagnetic separation. Centrifugation proved unworkable at the time and the remaining processes were used in concert (taking the slightly enriched products of one into the feed of another) to produce HEU.

The Manhattan Project was so expensive largely because it was a shotgun approach to development. They tried 6 different ways to produce 3 different possible bomb fuels and two different bomb designs. Ultimately the most promising methods didn't work (centrifugation) but this didn't cause the program to halt or have to rethink things, it kept chugging on everything else running in parallel and ultimately succeeded with producing 3 different ways of making HEU and one for making Plutonium plus a bomb design that worked for each of the two fuels.
It would be interesting to expand this reasoning to other STEM disciplines.

For example, would computer science researchers be more likely to express cynicism of self driving cars if there weren't lucrative jobs in industry or lucrative research contracts from car manufacturers (see https://www.csail.mit.edu/sponsors/strategic-partners for an example)?

I mean there must be dozens of self driving car efforts thousands of highly compensated CS researchers. Millions of dollars in academic partnerships. Is that not influential?

Would there be more cynicism about the safety narrative of these cars? Tenured academic computer science and AI researchers are the best positioned in society to comment on how realistic those claims are. But I'd argue the money has disincentivized them from saying so.
Mobile technology moves so fast Android can't keep up with the support of all hardware out there, so you can't simply buy any smartphone and expect everything to work with the latest Android release.
Germany 29% and 47.5%

France 15% and 45%

Italy 27.9% and 43%

UK 19% and 47%

Spain 25% and 45%

Sure, California and some other special states can get almost as high. But the majority are well below.
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> Serverless implies that the management of the underlying infrastructure is owned wholy by a third party,

This is an AWS talking point, which they push relentlessly because it suits their purposes. The idea that developers "I don't care about servers" implies or doesn't imply anything about the legal ownership of servers doesn't, by any necessity, actually follow, unless your name is Bezos.

> You still need to water and feed a Pivotal/K8s platform, and those things are awful to run.

I have run them single-handedly in my day job at Pivotal. We have customers who run platforms for thousands of developers with < 10 operators.

> By this stage, you end up having to re-write those parts of the json/yaml/terraform to handle deployments into other clouds ANYWAY. So what's the benefit again?

Or you could use BOSH today and Kubernetes in ~-12 years as its ecosystem firms up. Or both as fits your workloads. Pivotal is ready for both and to help you handle your workloads.

> You run your own logging, storage, networking, database and analytics services inside the K8s which defeats the entire point of being in the cloud in the first place.

Why?

> Just use the native FaaS/Data/Analytics.

I actually half agree with you. Cloud portability is to me not the primary selling pitch of the software Pivotal works on. It's a benefit, one which many of our customers see as essential. But to me the point is: can I just write some damn code? That's what I want to achieve. Solve the damn problem, rather than shaving yaks all the damn day. The portability thing is just a means to that end, not an end in itself.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.
Bad news: you aren't done. You've hardly started. You're going to have to keep clicking no to reinstating Prime, if you use Amazon at all. You'll be confirming this again and again before Amazon will let you do anything on the site, for days or weeks, or more. Dark pattern after dark pattern. Market power creates endless abuse.
> the rest of your post is mostly good.

No, it's not. It's hogwash. Especially the education one.

Income inequality is a lot more serious problem than uncapped payroll taxes.
That's also true of fiat currencies though, yet Berkshire Hathaway is holding seething like $130b of cash equivalents.

Granted, fiat has some major advantages: momentum, required for taxes, no capital gains tax, etc. But neither is a productive asset.
The number 1 feature in all these tools should be dependencies. And yet it's always a stupid afterthought with no love.
Blockchain, often seen as tech’s next big thing, struggles to get traction
Yes, but notice how the threshold of reaching legal adulthood is that something everyone is guaranteed to eventually meet (barring early death). Restricting rights is a lot less* problematic if it's guaranteed to be temporary and applies to literally everyone.

But any reasonable restriction on speculation will apply to a subset of the population, most of whom will never escape the restriction. At the same time, there will be a class of people making bank on speculative investments that normies aren't allowed to invest in. Notice how this is actually how the world works outside of the crypto space. I don't think it's unreasonable to hate this state of affairs.

*I have many issues with the way the agency of minors is treated, but this is not the place.
> Jira was designed for agile software development like Scrum,...

Alternative view: when agile software development features finally turned up for Jira, they still took a while to graduate from paid plugin (Greenhopper) to core features.

To me "designed for" always felt like "tacked on", and that they were somewhat fighting existing legacy object models.
> These products - like overpriced fashion brands - are pure capitalist virtue signalling.

I think people might think that's true, and I'm sure some people buy watches to show off but they're sure to be disappointed because here's the thing: nobody notices the watch you're wearing (except for, occasionally, other watch enthusiasts).

I felt a bit self-conscious the first few times I wore a "proper" luxury watch, but pretty soon realised nobody was paying even the slightest bit of attention. Now I don't even think about it.
The worst problem of all, a conservative government who are about to lose an election
> + Tory Burch stuff is a lot nicer than the stuff at Walmart by almost anyone's measure.

Including the measures of people who both couldn't identify Tory Burch, and have never shopped for clothes at Walmart. That's how branding works.

> + Before Starbucks, you couldn't get a cappuccino anywhere.

There were coffee shops everywhere in the US before Starbucks. The trend migrated from the Pacific Northwesterners who created a coffee culture so the rain wouldn't make them kill themselves, and then that coffee culture collided with the urban leftover memories of 50s Beat coffee culture, back-to-nature hippie tea culture, and europhile intellectual coffee culture (a lot of tables had inlaid chessboards.)

This was homogenized by the aggressive expansion of Starbucks, starting in the Pacific Northwest again, wiping out most of the variations that we used to enjoy.

And I lived in places like Northwest Arkansas and Mississippi at the time, so this is not a big-city perspective.
How are you going to decentralize planning around rising oceans?
Ok, so if you can't rely on the price to signify quality, what can you rely on? Where does one go to purchase a pair of shoes that will endure?

The best I came up with so far is using Wirecutter reviews. This way I discovered, for instance, where to buy treat-quality bedding and towels, but it doesn't cover anywhere near the spectrum of things that I need. Sometimes I find something good and they stop making it a year later.
The UK government has to go through lengthy rounds of consulting with local citizens, groups, other interested parties in order to build anything like this. Building a new runway at Heathrow took so long because of years and years of consultations and negotiations.

China doesn't have to do that.
I can appreciate, but will see how long it keeps its charm.

...I hardly ever see my desktop anyway.
The problem is not that we don't have more of these devices but rather that little written remains of them. It's as if references to them were systematically destroyed. Mind you, we wouldn't even know about the Antikythera mechanism where it not for its accidental discovery.
Here is an arrangement by guitarist Davey Graham of She Moves Through The Fair. As someone who heard similarities between Scottish/Irish folk and Indian music, his take on the tune is really quite original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0h-XICWlSA

This is a recording of Jimmy Page playing the tune, which sounds so close to Davey Graham's version, it seems impossible that it's not a rip-off. I believe he takes credit for it on recordings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqzFzXCfaSc

What's striking is how all the fluidity and expression seems lost in Jimmy Page's version (though still technically accomplished, by most measures).
The state machine here is a struct given to `poll()` methods that advance the state. It's similar to iterator structs that have `next()` calls.

It could cause code bloat, but in practice these are small functions that get inlined and optimized out to almost nothing (sometimes even the whole struct disappears).
Further, lots of people don't seem to understand the job changes.

Take cto. When it's founders and maybe an employee, cto is a full-time dev.

Then you get funded, and four months later the engineering team is 4-6 people. The cto is now a line-level manager who codes a bit. It's a completely different job.

Then you get the next round, and suddenly the cto supervises 2-4 line level eng managers and has to decide if (s)he wants to be cto or dir-eng, because those roles are about or have already split. This, also, is a completely different job.

At each step, it's a completely different job.

Your company needs to be prepared for founders who don't want, can't, or aren't good enough at the next step that is required of them. Because the job literally completely changes every 2 years. Or sooner.
The communication and coordination overhead of four or five developers working together is non-neglible on top of that if any part had to be reworked that also would have involved overhead between multiple developers. No matter how well you spec something out, there are always the unknowns - i.e. I forgot about this piece of business logic based on a checkbox on the front end which is going to cause a boolean to be passed in the model that’s going to affect all four services and a database table. Now I need to either communicate with all of the developers, or do it myself and dig through code I am not familiar with. In this case, I just make all six changes myself, do a quick test and commit the code and update the docs.

Then all four developers would have had to coordinate with the Devops guy.

This is all getting into “Mythical Man Month” territory.

Instead of me trying to explain it, I might as well crib the explanation from Wikipedia.

Complex programming projects cannot be perfectly partitioned into discrete tasks that can be worked on without communication between the workers and without establishing a set of complex interrelationships between tasks and the workers performing them.

Four equally qualified people should be able to deliver more features in the same amount of time working independently than four people working together.
Well, in a web app you don't get to make those choices, but you could use a web worker.
Do they list the prices in bitcoin, or do they just use a payment gateway that lets them charge USD from bitcoin users?
"Now we have become 'leaner' and pared down"

This happens in the Private Sector as well. I work for a manufacturing company with 6+ facilities (two major, third major greenfield in design and 3 minor facilities) We have 3 engineers for the whole company. We mostly just manage the contracted engineering firms. It sucks for me as a "junior" Senior Project Engineer because I rarely get a chance to learn what my contractors are doing, too busy managing them and coordinating. Naturally, in order to be a better PM I need to know their skills at least at a 500' level. Hard to learn to code PLCs when I'm too busy managing 5 PLC programmers on a project for a month or two, then moving onto something else that might not even have a PLC involved.
Monitor suspended directly above bed on a framework. (Eyes pointed nearly straight up, therefore.) Elbows resting on bed.
Animated Map of the World's Undersea Internet Cables[video]
The Complete Unauthorized Checklist of How Google Tracks You
Elon Musk on What It Took to Acquire Tesla.com
It's a single static page, couple of hundreds words and stock photos advertising an outsourcing/contracting agency.

"you can find a top software engineer with just a few clicks from your computer or mobile device" There is no such feature on the website.

"Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It's just a tool...

We use it a lot for Apache Open Source projects. It's good enough to keep tracks of what's a release, etc.

Of course you do not use for mini-specs, etc.
Thanks for the link and response, but I was talking about evidence in the OP article. Like far too many pieces, it fails to highlight the evidence between human activity and rising temps, taking it instead as an article of faith.

Even the link you gave fails to enumerate the evidence for a human cause, and itself links to another article.

I realize that some have made up their minds, but the extraordinary claim of a mainly human cause requires extraordinary evidence. And that evidence is hardly discussed, nor are alternative hypotheses given their due.

This is the problem I'm trying to highlight. The discussion has veered from scientific to religious.
Murdered with words. I have to admit to more than a little schadenfreude. Future generations would likely want to sent back time cops to arrest crypto miners for their egregious waste of energy.
People can count stops. And they will learn what it means for their frequented stations.

At unfamiliar stations just be conforted that's it's monotonic :).
Is Tron the most decentralized crypto?
Reading the news about Danske Bank, the reality seems to somewhat disagree with you. Some banks a very happy to deal with shady money, as long as there’s _a_lot_ of it.
> People don't really need watches, you got everything you need on your phone, a watch is purely status signalling fashion accessory and as such the quality doesn't matter, just the brand, the design and the price.

No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!

1) A watch has a useful function: telling the time. And it performs this without the need for me to get my phone out.

2) Quality is important: I don't want everything I own to be disposable, and I don't like things that malfunction, break down, or otherwise stop working when subjected to the stresses and strains of normal life. In fact I prefer to buy high quality items that I enjoy and that will last for many years. Apart from anything else it's simply more sustainable than buying crap.
> only so many people can buy a 20 million dollar apartment

Yes, and that's what turns the 20 million dollar apartment into a 10 million dollar apartment. If prices are too high, the market will correct for that by having apartment complexes needing to rent out units for less than they cost to build. That is why market research is important and should be on the developer to determine what there is demand for.
> If you want lossless audio, you literally can't find it,

What audio could you get lossless before that you now can't that you're claiming there has been a regression?

> Watching movies sucks; you now pay full price to effectively indefinitely rent movies

You can buy most movies on physical disks. The old physical copy ownership option still exists. There has been no regression, just new options you personally don't like.

> Applications suck; we're puking web and electron everywhere

Clearly the market has decided that the heavier versions are just as fine. Also, in pretty much every case there's also lightweight non-electron alternative. There has been no regression, just new options you don't like.

> Modern operating systems suck; restricting filesystem access, exposing proprietary application APIs which fundamentally make applications unportable and thus contributing to the rise of Electron/RN.

That is absolutely your own fault if your OS restricts FS access. Applications are just as unportable as they have been. There has been no regression, just new options you don't like.

You're just looking at the past like it was some gold standard and a wonderland of software, development and user freedom (of choice or of software), it's ridiculous.
Thanks, that was interesting. Apparently the five-minute video I got my statement from led me astray.
> I want managers and project owners to be forced to keep the entire project in their head as much as is humanly possible.

So what do you do for projects that are too big for any single person to hold it all in their head?
The majority of the NYC subway system was built by private companies, just FYI. The city acquired the privately owned systems in 1940 and unified them into the single system we have today.
That might be the most literal interpretation of "selling pickaxes during a gold rush" I've ever seen. The analogy is absolutely fine.
It does nobody any good to have 1000 books on a single device if the whole thing is subject to revocation, especially when you paid full retail price for the privilege of being allowed to read it. This is regression.

What? You can still buy the paperback book, tons of my kindle books are $10 or less, and it very clearly benefits me, which is why I buy tons of Kindle books.
>You want fewer delays? You want realtime countdown clocks? CBTC is the answer

What crap. For nearly 100 years the subway has been just fine, and after 10-15 years of corruption and mismanagement we're expected to believe the only solution is a multi-billion dollar upgrade with technology that didnt even exist the last time the system was functioning properly?

I dont think lack of computer controlled trains is the problem here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/09/nyregion/subw...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

>Signal problems and car equipment failures occur twice as frequently as a decade ago, but hundreds of mechanic positions have been cut because there is not enough money to pay them — even though the average total compensation for subway managers has grown to well over $200,000 a year.

Daily ridership has nearly doubled in the past two decades to 5.7 million, but New York is the only major city in the world with fewer miles of track than it had during World War II. Efforts to add new lines have been hampered by generous agreements with labor unions and private contractors that have inflated construction costs to five times the international average.

New York’s subway now has the worst on-time performance of any major rapid transit system in the world, according to data collected from the 20 biggest. Just 65 percent of weekday trains reach their destinations on time
The modelling for the movement was simple: The Moon rotated on a cycle, whose center was itself rotating on a cycle centered at Earth (see [2] from [1],) but the part of the antikythera mechanism that was devised to simulate this was purely brilliant!

[1] https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/ua/BeforeCopernicus.html

[2] https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/ua/Epicycle.png
> Where does one go to purchase a pair of shoes that will endure?

There are some fairly strong indicators in the construction of a pair of shoes that bear witness to quality (or not): an upper stitched to the sole is generally better than one that is glued, for example.
I've found that my migraines have responded more to counselling than medication although there are physical triggers too. My rosacea is also reduced in severity by counselling, although not as dramatically.