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There are tons of gerrymandered states that result in states' politicians not reflecting the wishes of the majority of the voters, and it's always the rural areas benefiting from the gerrymandering.
> And, India got partitioned into 3 countries, all of which have spend insane amounts of resources fighting each other when that same could have been spent on economic development and other hostile neighbors of the unified India would have been smaller in size to be a threat.

Which they weren't forced too. That's not a "cost" of colonization but a cost of not choosing another path.
Two week notice during the holiday season seems pretty sudden and painful for users. I feel bad for those who now have to scramble and probably miss time with their families as a result.
What? Level3 was huge as a fiber ISP at the enterprise level, but Qwest/CenturyLink has been a huge phone service/ISP in the west since the breakup of Ma Bell. They own the naming rights to the Seahawks's stadium.

They have huge brand recognition in the West, though you're right, little of it's positive. I remember a cover article in my sleepy mountain town's alt/leftist newspaper titled 'Qworst' when I was growing up.

Full disclosure I work at a shop that switched to CL fiber (e.g. Layer3) per my recommendation on coming on. The service quality/uptime is top-notch but the sales/PM process has left a lot to be desired.
> if the schools are garbage, there are few or no parks, the politics are very conservative, and diversity is lacking.

But all of this exists outside of rural areas, and in fact in many areas close to metro hubs. Just because you're in a more urban environment does not guarantee you to have this utopian neighborhood.
Planet Money had a good episode on this:

Why It's Illegal To Braid Hair Without A License

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/15/356428708/epis...
This made me laugh out loud. "We just shipped the new tab bar item!"
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https://www.wired.com/story/viral-call-out-culture/amp

It's not going to stop because it works.
Thank you, that is interesting.
The definition of theft of IP is entirely a product of local jurisdiction though, given we are talking about temporary monopolies on ephemera and not physical protection of personal claims on objects or spaces.
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It depends. I would argue for licensing in fields where improper training can affect lives, safety, and welfare, e.g. Doctors, Mechanics, Engineers, Pilots, etc. We need some kind of way to verify that an individual who proclaims to be a professional in potentially harmful fields has received proper training and can demonstrate that they can perform their work safely.
I don't know enough about the intricacies of hairdressing, but I could definitely see the case be made for at least some kind of training, given that they regularly handle caustic chemicals (think relaxers), heating devices, and sharp objects (i.e. straight-razors). Maybe a certificate would suffice, but I don't know.
On the other hand I would agree that requiring a florist to be licensed, as the article mentions, is probably going too far and most likely used to stifle competition.
It was tech related to water powered cotton mills. In those times England had outlawed the exportation or manufacturing machinery as well as the emigration of persons with industry knowledge.

Sam Slater moved to the US in 1789 and partnered with a textile manufacturer to recreate the technology from memory. (Amusingly what he did may not have even been a violation of IP law by today's standards)

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/07/05/americas-industrial-re...
Then why was this tiny family-run bank the only bank being prosecuted?
I suspect that social media is trying to be too much. at the beginning of Facebook, I remember people basically only interacting with people they knew in real life. it certainly didn't feel good if your whole high school class singled you out for public shame, but it wasn't much worse than what they could do face to face when the teacher wasn't looking.

today, I notice that people are mainly sharing posts from prominent figures with tens of thousands of comments on them. there's simply no way to have a productive conversation when everyone's contribution is immediately buried. all you can really do is agree or disagree emphatically. the result is that now any person with a bunch of followers can say "fuck this guy" and thousands of people will pile on in an instant.

aside from stuff like deliberately curating all the most inflammatory content for our feeds, I think one of the biggest issues with current communities is just scale. if you could only talk to people by joining a small group focused on a locality/hobby/occupation, I bet the experience would be a lot better.
This isn't even a statement about either technology, it's just a commentary on bad developers, and trying to alter or minimize the damage they do because they're bad, using a different technology.

The former yields expected behaviors, and if you deviate, what do you expect? While the latter means that any time your product experiences a redesign, you have to manually change everything.

Not only do you manually change everything, and every component is isolated, you end up writing repetitive styles, and then you're stuck with a codebase with 5 different buttons, 4 different drop-downs, 7 different color schemes.

Nah, there's a reason why sites like Bootstrap Expo existed. CSS in JS doesn't just fail to prevent you from writing expensive to maintain code, it also makes it harder to evolve a product over time.
This reminds me of a discussion I had with someone who self identified as a libertarian and was on the extreme side of anti-regulation. Their argument was that if regulations didn't exist then in those situations where they had an issue with a company or the government they would sue. Which, for me, raised the immediate question of "Who is going to do the suing?". The response, "A lawyer..." and a look that was supposed to inform me that I was being dense. Then after a few seconds it clicked and they started coming up with any number of criteria by which they'd use to determine who was a "qualified lawyer". All of which were based on their own experiences and knowledge. While obviously this is an anecdote, it was interesting to see how much all of us (even those in the opposition camp) take for granted with regards to the regulatory structures that exist. I can't help but think "CHESTERTON'S FENCE" anytime someone proposes a radical change such as that which is proposed by the extreme anti-regulatory side.
So it’s securities fraud?
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High or moderate speed would even blow the blood, like spraying windshield fluid on car at 70 MPH
Samuel Slater apprenticed at a British cloth factory and memorized the design. Then he emigrated to the US and set up shop. Although, I think it might be more correct to say that the US allowed him to steal IP, rather than the country stealing it.

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

I think that US publishers, especially sheet music publishers, would copy British music and and publish it in the US, since I don't think that the US honored British copyright (at least some subset of it), but I can't think of good search terms to find any sources.
In their capacity as agents of the government.
What about it?

Personally, I haven't run into any real issues with performance using advanced CSS selectors. But as with any performance statements, this applies to HTML, CSS and JS I worked with, on the browsers I tested with.
> The interesting thing is that as far as colonists go, I think the Brits were the best there were. Better be colonized by them than by the Portuguese, French, Spanish, etc in terms of your subsequent national success.

Outside of India and a couple other examples, though, the “subsequent national success” is of the ex-British colonists, not the colonized people, who are destroyed or marginalized inside what was once their land.
Fine, which is good, but none of those restaurant workers had to go through hundreds/thousands of hours of training to get licensed.
This is mostly nonsense.

1) The 5% return that produced the $45T figure is significantly higher than the expected return on capital for the vast majority of that period(which includes risk and is not comparable to modern returns). Furthermore, there would be no place to put that money to try to extract that return. The notion that the 18th century even had a safe positive return on capital for large periods of time for proto-investors is dubious to say the least.

2) The timeline doesn't fit for claiming that colonial India dramatically benefited the imperial center or periphery. The UK was industrializing and ahead of the rest of Europe before revenues from India are supposed to have made a difference yet fell behind countries like Germany(which lacked any colonies until the late 19th century) even as revenues from India were supposedly diverted. The periphery is no better, Canada and Australia fell behind the US even with the supposed surplus from India.

3) I'm skeptical that diverted taxes from a mostly agricultural society like India could have produced the bonanza suggested in this article. Existing Per capita taxes would have been onerous enough and not much more could have been meaningfully extracted from the peasantry. A pre-modern society has enough problems with basic economic management and political stability; sustaining a massive bureaucracy necessary to collect taxes without rents diverted to local elites doesn't make a lot of sense.

4) As an addendum to (3) the early East India Company lacked the ability to even administer the country without the cooperation of elites(which required the dispersal of rents). The later imperial bureaucracy necessary to administer India was by all accounts quite expensive. There just isn't the gigantic return form skimming off taxes that is suggested in the article.
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> Pray tell, where do you expect all those agricultural products, lumber, livestock, and so forth that we all depend on to come from without small towns and rural communities? They have to grow somewhere after all.

The article provides several examples showing that those industries continue to operate in small towns, but that they require very little labor anymore, due to mechanization and automation.

The majority of the financial gains for these industries go to the capital owners (including all of us who can afford to save for retirement), not to the local labor pool. The labor pool doesn't have leverage to change that, because they often have few other options for work in their area.

The remote workers transplanted from cities aren't going to meaningfully increase employment in the old sectors. They will just enjoy the cheap housing and lower cost for low-skilled services.

Local low-skilled labor won't be able to suddenly shift to high-skilled remote IT work, and the sectors are too different to have an effect on the others' labor rates.

At best, the remote IT workers' discretionary local spending might prop up a few small service businesses, like restaurants, but the remote workers are likely to keep most of their capital in the same non-local financial instruments that their equivalents in cities do. And who could blame them for doing so?
for people reading this that don't live here, you should realize that Minneapolis is very much a commuter city and a huge portion of people live in the suburbs and drive to downtown Minneapolis to work. Minneapolis is also not the only large city here: St. Paul is literally 20 minutes away. The whole area that surrounds Minneapolis/St. Paul is called the Metro area and is essentially contained by the 494/694 loop but many people live outside this area in places such as Wisconsin and the Burnsville/Apple Valley area.

Very few people that work in Minneapolis actually live in Minneapolis.

Essentially this is just the city of Minneapolis making it harder for people to get to work. This will result in a decrease in companies based in Minneapolis without affecting the overall number of companies in the Metro Area.

For example, 3M is based in the Metro Area but their campus is not in Minneapolis.

Medtronic is based in the Metro Area but their campus is not in Minneapolis.

Boston Scientific is based in the Metro Area but their campus is not in Minneapolis.

Overall this is a short sighted move by the city of Minneapolis that will have lots of negative consequences and very few benefits.
AllenNLP dev here. We're going to do a "PyTorch 1.0" release of AllenNLP next week, and then after that we're planning to investigate how to incorporate the new "production" aspects.
I saw something similar with a hotel wi-fi setup.

In order to reach the Internet, you have to agree to the hotel's terms of service. The page to accept the terms of service is presented by redirecting any HTTP request from an unauthorized device. But (!) the redirect page was resolved by DNS, and DNS traffic to the Internet is also blocked. Only the local DNS resolver is accessible.

The instant any machine that specifies a specific DNS resolver tries to connect, the attempted redirect fails silently. In order to get things working, you have to clear your DNS settings to use the DHCP-specified DNS resolver, click the "accept" button on the redirect page, and then re-enter your previous DNS settings.

I wasn't so much angry that this was happening, than angry that they did such a ham-handed, botched job of it. If you're going to block outside DNS, you have to redirect to an IP address rather than a DNS-resolved address.
I think it is more appropriate to call them a software company. They both make software that facilitates real-world interactions.

I consider software companies to be "tech" companies, but alas.
Nuclear fusion is probably still decades away. But I am going tangent here, nuclear fission still have great potentials.
Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory actually
helped China to built Molten Salt reactors in the 70s during Nixon administration. [1] And since then thorium based molten salt Gen IV reactors have been having renewed interests around the global. China actually tested the whole system feasibility in Giga Watts scale in recent years. [2]

Nuclear power is vital part of the energy infrastructure to curb worsening environment due to climate change - it's still considered superior than all the other green alternative energies in terms of either 24/7 availability (vs. solar/wind) or massive scale (vs. geothermal) or location restricted (vs. hydro) or carbon-free (vs. biomass/bio-fuel). China realized that in their dire request to transition out their entire energy reliance on carbon-based energies, it's impossible to do without nuclear.
Also, newer reactor designs are much safer and last longer so a lot of the concerns of radioactive waste have largely been alleviated.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10229697 (2015)

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17813614 (2018)
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I've been considering this for a while as well.

I don't think there's anything wrong with social media. It's just pointless and irrelevant. The only thing that's wrong is that we rely on it to do something it could never do. As experience on HN showed me and others years ago, with a big enough crowd? You can't say anything. People misunderstand. People disagree with points you never made. A term you use in one way can be construed another way. You're foced either to write 10K word essays on supercillious topics like "I like ice cream" or accpeting the feedback as not worth responding to.

I think there are two things that are required for useful social forums: curated participation and a creed (not a set of standards). You need to have a group of 3-30ish people that you've curated that all subscribe to a small set of beliefs. (Beliefs might be something like "the primary reason for our existence on this planet is to care for and help others", or "Building a strong AI is more important than anything else we can do")

Both the number of members and the number of items in the creed have to be manageable. They both have to be visible at all times.

At that point -- I think -- you can start sharing content and opinions, speculating on interesting and complex social topics.

Just not with the world at large. Big groups don't work that way. Big groups where everybody tries to be kind to one another, and isn't that the point, norm downward to the weakest member. We can't both emotionally-reassure a mentally-challenged victim of gang rape while simultaneously discussing something like sexual harassment legislation. This is stuff we all know innately if we're in a room with a thousand people but somehow completely forget when we're typing stuff into a little box on a screen. Important conversations about tough topics don't happen like that. There's nothing wrong with Twitter, it's just not the tool for having any kind of interesting/difficult conversations.
That is because highly-intelligent people realize that some things may be true which are not palatable or acceptable to the masses, and vocalizing any of these brings on much consternation in the twitterverse, even if it's a simple rational observation
So we'll have a different shitty ISP? My shitty carrier (T-Mobile) does DNS hijacking of all NXDOMAINs, and pretends like it's perfectly reasonable.
What happens to all the goods we return to Amazon and other retailers?
As a Minneapolis resident, I applaud the work being done by the 2040 project. As our population continues to grow (because My Town Is Better Than Yours), we need to make real efforts to reduce traffic, increase housing density, and reduce the disparities that lead to segregation.
The only incentivizing needed is to provide fiber to the home so everyone has ample connectivity to compete on a level playing field, and then businesses will figure out which mix of remote and in office employees works for them and allows them to best position themselves in the market.
I've been using Outline.com when possible to get around this, but I agree. Posts behind paywalls should be removed, or tagged and filterable.
An important bit of law to always keep in mind, as companies bank on consumers being ignorant of it: If a company mails something to your home that you did not expressly order - it's yours. End of story. They cannot request that you send it back, they can not charge you for it. It's yours. This includes if you ordered product A and they sent you product B by mistake. Legally speaking, in that situation you were sent a gift and the company has done nothing to satisfy their legal obligation to send you the product you purchased.

If companies could just send you things and bill you without you ordering anything, we'd all be buried in mountains of garbage and steep debt. Keep the modem as a gift courtesy of CenturyLink. Watch your bill and if they charge for anything you haven't received, if you've got the time, file fraud claims in small claims court to recover the money.
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The common ground is not just geekiness, it is money. Skiing is expensive, and in order to get good, you need to practice a lot.

I am curious to know how nerdy skateboarders are. Skateboarding and snowboarding share some similarities, but the former is much more affordable.
>Here's how it worked. The East India Company began collecting taxes in India, and then cleverly used a portion of those revenues (about a third) to fund the purchase of Indian goods for British use. In other words, instead of paying for Indian goods out of their own pocket, British traders acquired them for free, "buying" from peasants and weavers using money that had just been taken from them.

> It was a scam - theft on a grand scale. Yet most Indians were unaware of what was going on because the agent who collected the taxes was not the same as the one who showed up to buy their goods. Had it been the same person, they surely would have smelled a rat.

This sounds needlessly circuitous. Money is fungible, so how is this different from saying the British overtaxing them?

The actual book this article refers to doesn't seem to push such a weird argument (https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dispossession-deprivation-and-...).
Do not overestimate the technological challenges of going high up. An autonomous drone that can work at all in Denver, must also be able to operate at a mile high in Los Angeles.
The Academy of Model Aeronautics has done some amazing research on pilot interactions with drones using FAA data [1].

One of the things they found was that only 3% of drone reports from pilots are actual "close calls", the rest are observations of drones operating legally below 400 ft or cases where done is used as a catch all term (weather baloons, etc).

Another interesting thing I read from them (my bookmark is 404ing now, will try to find the link), is that of the actual incidents they investigated of drones acting recklessly in controlled airspace, all of the offending drones were operated by the military or DHS.

1. https://www.modelaircraft.org/sites/default/files/UASSightin...
Operating Systems are software. They aren't even really that much harder to install than Windows or Linux applications.

Consider that part of the reason Linux Desktop has failed to gain any traction is people like you who would rather imagine that everyone not using their favorite software is just too inept to do so.
They might not have your name and address (yet), but they've likely taken a browser fingerprint which can eventually be used to de-anonymize you.
They do not carry the as-is, where-is clause you describe unless explicitly. If you can prove prior knowledge they are still liable. Proving the prior is the hard part, but private sales most certainly enforce a good faith clause
This is tricky. I sort of agree with the author and sort of don't.

It boils down to: if you own an algorithm f: H->R^n and show m number of (k, v) pairings such
that f(k) = v, does it follow that you have revealed all or part of the algorithm? (Where user data is folded into f.)

This would necessarily have to do with how big m is and whether it is enough to infer a f with reasonable accuracy. Not sure what are good metrics for "reasonable accuracy" though.
That’s what I thought was funny. How did Iceland’s financial laws allow a local bank to take deposits so big the entire country can’t insure it. Not to mention the criminal element.
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That actually seems pretty reasonable to me. If cutting hair were easy then barbershops wouldn’t exist right? It’s a perfectly valid trade and I don’t see a problem with enforcing certification.
Bloomberg are good at speculative reporting!
Your reasoning would be fine, were it not for the fact that an ISP's mere existence in an area, no matter how crappy, generally satisfies FCC's mandate to promote/fund broadband penetration. So, Crappy-ISP, LLC existing and being able to pencil-whip FCC filings about minimum speed expectations across its coverage area means the FCC will make no effort to provide funds for Less-Crappy-ISP, LLC or Moderately-Crappy-ISP, LLC to come in and fill gaps.
Then they shouldn't apply for "grunt programming" positions.