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This isn't the same thing. Also nothing is that simple.

The government is the people and the laws tend to reflect what they feel is acceptable because otherwise it would already be made illegal. Corporations are also these very same people and so they'll follow the same standards. I believe your issue has nothing to do with corporations but more about different cultures and values, and perhaps the efficiency of a government that can keep pace with the population.
When it comes to taxes, where behavior is strictly governed, the answer is essentially yes.
There was a call asking for volunteers to continue to support 2.7. There's something like 60K lines of Python code in the project so perhaps coding standards keeping the 3.x-specific syntax to a minimum means the project can continue to support a wide installation base without a great deal of overhead for any would-be 2.7 maintainer.
Obama was one of our better Republican presidents....
The paper is interesting, though I think "turned the frogs gay" is probably less clear than "common pesticide causes male frogs to develop female morphology and reproductive function".

https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/

Seems like atrazine should probably be taken off the market. Scary for both humans and animals that we are dumping so much endocrine disruptor into our water table.

"[m]aternal exposure to atrazine in drinking water has been associated with low fetal weight and heart, urinary, and limb defects in humans". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine
The goal is to keep housing prices high and rising.

The pretext is to not encroach on the nature.
this is classic example of how U. S. infrastructure projects are slower and more costly than other countries.

Other countries would shut this down and build then reopen, inconveniencing many. We will spend more and keep this going longer instead.

Another great example is on 101 freeway in california they just finished replacing a bridge in palo alto. They did not shut the freeway down while it was literally replaced from underneath the cars. It took 3 years and caused horrendous traffic daily. I wonder how fast it could have been done if they shut down 101 entirely on that stretch.

i know it’s easy to complain about how long these things take, but what would you rather have?
Nice recommendation. For those who want to see it, watch the video at https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ and at 0:55 you can see the TrackPoint modular add-on.

edit: lol, or just scroll down, it is on the main page.
You're taking this way to literally. Union City isn't a city. It's a small town at best. Redwood City is like a bigger town. Fremont is also town sized. San Carlos is literally a town I've visited in Indiana. None of these places are worthy of being called cities except for Oakland and maybe San Jose.
Now you make me curious, what do you think, is NASA's internal phone system an antiquated hack from the 1970's (which one site tells me when PABX was introduced), with old admins swearing every day that management never cared about upgrading it?

NASA was formed in the 60's, it makes me wonder what other ancient still-running tech they have there...
Frankly it kinda angers me a bit, because I would not have signed in with my github account if I had known it was just a trial.
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I don't think that's the takeaway the author means to convey. The picture he paints of the Times is that they've become much more resilient to political pressure as a result of his ordeal.

In fact the article closes:

Since then, the Times has been much more willing to stand up to the government and refuse to go along with White House demands to hold or kill stories.

I think the major takeaway is really the erosion of journalistic protections which has occurred over the last decade+.
The first referendum was on whether we should leave the EU. The second is on whether we should still leave on these terms. There's a subtle, but key, difference IMO.
"...the only reason Silicon Valley and the Bay Area has been so prosperous is because it’s in a country where generally people are comfortable with having so much wealth, while having so many people live under the poverty line."

This. So horrible. :(
No wind for several days would take some serious geoengineering to accomplish given there is a day/night cycle and temperature differentials create wind. Let alone also somehow obtaining cloud cover at the same time which won't create a wind from the borders not cloud covered.
Problem with that is people can then make companies and keep all their wealth in there until they need it.

Which might mean nothing gets paid but a minimum.
>There is a large population of concert goers

If we're talking about concerts though, you're talking about a higher cost per hour than movies. Not comparable to $120 for hundreds of hours.

>market for music merchandise

I'm going to avoid merch because games have merch too, so it doesn't really seem worth comparing.

>and musical instruments

Musical instruments, for people who are interested, probably do provide a higher entertainment value per dollar than games, but they are definitely a much smaller niche market.
The problem would then become people using their corporations to make all of their purchases. Their corporations would own their yachts, their houses, their cars, etc.

So as a person, any time you can utilize a corporation's resources without drawing income, you are cheating the system. This definitely already happens, but in your case it would go to another level.
If the GOP has such disdain for Trump, then why do traditional conservatives in Congress continue to support him?
The ultimate iteration of this will include programmable OLED keys.
> How would it even know that it's on the minority side of a partition?

Because it would be obvious?

The world does not exist in a state where a "true" network partition can ever happen.

A "true" network partition I would define as preventing all information, of any type, from going into and out of a country.

This is a ridiculous scenario that isn't even worth considering.
This is simplistic. What if there was a loophole in the law that allowed one to not repay debt. Bankers will get that loophole fixed asap.

In this case saying its 'legal' misses all the processes, politics, lobbying, accounting firms drafting laws, ideology, tax havens, that are all in play to leave little 'loopholes' like this for selective enrichment.

Google and other corporate interests who benefit from these 'loopholes' saying 'this is legal' is understandable, but why should an individual say this?

How about employees allowed to sell their services to a third parties incorporated in low tax regions competing for their membership, which in turn then license it to employers, leading to reduced tax in their home countries? Why is this not a thing? If everyone did that the whole tax base would dissipate and destroy our current system, hence its now allowed, why is the exact same thing ok for corporations?
> when will developers put their weight on the scale?

In my experience, amongst software developers, contempt for politics is common and the politics that is most popular tends to be hyper-individualistic and unacquainted with the idea of common interest. It's almost as if it were optimized to make developers happy well-paid cogs in a machine that is transforming society without their direction.
The problem here is that individuals do not, for the most part, contribute very much in the way of direct tax receipts. The biggest direct tax receipts are from corporations, and for good reason: we decided that capitalism is the best way to organize our economy and private corporations would be the way people band together to engage in economic activity.

Corporations, then, reflect the combined, amplified economic output of private citizens. Which is why they must be taxed; for the same reason you would want to tax individuals.

That is the Why part. But you seem to be saying that because corporations will always find loopholes that we just give up. As long as the Government is nimble enough to discover these loopholes and close them, this becomes an un-economic endeavor. Which is why... Governments are good, and should be made as functional in these things as possible.
A friend of mine still will do "mixed tapes". She's just moved to cheap usb sticks instead of cds, because like you said, most people don't have a cd player anymore.

USB stick and a custom sticker goes a long way to capture the "physical token" aspect that made gifting curated media feel special.
I'm from the midwest and feel completely at home in the Bay, and no where else in Cali. It's full of transplants, lots of small towns sort of strung together, with a totally middle class feel despite the money in the area.
I own the very same 12" iBook G4 from 2004, and it ran Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. It was a beauty.

But the market has shifted dramatically since 2004. Outside of software devs and people who need laptops for work/school, the number of people who own a personal laptop has significantly decreased since. (can google stats if needed) Plus there's a whole demographic of people who have never owned a laptop and don't see the need.

I'm a techie and I haven't owned a personal laptop since 2007. I travel with my iPhone and iPad Air 2, and they're more than good enough for my needs. I have Linux desktops at home/work.
Even if Apple made a really innovative laptop computer today, its target market is a lot smaller than it was in 2004.
But if some one cheats in my family, I will use social shaming to put some heat on them. Our criticism on HN will not even have that effect, but its the closest thing to it.

That's all. My only point is, "its legal" is not a pass from being socially judged by us plebs.
The context is important, Alex Jones was using that study to say that the government was turning people gay intentionally.
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> Any issues should be taken up with the political and tax system that allows it.

Isn't that what people are doing when they point out the problems with it?
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I think it's pretty fair to say that the leadership of both major parties, elites in and outside the government, and the military/intelligence services are right wing, and have been historically so in the United States barring the brief period between the New Deal and the destruction of Keynesianism in the 80s.
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Couldn't this then lead to a net income gap around that point? Or people pooling resources to form tax evasion groups?
I think between factorio, oxygen not included, minecraft, no mans sky and gemcraft (tower defense game) I'm probably in nearing 10 thousand hours of collective gameplay for a grand total of under $200. $0.02/hr is a hard number to beat. I don't think its possible for a movie or a song.
Well, criminal law is, for the most part, a representation of consensus around ethics. If everyone thought it was ethically cool to murder others, it would be legal to murder others.

It's true you cannot replace legal with ethical, but the above should tell you the reason why:

Your definition of what is ethical has not reached enough consensus to be legal/illegal.

It's fine to say others should have your moral values and have arguments why. But expecting them to and scoffing at them for not doing so is silly - this is literally the stuff that makes legality not black and white.
Depends on who you're talking about. This is not universally true.
Isn't that the rational thing to do ?

On a related note I began watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkupert yesterday.
> If there was a simple consensus on what the "right" thing to do was, that would be the law.

I'm sorry this just isn't true. There is a lot of consensus in the US about things:

* legalization of pot

* legal status for DREAMERS

* bigger taxes on corporations

And yet, none of these things (all of which poll very highly) become law.
No it's not? In 20 states adultery is an actual crime, and in most others it is a significant factor in determining divorce outcomes.
I see, I tried signing up as a coach. but it needs a lot of info and writing(projects you've done, experience, impact) which I'm definitely not good at.

and after all that writing you should start marketing yourself. which has the same hustle as selling yourself to a company to recruit you, more or less.
Which pretty much means that they are empty words.

If your master has no such Code of Conduct, then you have no such Code of Conduct when push comes to shove.
I say this as an avid PC gamer myself, but PC gaming is a niche. The vast majority of games are bought and played on mobile and consoles, and those are DRM by nature.

Even on PC, more games are going towards always online/multiplayer and lootbox/cosmetic/etc., which are also DRM by nature.
There’s also a lot of corruption in low income housing. Just about a month ago, a housing program in Bellevue, WA came under fire because over 90% of the subsidized renters made $100k or more (some of which worked for the WA state social services).
> Granted, looking back I don't think he explicitly said those would be his top policies, it was just beliefs people, including me, imbued into his presidency. It was a very successful "Hope and Change" marketing campaign.

Exactly. He was a chimera: the ambiguity in his slogans let each person see in him what they wanted to see, and his brief political record gave few specifics to challenge those desires. The real work of politics is to decide on the details of policy in the midst of real disagreement, and ideally politicians would be very clear about their thoughts on those details to help the public to properly have its say.
I can see how it feels like, maybe, Ohio. That's basically what Ohio is.
Seems fair, though.

40% of NY's tax revenue comes from NYC. Add in the surrounding areas (Westchester, Long Island, etc.) and non-residents who commute and you get up to 82%.

https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2018/feb/01/r...
Simply untrue given the rank and file GOP support of Trump through all legislative goals, except McCain on Obamacare and the wall.
It's legal (and therefore ethical?) to shame a large company into getting less advantage from doing something at which point they should use their lobbyists to make it illegal to do to protect themselves from competition. I don't think I'm as skilled as a paid lobbyist.
By using its economic and diplomatic might, unofficial channels, backroom deals, and friendly (or bought) satellite countries that vote the way they're told.

The nominal equality (e.g. re: number of votes) is like that old Anatole France quote: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.".
Nah, I'd bet that the ISS is using the very most modern tech (i.e. they're probably just forwarding a regular DTLS SIP connection to a Houston Asterisk server over a shared https://www.nasa.gov/content/dtn carrier downlink.) The ISS is designed in an extremely modular fashion; upgrading the routers in space (or any other non-essential module) is a matter of a few minutes' latching and hot-plugging.

Mind you, NASA probably can't get rid of their older tech on the ground, since there's older missions (whether in space, or just still within the mission lifetime for logistical support if re-deployment was desired) that still rely on it.

But NASA is the #1 organization in the world for big-S Systems Engineering: they know how to do hybrid deployments, live migrations, etc. The existence of a legacy peer, to NASA, isn't a constraint on new builds of local components; it's rather a stable wire protocol to build compatible emulations of, and then extend with new features to produce a new wire protocol that new ground and remote hardware can speak.

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Regarding the dial-9 thing, though: the ISS probably has many good uses for the internal-by-default dialing scheme. I could imagine that they make all sorts of conference calls, for one thing.
I don't know why revskill's comment below is dead. I don't know if it's authentic or not.

Prior to being killed, it read:

> I'm a Vietnamese. All Vietnamese love freedom, free voice, and a flat world. But we were and are still suffering from the Monopoly Power from the Communist Party. We know only we could save ourselves from it, but it's hard. They hold the soldiers to conquer our people from any "attack". We need you. Please help. Save us.

I think the seed for discussion here is this: do national laws in various places in the world represent a call to action for us? What can we really do in 2019 to grant full, solid access to people in Vietnam (and North Korea, and everywhere)?
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> "Queers hate techies" (from the photo)

The housing scarcity and high rents are caused by politics, by zoning, by not allowing to build enough new homes. It's sad that techies are blamed for the problem created by the politicians and, ultimately, by the voters.

Especially foreign tech workers, such as the author, bear no blame, as they cannot even vote in any US elections.
Can you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially nasty ones?

The interesting thing about the comment was the information about that specific name, not the generic point about naming things. Since you could have responded to either, it would be good to remember this guideline: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

It would also be good to review all of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not to be a jerk to other users.
I like C++, even used to teach it during the late 90's, but I also think that if Java and C# had been more aggressive with their AOT compilers, instead of focusing on JIT and disregard what other type safe languages were doing, much less people would feel forced to make use of C and C++.

Imagine having a C# experience with Delphi like RAD AOT compiler tooling instead, for example.
How about a plan that uses Amazon S3 has a backing store for my packages. That way I'm guaranteed control of access, and you get almost 100% profit. That would be worth $19 a year for me.
“if” is the issue. Most people won’t contribute 10%, and that too has a tax ceiling. I contribute 15%, and I still hit the 18k limit, moving into after tax. Make too much to contribute to a Roth also. I’m in a flyover state, and tech salaries in SF are going to be even more limited. I just save it as cash for my kids college.
In 1900, a much larger fraction of the population were either:

1. Women that were homemakers.

2. Men that worked in agriculture.
> If you dial a 10 digit number (in North America), it's obviously destined for an outside line.

It's interesting how phone systems aren't built for this, and they do a "shortest match" algorithm, e.g. if you dial 555-4628 and there's extension 55, you'll get connected there.

I remember taking advantage of this for some free service: you could get 24 hours free trial every month if you get a token by SMS/phone call. So, I just entered an incrementing extra digit at the end of my phone number for the robot to call and read me my token, and that got me a few days of free "trial"...
> For all intents and purposes, if you fail to make a convincing argument for a use-case to a developer, it is invalid.

There's a difference between failing to make a convincing argument and the developer willfully refusing to understand the usecase because they do things differently and are arrogant enough to believe that their way must be "the one true right way". That's the problem that plagues open source devs.

> Doing "customer support" for free to the general public can wear on you. In fairness, can we agree that there are "difficult users" as well?

Of course there are difficult users, that's not what I'm talking about. The use-case asked for by the OP is not even remotely unreasonable, yet nothing was done for 5 years even though it should be trivial. It's just remapping buttons FFS. Instead they were dismissed as an "edge case" and the functionality as something only "power users" would want, and therefore they didn't have to lift a finger. I wish I could say I was surprised, but that's what I've come to expect from modern developers. Users are cattle, best not to anthropomorphize them.
I'm also from Toronto living in SF. This is pretty spot on.

Some other things that struck me about living here.

- SF is cold! (yes, this coming from a canadian) In Toronto you get "real" seasons and snow during winter, but SF (especially in the areas closer to the ocean) is blasted with cold wind and fog year-round so there's really never a hot season. In addition to that, SF has its infamous micro-weathers: it might be foggy on one patch of the city, rain on another and be sunny (but still windy) on yet another part of town, all at the same time.

- Food scene: SF does a lot of spins on food. If I were to describe food here, I'd have to say it's generally "gimmicky". It's very common to see people lining up for unique eye-catching things like asian+mexican fusion, dashi-broth ramen and taiyaki ice cream, but finding good traditional chinese or greek or korean food or even a half-decent shawarma is tough. Also, having to wait in line for 30+ mins almost everywhere detracts a lot from dining experiences. Many places are also ridiculously cramped. I've never had to walk _through the kitchen_ to get to a restroom anywhere else before.

- LGBT community: Toronto has a large LGBT community and one of the largest parades in North America, but people generally don't try to be too outrageous. In the one year I've been to SF, I've ran into butt-naked people numerous times (in contexts ranging from them just walking down the street to them running the Bay-to-Breakers marathon). Also ran into a leather fetish gear festival around costco a while back. Nothing really against that sort of stuff, but can be awkward to inadvertently run into it when you're just out and about with the kids on a random weekend.

- Geography and nature: Within SF, there are gorgeous places scattered throughout the city (e.g. views from Russian Hill, around Randall museum, presidio area). If you have a car, there are also a ton of amazing state parks in the surrounding areas, from redwood forests to beaches. You can see wild sea life up close at fitzgerald marine reserve and even spot whales at pigeon point.