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> "Regalian functions of the state" is a common term

It's really not; I mean, I've got a poli sci degree so I've seen it, but it's not really a common term.

> that means the basic powers of the state (monarchy or not) that used to be the prerogative of the sovereign. I.e. law & order, military, and taxation.

The pre-modern-limited-governnent prerogatives of sovereigns were much broader than law enforcement, defense, and taxation. And, in fact, the principle thing denoted by regalian power is the fundamentally ownership of all land which is superior to all private title, which is the root of all the other (essentially unlimited) powers associated with sovereignty, in a “my house, my rules” kind of way.

The term “regalian functions”, though, is most often used to refer to the three functions Adam Smith identified as essential to the sovereign in The Wealth of Nations, which are still much broader than what you suggest:

“The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force.” [0]

“The second duty of the sovereign, that of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it, or the duty of establishing an exact administration of justice, requires two very different degrees of expense in the different periods of society.” [1]

“The third and last duty of the sovereign or commonwealth, is that of erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works, which though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society, are, however, of such a nature, that the profit could never repay the expense to any individual, or small number of individuals; and which it, therefore, cannot be expected that any individual, or small number of individuals, should erect or maintain.” [2]

> Hence military is definetly in a different category than healthcare.

This is true, not in the sense of not being subsumed within “regalian functions”, but in the sense that the military is the first regalian function identified by Smith while healthcare delivery systems that broadly and effectively serve the whole population are in the third.

[0] book V, chap. 1, part 1

[1] Ibid, part 2

[2] Ibid, part 3
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> Check out ProtonDB

You almost convinced me so I checked out ProtonDB, and found out you're overstating things.

Only 50% of games are rated "gold+", and most of those are native Linux versions. Most Windows-only games have issues.

https://www.protondb.com/
Nicely done! Thanks for sharing.
I've been using Tiddlywiki over TiddlyDesktop (used on Win and Mac Os) and it suffices most of my needs (except drag-n-drop images and web scraping). TW's extendable macro and plugin environment is awesome. It works great off of cloud drives. Curious to know what others feel about TW. KNote's note 'card' interface resembles TW. Thanks.
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"There is no technical reason why euro clearing must happen physically inside the eurozone."

Yes, there is. Overview concerns and the ability to intervene in times of a crisis. Or how "The Economist" said, in regards to Brexit and Euro Clearing. "Sometimes it is about getting back control" :-)

Another think that makes me skeptical about Brexit: The UK had comparably low debt compared with other countries. During the last financial crisis, the debt exploded, also due to the finance heavy economy. Another crisis may be overdue. If there is a no deal situation and the next financial crisis comes, good luck with that.

The UK was the "sick man of Europe". Then three things happened.

1. Reforms by Thatcher

2. Oil found in the Northern Sea

3. UK joined the EU (or the precursor of the EU)

The oil is running out. And now they are leaving one the the biggest markets. So two out of thee advantages may be gone. Nobody knows the future but call me skeptical about the chances of success.

I could give you a similar list of free trade partners.
It depends on what you mean by web developer. That used to mean taking mockups done in Photoshop and turning them into HTML. Today that narrow role on the team is often outsourced or does not pay very well.

If by web developer you are referring to what many now call a "front end" developer then yes, that field is very busy and can pay quite well. Front end developers are expected to know a popular JavaScript framework (such as React) as well as CSS and HTML. Front end development is a dynamic and exciting field. I've been in and around "web development" for roughly 20 years and it is quite fun and has quite the future ahead.

Just last week the top trending article on HN was about how you should start with a web app instead of a mobile app. Today there are really powerful and much easier to use frameworks than what we had compared to just a few years ago. I say, if the web truly interests you then dive in head first and pour your heart into your work and most of all SHOW YOUR WORK publicly so people can find you and know you. That's how you find great teams.
I love the "per word happiness shift". I could totally see an ill-conceived startup offering a quantified self analysis tool... "with our handy all-day surveillance via your phone, we will analyze every word said by or to you and help you understand your per-word happiness shift!".
> Lisp looks like complete gobbledygook to me.

Might that be Clojure, rather than Lisp, that you're looking at, without an extensive functional programming background?

Some classic Lisp code, too, will look like gobbledygook if you've never had a tutorial, due to unfamiliar symbols. If you don't know what is a "cons cell" or the functions car and cdr, for instance.

Surely, you can guess what this is doing:

(let ((x 3) (y 4))
(print (+ x y)))
According to the article, people in China only care about the external design, so in that sense the 8 is the same as the 6.
6 months isnt a long time
So types then?
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please don't foist the entirety of this issue on insurance companies, the states and federal government dictate the paper work to be done and the coverage provided. it is damn easy to mandate paying for procedures when you don't have to pay for them.

California and Vermont found this out when both determined single payer options; read : the state; were not affordable without seriously curtailing care options. As in, when you tell people no it becomes affordable, when you bend over for every little thing it suddenly becomes what we have today.
> However this does occasionally go wrong and can be a frustrating experience in video games (especially if you're playing online competitively) but in the real world it can have much more drastic consequences.

Even a manual override would be insufficient because by the time you realize it won't behave correctly, it's too late to apply the override and then take corrective action. I would probably not trust this system, in my hubris.
Little Schemer is a good introduction to lisp (Scheme in particular) and may help you get past the "complete gobbledygook" stage. Paradigms of AI Programming is a rather advanced text, but a good one since Norvig writes very clean and documented code (even the code snippets in the text include docstrings). It's also free now (Little Schemer isn't, but it's not expensive either).

Steve Losh has a good [0] starting article on Common Lisp as well, which might be a better starting point than the books I mentioned, and could lead to them.

[0] http://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
Hell yes! Just don't try and be the guy making 3 page info sites for your local gardener/bakery/whatever. There's simply no money in that, as they can do that themselves for free with an online website builder, so the value add from a good dev is minimal.

Once you've honed your skills, focus on the more complex, bespoke projects. Become good at delivering on time and try to find clients that wish to invest in tech to improve their business further. They will generally appreciate your work more and will not hesitate to pay you good money if you're genuinely adding to their bottom line.
Can government spending really increase happiness?
Did you know SpringBoot going in? I don't really have a lot of experience with Spring (or SpringBoot) but it seems very "enterprisey". Have you found to be be a good foundation? How steep of a learning curve was there for you?
> the Beatles split up after a mere seven years at the top

Not exactly. The Beatles, as a business, continues to this day. It's controlled by the remaining living Beatles and their direct heirs. (Basically, Paul, Ringo, Yoko (John's Wife), and Dhani Harrison. They're pretty active with various ways to re-introduce, such as actively promoting the movies, the Beatles Rockband game, the Love remixes, ect.

The Beatles even reunited in the mid-90s to make the Anthologies. They used demo recordings approved by Yoko to work with John. In the films they openly admit that, if John was still alive, they'd probably have reunited in the 1980s.

The difference between the Beatles, and other bands, is that they can't bring in replacement musicians. They decided that it's only the Beatles when it's John, Paul, George and Ringo. This is unlike the Beach Boys where there is a "Beach Boys" touring band that only has Mike Love and session musicians. (Still a fun show, BTW.) Otherwise, Paul and Ringo could get together, bring in some session musicians, and call themselves "The Beatles."
There is some minimum societal level of care that we could attain of course. Enlightened self-interest and whatnot. What is the limit? Are we there yet? Doesn't ever seem to be part of the discussion - just hearing ivory-tower claims that everything is possible and nothing is too much.
ML-family functional languages, which you seem a fan of, also trade performance for elegance, with few fortunate exceptions in case elegance goes far enough to allow extreme optimizations that recover whole-program performance despite widespread inefficiency "in the small".

Significant bad parts of C++ have been deprecated or effectively replaced with something better; you just have to adopt the good way.
For example, the new initializer syntax allows for simpler and saner rules about type conversions and lookup of constructors.
How is there a lack of market pressure in the pharma industry?
Clickbait question.

Of course it could. And of course it could reduce happiness. It all depends on what you spend it on, how much, etc.
> A developer who does not know/care about running things in production is not a developer.

Behaviour depends on how incentives and constraints are structured.

Traditionally, operations had to keep things running and cared little about new functionality. Developers had to deliver new functionality and cared little about keeping things running.

Requiring developers attend 3am outage calls changes incentives, as does requiring operations to own (or get out of the way of) software delivery pipelines.
Considering how little I knew after a 4-year Bachelor's degree, 6 months of nights and weekends is insignificant.
True, they should stop being short sighted and get on board with CarPlay and Android Auto, but it's relatively simple to pop out the dashboard and put in an aftermarket $500 head unit. It is an added cost with installation of course, but I feel like it's worth it for the reliability and fixability of their reputable models.
...a news story about something good for ARM claims that it is actually bad for ARM and good for RISC-V.

Not really. While I was reading the announcement from Huawei it seemed like it was almost as much an announcement from ARM. It also spoke to Huawei being a large supporter of open source and collaborative development. It mentioned several organizations they work with, or are a part of. In light of their open nature, their interest and involvement in RISC-V was notably absent, once again hinting at the announcements importance to ARM.

They make it sound like this is one of the highest performing ARM processors out there, and maybe it is. But at that point you have to ask what exactly does ARM bring to the table for Huawei? I contend that at this point it is mostly familiarity and mind-share.
Low-power chips are secret sauce behind long-life wearables
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There are currencies that have the lowest value coin as 1/20 of main coin.
Prices are essentially fixed and heavily influenced by govt. Not a total lack of market pressure, but definitely skewed vs shoes etc.
A relative of mine had asked their psychologist about them feeling that they kept dodging and being stuck by people while walking in crowded areas, and they were recommended to look up at a point above the oncoming people, in the direction you are heading, and that after trying it people were suddenly getting out of their way when they walk.
Some of my actually favorited posts:

jjoonathan on Oct 6, 2014 on: Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416875, "For most people it's not, but some people subscribe to the notion that choice implies consent/endorsement/approval ..."

scardine 12 months ago on: Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposit... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126082, "Like almost all problems in life you have only 4 options: ..."

graycat on Mar 28, 2015 on: The FedEx Problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104, "Yes, at FedEx, we considered that problem for about three seconds before we noticed that we also needed: ..."

Animats on Nov 21, 2015 on: How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356, "That still irks me. The real problem is not tinygram prevention. It's ACK delays, and that stupid fixed timer. ..."
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For a colleague of mine that is moving to Canada I am searching for a couple of recruiters that are specialised on Montreal, Canada. She's a business analyst, really good with SQL. Day to day she's doing a lot of data digging.
Voting with your dollars doesn't work in all cases. Possibly not even in most cases. Markets aren't that transparent, and more importantly, you buy based on the company's past behaviour, whereas if your product requires support, it's their future behaviour that matters to you. You buy based on past product quality, but current product quality is what matters.

You may buy a product from a great company with excellent support, and then a hedge fund comes along and fucks up that company for some quick profit, and you're screwed.

On top of that: vendor lock-in. Switching to a different platform can be hard and expensive, no matter how much you want to.

Of course most smart companies with long-term vision listen to their customers, but plenty of companies don't. Many great companies have been ruined for short-term profit for either their executives or their investors.

And the same is true for employees: a lot of people can't afford to leave their job. They've got mouths to feed. And besides, in their next job, they might be just as powerless.

Ultimately, the skewed division of power is not always good for companies, and it enables the people holding that power to enrich themselves at the cost of other stakeholders.
Facebook at least seems to have caused more human misery than happiness.
> Unless you're telling me you boycott all products by Google, Apple, Facebook and Oracle

Yes, that's exactly what I'm telling you.
Second kanopy, love the selection, especially Criterion Collection. (NYPL brought me there too).
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Related: https://xkcd.com/1053/
I worked with REM for the past 20 years. This article is dead on. Learned more from that band about management than from any business mentors.
Part of the ex-Beatle's wealth (particularly Paul's) is savvy investments. McCartney bought up Michael Jackson's back catalog, for example. There's lots more here and obviously the Stones didn't just bank their loot (and I'm not really arguing with you) but I think to have a decent comparison we would need to define terms and draw boundaries pretty carefully. I have a splitting headache so don't really fancy doing the research, but a proper apples-to-Apple comparison should probably be limited to tour revenue, LP/single sales revenues, and image, name, and catalog licensing. That's the money in, which is really the first order measure of wealth generated.
The first is an amazing hubris detector.

The "going deep" post reminds me of the "programmer-archaeologist" role from the Vernor Vinge novels, where a long-running spacefaring civilisation has built up a very large amount of code on which their magic nanotech runs. This provides opportunities to dig for long-forgotten things .. or exploits.
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I'm very interested in this. I wanted to get an online degree with 100% online delivery (like OMSCS), but every school I checked required in-person proctoring (as opposed to something like ProctorTrack or ProctorU). So is there anything that's 100% truly online (like OMSCS)?
But I haven’t heard a convincing argument that the current situation is the fault of anybody but a comically incompetent UK government.

You very obviously don't read Mr. Johnson's Telegraph columns</snark>

I agree. The EU was always very clear where their read lines were and never deviated from that. The PM on the other hand made very clear what the UKs red lines are. And does are simply incompatible with what's acceptable for the EU.

An ex-member undermining the fundamental principles of the single market is just not on the table.
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Not for a while yet - there is still vast wealth in Europe, with pension funds etc. owning big chunks of the rest of the world.
Serial single founder here. Start building and start selling. If you can’t deliver a product to a paying customer solo then you’re not cut out to be a sole founder.
If you want to attract people, you need to either pitch the idea in public (or build an MVP) to gather attention and possible partners. Or find people with similar interests and reveal the idea to them. You could also find someone through networking or [1] forums.

Show a good idea, with good leadership and people will follow...

[1] https://indiehackers.com
Registered! Cool product!
I love the 1GR-FE/5VZ-FE/2UZ-FE engines, I would just keep buying the same car with those. Except they last for hundreds of thousands of miles, so I might only need one other in my lifetime.
Netflix is already collecting a profile of every user based on what he chooses to watch. If users only watches violent series and movies, they will only get more violence in their recommendations.

Black Mirror isn't giving Netflix anything that they don't already have, but I agree that we should be worried with the overall scenario. The problem is that we aren't.

What happened with Facebook should have changed the way in which we see those big corporations that regularly register personal and behavioural data, but it didn't. Most still use Facebook, and they don't care.

It'll take much more for us to really worry.
I think he wanted it to be powered only with gravity (for artistic reasons). Also I seem to remember him telling me that it was just far too complicated and fragile. The thing he did build is sitting on the dock by the Thames and it's pretty sturdy.
And also if people wish to pay for private care (whether out of pocket or using insurance) they're free to do that too.
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Whenever there is a market fad/phenomena with low or no barriers and a flood of entrants—the best strategy is often: Be the arms dealer.

The lowest profile players in high-profile, low-barrier industries are almost always the most profitable.

Don't sell wine, sell barrels.

Don't make movies, create animation software.

Don't own restaurants, build the restaurant supply company.

I ALWAYS KNEW IT!
SFML (Simple Fast Media Library) and SDL are cross platform and hide most of OpenGL boiler plate. I've used SFML but just to make Shaders and output some text.
starting building on the idea yourself so you have more to talk about / show.

co-founders are usually people you already know. so talk to them and start persuading or start meeting more people.

employees are attracted to salaries, offer it (get funding if needed).

if you have no idea what's involved in working on a startup, maybe watch the startup school videos.
Is this psychotherapy approach generally respected among therapists, or is it kinda fringe?

Because from that description, it sounds like it would probably be a fringe thing, but I don't know the field in the slightest, so I can't be confident in that.

Also, that description at the end of the post, that you say it explains, doesn't seem to match my experience.

Also, I don't think I see how it relates to the parent comment?
Waymo CEO Says Self-Driving Cars Will Always Be Limited
+2 Yeah that is so much better.
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This is still an issue :

https://postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2018/08/27/glibc-upgrade....
>Right now we see about 3 students/day get hired.

Do you have some salary statistics (maybe broken down by market) for your grads?
Well, you can certainly have your cake and eat it.

The problem is that the baker expects payment and it seems that the UK is just not willing to cough up for the cake.
Sounds like you would enjoy reading some of Benioff’s stuff. You’ve basically summed up his entire philosophy and the way he tries to run Salesforce, although he would include the community that the company operates in as another key stakeholder.

This profile provides an overview of some of his more recent moves: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/30/salesforce-marc-benioff-talk...
Correct. Using ICU collations avoids this problem.

Also, with libc collations you have to rebuild indexes after a glibc upgrade:

https://postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2018/08/27/glibc-upgrade....
> while healthcare delivery systems that broadly and effectively serve the whole population are in the third.

That's your interpretation but that's really a political view, and indeed the definition of that third duty is highly subjective. As I wrote in another comment, the line must be drawn somewhere.

Note that my point wasn't to discuss regalian functions in general but to counter the argument that calling the British NHS 'socialist' was like calling the police or the army 'socialist'.

(Btw, I heard the term "regalian functions" in secondary school/high school...)