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> That protects established injustices as much as it protects established freedoms. Perhaps more, since the fundamental structure incorporates a number of injustices.

Not really. The legislature had to pass a law creating slavery, the executive had to sign it, the courts had to uphold it. Any of them could have said no. The same was true of laws prohibiting women from working, or Jim Crow laws, or laws excluding same sex marriage, etc. To enforce any of these things required broad assent, as designed, and they mostly fell to individual branches having enough. Lincoln unilaterally ended slavery, the courts struck down laws against same sex marriage, etc.

There is only a very thin range of things checks and balances actually prevent. First it has to be something the government has to act to prevent rather than merely cease to prop up, which as injustices go is pretty rare in its own right. Then you need at the same time enough support to prohibit it in a simple majority system but not enough support to prohibit it in a system of checks and balances, which crosses off all the most egregious ones -- there is >80% support for laws requiring schools to accept black students, so checks and balances don't prevent those laws from existing, and they do.

What you're left with is the things with 50%+1 support but not e.g. 67% support. But that's what checks and balances are supposed to do -- prevent you from passing laws against things nearly half the country doesn't support having a law against. If you want that law then you need to convince more people first. Is that really so bad?
The median income for NYC is $57,000. Surely 10X what a typical person makes is enough for a family to get by, it's just not enough for the lifestyle they want.

Source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...
I always enjoy Science Vs. Also, Startup, which actually has featured a bunch of YC companies. Reply all has good stuff too most of the time.
I don't think this addresses the argument I've made. Can you read it again and reply to the strongest possible interpretation you make of it (per the site guidelines)?
I'll never buy another phone that uses an external SD card. It's fine when I manually copy things to the phone. The problem is that apps handle the SD card inconsistently and poorly.
Yes. They were quite clear that the software stack is pre-beta quality at best.
Dual Consciousness
These things always turn out to be every expensive. A breadboard it not much more difficult.
> Practicing regularly to increase self-knowledge, thinking spiritually, reflecting on your relation to the world – do you not consider that a religion?

I'd call that mindfulness not religion.
This seems to address basically all of my frustrations with go. Well done!
Please allow me for this topic to quote Investopedia [1], and not Wikipedia (which I respect and appreciate).

"..is a type of trading done with the use of mathematical formulas run by powerful computers.."

"..makes use of much more complex formulas, combined with mathematical models and human oversight, to make decisions to buy or sell financial securities on an exchange.."

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/algorithmictrading.asp

Ps: In simple english, I go to work, that thing makes profit (if done right). I go to sleep, that thing makes profit. Someone important twits, that thing either makes profit, OR goes bust.
I have, yes. I've also framed homes, roofed homes, and water proofed basements. I spent some time landscaping. I've held a variety of manual labor jobs, from working fields to construction to warehouses and factory floors to the military. Today, I'm a team lead and senior software engineer.

I'd also rather be outside again all day, working with and alongside people, physically and towards goals we can visualize, doing tasks that we all understand well and can articulate in an accurate way, and cultivating a genuine sense of camaraderie. Not the sort of weird brogrammer nonsense that is frequently encountered in our industry and which is oftentimes confused with camaraderie.

I pull a lot of my previous lives experience in to my work today and I spend a lot of time working very closely with my colleagues, but it's not the same. I don't end a day with the same sense of purpose or belonging that I experienced with physically demanding jobs. I got close, once, but it was a shared experience between myself and one colleague, as opposed to a team, and it was because of circumstances that aren't exactly repeatable in a meaningful way.

edit/ Of course, the above is making some assumptions that probably don't hold. There is genuinely something that I miss from physically demanding work that can't be found or replicated with the work that I do today (or, perhaps it's just that I have failed to find or replicate it). But, I'm also dramatically better compensated and live a nearly fully autonomous life today, too. These are just the trade-offs that we make, I suppose.
I agree that it depends on the type of podcast. Deep technical stuff, for me, is much better as text. But something like The Ongoing History of New Music[0] would be greatly degraded by switching to text.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ongoing_History_of_New_Mus...
beware of journalism masquerading as statistical analysis. This is useful as an interesting and entertaining serioes of anecdotes, not as a guide to what is actually taking place.
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They can be fairly arbitrary. There are many places in this world where peoples separated by a border, even a very old border, look more like each other than either looks like the people in their respective national capitals.

Sure, a modern resident of Stockholm will fit in better with a group from Malmo than Sofia. But what about a city like St. Petersburg which was long thought too Russian by Europeans and too European by Muscovites. What of cities that have long sat across a border from each other or which have been long divided? Are their residents less similar to each other than they are to cities hundreds of miles away?

Now unwind the clock a bit. Go back to 1500 when in most places, people 100 miles apart didn't speak the same language, before national campaigns to settle the language, the grammar, the history, the traditions (many traditions we hold dear come from pro nationalist propaganda campaigns). You're looking at people after 200-300 years of shaping with a nationalist's chisel.

Again, my point is not that nations are bad or that multi-national powers are good, it is only that many of the criticism thrown around about multi-national governments were also employed against nationalism in another time. National identity isn't totally arbitrary, in some places it has alonger history than others but the strident form we know of it today is invented and lots of people didn't think in terms of it before or during its emergence.
Those things are are all regulated and get a hard time. They are not "medical" fields, and none of them operate under the license of "medical doctor". Dangerous ones are banned, and ineffective ones are required to carry a disclaimer.
Next they're going to sterilize anyone who isn't Han Chinese.
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Every single time I have experienced episodes of depression, I have been able to trace the depression to environmental causes/stressors. In most cases I had at least an inkling of the cause at the time I was suffering, but there were reasons why correctly identifying the source of suffering would be problematic. In all cases the causal relationship became obvious in hindsight, once the environment had changed.

For example:

When you're feeling depressed because you're a child being abused by your parents, consciously acknowledging that your parents are responsible for your suffering would pose an existential risk. The "correct" thing to do in this situation to end the depression would be to leave the abusive situation. But when you depend on your abusers for your survival, that's not really an option. Therefore the way that most kids survive these situations is by suppressing their true feelings, pretending that everything is okay, and exhibiting symptoms of depression/anxiety/oppositional defiant/name your disorder. This isn't done consciously, it just happens.

The same thing happens as adults, replace the abusive parent with a spouse/boss. The key factor is that removing oneself from the harmful environment would entail significant cost to one's social life, career, or ability to support oneself. Therefore you stay in the situation, and eventually the pain you are continually experiencing manifests itself in depression.
I have individual faith and it's arisen out of a general respect for nature and acceptance of existential philosophical crises but... I'm never setting foot in a church. Organized religion in America is a toxic and terrible institution.

When I was growing up my parents were friends with a couple that had moved up from Georgia, as I grew older I learned that they have moved there after the father had been the pastor of a church and, when their daughter was born with down's syndrome. Due to the birth he had taken a sabbatical from preaching to raise his daughter, and while they were absent they became ostracized by the community. They were given the southern shame treatment and cut off from friends until they gave in and just moved up to New England.

While they were being shamed by their neighbors everything else carried on as normal, those neighbors went to church and prayed with everyone else and I outright reject any institution that supports that kind of behavior.

Organized religion is responsible to so many ills in modern society.
I have been on the fence of buying a Sonos because I've always loved the sound quality but I could never bring myself to spend so much on them, your comment along with comments in this thread have made my decision easier. I'm going to stick with my dumb speakers and avoid all the hassle that comes with "smart" devices.
It's increasingly secular right now. But religions grow and shrink like fashions and a new clutch may rise to fill the evident vacuum.
I believe Binet's formula is the fastest:
http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci...
Take home pay in NYC on a $500k salary is ~285k/year or $23.75k/month. If you are supporting a family, then rent + living expenses + tuition + retirement + college savings etc will eat most of that easily.
That would disallow many tech companies from doing business in China at all, no? Does search result filtering count? Analytics? Cell phones?
A bunch of various tasks like:

- a simple HTTP proxy that saves requests matching some criteria to inspect and debug them later;

- implementing Stripe webhooks for invoicing;

- a simple HTTP handler that forwards client-side JavaScript errors to syslog;

- just-in-time generation and HTTP streaming of backups as .zip files (our customers must be able to get back their data);

- a gateway between MySQL/PostgreSQL and client-side JS charting library to produce reports;

- etc.

As you can see, it's quite standard, and all over the place :-)
Huh? Travis has had a free level for a while (I've been using it for my libraries on github).
I'm really excited about this. I'm not wealthy enough to preorder but I would love to have this as my next phone.

I wish Librem would let us vote on the features of the phone we wanted. I think they'd have more of a chance of success if they worked towards things that were most important to users instead of their assumptions.

For example, i've been saying it for years, but I would buy a phone with nothing but an e-ink touch screen in an instant. The only thing it wouldn't be suited for is movies, and phones aren't really suited for that anyways.
Audio-only medium have benefits over text and video. For example, you don't need to be fully engaged to consume audio in the same way you need to be to consume text or video (i.e. it's easy to vacuum your house or drive a car while listening to a podcast. Not so easy while reading a book or watching a movie).

>Overall, text just works better for the kinds of content I'm interested in.

You're making such a weird argument. Podcasts are not replacements for books. Books do things that podcasts can't. Podcasts do things that books can't. Don't want to listen to podcasts or music? Don't. Read your books and be happy.

>Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines.

That's a problem for search engines to solve. In principle, search engines could auto-transcribe podcasts and index that.

>If I want to find the podcast where they talked about an interesting thing that I want to revisit, and it's not in the episode description, it's basically lost forever.

Again, indexing is not something that the medium needs to solve. That's for others to figure out. Text is easy to index. Images are harder to index, audio is harder still, and video is probably the worst.
I personally absorb some type of content, especially story types through my ears better than my eyes. This is perhaps because I enforce it through imagination. When I read, my imagination is still on but to a lesser degree. I also like the emotional impact a voice can make on my imagination.
This is strange. While MNT Reform still uses the i.MX6QP which is much older, I haven't seen such bad UI performance on it. I've seen consistently better perf from Qt apps or SDL/GL stuff than Gnome on this platform, so I hope this won't become a problem.

Edit: What I wanted to say is that much better UI perf is _definitely_ possible on this chip.
It's for testing IPv6 connections. I also have an IPv4-only site for testing IPv4 connections.
It’s apparently a pre-beta build.
It's more than that. People need purpose.

That's why things like UBI are a pipe-dream. Any Fortune-500 executive could live a life of leisure with 2-3 years of planning. They tend to not make that choice.
Apart from the Investopedia term, and just because language evolved and (unfortuately) semantics/meanings are redefined, nowadays, algo-trading (retail) is when I run an MT4 software on my laptop, it has a EURUSD chart, I attach a bot (EA) on it, I then sync this MT4 installation/instance with a virtual private server (VPS) somewhere on the planet, then I shut down my laptop, and I go to sleep.

For the large organizations, they got far more complicate systems/servers/software, but these practically do the same thing, just on a massive scale.
I did it 10 hours a day, four days a week when I had just graduated from high school. Extremely good money for the time, but you would have to pay me a lot more than a million now.

Brutal and back breaking. I couldn't get enough to eat, my body was always sore and tired.

I would do it if I had to, I suppose, but even though my cushy desk job coding pays a lot less--a very much lot less--than a million a year, I would take it every time.
I think it's more distributed in terms of heterogeneous systems displaying data/UIs on heterogeneous displays. Not making a fast rendering system.
Once you try to integrate with different systems, you'll find one of the major difficulties of IMAP: nobody really cares. Every player is different. Even gmail has its own issues, like creating "folders" for each tag and duplicates the same message to each folder, so your little simple client now has custom de-duplication logic.

Working with IMAP at a large company was my first "meh, how hard could it be" hubris moment. Their implementation must've had a decade of work put into it. Seemed bizarrely complex to me, so I started a side project of building my own. My little hero developer saves the day fantasy. Could've made your same HN comment early on when my PoC integrated with its first service. My side project never advanced beyond weekendware after I started seeing why it was hard.

Eventually, the guy that worked on it all that time quit over some political drama. They asked me if I wanted to maintain the project. I tried and basically quit over it.

Also, IMAP itself sucks. Did you know the spec doesn't require emails to have a message id? Also, no servers have to return your commands in order, and they don't have ids. So you'll code shit like "if the response looks like this, it must've matched up with this one command." I could go on and on about the nickel and diming that will happen to an IMAP client that you thought would once be simple.

Fun times.
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Sysmon Security Event Processing in Real Time with KSQL and HELK
There is https://fyyd.de/charts if you want a good overview of the german podcast scape.

For fiction maybe something like that https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/hoerspiel-speicher/wdr_h... ?
Flip-side is less complexity and the doc comments in raw code look better. Go's generally all about, "how much can we strip away and still have things work".

Your criticisms re refactorings and links are on point though.

Trade-offs.
On the other hand, suicide bombers aren't really the target market for cruise missiles ;)
Benchmarking All 34 Keras-TensorFlow and PyTorch Pre-Trained Models
Global Dimming
Many in finance do this, working like dogs until they reach their "number" they need to retire. Or, some take pride in their work and would do it for free. Creating and leading a company can be making history. I don't think it's clear cut as to whether enjoying life versus working hard to produce (and taking pride in this) is a better way to live.
What are you entirely happy about?
Aging is the an FDA approved disease, but every symptom of aging is.
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It tells me which features I should invest more time in getting right and handled edge cases and which features nobody but me uses and so it’s not worth the extra effort. I only have so much time!
I worked on a farm in high school. Ditch digging was one of many manual tasks.

It was a much more creative & rewarding job in many respects.
> Religion instills this virtue and gives framework of how our actions on earth and our ability to reason and create is an imitation of "god" aka creation of existence.

Isn't USA more religious than other more happy countries? Is not possible that actually religion and other external expectations are making Americans miserable?

If any, there is a correlation between religious countries and unhappiness.

Can you elaborate more on why do you think that religion is the solution and not the real problem?
Came here to share the same sentiment, saw your comment at the top.

This is the sort of website that reinforces my lazy habit of reading the comments first, instead of looking at the comment itself to form my own unbiased opinion about it.
Actually, you can. There is a no dogma religion that exists for this reason (among others) because the value of religion and community of like minded individuals is recognised. However, the danger of religion is also a central tenet. Check out Yoism if you are actually interested.
I have a Librem5 devkit. I think that a lot of this comes down to the graphics driver, which Guido is working hard on improving. I can also assure you that there'll be a variety of interfaces available for the Librem5 with varying degrees of complexitude for you to choose from.
Are they selling bulldozers and concrete near that area?
Maybe I jumped the gun there and got a bit sidelined by semantics. In my mind, theism is a necessary but not sufficient condition for religion. Ritual, on the other hand, intersects with religion and irreligion (again, in my mind). I saw another comment speaking about 'atheistic religion' which to me is an oxymoron. I now think the word religion is overloaded.

Didn't mean any offence to anyone - I have an issue with the idea of palliative doublethink, not religion, theistic or otherwise.
Hi Hackers,
Announcing reproducible benchmarks for all Keras-@TensorFlow and @PyTorch pre-trained models. PyTorch rules ResNet. Keras rules InceptionNet.
GitHub: https://github.com/cgnorthcutt/benchmarking-keras-pytorch
great documentary by BBC Horizon here: https://vimeo.com/138779240
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If you make 1.2 million a year you could literally retire after 1-2 years and live comfortably (on ~40k) for the rest of your life. Want to live on 100k? Only takes 4 years.
As the millennial internet company market inevitably cools (Dollar Shave Club, Blue Apron, etc), where are all these podcasters gonna get ads from?
Is this the point where Apple starts to demand 30% of all physical goods purchased through iOS? I mean why not? What's the justification for 30% of netflix or youtube subscriptions or digital goods in general? That same justification would seem to apply to physical items just as easily.

In any case I don't know the non-credit-card based payment systems in the USA and if any of them are taking off.

Here in Japan several have sprung up recently including PayPay by Softbank and they are currently charging 0% to retailers for the first 3 years and apparently 0% if the retailers signs up for their bank.

To customers they are offering 20% off all purchases up to $10 a purchase (so in other words $10 of a $50 purchase) and you're allowed to collect up to $500 total over the campaign. And they give you $5 to sign up.

https://paypay.ne.jp/

Also surprising is Paidy run by DMM (a company that makes the majority of their money selling porn but has been branching out like crazy)

https://paidy.com/

It does make me wonder how credit card companies can possibly keep their lock. I'm guessing they'll try to get everyone else banned?

IIRC PayPay works via OR code so no need to go through Apple Pay (NFC) or similar and just as fast or faster. Potentially you could even use it without an app.
It's 500 recipients per day. That seems adequately high.

I mean, if you have a chat with 100 participants, you're limited to sending 5 messages that day, but having such big chat rooms is not really that common, is it? And if you really have that need you can get cheap account at e.g. Fastmail and increase that to 4,000 or 8,000 recipients per day.
I built a complementary product called the pedestal which does exactly this. You can either mount it on the wall (it has magnets to hold it in place) or place it on a nightstand (as I do) where it lives in the same place every time when I reach for it.
The study involved horseflies in England... not tse-tse flies in Africa.

As far as the effect of 'such diseases' on a zebra's fecundity, I have no idea. For all we know, a feverish lethargic zebra is EASIER for a stallion to mount than a healthy zebra. Nobody knows.

The study, incidentally, did not deal with the types of flies accustomed to biting zebras. I have every reason to think a typical African biting fly would have no problem alighting on a zebra... it's what they do for a living.
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1 - Ok, so abolish the free market worldwide? Not sure what you're suggesting. Removing incentive structures and high taxation does cause the wealthy to leave. It's happening in the U.K. right now. Who does this hurt? Everyone but the rich.
2,3 - I think we agree here. Unfair loopholes should be closed as they are found on an individual case basis and I even think that Amazon should be broken up on anti-monopoly grounds.
4 - They didn't come by their wealth through forcibly taking it from poor people. The free market dictates voluntary exchange of goods and services. They are wealthy through a long series of voluntary transactions with the public.
Let's not conflate fundamental rights with programming languages.

|And sometimes speaking your mind has a cost.

Wait, you think this was acceptable? The fine for speaking is outrageous, and it will only get worse if it turns out it's not enough of a deterrent.
GObject have bindings for virtually every language. (gobject bindings can mostly be autogenerated so it will be easy to provide bindings for librem specific libraries too)
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That's the point of free speech: the state shouldn't put a cost on speaking your mind.