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I never use W3Schools but I have to say that I sort of feel bad about that because as a policy thing perhaps one should use something that has improved on bad behavior to become good in order to reward the improvement.

Of course improvement without expectation of reward shows a higher moral stature, but it is a stature that is perhaps not to be expected, whereas improvement based on reward seems more likely to exist in our world - given studies of the matter.
And you'll find, if you read my first comment more carefully, that I said "First Amendment", not free speech. The 1st protects both free speech and freedom of religion. Both are about being able to practice and express our own beliefs without the government forcing us to do otherwise.
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Being added to the black list makes it harder to do almost everything (including making money), which then means it is very hard to get off the black list. Because of that, I'm not a fan of this system.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/10/26/661163105/epis...
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The US has the most productive workers in the world. You cannot feasibly make them more productive without harming our ability to be disruptive. The fact that they've been as productive as they've been for years, through massive economic changes and yet the gap between the top .01 percent of Americans and the entire rest of the country has still grown. Supply side economics are a laughable farce. Just because wealthy people have more money doesn't mean that they invest or spend it in any way that helps the economy, what is provable though is that it harms democracy by limiting the voices of the middle class, and has created a poor class that has become nearly impossible to get out of as economic ladder climbing is effectively nil.

The only way to save our democracy is by putting in policies that will harm the wealthy aristocracy of the US. The other alternative is war and death that impacts the wealthy, as history has shown time and again. Blood or money, it's their choice.
Oh good on you. I'll carry on from that point then.
Worse than that, they won’t allow direct expansion systems. So you need a glycol loop going through the ground which has another heat exchanger to the refrigerant loop.
The difference to me is that in China, you can lose social credit by "spreading rumors online," and we all know what that's code for.

More generally, there's a big difference between "we won't let you do X because we don't trust you" versus "we won't let you do X because we have moral objections to something you've done." China's social credit system takes the latter into account.

Edit: Frankly, I'm getting pretty tired of this "the US is no better" discussion every time there's a news story about China's social credit system. The US has some major problems, but conflating the two is a false equivalence. When CNN reporters are banned from flying because the president thinks they're "fake news", we can have this discussion again.
The amount of people loudly misunderstanding #1 really frustrates me.
There’s a population difference though that brings this factor down a bit.
Every new idea takes priority over the previous ideas meaning if anything is actually done it is poorly done. I've seen lower branches pick ideas they think will most benefit the business and work those but the lack of sync between the highest level and the rest of the business causes a lot of problems.
I just don't understand why this conversation seems to be dominated by financial discussion. The main problem that many NYs had with the Amazon deal was dilution of our culture. Dumping 25,000 high earning employees into a complex and vibrant city is following San Francisco into folly.

They probably oversell the economic benefit, and it's pretty foul the way a corporation can push around politicians. But the bottom line is, these jobs wouldn't go to existing New Yorkers in large part, and that makes the economic benefit to New Yorkers thing difficult to reason about.
That is an opinion piece by someone described in Wikipedia as

> Marc Alexander Thiessen (born January 13, 1967) is an American author, columnist, and political commentator. He writes for The Washington Post newspaper. He served as a speechwriter for United States President George W. Bush (2004–09) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001–06).

> (...) His one book is a defense of the Torture Memos and "enhanced interrogation methods" used by the CIA under the George W. Bush administration.

Take that as you will.
Aren't 1) and 3) the same?

Google has offices here but didn't need a formal invitation to do so.
Monzo has an emergency web site where you can freeze/unfreeze your card or report stolen. Pretty useful feature if you happen to lose your phone.
"Ditto" - I learned the hard way while growing up that having the idea isn't the hard or valuable part -- bringing into practice a useful and profitable idea is!

Took a loooong time to really come to grips with that notion, but once I did, the world started making a lot more sense to me
I suggest you read up on Chinese "solutions" to unrest in Xinjiang. I doubt things like having security checkpoints every 300 meters are viable in non-totalitarian countries.
Wow! OpenBSD _security_ rocks!
Good to know. I was under the assumption you were to use the price at the time of the transaction.

The daily spot price seems like a huge risk for businesses.
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Bitcoin needs to die in a fire.
I've never understood how those small parties persist. Either they're aligned permanently with one of the two dominant parties, where they can be given positions of trust and power, or they flop around (in which case nobody can make long-term deals with them). They strike me as the "ideas guys" of politics, carping about the way things are done without the risk of having to actually implement their own goals.
> Well that's not how representative democracy works. You voted-in your representatives.

We didn't, because under New York state law, if the party doesn't approve a challenger (which they rarely do), the election is literally cancelled.
> In my personal opinion, this is how reporting should be. Don’t do my thinking for me and don’t lead me in a particular direction.

That's the type of reporting that leads to false equivalence and IMO wastes my time.

I don't need to hear "both sides" of every argument. I don't have enough time to understand every complex issue in detail. What I do need is a smart journalist I trust to investigate the issue, determine the truth and than share that with me along with the evidence that lead them to that conclusion.

That's actually useful to me. Currently reporting of just "Person A said blah, Person B said foo" doesn't help me, it leaves the power with whether A or B are more eloquent, deceitful or experienced, not who is more truthful or accurate. It can still be misleading based upon which pieces are chosen to be reported, and the parts left out people will naturally fill in with their personal biases about how they believe the world works.
I couldn’t find it anywhere, and am assuming no, but does anyone know if this has HomeKit support?
>"Fixing" wealth inequality by decreasing the productivity of the wealthy is madness.

Really? Because the system itself is fixed guaranteeing Capital of the rich is much more productive than wages of the poor, through taxation. That is an employee of Company abc has their wages taxed to a much greater extent than the company owners profits are taxed.

It’s definately not “hobbling” everyone else if we “fixed” the system such that workers wages were taxed less than the capital profits of business owners. In fact the current system is so unfairly weighted only a small percentage benefit from capital gains taxes whereas the masses of the working class are hobbled by greater taxes on their wages making up the difference. Ever wonder why it’s pretty easy to find CEO’s taking a $1 salary (it’s because they take the rest in capital so they are taxed less than their own workers).

Those who suffer the most don’t need to be more productive, they working class is already more productive than anytime through history it’s time their wages reflect that fact and for good measure it’s time wages become more productive by flipping the wage/capital tax paradigm.
I don't know anything about modulating LEDs, but could that high freq. have anything to do with the quiet but audible whine I hear when the light is on? Seems like it could be 8kish.
It is probabbly a populist kinda appeal.

"Those freeloaders don't know how to behave and they ruin it for the rest of us so I'm going to make them pay!"
Because there aren't any self actualization themes in the Bible. The Bible is about fallen man, reconciliation with God, and what should be done in response. Cherry picking and twisting the parts that sound nice to fit with the cultural values du jour is ignoring the core message.
You can't just call something a war and make it so that people are willing to sacrifice for it, even if you think the threat is equivalent (or greater) to that of actual warfare. See the war on poverty and the war on drugs for an example. Do you really think Americans would have turned their lives upside down to win the war on poverty?
Great analogy, I'll remember that one. BTC is only really useful to me when other payment methods surpass ~$100 of effort. For example, when paying contractors tens of thousands of $ internationally, it's impossible to avoid $50-300 fees from bank wires, TransferWise, or Xoom. So if both parties are fine with sitting down and figuring out how to send/receive BTC on their computer, only then it is worth my time.
Toronto does this for district air conditioning with incoming city water.

I don’t think they’ve bothered to calculate the effects of pumping warmer water into everyone’s air conditioned home...
I kind of agree with a harsh, strict punishment for the "crime" like this in country where train travel is abundant and often very crowded. There are many people who would be willing to pay the fine on top of the price of the standing ticket (the sitting ones are sometimes very very, very hard to get), while not being able to use trains again would definitely stop people from having an attitude of "I have money and you cannot do anything to me"
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Jeff Bezos takes a salary and his income isn't tied to stock.
> And as a retail client provided I'm not losing my money I don't mind what other clients they have on their books.

You loose time if you accidentally trip one of their anti laundering wires. And we all know time is money.

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280297
As various anti-discrimination laws have survived SCOTUS challenges, it's pretty clear it's not quite so simple as just the First Amendment here.

Per the majority opinion:

> But even if those objections are protected, Kennedy explained, the Supreme Court’s precedents make clear that in some cases the right to the free exercise of religion is not absolute and can instead be limited by neutral laws that apply to everyone.
Did anyone notice that the gender distributions are heavily skewed towards males? The website states a 10% for female for English and a stunning 2% for Dutch even.
I would say Bitcoin has the same issues as TCP/IP in 1984. It's just 10 years old. Developers know what to do (Eltoo, Schnorr signatures, better multisig for hardware wallets, watchtowers, better routing, AMP, Lightning support for exchanges), but implemention speed is limited, and just simply adding more developers or even complaining about lack of UX won't make it faster. Also people with Bitcoin don't accept the ,,move fast and break things'' mantra, because it's money. I like the cautious speed of development, it helps build my trust in Bitcoin.
I agree with this and my comment wasn't trying to use "no one" in that strongest possible "absolutely no one" sense
Already you're assuming that the dust problem is truthful to begin with.

An investigative piece should actually look in to that claim rather than just repeat it. How can solar farms cause more dust than agriculture?
> But this is where it gets tricky; Every major scientific theory ends being wrong over time.

This is just not true. Many scientific theories end up being wrong, but not all. Many are refined, and added to, but not all end up just being wrong.
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It meant that there wasn't an escalating bidding war between cities. So in this case, the taxpayer.
I don't see anyone here saying that using AdNauseam is ad fraud (unless you're visiting your own site with it). What the other comments you seem to be referring to are saying is that AdNauseam's behavior is similar to ad fraud, and therefore detectable via the same mechanisms that detect ad fraud.

The term itself is perfectly reasonable. If you're intentionally clicking ads on your own site in order to mislead the advertising provider about your CTR and thus generate more revenue for yourself, that's clearly fraud.
I'm not an economist but here's how I see it.

Money flows into US treasury bonds, directly. People and corporations literally have direct accounts with the treasury.

The US has large fiscal deficits and needs to borrow dollars. The FED set a good interest rate. It's causing owners of dollars to lend money to US Govt in hopes of safe interest gains.

This large deficit happened because of large tax cuts in the first place. Which means, citizens have more dollars in their hands (at the expense of future interest payments). This is driving up spending and thus investment to satisfy that spending.

The yield curve is flattening because of this as more and more people think that long term, the interest payments on today's spending will weigh on economy. Thus, it will ultimately cause FED to lower interest rates. Get in on risk free money while you can.

All of the above is domestic US. Internationally, the dollars that could've helped other countries came back to US in the form of lending. So those countries don't have dollars to invest, causing drops in asset prices and deflation and debt overhang.
> I don't think it's a journalist's job to _do_ the research.

Then who's job is it?
Well, no. OP took a broad stand and said that being Windows-free is not hard. That's just not reality for some professions.

Glad if it works for you, because you might not need some specialized software, but it is not an universal rule and people tend to forget that and treat non Windows-free users like they are too stupid to see the alternatives.

There are just no good alternatives for media professionals when it comes to things like Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign. Other solutions lack compatibility or generate quirky output. Sometimes you need the real deal and it's no question of "liking" Windows.
How was it miscalculated? We can't sit there and leave interests rates low forever. It's a mitigating tactic, not a tenable one. We've been doing this for _years_. It's long, long, long over due for fed interest rates to come back up. Because right now all it's really doing is building a credit bubble.

Real wages and real purchasing power must keep going up. And for that to happen the upper 1% are going to have to take a nice hit for the economy to truly correct. Both effectively need to happen at the same time. The FED is essentially signalling to policy makers that the time to up minimum wage is... was, yesterday.

I want to challenge you to really dive into your perspective and defend why you think the fed miscalculated here, and why you think leaving interest rates low isn't going to have extremely negative effects if we don't start changing course now. If not now, when?
I use flux and I know the importance of eliminating blue wavelength before bed. What I don't understand is the need to eliminate green, and this graph on your site doesn't help much in understanding that: https://i.imgur.com/fHJKxWA.png (rehosting on imgur for short URL)

I don't know what the grey area is, and there are no axis so I am unsure what this graph is even showing me. Also, wouldn't eliminating "orange" light be just as important (according to the graph you provided), since it seems to follow the same path as green?

Everything else makes sense on the page, it's the graph that threw me.
I love that marketing works, and that people want to believe in values, and will band together over those values.

However lately, I've felt that especially in the US, values -- or more accurately -- symbols of values have become more important than actual tangible outcomes or functional real achievements. For people as individuals and as groups.

I guess of course that I'm especially thinking about our politics and social emphases these days. And maybe it's just gotten slightly worse that you notice it, fueled by Instagram and sound bite technology. Maybe even the way we market products and companies (come for the values!) contributes to our political discourse.

Think about any movement out there at present -- MeToo, conservative agenda, liberal agenda, organic produce, gentrification, almost any major movement. If you really get into the issue, you find that the symbol of the thing is actually a very, very small almost non-representative case of the situation as a whole.

Immigrants are not invading in hordes. Men at work are not harassing every female employee. People are not trying to kick out elderly widows to turn the block into a shopping mall. They're all symbols of the most extreme cases, and we latch on to them because they're recognizable, inflammatory, and get us riled up to want to do something. As always the rare, incredible threat dominates our minds so much more than the mundane everyday threat.

But sometimes I think, a society needs to think about the whole and not the extreme cases. And give up being obsessed with achieving symbolic victory, and instead actual (minor, boring, incremental) achievements for the whole. That's much harder to get people inflamed to vote for.

The current climate is why we got tax breaks for a couple of billionaires at the expense of millions of people with mortgages. It's a symbol of someday when I'll be a millionaire! (Never going to happen, on average) . When did you last thank the policymaker who came up with the mortgage deduction, something that you take advantage of every day?

Your shoe is not going to make you a star athlete. An immigrant is not knocking on the door to take your job -- that was decided decades ago. For every policy you put in place to protect the imaginary elderly widow, you make it harder for 10 young people to have an affordable place to live.

Stop believing so much in symbols.
People will, of course, disagree on where the threshold is where violence becomes acceptable. They'll also disagree that it's "violence" to refuse to enter into a business relationship with someone.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments like this in tinderbox threads. We don't learn anything and just get riled up.

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I see a lot of people picking up magit.
I'm incredulous about the average person having enough knowledge about the possible pros and cons of these choices. Nor should they - that's what representative democracy is for. A popular referendum for a complex issue like this, is in my opinion, a very bad idea.
Until the courts say otherwise and an enforcement body hands out penalties, none of that is necessary. You used the software, therefore you've implicitly agreed to the EULA.

It may not be fair. It may not we right but that is the world we live in today.
We have to look at the system as a whole. US No Fly lists have been repeatedly challenged successfully in court, so at least people have a remedy. This is 23 million people who have no legal recourse.
> To be fair, getting punished to be unable to take trains for misbehaving on trains. If the seats are packed in a car and some douche is sitting in your seat and won't get up, and you're stuck standing for a few hours, I think you'd want some justice.

Yes, but it would be up to him for that to decide (to have that person punished), not someone else on his behalf. Which I believe is very important.
Sure, that's something you could do. I'm wary because I believe that such behaviour tends to cut both ways, in the long run.

I'm old enough to remember, and remain disgusted by, that LGBT organizations struggled to import goods or coordinate with financial institutions.

Perhaps the act of suppressing wrong think is indeed cutting both ways, now. Conservatives are reaping what they sewed.
Oh, yes. He saw himself as Steve Jobs and kept coming to our office every day interrupting our scheduled work and overloading us with more work on his "revolutionary" ideas he picks up from reading SV news and wanted a prototype "next week" to show to shareholders.
We've asked you before to please stop trolling. We eventually ban accounts, so could you please review the guidelines and stop?

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I'm not the OP, but if you're interested in criticisms of Revolut, here's a complaint/rant letter (yes, physical letter) that I sent to them half a year ago: https://pastebin.com/L507bvf7
> Who doesn't know what Coca-Cola is? Who doesn't know what a Macbook is? Who doesn't know what Disney is? Who doesn't know that Ford makes trucks? Who doesn't know that Budweiser makes beer?

from the vantage point of 2019, it seems obvious that these are well known brands that don't need to increase awareness of themselves. but they got to this position by making relatively good products and adeptly managing their brands over decades.

at this point, advertisements communicate brand values more than information about specific products, but I would argue this is actually helpful for the consumer in some cases.

if I'm on a tight budget and need a new computer, I already know not to waste time browsing apple or falcon-northwest products. if I'm a contractor and need a work truck, I'm not going to the porsche dealer. advertisements aren't going to help me choose between chevy and ford, but they can narrow down my search considerably. most ads communicate pretty clearly whether or not you are the target audience for a product, without spending hours comparing technical specs.