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> Since Article 13 is such a monumental fuckup people will either ignore it, leading to risk of becoming a random target

Not random target, it's by design, first make a law that almost all website owners break, then you are free to punish whoever you want.

The future looks bleak for Europe. If this continues, in a few years you woldn't be able to criticize politicians online or uncover corruption they're involved in.
While I tend to agree... it's also fair to say most people won't care about stuff outside their area of interest.

For example I know nothing and don't care about car stuff. I just leave the car at the mechanic, pay, and have to trust they did a good job.
The author of the piece take a guess:

> But if a company is too small to afford licenses, it's also too small to build filters. Google's Content ID for YouTube cost a reported €100 million to build and run, and it only does a fraction of the blocking required under Article 13. That means that they'll have to buy filter services from someone else. The most likely filter vendors are the US Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook, who will have to build and run filters anyway, and could recoup their costs by renting access to these filters to smaller competitors.
I've always wondered why the government sets speed limits but then doesn't enforce them on manufacturers. You can solve 99% of speed "crime" by making it illegal to sell a car that can break the speed limit.
I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at. Should those cities be reserved for the wealthy and their children?
> It feels unfair to be forced to pay the federal government taxes on money you’ve never seen.

You see it in the state in local government programs that were made possible by those you voted for to represent you.
Cool though it always surprised me how poorly treated USA employees are when it comes to stock when compared to the UK

I have a friend who made about 3x that in a FTSE 100 company over the same timeframe a 5 year share save (paid a lot less tax as well)

I did enjoy at one point in the first dot com boom being a dollar millionaire along with the rest of the poptel coop.
glad to see you have a positive attitude about it! just curious - did the company just not end up being worth much, too much dilution, or was your original options sheet was misleading?

my second startup i've worked at just got acquired and my options are about enough to buy a new iphone :)
Do you consider anyone owning a house in a large-ish city to be "high earners"?

All so Trump could give away the tax dollars to extremely-high income earners.

A real transfer of wealth from the middle-class to the ultra-rich.
I concur. What irks me the most is when the backstory contains unmentioned unethical elements.

I come across several people in business who all gave the "oh it was so hard in the beginning" while not mentioning their dark pattern websites (people unwittingly buying subscription), wolf-of-wall-street v1 of their broking business, or outright money laundering.

There needs to be a catchy phrase for the "I had it so hard" story.
I think the solid, seemingly disconnected "nuclear family" is an interesting mythic tale in the American Dream that is an accident of consumer marketing more than anything else. It sold more homes, it sold more goods, so it became a useful myth to marketers. In reality it never existed, not even in the mythic 50s where it got so ensconced in television sitcoms and advertising.
Seems this comic gives the opposite evaluation from your parent post.
>Truth is, most people are smart enough

I agree, if we assume they're going to try. It's not a perfect world and IMO most people really aren't trying / putting in the effort on the things we think they should. It's not fair, but if they're not going to try, they're still the person behind the keyboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code
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Well SOMEBODY had a big bowl of Sartre Flakes™ this morning :P

No, jokes aside-I think that's just as valid and interesting of a response to that sort of a take as any. My generation is pretty vocal about the inherent value of the 'individual'; "we aren't a monolith" etc.

Maybe my knee jerk reaction to the quote above is just a manifestation of that, I'll own it for whatever it is.
Thankfully an additional digital speedometer is becoming common. I get the logical design of making your speedometer going from zero to the max speed of the vehicle under its own power, but in practice it isn't very useful.
> I think having common platforms is an advantage

Yes, an Volkswagen advantage has.

> that number of models was an advantage that VW had

It is. Their MEB modular platform allows them to target every segment across multiple brands while maintaining economies of scale in manufacturing. They're good at it:

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

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

As I say, better planning and bigger scale.
What an absolutely moronic way to make a point by taking a dig right off the top at the President by saying "Finally, something worse than Donald Trump".
How do you become trusted ?

do a good job(Amazon's brands ), while making the alternatives look bad.

And it's one huge step ahead against their biggest competitor, aliexpress.
Speed limit for children's..
Every Volvo should have straight line to police, who broke speed limits.
I used to do what you do and let the call through if they call back. Sometime in the past year I've gotten on some autodialer list that will hit me up 6 times within a 30 second period if I reject the first call, so now I pretty much have to send anyone not in my address book straight to voicemail. It's not convenient, but at least I don't have to conduct a lot of business over the phone anymore.
Not too long ago I did the rounds of dealerships. Each new car dealership had a corner of their lot for used cars. It was a head-scratcher to me to repeatedly note the same model cars in the used corner that were two years old, but cost $1-2K more than their brand new counterpart three rows over. Even with a little effort to control for features, I couldn't reconcile the price difference. I challenged a few salesreps. They just shrugged their shoulders.
The point is that the really rich get little income (ex. Bezos paying himself around 80K a year) and instead use ex. capital gains to only pay 20%.

I don't mind this system it benefits me greatly too. But it's absurd that I pay close to 50% in tax (I live in New York) from the income I make from the actual work I do and much less when I invest.

That model seems backward as my income is actually the best indicator of how much value I provide.

Where as the potential upside from an investment or buying a house is so big it dwarf any income most people can make.
Makes sense. Didn't NASA give them finding to develop the crew dragon though? Is that factored into the launch cost figures we see?
hmm, nytimes article about how New York, California, and Texas are the only voices that matter
I am still a beginner programmer myself, but I do have a couple small projects under my belt. If you happen to have an office job, I would recommend trying to automate anything you do that involves copying information from one source to another. We have many different systems here and they do not communicate, i.e. our complaint database and our POS. I've made programs that make it so I don't have to retype information over and over again. My next project is to make it so that certain weird text documents are easier to read by exporting them to a excel document.

This solution doesn't work for everyone, as some of us don't work at computers. But, if you can find a way to automate anything that you do, whether at home or at work, you'll have a good project to work on.
I think he means have a different thread for each case or a subset of cases instead of having any explicit switch statement.
Clojure's stream processing, and sequence functions are worlds better than Python. Clojure's sequences can be lazily evaluated which allows for much more performant computation. And for stream processing you can't beat composable reducer functions.

The user friendliness comes both with how uncomplicated it is to write them, but also how easy it is to process them in parallel (a nightmare in Python).
That's a good call. When I moved the last time which was years ago, we didn't have a whole lot of stuff. It was pretty much, "this is the minimum and you don't have enough stuff to meet it." So we paid them to move everything. It did help that they were really really efficient which is why we paid the smallest amount.
This is how ragel [1] does things. It basically compiles to giant-switch state machines, and is damn fast.

[1] https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
San Francisco cost of living: A cookie factory's story
You asked how an unbranded SD card can be fake, and they explained. I think the "reference point for a true item" would be an SD card with the advertised amount of storage, regardless of branding.
How to Be Remote?
IBM hits quantum computing milestone, may see 'Quantum Advantage' in 2020
Land taxes are the best for that. They are impossible to avoid, very easy and predictable to levvy, and are way more representational, fair and non-distortive taxes.
It was in my native language (French). According to the "Translation" link[0] it's available in English, Japanese, Chinese and French.

[0] https://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2019#webauthn-rec
What does `backup daycare` mean? Do you have to prove you are using it as `backup`?
I had seen this before, but then it stopped appearing. Turns out I had been lured into turning web activity back on somehow.
Whenever someone leaves california and moves to another state the average IQ of both states is lowered.
This is similar to the extremely serious, straight-laced image doctors and other medical staff present to the public and their patients compared to the gallows humor expressed by them in private.

Many patients would probably be absolutely shocked by what gets joked about.
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Surely both the Civiv Type R and the NSX do, although I don't see those two models using the standard instrumentation.
This lateness thing doesn't get enough play. At a salaried level, people are just late all the time, late to work, late to meetings, working from home, leaving early, whatever. If you try any of that on an hourly gig, you get fired immediately (or worse, you're in some byzantine PIP system). Being late doesn't mean you're lazy, it means you forgot your phone or forgot to water your plants. It matters in almost no jobs. We need to come off it a little.
There is a progression:

- opt-in (just you)
- referrals (some of your friends)
- delegation (a business you trust to do screening)
- reputation (some segment of society you care about)
- free for all

I doubt you will want either extremes.
I want linus to be happy! Don't you?
Their key exchange implementation looks scary and like a last minute scramble to not be shit. No confidence here
On the other hand, I knew a guy who turned down a job in the Bay Area for family reasons who eventually worked out that the stock he was offered was worth ~$300 million at the peak of the .com bubble.

He was very philosophical about it :-)
I've done 120 or 130 on the stretch between Wendover and Salt Lake City. Most people go about 90
Property tax is nothing compared to the income tax you can end up paying. And again carried interest.
> Then again, in the US, everything requires a phone number, which is problem number 1, even having mail sent to my house. Why exactly?

So they have the option to SMS-spam you and resell your info (thus creating robocalls), of course. Even the coffee shop near my office wants me to register with them for a "rewards card" now. It's disgusting.
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Two things:

1) Most of the spam calls are spoofing numbers, so it doesn't really matter who issued the numbers.

2) Spam calls could come from overseas numbers instead, I've certainly gotten a few. I'd rather they come from US numbers, so at least when people call back, they're not paying an arm and a leg for the call if they don't realize the number is non-US.
> it's more millenials are reaching the age where they understand the whole "it takes a village" folk wisdom

Boy, if it takes until your 30s to understand that "wisdom", then I weep for my contemporaries. In strong nuclear families with inter-generational ties, it shouldn't take longer than your late teens to realize that parental support is normal at least until you have kids of your own.

Having strong ties to your grandparents and parents should be the norm, and I'm very sorry for the Americans that haven't had the peace of mind from having a safety net of their extended families throughout their whole lives. This isn't meant to sound patronizing. Child rearing is one of the most labor intensive activities we have as a species and I for one will be taking all the help I can get.
>- Pay $1.99 to buy a silent ringtone from the ringtone store.

I would refuse to do that on principle.
You've never had a track day...

This whole page is filled with "Doesn't apply to me, so go for it", which seems like a really bad rationale to apply to hundreds of millions of people, potentially.
Quantum Physics Could Protect the Grid from Hackers
Must be The Wizard of Oz??
Agreed - the browser leaves much to be desired as an accessible dev platform, and the web as a whole is even worse! (Why do I need to learn HTML, CSS, JS, Python, SQL and React/Redux/Bootstrap/Flash/SQLAlchemy just to get started?! And that's not mentioning Webpack, AWS, shell scripting...).

We've built an explicitly Visual Basic-like programming environment for the web - it's got one language (Python), drag'n'drop design, built in database, actual working autocompletion - the works: https://anvil.works.

Would love to hear what you think!
A bit off topic but ,is it just me or have articles by the NYT become more and more ideology driven over the last few years ?

The whole process seems to be structured around finding data to support their preconceived notions, rather than using the data and research to craft the hypothesis.

I hate Trump as much as the next guy on HN, but his criticism of the MSM isn't totally unfounded.
I used to look at NYT and WSJ are paragons of journalism, and they've routinely disappointed over the last few years.

Many youtube channels seem to be a lot better researched than these 'prestigious' outlets. Channels like CGPGrey and Kurzgesagt give much better common-man explanations of complex problems. On the other hand, niche channels like Caspian Report and Healthcare Triage stick to things they have expertise in, and make no attempts to water down the news or risk losing nuance in the process.

With big outlets, it is hard to calibrate an article to account for the implicit bias of the outlet itself. When it is instead a youtube personality who you feel like you know better, it is easy to identify the lens through with information is being delivered and build trust over time.
It also comes at the the downside of removing some of the sandboxing abilities from that interpreter. Now the interpreted programs memory is the native programs memory, and the abilities to monitor and limit the interpreted programs memory might be decreased.
I’m not claiming trains are the perfect hijacking target, but they aren’t that bad, either:

1. I doubt you’ll need an army. Chances are most of the passengers will be too scared to even try running away.

2. You probably can afford to lose a few of the most adventurous passengers.

3. In many trains, it isn’t that hard to lock the doors using chain locks you bring in. You can even (partly) do that before your hijack starts.

4. If you don’t start shooting hostages, the police won’t go in for the obvious reason that they want to keep the hostages alive.

From the viewpoint of a terrorist big disadvantage of hijacking a train is that you give up leaving the scene alive and free (airplanes used to have that as a possibility, as you could negotiate for kerosine and fly to a friendly country)
Just an observation, unless Congress includes political calls in this legislation then I am not truly impressed. They are no more welcome to call me than the knee brace lady is.

Just because I voted in an election; and why do they know which party/who I vote for; does not give them the right to call me. I don't care if they are in office or not.
Just out of curiosity, am I the only one that's tried the top speed of every car I've owned? German cars have limiters at 130 or 155mph, and the first time I hit the 130 limiter was a surprise (suddenly lost acceleration, thought I had an engine problem, then realized I just hit the limiter).

Surely I'm not the only one? Intended out of real curiosity
The massive global installed base of ss7 phone system/pstn equipment nobody wants to pay to replace or upgrade. Most solutions to securing ss7 or authentication of call origin require new custom software extensions built on top of something that is mid 1980s technology.

SS7 is from an era when big phone companies all trusted each other and interconnected without any of the modern crypto or authentication built into a modern network.
Distracted driving is definitely the leading cause these days; driver fatigue, drunk driving and aggressive driving are the other leading causes.

But even if it didn't cause the accident, accidents at reasonable speeds (<30km/h for car-pedestrian, <120km/h for car-car) are usually survivable. At higher speeds, fatalities increase dramatically.
Rip Keith. Firestarter forever!
You can totally disable vibrate on ring.
Given that I wrote the Go version and RReverser wrote the Rust version, I'm going to go with: A better engineer wrote the Rust version.

But actually I was excited by Rust too. The memory safety, performance (the Rust was faster) and the degree of control over how we could present the FFI to the languages we needed to integrate with, in addition to how readable the Rust was by comparison to the Go code (readable, but so much of it), and then avoiding the GC... the Rust implementation was a convincing winner.
If only they could mandate the use of USB-C Connector with a certain level of quality assurance. Otherwise we might get another renaming.

USB 3.0 -> USB 3.1 Gen 1 -> USB 3.2 Gen 1 -> USB 4.0 Gen 1

And we might end up with USB Type A Cable that only support USB 4.0 Gen 1.
So robocalls are the result of:

- Cost of phone calls decreasing to basically zero

- Cost of automation going to basically zero

- Phone calls that can come from the Internet so there are no national boundaries anymore

- Caller ID operating on essentially the honor system

- Bad actors (telephone companies) benefitting from this traffic by charging for it

- Larger players having no incentive to punish bad actors

There's a reason why most messages are now sent on whitelist instead of blacklist systems.

For whitelist systems to work you need to be able to enforce identity or have a significant cost to sending messages.

Frankly I don't even want to receive phone calls on my "phone". If I did I'd be more than happy with a contacts only whitelist. Why I can't get this is beyond me.

EDIT: for those mentioning the doctor's office and other non-whitelist cases, just send non-whitelisted callers to voicemail. If you need to answer the phone then OK, I guess this won't work for you. But for the majority of people for the majority of their time, whitelisted contacts only with the rest going to voicemail will work.
This article strongly rings of the "Economic Outpatient Care" chapters in The Millionaire Next Door.
I started with an agent AI framework that I needed to make super secure given the danger of AGI.

Then when Bitcoin came along I saw that the agents could mint new blocks round-robin without POW.

The key property of blockchain for an AI software engineer is the standard SHA-256 cryptographic hashes to make sequential records tamper evident. Previously, fast hashes were used to make data safe against transmission losses, but could be faked.
It's reasonable enough to make any higher limit unreasonable, while still being high enough for fast drivers. German cars are usually limited to 250 km/h. With this new, still high limit from Volvo, the German manufacturers now have to justify why their own limit is so high.
Honest question: can you remove speed limiters on "track day"?
White House Launches National Quantum Coordination Office
It is a feature google only offers to their own phones...ever since leaving my Nexus, my spam calls have been a plague
I've been saying for a while that Phone UX on our handheld computers is an amazing mistake. There's no other application on any computing device that we allow to be an uneasily dismissable, focus stealing modal with sound alarms in 2019. Sure, phone calls have historical weight behind them, but it is past time to rethink the UX for current usage.
They're not that bad really. The programming interface sucks but what HT doesn't it suck on?

I've got an FT-60 and FT-818 as well for ref.
Ritualized patterns of obligation and dependence lead to inauthentic relationships, an inability to communicate, and self-harm.
Imagine having something in your head 24/7, constantly gnawing at you and permeating everything you do.
I'm about to retire, and am looking at hobbies that are good for lifelong health, like biking, hiking, walking and the sort.
I'm saying don't do this; it's a cosmetic defense.
I don't think we'll ever see that in a road car unless we mandate 6 point harnesses, helmets, and HANS devices. No matter how big the crumple zone and how stiff the chassis is, 3 point harnesses allow too much movement and people will still die from neck injuries.
That's why I said "open source" and not "free software". Those companies do contribute a bit to "free software", but really only in token amounts.
They're not any better. For an example of an alternative, Milton Friedman once remarked that he believed Georgism (land value tax) to be the least bad tax.

The idea is to only tax land, which is a very progressive tax. The tax can't be evaded, since you can't hide land. It also creates a consequence for land speculators who sit on unused real estate. As a result, it stimulates the economy with the upsurge in business opportunities.
High speed is one of three problem areas Volvo has identified according to their press release. The other two are drunk driving and distraction, including phones. They will present ideas to tackle the other two on March 20.

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...
I agree. I wish there were more jobs like that, where you could work 3-4 days, at the same rate per hour. Maybe if we solve for a lot of the additional per-worker costs around healthcare and such we would be able to see that emerge in the market.
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The point is that at an aggregate level, your argument makes some sense. The fed govt didn't choose to enact this plan, vis a vis the state govt.

However, if you look at the fed govt versus the taxpayer, the calculus shifts. What if every rich person who pays the millionaire's tax voted against it and derives no pleasure from it? Why should they be forbidden a deduction from a tax policy perspective? Companies get unlimited SALT deduction, and until this law, people did too. We can even get tax credits for foreign taxes paid. The general rule is that if some govt took your money, you get to deduct it on your federal return. So if there's going to be an exception to this general rule, there should be a good tax policy reason for it.