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How do the American people put up with this nonsense?

Don't give me "we don't have the power to do anything about it." You are the very people that rose up and threw off British rule with the single most devastating civil war on the planet, perhaps barring only the French Revolution. You have the power to do anything.

Edit: Flagged? :D Oh come now, I'm not inciting violence, I'm merely suggesting that people shouldn't put up with the political status quo and make excuses just because they think "that's just the way it is." You need to get out and vote and do whatever you can to ensure your ability to participate in your democracy.
> college degrees are virtually meaningless

…but essential in their gate-keeping aspect for coveted positions.
“Why don't I just toss all that stuff in a big box (so roughly sorted by time) and go through it in the rare event that I need something someday?”

This is basically what I do with nearly all my paper records. It's a sort of JIT filing system. “Writes” into the document store take very little time. I just dump everything into a folder for the current month. I keep a ring buffer of 12 months worth of docs. When a dirty buffer comes up as current, I quickly sort through its contents for the rare item that needs to be preserved for longer than its already year-long storage, file it in a more persistent place, then toss the rest.

This comes at the expense of making “reads” from the document store more expensive. But as you point out, fetching docs from this system is relatively rare. It's more than worth the time (and cognitive overhead) to have to occasionally flip through a couple date-delimited folders to fetch a document I need to retrieve.
The idea behind Facebook isn't to sell ads, it's to build a social platform for everyone. Sure, those people aren't spending a ton of money yet, but they still deserve to have access to the internet and major services.
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Rich people are usually spending their time trying to get richer or maintain their wealth, which is usually at the expense of people poorer than them. So yes, it's usually a bad thing.
>If a prescription requires modification, the patient is required to go back to their doctor. Pharmacists cannot just ask doctors for prescription modifications.

>Where are you getting these ideas from?

This is not strictly true, at least in the US. I have had to wait while pharmacists contact the doctor to modify a prescription to sub something in due to availability issues.

The mail order service through my insurer will also do this to have doctors to order a 90 day supply rather than the usual shorter supply.
Yeah, as someone who still carries an HP Elite x3 and uses some of the same apps on my phone and my desk, I found the claim of being "first" Purism made here to be... hilarious.
Oh, so sort of like how all that stuff Edward Snowden revealed wasn't true, huh?
depends upon the bluesky laws of the state in which its incorporated some do have restrictions
Its bad when 10% if the population had the same wealth as the 90% and all of them live in the same 30km radius without enough homes to go around.
More rich people in and of itself is not a bad thing, and as you say, having a baseline level of wealth in a nation leads to huge quality of life improvements.

However, the increasing divergence between the rich and poor in wealthy nations causes all sorts of indirect harms - https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson?language=en
It's incredibly rare for white collar criminals to get caught and put in jail. You have to look no farther than the White House to see that not only can you escape it, but that it's actually the norm.
EV code signing certs cost more because they require the private key to be stored exclusively on the hardware token so it's harder to misuse.
Do you think there is enough abandonment of the core userbase that Facebook can be dethroned?
a normal curve would be nice.

The problem is not that there are rich people. The problem is that the rich are so incredibly more rich than everyone else. I'm talking about wealth that exceeds human comprehension. I'm talking about one person consuming as much as 100,000 others.

And of course, you may not consider that intrinsically bad, but it's not even the whole story. Once they become that wealthy, they go about tilting the entire system in their favor. So not only are they going to contribute a smaller relative portion of their treasure towards the common good, but they are going to actually acquire more wealth from those who are less well off.

Even if you still don't see this as a moral problem, you should surely recognize that it isn't sustainable. Eventually, the guillotines come out. It would be better for everyone if that kind of violence was avoided.
Not so related, but damn my dad was right about read everything that you can, the more you read the better. I'm finding new insights, through reading more and more. This site provides great links to read more and more. I hope to continue this path
International treaties covering asylum seekers require that they apply for asylum in the first safe country. Mexico might not be the most wonderful place, but it is considered a safe country. (the government is not genocidal) It is therefore impossible for a legitimate asylum seeker in the US to have passed through Mexico.
Given that the A12X runs at < 10% of the TDP of an Intel i7 chip, would it be feasible to utilize many of these A12X's in a 10+ socket motherboard to significantly increase NUMA-compatible workloads?
Wow. I wish I could give you a hundred points. Thank you.
Disabling is better than nothing, but it's no substitute for actually uninstalling.
And if you enjoy it (coffee and the mp3's)
Excellent!!

Just don't try telling me _I_ don't taste or hear a difference. :)
>You are naive. Did you work at world class companies that dominate their own market?

Seeing as I'm currently sitting in my office at Adobe I would say yes. There are plenty of code jockeys like you churning out low-quality Java/Python/PHP/C/C#/JS/whatever. You, despite what you may think, are not special.

> Not your typical half-baked developer quickly churning low-quality code in JS that breaks down after 5 seconds of load you get headaches from as a QA.

Cute. I get headaches from the guys who think they're great. From the ones who think that not documenting what they do is time wasted because clearly what this does is obvious. I get headaches from the people who have NO IDEA how their code actually performs and if there's any kind of slowdown well just throw more money at the hardware.

I can practically hear you and the others like you cry out, "But it works on my machine!" Oh the headaches that has caused.
Ah, the rare case of nagware in GNU.

From the man page:

"--citation
Print the BibTeX entry for GNU parallel and silence citation notice.
If it is impossible for you to run --bibtex you can use --will-cite.
If you use --will-cite in scripts to be run by others you are making it harder for others to see the citation notice. The development of GNU parallel is indirectly financed through citations, so if your users do not know they should cite then you are making it harder to finance development. However, if you pay 10000 EUR, you should feel free to use --will-cite in scripts."

Asking for donations/citations is one thing, but putting this junk in the man page about 10000 EUR and nagging users is quite an annoyance. How GNU allows such junk in their man pages puzzles me. Obviously the GPL allows one to remove the nagware and redistribute, but I don't know if anyone has forked it.
That's difficult, because in some cases the barrier to entry is having some way to pay. They might be able to afford 10 cents, but they don't have any means to submit that 10 cents into the system. They don't have a credit or debit card, probably not even a bank account to begin with.
The problem isn't wealth; it's segregation of the wealthy from the rest. There's a common social trend toward lowering the variance within groups and (as a natural consequence) increasing the variance between groups, and a host of studies assert that this is generally a bad thing by causing long-term instability in society. It certainly causes deep divides that are very easy for demagogues and authoritarians to exploit.
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Their response gave some light on the action, they say they didn't create the list until after the violence broke out. Seems pretty logical that they would attempt investigate who was there at the time. Not sure it's justified, but logical.

"CBP told our colleagues at NBC News that the names in the database are all people who were present during violence that broke out at the border in November. The agency also said journalists are being tracked so that the agency can learn more about what started that violence."
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More importantly even if the government does nothing I -and many more- would do everything in our power so our kids avoid your kids like the plague, not even breathing the same air when possible, I don't want my kids being affected by your "decisions" and your criteria of what vaccines are good and which are bad and therefore there would be a fragmentation of society, "all-vaccines-required schools" vs the rest.
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Insurance companies are not a charity. Of course you're paying the cost. You just pay it in higher premiums.
I have moved just about everything of note off my Mac and onto Google Drive and Google Team Drive for our org. I then have access to it via Drive Stream and Google Drive search makes it very easy to find what I'm looking for almost instantly.

For active code projects I really only keep /usr/local/src on my local drive. Those are all git repos linked up to GitHub.
California is a nice place but pretty overrated, and I'm saying this as someone who has lived there most of this life but has been to/lived in other states and countries. The cost of living and the taxes here are atrocious in comparison to what we get in return, which is subpar schools and lousy public transit. Let's not even get started on the homeless problem.

The more we decentralize tech out of California, the better. Having pockets of tech in different cities would be preferable so long as we have more opportunities to use our earned dollars effectively. You can make six figures in California and still end up living like a rat because of how expensive everything is.

Having recently landed a fully-remote job, I want this to be a year of "reconnaissance" where I'm going to take small trips around the country to check out places where I might want to live next, and where I might actually be able to enjoy some of what I earn. I'll have to add Houston to the roadmap.
I don't feel like it makes reading interactive, so much as it makes reading laborious. Regardless of the quality, context, or merit of the picture, it's still a large, obtrusive break in the narrative. Paragraph, paragraph, paragraph, and then a couple of long drags on the mouse wheel until the structure resumes. If anything, this actually keeps me from getting hooked as my concentration and attention are being interrupted every couple of minutes. And I don't think this is related to my ripe old age of 34, either. I appreciate what this style of presentation is trying to do; look like a magazine. But reading in a browser is a much more linear experience than a magazine, where text is often in columns that split and resume on the same page; that's a design pattern we have had a century (or more?) to get used to. Further, in a magazine, we usually have the option to ignore the pictures at our leisure, which is simply not an option here. It looks cool, I'll grant that, but it's otherwise a distraction.
> The migrant caravans are obviously intending to violate US law by entering the country illegally.

Citation need. I think it is the exact opposite situation, so regardless of the final truth, it's clearly not obvious that the people in caravan were intending to break the law. I've literally never heard of that accusation and I've been following this story.

The idea that these people are all intent on crossing the border illegally is a lie.

> Entering the country illegally is itself a crime. It's a misdemeanor, but a crime nonetheless.

Did any of these people do this? Did this happen already? Did they state they were planning on it? It is my understanding that they stated the opposite! That they were coming to apply for asylum completely legally.

> Participating in the illegal transport of a person from one country to another is called human trafficking

Okay but how is this relevant? Who is travelling illegally? This is literally the first time I've heard this was a potential issue here; the caravan is operating legally and its members were asking for legal asylum.

> These people are suspected of participating in human trafficking under the guise of journalism, so they are being questioned even though there is not enough evidence to officially accuse/charge them.

By whom? Where is this stated? I find absolutely no evidence to support this claim.

I'll go out and say it: This whole thing reeks of racism to me, of racist policies and racist prejudices all playing out in the real world. The reason so many comments are buried here is because there is so much racist dog-whistling on HN. It's so loud here it hurts my ears.

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I'm no longer allowed to post on HN this morning, the site has some (temporary?) ban placed on me. But I can edit this post to say that you are LYING about the post below with the BBC link. That articles does not state that anyone has admitted to illegal things. You are lying, please stop.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19330329.
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High end audio isn't expensive, the bullshit is.

You can grab some nice drivers, unreasonably high-quality crossover components, and couple sheets of MDF to make yourself some floor-standers for a few hundred. Using any number of popular DIY speaker designs, you'll have something that would easily stand up to anything of a similar format in a blind A/B test.

Amplification is dirt cheap now; class-D amps are superlatively good even in the <$100 category. You can even add in DSP for a very reasonable price if you want to jerk off to glass-flat charts.
he provided that aids medicine for free to people who couldn't afford it at least that's what he claimed in an interview he did on his youtube channel. He seems to be more of a troll. It struck me as strange that in most cases he didn't bother to defend himself and kind of enjoyed being viewed as a villain.
> spending their time trying to get richer or maintain their wealth

and poor people don't ?
And thanks to the outline link, I was able to read the article to conclusion. Very powerful and very interesting.
They are working on it! Elon says it's the product he's most excited about, but it's going to be Model Y -> Semi -> Pickup as priority.
Gooood who caaaaares.

They spent a lot of time and effort, and made a cool thing and gave it away for free. If it bothers you so much, just add the flag. Or patch it out.
> and convinced yourself it didn't cause unexpected side effects.

To be fair, with virus proliferation in today's age, we were still more successful with the remedial precautions back then than seems to be the case today.
It's hard to reason about wealth inequality because it is so massively, massively skewed right as a distribution. I don't think humans are very good at reasoning about distributions that are not normally distributed.

For example, the world's eight richest people have the same wealth as the poorest 50%.

It feels to me like that's a little unfair.
Hmm, so I guess if you drive for lyft you'll get some complementary auto repair service?
Thanks for the feedback. Our target customer is a team of developers and content creators that have experienced the pain of building and maintaining an installed CMS (could be any number of installed CMS systems WP being the most popular). If you haven't experienced that pain / are ok with it as a trade-off, that's fine. You're probably not a customer.

And I spent years building WP websites, made a career out of it for a while, so it's not anything against WP and certainly don't intend to come across the way you described. So really Cosmic JS was built to satisfy my own needs that I didn't get from an installed CMS.
The full information is available on this via WONDER, it's just harder to find.

ICD coding features both an underlying cause of death, the X40-X44 range you're checking, and a "contributing cause" code which attempts to specify the substance involved. In this case, that's the T40.0-T40.6 range. The government guidelines on using WONDER to study opioids include "Please note: X and Y codes must be used in combination with T codes to identify opioid-related deaths."

That's because X42 only covers certain narcotic opioids like heroin, so an X44 opioid overdose is a possibility. Since that's "Accidental poisoning by and exposure to other and unspecified drugs", it could accompany T40.2 ("other opioids") or T40.6 ("unspecified narcotics"). And if the coroner doesn't record anything beyond "accidental drug overdose", then even heroin overdoses will result in X44, T50.9 ("unspecified drugs"). That last case alone apparently describes 25% of all US overdoses.

There's no slight of hand here, just a confusing two-layered classification system.

https://www.samhsa.gov/capt/sites/default/files/capt_resourc...

edit: here's a CDC page listing which primary and contributing causes can go together. Both prescription and illicit opioid deaths can be be filed as X44. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/pdo_guide_to_icd-9-cm_a...
No one is saying that it would be better if everyone was dirt poor. The main criticism of wealth inequality (as I understand it being a developer and not an economist) is that with the systems currently in place in America (and other nations) rich people are given outsized ability to become wealthier without transferring any of the wealth to other people.

Wealth inequality is bad because it leads to worse wealth inequality. Essentially everyone above a certain line gets richer, and everyone below a certain line gets poorer. This is bad for everyone except the rich. Most of us are on the "poor" side of this line. If something benefits a few at the expense of the many, most moral frameworks would call it bad.

Again. Not an economist. Not an ethicist. Just some dude.

Edit: Typo
Agreed, but on a transaction level having higher profit MARGINS is what enables the company to have money to plow back into the business.
> If you're thinking of taking SSRIs, please don't let the comments here scare you.

Is this what you actually think, or just what the drug is telling you to think though? I would much rather just be depressed than chemically castrate my brain.
The SF housing inventory is not large, only a few hundred homes on the market, and few thousand sales per year total. A couple hundred people that can buy at any cost, and a thousand more that are willing to push their finances to the limit and you could see a pretty significant change.

There's also a multiplier as price jumps let people cash out of their current homes with lots of spare equity.
Thanks for taking the time to describe your experience.

When you renewed the cert did you use the same key pair? (I'm wondering how does Microsoft correlate reputation).
Impressive: "With the NGINX workload [Falkor/AMD] handled almost the same amount of requests as the Skylake server. [Falkor/AMD] managed to get 214 requests/watt vs the Skylake’s 99 requests/watt"
Great! Let me know if you have any questions :)
It takes a lot more to run a major city than the Tech elite. Think of all the teachers, firemen, police, sanitation and utility workers, cooks, childcare workers, grocery stores employees, and all the distributors who work behind the scenes to make it happen.

Tech millionaires will push these lower income workers to the brink. I mentioned only a few types but they extremely vital to any major city.
Native UI usually built on top of such API and can be optimized better.
"In cities like Oakland and Berkeley and San Francisco, millennials obsess over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter and attend Democratic Socialists of America meetings. But the socialist passion doesn’t seem to have impacted the city’s zeal for I.P.O. parties, which the party planning community says are going to surpass past booms."

I can't be the only one repulsed by this display of hypocrisy...

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> I quit Facebook 9 years ago, but haven't lost a connection I cared about.

I did the same, around the same time, and my experience was the same as yours.

I would go even further -- I found that after I quit Facebook, my connections with the people I actually care about increased rather than decreased once the intermediary was removed and we had to start communicating directly with each other.
Some like to pretend that the economy is a zero-sum game, that in order for some people to get rich, they need to climb on the backs of the poor. In some cases this is true, but in most, wealth isn't transferred, it is created. This is certainly one of those examples.
I strongly agree that there's nothing essentially sacred about the concept of net neutrality. If it can be proven that certain aspects of net neutrality coded into law are a net benefit for society, I'm for it, but I don't think this has necessarily happened yet, and the justification for it gets lots in tribal signaling.

For example, as much as I've read, I'm not sure exactly what part of net neutrality has overwhelming public support. Among people willing to comment on the matter, they seem to stand with the organizations that support it, but the public also doesn't seem to want their network to be neutral.

Outside the specific laws implemented, the general principle of net neutrality is that all data should be treated equally in transit, but all data is not equally prioritized by people. T-Mobile's plan to throttle online video in exchange for unlimited streaming was so popular that everyone else copied it. People are excited for unlimited Netflix, and don't mind 480p on a tiny screen. If most people were given a choice, they would want their most used services to have a fast lane with unlimited data caps and wouldn't mind if the website they check once every few months was a little slower or their video was compressed to fit their device.

Of course, people don't want the nightmare situation presented where they need to pay their ISP a subscription fee for access to each siloed section of the Internet, but so far nobody has proposed that outside of plans like Facebook had in India where base access was free. I would even guess that if people were offered a free unlimited data plan with access to services owned only by Facebook, Google, and Netflix and the option to buy unilmited web access, it would be extremely popular.

So I think we have to acknowledge that many of the things that net neutrality is meant to prevent are actually very popular with many people, while also examining the negative consequences.
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The headline doesn't do a great job of summarizing the content and ideas in the interview. You seem to have skimmed past many of the interesting ideas and missed the other points that might be referred to by the poor headline.

Other bad ideas that might arguably be the referents of that headline.

1) Making kids safer is always good and we should teach them that the world is a dangerous place so they protect themselves.

2) winning the culture war (vs discovering truth through dissent) can lead to better social justice.

3) That striving for equality of outcomes naturally leads to equality of opportunities.

4) That you can teach people a class that will make them behave ethically, rather than teaching them how designing social structures that encourage ethical behavior leads to better efficiency.

(That last one doesn't really fit but is an example of the interesting ideas in this interview that don't cleanly fit within the thesis of the headline)