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> I grew up in a country where communism has won - I know for sure that it's an utopia.

I don't think communism is the answer either.

> I really hate communists, socialists and other imbeciles who believe that people/business should give their money to lazy people just to make everybody "equal".

That's a very individualistic point of view, I used to hold a similar one a few years ago but traveling made me change my mind. Look at the US for example, people are dying of diabetes, in 2019, because they can't afford insulin. That's in the #1 country in the world according to "the market".

It might be lazy people, it might also be disabled people, people born in the wrong place / at the wrong time, people who didn't get the opportunity to develop, &c. The question isn't even "why are these people failing?", but "how do we handle them humanely?". It's life, shit happens, your parents die prematurely, you get sick, your company declares bankruptcy and you get fire out of nowhere.

The day you'll have kids or, hopefully not, a car accident, a cancer or other high impact disease, you'll be happy that all these "imbeciles" paid a bit of your hundred thousand dollar bills you'll owe to the hospital / schools.

> just to make everybody "equal". No, people are not equal

Sure they're not, nothing is. It's not about making people equal, it's about not letting people go down too far. You can shift the blame on people all you want ("somebody is just a lazy alcoholic"), but in the end we're products of our environment. Individuals shape society, society shapes individuals. There are people having full time jobs who won't be able to live when they retire without public pensions, what do you tell to these people ? "Too bad you were too lazy, go die somewhere else" ?

When I'm talking about spreading wealth I'm not talking about the average worker giving even more of his money, I'm talking about the top 10%, the people who game the system going through every loophole available to avoid paying tax.

> we should think how to train people for new skills/professions, required by the market.

We're already doing that, and in a perfect world yeah, it might work. But I don't see that happening, we'll always have people less capable than others, people who chose or get pushed on different paths.

Also, idk where you live but (moderate) socialism brought us weekends (yeah before workers started to unionize in europe we were workin 10 hours a day 7/7), vacation days, sick days, health insurance, social security, work insurances, maternity/paternity leave, unemployment benefits, <40hrs work week, &c. so it's not all bad. I care much more about what I and my close community requires than what "the market" requires. By the way, isn't "the market" supposed to serve the people and not the other way around ?
That's not true. You have always been able to add as many domains for free to a plan as you want. I think there may be some coded limit in the thousands, but our support team can even waive that if you ask nicely.
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I am not very concerned with this particular problem anymore since it will get a satisfactory solution due to its publicity.

What I am worried about and think should get more focus is other potential issues and corners that has been cut by the Boeing management. I have note read a single thing that Boeing has handled well in this massive disaster. This lack of judgement, short term profit seeking & cover up mentality is what media should spend more time on. It feels to me that they used up a lot of their trust capital to be allowed to perform any type of self-certification
If some parts of your API used database keys as identifiers and other parts used URLs, then I can see that could be confusing. All one or all the other would probably be better.
This article talks about the benefit of a message bus being pub/sub. This definitely helps to decouple the internals of apps, which in turn makes things easier to maintain.

There are many other benefits to using a message bus, and it's a better fit in general to distributed systems. The hard part is understanding how to structure apps to make them compatible with messaging.

Imagine sending out a command to the bus and not knowing when it'll get processed. Perhaps under a second, perhaps next week. You can't expect a reply at that point because the service that sent it may no longer be running.

If you're on Node, try https://node-ts.github.io/bus/

It's a service bus that manages the complexity of rabbit/sqs/whatever, so you can build simple message handlers and complex orchestration workflows
Another good resource that guides one through both the philosophy (why) and technical details (how) of building a web application is Software Engineering for Internet Applications:

https://philip.greenspun.com/seia/
I'm not positive but I feel like this is getting mistakenly lumped into the issue of censorship by big tech companies?

I could be being naive but this seems like an echo chamber problem that faces websites attempting to surface content to you based on what you like or your network likes. This doesn't appear to me to be same issues of political-based censorship of certain people's accounts that we have been hearing a lot about over the last year.
https://www.ft.com/content/ff8abbc2-7302-11e9-bf5c-6eeb83756...
Good Rana Faroohar piece that touches on this:

'concentration of power in agribusiness has been a bigger and certainly a longer-term problem for American farmers than China. As a few companies gained control of key areas of the food supply chain, spending on research and development fell, input costs rose, and margins for individual farms went down. The CAP report also documents small farmers being forced into opaque contracts and held up by ridiculous rules, such as those forbidding them to repair their machinery without permission from John Deere or other large manufacturers'
Unfortunately, that’s not a good system. It would be an okay system (the phrase “worst possible except for all the alternatives” refuses to leave my mind on this) except for the fairly major problem that links and clicks can be automated, turning that into a bidding war. Propaganda of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich… and whoever they want to manipulate.

And that’s even without the problem that the people running the papers/channels are themselves both powerful and capable of having agendas that don’t need to be aligned with those of their readers.

Unfortunately, “what is true (news|science|morality|politics|economics|history)?” is very much not a solved problem.
I would classify Stellaris itself as having an insane amount of complexity, but compared to DF, NetHack and especially Aurora 4x, it is nothing!
Despite the fact that I might not be a rich man in this country, I am a very rich man in this world. I feel quite lucky and grateful to have been born in the USA. But to be fair, that was not a very good wage for where I live.
> In this case a real business in the sense that you're legally able to actually hire someone else out and have the margins to do so.

I think you mean a 'profitable' business then, because several large tech companies have no margins and rely on continued investment. An uber driver is certainly free to seek investment externally to continue to fund themselves presumably.

> You know plus or minus everything you can't do or a company can't pay you to do because it's illegal.

That's assumed, obviously. Just like freedom of religion does not mean you can kill people because your religion says so.
My advice would be to skip it completely. It's just packed full of standard GoF OO dogma.
The best tools you can teach yourself are arguably more fundamental than any specific language or library, but instead computer science problem solving techniques. I've written books on this subject specifically targeted towards self-taught programmers:
https://classicproblems.com/

Sorry for the self-plug, but it's super relevant I think.
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In my computer engineering program, we spent a lot of time talking about concepts and theory and less on the implementations of them. For example, in my database class, we spent a lot of time learning about relational calculus and less (almost no) time on writing SQL queries.

We studied CLR and spent more time using C++ as a way to understand the algorithms and reason about them and less time learning and mastering C++ specifically.

Isn't this the case at most universities or bootcamps? I guess I can see why someone would ask the questions the student asked Scott judging by the way new technologies are spoken about here and on the internet in general. There is an intense amount of FOMO as a developer that's hard to stave off even though concepts truly travel.
I think you're misunderstanding my lament. As always, "a lot of people helping a little accomplishes a little." We need people to be better educated about energy systems so they can push or clean energy collectively. When a people has very limited understanding of their daily energy systems and impacts of their personal choices, how can they be expected to push the politicians to fight for the right things collectively?

Seeing strong environmentalist people choose natural gas kitchens and heating in a region that's 98% carbon-free from hydro, wind, and nuclear is a shame. They then also fail to push politicians on pricing the externalities of natural gas because they are personally invested in it being "clean burning" (which it is, but it's still super high carbon).

Collective action begins with personal understanding. If you skip this step, you get lots of large efforts to ban straws and plastic bags or to sue energy service companies while failing to pass carbon legislation. How is it the fossil energy service company's fault that people use fossil fuel all day to commute across town?
For news stories that are posted on high quality forums(like hn or /r/science), offering a forum link seems like good value.
Why I don't use React
How to Master Your Life and Time
Objectivity is a false idol - as is perfection.

No matter how much research you do, or how wise you are, you still have to decide how to measure "best." And that's inherently subjective.
How to use cash in Amazon's new cashierless store
To introduce people to the very most basic concepts of programming (if-then, loops, etc, and making hello-world, fizz-buzz, etc...), I've been using the javascript console in the Chrome (or Firefox) developer tools. In casual conversations with non developer friends (30-40 y/o), I'll say "here, pass me your laptop... " and I'll do fizz-buzz real quick. I haven't tried with any one, but I would think that teaching someone how to wrap their head around those concepts could be done with a cheap net-book and built-in browser development tools. In the beginning, get all of the dependencies out of the way - no need for a compiler, source control, package manager, etc....
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I'm absolutely in favor of more transparency... In fact, as far as I'm concerned any orgs that do political advertising or funding of any kind should be required to have 100% transparent funding and not be able to accept donations from companies that aren't. Same should apply to all politicians running for high-level offices.

For the most part minimal government with restrictions on corporations to ensure the most broad transparency and limited collective "rights" would be best IMHO. I consider myself a pragmatic libertarian. A lot of people equate that with being Corporatist or anti government.

I just feel that most people would be better off finding private solutions for the most part. Any time a large corporation and/or governments get involved it feels more likely to end up for the worse. The driver being when corporate bodies and politicians lie.
Slightly off topic but what would you suggest for someone who is familiar with build systems but who hasn’t used gradle?

I’m just getting into Kotlin and gradle isn’t something I’ve used before since I’m mostly web, .net til now.
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I'm not following. What good is it to have equivalent of "this.a=x.a this.b=x.b ..." in Excel, when what I need is to have this in code in my editor? Are you saying you use Excel to create the code, then copy/paste it into your editor? Or what?
The train station is not algorithmically deciding what to show you. The station has brokered a business agreement with the newspapers in the newsstand. I am unaware of any deal Google has with CNN to make sure a percentage of their articles show up in search engine results.
In machine learning we often use regularizers to reduce bias (amongst many other neat things that it can do), and I've been thinking if similar techniques could be applied to help us humans to reduce bias and strengthen our belief system against malicious information.

Some information contain objective facts (e.g. climates change, vaccination), thus citing reputable research is often enough.

Though many of the political and economical belief have little objective truth to them (e.g. government regulation, taxation plan), and it is useless to discuss bias, we can only hope to prevent from malicious information. Perhaps allowing both sides to show arguments can help reduce bias, but this technique is far from perfect.
What’s changed?
We've asked you many times to stop being uncivil in HN comments. If you don't stop, we are going to have to ban you.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19902164 and marked it off-topic.
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Matt Might's article is really good:

http://matt.might.net/articles/intro-to-make/
I like some of the concepts, but in general this just seems to take more paper (and the side-by-side photo is mildly deceptive by not showing that).
If you're worried about competition, this is a way to make customers happier without reducing your prices or primary costs -- just a software update on the register.
Here's another great documentary that reflects the efforts of the Catholic Church historically to not only hide the offense and move the alleged perpetrator, but would often move them back to positions where the abuse could take place again:

The Keepers

https://www.netflix.com/title/80122179
The cost to JD to manufacture the tractor with lower horsepower limited by the software lockout is the same as it is to manufacture the tractor without the software governor. That's why it looks like a scam -- JD doesn't spend a dime to deliver the upgrade. They get paid for removing the artificial limits on the product.

No one is saying that different hardware (or even software) features of the tractor shouldn't be configurable and charged accordingly, but the lock-out is different. JD is crippling the capabilities.
On Android, on Firefox you can add NoScript, PrivacyBadger, AdblockPlus (plenty of lists here [1]), and if you go all the way and root it, you can replace the hosts file [2]. I personally use zero FB products, and use NoRoot Firewall with global rule to block 31.13.x.x and a couple of other FB IP ranges. That also means that I exclude myself from WhatsApp and Instagram.

[1]: https://filterlists.com/

[2]: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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This isn't in reference to popularity now, but more being on the right side of history later.
There's billions in capital sunk in the already existing 737 MAXs. They will fly again.
Can I use Argo as a localtunnel alternative in development?
But at least we know were it was or came from and that pretty soon. Hiding the stuff in a deep hole and probably be forgotten before it becomes safe is just irresponsible. I would even prefer that you keep it in one of the dumps on the surface in case we do come up with an economical way to reprocess or "zapp" it in 10, 50, 100 years. At least we know where it is.

I won't even touch geological issues that may come up. A few decades ago we wouldn't know that we would be able to cause earthquakes because we're shooting chemicals into the ground. Who knows what will be in 100 years or in 200?
The legal definition of rape in many US states include two drunk people having sex together or two underage kids doing it. But almost nobody considers that rape so the legal definition is irrelevant.
> Are you saying that in Switzerland it is illegal to have a group plan?

Yes, group plans are not allowed. All residents are in the same risk pool. Also, all health insurance premiums are paid post tax (unless you are poor and get a subsidy).

Employers themselves can only offer accident insurance.
>Except you want to remove those regulations that include training and licensure requirements.

yes but the company can still train their trucker as much as they want, the trucker can still get training as much as they want.

>what we don’t need is allowing untrained and unlicensed commercial drivers

These untrained trucker won't get hired, do you think you will want to hire untrained trucker ? Regarding the unlicensed, why not ? provided they can prove that they can do the job well and has good track record ?
> gas "tax" helps pay for road building and maintenance. These cars are still using the roads and still expect more to be built. the money has to come from somewhere...

That's the point: I'm not saying that EVs shouldn't pay for their fair share of road maintenance. But the hike heavily implies that's not the case here: EVs are paying more than their non-electric counterparts (see the math in the post you're replying to). And not just a little more, several times more.
Let's say there is a blog post amongst the mix. I'll check out the blogger's Twitter and see who he follows. Stuff like that. Depends heavily on the niche of course.
Type ratings don't really work like that. 90% of the type rating is systems knowledge, emergency procedures etc. If a new type rating was needed there would be a conversion course from the existing type rating.
I'm personally not convinced by the often exerted narrative that celibacy leads to pedophilia. It seems to me that a more likely explanation is that someone with a certain inclination would seek out a job (perhaps even subconsciously) that may offer him a chance to get closer to living out that inclination.
> they're great for the consumer

They are only great at the point of purchase. They make it harder to run a competing business, they create a tax burden by paying low wages, they distort local markets and cause local economies to suffer, they benefit foreign suppliers of products produced at wages and in conditions below American legal minimums (at the expense of American companies that compete with them, which affects American workers at those companies).
Ironically I think increased use in psychedelic mushrooms will lead to more people forgoing eating animals.
Firefox has some terribad font rendering engine, especially on Windows. Anyway it's 2019 and you should be using Chrome already...
Tractors usually move at a deliberately very slow speed, so piloting a vehicle moving 3mph over terrain utterly devoid of obstacles, and which often has some kind of automatic driving assist, is really not that hard.

Some of the more sophisticated tractors are like being in a plane on auto-pilot. Some you can even pilot remotely if you're really not in the mood to drive it, like a gigantic Roomba.
Yes, the first one is a lower bound on the second.
For measles, herd immunity requires a 95% vaccination rate. So where there are outbreaks they have apparently dropped below that. Would the entire population drop below that, at least 5% of the entire population would get measles. Since a lot more than 0.2% would suffer nasty side effects from measles, I said 1 in 10k, because even if it were 1 in 10k, the country would be better off with more than 95% getting vaccinations.

I thought I could riff on olliej’s obviously sardonic comment, but as you I seem to have miscalculated how the comment is read.
You still have to double-tap the device hardware button in a manner that software cannot emulate to accept the NFC attempt.
Consider the search phrase "Is the Earth flat?"

If Google detects more engagement towards "Yes" and flatearther conspiracy websites, should their search engine prioritize results that say the Earth is flat?

> If Zero Hedge is being cited more frequently, being chosen from search results more frequently, etc. then people have found it more helpful, and presumably other people would find the same.

> The whole premise of democracy (both the form of literal governance and the general philosophy) is that most of the people are correct most of the time.

1. Google's clickthrough metrics are subject to severe sampling bias.

2. The premise of democracy is seeking compromise across diverse opinions. American democracy has explicit protections against tyranny of the masses.

If NYT is regarded as an authority by a diverse audience across broad search domains and cited by other similarly broadly authoritative sites, while ZH is cited and viewed by a high-engagement but narrow and isolated audience, then NYT should be ranked above ZH. As it is.
Like bike-messengers, but with vespas and 4-doors? Isn't that a super crowded and niche market anyways?
The other 40% of insured individuals are covered through non-employment based insurance, such as Medicare, Medicaid or an insurance plan that they purchased for themselves.
I have repeatedly tried to convert over to pure digital note taking, but have not been able to. This is in the context of active learning (classroom, live video lecture, etc. where I cannot pause).

As you said, there is nothing like the convenience of sketching out a graph, quick comments on the margins, drawing arrows to point at stuff, etc.

I know there are digital solutions to everything I mentioned, but none of them have felt as natural or productive as old-fashioned note taking, especially when at the mercy of however fast the teacher is teaching.

So, I usually hand-write notes as I'm learning. As a part of my studying method I digitize the notes as I'm studying them. I find re-writing out the notes verbatim helps me solidify what was learned and clarify any areas I'm not 100% with.
> It's an open air museum of brutalism.

I am not sure how to interpret your comment. Was this meant to be in a negative sense or in a positive sense? Or without any judgement?
Is there any indication that MCAS is a problem when it is provided with accurate AOA data? I don't think so, but I'm willing to be educated.

My understanding is that MCAS only goes haywire when it gets haywire sensor data--specifically, data that indicate an AOA that is much higher than reality.

So much depends on the investigations, which are currently in progress. But it seems possible that the technical solution could simply be: require 3 AOA sensors and require agreement between 2 out of 3 to activate MCAS. Of course, there are probably significant business and regulatory issues to consider/fix as well.
Except Kavanaugh did argue against immigrant women being able to have an abortion while in detention. [1]

What you say may be a true statement, but it also selectively ignores the sexual assault accusations made by three women he has known. Whether or not you believe the accusations are true or false doesn't change the fact that they factor into his expectations as a judge.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/opinion/abortion-kavanaug...