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Most of your points are strawman arguments to be fair. People complicate these matters far more than they actually are. How do I know?

Because what you pay in taxes has been public information in my home country Norway for many decades. None of the problems you mentioned have been an issue.

As hard as it may seem, Norway values BOTH transparency AND privacy more than the US. So there are lots of laws which protect your privacy.

1) It does not state HOW you make your living. Just roughly how much you pay in taxes and how much you earn. The details are left out.

2) There are always systems in place to help protect citizens with special needs for more privacy.

3) Companies in Norway cannot pass around information about you to each other or store information about you it does not strictly need. It is not like the US where companies can en masse huge amounts of data about customers and sell it to each other. Information gathering for commercial purposes is quite restricted.

4) As a rule in Norway, you are informed about people obtaining information about you. E.g. if a company does a credit history check on me, I will get a mail stating exactly what company credit checked me and word by word, what information they where provided. The credit check info leaves out a lot of the details that would be available in the US.

Same goes if somebody checks your taxes and income. You are informed of who makes the check and what info they have been provided.

I hope this gives an idea of how you can in fact embrace greater transparency while at the same time promote stronger privacy laws.

I can remark that Norwegian politicians and CEOs are among the lowest paid in the world despite Norway being among the richest countries in the world. I think our long tradition for transparency is a contributing factor to that. Not so fun to be greedy when it is obvious to everyone.
Which orchestrator are you referring to? System Center in no way competes with kubernetes since it's lacking 90% of the features. Maybe I'm bad at googling, but I can't find what you're referring to.

Edit: I see the one you're referring to in that link, but again, it's not at all a comparison with kubernetes. It's easy at face value to say this one is better, but it's missing the point of kubernetes, which is extensibility, following standards, etc.
.. unless they build an adapter.

If this sounds horrifying, consider that Windows already has a subsystem for allowing graphics drivers to crash and restart seperately. The reverse also exists: https://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper
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I remember visiting Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL as a Cub Scout and walking up to the Saturn V. It was laying on its side, and I was a short kid, but the size of just one those engines blew me away. I’ll never forget that sense of wonder and amazement.
I think another part of this is if you like what might be called classical OOP you don't need to make a new language.

Just use Java, or C#, or any of the dozen other mature, widely used languages that support it.
You are giving the USA too much credit, they were as surprised as everyone else when the communist bloc fell.
I don't disagree with you on that - but that's not written in your post so my point still stands.

Many of the paint points are solved when using alternative clients. Alternative clients will allow you to, for example:

* Use Slack on an ancient computer

* Use TTS systems

* Not use threads (you can just dump everything in the channel)

* Not have link previews

* Use keyboard only

* Get a less distracting experience

I'm also an IRC user and I like it but I just wanted to point out the post isn't fair with Slack if only one client is evaluated.

Edit: list formatting
That relates to my comment in what way?
Don't put it near a banana...
I do find it hard to believe but thanks for sharing. I know what I am checking out next time I visit Detroit!
The President does not set tax policy. The legislature does, and many of these candidates are lawmakers.

But in the recent debates we also discussed if candidates would prosecute Trump after he’s no longer a sitting President, apparently conveniently forgetting that it’s the DoJ, not the President, who decides who to prosecute.
Yes, I perhaps misspoke when I said tax returns.
Of course the actual individual deductions should not be public, only the gross amounts.
It's omega = acos( - tan(x) * tan(y)), not that that makes much of a difference.
Yes they did. It was a huge deal in RI. This farm powers Block Island and the excess goes to mainland RI. Previously BI was on Diesel fuel for power so there was a big motivation to get it done.

The full environmental impacts are not clear yet though, as there are consequences for fishing (a large industry in this region), especially with lobster and squid who are affected by the emf of the high voltage cables.
Yes, but I've never seen anyone buy a wireless mouse and... forget it works wirelessly.
Short term yes.

However duplexes start enable the next level.

Public transit needs a certain level of density to become useful, so longer term people can think about getting rid of a car.

Density also means that while there is more solid pavement on lots, there are less lots overall, and less roads between the lots, and less driving from place to place. So globally this is an environmental win even though locally it is worse.
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I go in to the office to get away from my family. It is hard to focus with them around. The commute sucks. Once my kids are older, I'll probably switch to a remote gig if I find a good opportunity.
I'm in the process of bulding a solution for managing all three OS'es. AD is not on the table because theres nothing to do with kerberos in our network and AD would be a "windows only" solution.
I don't think people were happy but, as far as I'm aware, nothing has changed regarding the amount of tax big companies pay so ....
What if you get into the war at a later point ? Most tank with a small serial number will have been destroyed (tanks tend to have a short life) and, using the mean instead of the maximum, you will get a seriously biaised result.

You could adjust for such problems but it seems much easier to use the maximum.
This looks like a promising project. How will the recruiters contact the people they wish to hire through your platform?
Only on some selected devices.
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I miss the wild west, sue me. My entire life wasn't on whatever system I was using, so it wouldn't have mattered if someone messed it up. I don't miss the hardware of the time, but at least the web wasn't sterilized and owned by a few companies.
Game design decisions made in the name of doing something fun instead of perfect makes it easy to churn out clickbait that paints the designer as monsters. There are entire publications kept afloat by rewriting that article all day every day.
UK public has lots to be furious about. it won't make one iota of a difference though.
EDIT: global corporations are gods in the UK and effectively above the law
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You're right. But can you imagine the patience of a power user to do that?

They'd have to identify what the bug is, get the source, make the changes, test it, build the OS for their own device, upload the fix to Gerrit for review, go through multiple rounds of code review, get it merged in.

I've probably simplified some of those steps.

You could do it, but would you? Remember, not every power user is a developer.
OK, I see that point, I think only the gross amount of your income/taxes should be public, not any individual deductions etc.

But my argument is not so much "what have you got to hide", but more "we're all in this together".
Software developers are not that dumb. The most likely scenario is whoever coded this knew what was going on (maybe not all the details) but chose to ignore, because paycheck. Same with other shady stuff like dark patterns, facial recognition (like Amazon's) and so on...

Also there is legality and then there is ethics. Something in the contract might be perfectly legal, and yet unethical.
We need some way of computing that number. Different businesses have vastly different structures. Let’s take the flip side of your argument: is it unreasonable for a labor intensive business with low profit margins (classic example is a grocer) to point out how much they contribute to the Treasury directly and indirectly through employment? Why is income tax special?
I do believe my experience is something of an outlier in our field and I think it'd be great if it wasn't- I wrote the post in hopes that people might see this experience and use these observations to improve their own mentor/mentee relationships.
Productive for who? To think that “quality of life” for everyone means living on top of each other is also myopic.

True, people may earn less in smaller areas but the cost of living is much lower.
> I miss the days where having interns was a common thing.

Has this really changed as much as you think? It is well-known that the tech giants (Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc) hire a number of interns - from what I've seen, I'd guess it is at least in the high thousands between those three. Many more startup-y companies seem to do so as well - the June HN hiring thread shows 27 hits for "intern", and unicorns also are known for hiring a large number. Where I work we increase in size by ~10% every summer when interns arrive, and my last job was even more.

It's also no longer the case that tech internships are frequently unpaid, so they're much more accessible. At the top internships, they're making significantly more than average full-time devs. This seems to indicate plenty of competition.
Andy Ngo isn't a random reporter, he's quite known for his critique against AFA's mission and methods.

That said, it doesn't excuse the assaults he became a victim of and I agree with you that the tactics used by the far-left is strikingly similar to the far-right.
The comment I responded to:

> thought that was intentional so people wouldn’t treat it like a wired mouse?

The "specific vision" we're talking about here intentionally makes the product harder to use. There is no technical limitation behind the decision, it was purely for aesthetics. If the comment I responded to is correct, then Apple though that people would _forget_ they purchased a wireless mouse to begin with. C'mon.
You can generally get insurance on anything, if you're large enough and the risk is somewhat quantifiable.

The issue with abnormal insurance policies is that the buyer may have more knowledge about the actual risk than the insurance seller. I believe this has burned Lloyd's of London a few times on their more esoteric policies.
Non-paywalled alternative:

https://www.coindesk.com/craig-wright-spars-with-kleiman-law...
I'm sure they're resourceful enough they've figured out how to work around those problems, but wouldn't it be simpler to not create the problem in the first place?
This is about UNIX clones being offered for $0.

No one can fight against free beer, regardless how bad it might taste, people still go for it.
The difference not just a technicality it results in a large difference in readability as it linearises nested calls i.e. it transforms it to a functional pipeline (a la unix pipes).

D has this (called Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS) ) and also has optional parenthesis for call with no more arguments which turns this:

send(getInvoice(calculatePrice(x)));

into

x.calculatePrice.getInvoice.send;

It also eliminates the need for extension methods since any function that takes any given type as its first argument is automatically callable as if it were a method of that type, this also applies to templates with the type of the first argument determined by a template parameter.

As for a "wrong way around", you can overdo it both ways, use your judgement. I prefer UFCS for more heavily nested calls which you get when you do a while lot of data transformations all in a row. Some times I use it for a single call but not very often.
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This is the case when someone didn't completed his homework.

Most of things he requested are possible with HList in Haskell. A library, nonetheless. From 2008, I believe.

PS
Structural subtyping is tricky: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ff6f/1c49ff00efa483807fae71...

It took quarter of century to get it right. Most probably the author of gist just don't get it's trickyness yet.
> If you need to travel into a major city, that can easily be 45 mins each way. 5 days a week, it pretty much adds up to an extra day each week.

Doing the math on my commute time and realizing how much time I was giving up was a big push to look in to remote work. Not only the time it wasted(~9 hours for me a week, +/- for traffic), but that time wasted was probably the worst 9 hours of my week and I felt like it just dragged down the quality of my life in general.
Well Bounds Checking GCC had a huge overhead anyway (making code about 3-5 times slower) so memory locality wasn't our primary concern.
From what I remember of the documentation I saw about him back the day he never actively sabotaged the war effort or did things that sis put German troops in danger. He opposed the Nazi regime.

Yes, I agree it is quite a feat of mental acrobatics. My impression was that he somehow seperated Nazis and the German nation. And that the war was a German and not really a Nazi thing. Maybe he just didn't want to see that Germany and the Nazis were the same thing at the time, maybe he also wanted a round two after WW1 or maybe he wasn't able to shake decades of upbringing and training.

Either way, he was one of the few "good" Germans, even if not on Schindler levels, and definitely a very interesting person. Just look up his WW1 adventures.

Notable, so, is that even in WW1 and after he was not necessarily a trained spy intel guy, AFAIK.
Yeah to add to this - I think physical knobs and switches and dials will be the preferred inputs for the mission critical controls of a space craft (and probably, anywhere, really).

I think all the movies and tv shows that showcase the fancy future touch screens and minority-report style gesture displays will feel as quaint and dated in the next couple decades as Star Trek TOS's incandescent bulb arrays and paper readouts are to us now.
IRCv3 is a scourge because of this. They’re looking to bloat the protocol. IRC is good because it’s IRC.
Chiming in to agree. I was disappointed when I found out the sub wasn't very active when I checked a while back, I'll pop in again.
It's simply misleading. You try make it sounds like the value a company contributed to the society is the tax they paid, in reality it's just not.
Likely a very new concept on an evolutionary timescale, and competing against the survival chance cost of more mouths to feed during an acute resource shortage.

It seems absolutely not a coincidence that the much faster, by orders of magnitude, process of human history got set in motion at a time when grandpatenting, as an evolutionary concept, wasn't quite finished yet.
OP did not mention Ruby; OP mentioned Rust.
The context here is comparing Jobs to Cook. Jobs came back to Apple in the late 90s (and was dead by 2012, the year you mention).
We need a mandatory retirement age for professors
Same "dangerous drafts" thing in Russia, too
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Probably not, but these are not the only or even the most significant problems. Social control for example, belongs to the more important ones. Made easier (also their dark sides) especially in consensus-driven societies, most scandinavian countries adhere to.
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I found this strangely moving. The resilience of life in face of human error & arrogance.
The essential characteristics of democracy are that the three powers (executive, law giving, judicial) are separated and that at least the law giving power is in the hands of the people, perhaps by representation and perhaps directly. If these conditions are not being met bad things can easily happen. E.g., if the executive branch is also writing laws it is way too easy to get laws that are handy for the executives but not very fair to the public. In democracies these separations tend not to be perfect but at least an attempt is made to put sufficient separation in place. E.g., if one appoints judges for life the incentive of the judicial power to appease the executive branch becomes much smaller.

The EU is both undermining the separation of powers in its member states and also is in itself weak as a democracy. The council of ministers is the executive branch in the member countries but in Europe they write law. As such this would not be that bad if the parliament could change this law. It looks like they can but after parliament is done the law goes back to the council of ministers that has the option to undo what parliament has done. After that it returns to parliament again but now parliament has to reach a 2/3 majority to do something about it. 2/3 is quite hard to get so this procedure severely limits the power of the parliament.
We have had this in Norway for decades already and it does not pop up as a problem the way you describe it. Part of that is because in addition to focus on transparency, we also promote privacy. Yes that may seem like an oxymoron, but here is a way to give you an idea:

If I ask for you credit history or how much you earn or make in taxes, then you will be informed by the government in letter form, exactly what information I was given about you, as well as my name and address.

That makes it a lot less attractive to snoop around in people's data. Hence in Norway it is mainly news organizations that do these kinds of things in relation to writing articles. Otherwise you make yourself look foolish.

Also it is a bit odd that Americans should be so concerned with privacy as you privacy laws are rather weak to begin with. E.g. unlike Norway you can administer drug tests to any employee in the US or do criminal background checks on all new hires. That would be highly illegal in Norway. Only business which can prove to the government that such checks are vital to the type of the business they do would be allowed to do such checks. E.g. working with children.

Basically the US focus its "privacy" laws on hiding information important to the wealthy, while those at the bottom of the latter have most of their sensitive information easily exposed.
Grub Hub should pay the cost of transfer. Filthy Scum. What a terribly unethical thing to do. Im sick of this Sh*t head type Capitalism.
why do people tweet like this? It is impossible to follow. Like.. just write an article or a blog post instead. :/
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The tax code is not Amazons problem. They are legally obligated by their shareholders to make the biggest profit possible, likewise every other business.

people should be protesting congress, not Amazon, this constant red herring is ridiculous, Amazon, like every other business is trying to compete and will pay as little taxes as possible. Tell congress to change the rules and all businesses will play by better rules.

any other conversation about the meaning of Amazon paying the tax they have to I believe is a waste of time, both parties are guilty and the citizens are guilty for not protesting congress.
Ask HN: Why is Twitter blocking users if they have no Referer header?
While changing some settings (in this case network.http.sendRefererHeader), I got locked out of Twitter. This seems to be an intended feature.
You get an infinite redirect loop stating: "If you’re not redirected soon, please use this link.".

I don't think it would be an effective way to fight bots so why are they doing it? Thanks in advance!
There is no doubt population an economic growth will be putting pressure on the water situation in India.

But at least for this year, the climate also seems to have played a very big part in the issue:

https://weather.com/en-IN/india/monsoon/news/2019-06-03-indi...

The Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) revealed that more than 42% of the country’s area is abnormally dry, which is 6% more than that of the previous year.

... as many as 26 out of 36 meteorological subdivisions in India have recorded deficit rainfall. This is the second driest pre-monsoon that the country has witnessed ever since 1954.
Thanks for that info. I'm a permanent resident of Australia now, with access to the public (and private) medical care down here. My injury and procedure happened in the US though, and I've moved around quite a bit since then, and haven't really seen anyone about my ankle since my last post-op visit 4+ years ago. I enquired about speaking to a syndesmotic specialist down here but it still seemed to be an expensive visit to be told "yeah nah everyone just keeps the plate in nowadays mate," which is what I was expecting...so I'm always very curious when someone has had the implant removed. Thanks again.
So... form over function?

In my field (data analytics), a Mac indicates the user is in sales :-)
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So, I long for the days of the ITU when communications interoperability was mandatory, not optional.
"William F. Allen realized that time is not just some objective measurement of where the sun is in the sky. It is also about the needs of society"

As I wait for my remote team member half-a-world away to get online so we can have our meeting and I can go to lunch while she has her breakfast, this rings so true.
99% Invisible had a podcast on this a couple years ago https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/atom-garden-eden/
What is the long term benefit of UK and Ireland switching to right hand driving? I guess it would make life easier for HGVs that's the only class of vehicles that regularly uses both systems. For everyone else it would be a lot of pain and little to no benefit.
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You are trying to predict the length of the sequence of all humans, so you have no way to know whether or not you are ‘early in the sequence’. You can’t use the number you are trying to predict as an input to your prediction.

The tank problem doesn’t tell you how many tanks Germany will go on to build - it just tells you how many they have already built.

‘Good news! The war is almost over! The chances are these tank serial numbers all fall among the last 95% of the tanks Germany will ever produce!’