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American way to define class is very strange. It's more about aspiration than reality.

Most of American middle class would be working class, but working class was once associated with socialism so the change of terminology was used to counter the socialist threat.

Traditionally you have

* Upper class - people with power or people who get their income from investments and property. They don't have to work for living. Executives in big companies go here also.

* Middle class. The PEW definition would be upper middle class. Middle class is managers, teachers and well paid engineers. Not just money but education.

* Working class. Most of people. Good well paying work, house and no managerial responsibilities.

* Poor. People who are working in very low paid jobs and struggle for living.
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Garden Hermits: When Lawn Gnomes Were Actual People
Ask HN: WeWork Employees Screwed?
What does a $10B valuation mean for employees of WeWork? They raised over $10B so does that mean they've created no equity given investor preferences?
Well, if the available resources are being bid up by billions going into goofy ideas, then the cost to the "rational" investor has gone up. The resources for the $40billion startup didn't get created out of thin air by the Softbank money, they got taken from a finite pool, and thus are unavailable for other startups. Softbank pushed money into the startup space, but didn't add any real resources, so it just distorted the ability of the market to allocate them appropriately.
Have there been mystery illnesses popping up in WA and CO? Biggest issues with WA and CO, who've had legal weed the longest, isn't random sickness, but the fact that their crazy-high retail tax rates mean it's more cost effective to buy home-grown weed from local dealers.

Tracked, pure THC is a non-issue, IMO.
You don't. But if you are going to express an opinion, it helps if it is an informed opinion.
Assessing the Global Climate in August 2019
RMS unfortunately has picked a different hill to die on these days
Amazon does that with A-Z guarantee and helping resolve disputes and presenting listings and having Amazon Basics and Amazon’s Choice.
I don't know. They were only consumer-grade disks. It hardly matters because I don't own any machine with a working 5.25" drive anyway. Some of my old files I did copy onto CD-Rs in the early 2000s -- I wonder if those are still readable?

The point is that it's actually fairly hard to beat acid-free paper for archival storage.
Only very few people in comparison watched the full video. Here are the logs for the content server from yesterday 5 PM PST, covering the previous 24 hours (search for /kenburns/promo.mp4): https://pastebin.com/4zTxL2aw
WiFi SSID has been behind a location permission gate on Android for several releases
I think Snowden's point is that America has no authority over him. Seeing as he has leverage, he's trying to raise the bar on what's fair.
The EU claims that even companies not located in the EU are still subject to the GDPR. I don't think the GDPR is applicable in this case tho. It seems likely to pertain to the EU 'right to be forgotten' law(s).
and we might fear for our lives and the lives of our children.
Hate the game, not the player.

The game is Feudalism on the Web and in E-Commerce.
It should be possible to run the model on a CPU, but I haven't tested it.
Is it really? I don't see how this comparison works at all. Amazon gives you distribution, traffic, logistics, etc, with zero risk. They just take a fee if you sell. The only upfront cost is if you pay the premium FBA and that's still a like a 40 bucks per month fee.

I'm not trying to defend Amazon, but I don't think that comparison makes sense.
Dust from toner clearly provokes cancer. You need to be careful for those who have a lot of printer work.
I would like it if when you specifically bought “sold by Amazon” products or chose that as an option you were guaranteed a genuine item but with “shipped by Amazon” that ship (hah!) has unfortunately sailed. They won’t be accepting anything from third party sellers that has Amazon branding on, so it’s safe.
over the board chess can be a struggle for programmers because we are so used to letting computers do the heavy lifting on calculations that its a struggle to think through tactical situations when you know a simple program would do the trick. It's almost like doing pen and paper arithmetic in the age of calculators.
Amazon is not a search engine. You are doing it wrong!
There is a solution - start FINDING remote jobs. These companies will have to bend over backwards (I hate that term) to start offering high paying remote positions as their talent pool leaves looking for better options.
Similarly, fake-moon-landing conspiracists don't seem to understand the large magnitude of differences between heavily objects. Sunlight is typically so much brighter than stars such that the exposures best used in sunlight will wash out stars (make their images be swamped by sensor noise). This happens even as far out as Saturn, which gets much less sun than our moon. Thus the "no stars in photos" argument about Apollo holds no water.

Even in a backyard telescope, if you look at Saturn, its brightness will wash out all but the very brightest of nearby stars because your eye adjusts for Saturn's brightness, not star brightness. (One nearby "star" you may see is actually the moon Titan.)

The New Horizons probe did pick up star images in Ultima-Thule images, if you look at the raw exposures, but Ultima-Thule is really far away from the sun, beyond Pluto. And it's a dark body, requiring sensitive camera settings. Note that some raw exposures from some probes will show streaks that may be mistaken for stars, but are actually cosmic rays. They are usually digitally removed from final versions.

The boundary where planetary exposures will start to clearly show stars is roughly around Neptune's or Pluto's orbit. But processing may have to remove them because time-lapse and/or multiple exposures may be needed to properly capture dim planets and rocky bodies that far out. Any stars caught would otherwise look smeared or smugdy.
Took me a minute to figure out the shadow at Saturn's equator, but it looks like the rings basically illuminate the entire planet and the shadow is just where the dust from the ring blocks the reflected light from the sun.

Read an article about how Titan would possibly be a better location for humans to land first, and one of the benefits listed was that you could see Saturn's rings up close. Amen. :)
1) Maintaining a personal server should be no more difficult than maintaining your phone, something that non-technical people can do. No command lines, no config files. Kubernetes obviously isn't that.

2) Kubernetes and other popular cloud infrastructure are designed to scale up to massive traffic, but they are not designed to scale down. For a personal server, you want to be able to install hundreds of apps on a single, modest machine, and only have apps consuming resources when the user is actively using them.
Screw my handwriting. Go straight to EWD font and skip the intermediate steps. https://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-hand...
> all the employees over 50 can’t tell the difference between the Dev team and IT support. They have no clue, and explaining it to them is impossible.

I work with people much older than that who use collaborative tools and cryptocurrency and the only difference is that they apply themselves and that there are social benefits to understanding.

A lot of older people find more social benefits from joking about how they dont understand with other ignorant people, it is a point of pride for them to have “never sent an email” because their friends say the same thing and thats it.

You have to create an incentive and many people lack that. There is no quantifiable brain plasticity argument while there is a repeatable incentive argument.
I think this has something to do with how to brain stores memories, and that storage is highly entwined with a spatial location. Somehow being able to tie that memory to a location in space makes it more concrete for me. If I remember a fact from a book I can also usually remember the physical location of the fact inside the book.

My point is that it's not a conscious process, so the book/map isn't replaced by a simple location indicator. The experience of a book isn't reducible in this way.
Do any of those extradition exceptions apply in this case.

The only one I have ever heard allaged in this case is "unfair trial". But the details of that are: 'US law does not have an exception that covers Snowden's actions".

I happen to agree that the US should have some form of public interest exception, but as a legal arguement it doesn't make sense. No one would argue that a murderer cannot get a fair trial because there is no victim annoyed me exception.
After googling the same things every other week, I started using a snippets application (in my case it is SnippetsLab) where I wrote a nice description and keywords for every snippet. Life is so much easier that way.
lovely, I wonder how much the company that did this for them charged
So Shakespeare was real after all!

That take, Anonymous the movie :)
That's peculiar. Here the market's products are placed in the bottom and top, whilst third party brands reserve all the immediate-view space
More technical details here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Of course it’s difficult, but we all have the means to build social movements, companies or sue if we feel that there’s something terrible going on. But we all like our flights, our cars, our cheaper and cheaper phones, stable policy in the West and perceived security. It’s hard but you can go against it. Just always saying ‘it’s the elite’ and then sitting it out seems really easy to me. Everyone has a conception of injustice, it just depends on how badly you crave that justice.
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I'd argue there's a distinction between a public interest defense and jury nullification.

Both ask the jury to vote not guilty despite the legal fact of guilt, but the reasoning is different. Public interest defense says "yes, this was illegal, but morally necessary given the particular details of this case". Jury nullification is more "yes, this was illegal, but it shouldn't be" in my mind.
I'm really disappointed in some of these comments. They're borderline anti-science.
I don't understand anti-elitism, given the alternative.
This is exactly why, instead of buying a new vehicle, I'm repairing my 15 year-old one myself. I hate the thought of something so expensive and resource-intensive being thought of as disposable.

That, and I hate car payments :-)
Where is the responsibility of the investor? AAA ratings are not endorsements. The ratings (and rating agencies) exist to constrain the behavior of the buy side. Pension funds, insurance companies etc. are limited by laws and covenants to limit their exposure to non-investment grade securities.

The models the rating agencies were using were not secret. They defined to a great extent what was allowed to go into a pool, and how much support and credit enhancement would be necessary for the senior tranche to get a AAA rating. So as a pension fund manager, if I see to pieces of AAA paper of similar maturity trading at radically different yields, I have to consider am I getting a deal, or does the smart money know something about one of these deals? And honestly if I just buy in bulk, relying on the rating alone without due diligence on the deals, shouldn't I bear some responsibility?

Beyond that, it's not clear that you could prove civil liability. The ratings were based on models, and the models were based on historical experience (and some wishful thinking.) But when push comes to shove in the context of billion dollar lawsuits, you can imagine they'll tease the wishful thinking out of the models and show that their rating models, though flawed, were based on a reasonable interpretation of historical experience and that ratings are not an endorsement or a guarantee of suitability.

As someone who witnessed the crisis up close, the ultimate cause of the crisis was a bunch of ordinary people, both on Main street and on Wall Street, making good faith decisions that seemed rational at the time, but in retrospect proved to be idiotic.
Why do you assume they need help?
I got my renewal notice email in the other day. It's $36 now.

"Your LastPass Premium subscription will renew at $36 per year; this reflects the 2019 updated list price."

I think I'm going to switch to Bitwarden after reading some of the comments in the thread.
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I don't really see how important that distinction is.
"And, essentially, the most important fact to the government and this is the thing we have a point of contention on, is that they do not want the jury to be able to consider the motivations. Why I did what I did. Was it better for the United States? Did it benefit us or did it cause harm? They don't want the jury to consider that at all. They want the jury strictly to consider whether these actions were lawful or unlawful, not whether they were right or wrong. And I'm sorry, but that defeats the purpose of a jury trial," Snowden said.
Facile argument. Grocery stores actually rent shelf space in many cases and do not take on product liability. It’s a different business entirely.

Amazon is totally within their right imo, those sellers can go back to eBay if they dislike amazon.
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Yeah, exactly. We tried to follow that model, but Sandstorm really wasn't prepared for it, because Sandstorm apps weren't actually better than cloud-based alternatives and so there wasn't a motivation for employees to adopt them.
Its a huge problem for businesses that operate on the internet. It can magically make you subject to all laws worldwide, at once. You cannot comply with them all.
> to us it’s as natural as riding bike or making grilled cheese.

And yet you're incapable of building something that's usable. This is your failing, not theirs.
> AKSCHUALLY
Here's a map. It's wildly optimistic and simplistic. It doesn't illustrate the regions rendered uninhabitable by radioactive fallout. It also doesn't illustrate the massive, apocalyptic global conflict that preceded it. I wouldn't wait too long, because we've already seen a global trend towards making immigration more difficult.

In short, head for high ground far from the equator. Maybe look for places with reasonably strong militaries as well.

https://i.redd.it/en1yptpyoxzz.png
The next biggest lie that everyone believes is that everything is premature optimization. For a while I saw this even when our customers were unhappy with the speed of the app. Probably the first bad case of cognitive dissonance I encountered in the field.

The one after that is that all performance work decreases code comprehension. There are plenty of techniques that do both, and these, as I discovered, fly below the radar of the anti-perf crowd.
That was an inductive style comment itself? :- ) at least not BLUF (it didn't start with "they should be fired")
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We’re not fully publicly available yet (we hope you’ll excuse this Show HN when you can’t use it, sorry!), but we’re working hard to open Dark up to more people.

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Possibly. But the values they claim are very different from the Saudi values. I'm not here to judge whether they are virtuous or not, just pointing out that the article wasn't about "oil money" as "money made from oil" but specifically about oil money coming from countries that are openly opposed to the values SV claims to stand for. I'm sure that the argument would be the same if the money SA invests didn't stem from their oil exports but from Hajj tourism.
Those are exactly the things that push wages up, because new or growing companies have to set salaries that overcome them in order to attract a workforce. Then workers at existing companies can go to those companies, get a job offer under those terms and bring it to their existing employer and credibly threaten to leave if they don't get a raise. The existing employer would have to match it anyway in order to replace them (because the replacement employee would have those same costs), so it allows the employee to negotiate a raise -- or take the better paying job at the other company, which had to do better than after-cost breakeven to attract them to begin with.
It's obviously not a perfect metaphor, but neither is a grocery store.

>Amazon gives you distribution, traffic, logistics, etc, with zero risk.

Not everyone uses the distribution, and a mall or flea market also provides traffic to tenants.
No, we should pay more for cars so that executives can keep their multi-million dollar pay, and so that the average surgeon can afford three summer homes, and so that my 401k can keep growing at an average of 7%/year, from now till the day I die, without me having to lift a finger. Duh.

Why is optimizing labour costs the only option that such false dichotomies put on the table? Why are all other expenses sacred, but wages the first on the cutting block?

It's not a 'if we don't cut pay, we will live in a dysopia where nothing is affordable' situation.

It's a 'if we don't reign in the capital owners, the healthcare cartel, and management compensation, we are going to continue to live in a dystopia, where the vast majority of normal people continue to get squeezed to enrich those three groups.' (I'd also throw in loan servicing in there, but sadly, the existence of the bloated retail banking sector is a consequence of those three problems, not the cause.)

Most of a typical family's expenses are housing and healthcare. No amount of blue collar wage cutting is going to make either of those two line items affordable. But it sure as shit will make said blue collar family not be able to afford them. Wringing your hands over the cost of consumer goods, while ignoring those two elephants is bad policy.

We'd all be better off if we lived in a world where cars and widgets and clothes cost twice as much, but healthcare half as much. Well, most of us would, at least. You can find such a model on the other side of the pond.
Is this only being down voted because of tone?

I am curious if there actually are any laws relevant to this situation. As far as I can tell, this is exactly like Walmart or BigBoxCo pushing their own brands. It's not illegal and, generally, it's not even a bad thing for the consumer (in the short term).

It really feels like most of the people taking issue with this are doing so because of their personal sentiments rather than legality.
You have a point but I think the fact that grocery stores sell private label goods is the counter-point. Grocery stores re-package goods like rice, beans, paper towels, etc. to compete with their vendors all the time. We call them supermarkets, right? A grocery store is simply a more organized open market. Which is very comparable to Amazon.

I think the problem is that they present the results on good faith that "these results are the best match for you based on your search", not the most profitable for them.

I just ran a search and the default search filter was "Featured", which is so ambiguous it could mean anything, so it seems like a classic bait and switch that played out over the course of a decade of consumers getting the best search results based on reviews and sales.
The coolest thing about Feathers for me is that it was developed locally (Alberta, Canada).
Talk about an adversarial interview. It reads like a higher brow version of the game of 20-questions you play with the cops when you get pulled over for a fishing stop. They're constantly trying to trip him up and get him to say something harmful to his case.
> However, as you start pushing beyond "scale" Go is designed for

Like Google scale?

That's what Go is designed for.
I hope this fixes the issue I have with one of my banking sites where it propoluates the login with my old username and password which aren't stored in LastPass anymore. Really weird that it seems to have them cached somewhere so I have manually select the bank's credentials in order to log in.
Why are you so sure that only one of these things is a problem?
Yes, because in elm everything is pure. At least in the code you write. Elm will force you to declare all possible cases that can happen, all branches in every function you write. That leaves literally nothing to break.

Not saying you can't break an elm program. But you won't run into runtime exceptions in elm, by design:)
The idea is, It was an insulated market, barriers to entry were high, prices were high and wages were high. Deregulation happens, new players come in paying lower wages, and undercutting the established players. They need to cut wages, but it's whether the union lets them. If they don't, the airline goes bust, and the staff have to take lower paying jobs at the upstart airlines anyway. Ofcourse the unions point of view could be that stock holder/corporate compensation is too high, and that should be trimmed instead of/ in addition to cutting staff wages.

From the unions perspective, a bankruptcy isnt welcome, nevertheless it could easily bring one about.
So, are they using the phrase "malicious JavaScript" correctly? Shouldn't they remove "malicious"?
There is a tremendous amount of intertia that needs to be overcome when starting a competing company or a movement to replace any of those.

A lot of the competing companies have a large vertical integration in their field, and can refuse your supply for any of it
This reminds me the PirateBay letters requesting takedowns. Lawyers bullying people across national borders. Sheer stupidity.

I have a cousin, musician, when he finds his music on various pirating websites he emails politely asking them to please help him make a living by removing the link. No empty threats, no bullying. 99% they remove the links within 24h.
Damn and here I am spending days preparing to justify my requests for a measly $2M to $5M for project spends.

I should go be an oil boy.
Meander: Declarative Explorations at the Limits of Functional Programming
Doesn't a grocery store give their product manufacturers those things as well? Distribution, traffic, logistics, marketing.
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