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South Africa would love to grow at 6%. We’ve had like 2-3% growth for the last 30 years. I dare say we have bigger poverty problems than China so we really need it.
Still waiting on better monorepo support in GitLab.
Indeed. While France and Germany flex their local muscle against Facebook’s Libra currency, this is a step in the opposite direction for the US and its states.
There is absolutely no obligation to presume innocence in our personal opinions. We are all freely permitted to form our own opinions based on the facts of the situation.

There are good reasons that our legal systems favor the accused -- ones that I _fully_ support -- but it is an unreasonably high epistemic standard for us to operate under in our daily lives.

If I don't want to associate with someone because they're an asshole, I'm under no obligation to prove so beyond a reasonable doubt. My freedom of association is more fundamental.
> They can set the vehicle registration fees ... to arbitrary amounts.

I'm not sure that they could get away with _arbitrary_ amounts, but they can certainly provide justification for high costs for heavily polluting vehicles.

Unlike the current system, such a method would be retroactive and it would also apply to vehicles originally sold outside of California. I'm no expert, but I doubt that any automaker _wants_ this sort of thing to happen.
Because of racism and sexism, so they can hire other people that look like them.
You obviously have not listened to the numerous songs/tweets/instagram posts about “grinding” if you think valuing work ethic is exclusive to certain classes.
Interesting fact is that North Korea actually grew faster and recovered from the war quicker right up to the 70’s.
The broader issue is that the USPTO will let you patent anything. They have a long review process, but so many stupid things get approved that the agency is a sad joke.

The latest example:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/someone-suing-companie...
Locking your software onto someone else's platform is short sighted. I appreciate that indie game devs have limited resources, but a planning your game platform neutral from the outset will put you in a better opportunity to exploit other opportunities.
> 1) That's a blatant violation of the Constitution of these United States.

Only under an unrestricted interpretation of the Second Amendment. We already have a large number of restrictions on gun ownership [0] (see question 11 for a convenient list) in addition there are whole classes of 'arms' that private citizens can't own, it's impossible to own a modern automatic weapon (built in the last 20 years).

All of those are largely accepted exemptions to a literal reading of 'shall not be infringed' in the Second Amendment and have also survived direct Second Amendment challenges.

[0] https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/4473-part-1-firearms-trans...
Loud autoplaying video.
> The world of open source benefits the powerful entities, and that's OK that's what open source is about... Everyone gets the code for free

The risk is that it devalues labor. And could build a culture where so much is expected for free that there is never enough financial support.
I've always been a JS-focused web developer, with only a bit of experience in other languages (ObjC, Java). I'm trying to build a web app that heavily focuses on 2D graphics. I'm considering going with Rust + WASM, but I don't know anything about Rust.

After doing this project, how would you say you feel about this stack? Yay? Nay? I know that's a vague question, but curious if you ran into any particular troubles. I'm not sure how ready WASM is for production apps.
They'll probably lose much more than $100k on the bug impacting their systems.
You're buying power from the utility company, at whatever rate they set, and at the same time you are selling your power to them, at whatever rate they set. They can be thought of as two separate transactions.

(You buying power can be thought of as a sunk cost, as this isn't changing it at all (unless you are also storing power), so it can be removed from the question.)

At the same time that you are selling power to the utility company, you are also paying Tesla 10-13¢ for every kWh you generate.

If you are able to sell at a higher rate than that, you keep the extra.
300 million people don't work in a capacity where they could even be tried under the Espionage Act.

Those 7 prosecutions were an act of workplace violence done as a representation of the will of the People. It was deeply offensive for there to even be a single prosecution and a clear sign that the Executive did not represent our interests.

We should have impeached him for it.
>The overarching problem with expecting companies to pay for open-source is that they don’t have to.

Exactly this. Take the cURL program, as mentioned in the article. The license [1] states:

>Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

So, if an organization is free to use something, then you get upset that you don't get paid for it, why not just adopt a different license? Build a model where they have to pay for it?

[1]: https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/COPYING
Let's kill CVs for tech recruiting
It feels like you two are trying to disagree with me, but are only bolstering my argument further. In the context of murder, regardless of what the murderer's intent was, the victim is still dead ... the impact remains unchanged, and the murderer must still reckon with their actions (even if their intent is taken into account in sentencing)
Mostly faster than Japan or Australia, although the crown for highest GDP growth in a single year goes to Rwanda for growing 35% in 1995 after shrinking by 50% the year before.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?conte...
Emissions standards should be tougher, the gas tax should be higher, ZEV credits should be larger, and yet still, it's arguable that this has to be done through a Federal framework, and not at the State level.

The Constitution enumerates powers of the Federal government, the rest being reserved to the State, or to the People. For all the ways the enumerated powers have been stretched, Commerce between the States is one of the few powers of Congress actually enumerated.

If the Supreme Court can find that the Commerce clause allows Congress to prevent a State from allowing private production of marijuana for personal medical use [1], it's hard to see how a State can effectively set emissions standards for automobiles across the Country.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
Wouldn't it have been simpler for them to raise prices for new customers a year ago and leave the existing base grandfathered in?

It seems like I have this discussion at work from time to time. The faster we grow our customer base the harder it is to monetize our improvements, because we have a smaller and smaller pool of new users.

Getting big before you get your feature set and cost structure down means you have to go ask forgiveness from old users.

If instead you launch a big ad campaign after improving functionality and increasing the prices...
You mean like how Stallman pretended that the underage girl that was on Epstein's island had sex with Minsky of her own free volition?
> started making dedicated hardware interpreters of LISP to try and get around this.

That's a misconception; the actual technology of that type provides an instruction set architecture (which isn't Lisp), to which Lisp is compiled.
Not really. They grew at an average of 6% over Mao’s reign too. The economic progress made was very substantial. In 1948 China was an impoverished, colonised and war-wrecked country with a large proportion of drug addicts. 90% of people were illiterate. By the 60’s it was a major power making large machinery, ships, weapons etc.
yeah, I think they realize that as soon as someone reasonable is in office again that the rules are going to immediately revert. If they have made design changes to their production lines that aren't immediately compatible with CA's regulations when that happens they are going to have to spend a lot of money to fix those inconsistencies. I imagine that the accountants are saying "just make the cars cleaner anyway".
Who says harm hasn't been caused? I've never been to MIT, but there's plenty of stories floating around from alumni who suggest he may have contributed to a hostile environment that has likely made women feel unwelcome (for one example of harm caused).
That's the problem with an originalist, settled law isn't necessarily settled. Previous court decisions may have been decided incorrectly.
"Fatigue" is just a genre of article that is easy to write and gets clicks while whatever they're complaining about breaks a new box office record.
Let's be clear, then: you're arguing it should be a nonexistent power, not a rare one.
Had the same thought. We have had it at our company for almost a year and I just thought it was a feature of Slack..
There has never been 'due process' when it comes to a private companies decisions regarding hiring or firing. Should we trust the government to make that decision for a private organization?
There are times when breaking the law isn't just okay, it is absolutely essential, and this was one of them.
Exactly like you said.

The 1 child policy is leaving China with a low birthrate and hence an increasing smaller population of young people. The problem is further compounded when Mao encouraged Chinese people to have as many children as possible, which lead to ~6 childbirths per women in the 1960's.

This means that, at some point, there will be too many old people to be supported by too little young people. Japan is facing similar population issue for example.

Now, with the population index slowly inverting, China is running out of time to grow rich before it grows old. Otherwise, its social infrastructure will at some point become overburdened by old people who require care/safety net and not enough young people to to provide that care/safety net (either directly as children taking their aging parents or indirectly by paying taxes).

Also, China needs to figure out how it can overcome the middle income trap. Otherwise, its growth potential is severely limited, and could be more fuel being added to the rapidly aging population problem.
Yes, I thought that was a weird jab at the maintainer of OpenSSL...
I'm glad the people at Blackblaze really look like (from this writing and others) good people who want to run a successful business while doing right by their customers. But...

Jeez, clearly they did not hire patio11

While they technically did _raise_ prices, I'm quite certain they had a lot of leeway to have raised them a lot more
because that ultra-black looks blue? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tVaJVtxMYE&t=0m11s
> That’s why European efforts to combat their lack of population growth will fail. The US, by contrast, is far better at assimilating immigrants into the middle class and will be relatively more successful

Not sure the American Dream is still alive. The Trump administration might as well be the straw that broke the camel's back.
You are certainly one of the rare ones. This happens to me and my co-workers so often it's become a running joke.
I favor using the carbon tax to fund mass transportation, but we agree on the general idea: tax carbon, use money for better things.
> But isn't China's growth still mostly in the non-poor parts of it,

No.

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

Scroll to: By share of national GDP per capita

It'll show you: List of Chinese provinces by share (%) of national GDP per capita 2000 - 2017

You'd expect if all provinces grew equally (e.g. doubled in size), that their relative shares would not change between 2000 and 2017. (A) If poorer provinces grew faster than richer provinces, they'd grow in relative share. (B) The same holds for if rich provinces grew faster than poorer provinces, then rich provinces would grow in share. (C)

So sort on the year 2000. You see Shanghai at the top with 374% of the nation's average GDP per capita. At the bottom is Guizhou with 35% of the nation's average. Shanghai goes down to 214% while Guizhou goes down to 64%. Both grew in absolute terms, but the poorer province grew much faster.

A bit more data. It tends to hold across the board with few exceptions.

top 3
Shanghai 374 -> 214
Beijing 304 -> 218
Tianjin 219 -> 201

bottom 3
Tibet 58 -> 66
Gansu 52 -> 48
Guizhou 35 -> 64

> isn't that 12k figure pulled down by the exchange rate

No, the measure is: GDP per capita adjusted for price changes over time (inflation) and price differences between countries. It should take this into account.

> the massive rural population

I'm not sure how it does... First I'd want to reiterate that, uplifting rural people from poverty, both by developing these areas and by creating jobs (causing population shifts away from rural areas) has been a huge part of the economic development in China. If you'd dismiss this growth, you'd have never reached $12k in the first place.

Second, dismissing the rural population is exactly one of the biggest problems you could imagine for China. One of their biggest fears is that they leave hundreds of millions of people behind, upset, in poverty. The only reason they can keep an orderly dictatorial system is because they deliver on the promise to the vast majority of the population, many of whom poor: lots of jobs, annual wage growth, hope and optimism. Low growth prospects for a massive rural population would be disastrous. As such, even if GDP per Capita was $100k in some small areas, if that $12k (or lower) figure is not rapidly developing for China's massive rural population, that'd be seen as a huge policy issue right there. The argument that the $12k figure may be pulled down by rural poor should underline how worrisome relatively low-growth is.
Sure, but that’s a rather different hobby which may or may not be something you’re in to.

> That's still a perfectly valid hobby.

Of course. There are many hobbies which can financially support you, but there are lots of hobbies that don’t. Most hobbyist sports for example wouldn’t make anybody any money, but that’s fine, you do it for yourself. But the point I was making in my previous comment is that corporations aren’t making profits off the back of your hobby either.
The scariest thing to me is that people think their actions won't make a difference.

I was speaking to an organization about reducing its flying. In the spring they wouldn't consider it. One 16-year-old girl, Greta Thunberg, sailing across the Atlantic put the initiative on the table.

She didn't plan to influence that organization but she did.

We all have that potential.

I've given one TEDx talk on environmental leadership http://joshuaspodek.com/my-tedx-talk-is-online-find-your-del... with a second in a few weeks https://www.tedxwaltham.com/tedxwaltham-2019. My podcast http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast is creating role models among globally renowned people.

I've become somewhat of a role model -- in my fourth year of not flying, I haven't filled a load of trash in over a year, I pick up litter every day -- and people write me to tell me they're doing it, as are their friends.

These results aren't enough, and some disasters will happen, but each person's actions contribute, including yours -- mostly by leading others to contribute too.
Or a perfect analogy, because this tool is useless for writing.
This just feels so ... petty.

Do republicans really want to destroy the environment at any cost? Do they really want dirty air and rivers that are on fire due to chemical pollution? I don't get it. Where's the rational thinking? There's not even an obvious motivation of greed here - the automobile industry doesn't want the emission regulations to be turned back (cf. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/climate/automakers-califo...).
No, that's not it. You're still buying and selling electricity to and from your utility company. The 12¢/kWh that you're paying to Tesla is the rental on the solar panels.

Why it seems confusing is that you're paying based on how much electricity is produced, but it's still simply a rental.

If you sell your electricity to the utility for 16¢/kWh, and are paying Tesla 12¢/kWh, you will make 4¢/kWh. Which is not a lot, but it's with no upfront costs.
Ask HN: Which post-death messaging service/s are good/secure/trustworthy?
I was reading a post the other day and one commenter mentioned deadmansswitch.net, which made me realize that I should set up something similar. I can see that there are other options, e.g. ifidie.org, safebeyond.com, but I don't really know how or what to check to decide which one is good/secure/trustworthy enough to be used.

For those using something similar, which one are you using and how/why did you decide to use that particular website/service?
notice that the FSF has not emitted an opinion yet regarding its previous president. I assume that they are still on good terms altogether.
> I now am starting to rethink this sentiment because the vast majority of the benefit of open source contributions on github, be they to languages, runtimes, application frameworks, databases, etc, go towards increasing the bottom line of for-profit companies, not to developers.

I don't think that's true. The software itself doesn't benefit their bottom line because it's free for everyone. You can't charge a premium because your business runs on Linux.

All open source software does is provide a base-line of technology that all companies and all individuals can use. You can't directly or even indirectly profit of it -- you can only profit on the value you can provide on top of it.

As technologists, that's what we want! We want companies and individuals to stand on the shoulders of giants and peek a little bit higher. We don't need anyone to re-invent the wheel over and over.
Contrast this with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20987628
I wonder what percentage of YouTube comments contain a quote from the video.
The US Air Force’s radical plan for future fighter could field a jet in 5 years
> What you are suggesting is that we should be okay with this.

Anyone who can read my comment above can see clearly that you are putting words in my mouth.

> The law, precedent, and public opinion all disagree with you.

Except for all the places where law, precedent, and public opinion agree with an age of consent of 17?

The whole point is that there is not one single hard and fast rule that defines the boundaries of ethics in prostitution. So many of the comments here (including yours) portray a complicated situation as clearly black and white. Of course it doesn't help that in this particular case many folks are talking past each other because we're all intermingling various interrelated topics:

* Stallman's remarks and forced resignation

* The age of consent

* The specific case of Epstein's island

* Prostitution

I suspect that if we were to explicitly comment specifically on one point or the other that we'd all find we agree much more that we appear to.
Eliminating or reducing government subsidies for oil and coal companies probably would have a climate impact.

Even if divestment has “zero impact” as Gates suggests (which I doubt, but ok), it would have a symbolic importance and possibly spur others on to change their approach.
Oracle (new website)
This happens in every country. Its rate varies.
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Silly question: What are "CI pipeline minutes"? I read their FAQ which just says it's minutes used on their "runners", which only changes the question to "What are runners, and where do they fit in?"

I figured out CI means Continuous Integration, which is something I don't use, nor want to. I'm mainly just interested to know if this comes in to play if I just want to use GitLab to publicly share code like on Github.
Twitter is the Jerry Springer of the internet.
That's one of the purposes of HR. Watch any corporate harassment training video if you don't believe me.

TLDR: the accusation of harassment is 100% determined by the accuser. The determination of whether harassment occurred OTOH is decided by HR after judging the merits (or lack thereof) of the case.

I see no reason why MIT shouldn't have proceeded similarly. And while you might argue that's not 100% impartial, that's a lot better than a Twitter mob (to me at least).

Given the piles of video and text of Stallman being Stallman, and the "Hot Ladies" bit on his office door, do you really think they would have high-fived his conduct and told him to carry on? I'm cynical, but I'm not that cynical.

Or let's put this another way. The Unabomber and Charles Manson got their due process. Are you saying Stallman is worse than both of them? So I'm guessing you guys downvoting me no longer believe in our legal system? That'll end well I'm sure.
By divesting, the cost of capital for these firms increases which makes the marginal projects no longer economically feasible. By then putting money into cleantech, like Gates suggests, we reduce the cost of capital for these firms which is obviously a good thing.

His actual quote is that it has probably had zero impact to date which may be true but is largely irrelevant to the proposition that we should divest and increase the cost of capital for these firms.
So you're paying them for 2-3 hours of real work a day, and then another 5 hours of fake work? Why not just pay them only for the real work and give them the rest of the time off?
> Because if you really think that somebody needs to be fired, for stating a point completely unrelated to their job, then that is a problem that we, as a society, need to address urgently.

The issue is not voicing an opinion in private -- it's voicing it on an institutional mailing list in his capacity as a member of that institution.
> And amazon is obviously jam packed with smart people, so what am I missing

How many of them work on the (loss-making) shop app though?

I'm honestly curious, because presumably it's supposed to eventually come out insanely profitable and awesome, but the UX sucks, has done for years, and rarely changes.

I assume (but may well be completely wrong) that most engineers at Amazon work on keeping AWS's managed offerings up with the hype train (only one needs to be lasting mega usage to make it all worthwhile), and a whole load of SRE and performance work (I wouldn't like to guess how small a fractional optimisation to EC2 would result in an $X saving across the whole fleet!).
Sure, I didn't want to imply that the list itself is a bad idea, it's surely a necessity that works. The "best response" part was merely to point out that more substantial preventative actions, like better training, would be preferrable in my view to shift the paradigm to a world where "swatting" isn't a realistic thing in the first place.
Here in canada it just redirects me to a pre-order for residential solar. Does somebody want to archive.is this for people outside of the US?
It actually started as opposition to an extradition bill that has since been shelved for now (for obvious reasons) and then transitioned to a call for full blown democracy and accountability of the police forces - who are now under the control of the Chinese government.

I think (rightly so) they are more afraid of the Chinese government coming in and strong arming their population like they do to their own population. The treatment of dissidents and the possibility of having to deal with the Chinese government in any fashion is something that makes the entire population nervous.
The major cost drivers the new stations, not the tunnels. The Second Avenue subway has 16 new stations; Crossrail is only building 10 new stations.

That said, it's not really a surprise that construction costs are cheaper in the UK. Mean wages are 40% higher in the US overall. That the major New York construction firms are deeply integrated with organized crime doesn't help, of course.
Oh, additionally: I'm an iOS developer, and use my cable all the time.