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If DNS is encrypted, would that make it easier to route casual internet traffic through china, russia or another foreign nation which would have an easier time intercepting and monitoring communications without being noticed?
I did have to look for it, but the About section says they use gender-neutral pronouns.
That sounds like it would be useful for cosplay.
I’m sorry, are you frustrated that words have meaning and sometimes you have to learn what it is?
In Australia you pay the marginal tax rate which is nearly 50%, both on acquiring the shares, and (usually) any gains between then and when you sell them.

The article is real poorly written, I can't work out what it's saying the US or EU equivalents are.
Elon Musk is also a huge fan of Douglas Adams, as he mentioned again in his latest interview with Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ36Kt7UVg
if you only had limited time and resources to actually change something wouldn't you want to focus on the things with most impact? Also, before banning anything do we actually have an understanding of what the environmental impact is going to be? (e.g. if producing a paper straw consumes more electricity and generates more pollution than a plastic straw ending up to actually be worse for the environment than just keeping to use the plastic ones, wouldn't you want to know this before you ban the plastic straws and force the use of paper straws?)
I haven't been on iOS for years but I had a first gen watch, aside from glancing at my wrist when driving or doing something with my hands to see what a text message said, I couldn't see any practical use for the watch, which is why I ended up selling it after 5-6 months. I did use it a couple of times to take a call when I was doing garden work and didn't want to fish my dirt-covered hand into my pocket but obviously that was a subpar experience and not something you'd likely do often.

I love the idea of devices like this but if it's something that requires you to look at, and manipulate things on, the screen... I'd rather just use my phone. I imagine many people buy them purely as a "hey look at me, I gots me an Apple watch!" and some people might buy them so they can glance at their watch (pretending no one notices) to check incoming text messages in environments where it would be rude or not allowed to pop out their phone, but from my own experience I just can't see them being practical enough to really have enough interest to spur development aside from "here's the most important data from our app mirrored on your wrist!"
Perhaps malloc() could allocate 1 byte extra at the start of the allocated block with some magic number written to it and free() could assert that the number is correct and change the number to mark the block as freed.
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The United States is a winner take all economy, especially when it comes to startups. It's easy to see the big success while ignoring the large cemetery of failed ones. I can bet that more startups that tried to spur innovation by providing stock options to their employees have failed then succeeded even in the US where the tax laws are comparatively better.
Hmm, wouldn't that add unacceptable latency? I feel like it would be at least 50ms.
Do you have a hard time seeing humor in a lot of things others do? Or is this just one that doesn’t strike?

I’m curious because I found that quote pretty funny and even profound.

I can relate with feeling like everyone else gets something that just seems frustrating to myself. My example is living on Mars. I don’t get it, seems like a terrible idea and I can’t understand why people want to do it. I’m okay with them wanting to go but I would never want to go myself.
A more generous interpretation: Intel made decisions that favored actual measurable performance today at the expensive of theoretically known vulnerabilities that might be exploited in some hypothetical future. They gave the market what the market demanded at a cost they tolerated.

And even now, after said theoretical vulnerabilities have been reified, there is very little cause to be concerned about the vulnerabilities under discussion unless you host code for other people as a business model (or use such a service). Otherwise your biggest concern is a web browser that already has a whole host of actual and theoretical vulnerabilities of its own.
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If I was building new, I'd go AMD, too.

As things stand, I already have a 8-core X299 system, and the fact that I can drop an 18-core CPU into it after a BIOS update is compelling. But it seems unlikely that there is a large enough audience in this situation to juice Intel's profits or prevent them from losing more market share to AMD.
I don't see how "overt sexual advances to women" is by itself bad behaviour anyway. Sure, the appropriateness depends on the situation, but humans by and large do have sexual desire, often of heterosexual orientation. Is phrasing the "overt sexual advances to women" implying that covert sexual advances are better?

This way of phrasing it makes it seem as though "overt sexual advances" would necessarily be unwelcome, or part of a behaviour profile that constitutes harassment.
This is definitely happening in Europe. It's not like you get to opt-in to these things
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I am a huge fan of worker co-ops, but I think you’re confusing creating wealth and distributing wealth.

Co-ops do an excellent job of distributing wealth, and in the case of a few such as Mondragon, they’ve been able to create wealth, also.

Startups can, in the economic jargon, create wealth, if they create a product whose benefit to society is greater than its costs (including externalized costs and subsidies). But they don’t necessarily distribute much of that created wealth, it all depends on how the capitalist relationship with labor and consumption are structured in that environment.
bulgaria or your mother's vagina?
My favorites are made of nylon. It's a much lighter material than what most stores are selling as reusable bags. Enough so that you can easily keep 1 or 2 with you all the time if you're the kind of person to carry a purse or courier bag. Meaning that, unlike those canvas bags or the ones made out of that big heavy stiff plastic material, they're convenient enough to actually get used regularly.

I found one study that suggested, though, that the lowest environmental load came from the regular disposable bags as long as you reuse them until they wear out. The main reason I don't do that is that I've discovered that supermarket employees seem to really hate that, in a way they don't with the bags that are made for reuse.

I'm also inclined to guess that it's still bikeshedding. The shopping bag is really visible, but it's maybe a small amount of waste compared to all the unnecessary packaging for the products it's being used to carry home.
The joke is, that many people find New York amazing .. while it is a insane, loud nonstop rush hour for others, like the author.
Or wars.

In other words when progress means war and places like new york, some think not achieving progress and just enjoy life in old ways would have been better.

But Douglas Adams himself did not move into the wilderness ... and in a later book Arthur Dent is indeed stranded in the stoneage living simple, but hating it!

So ... it is Satire. Not to be taken literal. It can make you laugh about some absurde things of the everyday life, but does not mean to burn it all, because it is not perfect. (maybe burn only some things in a funny way)

And if you do not enjoy it ... no worries, just read something else.
Welcome back to feudalism... But at least you're free, for now, to pick your fiefdom; FB, AMZN, GOOG, AAPL or MSFT.
In Ukraine very common service to get EU citizenship by "making" family roots in Bulgaria. It costs about 3000+ euros to make a new passport. And waiting time is about 1.5 years from what I know from people who actually bought such service.

I wandering doest it counted here? Can be decline numbers much bigger if count all people from Russia and Ukraine who made their new passports this way.
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They run to save one of their own being beaten to death with pipes and hammers.
I'm one of those people that require an "in case" bank nearby. I've had to visit the bank in person multiple times in the past year because they kept screwing up paperwork. In my experience, trying to deal with those situations on the phone has a high likelihood of both taking a long time and not actually resolving it.

Plus I have a safety deposit box at my bank for important documents.
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I'm pretty sure it's mostly cultural, and has a lot to do with the American Dream whatever it means.

I think its this general idea that anyone can make it if they work hard, I don't think there is an equivalent notion in most European countries, at least the ones I have contact with due to having family all over the place.
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This is a very good comment
>There is nothing to understand about that point. It's a linguistic distinction which makes no practical difference.

It does make a practical difference. Important tasks are higher priority under tighter time constraints and vice versa. I fail to see how this isn't a practical distinction.

>If you always lean towards Urgent things, you will neglect the Important. If you always lean towards Important things, you will neglect the Urgent.

If you do this you failed. The point is lean important when time constrained, urgent when not.

>Conversely: if you have a way to decide which task to schedule first, then (to you) they clearly have different priorities.

They have different priorities IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS. One is higher when time constrained, the other higher when not. It is clear from reading your comments that you have not understood this.
> * 10% income tax (second lowest in EU), 5% dividend tax

But you you have very high social insurance, pension and other welfare fees, just like in any ex-bloc country. They will amount to 30%+ of employment cost.
Hi HN,

I just launched this little game of mine - Astro Golf. You can think of it as Desert Golfing but in space, where the gravitation pull of the planets create some interesting levels. I think it was on an HN comment that I first heard about Desert Golfing many moons ago, so it felt fitting to post this back here.

All the levels are procedurally generated, and are guaranteed to be hole-in-one-able. I did this by computationally testing a huge amount of levels offline.

This is my first game, and I learnt a lot doing it. Happy to answer your questions! I hope you enjoy it.

Peace
I wouldn't stress it too much. It used to be that a lots of places on your work history was frowned upon, but in my experience as a hirer, it's not such a big deal these days. It shouldn't affect your hireability in the future in any measurable way.
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It might be a temporary thing. Yahoo owned a chunk of Alibaba and Naspers owns a large chunk of Tencent.
I've always taken it as the power of your point of view to color how you perceive your own reality. We're caught up in what we see as the "modern world" to the degree that we cannot understand the fact that the dolphins, who, to us, seemingly waste all their time frolicking in the oceans and eating our free fish offerings, are in fact a deeply evolved and space-faring race, sitting there right in front of our eyes (and, not coincidentally, similarly judging us for how we go about our lives).
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What do you mean “gets a distinct category”? Nutritionally it’s certainly possible to survive without eating fish, but a very large number of people do eat fish to survive.

Statisticians will collect and analyze data at many levels of granularity. Obviously it’s nice to know the types of food billions of people eat more generally than “fat”, “protein”, and “carbs”.

It stands to reason that fishing should be done sustainably, just like anything should be done sustainably, lest it become unsustainable. In other words, this says essentially nothing, right?

Only in the context of what the substitute is, how readily available it is, how comparable in cost, how comparable in nutrition, how much is it preferred or disliked compared to the status quo, and what negative externalities might exist in scaling up the alternative, only in that context can a useful discussion be had.
Depends on how much capital you need. From personal experience you can forget traditional bank loans unless you are already rich and VCs seem to be mostly following the latest SV ideas on top of being rather risk averse. What seems to work so (I currently going through that process albeit at a very early stage) is to get bank loans backed by the German KfW covering everything from 100k to almost 25M for more established companies. That seems to be the most feasible avenue for me right now. You still need some own capital so, roughly 10-15%. Still should cover most early stage capital needs. Also interest rates are backed by the state an thus pretty low.

The KfW, Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau or Bank for Reconstruction (very rough translation) is where Germany put the remaining funds from The Marshall Plan in. Kind of smart in retrospect.
Wow. Spot on.
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Sure, the “easiest” option is bringing in a whole new language and its toolchain just to decode gifs. Lol!
I think the main use case is activity tracking. If you already have an activity tracking watch and it breaks, hey an Apple Watch let’s you activity tracking and maybe vibrates during navigation so you don’t miss your turn. But I have never seen much use past that.

Currently rocking a garmin 735 for activity tracking / run gps. When it breaks maybe I will get an Apple Watch? Or maybe a newer garmin. Nothing else the Apple Watch does really interests me. Also my watch goes 7-10 days between charges.
There are many ways to participate, and with modern communications and relative ease of travel, you could keep track and don't loose connections, even if you are not phisically "there". Also, having the perspective from living under different set of rules, allows you to compare and propose changes back home. Many, many bulgarians abroad still care deeply about our beautiful country and I personally know several who have returned to try and fight the fight on home turf. And you certainly are aware that throughout history large bulgarian diasporas all around the Balkans and beyond have been involved with preserving culture, language and shared history and that begginning of the 20th Century it was standard practice to go study in Western Europe or Russia and come back home with top notch education. You sure are also aware that believing in good strong education is one of the tenets of our people, that has endured uninterrupted for more than a half millennium, from the times of the Paisius of Hilendar,through our unique, and unfortunately lost community cultural centers[O] and up until today.

It is not going to be easy to revive that spirit, but "we" have no choice but to try and be юнаци :)

[0] Random search gave me the following paper: http://tru.uni-sz.bg/tsj/TJS_Suppl.1_Vol.15_2017/76.pdf
I am friends with an MP who is on the Remain side, and I've quizzed him off and on for some time. He tells me there will be some movement in the currency exchange markets, on the London stock exchange, but by and large life will just keep moving along. Manufacturing agreements with Asia and the Americas are in place, so no disruption to most of that. He thinks some food staples might be in short supply but companies have been preparing for Brexit for a year now, so disruption should be minimal. He believes the future of Britain is within the Union, but he personally believes all talk of disruption and shortages is just politics.

Personally, I believe him. I think a lot of politics is filled with doomsday scenarios and fear mongering, but we're talking about a major, modern economy. Brexit reminds me of Y2K. Lots of talk, lots of worry, but nothing really happened.
the entire programming team is a bunch of 'loan wolves'?

I'd say, yeah, that's a red flag. You aren't discussing issues and making decisions with input even from your own team members?
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I think the UK will have to give up N.I. to Ireland at some point to avoid an all out war. EU is good at keeping peace the last few decades, but Europe has always been at war internally before that so it looks like it will be back to BAU
Can you elaborate on why you think this? Genuine question
Where are the talented people in Europe? I was looking for some for 14 years when I had my startup (in the most liveable city in the world apparently), but nobody came. What I learnt is that - naturally - nearly all highly talented people go to the USA (or sometimes UK) to maximise their chances. Also, the 2 most talented/intelligent people in IT I know since they were kids live in the US permanently now. One is at Google.

Keep believing that you'll find "huge numbers of highly talented people" here, you won't - unless perhaps you mean in the arts...
It's hard because as you grow, you need to pay out lots of taxes, an aggressive amount benefits to employees, and in many parts of Europe, negotiate with unions (which includes all of the above and more).

All of this money goes out to other things instead of growing your business. The end result is very large companies (usually with an HQ in another part of the world) and governments that create all of the jobs.

This is exactly what happens in many of Scandinavian countries.
what does he think about N.I. and good friday agreement
In what universe do you live in that you operate under different time contexts/constraints to the rest of us?

The very fact that you are forced to make a choice between Urgent and Important indicates that you ARE time-constrained within your context.

If you could do both in parallel it wouldn't be a prioritisation problem.

There is only one time context. It's called The Universe. For each worker (human!) Time is a finite resource. It is clear form your comments that you do not understand this.

Having 'different time contexts' means having multiple workers. Multi-threading.
Ok, what counts as the "left" in the US and most European countries promoted globalization - the unreconstituted hard left, sure, not so much.

I agree with you that this is a consumption problem, but globalization is what has driven consumption for the past 30 years.
It will be bad, although with the complete inability of UK leaders to get anything done or make decisions much damage has already been done.
It’s a bit of the British absurdism à la Monty Python. Their humor is really similar.

It’s a fish because, well, why wouldn’t a fish that eats brainwaves want to live in your ear? It could have been a spider, or a small bug, or a hermit crab... but who would want one of those in there? A fish though... it is such a random concept that somehow it can be accepted, simply because we didn’t see it coming.
Why not just buy some hardware to run these jobs rather than doing all this work to reduce the aws bill a couple percent?
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I think they used EL wire and not LEDs (if we're thinking about the same thing)
> It's a way to get more data from people.

Owning other people's money and controlling where it can and cannot flow is way more than a way to get more data.
Maybe wrong here but is it possible this genre might not just be your thing? Are there other examples of this style you enjoy (maybe Vonnegut or some of Scalzi)? Or if it is maybe it's his particular style of humor (definitely in the classic British/Monty Python mold) you don't respond to.

Anyways it's certainly not hard scifi and not meant to be. Basically any scifi-ish element in the book(s) is meant to be funny/surreal/absurd and won't hold up to any sortof actual scrutiny. Often not even just technical scrutiny but basic "would this ever actually happen" scrutiny.

In one of the books mean he introduces an alien that spends it's entire existence traveling throughout the Universe insulting every sentient being in alphabetical order. Obviously that's not something that would ever actually happen but the idea itself has value if you find it funny (which I did but maybe you would not).
In the mid 2000s it was common that several large broadband isps would have folks on their DNS team selling DNS traffic data under the table to people engaging in domain tasting and other things. It was only a matter of time until the isps realized they could wet their beak with the same info.
This is ridiculous. No, you don't need staff lawyer, accountant or "GDPR specialist" to start in Europe. One company I worked at didn't employ an accountant until pushing to €10M turnover. They still don't have a lawyer.
Because our government is not really interested in protecting its citizens from abuse at the hands of corporations.

edit: you can see this clearly in the way they pay lip service to "breaking up big tech" (whether or not that's a good idea, this comment is not a statement of opinion on that subject) because it's politically sexy on both sides, while all these other, arguably more egregious abuses of consumer data are so far off the radar that most people probably aren't aware they're happening.
> There have been fewer wars and conflicts and violence in the age of the internet than at any other time.

This is certainly more caused by the advent of destructive weapons like nukes, subs, and carriers, than the internet.

its harder to keep secrets like war crimes, atrocities, and genocides, but probably has comparatively little effect on all out war.