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I much prefer to have private money buying politicians than public money. The latter makes the politicians conspire together against the public: after all, they all win the longer, more expensive and flamboyant campaigns are.

Anecodtally Argentina has public funding, and the biggest two parties ended up keeping all the public money for campaigning, and small parties have no chance. Do you think the Libertarian or Green party or Mormon parties iwll get the same money as the Dems and Reps?
The corporate spokesperson should be automated. Just have a robot do this job. It's boilerplate language. It requires no adaptation or creative thinking. And it'd be no more or less credible if delivered by a robot.
We don't know the facts. This absolutely might be leading to genocide. The fact that they are cutting social media is even more evidence it might go in that direction.
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There is large spectrum from we redistribute everything to we redistribute nothing. We can probably all agree that "justice" doesn't exist at either extreme, but it is also a vague term and its exact location on that spectrum will vary based on personal opinion. That said, a lot of people believe the location of "justice" on that spectrum is closer to the "we redistribute everything" side than where we currently sit and a move to more redistribution would therefore yield more justice. That is the opinion put forward in the article and hence the headline.
That dev is completely and utterly wrong.

>He says that you can opt out of code signing and the App Store on Mac because that's a professional OS

And this is why he's wrong: it's NOT a "professional OS". My sister has a Macbook Air, running MacOS. She's not a professional (computer user). Mac computers aren't just for "professionals" (esp. software devs), they're sold to anyone who wants something with a bigger screen than a mobile phone or tablet, and wants a keyboard to type on and wants to be able to have a normal filesystem to work with. In short, anyone who still wants to be able to use a normal PC.

She uses her Mac for typing documents (she likes to write), watching movies, etc. She is absolutely NOT what I consider a "tech-savvy user". So why does she "need" to be able to opt out of code signing and the App Store?

So, no, he's completely wrong. If Apple only sold their computers to software devs, he'd have a good argument, but they don't, so he doesn't.
You're saying "taxes will be too high on the masses" but this proposal would reduce taxes on everyone below the 95th percentile (or perhaps 90th?) in income. If almost everyone gets less taxes, how will that make them too high for the masses? You can disagree on whether it'd be practical, or whether the knock-on effects would be good, or whether the philosophy behind the decision is something you agree with, or any number of other things, but... I don't see how you can see a proposal that explicitly lowers taxes in almost every bracket, and say most people are going to complain about their taxes going up.
Amen.

My experience, exactly.
I am hesitating to respond as it may derail conversation from the actual subject at hand, but various territories have been annexed ( Crimea ) some of those annexations recognized ( Golan ) with comparatively little consequence. Add to that Chinese creating their own islands. 2019 is all about grabbing as much as you can. It may be wrong, but this is basically the world we live in.
> From being a candidate myself, I've found that having someone watch me and being in a room with the stress and all motivates me to show my best. Whereas coding challenges I really lack the motivation and I end up rushing them, doing them last minute, and really not showing my best.

OTOH, whiteboards or live-coding under interview conditions is a great way to watch me do worse work than I did when I was less than a year out from writing my first hello world. And yeah, I'm cool & collected under normal shit's-broken pressure, or client's-pissed-off pressure, on the actual job, which is totally different.
You can google the title and usually bypass the Paywall or find a new site.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/tiktok-says-it-won...
Economic growth that favored urban areas created a social wedge that was exploited by a coordinated international operation. It's the same pattern, and even a lot of the same people in Brazil, the UK, Hungary, Turkey, and the US.

It is simple to manipulate angry people with nationalist propaganda. You appeal to a sense of aggrievement to create unity among a marginalized group, manufacture an enemy to exploit fear and anger, and associate adversaries with that enemy to override rational behavior. Then exploit the divisions that creates in your enemy.

Facebook is the greatest gift to authoritarians in the history of humanity. It may be that a few hundred people will control the world at this rate.
Well yes, but if you don't get paid your promised wages, you can generally call up a government agency and get them to make your employer pay up. If you buy stock and it drops by 90%, nobody is going to help you.
In what sense are Credit Suisse execs "our rulers"?
Also the $100 they put has a chance of boosting economy and jobs.
Needing to buy safety with capital is the awful part.
Is it really that? Being rich is neither a human right nor a protected class. Anyone can go from rich to merely upper class easily. All the rich have to do is give away their money.

To be clear, I don’t support this but I am trying to understand why you make it sound like a human right violation.
If they don't get paid they sue their employer for their unpaid wages. The employee would not owe taxes on the money not received either.
Do you also feel we should hold the regulators who let it happen accountable?
I imagine Netflix will buy another season if they haven't already. I watched the Movie again after the show.. It was cool to see how much more detail about the universe the show was able to go into, and fun to imagine how the next season (or two) will bridge the gap to the movie.
“Huh, so maybe one of those seasonal-affect-disorder lamps would blah blah…” I’ve never been willing to try one as every one on the market is so ungodly ugly. There’s an opportunity out there for either a SAD bulb that could be added-on to a normal lamp, or an entire SAD lamp designed by an actual interior designer/artist.
More than possible, it's been relatively simple to do for practically a decade. Case in point, here's one of my papers looking at twitter bots from 2011: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/paper/viewP...

For a recent (last week!) review checkout https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01720 (by a former colleague)
It's hard not to wonder what might happen if more managers and executives became aware of "The Inner Platform Effect" and that "customizable" often just means "custom, but a worse, more expensive programming language".
Apple charges one thousand dollars for a phone; twitter is free. Is it unreasonable to expect a lower quality of service? Twitter didn't make its first annual profit until last year, whereas Apple has staggering amounts of cash burning a hole in its pocket.

And after all that, Apple's recent products have been somewhat lackluster. Catalina is currently a dumpster-fire; a friend installed it and had his machine just sit frozen for a while along with a huge number of other problems. Keyboard design, too. Doesn't sound to perfect to me.
And since they did the job for free their time is worthless.
I think ”not invading another country” is factually misleading. It’s not another point of view.

There is no difference between “invading a country” and “establishing a security zone inside another country”.
Kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment
> How useful is Windows Boot CD is?

Very if you're doing Windows desktop/workstation support.

Hiren's isn't just a PE, it includes a ton of useful utilities that help you repair, troubleshoot or fix a number of problems. The full list of utilities is here[1], but includes:

- BCD/MBR Tools

- Data Recovery

- Defrag

- Hard Drive Diagnostics

- Hard Drive Imaging/Cloning

- File Explorers

- Partition Repair

- Low Level Formatting/Data Destruction

- Windows Recovery

- Virus/Malware Scanners

- Key Finders (office, windows, etc)

- Password reset/recovery

- System Registry Repair

- And more...

[1] https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
I can't remember a single java app I ever enjoyed using. Why are we going back here?
If they can do starship with 5% of their resources, the future is going to be awesome.
> I think that capital gains should be taxed at a lower rate because people are putting their own wealth on the line.

Fine, but how do you do that without keeping the carried interest loophole that just won't go away regardless of which party is in power.
I think there's also an implication here that secrets aren't (generated and) stored on an HSM.

I know nothing about banking, but that surprises me.
Tax is money we contribute to a collective fund and then we elect representatives to spend it for the common good. With me so far?

The people who contribute the most should have a proportional say in how it’s spent. This is “fairness”. Numerically there will be more people who contribute less and fewer people who contribute more under a regressive system.

All of us share the benefits of social programs and health care even if we are not directly benefiting. Society works, and people can regain health, etc. and start contributing to the overall pool of tax money again.

At no point should tax become a method to redistribute wealth - although that’s exactly what it’s become.

We can all agree that some people earn so little they don’t have to pay into the “common benefit fund” (tax) but then shouldn’t they lose the right to decide how the funds are spent?
So the solution is to punish the users of the platform because the company won't spend enough money to hire people to properly vet the app store?

"its a bold move cotton..."
Arc has threads and HN's code relies heavily on them. Arc currently runs on Racket, though, which uses green threads, so the threadiness doesn't make it to the lower levels. Racket has other ways of doing parallelism, but as far I know they don't map as well to Arc's abstractions.
> Right, but normalizing to the price of bread and milk is even more ridiculous than normalizing to the federal budget, which is not excellent for this purpose, as you point out.

The CPI is composed of much more than that: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2016.pdf
I also don't see much of a connection between hyped up "unicorns" and overtly defrauding multiple companies and investors through forged contracts.

That's far worse than even the few non-software tech companies (Uber, Airbnb, maybe WeWork?) who skirted some grey areas disrupting entrenched markets. Even in biotech with Theranos that's extremely rare.

Its just trendy to broadly attack SV these days.
USB-C will actually be here when Logitech releases a mouse/keyboard dongle for it.
Is it a blanket bombing campaign though? Do you really believe Turkey is indiscriminately bombing civilians?
All other forms for risk except stock investment are treated like ordinary income. If I start a company but sell no stock, and wholly self fund, then all my profits are treated like ordinary income.
Well there isn’t any better spreadsheet software in 2019. Like what even comes close in terms of features and fit?

Photoshop. I think it’s a tiny little more mixed opinion of the overall program in terms of UX, but again, the closest replacement might be Affinity. And that is too new.
I'll bite. Why do you suppose it's an emotional decision? And why do you assume they're rewriting things and not writing new code in support of their business model?
This does not contain goldmemory. I'm not sure when that stopped being part of it. I accidentally discovered (due to it being on hirens) that it finds faulty dimms very effectively. The same dimms will run memtest faultlessly but non the less cause a bsod.
So i suppose im a fan of that software! It actually helped me alot, many eons ago i would build alot of machines for networks, and in trying to determine the cause of bsod or restarts i eventually discovered it was always purely ram at fault.
You realize it costs time and money to sue?
While I agree that the Guix blog post was disgraceful, the page linked to here looks very weird and I can barely take it seriously. For one, it has too many quotes of random, low-quality twitter shitposts, repeats its talking points over and over in paragraph after paragraph, and in some parts, the page texts look machine-generated.

Is this some sort of experiment?
You could, you know, live somewhere that's not so crowded. If you choose not to take advantage of what mobility you have, well, don't act so surprised.
> Cons: 64-bit only

I mean, when was the last time 32 bit CPUs were sold? In 2009 I bought a basic very cheap computer. It still had 64 bit.
The Guy Who Eats 154-Year-Old Crackers for Fun
In Poland people have learned about lost court cases from Court debt collector in the middle of freezing their assets. All because there is no Service of process procedure, courts just send ordinary letter to the registered legal residency address.
No, I come from a country where having friends is not strange at any age. The US are weird and can't put my finger on it but I never felt so detached. I will definitely leave when I'm done working, I hate the lifestyle here, it's so hollow and boring.
I don't know about UK jurisprudence, but in the US, it should have been easy to file a continuance on the hearing, so it could be rescheduled to a later date.

If it's the same, then she just needed to send a letter to the court outlining the steps she had gone through, and was working on to get documentation for the case. Depending on jurisdiction, she may have had to appear before a judge to make the request.

It's up to the judge, of course, but in 99% of the cases, if you have a reasonable request, then you'll get your continuance.
The general answer is yes and yes. That's why OMI / OpenCAPI are being released as standards, with RTL / HDL. I think at this point there would be more appetite for a next gen interface like DDR5 vs. DDR4 to be released, but I'm just speaking personally from general knowledge here.
Branching Out from Bash: Fishing Expedition
One curve ball in all this is that you get to deduct and offset capital losses against other capital gains.

That $100 that you lost betting on $LOSER gets to be offset against the $100 you made betting on $WINNER.
> Except I can count on one hand the number of fortune 500 enterprises that moved to gsuite over o365.

That's maybe another way of showing that UX is not the winning differentiator in enterprise that it is in consumer.

> This reads like someone who lives in the valley and thinks the valley is in any way reflective of corporate America.

I don't live in that valley, and I fully know that it doesn't reflect the rest of US or world, and that is why, indeed, enterprise UX does suck! :)

I think we agree... I'm not hearing an argument from you that it's because of superior UX that people are sticking to O365.
I unscientifically believe that we shouldn't use an alarm clock or any kind of trigger to wake up.

My rational is: if your body has enough sleep, it'll wake up on its own.

On the flip side: it's actually very hard to sleep when your body doesn't need sleep.

On another flip side: it's easy to stay awake even though your body needs sleep.

With this, we should all sleep in a completely dark (blocked) room with no sound and etc. The "big unblocked east window in the bedroom" (unless the curtain blocks the light effectively) is a no for me.

I've read "why we sleep", and I get this conflict where:

1. The author believes in the no-trigger-to-wake-up as well.

2. Somehow I also get the impression that the author also believes that we should use sunlight as a trigger for waking up. We'd feel fresher. But wouldn't that cut off our sleep?
I still dont understand the point of this. Why are people trying to turn JavaScript into a systems programming language? It isnt, has never been, and never will be that.

If you wish to use a systems programming language, use a systems programming language. Plenty of old ones (Java, C, C++) and plenty of new ones (Go, D, Nim, Rust, Zig) are available. Its like people took a square piece of rock and said:

A: hey, lets chip off some corners so that this can roll!

B: but now its an octagon...

A: well if you put it on a hill it can tumble down!

All the while several styles of modern wheels sit behind them.
How would you enforce any of these? Are these guides or reasons to not accept PRs? Seems like it would be worth encoding in a tool if this is for teams.
I was curious what it looked like, so did some digging and turned up this:
https://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/hiroshi-ishiguro-creates...

Creepy indeed.
No these tweets get it exactly right. A problem is software that gets sold on golf courses without any regard the people who are actually going to use it.
And that's the reason why most people chose Java(Script)
Great points! I'd like to add that RabbitMQ is an easier option if it has enough number of features that'd cover your needs. So, it might be better to checkout ready solutions before diving into a MQ framework.
Google Made “Substantial” Contributions Towards Climate Change Deniers
Counterpoint: I started having the worst insomnia ever after I started lifting. I feel like my adrenaline level is higher now. I love lifting, and it has a lot of benefits, but for me, better sleep is not one of them. I also noticed it made my restless leg syndrome worse. Stretching and getting back on magnesium seems to have helped that, but my sleep quality and duration is still shit.
And, the old versions of Hiren's Boot CD are still available for download[1], which are 32bit...

[1] https://www.hirensbootcd.org/old-versions/
Its Products Make You Feel Good, but Apple Isn’t Your Friend
Seems like there’s a few things at play here

Foremost it sounds like Facebook has a shitty performance management culture. Let’s forget intent for a minute. Looking at the details offered, it’s just bad. If you get a rating of “meets most”, and that’s really bad then your system is off the bat not clear.

The implied story I got was about Chinese worker and visa abuse. But it sounds like it’s more just bad company culture with high degrees of competitiveness and finger pointing. I don’t see anything especially relevant to his race or immigration status. The idea that they’re dangling anything over his head (as is a common and important problem for many low skilled tech workers, (which probably doesn’t describe this guy)) because it’s implied they were going to push him out.

The internal push to silence any internal discussion on it is shameful.

But overall this seems like the result of organizational incompetence rather than malice. And I don’t think it should be surprising to anyone that this is the case because you’re going to be selecting for a very specific profile for a company like Facebook. Namely, people who put higher value on money and prestige.
I'll say that docs are delightful to read and beautifully explain the domain. I would recommend going through them even if you never use the ZMQ itself.
> Are you an experienced pilot, intimately familiar with the 737 MAX, or otherwise an aviation expert qualified to be a judge of this?

I am not a pilot, but I worked on the stab trim design for the 757. There are cutoff switches for the stab trim on the console, and their purpose is to stop uncommanded trim movement. They were successfully used on another Lion Air flight to recover from MCAS malfunction.

The electric thumb switches will also override MCAS and can be used to trim the stabilizer back to normal, and then cut off further trim with the cutoff switches. In both incidents the pilots were able to bring the trim back with the thumb switches, multiple times, but it apparently did not occur to them to shut off the trim after doing so.

I'm very interested to see the NTSB report on this.
It isn’t their wealth though. It’s stolen wealth from the workers they directly or indirectly exploit. Also, risk is a pretty subjective term. If I am a billionaire, pitting 10 million on the line isn’t risky. It is a childs game with very little consequence to me. And again, a game played with ill gotten
resources.

Your conception of capital is pretty narrow. A person in a regular job puts tons of risk on the line each day with their body, time, and mental health. They don’t get to reap the rewards hardly as much though.
What is the app called you are using? Is it Sleep as Android? Thanks!
I wouldn't be here if I didn't see a bunch of headlines yesterday that made it sound like these new laptops have proper open firmware.

They don't. That's why I'm here, to provide the missing other half of the story.
The issue isn't that shipping doesn't cause air pollution. It's what kind of pollution does it create (few articles state this explicitly), and with what consequences.

In general, you have the following emissions from any fossil-fuel combustion process:

- Water vapour. This is virtually never harmful.

- CO2. This is not immediately toxic, but is a greenhouse gas, and net emissions must be reduced globally.

- Other combustion chemical products. Generally small fractions total emissions, though potentially hazardous to humans, including NOx (nitrous oxides), SO2 (sulfur dioxide), O3 (ozone), and trace pollutants such as mercury. All are bioactive or biotoxic.

- Physical emissions. In particular, fine particulate matter, essentially soot, most especially PM2.5 (2.5 micron particles). These are physical irritants and can contribute to lung injury and disease, among other factors.

Stating "ships emit X amount of pollutants" without specifying the pollutants is worse than useless, and often deliberately misleading.

Total CO2 emissions are wholly a function of the amount of fuel burned. Shipping is about 3% of total fossil fuel consumption, and hence, of total CO2 emissions. On net, and especially based on the total tonnage and value of goods moved, shipping is the most efficient form of transportation available. It is low polluting in terms of CO2.

Where ships trail, badly, is in particulate and chemical emissions. Ship fuel is "bunker oil", basically the last grade of petroleum above asphalt, and having a consistency when cold of tar or even a solid. Worse, it's also typically high in impurities, including sulfur, mercury, and other elements and chemicals. And when burnt tends to product high amounts of particulates. Given the regulatory environment, multinational, international waters, diverse, and often a race-to-the-bottom of bare minimum standards, marine emissions of these pollutants is high.

As a somewhat saving grace, these pollutants do tend to settle out quickly, and hence don't reside long in the atmosphere. Some, especially mercury, do reside in (and worse, bioaccumulate and concentrate) in life, which is why eating carnivorous fish (tuna, shark, swordfish) is not recommended.

But the full picture on shipping is that its pollutant levels vary greatly, compared to other sources, and in environmental impacts depending on the specific pollutants in question.
What did blackberry do so well in email?
> A lot of the time the client would be better off buying actual custom software.

I agree in theory, but I thoroughly disagree in practice.

If a client could spec/develop good software and cost it realistically, then sure. But I have rarely had clients like that - instead they think the problem-space is simple and end up with a half-baked solution that can't be maintained.

Developing greenfield software is a high risk strategy. (Edit: with a high reward if core function, and not much reward if not core).