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Democracy just means you managed to convince more idiots to say A rather than B. It's not like it is really an admirable state of affairs.

Billionaires have to at least be competent enough to make their money, and shelter it from the thieving governments and other leeches that are trying to suck it away from them.
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Americans: "How could one possibly define hate speech!?"

Most countries: Has a fairly clear legal definition of hate speech, in statute or precedent.
These individuals accumulated their massive wealth by utilizing the infrastructure and economic substrate of our society. So the people who make up that society have a right to decide democratically how some of those resources are allocated. That’s the deal.

Even assuming you are right, there are many more important values than mere efficiency. Governments are the only bodies which can realistically pursue the values and needs of the people in the face of massively powerful multinational corporations. Of course there is always room for improving the effectiveness of government, but the alternative is blind faith that the super-rich know best for us, despite their limited perspective and many well-documented flaws and biases.
You must have really hated the early internet then!
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>>>the state can still manufacture startups because these companies will get the red carpet from every other institution.

>Yes, but you are underestimating the ways the state itself may "help" a company fail.

Yes, but this also undermines your point that government-manufactured startups will necessarily get red-carpet treatment.

Like I've said earlier, Malaysia is more like Romania, and the examples you've listed are peanuts compared to the kind of shenanigans you can get in Malaysia.

I mean, this is a country whose PM is a nonagenarian who's made a spectacular political comeback [0], after having defeated his protégé [1] and his former party [2], and who's known for sending another protégé to jail on sodomy charges.[3] It's also a multi-ethnic country where the privileged status of the majority ethnicity is constitutionally protected[4] and backed by active affirmative action policies.[5]

Which is why there's so much skepticism in this thread about the whole thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathir_Mohamad

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najib_Razak

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Malays_National_Organis...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim_sodomy_trials

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_153_of_the_Constitutio...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumiputera_(Malaysia)
> There are certain amino acids the body can't make itself

This is a common myth, plants contain all the essential amino acids. A cows gut does not magically create essential amino acids, it takes them from plants, and so can we.

There is no magical ingredient in animal products, they are completely optional for a healthy diet.
My point was - I can be okay with them not paying more, and it isn’t because I think I’ll be a billionaire someday.
>It's not that hard to spin things in a way that people unknowingly vote for the opposite of what they actually want or need.

If people are intentionally voting for the opposite of what they actually need, why is this a problem? Who's the arbiter of what the voters "need" anyway? The voters are responsible for determining what they need, and voting for it; if they can't do that, then they're getting what they deserve, right?

Basically, this comes down to an argument of democracy vs. authoritarianism. Should the voters get what they want or vote for, even if it's seemingly not in their best interest? Or should some other party decide what the citizens need and force it on them?
Without thinking too much I’d agree, but I have a hard time saying someone making $25k/yr should pay 25% of their income compared to someone making $1mil/yr.

If the very wealthiest weren’t paying lower effective tax rates than the people making $200k/yr. that would be a start.
> Do you also get snarky about Bill Gates giving away half his wealth to the Gates foundation? After all, he's still leaving billions aside for himself to live it up.

I don't and I thought someone might bring this up. Let me explain. To me, Bill Gates is intellectually honest and consistent. He isn't apologizing for being rich. He doesn't believe it's wrong that he got rich. From my outside perspective he seems like he's just someone who likes to solve problems. He solved some problems that made him a lot of money. Now he wants to use that money to solve other problems. Ok. Fine.

Contrast that to these kids. They are:

1. Saying that is bad and wrong that they have the money they have. They don't believe they should have it.

2. Continuing to hold on to the money they think it is wrong that they have.

To me, that is intellectually dishonest. If I honestly believe that something I'm doing is fundamentally wrong, then I should stop doing that thing. I understand they probably can't dissolve their trust funds on their own. They could however choose to get a job and live off that income while directing 100% of their trust income to charity, while not living in a multi-million dollar loft they didn't pay for.

Let me be clear, that's if they believe it's wrong. If they don't believe it's wrong, then they'd be acting consistently with their beliefs.

It's not that I disagree with what they're doing, I'm bothered by the inconsistency between their words and their actions.

> Almost everyone invests their money in productive businesses, simply by investing in the stock market. Heck, that's what most people do with their trust funds and riches. Choosing to give it away to charity definitely seems more noble.

Eh, maybe not necessarily. If their trust is invested in a high-frequency trading fund that makes money by front-running trades, is that really a productive activity? Would it be better to make money in some rent-seeking activity and give it away or, for example, invest it in a steel mill where you accept reduced profits in favor of paying high wages and benefits? To me the latter helps people more and also produces steel, which is useful. (This is just an example, I'm not interested in a debate about the economics of running a steel mill in the US.)
Justice was done, and clearly seen to be done. I'm very comfortable with the balance of the law after that trial. Had the defendant bothered to offer a defence exploring freedom of expression, we might be discussing his acquittal.

Reading the judgement took my opinion from surprise at an apparently ridiculous verdict, to one that was entirely fitting.

>> a load of money
> deserved in my opinion

For what? A defence he did not use after encouragement?
"Billionaires have to at least be competent enough to make their money, and shelter it from the thieving governments and other leeches that are trying to suck it away from them."

Is this actually true? At having that much money you can hire someone to be competent for you in wealth management.
I trust politicians as much as I trust billionaires: not at all. In fact as the OP points out at least the occasional billionaire will do something productive for society. The same can't be said for the government.

> [citation needed] In fact, there's an easy counter-example. Healthcare. More expensive than any public system, with worse outcomes for the general population.

The only reason health care is so expensive in the US is because of government regulations. From doctor accreditation, FDA approval, health insurance "marketplace" rules... The government is the single largest force pushing up the price of health care.
What is it? What can I use this for?
Yes it's weird. I think everyone involved had those same questions.

I got the story directly from my father who worked with the guys. It could have been bigotry maybe the men refused service were denied due to their appearance, accent, job (fishermen upset with Coast Guard workers).

My aunt was refused a hotel room in Quebec City because she is English. Her French husband asked and was told sure no problem but the clerk said to him in French "let me get rid of this English pig fisrt". My aunt spoke French ( awkward!). That was a story often told at family reunions.
They ported because there was a user base that liked the commends and environment and wanted to keep using it. It was a rewrite from scratch to the same design spec.
> It's time that North Americans take a stand and use economic power for something other than furthering that goal.

Which goal is that?
There is. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/apple-fighting-privacy-imessag...
He's not giving away jobs as charity because he has money. The need for these jobs stems from the demand for the work produced by those jobs, not his on-hand availability of money. If he/Amazon didn't have the money on hand, they would just borrow it and/or raise investments.
The system password manager usually takes care of that so you only type your password once.
>It's not like it [democracy] is really an admirable state of affairs.

So, what is an "admirable state of affairs" if democracy is so objectionable to you?
Just skimming through the article you posted, it says trials with a similar treatment resulted in one patient dying from a massive immune response and two other got cancer. Sounds like it relies on a virus to deliver the DNA, but I didn't read too carefully, so maybe CRISPR will turn out to have fewer side effects or a greater success rate. I'm pretty sure one of the up-sides to CRISPR is compared to other gene-editing techniques it's relatively cheap, which is always a plus.
Wow. Really ? Thats like, really bloated;
Do you know the train biscuits story?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF2fZ2iOXhk

Imagine the anecdote coming from the person you wall'd.
Breakfast for adults without a medical condition is certainly unnecessary.

Not sure about kids though. They are still growing and modern nutrition has helped kids grow taller and healthier than past generations who had intermittent access to food.

Eggs and a glass of whole milk would probably be a lot healthier than pop tarts and skim milk with cereal though.
Sketch can't do text around a circle, does XD? I've never tried Adobe XD as I hate how Adobe installs all sorts of crap with their applications.
Sure, but it's still part of political process that is complicated and in some cases eliminating other views. But cannot compare it to the communist China and thank goodness there are no special camps in US to educate people until the regime thinks they are eligible to be free.
HN-type rant :
Guys , it’s 2019 already, why not have a presentation tool that works on mobile browsers ?

That talk looks extremely interesting but i can’t browse past slide 4
being an economic power
Apple Has No Backbone
Allowing the rise of authoritarianism would seem like a complicated and super risky move considering the impact to lower class people
Most of Bezos' money is invested in Amazon, investing in growth to create more jobs and better/cheaper goods & services. What he actually spends, funds jobs that exist because rich people exist and buy things others don't.
Blizzard and now Apple.

I think this is very serious and it should be a wake-up call.

As simple citizens we don't have much choices but vote with our wallets and use social networks to attack the most valuable asset of those companies, their reputation.
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Technology evolves so fast that a tech vault would become obsolete very fast. People in the future may not know how to deal with such obsolete technology. Technology also degrades over time. Unlike seeds you cant "freeze" technology to keep it from degrading. At least I dont know how.
And rsync fwiw.
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I would recommend using the ssh config file instead.
Reminds me: this guy used gene therapy to cure himself of lactose intolerance quite a while ago. Not sure how common it actually is among biohackers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY
the game uses commands like "from now on, use this ground fill pattern"

Code is often a good form of data compression.
> Likewise if people with unchallenged confidence get to run things, bad things tend to happen

They usually grow in the process and get ahead of the too careful and doubtful ones.

Throughout growing up I regularly thought other guys knew so much more things than me on various topics and often didn't dare to pitch in and felt like I couldn't contribute. Then most of the times, just a little later I realized how much they were just clumsily piecing together phrases they heard here and there but didn't really know what they were really talking about.

This includes topics like WWII history, computers, political ideology (communism, nazism), sex, sports, and all sorts of stuff they probably heard from their parents or older siblings.

An enthusiastic, confident kid (let's say 10-14 years) can just talk so much nonsense on and on without being disturbed in the slightest (adults tend to be more mindful of their own gaps of knowledge and are more afraid of embarrassment). But their peers won't know better and will be impressed.

Step by step it even continued to university. People would confidently talk about things I didn't know much about (AI stuff, Linux, various flamewars) and only later did I realize that they were mainly putting together pieces of arguments they heard here and there without any deep understanding.

I was too careful not to make mistakes and didn't hone my arguing and convincing skills nearly as much as these types of guys did.

What I want to say is that it's okay to be wrong sometimes. This is a message to specific types of people. Some people need to be more careful and introspective, but others are already too introspective and second guess themselves too much. For the latter, you need to relax and be okay with making rookie mistakes, getting called out etc. It's okay to discuss and give your opinion on things you're not fully knowledgeable about. Perhaps people will sometimes think you're stupid, but it's in active discussion how your opinions will get refined. Maybe you'll "cringe" about your early opinions after a few years, but it's still the quicker way.
I presume you meant...

s/ssh/scp/
KornShell 2020 – Impossible Happens
This article shows how the author has a vision about developing nations still working on 2G and SNES to web game development as almost being the same. Back then people didn't even talk about RAM but ROM so it's a totally different scenario, and about the 2G maybe you think South Korea is a developing country too well they're the first ones with the 5G technology in the world implemented at comercial scale.
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Because they are democratically elected?
> You want different types of specialists to deal with victims vs bullies.

Both cost money (=resources). Money is limited. Who do we focus on?

As for that theory on "no excuses": UBI is more or less reality in large parts of Europe, yet crime still exists.
Very much agree with the parent.

If you want a better idea on how you can cram everything into 40KB — using every trick in the book, including ones not considered 30+ years ago — take a look at a how a recently released NES game (Micro Mages) managed it.

Their primary design constrain was that they restricted themselves to 40KB, despite wanting to do far more than the games that were done in 40KB back in the 80s.

https://youtu.be/ZWQ0591PAxM
not to excuse them, but i think apple has pulled a nice diplomatic move here. the app was available long enough for many interested parties to install it (using the same reasons, it could have been not approved from the start) but also not aggravating the chineese government for too long. fighting the leadership head on will never work on the long run.
I use this for my desktops but does it also work if you only have a console?
Nearly 1 in 5 Americans are stashing cash at home in fear of a recession
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I disagree, I don't think we will ever do the right thing if the reward is big enough. I think the right way to go is to dismantle these unnecessary power structures that allow us to do the wrong choice and replace them with better ones.

For example, Apple can only do this because they have the power to remove apps from their store (fine) and because we do not have the power to install apps which aren't from their store (not fine).

If the latter is fixed, then there would be no issue. HKers would be able to install the map, and no one would be able to stop them - because no unnecessary power structure that can be abused exists.
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The SF Chronicle has an updating map of outage locations[0]

[0]https://projects.sfchronicle.com/trackers/power-outages/
It's only a matter of time before Facebook integration with security services (not just the NSA) becomes seamless. In fact it's already happening - Trump has made social media scanning a pre-requisite for US visas (it's likely this will be extended to US citizens). In contrast, the device itself holds relatively little information that can't be obtained from other sources.
Paying more than 70% of what you earn is not fair. It is slavery and confiscation.

And it always happens the same way, those in charge, in power, who control this 70% will manage to spend it on themselves one way or another.

In the soviet Union official markets will have stands selling just one potato, or one lemon or egg. Then in the black market the communist families could buy(or access, because with power and influence you don't need money)everything, from good meat, fish...

People that traveled abroad, with public money were the children of the communist... they had access to (imported)TVs, good houses and cars instantly while the rest of the population will wait for years or decades, only to get bullshit TVs, bullshit houses and bullshit cars.

In the UK,and the US with confiscation taxes rich people found ways to not pay taxes at all. It was only a barrier of entry to middle class.
That could easily be leaked by a single person, like Edward Snowden. People are not the perfect way to store secrets.
Source? I haven’t heard that before. It’s certainly not true for anyone in congress or upwards.
What's weird is that if you google: "Hong Kong" "Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau" -apple

You come up with surprisingly little. Basically two stories. One about preventing scams in Hong Kong, and one about fake checks. I was expecting tens of thousands of results.

Is there a more common name that's used in English for this entity? I'd like to research more about who they are other than the generality of a wing of the police force.
I have an unfounded belief that people do not actually use up most of the calories they eat, they are excreted. Everyone, including both normal-weight ("thin") and obese people eats ingests more calories than is needed by the body given the sedentary lifestyles in modern society, yet some do not gain weight as quickly. Additionally, given how efficient human bodies are, meaning how much work you have to do to burn an apple's worth of calories, it is impossible to suggest that everyone of normal weight burns all excess calories.
This isnt about free will, its a clear indication that the US is not the worlds most important economy anymore.
I am asking if there exists any ethical system under which their actions are worse than doing what the original poster considers to be wrong in both cases.
Or he just looped around the coastline once at a tighter resolution than your source of 30,500 km

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

(Also thanks for the AMA link)
> it's really unelected officials doing what lobbyists recommend

The rules they run by are created by your elected representatives.
+1 for spotting a problem. One comment I would have is that for our sales team it is particularly useful if it is mobile or at least mobile friendly.
I think it was residents didn’t want to pay millions or billions in incentives for jobs.
By being on this site, it seems safe to assume that you’re in the top 10% of earners across the US. Perhaps it would be worth thinking of this from the point of view of the other 90% of the population? Folks for whom that tax money would greatly enrich their lives?

Also, let’s not forget that it’s not just the visible 30% that’s taken from your paycheck, but a matching 30% that’s paid by your employer on your behalf. So, by leveling the playing field, a median earner could be getting upwards of $20,000 more than they are today.
Individual liberty.

Individuals choosing to engage in mutually beneficial activities, rather than being told at implied gunpoint to do what a bunch of ignorant strangers, or a tyrannical dictator, decided.
That logic justifies Kings and Dictators; if someone, by force, amasses total power over a people, then according to your rule they deserve to control it.

Kings and Dictators get overthrown for a reason.

All people deserve to have a say in society, even if they don't want it, use it poorly, or use it reluctantly. It's not because human rights should matter to all individuals, it is because the implementation of human rights and equality is a better guarantee of social stability, and therefore a better conduit for trade and growth.

Kings and Dictators open up a society to turmoil and instability, which is bad for markets. There is no reason for a society not to guarantee social stability through measures of equality at this point.
That’s the top marginal rate on wage income. It doesn’t actually look at the total tax people pay as a percentage of their total income. That changes not just based on the top marginal rate, but on where each bracket kicks in, the composition of income, and the tax base. For example, back in the day, things like corporate expense accounts were not treated as taxable income. And the highest brackets kicked in at the equivalent of $3.5 million today, which means even top 0.01%-ers had half their income taxed at a lower bracket.
True. And drug dealers gotta eat too.
I agree with you on the democracy point, however:

Only 56% of all billionaires are self-made.

Others inherited their money (the Walton family, the Rockefellers, eetc.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/10/wealthx-billionaire-census-m...
The performance hit is absolutely tiny and it doesn't matter for the overwhelming majority of users. It might be that ex. High frequency Trading avoids it, but anything like that is already running an incredibly precisely engineered stack; for 99% of usecases, the performance hit is insignificant.
Who is "they" here? Executives with MBA's? Middle managers? If so, this is true but only in aggregate. If you see private corporations strip mining the environment and society for profits, the Government and regulations are meant to be a check on that.
I agree with all of this, and I really don't want to make it seem otherwise. The comment I originally replied to is about the 100 miles ruling, and I stated that it's "absurd."
This!

Top are doctors, engineers, small business owners, etc., and usually, they are the ones who get hit with the highest taxes (atleast around here in europe).

The super rich have ways to move their money, the ones above usually don't.
Yes, ssh-agent can also work in a terminal-only environment. Specify "ssh-agent add" in your .bashrc and you're all set.
And you should calm down a bit. I was referring to your benchmark hitting exactly the functional scope of your library while it's invoking more generic libraries that by extension have to do more work for the same functional result. Based on average feedback here that position is supported by other real world users of these sorts of libraries.

As for label rendering/measuring; choose. Either it's a rounding error in perf in which case don't claim it's a performance hog. Or claim it's a performance hog and don't call it a rounding error to support an argument.
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