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I wouldn't argue with that assertion. The US provided material aid to Khmer Rouge insurgents at various times and encouraged them in other ways too, I believe the idea was to have some kind of bulwark to North Vietnam. In addition, Operation Menu, which was a military operation ordered by Richard Nixon, resulted in the bombing of large sections of Cambodia and of course resulted in civilian deaths. This, as is not hard to believe, increased Cambodian support for the Khmer Rouge and revealed the inefficacy of the then ruling Cambodian government.

Of course, this wasn't the first or last time US foreign policy would see its 'chickens coming home to roost', so to say. During the Soviet-Afghan war, US forces trained and materially aided the Mujahideen (Osama bin Laden was once involved with this group) in an effort to stymie the Soviet's forces and keep them enveloped in a financially-draining quagmire that would eventually prove to be the Soviet Union's own "Vietnam".
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Thanks for the appreciation.
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The problem with Pittsburgh (and the rust belt in general) is that it's still losing population in general. Adding a few tech jobs won't change the fact that it's a generally undesirable place to live (old infra, cold winters, high crime) - so people with the means of relocating will generally do so.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of cities in the south that are rapidly gaining population, especially from people with education, and would be excellent places for companies looking to expand. Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh, Durham, and Charlotte are all far cheaper than SV, and are much easier to recruit talent to than Pittsburgh or Columbus.
How do they know? Have they been shooting her with a dementia gun?
> I've seriously considered modding the alarm clock to autosync that way as well.

That might be a fun project, but I'd worry a bit about the future of RF time sync. The program was almost shut down this year but was funded after a small fight. I wouldn't be surprised if the funding doesn't come through the next round.
Wow, you appear misinformed. Unemployment benefits in the US vary by state, in some states they last only three months. The amount you receive is based on the income you had before receiving it, so it could be more or less than the UK standard payments.

That aside, unemployment payments are funded as a completely separate system to every other kind of welfare in the US and so they demonstrate nothing at all about how other payments could be afforded.
Like Stripe is doing!
This guy closes the most tickets! He's our best employee!

also a prolific ticket opener
Or those with scholarships.
The account deal is becoming pervasive and annoying. This is a common interaction I have at a local pet store:

"That'll be $15. What's your phone number?"
"No."

... strange look for a moment, finally followed by just taking my $15 and not knowing who I am or being able to easily track me.
In my opinion the answers are yes to most of your questions.

I find the XPS13 to be a replacement for the 11” MacBook Air. It’s almost the same physical size except that you get a 13” 4K screen, a quad core processor, 16Gb RAM and 1TB of storage.

The keyboard has a nice feel.

The track pad works well now (IMHO) although out of the box I don’t get all the gestures that macOS has. To be honest I can live with two finger scrolling and better keyboard shortcuts than macOS.

The only real issues left for me are around mixing HiDPI with 1440p external monitor, some sleep issues and Gnome clunkiness in the latest Ubuntu.

Pretty sure those are fixable.

Oh and Firefox could definitely make better use of the GPU.
Good question.

As a practical example, I am skeptical that Todd Davis should be able to force Wired to take down his social security number[0]. I am also skeptical that people should be able to demand that HaveIBeenPwned remove their information from a database.

On social security numbers or IDs, I am definitely more open to discussing limits to the Right to Remember if they're very narrow and very rigidly defined, in the same way that I'm OK with exceptions to Freedom of Speech that are narrow and rigidly defined.

However, I want to posit that if infrastructure around identity verification is broken, we should focus on fixing the infrastructure, not curtailing rights as a band-aide. Identity theft is rampant because our identity metrics are horrible. Social security numbers are a joke. Credit card numbers are a joke; the only reason that system works is because banks are willing to reverse charges whenever identity theft happens. These are bad systems, but instead of forcing companies to fix them, we restrict user rights to make it easier to have some semblance of pseudo-security.

This same principle has come up in a few other places on this page, particularly with the Right to Filter, and whether that should allow a monopoly communication platform to circumvent the Right to Communicate. My take on that is similar: this sounds like an infrastructure problem. We wouldn't have an issue there if we didn't allow a private company to have a monopoly over communication online.

To me, it feels like people are attacking the wrong problem.

It's also important to remember that the Right to Be Forgotten is separate from GDPR. Where GDPR (arguably) is narrow and allows you to demand that a subset of companies delete specific PII, the Right to Be Forgotten is broad, and allows you to make demands regarding general information and your reputation.

I have some issues with GDPR as it's implemented today, and I won't go out of my way to endorse it, but I also won't take a strong stance that GDPR is incompatible with the Right to Remember. Readers can draw their own conclusions, but on GDPR, I'm neutral.

But I do take a hard stance on the Right to Be Forgotten. There's a difference between talking about edge-cases with IDs in a private, purely corporate database, and talking about deindexing news articles.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/
> we understand them for what they are.

Im not sure if I understand what you are trying to say they were. Are you claiming that Mao and Stalin were sadists? I think it is more plausible they were altruistically motivated (greater good, ect).
It's just that most of the wealth produced from that work goes to already wealthy people.

Exactly that work (social support, and healthcare for seniors) in total numbers consumes resources, not produces them. If it wouldn't be so there would be no need to fund it from taxes.

Frankly, it sounds like you rushed with a randomly chosen slogan to this thead.
This is an impressive response. Thank you.
I think it's more likely that a typical $2M house on the peninsula is paying much less than $27,000/year in property taxes because of prop 13.

Only the homes that have been sold in the last ~5 years are actually paying 1% of property value in yearly taxes. Many homes are paying much, much less because they haven't been sold in 20 years and/or were passed down within the family. Or, the owners move out and rent the home and continue to get artificially low property taxes (while increasing rent higher and higher reach year).
I'll take generic over 10x-15x median income any day of the week. (<$100k/yr median household income, >$1.3m median home sale price?)
But Stalin. But Lenin. But Mao. But Pol Pot. But Chavez. But Maduro.

Too many power-hungry zealots; too little competent governance. Too much destruction of the old order; too little creation of a decent new one.

[Edit: But Xi. No, he hasn't destroyed the economy. I look at the Uighurs, though, and put him in the "murderous power-hungry zealot" category.]
The problem with tree based outlines are they are typically single root. The idea of picking an arbitrary node and visually reorganising the structure as if it were root isn't common at all. I think I have seen one mindmapper have this feature.
You're describing a caste system, except instead of having your life determined by your lineage it's determined by some standardized tests given when you are 14 years old. It might work for some societies but that flies so directly against the "American Dream" that it will never work here.
Can you expand on the broken employment system in the US? Honestly just curious.
This is categorically wrong. Tesla has at least two factories (Fremont and Reno). The factory in China is coming online next month. Plus there’s a series of smaller tooling facilities in Europe.
Almost the same, except mine was a Precision 7520 -- no Xeon processor, no ECC, but an AMD Polaris 11 based dGPU. My general advice for Dells is to spring extra for the Precision laptops -- sure, they are heavier, but the build quality and ease of upgrades make it worth it. You can even claw some of that cash back by purchasing them via the outlet.dell.com -- it will be a return, but it will have the exact same warranty as a new one.
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Most colleges/universities are nonprofits and they still charge tens of thousands per semester. I will also point out that the European model is not free, universal college degrees for all - access is restricted behind rigorous entrance exams. Such a system would be politically untenable in the US wherein a growing movement wants to do away with all entry tests. What would actually happen in practice is that we would get a different flavor of the worst of both worlds.
I mean, I personally agree with said comment. Would love to hear your perspective beyond "this comment is wrong".
I understand that, I just feel like the others in your list have tended to fail to produce change (regulation, legislation, taboo), via regulatory capture, K-street and money influence on congress, and media manipulation, respectively. So I am more interested in anything you might consider to go in the other category. Not looking for a comprehensive list, just something to get started with.
Minimum wage in Chicago is $12, not that it makes a huge difference in the math.

I think you can make the argument that if someone is going to be making minimum wage after getting their degree, they should go to a cheaper school like a community college or a trade school. Or just start working right out of high school.
> My old PC had a Turbo button and it also did not have forced air induction.

You just gave me a hilarious idea for a PC mod.
From what I've read, this is supposed to catch the bad thing after it happened, not to prevent it. Then you say that 1 in 1000 is an acceptable error rate. 1 in 7 billions is not an acceptable error rate!
The Stanford Empire
There have been some early signs of #1: https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-vs-baby-boomers-...
Must point out that we have no tuition fees in Scotland, which is unfortunately part of the UK.
Why does it become socialist at age 18? Taxes support up to 12th grade currently.
Plus, electric motors have flat torque curves, while ICEs need to get up to a certain RPM before you start getting decent torque. That means you get maximum acceleration and hauling power from the get-go.

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/how-do-electric-vehicles-pr...

(This incidentally is part of why Tesla started with the Roadster - the flat torque curve of an electric motor can give some great acceleration numbers, which is pretty nifty when you're building a status-symbol sports car.)
In addition, forgiving loans is probably not practical - where is all the money going to come from? More tax or less spending on some other service.
You aren't helping... now I need to know WTF two things are!

That's crazy.
Oh, interesting - I'll take a look at the logs. Is this occurring consistently, or just occasionally? I haven't noticed anything myself.

If the latter it could be caused by temporary downtime when I update the code.
I think the entire solution is increasing the tax burden on the upper class in the US but that's just me.
Interesting perspective. If we control for size and stick with basic principles, does converting a hatchback to a pickup provide more gain from the lower weight than losses from inferior aerodynamics? I'm not convinced it does.
Agile for car production?
What you are effectively saying is that university education exists solely for providing job training. That's not something most universities will agree with.
I went to Stanford. My mom did part time office work and my dad was the director of planning for a local city government. It was very affordable for us.

Everyone thinks they're in the middle class.
The traditional method of differentiating the parent company from its eponymous application would be to rebrand the company as "Facebook Group". For example: "Expedia Group", "Match Group", "Zillow Group".
But that's a very short term solution. Because with low cost labor globalizing and moving out of the EU and US, you will either need more highly educated knowledge workers to be competitive or accept a bigger group in society get very low wages or unemployment.
In the long run we’re all dead. So?
U of Chicago is ranked #6 in US 2.7 GPA morons are nor likely to be accepted.
What damage would this do to the brand if the person turned out to be a bad actor? If you were the CEO of Krispy Kreme, would you err on the side of caution and stop something before it gets out of hand?

Fair point, but people already trust strangers to deliver their food by using GrubHub, Postmates, Uber Eats, etc.

Anyway, maybe the "right thing to do" for KK was not to just turn a blind eye and ignore the whole thing, but one can't help but suspect that they could have found a better way to deal with this, that would have been more of a "win-win". Worst case, buy the kid off behind the scenes, pay him to appear in an ad or two, and then quietly shut down his service. Surely they could have some up with something that didn't portray this "$BIGCORP uses it's army of lawyers to smash the little guy" pattern...
Anyone who's ever worked with Sift knows this is an unfair characterization. It reads like every other article in the NYT about tech or cybersecurity - uneducated fear mongering.
Newcomb's Problem
Ever since Krispy Kreme turned that kid into Froggy Fresh, and then into a little piano bitch, they have lost all of my business forever.
The other 10% is still $156Bn... That's more than the GDP of Hungary. It's still worth considering.
Hi Rolph, great links!

You might want to check out this old HN article:

"MyCPU – Homebrew Computer from Discrete Logic Gates":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19926765

...and not just the link, the comments in that article are information-rich as well.

(There are several others in the same vein on HN, but I don't have them right now...)

Those CPU's typically don't use microcode, and are generally interesting from a hardware enthusiast's standpoint.

Hey, based on your previous HN comments and posts (Synchrotrons, Electromagnetic Propulsion, Plasma Physics, etc.), you seem like a pretty interesting guy!

If you want to have a longer conversation, why not email me at peter.d.sherman@gmail.com ?
Apparently FB now prevents certain posts from spreading, making them only visible to the author. An example is one containing "Alex Jones". It's like a shadow ban, except FB will notify the user.

Naval Ravikant made a very good point on Joe Rogan where he said that as soon as social media platforms decided to censor content they started a war they can't win because they end up having to chose sides. He said their position should be (recalling from memory here) "we're a publishing platform not responsible for the content that's being published. If you have a warrant, we'll take it down, otherwise it's hands off". Censoring, demoting or stopping the spread, it's basically the same thing.

They absolutely are making money on the garbage as well, as you said.
> ~~Baby Boomers~~ Current homeowners are incentivized...

There's enough prejudice in the world to go around without misconstruing class warfare as generational warfare.
Our system produces the best universities and most sought after students on the planet. Why would we adopt a model that gets worse results?

If states want to find community college or something I wouldn't gripe too much, but universities are for advancing human knowledge. Don't hold them back.
> What's wrong with the GPL?

One of the points ESR listed with hackers' ethical considerations (sorry, I can't find it ATM) says roughly that "No problem should ever need to be solved more than once."

The GPL forces people to look away, to keep shopping for solutions or to write their own. The GPLed solution which could have made their life easier is on the wrong side of an event horizon which prevents them from taking advantage and causes a problem (many problems!) to be solved more than once, because they don't wish to go there and stay there.

Code without that one severely inconvenient restriction is code that can be more useful to more people, if that matters to you.

edit: Hey, search engines are neat. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#believe2

Oh, look! Item 5 in that section is all about how full of shit I really am, how droll... But the point stands. I once put a project on the shelf and promptly forgot about it because I needed some combination of µSD over SPI and FAT32 and 4-bit HD44780 LCD interfacing and these were doable with different already-published libraries for AVR chips, but if one of them was GPL then my whole project had to be 1) GPL, which I didn't want, or 2) never shared with anyone, which made it seem a waste of time. Arguably, I ought to have banged something out, made anything work, and then kept shopping for a proper replacement for that one lib, so it's still my fault, but the restriction was, and still is, somewhat demotivating.
This. To the lender, it's a virtually risk-free loan and a very high yielding one at that (10%+ interest). I don't think there is even a way of discharging it, even death.
I could be wrong, but I don't think it's illegal to have paid shills talking up one candidate or smearing another.
Nit: Scaling is actually the default in cocoa. You have to make a request to explicitly not have it try to auto-scale your application.
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Future risk-affected dollars != current risk-free dollars.

You have a cost of production.

The risks can be managed.
4. Alt-outcome #3: People and companies realize that there are 49 other states in the US, companies build satellite offices, and people move out of California and realize that you can buy a big house with a great school system where the cost of living vs. salaries make a lot more sense.....
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In the current centralized markets, stablecoins are used as fiat on-ramps, there's no real need there for a crypto backed stablecoin for that kind of role. I'm sure you could have one, but in the case of Tether, that's not what the product is or claimed to be.
> island militarization and bullying tactics with vessels

Like sailing warships or flying military aircraft next to islands that a foreign country claims as its own? US military actions is the South China Sea could be viewed as highly provocative. I can see why China would respond by putting anti-aircraft batteries on the islands.

> Self-interested motivations (TW)

Everyone's motivations are self-interested. Virtually all countries bordering the South China Sea stake wide-ranging claims.

> "We're big and we want it really bad" is not a justifiable standard of resolving resource and territory disputes.

Of course, that's not how China makes its case. It claims that the islands have belonged to China for hundreds of years, and points to various old maps, historical use by Chinese fishermen, mentions in various treaties, and so on. I don't know how strong these claims are, but I try not to get worked up about tiny uninhabited islands. I mostly hope that the situation doesn't escalate, but many sides are capable of escalation - the US, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, and others.

> a pretty thorny root of the problem is one actor trying to claim all the marbles.

Two actors "claim all the marbles" (the ROC and PRC), Vietnam and the Philippines each claim 80% of the marbles, and Malaysia claims 30% of the marbles.

My original question was why any of this is relevant. If we're going to be raising random accusations against various governments, I can think of much more serious issues than some uninhabited islands and rocks, like the illegal invasion of Iraq or the overthrow of the Libyan government.
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At what point doesn't it just become feasible to hire a full-time tutor?
I would be comfortable with making a statement saying "we don't condone this, we can't guarantee the quality or sanitation levels of the food."

Done.

How in the hell would Krispy Kreme be responsible for this guy reselling doughnuts? He's literally filling a niche market that the company chose not to fill.
FB does work with 3rd party fact checkers. We should be able to trust people from places like Reuters to remain fairly neutral.
Dude it is a satirical term to symbolize low value programs. It isn’t supposed to be taken literally.
The "best" here is really in the eye of the beholder. At the undergraduate level, the most important value of a degree is the signaling value.
If it's illegal for a campaign to have paid shills posting bad things about one candidate and good things about another, then I'd agree the difference is much smaller than I first started, but I'm not aware of any law that would be breaking.
Can someone tell me why entire west of interstate 280 is empty and not opened up for housing ? Why is that there are only 3 bridges crossing the bay and not 10 ?

It puzzles me why housing of any kind be expensive in bay area. There is like ton of free land there.
This is the reason I could not cut it as just a designer. The amount of bullshit required to survive in the design industry disturbed me morally.
I would be angry because I lived in the cheapest apartment I could and biked as much as I could until I paid everything off. Had I been less responsible, I would get more money under debt forgiveness. The incentives are inverted. I'm all for wealth redistribution but messing with incentives is shown over and over again to be a bad idea.

Also, my perspective as the kind of frugal guy that everyone else calls cheap is that we live in the most rampantly consumerist society that has ever existed on the planet earth and we think we need all kinds of things that we really don't.

I just can't stomach the idea of throwing money to people who knew what they signed up for but then decided paying back what they owed was too hard.