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I'm exactly the same way. For instance: I did some writing about macOS security in the macOS articles, way back when, and most of it got struck because I couldn't cite it properly. It was frustrating to write a straightforward statement, like "the macOS Seatbelt sandboxing mechanism uses s-expressions", and have it get struck.

But I came quickly to realize the project was right. Without a reliable secondary source, I was effectively conducting research in the pages of the encyclopedia. What I learned from that was: I shouldn't be writing encyclopedia articles; the technical writing I do tends not to be tertiary.

It's fine – good, in fact – if most people don't write much in Wikipedia. It's its own special thing. You can't argue with its success: it might be the most successful project in the history of the Internet, and a long-term contender for one of the most successful volunteer knowledge projects ever.
I own many USB gadgets that I bought for less than $10. Paying 10% of the retail price for the privilege of using a specific port/protocol seems out of the question. Even for low-end computers (~$300) $1 for a license is a lot of money.
Which payroll taxes do you mean? I've seen Social Security (up to the limit), Medicare (no limit), and Additional Medicare (after $200k) being withheld from the employee side. I would assume that employer-side taxes are also being paid.
I guess a BMW in California is a lot better after the first year, because it hasn't been through the shitty German weather...

Different factories have different failure rates, but Germany ain't even leading here (and believe me, there's no inherent "German engineering" factor separating someone working in Lower Bavaria than someone from South Carolina).

Apart from minor details like bumpers and first aid kits, the cars should be pretty much the same wherever you go. Would be pretty bad from a marketing perspective if the quality varies too much, never mind that with global logistics, minimizing differences is pretty much the core value.

Or in other words: The cars are overpriced rust all over the world.
You might do and be all those things but none of that will prevent a unforeseen life changing accident from completely debilitating you. This is the true reason for what you say is "sickcare" we are all healthy until we are not. You pay into an insurance system, private or public, to offset the risk of this occurring.
You can inhale alcohol vapors. That's way more than 100% stronger. The tech exists. People might not use it cause they don't want to die. That's different. Your conclusion about losing your hearing from TCH is just fucking bullshit. Prove it.
I absolutely love Hammerspoon, it's my favorite Mac tool. My config is available here, in case anyone wants some ideas of what it can do: https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-hammerspoon/blob/master/init...
> You may recall they did manage to put up quite a fight once upon a time.

If I recall correctly they both lost and lost their rights - whether we consider those rights the right to own slaves or leave the union.

> But an insurgency requires a sufficient number of people who feel strongly enough to take up arms.

Not true. "The accidental guerilla" by David Kilcullen is a great book on this idea. I'm wondering though for what reason you feel the confederates felt less strongly than gun owners do today.
It's been a while, Soylent for a while existed for a very long time to feed tube fed patient and other people unable to consume solid food, made by Nestlé and othjer giants. The "genius" was in the marketing to convince people able to eat real food they actually wanted that.
These worked pretty well in Austin. A few years ago my car had problems and I spent about six months commuting via bus and taking these guys the rest of the time. They had a deal with the city where downtown you could park them in any street spots for free, and they were all smart-cars so they didn't take up much space. Downtown, by a decently-central apartment complex, etc. there were almost always cars available in a reasonable walking distance.
How is it any more evangelical than arguing that companies should pay for some nebulous concept of “their fair share?”

What is “fair,” if not what’s legally required of them? Is anyone suggesting that these companies are breaking the law or violating the tax code?

Btw, I would love it if the government could figure out how to spend money on “public utilities, roads, education.” And yet, our infrastructure is in an embarrassing state of disrepair, and our public education system is a laughingstock. Despite trillions of dollars that would be more than sufficient to fund these projects, nothing gets done. So why should I support giving them even more money? If the government could demonstrate an ability to allocate capital efficiently, then I could see the argument. But as is, they do a terribly wasteful job of investing it in projects that would actually benefit the public. Before raising taxes, maybe they should try rearranging the budget to prioritize projects that benefit everyone.
Nice idea. Definitely useful.

How will the traveller be paid - through the app or privately by bank transfer?

And how do you plan to make money with it - Sell the app? Or keep a small amount of the money transferred by GooglePay/ApplePay/WhateverPay?
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> Uber, Lyft and DoorDash pledged $90 million on a ballot initiative for the 2020 election that would exempt them from AB5.

How much would it have cost them to provide minimum wage coverage and health benefits to their CA workers, as opposed to putting that money towards advertising and lobbyist fees?
Redefining monitoring with Netdata (and how it came to be)
Is it that both sides are mostly scumbags?
A 401(k) is also "avoidance". Are we next going to talk about all of the retirees and how much they "owe" us?

If the author wants to suggest a new law, then suggest a new law that would be a net improvement.
Jeez. I don't feel that way about anything.
I'm the author of that book! Glad you found it useful :)
The Wikipedia meta article this is drawn from does a better job of answering this concern than any of us can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability,_not_t...

Argue with it if you must, but let's try not to make the thread tediously recapitulate it.
the main purpose of the exercise was to explore what happens when you throw 1M lines of code to a language,

our estimates to what happens could be wildly inaccurate,

I was pleased with Python finishing in 5 seconds because I thought it might not even work at all due to some internal implementation detail that I was not aware of - like the ruby example that fails with a stack error. I am pleased to see that Python can handle it.

As for the GCC compilation I find it quite unexpected that it compiles 10K lines in just 0.3 seconds, but then seems to hang on 100K lines. Not so easy to explain.
The function of the website for the website owner is to make money. Setting cookies helps with that. The EU law says I have to disclose lots of stuff and get your consent before tracking you. So every website added a disclosure and consent button, and every user clicked on it.

If you think of the wasted power of a billion warning / notifications a day, you realize how little folks will pay attention to these warnings, it's the only way to get on with your life is to tune these warnings out.

SERIOUSLY - can't someone do a study in the EU showing that their constant warnings mean folks have totally tuned them out?
> There are ways to track location outside of the operating system.

> For example, even Facebook says (and the comment you replied to noted) it uses photo tagging and what wifi network you're connected to in order to determine location.

By photo tagging, do you mean GPS coordinates? Isn't that done by the app that takes the picture?

Can't I disable Wi-Fi?

If my wireless ISP is giving everyone free access to my location through some sort of IP address or rDNS scheme, isn't this an ISP issue? I mean, can't you make this exact complaint about every single thing you use that connects through an IP address?
This looks pretty nice, and I like the idea of a universal help/getopts syntax that can work over different execution engines (python, bash, etc.)

I just did a new install at home, and may try reimplementing some of my utility scripts in terms of this just to see how it plays.
Just like anyone is going to say they are innocent if arrested. Luckily, we have a process to determine validity.
This is why we should have Basic Income!
It's popular to hate Softbank-backed companies at the moment, so even an extremely thin article that is basically gossip and anecdotal character assassination strung together into a narrative can get eyeballs.
It's actually the result of product-owners deciding to release unfinished software, likely responding to incentives from management to ship (boolean) without clear standards about what is shippable (non-boolean).
This is such an antiquated heavy handed perspective.

How much work is the right amount of work?
40 hours? 80 hours?
Are people working 2 jobs but still not making ends meet not 'pulling their own weight'?

How does supply and demand figure into this? Are people who get automated out of a job no longer pulling their own weight?

Does the fact that someone exploits their employees and only pays them 10% of the value that they generate while keeping the 90% meant that business owner is just 'pulling their own weight'?

According to your missing definition of 'pulling your own weight' slavery back in the 1800 could be viewed as just people 'pulling their own weight'.

Are people in towns where no jobs are available even though they want to work...just not 'pulling their own weight'?

Your simplifications are not well thought out and frankly stupid.
Well, yes. Do you think laws around making anti-compete clauses illegal shouldn't exist? Do you reject the notion of the minimum wage? Do you think we shouldn't have required unemployment insurance payments? Do you think we should allow companies to put onerous, life-threatening terms in contracts? Do you think we should allow companies to force workers to sign contracts banning union membership?

If you answered "yes" to these, then I expect people like you and people like me will fundamentally never have a productive discussion about this, as our values just don't match up.
> In another 80 years do you think it's unreasonable to think a wealthy individual might be able to build something?

They'd not be able to do it without the weapons grade material. The matter of getting that stuff isn't really a secret, it's just pretty expensive, takes a lot of time, and will be noticed by intelligence agencies. I don't see why any of that would change.

The list of suspects will be short; anybody trying to refine U-235 would need huge quantities of natural uranium and a warehouse full of precision centrifuges. And anybody trying to create Pu-239 would need a nuclear reactor.
> native JS works just fine for most simple interactions like startup apps

Oh god please don't. I worked with a startup whose "lead" (i.e. the person with the most seniority, not the smartest) insisted the whole front-end could be done with plain JS ("angular, jquery, etc... just useless bloat!!!" said the lead developer). What resulted was the biggest rats-nest soup of untraceable mess I've seen in a while. The only person on the team who understood the system was the "lead" developer. Changes took forever. Bug count was through the roof.

When you say "you don't need a framework", what you are really saying is "I'll build my own framework". Because you will be building a framework. And trust me, your framework will not be as good as what is on the market. And when you leave, all developers who didn't leave the company will rip all your shit out and replace it with a "real" framework -- all while cursing your name under their breath.

Your job at a startup is to get product-market fit. Not invent your own framework.
Agree on all of these points. One thing is you need to preserve the engagement. If you are the founder of the community platform make sure you keep content being contributed and be personally accessible.
author here - we are using spot instances on GCP for executing the pipeline which at 10 hrs/day usage makes us $1 in profit/month :)
Not that I disagree with your premise, but real estate and, to a lesser extent, art and gold, have intrinsic value in that they can be used for a purpose outside of a store of value. For real estate, utility is a much larger share of the market value than the others.
Firefox reader view worked for me.
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The unstated motivating factor here is that Mozilla made a minority investment in Cliqz back in 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliqz#History
Unless it's exported to 3rd parties it's an internal function. Just because it's JavaScript doesn't make it stable API.

And just because it's internal doesn't mean it's not an API.
Firefox blocks trackers by default, no need for an add-on.
Using words like infesting is what people who’re demonizing others do.

We’re currently living in the most peaceful era of human history, so maybe American hegemony isn’t terrible? There’s certainly been far less regional conflicts than ever before, I’d be hard pressed to find a decent reason how the world’s preeminent superpower wouldn’t play into that dynamic despite it’s missteps and overreaches which are very easy to point at.

And income tax rates, especially for the extremely wealthy have been consistently declining since their highs post WWII which also coincided with one of America’s most egalitarian and balanced periods socioeconomically.

Of course, now we have extremely low income tax rates for the wealthiest among us and near banana republic levels of wealth inequality with staggering statistics like the fact that 400 families own as much wealth in America as the bottom 150 million of it’s citizens.

If we look at current trends in the Democratic party, which tends to represent more individuals than the Republican party despite the latter’s outsized share of privilege thanks to the Senate, gerrymandering, and the electoral college, we’re seeing large sentiments of exactly the opposite “at what point do we say enough is enough, no more tax cuts?”.
I haven't seen studies supporting 25-28. Most studies support a slightly lower number than 21, but not much lower.
The gp's parenthetical addresses what you call "predictive completion", only it uses the term "autocomplete".
Hard to do research when marijuana is illegal.
Nope, just that even if you do have data that captures when and at what price a company exited an index, you still wouldn't quite be able to work back to the performance of a tracking index fund (because you don't when and what price the index fund sold)
To be fair, I think most incoming freshmen at my university barely knew what a file was back in the mid 90s. None knew anything about UNIX or Linux. Things are at least mildly better now.
Who claims "extinction of the human race"? I don’t think this is what is claimed by serious scientists.

> However, what is being proposed is adoption of unproven technology on a massive scale, at an enormous price.

Which one are you talking about? The simulator website that this HN thread links to actually names taxes/subsidies and renewable energies that are already around as the most effective levers to keep temperature below 2 degrees Celsius.

> If the new technology was actually better, in most cases it would be adopted without government pressure.

Doesn’t explain why existing technology is still subsidized and renewable energy is not. Doesn’t explain why meat production and livestock factories are subsidized, or at least not taxed more. Eating less meat is one lever. Achievable by taxes. No side effects, no unproven technologies.

For example, in Germany, meat is taxed at 7%. Why? Why not 19%? This has nothing to do with being extreme. It’s a reasonable thing to implement.

So, please name the extreme things that you are afraid of.
Putting food on the table for yourself is pretty damn easy. But if you want a house, kids, a wife, a nice car, etc, then it gets exponentially more difficult.

So, there is a choice available for creative people who don't wish to compromise: They can be fully into their work at the expense of the above cultural norms - perhaps if they are very successful in their niche they can have those things too, but there could be a very long or infinite period of their lives where this is not possible - that's the sacrifice.

I'm so sick of the 'I can't do XYZ because I have kids and a mortgage' talk - well maybe you should have thought about the long term ramifications of kids and a mortgage?
I think you might be missing the super obvious that it would take a law to do this thing that would reduce the incentives for industrial lobbying?
Your freedom is not being limited, you get control over what applications are allowed to do.

Most machines are effective single-user so security boundaries between user accounts are not very useful.

Restricting the freedom of applications is a good thing, for example I don't want steam games to be able to read my email.
Can you name, say, three notable software businesses whose advantage was hard-to-replicate tech?
So, there are no competent, tenured teachers?

And you aren't addressing what I'm saying. I acknowledge unions that promote/pay based on seniority. Those exist, 100%. They do not necessarily need to be the way a union operates.

While it may be in the best interest for a union to reward people for how long they've been a working member of the union, it isn't the only structure that exists.
The issue is that it's not so much a loophole as it is a structural deficiency in the way international corporations are taxed -- it's supposed to be a tax on "profit" but it's straight forward to structure an international corporation such that its profits happen in whichever subsidiary they want. Then they naturally structure things so that profits accrue in a subsidiary in a low tax jurisdiction.

The key to fixing this is to realize that VAT and corporate income tax are basically the same thing, except that instead of corporate income tax being paid to the jurisdiction where "profit" accrues (easy for a corporation to move around), it's paid to the jurisdiction of final sale (good luck moving all your customers).
might I recommend figuring something else out because... that sucks :)
"Free markets" in the Economics 101 sense don't exist anywhere but in the poorest parts of the world. A minimum wage is anti-market. So is paid time off, parental leave, anti-discrimination protections, and a host other rules and regulations that rich countries enshrined into law decades ago.
A static screenshot does not fully capture the functionality of a web element, hence my use of the term "subtly".
It’s evangelical because it’s being brought up in a conversation that’s not about that topic at all.
Exploring Regular Expressions and Finite-State Recognizers, Part I
Exactly. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Any real discussion needs to get into specifics of which rules of the game are unfair and how they can be improved.
> bureaucrats ... infesting

Even if you disagree with their necessity, that kind of language is needlessly inflammatory. I mean, I know this is The Internet and all, but come on.
No, it isn't. Just like breaking into someones house to steal his data isn't an issue of homeowner not having a 2mil$ vault.
Exactly. The use of ad spend to talk about Russian influence in 2016 is negligent in focusing on a metric of convenience. I suspect the real channels through which they exert influence don't lend themselves to easy quantification.
This is true in a vaccuum. Unfortunately when you look at the history of the U.S., it's the corporations that have taken the burden of providing for U.S. workers. Other developed nations have their government supporting it's citizens, not corporations.
Windows Vista did this. People hated it. People just blindly started approving things. It made things more insecure.
Edward Snowden’s book profits must go to the government, judge rules
>Worth pointing out that PIA is openvpn compatible so you don't need their client

Are other VPN services not like this? How are you supposed to connect with Linux then? Any why would anyone who cares about privacy want to use a proprietary closed-source client?
Looks like back then most people made $.40-$.60 an hour, so figure $900 a year?
> Facebook said that even when location tracking is turned off, it can deduce users’ general locations from context clues like locations they tag in photos as well as their devices’ IP addresses.

Facebook can still do all this on the mobile website.
The investigation is ongoing, vitamin E is not confirmed as the causal agent.

Anyway, the problem is actually people inhaling random chemicals, a problem which vaping has gifted to us. There will be other cases of lung injury unrelated to vitamin E.

Frankly, even 1 more dead guy is too many, I support a total ban on vaping.
Right. Because immediately after they said this.

My read is, they expanded too fast. The fear of them being too late drove them to be too soon.

> "Moving forward, SHARE NOW will focus on the remaining 18 European cities. We, along with our shareholders, believe these markets show the clearest potential for profitable growth and mobility innovation."
> I mean, sure, it makes you more happy with a slightly messier house and more happy just being

From my experience, this feeling comes from SSRIs and not cannabis. The former uniformly masks my anxieties whereas the latter only takes away the inhibition of thinking critically about your actions and their consequences... I find cannabis is a crutch for meditation.
Reflections on Building Freshpaint
Long term, it’s only increased since then.

Not true.

Top marginal tax rates have mostly dropped over time. They peaked at 94% during WWII, then dropped into the 70% range for a while. Two more drops in the 1980s, first to 50%, then 28%. Since then, the top rate has bounced back to 38% or so (depending on how to calculate it).

Furthermore, federal tax receipts have hovered around 17% of GDP, regardless of marginal rates, over that entire period.
I've been doing firmware for the better part of a decade and I used to do PHP MVC web stuff before that for a megacorp. They used Yii which had ActiveRecord. You could have it scan your entire db and generate all the models including relations, then abstract from those models for the business logic. Any db changes... just re-run the generation. I can make a complex 15 table database and all the models in a few hours and jump right into productivity. Seems weird people are still going through problems with this today.
I'm wondering if its possible to eliminate phone number altogether, at least with your friends/relatives -- ask them to use FaceTime or WhatsApp for calls.
The Vegan Jerky Industrial Complex
Which is also why it's so fascinating Windows NT sort of merged both parallel dimensions with its influences directly from both DOS and VMS.
Another minimal, blast from the past desktop that you could run: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
duplicate of recent submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824962
Unfortunately you can't manipulate the free market like this. We've learned it time and time again and this law has seen the unintended consequences.
I think a true car share coop model works better than a private business that doesn't have roots in the city they are operating in. The model in my city is expanding rapidly. basically you buy a share into the coop for $500 (you get this money back if you decide to leave) and then you get discounted fares for the vehicles.
One share in a company gives you more voting power than at the federal level.