skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that "if a government fails, another government will take its place" only makes sense in an environment where centralization is viable economically.

There's this idea that "because things have been playing out in a way, they'll keep being played out this way", despite the fact the increased means of production (call it "technology") change things fundamentally all the time.

It's very expensive to maintain the military. It's only possible nowadays as governments can impose taxation and due to the currency monopoly they can print as much money as they want to fund that sort of self-preserving activity, which is technically called "debt spending".

As decentralization spreads over, the management costs of taxation skyrocket, and the currency monopoly disappears. Without that governments can't fund their own activities. Which means they'll shrink progressively. As time goes by, they'll start failing at providing law and order, and private companies start providing protection, insurance and private arbitration services to people. Further down the road those companies in their aggregate will start protecting people from the state itself. The state then either becomes a company which some people voluntarily contract services from, or it vanishes.

I'm pretty sure someone would say that the "evil companies" would then merge and become another government, but that's only if that person missed the whole point: in the long term centralization is not economically viable, and in a non-regulated free market environment monopolies are not really possible. As those companies are voluntarily contracted by people, an attempt to fight their customers would be catastrophic as they'd unrecoverably lose their business to competitors.
Well I can't use this on Windows nor can I guarantee that this cryptic shell script will run on my friends computer who still uses Windows. Even so, he wouldn't know how to run it.

Also it can't be a "secure sharing service" if you're still using 'sha1sum' and it not being end-to-end encrypted...
This particular case is pretty bad for getting EU to unite.

Nordstream is contentious within EU
too - it's basically a way for Russia to threaten Poland with the gas cutoff without endangering their business with Germany.
I think you are very perceptive :-)
If what one understands by coding is laying bricks and doing plumbing, surely.
>If politics was a science or a math, we wouldn't need to vote.

There are all kinds of questions with best practices, right and wrong answers. There are better and worse ways to aggregate agricultural statistics, for instance. And we don't think of that in terms of a left and right, it's just something that's administered by a department. And no one thinks that that's because of single-minded ideological extremism that only permits one view, or that the approach needs to be replaced with a polarized one stretched between two competing ideologies in order to represent healthy discourse.

There are a range of views where there are right answers, things are polarized that shouldn't be-- climate change for instance, where the debate has been hurt by moderates insisting on a need to treat all sides as equally legitimate. And moderates have absolutely no underlying theory about what makes those examples different. Those examples entirely defeat the concept of moderation as an overarching political principle.

That's the real problem with moderation- it's expressed as an aspirational principle that's independent of any on the ground engagement with arguments or facts. It's not something that is arrived at on a case by case basis from examination of facts, which to my mind would be the valid reason for arriving at moderation, or any political belief. If someone said we should replace all agricultural data with randomly generated numbers, that could polarize agricultural statistics, and then moderates would enter that debate chiding both sides as extremes that need to listen to each other.
For Init, desktop use-cases can be challenging. They can cover hot-swap networking, hot-swap hardware, sleep/restart.

Scenario: a user is playing an audio stream that comes over the network. They put their computer to sleep. They restore it later, at another site.

Consider the dependency calculation to restore that mixing pipeline, without sending clicking noises to the user.
I only use linux on servers, and have been doing that since I used redhat and slack in the '90s. After that I moved to FreeBSD and since about 15 years, I'm on Debian.

sysvinit scripts are horrible to create and operate. It's easy to set tup dependencies for network or other services. I haven't used it to run cron-like tasks, or inetd-type servers, but I don't have a need for that.
Since US is starting to be a supplier of gas to Central European counties such as Poland via the gas carrying vessels and some countries trying to gain energy independence from Russia it becomes an interest of US not to lose the newly acquired buyers of their gas. Then it is problematic for countries like Germany that they can't boost the import because of US interference
> Zuckerberg and Gates would have been elite if they’d never worked a day in their lives.

What do you mean by that? Zuckerberg and Gates are indisputably elite because they're two of the richest people in the world.

But I wouldn't call them elite beforehand, and definitely not if they didn't work a day in their lives. Their parents' money seems to come from being a lawyer, a dentist, and a psychiatrist. That's not "elite", that's something any family can achieve in two generations.
I'm not really sure lol, I took "work on them" as meaning either work them out or stretch regularly. Didn't think you meant both.
The article is unclear about mobile phone internet use. Most poor people I know have (at most times) cell phones with a data plan. This is sufficient for most basic internet needs (eg billing, applying for jobs, gov’t assistance).

Whether or not a wire goes to the house is less important.
We are all slowly dying. He’s not alone.
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One would think that with it's communist history Germany would be on the side of the Western Values. In addition Globalism hollowed out the western know-how,via cut and paste to China. Germany stands to lose from it the most with precision manufacturing being transferred to China. Markel is picking the wrong friends.
It's much more tribal than that. For example, Russian authoritarians are pretty happy with him.
> > Can you give anything close to a concrete example of this?

> Sure, [a bunch of broad non-specific examples]

OK.

> You have very clearly not been to large swaths of the United States.

Grew up in WI, close family / friends in MI, MN, NE, IA, and IL, dated a boy from TN and a girl from WV, but sure, tell me how there's no gays in the midwest.
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What if we had a very serious law that says that if you get caught lying to people about the issues being voted on, you'd be thrown in jail?

Regarding the budget question - could we still vote on important issues and leave the rest up to the bureaucracy? i.e. The people have spoken. Make it so... If there is a major budgetary issue with a given decision, we vote on where to get the money...

Even if direct democracy wouldn't work officially - I think it would be interesting if there were a way to collect the general populations opinion on a matter at any given time and make it known. I'm surprised Facebook/Google hasn't done something like this yet. I bet you they would if some startup came along and tried to market an app like this.
“Software engineering” is not a recognized engineering discipline.
Illegal and violent methods played large role in Hitlers ascent to total power. Hitler did not just used existing laws, he ignored them where possible and suited him, he used threat of violence and violence to ensure he will have power.

Existing law did not defended democracy enough and we're easy to be exploited, but did not allowed actual complete take over of power.
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This cannot be overstated. Russia is a Mafia State: Where the Russian Mafia == Russian Government. This is not a country you cozy up with. It will not end well.
> For all the bad that the US does, at least they don't invade and annex European countries, and try to undermine European politics.

Another German here. I find Putin and Russia absolutely revolting, but that last part is utter propaganda. The US has meddled in European politics for decades - just take Trump's stupid whining against BMW or Bush/Obama's complaints about NATO budget or us Germans not joining the fun in Iraq.
Apparently you can still wipe and reset and reinstall the phones even with "OEM unlock" switched off. At least, we managed to pull it off. But it took about half a day of trying and retrying random things from threads on forum.xda-developers.com. Sorry I can't be more specific, it becomes a bit of a blur after the 5th time :-p
What ever happened to all that banking information that Wikileaks said they would release?

"Wikileaks honcho Julian Assange told Andy Greenberg at Forbes that he was in possession of a trove of documents that "could take down a bank or two." The documents wouldn't necessarily show illegality but they would reveal an "ecosystem of corruption" at one of the biggest banks in the United States. Wikileaks would release it "early next year." "

https://www.cnbc.com/id/42762811
I don't know.. your application can and should be portable.. But if you want to support systemd, sysvinit, launchd, windows-services or whatever, that's up to you. It's this tiny part where you need to commit to some piece of technology.

I don't see the difference between creating a systemd config file, which is super clear and managed properly and to create a bunch of init scripts that depend on pid-files which might be stale and where those directories are abitrary.
For-profit government granted monopolies are a terrible idea. They should be government-run, or watched, and should not choose between providing a service to customers or money to shareholders.

I'm not in California, but sounds to me like PG&E maximized profits by reducing maintenance, then when they were really far behind and running into issues, they begged for more money from taxpayers because they could not afford to make up for years of maximizing shareholder and senior management profits... I.e. corporate welfare.. they made lots of profit knowing this would bite them in the rear end, and then want the government to bail them out. It's nearly always win-win when you're that large of a company to pull these shenanigans
Suboptimal regulation is just that
I'm well aware of the popular notion that many US politicians are controlled by Russia, but have never heard that a similar theory exists with respect to Germany. Is this really a thing now, or are you referring to a far more limited scenario?
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Perhaps they used a super-elegant programming language to generate that ugly state machine ...
Afaik they both do:

- init

- dependency management

- inetd-type spawning

- timed / cron launching

- managing processes depending on network state or filesystem mounting
He is in jail for the offence of jumping bail. That Sweden dropped the charges doesn’t dismiss that offence.

The UK spent 10s of millions on policing costs monitoring abscondment.

It is entirely right that he is serving a sentence as for reasons of deterrence.
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Not just any politician but its former chancellor:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41447603

Edit: we’ve now reached a point where bbc articles merit downvotes. Absurd!
> "If the Russian government wants to leak information, why do they need WikiLeaks?"

One doesn't always want to be known as the source of information, for a variety of reasons.

> "Also, I'm curious, where is the line between investigative journalism and criminal disclosure of information?"

Can depend on the jurisdiction and one's own perspective. The "ethical dilemmas" section of this Wikipedia article on ethics in journalism provides a taste:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standard...
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That again disregards the fact that those regimes have to be sustained economically.

See, no matter what people believe, which gods they pray for, what ideologies they follow and how they manage their lives, they inevitably increase the means of production. Even if a given person is dumb and useless, that person would still prefer cheaper goods to more expensive ones, therefore generating economic signals for investments in production improvements.

Increased means of production mean lower transaction costs. Lower transaction costs generate decentralization. Decentralization progressively make centralized regimes not viable.
If that friend is himself an actor, or someone else who can influence hiring decisions, then I would say go for it!

At the end of the day, people hire you. Not data. After all, who says that a teenager can tell apart badly interpreted data any better than poor anecdotes?
He had a fair trial for the crime of jumping bail, and has been jailed for it.
Thanks! Yes, I can imagine that that hypothesis would hold true and probably contributed to a higher fat loss. But, like I mentioned, I was keen to isolate <i>only</i> the fasting effect, without controlling for the diet.
The main issue here is criminal acquisition of information, not disclosure.
Even worse, they thrive on scandals.
> Speaking as a German, the fact that Germany would rather deal with and be reliant on a country like Russia is, frankly, insane and incredibly shameful.

This is about Nordstream 2 I guess. Given how natural gas comes from Russia right now (via Ukraine and Poland), how does this increaase reliance on Russia?

It certainly decreases the reliance on Poland (not much of a concern in Germany) and Ukraine (lots of trouble every few years because Russia and Ukraine can't agree on delivery and transit terms).
Discharable loans would also increase interest rates by about 2%. That’s 100$ a month for 60k worth of loans, which makes them even harder to pay back.
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THere has been a lot of disinformation from both sides about the CAA. THe truth is both political parties have rallied for the CAA in the past and it was passed by Indias upper house (Rajya Sabha) which the BJP ruling party has no majority.
If you're in the US then don't get your hopes up. The president actively acts against such interests. He dropped out of the Paris Agreement and has done tons of environmental protection rollbacks.

One example: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/24/5-major-trump-climate-rollba...

Just one example from there:

> The new rules make it easier to take out protections for threatened animals and plants and allow federal agencies to conduct economic assessments when deciding whether to protect a species from things like construction projects in a critical habitat. The rules also remove tools used by scientists to predict future harm to species from climate change.

As you can see, as with previous actions, he makes changes to benefit business because it's too difficult for businesses to thrive when they need to worry about the environment (paraphrasing of what he's actually said in the past).
Isn’t Germany already reliant on Russia for energy and this is simply about bypassing Ukraine transit in order to develop energy rationing leverage over the region? That has been my understanding thus far could be wrong.
On my honeymoon the resort had free hobie cats and lessons on how to sail. I immediately fell in love and bought a small trailerable sail boat when we got home. Launching and rigging was always a huge pain and took about an hour.

While out on the lake I saw people on windsurfers sailing, it seemed so much easier to transport, rig, and sail so I took a lesson with a local club.

After the first time windsurfing I sold my boat. Rigging the windsurfer took just 30 minutes and the equipment was so easy to load/transport. The stoke was pretty much the same and an additional benefit was all the core strength.

I Windsurfed for a few years. I even bought my truck based on transporting boards. I picked my travel destinations based on the wind and availability of equipment at the destination. My friends had sprinter vans and dedicated trailers for all their boards/sails/masts/booms. The downside was the equipment was heavy and all dead weight. It was extremely difficult to travel (boards wouldnt fit in rental car) and even getting equipment to the waters edge sucked.

And then I started to see guys show up in priuses with tiny boards and kites in backpacks. They could rig up in about 10 minutes and it was so easy to carry everything to the water. The boards/kites were so small they could fly as checked baggage at no extra charge, this opened up all the destinations with wind, but no equipment at the destination.

I was in the philippines on a windsurfing vacation, but the wind was too light for the size sails they had. The kitesurfers were all out on huge kites, so I took a lesson and was blown away by how comfortable it was. Instead of a giant unwieldy sail, the kite flew itself and weighed nothing. When I got home I sold all my windsurfing equipment and have been kitesurfing ever since.

The zen is still the same as sailing, plus you get the thrill of jumping 30+ feet in the air, or being able to surf awesome waves.
Having read the proposals he made after his defeat, his "Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists" [1] I disagree. He just talks about democracy, indeed talking mostly about representative democracy, but the system he proposes has no voting of any sort.

Actually, reading it reminded me of another such book I had read a while ago. Qaddafi's Green Book, where he lays down his ideal system, the Jamahiriya.

On paper, it is pretty cool: every matters of state are decided by local assemblies that can call for a higher level assembly when deemed necessary. But devil is in the detail. The Guide has a final say, in a bit of an unspecified way, exactly how Maknho stays pretty vague on the whole decision process.

I am sure that if Qaddafi had been defeated in his youth, many anarchists would be musing about this system in the way we do Makhno's.

[1] http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/newplatform/org_plat.ht...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Book_(Muammar_Gaddaf...
While Nord Stream 2 is obviously beneficial to Germany (cheaper gas than from the US), there are two totally different interests working against the project:

* The Eastern European states (and especially Ukraine) want Germany to rely on pipelines going through their countries, so that Germany – as a big player – can be relied on to be working with those states when there is a conflict with Russia. (I find that interest well-founded and a debatable reason to refrain from building the pipeline)

* The United States want Germany to buy more (liquefied) gas from them. Quite a few gas terminals have been built in recent years, and America is keen on selling its oil to Europe, because with all that fracking they aim to be a primary supplier of gas in the world. (I do not consider that a valid reason, and if it were the only one, Nord Stream 2 would be a no-brainer, in my opinion).

It's all been complicated even further by Germany rushing this along without consulting (or at least not diplomatically working with) other EU member states, including France, which likes to put its foot down, since Germany is the big rival (and now that the UK is gone, the only real rival on the European stage).
Even if we accept "internet access" a "human right", it still doesn't mean the internet access must be from home. Schools and public libraries can provide internet access.
> 2. How does using electron apps make me more secure than using native apps?

The electron app exists. The native app does not.

You think that ranting against electron is somehow making a native app appear, but the reality is that there are way more js/electron devs than there are qt/gtk/wpf devs, and the choice in most cases is either an electron app or no app.
Having done a lot of real analysis as an undergrad, my one complex analysis course was fairly different. We spent most of the semester proving stuff that didn’t have any analogue in real analysis. But sure the basics are the same and a lot of tricks from real analysis still apply.
I think we have a different definition for undermine. I can't say anything about how they've meddled in European politics. I'd hazard a guess that you really don't either, you just like being anti-American, which is the vastly popular opinion in Germany now, and partly the reason why nobody cares about Russia around here.

But the EU has benefited greatly from US hegemony across the globe, such that I can't in any way see how they might have undermined European politics in any way. Trump is irrelevant to the argument, and I don't see any direct or manipulative meddling in German politics in their attempt to get Germany (or Europe) to join the Iraq war. Hell, we didn't go to Iraq, no matter what the US said or did. And I just don't see anything that is in any way comparable to what Russia has been doing in recent years and continues to do now.

Hell, for most of the post-WW2 period, we were an important pillar in their "war" against Soviet Russia and we've been valued allies (yes, seriously) for much of that time, largely based on common cultural values. As such, they had a clear interest in a strong Europe, as opposed to Russia which benefits from the splintering of the EU and NATO. I know it's hard to remember any of that now with their monkey of a president and all the vile shit that they do, but we were close allies for a long time.
I feel like detecting ad blocking is a slippery slope that would allow all kinds of abuse bordering on stalking, bad performance, etc.

If ads followed the model I'm suggesting there would be much less reasons to block them. I don't hate ads per se, I just hate scams, annoyances and stalking. If I can actually choose which ads I see and have some guarantee that they aren't scams I would actually engage with the ads.
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply no features, just far less than TS.
Listen to all the advice from everyone who works at home, and then throw it out. Everyone is different, and everyone finds their own most productive setup and techniques. So try different things. Take people suggestions and see how they work, but feel free to reject them if they don't feel right for you.

My personal advice is to make sure you do not work too much the first couple months. It is easy to let work become a pervasive part of your life when your office is always right there. So find ways to make a clear break between when you are working and when you are not.

At the same time, do not just replicate the office experience in your home. People who set aside a desk, get dressed, and work standard hours from home are completely missing the freedom of the experience. I tend to work in blocks of time over 12 hours each day... I get up early (4 AM), work for a couple hours, then have breakfast with my family... then work more, then go on a walk with my wife, then work more, etc. If I need a break, I will stop and play a game for 15 minutes or so. I take lunches, I run errands, I do things. After 4 PM, I shut work down for the evening and just spend it with family or on hobbies. Find the balance that maximizes your productivity for work, but that also lets you enjoy flexibility and freedom.
Nope. Income based repayment is available for all federal student loans.

There's a limit of $30k for dependent students and $60k fo independent students. For direct federal undergrad loans in general, not for income based repayment.
Sometimes I wonder if the US and the EU are really friendly to each other.