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I think we may be talking past each other. My intent is to explain why I think phrases like “slaves” and “buy ourselves from our owners” is ill-suited for what you’re trying to convey. Indeed, I’m struggling to find the connection between your comment I first responded to and your response here. I think you’re trying to distinguish between what you have to do to live and what you would choose to do if you didn’t have to worry about making a living. That’s certainly a worthwhile point to make, but again, I don’t think that in and of itself is slavery. (I wasn’t at all implying that what you would choose to do was separate yourself from society, given the opportunity—if that’s how you read the example.)

My example may miss the mark, but it wasn’t intended to. Can you help tie them together for me?
Programming Languages I will be focusing on 2020
I like and recommend the head first java and design patterns books. They are wonderful for a beginner.
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>Imagine if we have a VAT on yachts and nothing else, does that disproportionately affect the rich or the poor?

Nobody? They'll buy yachts abroad.
Please don’t tie UBI to the failed war on drugs. Alcohol prohibition was ceased for the exact same reason the war on drugs should be ceased. Further, there are even outlawed substances which have anti-addiction affects that are part of the prohibition. It’s the definition of a bad idea insulating itself from better ideas.

People need UBI because the purely survival backed capitalistic system harms society too greatly.
Is it possible using this or pygsheets to open a sheet that is editable by link without authorizing your account?
"...Python, for applications that are not time execution sensitive. For all others, there's Java, then C++, then C itself."

That is assuming you know how to work with data structures and algorithms the right way. A O(n^n) implementation runs slow in C as well.
This is thread isn’t about Teslas, it is about the whole electric car industry. Tesla defenders don’t need to get their hackles up. Parent post said batteries in BEVs will never need to be replaced.
> You can get a one bedroom in Austin for less than $800/month

... because there is currently no program in Austin whereby residents each get $1,000 of free money month.
There is no such thing as the most important person ever... all he did was fund some interesting ideas, which other people actually built. If we are going to single someone out for being the most important person ever, then that person would need to have some enormous achievement completed without the help of others.
> If you're against drug legalization, this is like hearing "allowing people to steal whatever they want is causing less murder".

The problem with that analogy is that taking a drug is a victimless crime while stealing something is not. The quality of “bad things” is entirely different. Stealing means I am deprived of my property due to your actions. Smoking weed means I am offended by your actions, and I just happen to have a dumb law to cudgel you with.

The sentiment behind keeping most drugs illegal looks a lot more like racism or homophobia or bigotry in general than anything else.
"welfare state" is a weak criticism. You're talking about a population that historically faced oppression and displacement. Given the context, doesn't make sense that a monthly check is the cause of alcohol addiction.
I did not know #3. That’s messed up.

Email privacy should be sacrosanct.
>but I may not want to hide something because one is legal and other is illegal unless there is a dictatorship.

There's no democracy vs dictatorship binary. It's a spectrum.

There are all kinds of things that are legal but the public sentiment is against them, so you want to hide them to protect your social life/career/etc. Being gay in the 70s was one of them. Or a communist sympathizer in the McCarthy era. Many things in 2020 too from both the left and right side (e.g. it's not like the right wingers are safe. For example, news that he donated against a popular progressive cause cost someone his CEO position at a major tech company -- and that's despite the fact that the majority of his state voted in the same vein).

There all also things that are nominally legal but the government/law/local authorities will hold against you in a democracy. Being a peaceful human rights activist would still get you a large folder at the FBI, and in Southern towns could get you harassed by the police.

There are also things you want to keep hidden because you just don't want them public, like your sexual preferences of BDSM or "golden showers", your sex tapes with your partners, your gossip mails or chat against a colleague or boss with a third party, and so on.

If you are in any position of relative power or even small influence (that could stop something, or speak out, etc), then people with interests (from government, industry, etc) can blackmail you with your private information on any of those categories, to vote or do something in their favor or look the other way.

Democracy always progresses through people working against certain laws and customs and cultural ideas. Child labor, women's rights, universal vote, black rights, gay rights, etc. And since those things are established, those people work against laws/majority opinion/powerful interests/etc.

So they do have a need to keep their ideas or moves or who sympathizes secretly, etc secret while they work towards their goal (plus anything else that could be used to blackmail them or hurt them, even if not relevant to that cause - e.g. MLK's affairs had nothing to do with his cause, but they could still be used to discredit him at the time).

And since people are people, even a very good person, working towards a very legit cause, or wanting to prevent some bad from happening, could still have illegal activity of his own that he doesn't want to be made public and hurt them. E.g. they could be doing psychedelic drugs.

I don't see why someone in the US e.g. can be so self-congratulating on "nothing to hide in a democracy", when they had Jim Crow until the 40s, segregation until the 70s, McCarthy, Hoover, Watergate, modern mass surveillance, frequent police abuse (from Serpico to Rodney King to today), lots of scandals and abuses that came into light only by whistleblowers (corporate, governmental, etc), often themselves prosecuted or abused for it, and so on.
What do you mean, “tricked”? The method is original to me and I don’t think it has spread very far. Is there a Gregorian calendar year for which the GP algorithm gives the wrong result?
How many times do we have to have a balanced discussion to determine the truth before we accept that, with reasonable certainty, we've determined the truth and can discuss subsequent issues on that basis?

I'm not suggesting a flame thread is more productive. I'm suggesting that a civility/debating club fetish keeps us rehashing basics and is itself an impediment to deeper learning.
That's not strictly true, as Apple's incentives as a business are to prevent user choice, regardless of the privacy benefits of the choice. Therefore if you believe, say, that browser engine choice can help privacy (both individually at a micro level and for the ecosystem at a macro level), then Apple's incentives as a product business align much worse with user privacy on that point. The same can be said for other Apple incentives such as kowtowing to some anti-privacy regimes, disallowing advanced software, etc. Treating this as black and white is just wrong.
What is the downside of penicillin for the p50 user?
Find a way to segment that into two markets based on features or volume. Don't try to do it by making your customers take a phone call before telling them anything about the product. That's a move that even Oracle sales would think twice about...
A sufficiently smart compiler and a sufficiently smart compressor are dual to one another.
Lies vs. Statistics: VPN Virtual Server Locations
Beat the clock: the surprising psychology behind being perpetually late
I saw enough large scale knockout projects to see how quickly observable based code fold down into a disjoined incoherent mess. At some point it's virtually impossible to debug or support it.

I'm not sure who downvotes me, people who successfully used them in production or who dont and don't know they are in for the ride, but for me this is an insanity and I won't touch mobx even with a six feet pole.
I completely understand where you're coming from, but perhaps you're looking at causation vs correlation. For example, there are many places in the world without a welfare state going through similar issues. The real question is whether that community would be better or exist at all without assistance.
Good riddance that shitty app needs to be banned on a national scale.
Jk – Configuration as Code
Google or privacy - choose the one.
Go right ahead
This is an article that I wrote recently for Restore Privacy.

The focus is identifying the undisclosed use of virtual locations by some popular VPN services. But that's not why I've submitted it to HN.

I'd appreciate comment and criticism about the criterion that I've used for virtual locations. That is, where apparent signal velocity is greater than the speed of light, I conclude that the disclosed server location is implausible. And so it must be a virtual location.

I calculate apparent signal velocity by dividing twice the calculated great circle distance between server and ping probe, by the minimum round-trip time (minrtt). For server locations, I rely primarily on whatever the VPN service has disclosed.

I'd also appreciate comment and criticism about my explanation of how VPN services achieve virtual locations ("How Virtual Server Locations Are Possible"). Basically that they exploit discrepancies between location information that's associated with IP addresses, and BGP advertisements based on address announcements.

Finally, for 195 servers that are apparently located near Nuland, I found an interesting pattern in the ping data.[0]

For ping probes in Europe, minrtt is 1-30 msec. Then there’s a gap in observed minrtt across the Atlantic, with apparently much faster transmission. I’m guessing that's because trans-Atlantic cables don’t have many routers. Next there are groups for eastern and western North America, with faster transmission than within Europe, but slower than across the Atlantic. That probably also reflects router density. Last, there's a jump to Asia and Australia.

Does that make sense?

0) https://cdn-resprivacy.pressidium.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
If you want to easily manipulate your AWS environment from the command line use the AWS cmdlets for PowerShell. The fact that PowerShell cmdlets work on objects instead of text makes them miles better than this or the AWS CLI because you don't spend most of your time figuring out how to wrangle text into meaningful output.
Every once in a while there would be a day called Leap Day.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Welfare is a tax, and a much needed one since the alternative costs even more. I don't really see how a universal basic income (UBI) solves much of anything that other welfare programs couldn't solve more effectively. If the argument is that it's easier to just give everyone $1,000, then I think you're a lazy policymaker.
You're right that it probably will lead to inflation. The only question is how much, because the fed right now is having a hard time providing inflation into the economy. The fed just pumped 500 billion in not QE, QE in the last month; but you wouldn't have noticed based on consumer price inflation.
> Any time such a huge change is introduced into a complex system, it is extremely hard to see all the unintended consequences. I like the idea of UBI, too. Taking that leap worries me, though, we might be in for a worse time because of it.

I definitely think we need to allow time for people's thinking to change, as well as to allow existing systems to adapt, and to respond to new issues as they come up. A brief look at Mao's Great Leap Forward should make anyone really cautious about making such sweeping changes immediately.

I think ideally what would happen is that there would be a planned gradation, where several things would slowly move from where they are now to the targets in sync, maybe changing every year. First year, UBI is $100 / month, minimum page is cut by about $0.75, taxes are adjusted accordingly. Second year, UBI is $200 / month, minimum wage cut again, and so on until UBI is the target "subsitence" value, where you can afford food and a roof over your head without working at all. At that point, minimum wage is done away with entirely.

The thing is, it will take time for people to re-adjust their expectations for how much a job is worth. If all my basic needs are taken care of by UBI, then maybe $1-2/hr is all I need to have a bit of extra spending money.
This seems like a very complicated way to solve half the problem ?

The same fraction of the problem can be solved more tidily by noticing that ACME (RFC 8555) is specifically designed so that the web server can be told one fact and use that to answer all challenge requests correctly for your Let's Encrypt account affirmatively. This is safe because it's your account, and so it's just up to you not to request certificates you'd be entitled to but don't want -- nobody else needs to help you do that. The fact you need to configure is the URL-compatible Base 64 encoding of your account key thumbprint. The correct answer to any HTTP challenge against /.well-known/acme-challenge/$token is an HTTP 200 OK with body $token.$thumbprint

So you only need to configure $thumbprint which is at worst a small privacy leak (it reveals you use Let's Encrypt's HTTP challenges or you are prepared to do so, and this thumbprint is unique so if you use the same account in multiple places this ties them together) but no grave security consequences to reveal it to the world.
Show HN: Dayta – data tracker for mindful living
The 7 is at the bottom of Apple's support list from this point forward, and I recommend you check your battery health on that "renewed" device before you decide $200 is a good deal. You can get "new open box" (opened but never used/used for a week and returned) iPhone 7 devices for less than what you paid.

I'm not trying to sour your purchase, but I'm desperately trying to find something to replace my iPhone 7 that is not Android and not a face-scanning iPhone, and I'd rather spend good money on something like the PinePhone or a Jolla (if they would sell to me) than wasting money on the Apple treadmill.
I'm not sure where the corresponding boundary would be exactly, since we do seem to be on the verge of exploring other planets, but you could say that we also understand where it is we're allowed to roam - the surface of Earth. And we aren't free of psychological problems.
Countries have laws for exporting used electronics exactly so poor countries dont become dumping grounds. The same should be the case for intra eu vehicles. The German government is blocking such an initiative using the EU, and clocked or high polluting vehicles end up in countries such as a Romania. Poverty and corruption in that country are rampant but that is no excuse to dumping low quality german cars there.

Edit: the gov of romania has already tried taxing old vehicles but was pushed back by the eu. Blind obedience to the eu and self blame wont fix your country.
> No "new" money will appear...

... except that part where $1,000 per month per person in the US comes out to about $4 trillion, which is 100% of all taxes collected.

There is no universe in which this much money can be given to every citizen in the US without creating new money.
It's a scrollable element for me, I don't like it but it's good enough especially if it's largely for illustration anyway.
In some countries Sunday is considered the first day of the week, which is quite strange for me, as here it's Monday.

Do Americans, for example, feel like "a new week has started" on Sunday morning? For me Saturday and Sunday feel as one block, it's weird to imagine a separation in there.

But perhaps someone who grows up with that calendar feels like Saturday is end-of-the-week winding down, and Sunday is a start-of-the-fresh-week "warmup" day.
Ask HN: Any luck with bulk CCPA opt outs?
So, the California Consumer Protection Act is law now. Any hints on how to opt-out in bulk?

As a random example, Fiat seems to sell all sorts of information.

Here are their opt out instructions:

> * You may opt out or control how your information is used by sending an email to dprivacy@fcagroup.com.*

Since they don’t say what information they require, it seems likely this will take multiple round trips.

Apparently Facebook recommends completely deleting your account to opt out, but that presumably won’t stop them from performing ad targeting, or creating shadow profiles for non-existent users. (Shadow profiles clearly exist, since they use them during account creation to recommend new friends).

Similarly, how do I opt out of Google facial recognition that they do on behalf of other people’s accounts, nest cameras, etc?
It's also weird... it will use wifi (if connected) for some things and ethernet for others. It doesn't seem to matter which has priority in the network settings. I still haven't decided if this is a bug or a feature... So now when I get home I just disable wifi unless I need to use AirDrop. Bye bye unlock with Apple Watch! (Although the sheer range that it works at makes me not use it. That's a whole other thread I guess!)

I agree though. It would be nice to know which network was actually active in a dock/dongle situation.
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>However your argument is fundamentally flawed, even if it works emotionally: It accepts the narrative that privacy is about hiding something evil, which is the primary attack vector against this basic human right and should be refuted, not reiterated.

Such a distinction doesn't matter much.

Evil is in the eye of the beholder. E.g. for Southern racists in the 50s, the fact that one supported and funded black rights would seem "evil" as well.

As long as what X (= you or someone you know) said or did appears evil to third parties (government, society at large, their boss, private interests, etc), and leaking this could have negative consequences against X, that's enough to justify the argument made.

Whether the thing is actually evil or good is not really relevant (that implies some fixed moral order for eternity and for everybody within a certain time).
Using a concept from software engineering, why can't they just partially roll this out by percentage or by state? Try swapping current benefits w/ equivalent UBI in a handful of states and study what happens?
I've been using brave and Firefox because of a perceived privacy benefit over chrome.

Would you mind expanding upon this statement on regards to Brave?

Thank you and happy new year!
As we played this old favourite a lot over Christmas, I was wondering about optimal strategies, and found this link.
Everything you are saying about Native Americans is contradicted by every study that has been done so far.

https://www.wired.com/story/free-money-the-surprising-effect...

Yang also discusses this in his book.

Please don't comment hyperbole if you're not able to support your thoughts with data.
Similarly Manhattan was one of the first cities to be planned on a fixed grid.
Goodness me No. Ruby has become a sunken cost.

There are better alternatives like Golang, Rust, Elixir or even Crystal. I’m not even sure why Ruby should exist or even be used in 2020, if it is still stuck in versions 2.x.
> My sister works up in Alaska. Tribal members up there have exactly what UBI promises: a baseline check every month....

This sounds like a lot of tribal areas that don't have UBI.

Are you thinking of a specific study that establishes UBI as the cause of this behavior in this case, or are you guessing?
great ! the book looks like what I need first. I've never came across it during my google searches... Thanks a lot !
I wonder what the authoring software is like?

(I hope for Inform 7 for movies... )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform#Inform_7
>9/ We will finally move on from the Baby Boomers dominating the conversation in the US and around the world and Millennials and Gen-Z will be running many institutions by the end of the decade.

And as typical in such pieces, GenX gets forgotten...
He didn't say anything about the war on drugs, he said it would cause drug epidemics. Getting addicted to drugs has nothing to do with the US' moronic drug policy.
> Private sector is simply never going to find a job for everyone who needs to survive.

You're technically correct that unemployment will never be 0%.

But it's been < 4% for almost all of 2019.
Couldn't sleep because of noise from nearby pub or something, people singing old hindi songs just because they have to. Stuff like "gimme some sunshine gimme some rain, and then Yeh dosti hum nahin todenge". You might not know these songs, but I hope you understand my annoyance.
Just use a finally block to free the array even in case of exceptions. Or does C++ not have finally blocks?
I think building a superior product would be trivial and profitable for a reasonably funded, small team of developers. Most of the accounting profession uses tools that are from the 80s and 90s, so the user experience is horrible for staff accountants.

The main problem is that selling to accounting firms is difficult because procurement usually goes through partners. At the firms I worked for, our procurement process required buy-in from a majority of the partners and the product would require serious security features that are beyond my current abilities, so those two facts deterred me from pursuing that route.

The real future is integrating audit software with financial bookkeeping. This is one area where I think blockchain/smart contracts actually could be utilized to ensure audit quality. Auditors essentially look at a small portion of the transactions made by a company during a year, so software could monitor it in parallel. You’d still need an audit team to review the findings and ensure the software was working properly, but the cost would be a fraction of what it takes to audit a company by hand today.

Thank you for asking — it’s been a while since I’ve been able to geek out like this! One day I’d like to build those tools, but in the meantime I’m working on a personal finance product. It’s almost done, so hopefully you’ll see it when I submit it to HN to get dragged across the coals.
Oh wow, I didn't know that. That sucks.
Similar in function, different in application? They don't need to call it yapygsheets for it to be their own.
Goldman Sachs is saying the economy is nearly recession-proof
"Brazilian" is of an undefined value, so it's fine.
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If instead of the federal government paying the Egyptian military millions of dollars, or building billion dollar buildings in Iraq, they were were giving out micro payments to citizens, I don’t see how that could be worse than our current model of spending.
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True, if only people in Austin got a $1000 UBI then many people would want to move there for the UBI and rents there would go up by supply and demand.

But if everybody in the country gets the same UBI then people are going to move from where to where exactly?

If the answer is from places with higher housing costs to places with lower housing costs, I think you're going to find that there's more than enough empty space in the middle of nowhere to satisfy all of that demand without significant rent increases.
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You're making the mistake of assuming that rents are dependent purely on renters' ability to pay them. Whereas the fact of the matter is that the market is driven largely by housing supply and demand, as it always has been. A $1,000 monthly check is unlikely to move the numbers much.