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> Because there is no such countries until someone can prove otherwise (which will not happen because they don't exist).

It won't happen because you'll shift the goal posts.

A common dodge is that they're state socialism. The problem with this dodge: it's definitely true that state socialism is impure. But, it's 90% of what you want, and it fails catastrophically. Then the answer is, "well, it can only work if it's 99%!"

The regulated markets we have in Western nations, however, are 90% of an ideal "truly free market" and they work quite well. And we find that incremental reforms that deliver to people a little bit more of their economic liberties also improve people's lives bit by bit. Markets have the property that the freer they are, the more benefits they provide.

The other dodge is that "it wasn't socialism's fault," especially with Venezuela. Yes, they had an economy centered around oil and that was a problem. The issue was that socialist-inspired reforms made it worse, especially nationalizing the oil companies and price controls. Markets thus have an additional property that they are robust, they allow people to route around problems and mitigate them. Planning is brittle because it necessarily centralizes power, and it tends to fail because planners can't respond to crises in a decentralized manner the way a market naturally does.

The third dodge, common now thanks to Sen Sanders, is the Scandanvian nations show that socialism works. But their economies work because they took the opposite approach of 10% socialism. That's not great for apologia since it follows that socialism only works when you hardly do it.

> Big capital put this idea inside the heads of many people living in the West and until today they really believe there is countries who are socialist/communist.

No one who read the dictionary[2] is claiming that there were any communist nations, since a defining aspect of communism is the absence of the state. You can have lots of communists (persons whose end goal is communism) in a socialist nation, of course, since, as Lenin noted, the purpose of socialism is communism.

And Lenin introduced state socialism, not some mad capitalist, and he believed it was, if not proper socialism, a clear stepping stone to socialism. The nations definitely called themselves socialist, and socialists all over the world agreed and while things appeared to be going well, they were bragging about how this proved socialism worked.

But it wasn't working because the planners were lying. Socialists here lied and covered up tremendous deaths[1]. And it's only when the problems couldn't be hidden that they became not socialist anymore.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty#The_Holodomor_(...

[2]: That does leave a lot of people claiming it, of course.
I guess the silver lining here is that perhaps another person has finally learned about the value of privacy. And that "nothing to hide" is bullshit
Exactly this. Some people come in early and some people come in late. Meetings are for the middle of the day when every body is there. Mornings and evenings are good for work with minimal interruption.
Sure, what’s the question?
Tell HN: How USA school closure seems to be working out
I'm in Northshore school district (Seattle Area) and our school district is the first in the USA to be closed by the CoronaVirus.

The district has actually moved pretty fast on this. They set up an emergency "online teaching" teacher training day tues, e-learning resources, and upon closure on thursday they had the elearning setup for students to try out. You can see the district emergency e-learning portal page here: https://www.nsd.org/northshorelearns

My 2 kids classes will be taught using Google Classrooms starting Monday, and the last two days were for "testing" the system. The school choose Google Classrooms I think because the students already had google apps for education accounts.

Overall, Google Classrooms is better than nothing, but honestly not much. It's basically a Teacher driven CRM system with ui complexity like all google web tools, and some integration with Google Docs. I think this might be fine for middle-school or higher, but they workflows are a bit convoluted, and I can see small kids and computer illiterate parents having serious problems navigating.

The biggest problem though, is that it's all self-directed learning. Students need to proactively seek out their assignments and course materials and have the focus to read/understand it all without any explanation by a teacher. It's "okay" in my case because I can spend the time to hover over them to make sure the work gets done and the content gets read (otherwise it's just skimmed over). Students unable to self learn and parents unable to micromanage their learning are going to be severely hurt by online learning like this. Also, me micromanaging the kids took a considerable chunk of the day, as I need to check up on them every 10 minutes or so, or they have questions (aprox 5hrs/day).

I do think the school district made the right decision to close. Kids are at lowest risk of serious infection but school staff trend older and are at highest risk.
The underlying problem with the 'product-market fit' hyperbole is one of degree.

1) Ok, so they like your product, but how much?
2) Is it that much better than substitutes?
3) Really how big is the market?
4) Some will live it, some won't, what does that ratio look like?
5) How much customisation did each of those customers need?

This concept of 'product-market fit' is almost ridiculous frankly. In reality, investors want to see a material 'lift off' i.e. in their investments they want to see startups that have a product that is just 'taking off' and 'flying out the door' ... but this is an excessively optimistic view of 'product market fit'. By some SV definitions, most companies never had 'product-market fit'.
I believe AMD has been contributing upstream to intel-cmt-cat, and Intel has accepted those patches.
So if a shooter sets up in a sufficiently expensive property, the police have to sit there passively and risk being shot because they don't have the money to pay for the damage caused by going in? That makes no sense.

I'm generally of the opinion that police are too heavy-handed in the US, but in this particular case I don't think there was any other reasonable option. Moreover the ancestor post referring to the suspect as simply a "shoplifter" was inaccurate.
It's absolutely incredible to think that the age difference between you and the author of the comment you replied to is greater than the number of years I've been alive.
I love that!! If I worked 10:30 to 6:30 I’d be SUPER productive. And the meeting schedule is great (though probably not always 100% realistic).
I don't trust your source. 1900 BCE is Middle Kingdom, not Old Kingdom.

Also, a lot of those older cryptic hieroglyphs turned out to be in an early Northwestern Semitic language. The idea was apparently that you're going to have spells effective against snakes coming in on ships from Byblos, the spells should invoke the deities they know in the language they know.

https://semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/publications/early-nor...
No, the shoplifting suspect should be.
REPL Debugging: No Stacktrace Required (2017)
I was thinking about your dilemma and recalled an old web page I used for OpenScad coding, it was called "10 things to know how to do in OpenScad to become dangerous" or something like that.

It seems a commercial entity has grabbed the "become dangerous" expression nowadays and is offering courses.

But after a bit more consideration, the true value of that old web page was that it was infact a cheat sheet of sorts. Like you said beginners learn the syntax, professionals get way too in depth.

So here is a link to a bunch of cheat sheets, I hope this helps you in your hacking endeavors.

https://cheatography.com/tag/programming/
He had the dream job back in the 1800's
If you've studied history or care about freedom of thought and movement, you wouldn't be so optimistic.
China’s errors fueled coronavirus spread
success for the VC is getting their money back plus some more at a liquidity event. It's not the same as success for the company.
Why do you need to know anything about identity? The only important question is whether you control the keys used to initially register that identity.

There's potentially value in having the option to link two identifiers together, so that people can find you on Signal via phone number or email address. But only as an option.
The Infinite Scroll
Wait out the suspect.
yet. Nobody knows where the bottom is. The virus is only at the beginning of its conquest of the Western world.
An open letter to Senator Bob Casey on end-to-end encryption
How Cloudflare keeps employees productive from any location
Because it's a flawed thought process and I'm not gonna sugarcoat it so feelings don't get hurt.
Basic price theory only obtains under specific conditions like perfect competition, perfect information, fungibility of commodities, and zero friction for market entry and exit.
Network Link Conditioner for Android
Well, how do existing manual systems deal with it? Why not just make do with partial automation and fall back on the existing methods for those thorny legal edge cases?
That's not specifically about the young not knowing their cultural references anymore, though. People complaining about their offspring in general is as old as time. Although, ironically, a surprising amount of quotes about that aren't sourced properly or dubious in general.
There are too many cops in the US. So they need the work. This is also why they have police cops in all schools. Which seems horrifying to anyone not from the US. (They're often on a power trip and take even the smallest opportunities to beat up kids. A web search brings up a long list of such cases.)
How more convoluted can this explanation be?
The question is equivalent to just "Find the maximum of nb_conversion × (cost_per_conversion - margin_per_conversion)", and the only interesting question is the relationship between the cost per conversion and the number of conversions, which is not a matter of math but of practical statistics.
The commonly accepted viewpoint of the young, maybe.

But after you've seen the same things re-invented several times only for each effort to run into the same brick wall, at some point you want off the merry-go-round.
Yes, I agree it counts as a tracking device. My point was that it’s probably extremely impractical for most people in the US to forgo a license plate.
It doesn’t make sense to pay off the mortgage when money is essentially free, where interest rate is lower than inflation.

I believe it does make sense to invest what you can now in a balanced and diversified 60/40 portfolio. The current market turmoil is mere noise in the long term.

The fundamentals are still solid. Companies continue to make profits and hire people.
But it really comes down to the same thing, that you want to deny users ability to run their own software, or make modifications to hardware, etc. In case you are really the owner of the hardware, why you need measures to prevent against reflashing with other software?
And this applies to the whole justice system, regardless if it's a criminal or civil issue.

In civil cases this is used as leverage by wealthy people. The wealthy can sustain a legal battle for as long as they want. They know that if their opponent isn't as wealthy, they'll be forced to settle, even for an unreasonable amount, just because they won't be able to afford defending themselves properly.

For reference, a decent civil attorney in a major city in California will charge $250-500/hour, which ends up being around $5k/month to defend pretty much any civil lawsuit. A lawsuit that goes to trial will take 18-24 months, so you'll end up paying $90-120k just in legal fees. There will also be $10-20k in additional court fees and other expenses, not to mention your time.

At the end of the day, if you defend a civil lawsuit and you flawlessly "win" the case, after about 2 years of manufactured stress, you'll be down $100-150k.

That's what it costs to prove you are innocent and walk away "free" (free to be sued again).

Btw, in civil cases, if you cannot afford a lawyer, the system won't appoint one for you, you will have to defend yourself (which judges and lawyers hate, and will very much play against you in court).

Also, even if you can represent yourself, the court fees won't necessarily be waived ($2-3k), and you'll have to fund your own discovery (which can be insanely expensive, depending on the case).

Then if you are defending as a corporation (llc, c corp, etc), you must have a lawyer. So basically if someone knows that your company cannot afford to hire a lawyer, they can sue you and force you to pay up or go bankrupt - then during bankruptcy they can keep going after you personally, and even after bankruptcy they can sue you again.
Show HN: Mini social network that I made as my first MERN stack project
Generics still have a huge effect in driving down prices and patent cliffs for small molecules are as devastating as they have always been for big pharma. It makes sense that it's not easy to create a new generics company because it's such a perfect expression of the free market - fierce competition leads to the profits being competed away. It couldn't be cheaper to start a generics company (and there's plenty popping up overseas) - but there just isn't that much money in it unless you already have the infrastructure or have a competitive advantage in cost
Demo: https://social-network.site/login

Video of app: https://streamable.com/5srsv
Why not just buy all of them and resell them on your own website (without the cap)?
May be some kind of insurance product to protect and cover costs in such no-fault cases should cover it.
Not quite - rates are going down not because people think they won't be paid back, but because they think their alternatives will return less due to lower growth and are shifting investments from there to bonds.
Back almost 20 years ago, I worked on a medium-sized system - 1000's of simultaneous users, millions in $USD transactions daily - that was based on an mmap'ed flat file "database." It worked amazingly well. (Note that we did none of that sort of error handling!)
It's a step in the right direction, but be aware the police could also ask the cell service provider for location information.
Is there anyone that has ever had more information on more people in human history than Google or FB? They have gotten to God like levels with their omniscience
“Some things may never get fixed” by Rachel Kroll
What are the ills there?
I’ve been waiting for airlines to give up on scheduling altogether and move to JIT routing. Maintaining schedules seems fragile, and I think demand would increase dramatically if customers didn’t have to plan ahead. This will definitely happen when the industry gets disrupted by cheap autonomous and electric mini-planes, but it seems that schedules are so broken already that the biggest thing keeping up the facade are FAA rules (e.g. massively unnecessary runway intervals).
You are presumed innocent. In civics class you learn that the prosecution has to prove your guilt (that's bullshit, of course, because you'll be offered a plea deal and have the choice between a copping a plea and finding yourself before a crooked jury that would convict a ham sandwich), but even so, why would you talk to the police and offer them ammunition that can be twisted into a story against you?
Correspondence chess. With lichess it's never been easier to play online.
I would not recommend taking investment advice from HackerNews. /r/PersonalFinance is a better place, or you can start reading forums like Boggleheads and blogs.

If you’re canadian I can recommend a couple of blogs I follow, otherwise I’m sure there are others from your country with specific advice.

If all else fails, paying a for-fee advisor that doesn’t sell funds can help you setup a plan for yourself.
Imagine the infrastructure needed for water, sewage, electricity, a natural gas network or even roads. Now compare the price to internet.
>the police have to sit there passively

That sounds perfectly fine and reasonable to me.

> and risk being shot

I'm certain they will be able to wait far enough away where getting shot isn't really an option.
I'm 57, and am not treated will by the people here at Hacker News, who frequently "ok boomer" me. I'm glad to see I'm not the only active "senior" around.

I still write code every day. In C++/CUDA and Erlang.
I guess my justification for my comment is along the lines of "it takes compromise for two parties to start getting along and start improving things". One small compromise that could be made is for white people who don't need to worry about false conviction to not treat a situation like this adversarially. Possibly, that could ultimately lead to improved community relations and an abatement of police racism and general brutality and despicability.
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React Bricks CMS Beta Launch on Tuesday: HN Preview
Show HN: Re-Drawing the Barrie Transit Map
Java was still pretty brand spanking new in ‘96. And RMI wasn’t inflicted on us until ‘97. But half the stuff we use was invented in the 70’s and explored in the 80’s anyway.

The classes in college that I have used the most by far are the series that covered logic and set theory, and the one on distributed computing. The latter does take some of the fun out of people rediscovering things though.

IIRC, Berkeley had an OS with swarm computing and process migration around ‘87. It wasn’t until 20 years later that the speed of disk vs networking had a similar imbalance again. And of course the mainframe guys must constantly think the rest of us are idiots.
Literally this. It isn’t even a question if the home is “sufficiently expensive” - if a criminal is holed up somewhere where no one else is, try to negotiate their surrender. It’s likely that it will end in better outcomes for the criminal, police, and the homeowner.

The same logic applies with high speed pursuits. You’ve likely got a helicopter in the air following them - back off a bit until things cool down.

But the role of the police isn’t to deescalate and once you acknowledge that, these decisions make more sense.
Transportation is critical yet often unprofitable, which is why it's usually heavily regulated and subsidized.
> you probably wanted to use a type other than string for the return type.

That's the point. In order for (String userId) to not be confused with (String password), I wrap them with nominal types UserId and Password.

If the language looks at both UserId and Password and decides they're interchangeable because they both satisfy the contract 'contain a String', then that completely negates the point.
Where did you get those prices? I can't find anything cheaper than $4 per TB month at both Google and Amazon.
Fun reading for a university class, but the real world doesn’t work this way. Optimizing for a target cpa is never a possibility because at an agency or in house marketing team your given x budget and expected to spend it.

I’ve never seen someone underspend a budget and be thanked for it.
You wait it out and de-escalate. The heavy handed response is dangerous for all parties.

When I was growing up, the Sheriff initiated a big chase and SWAT response for some dumbass kid who rode an ATV on the road. The end result was an accident that killed the kid and severely injured a deputy (who IIRC wasn’t even involved in the incident response), who was unable to work again.

All that tragedy, for what?
Linux would use it for get_user(). The success path returns a value.
Why Privacy Matters
The suspect was also damaging the house himself.
When I worked in government I noticed something similar. Every department had about five senior leaders. There would be one female and she would always be the hard as nails, gruff, no nonsense type. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that they had had to behave like that to be taken seriously and trusted to be competent. The men could get away with being affable and clubby but women’s range of accepted behaviours was far narrower.
Multiple Saudi royal family members detained, accused of plotting coup
I had wireless internet like this growing up in a rural town in the early 2000s. It was 3 mbps unlimited, and our only other options were satellite (768k with 800ms rtt or so) and 56k dial-up. It was a godsend for me as a young kid wanting to learn and explore tech. I’m glad to hear he’s doing this, and it’s great for small scale, but this is what’s most exciting to me about SpaceX. The promise of LEO satellite internet is immense for people in these situations, but the cost doesn’t work out unless you can launch those satellites at a low cost. SpaceX seems to understand this and I see their drive to reusable rockets as a way to make this a high profit margin business that will enable them to do bigger and better things without being beholden to nation states for funding. I can’t wait for this. I hope to have a remote country house someday, but the internet has been one of the main drivers for us to stay closer in to town.
> It would show him passing the house only momentarily.

Passing the house momentarily (three times within an hour, according to the article) could mean he was checking out the house as a potential target. That's probably more than enough to mark him as a suspect. Were he the culprit, he could have then turned off the phone, or hid it within some distant bushes making it look like he stopped to rest, while actually doing the burglary.
But if you did want to buy bonds, any citizen can setup an account at:

https://treasurydirect.gov

Also you can buy iBonds and TIPS, which are protected against inflation.
On Catastrophic Interference in Atari 2600 Games
Marine Sediments Illuminate Chlamydiae Diversity and Evolution [pdf]
See my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22512317

I also think you're losing perspective: it was just some nobody at the local police station investigating a theft of jewelry from some old woman! I bet it would have been totally fine if he'd popped in and chatted to the detective in question.
Why would it be an issue? Unless you use maps, you shouldn't notice a difference
I like the P2P nature of the internet, but how do you get connected to a peer on good terms? Comcast, Verizon and AT&T limit not only who but what devices you can route packets for (e.g. hotspot data).

Any ideas on finding good peers to work with? I'm hoping for few usage restrictions first and then quality links characteristics next (e.g. bandwidth, latency, cost, etc...).
Could this be used to implement something like dex?
The media will never report on dropped charges as much as they do an arrest.

They will do that from time to time, if you are wealthy and well-connected enough. We had a case like that at my institution, an attempted rape. Don't rely on the government for protection, arm up.
In most democracies if you loose a court case you have to pay all the legal fees, plus damages and reimbursements to the other party. This holds true in criminal or personal cases, and even when the loosing party is the government or the police.
Thanks, I'll have to take a look at that.
And it only costs several thousand dollars a pop to prove you're innocent! What progress!
>It’s easy to sit in an armchair and claim you’ve found the moral and ethical...

This sounds like moralizing to me.

>including loss of life

How would temporarily not issuing tourist visas kill people?
Waiting out a suspect who has already shot at the police is dangerous. Any mistake that left a person exposed to be shot at could be fatal. Protecting life is a higher priority than protecting property.
The issue says nothing about what data is being sent. How does the poster know it's telemetry data?

Maybe the initialization code when the CLI is run checks to see if the CLI is up-to-date.

The Netlify CLI is for deploying your sites to Netlify. Sooner or later it's going to call a Netlify API, I don't know why the expected behavior would be otherwise.