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The social safety net has a number of problems.

1. It never seems to solve the problems it claims to address. When evidence against it is brought to bear, its advocates move the goal post.

2. There is never an established "end state." More and more areas of life magically become "rights" and then get added to its ever increasing responsibility.

3. It is commonly used as a means to buy votes and sow social dissent by convincing a receiving group that a productive group wants to take their livelihood away.

4. The US government is arguably not representative enough to be tasked with providing it. The nation is too large, the people are too divided, and the political system is too corrupt.

5. It relies on confiscation by the aforementioned unrepresentative entity. And those that never use it shoulder a disproportionate burden of its funding and implementation.

The idea that a social safety net is a Universal Good Thing needs to be reevaluated.
Thanks for your valuable feedback! Yes, you're right. But for now I choose to make the product exceptionally easy and flexible (even with manual data entry). Automation can be added later, after concept is validated.
A Russian satellite weapon shows the danger of hazy rules in space
This is actually what I'm asking for. Raise peoples' wages, make it illegal to offer health insurance as a benefit, and provide a single-payer option for everyone. Make sure there's a universal basic income rather than something means-tested. Or, barring that, raise the minimum wage so most people who are working don't need the safety net.

Means-testing causes huge bureaucracies in the US. The rules around the means-testing make it very difficult for the social programs to actually provide anything in a reasonable amount of time. Or if they do they have byzantine requirements like you have to make X number of job-seeking contacts during the week, you have to interview, and you have to take classes from people who haven't searched for a job outside of the public sector in 20 years. Or for food stamps you're limited to only a few sections of the store.
> Greater and greater value is being generated in the economy due to these increasing efficiencies.

This is very unclear and it depends on what measurements you look at. Lots of economists claim we've had historically low productivity growth in the last two decades - eg Total-Factor Productivity growth has been very low (~0.5%/year) every year since ~2005.
And I assume the agent's cut is on top of that?

Thanks for laying all of this out. Hopefully some politicians will take notice.

It sounds like it's basically impossible to run a business without paying bribes. I imagine even if you got through the NA certificate process, they would come around later for "inspections."
Like I wrote:

> I'm reasonably skeptical that they do, given that the 1st Amendment hasn't stopped us from enforcing antitrust and monopoly legislation in the past. Yeah yeah, Citizens United and all that, but we regulate companies all the time.

> But I'd still want an actual lawyer to weigh in on that, I wouldn't feel confident saying that there aren't limits on how far we can go in that direction.

It doesn't necessarily hold that because one thing is legal, everything is legal. For example, we have 1st Amendment restrictions on threats and libel, but in the US hate speech is still protected speech. 1st Amendment exceptions are generally pretty narrow and specific in the US.

In the same way, clearly some corporate regulation is OK. It does not follow that there's literally no limit on what the government can dictate about how a company can operate. I would prefer to get input from a lawyer before asserting that so confidently.
Did you ever stop and think that the US is the most prosperous because of that instead of in spite of it?
Forcing your people to not rely on the government (really just everyone else) is a good thing. The US is very individualistic which leads to the entrepreneurial spirit. That obviously has pros and cons but it has lead to pretty strong growth and economy.
When 3.5" floppies (stiffies) were introduced, the big selling points were that (a) they could fit in a shirt pocket and (2) you could toss them across the room and they'd still work.

At my first job, I kept a 5¼" floppy with "only copy of important data" written on the label hanging off my filing cabinet with a magnet.
Not paying bribe because of moral issues as well as the fact that I could buy 10 MacBook Pro's with that much money.

There are agents who provide the "NA service". They quoted me 10,00,000 (10 Lakh or 1 Million Rupees) excluding all the legal payments to government.

All land is Agricultural Land by default. Industrial land banks (created by MIDC are few and far and our land is near a MIDC industrial land bank which is out of stock, meaning completely bought out)

Yes there is road access.

No. the land is almost barren land. Far away from flooding. So no problem with natural disasters.
Not sure if you're running OS X or Linux or something else, but on my 2GB netbook I've had good results using Falkon and Links. The former plays YouTube videos just fine, and the latter is more like using a mainstream browser in reading mode.

https://www.falkon.org/

http://links.twibright.com/
The irony of statements like this, is that by directing a huge amount of the energy created by a sense of the unfairness of how modern large corporations work to absolutely stupid proposed solutions like this which are so detached from the reality of how the modern economy works that they have 0 chance of ever being enacted at scale, you actually enable the corporations to get away with more because the people opposing them look like a bunch of morons who don't understand the system they are fighting.
Was Microsoft nervous the government was going to legitimize Linux and lose out on selling the gov't Window licenses? Why would MS lobby to stop this?
I looked it up...

> both operands are pointers to qualified or unqualified versions of compatible types

Not sure, but I still would say he was correct. The compiler might not be able to check if the types are compatible, so the warning as a standard behavior is anticipatory. Sensible, yes.
Brave and Vivaldi are both Chromium based, but perhaps worth a shot.

There's only two other engines left: firefox and webkit. You may want to look into a webkit based browser?
> I clicked on their link and just skipped straight to their "Advanced User" recommendation, because this is HN, and they recommend Mullvad. Curious to see what HN users think of that one.

They're the best VPN provider, hands down. They offer the best privacy protections of any provider at a very reasonable price, and the service itself is excellent.
I wasn't referring to you in particular sorry, just the general tone in this thread. The worst part is people are happy to make assumptions without actually even asking Uber drivers what they want.
Yes, the focus now is to validate the concept and make an easy-to-use and flexible product
I am a fan of your site and appreciate your thoughtful writing, but I found that I could not get very far through this article on mobile (and I usually read HN on mobile, not desktop). The problem is the layout. The font is small, and if you zoom in, it does not wrap.

I have noticed this is the past, it's not the first time that one of your articles has been linked on Hacker News. And I always thought it was strange, because you appear to use very minimal CSS styling, that word-wrapping would not work properly "out of the box".

Looking at this page now (on my laptop) I see that everything is inside of a fixed width (1150px) table, so that explains it.

Have you thought about changing your pages to use a more mobile-friendly setup, like a flexbox layout?

I imagine now that you have hundreds of pages and years of content under your belt (quite an impressive site!) it might be difficult to make such a change on all of your content!
If the C standard org was serious about code safety the FIRST thing they would do is PUBLISH THE STANDARD!!!!

Complaining that people don't follow the finer details of the standard while at the same time keeping the standard unavailable to the vast majority of C programmers is a travesty. When compiler writers think that its ok, to put "optimizations" in to compilers that remove vital NULL checks, because the the spec says that something may be UB that make no sense, I think to myself, What would they say If they downloaded the latest version of their favorite text editor, only to find that it would format their system disk when ever the user presses Control? When they then reached out to the maker of the text editor, the developers would answer: "Oh, on page 204 in the documentation that costs money to access it says that pressing Control, is undefined, we we are in our rights to format your system disk". Would they be ok with that and think it was fair? Thats how the C standard body is behaving!

NOBODY learns C form the C standard, and that is your fault, so don't complain about people not following it. The fact that you are also fucking it up doesn't help: (https://news.quelsolaar.com/2020/03/16/how-one-word-broke-c/)
In that case, sorry to get your hopes up.
Whether it will hurt them before the heat-death of the universe is an open question.

On an internet populated entirely by 100 people, it wouldn't take long for shady practices to hurt shady companies. On the internet we have, in which there seems to be an unending supply of people falling over themselves in their eagerness to see their content--any content--displayed on Google's pages for free, the "eventually" in your sentence is doing quite a lot of work.
That's great, you linked something specific to talk about. Interestingly, the actual application of that law demonstrates how rights are protected in the US. You may know that Chairman Xi thinks there should never be an independent judiciary in China. So the vague national security law there ends up as nothing but a tool of the state to arrest those it doesn't like.

In the US, the Supreme Court balances that law against our constitutional rights, rendering it almost unenforceable. In fact, the way that law is applied is very specific, not vague at all.

Please read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_v._United_States

Nathan Rich and people like him may be fun for you to watch because they confirm your worldview and reinforce your biases, but I suggest you read some real legal scholars if you're interested in actually educating yourself.

Edit: Also, getting back to the origin of this thread, nothing in US law prohibits what Jimmy Lai did. And nothing prohibited it when he did it in Hong Kong. Even besides how disgusting this law is, applying it retroactively is truly appalling.
I often press Ctrl with my thumb though.
Which is great, except that we're emitting vastly too much still and emissions are growing and it will soon be too late to avoid disaster.
How fair is the take-home assignment?
You may be interested in linters.
I'm a C++ guy who prefers `int*`. I also hate multiple declarations on a single line so I just outlaw that entirely so I never have an issue with declaration correctness.
Ask HN: What Are Your Rituals?
What are rituals you've constructed to:
deal with situations in your life?
create motivation?
*derive meaning from the world around you?

And why?

Couple examples:
(1) When I get anxious, I fill a large bowl with ice and water then submerge my face (including nostrils!) for 30sec, usually 2x. This ritual gives me confidence to break out of an anxious thought or action loop. It also has a biological backing - flooding the nostrils with cold water activates what's called the dive response, which dampens your emotions.
(2) If I've been having difficulty sleeping for the past couple days, I'll start a sleep ritual where I write CBT-I entries rationalizing my difficulty sleeping, followed by listening to body meditation scans to help relax any tension in my body before I sleep.
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Jimmy Lai is one of the most inspiring democrat activist of HK. With his wealth, he could have arranged a refuge and left HK months ago, instead of staying and being exposed to the increasingly beligerant CCP/Hong Kong bootlickers.

A sad day for HK. I hope the world does not let him be detained indefinitely, like what has happened to Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo.
I remember recently reading a lot of articles on India trying to attract manufacturing plants in the country. Do they have to face the same issues as outlined by OP or are they handled differently?

Also, are they looking at streamlining some of these processes?

I don't have a problem with few of the questions that OP complained about. For example, the health certificate looks like something, they might ask to check for health safety in the workplace and also probably to see natural resources outside are not being polluted.
Literally nobody who remembers programming before the startupocene is ok anymore.
The real problem with n2526 is that it proposes fixing the return types of locale functions, rather than deprecating that hot mess entirely.
Which people? If you want to undo colonialism you need to include all Irish people in this measure and I can tell you not many Irish nationals if even that want it to be like it is. I'm probably the most outlier opinion in that I think they should be their own country outside of both the UK and Ireland.

From politico:
Overall, the results showed 65 percent "yes" versus 19 percent "no." Excluding undecided voters and those who refused to answer — 15 percent — nearly four in five respondents who had made up their minds said they would vote in favor. https://www.politico.eu/article/election-two-thirds-of-irish...
I was in a big bad batch, but eventually it get better. Hopefully you get better too!
Can the storage of generic containers change as well? For example, store the objects in the container instead of reference?
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The World Bank (which calculates the annual EoDB rankings has acknowledged that in India, "on the ground" experiences of entrepreneurs differ from what their index shows. As a result they are incorporating survey data/inputs from entrepreneurs who try to do business in India. I think it might be worth trying to contact them.

The Indian gov't is typically reactive. However, EoBB is a huge priority for the current administration. The Department for Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) [renamed to Department of Promotion for Industry and Internal Trade] is overseeing the EODB project.

Your mileage may be limited now because the party in power in Maharashtra is no longer the same as the party in power at the Centre... There is limited pressure they can apply.
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Yes.... maybe that stuff wasn't as helpful as you think.

Maybe it ensured that you were trained in a way that you would accept and conform to the world that you were presented with.
Not to belittle your experience, but it seems this may be a bit of a negative feedback loop. Haven't updated the homepage because "what's the point I'm already punished" etc...
Lounge pants for the win.
> What are the chances major projects we use today aren't backdoored similarly?

Basically zero. There is no such thing as computer security in 2020.
I'm running OS X. I really wanted to try Falkon though!
Thanks, I was disappointed that the link in the article wasn't to the actual story.
When I look around the street and over 50% of people are seriously overweight, I tend to doubt this article.
I handle it by outlawing multiple declaration on a single line. It may be more verbose, but it's much easier to read IMO. This has been a somewhat common rule in my experience.
Firefox? You can also go to "about:memory" and press "Minimize memory usage" to free up memory if you're having issues.
But what a pedestrian, generic analysis that is. Based on that statement offenders are just there, and the only thing we can do is get ever bigger, more vigilant sticks since we are outside the situation and "it is what it is". Sounds like the manifesto of broken modern policing.

Instead, places that work on social programs see crime drop, because even if people are capable, they are not offenders since they have received the intellectual, emotional, psychological, economic, etc assistance they needed. Obviously some people will remain offenders and police are necessary. But by now we should know better than this, and that type of statement should not be the linchpin of any criminology.
While I agree that individuals in a society should try to provide for those who can't provide for themselves, saying that everyone deserves X, is basically a way of saying that we want to force others to pay for X and I share your disagreement on that front.
Great - can you pay me some money too? I'll call it a tax if it will help..
I can understand why it's a complicated problem then. As far as I know over here (and I don't know shit), the local government (on a county level) sets zones according to a "destination plan"; residential, commercial or agricultural.

You'd apply for a plot of land in a commercial district for a project like this. Else, you'd need to get in touch with the county so that they vote on changing the destination plan.

I'm fairly sure the county itself will handle a lot of the infrastructure hurdles mentioned in this post, e.g. power lines, irrigation, etc.
They were before my time, but I had an old drive I "examined" (destroyed) as a kid. It was unclear to me how such a large thing could hold so little memory.
> I don't believe we have a crisis

I'm inclined to emphatically disagree, even just on a political level; climate is already changing, rendering huge swaths of the Earth inhabitable. This will force people to migrate to (literally) greener pastures. Within the next 25 years we'll have millions of people on the run. This will put unprecedented pressure on all our political systems. Given how miserably Europe failed addressing the Syrian refugee crisis, I do not have high hopes for the coming Climate refugee crisis to result in anything but more political extremism. I can already hear them say "Das Boot is voll".

> By any measurable standard the plant kingdom is doing phenomenally well under the current climate, with CO2 acting as a fertilizer as noted by NASA.

My worry is less about plants and more about human civilization.

> There are far more mechanisms in the climate system than simply CO2 and we have absolutely no control over those.

True, but CO2 is the one mechanism we've turned up to 11. Maybe we can start turning it down to 0 and simultaneously figure out how to deal with the methane that has started to leak from the Siberian permafrost and from the ocean bottom.

> A good super volcano would plunge the earth into a mini ice age and then fossil fuels would be the last of our worries, as we'd be more worried about growing enough food to survive.

There's also nothing that we can do about a super vulcano. Or a galactic gama ray burst. It's within our capabilities to deal with antropogenic climate change.

> I also do not think that CO2 PPM is a climate control knob.

I also don't see CO2 PPM as a knob. It's probably more of a ratchet. We should stop ratcheting.

> We should be teaching adaptability and be prepared for any outcome, not having any illusions of control over nature.

Control is an illusion, agreed. But even if you cannot control an outcome, you can still try to influence it. Also, I don't see how this helps the vast majority of humanity that has yet to reach a decent living style. Since many of these areas have yet to build up sufficient educational infrastructure, how do you expect these countries to be able to prepare? What would a lecture in "Adaptability" or "Preparedness for Any Situation 101" look like? And since we already know the situation we're going to be in - why not mitigate the as much of the damage as we can, while we can?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105311
The Panavia Tornado fighter jet famously used cassette tapes for mission data. I guess aircraft are a product of their time and because of stringent safety requirements why try to update something if it works fine?
Looking for something that I haven't tried already! Also wasn't aware that there was "minimize memory usage" functionality.
Depends on what you mean by owning it. I personally accept it as depending on locality and trying to legislate outside your borders just makes you look like inssne, an unironic King Canute telling the tides to go back.

I do acknowledge that the US throws its weight around diplomatically and tries to impose its laws as an international standard.
Actually there are almost no pre defined industrial zones.

There are very few and most of them are bought out.

I can hire an lawyer or agent to this work, but the cost is very very high. I decided to do it myself to understand the depth of this mess.
This is not "C++ style"; it's just a poorly considered style perpetrated by coders who are not familiar with the grammar.

The C++ syntax is the same as C in this regard: a declaration has specifiers, and then one or more declarators.

The exception are function parameters, where you have (at most) one declarator.

> why don't C++ programmers use typedef?

C++ programmers do use typedef. For instance:

typedef std::map<from_this_type, to_this_type> from_to_map;

C++ programmers probably use typedef a bit less than they used to, because of features like auto.

When a C++ class/struct is declared, its name is introduced into the scope as a type name. Therefore, this C idiom is not required in C++:

typedef struct foo { int x } foo;

that cuts down some typedefs. If you used a typedef for a C++ class that isn't just a "POD", you have issues, because the typedef name doesn't serve as an alias in all circumstances.

typedef class x { x(); } y;

y::y() // cannot write x constructor this way
{
}
Navigation is not critical? It seems like a pretty dangerous turn of events to try a low-visibility landing based on outdated navigation data.
Looking at the brand in question in the article, their sweatsuits look very similar to any $20 sweatsuit but cost $88 for the top and $88 for the bottom.

I would argue that the reason high end fashion is dying is because no one can afford it and more importantly I think people realize there is no need. Amazon provides exposure to a wide range of acceptable clothing for pennies on the dollar compared to high end brands. If the quality is not great and it does not last as long, I'll just buy another. If i have to buy 5 of them, I am still probably better off and that really does not happen, the quality is generally fine.
I am pro large social safety nets, but they are inherently a problematic institution that come with a large number of economic and social tradeoffs.

I do agree that we could still do a better job than what we are doing but many of your points are never going to change under any large welfare system, at a minimum points 2-5 fall into this category in my opinion.