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>Freedom doesn't mean "I can do whatever I like with no consequences"

Depends on your definition of freedom. The issue with this kind of freedom is that your freedom encroaches on other people's freedoms, so most societies agreed that we should have less freedom in favor of fairness.

Exactly where the trade-off is to be made is subjective and cannot be derived from facts alone.

We have a lot of freedoms that encroach on other people's freedoms, it's impossibly to make a clear cut on where fair ends and personal freedom begins.

Allowing people the freedom to sell sugar will inevitably lead to more diabetes and earlier death. It tastes good and it's addictive.

Sugar costs a lot of people some of their freedom to live and move. But if we didn't allow selling sugar we would take away the seller's freedom and the freedom to choose from the consumer.
Lua coroutines have exactly the thing I asked for though. As an example, if I have some enemy in a shmup that moves (over the course of many frames), fires some bullets in an arc centered on the player (within one frame), and moves again, I can write something like this:

function ExampleEnemy:behavior()
while true do
self:move()
self:fire_arc()
end
end

function ExampleEnemy:fire_arc()
local theta = self:aim()
for i=-5,5 do
self:fire({speed=8, direction=theta+i*10*degrees})
end
end

If I later want the arc to have some delay between the bullets, and I insert a call to a function that yields for a certain number of frames in the loop in fire_arc, the code continues to work. If I do this same change in Python, the result is that the call to fire_arc in behavior begins to return an iterator or something and silently fails to actually fire any bullets!

Lua's stackful coroutines are sufficiently cheap that it's reasonable to have tens of thousands of entity behaviors implemented as coroutines running at a time.
Time and life end up teaching those things because normal interactions end up teaching those things.

This is ascribing four years of interacting with other people to colleges. Four years of work experience in a given job makes someone far more valuable than four years of college preparing to start the same job. College isn't the only place to learn. Art history can be studied as a hobby any time in life.

The idea that using four years to learn english 101 while accumulating massive debt instead of focusing on becoming valuable enough to start working in an industry you want is a destructive mentality. If typical college was much cheaper and more focused there might be more validity to it.

Four years of working earns money instead of bleeding it. You meet people that actually know how to do the things you want to learn instead of guessing at them.
> Our efforts coincided with the resignation of Richard Stallman from the US-based sister organisation of FSFE due to careless revictimisation of female victims of sexual abuse- another gender discrimination issue in our community that would cause the situation in our office to deteriorate quickly.

The casual misrepresentation of this saga also makes me skeptical of the authors viewpoint.
Aren't you excited by the new Macs ?
Nice, it'll be easier to discover who poisoned me in the future.
> So you might own 1% of a $10m company before the dilution and 0.5% of a $20m company after the dilution but the value of your holding didn't change.

If that is indeed true, then there's almost no reason not to demand being paid in real cash money rather than stock options. If the company doubles in value and I have the same amount of money, then what's the point of getting options instead of USD?

This like saying, "don't worry, your lotto ticket won't be devalued: We'll make sure that even if those numbers win the jackpot, you'll still get the same $2 and it won't be diluted below that."
We want new laws and regulations that make the current ‘form’ of Facebook and co. die.
I wouldn't reject this out of hand, but I do find that the complexities around healthcare and the obvious political implications lead to a lot of exaggeration and outright falsehoods being propagated.

it's my understanding that the affordable care act requires insurers to treat any emergency services (if covered at all) as in-network. can anyone explain either a.) how I am wrong, or b.) how this can be circumvented?
Bellingcat's Christo Grozev was indeed in the room, you can see it in the video above, and his reaction to the agent spilling the beans is priceless.
Seriously, I’ve had dentists differ in opinions by an order of magnitude. Turns out “necessary” is a pretty broad grey area.
My last employer, Tanium, offered single-trigger RSU's (vesting required time but no liquidity event) - they were taxed as they vested.

We had a couple of choices to pay the taxes: the default was that the employer would buy back some of the stock and use that cash to pay the taxes. Employees would get to keep 70-some percent of the stock. The other option was that employees could write the company a check for the taxes shortly before vesting, and then keep all of the stock.
> or they received high level intelligence from a nation state actor

Much more likely they have a mole in the Russian government, FWIW. Autocrats are, in general, broadly hated by their own bureaucracies. That's why they do purges and murder opponents to begin with. But yes, clearly there was some level of intelligence work needed to make this happen, you can't just look up "state poisoner" in an index of professionals.
I emphatically do not want a future where corporations rule over everything. (If the "awww, poor widdle Apple, having expectations put upon them" was not sufficiently clear, I apologize.)

I am saying that, when the rubber hits the road, Apple has the ability to impose their will on their subcontractors when it comes to human rights and worker treatment (which, I stress for the wait-wait-but-for crowd so desperate for reasons to excuse large companies from having to act like citizens of the world, is a distinctly different use of power than self-enriching commercial ones, so save the handwringing). If they don't want to be held to account for doing so ethically and proactively, they must be made--significantly--smaller until that expectation can be reasonably removed.

That doesn't elide the role of the state--it recognizes that, to our general detriment, we have allowed corporations to grow to the point where they are not practically regulatable by any given state due to their extranational operations. And that we should break them with hammers until they are.
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You've made a great case for it.
Wow I didn't even notice this wasn't HTML until I tried pasting stuff...
I found this info:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Par...

${parameter@operator}

The expansion is either a transformation of the value of parameter or information about parameter itself, depending on the value of operator. Each operator is a single letter:

Q The expansion is a string that is the value of parameter quoted in a format that can be reused as input.
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> "Edit: downvoting without discussion in this context means to me that you're hurt by my statements but have no rebuttal..."

From the HN guidelines:

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

In other words, complaining about being downvoted is a legitimate reason for having your comment further downvoted.
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Blaming bankers and proposing revolution is one of those explanations that sounds satisfying but doesn’t really match the evidence. In some ways, as markets have become more efficient and transparent it becomes harder, not easier, for finance people to simply squeeze money out of the systems through financial tricks. We’re also living in a world where interest rates are at historical lows, making the cost of capital almost negligible for anyone with a good idea. The downside to taking this capital is that you’re giving away upside, but that’s not exactly a secret.

The bigger factor is that per-worker productivity is amplified immensely by technology. Historically, businesses needed to scale their employee base nearly linearly with the number of customers. If you were in the business of building houses or growing produce, your economies of scale topped out early. If you want to serve more customers, you have to hire more people to do the work.

In the technology era, the marginal cost of additional customers is minuscule. Netflix has to pay marginally more for bandwidth and licensing fees with each additional customer, but the number of employees necessary to support a growing customer base is minuscule. Even physical goods can have automated production as they scale up, so physical workers are less and less necessary as scale grows.

For the jobs that remain, supply and demand still dominates the equation. Engineer salaries have been pushed upward because demand for engineering work exceeds supply. Factory worker salaries have been flat or gone down because demand for [domestic] manual labor is decreasing, meaning more people are willing to work for lower compensation just to take those jobs.

Try as they might, the financial people can’t simply break the laws of supply and demand. If they try to keep so much of the profits that their wages fall below other companies, employees will simply leave for higher paying jobs. If the company raises wages so much that they need to charge customers more, their customers will simply leave for lower cost competitors.

This behavior is more intuitive when you put yourself in the shoes of the decision makers. If you called a plumbing company to fix your drain and they quote you a price 2X that of the competitor but claim that it’s because they pay their plumbers more, are you going to gladly take it? Or would you just call any number of alternatives that will charge you market rate costs? (If you are among the few who would gladly pay more for the same service, ask yourself how the general population would behave)
IMHO, no. What would be a great would be even better live integration with phones and other devices (although you can do quite a bit with tethering etc with many modern cameras). They're better devices for editing-like things from an UI perspective, have independent battery and heat budgets (already an issue with cameras with the move to mirrorless), have ecosystems better designed for regular updates, ... whereas in a camera, for me this is all an add-on. I want the core of the camera to be simple and fast, and only move whats necessary for efficient capture in them (e.g. accelerometers for stabilization in post-processing would be something that would need to be added to the camera). And for pros, the reliability etc is even more important, and for the majority of their use cases, capturing and editing are clearly split. You're not going to sit down at a wedding, conference or in the wilderness and try tweak a picture on the back of the camera - and for doing it later a tablet or computer is better suited. And in the studio they tether to a full-size computer with larger screen etc, again the more powerful option.
Honestly, I think it's too bold to poison the most popular opposition member even for FSB (Russian FBI). So who knows maybe the person who started it doesn't belong to Kremlin.
True, but at least the dentist can tell me how much I will need to pay.
...because of your HN comments.
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But generally the tips and taxes is something you know about if you are a US resident. And you might not be unconscious at the time of payment :) And restaurant staff getting paid a decent wage without relying on tips is also something that should get fixed sooner than later.
The solution would then be to make all phone records public to avoid the black market issue, and I know that my parents wouldn't find anything wrong with that.
Well, unprovable at least, probably not unknown. Putin is the kinda guy that leans heavily into concepts like plausible deniability, and he'll settle for implausible deniability if he has to.
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>> otherwise he wouldn't have used Novichok.

The whole point of using biological weapons like these is that it's almost impossible to prove that poisoning actually took a place. No one would ever find out for sure if he would die and only reason he still alive is few lucky conditions.

In his earlier investigation video Navalny himself told about two previous cases where he and his wife was likely almost killed, but they never suppose it was poisoning since it's impossible to understand it unless you actually dying. Only now they found out that the same FSB agents followed them on the trips earlier where they became sick with no reason.
To be honest, I don’t think most people that have been working for startups for more than fives years even think much about their stock options unless they are like engineer no 1 or 2. And honestly that is often a minimum 10 year commitment so maybe not even then.

There is always the chance you’ll get super lucky, but investors and founders have become experts at extracting the maximum possible portion of the value created. To the point where there isn’t a whole lot left for anyone else. Workers included.
I think you need to consider your framing. "It's only bad if there is a down round" - actually, it's good only if they go from giving you options to cashing out without a single bump in the road. The likelihood of all those bad things happening - down rounds, bad exit, no exit, folding completely, etc. those are the most likely thing to happen. And if you're in the company earlier they're way more likely than anything else.
Dan Levy, Facebook’s head of advertising, on Apple: “This is about a long-term view that is about anti-personalised advertising, and we think is trying to take the world back 10 or 20 years.”
Who does he think he’s winning over here? That’s not a rhetorical question. To me, that sounds brilliant
What’s stopping corporations from fully going remote on global level? Except for tax reasons?!
If it's any consolation, that time should now be 180 days, and I'm pretty sure the counter should start at the time the collection agency receives it, not from the date of service.

IANAL, though, so don't quote me on that.
Can someone provide a couple concrete use cases for this data set? You could train a model to.... ?
Even as a vocal Apple critic, I'm not sure I understand the support for Facebook here. Apple isn't blocking anything w.r.t Facebook. All they're simply doing is exposing to the user what Facebook are trying to collect about the user. And then, the user gets full power to approve or disapprove what information goes to Facebook. I think this is a great win for the users. I don't understand how Apple is blocking small businesses here. Apple isn't blocking tracking here at all, the user is, if at all they choose to.

If your business model involves fraudulently spying on the users and making money out of it, then too bad, that's your problem.

And about the arguments on "Facebook is free".
I agree that Facebook is a free service, and they need to be compensated somewhat, but, if a user disables ad tracking, Facebook can simply block them from accessing their free service, which is fair, right? It's only a problem if Facebook continues to allow their free service to such users.

Well, even then I would think charging iOS users who block Facebook tracking is a fair deal, especially if there is a premium version of Facebook with no spyware in it, I totally see myself and many others paying for it.

But Facebook won't do that, because their core philosophy is just criminal - spy the users as much as you can without their consent. So, fuck them. I support Apple here. I hope Android follows suit as well and we can slowly kill Facebook together.
This is actually hilarious that someone has enough time on their hands to whinge about bigotry on Omegle of all things. It is, and always has been, and always will be, a giant manure pile of a service. The mean-spirited trolling is a feature, not a bug.
Sort of, but the point is that ARM avoided that, while half a dozen companies with financial muscle allowing them to try and fail far more ended up failing outright or relegating themselves to niches.

ARM could have just as easily ended up making similar mistakes and died. That they didn't is pretty remarkable.
Found the troll farm.
notepad + calculator is a really great combination.
i'm using this time to time:

http://notepadcalculator.com/
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It really isn’t. There is a hierarchy of desirability which will always create price competition.

Nobody would be complaining about prop 13 or California housing prices if they didn’t desire to live in California more than somewhere else.
When our youngest was born the nurses (incorrectly) thought his blood sugar was low and had him transferred to a different hospital via ambulance. We were able to fight and get the $2000 bill waived on account of the fact that it was a needless trip. Unfortunately my wife spent the night alone as I was with our son.

On a somewhat related note in the span of 10 years the cost to us to deliver our kids doubled. Same hospital too.
The people who promote anti-privacy will be stuck there I think. You know, until something awful happens to them. I think this has turned into a cultural issue unfortunately, and once it's culture all reason, sensibility, and middleground is lost.
I’m Adam Jacob (the quoted person in Matt’s article). Happy to answer questions :)
> I see no "enlightment" in learning Lisp.

and thus because you see no enlightment in learning lisp

> it's high time every one accepted the fact that the Lisp family is almost dead and move on.

Doesn't track for me. I believe there can be value in things that I personally don't perceive value in.
Welcome, and thank you! That’s awesome. Meditation is something I should do as well.
Kodak made scientific and technical optics and imaging equipment too, for years. Not to mention film for just about everything. They've made X-ray machines and other medical imaging devices. They had huge chemical plants and research facilities that didn't just make photographic chemicals. They even made hand grenades during WWII.
It won't work. They'll still charge you for the interrogation!
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And yet I fully expect them to still not bother actually innovating but just making the same kind of thing in different form factors because no one is willing to make a product that might break the market wide open. Better let Sony keep eroding that market, even when Sony isn't reaching for the stars either.
Which one is better probably depends on if you value your money more, or your body.
Administration opponents in Russia have a decades-long history of disappearing and being murdered. But you're saying that this particular murder must somehow be foreign? I mean, how does it not fit the pattern?
Elliot Higgins has been on the pay of the Atlantic Council before he founded Bellingcat. The Atlantic Council is a think tank that is full of former CIA employees. A big part of Bellingcat's funding also comes from National Endowment for Democracy, an organisation that promotes foreign meddling. This is no smoking gun of course, but it does smell a lot.
> The new changes will take effect in 2022, and will apply to doctors, hospitals and air ambulances, though not ground ambulances.

From 2022 and no ambulances. This is a joke..
This could really be a game-changer for me when we're allowed to travel again. I have a rare condition where a problem with brain metabolism screws up the signal to noise ratio in multiple senses, by day I'm quite photophobic and by night I can't see a thing thanks to "TV static" in my vision. Having a navigation tool that sticks to well-lit areas would be an amazing improvement over existing tools for me!
Fiberglass is really fast and cheap, and you can throw together a simple mold with wood. Hard to see 3d printing competing in the space of just making useful boats.
> What probably Lisp trails in is type inference

SBCL type inference is actually getting better and better over time, giving you pretty effective gradual typing. Additionally, a Common Lisp implementation called SICL is in the works, with an advanced compiler and type inference engine.

https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL/
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My primary customer right now color codes both with "actual color", and with words - ie the RED environment is tagged with red color bars, and also big [black] letters in the [red] bars reading "RED"
Exactly. If you're not a founder or investor, expect your options in a non-public company to be worth zero. There are a dozen ways they can dilute them to worthlessness.

You'll have a much better chance of making money on stock and stock options if you join an already-public company that has an ESPP and regularly grants stock options for their publicly-traded stock as incentives to the employees.
> Feigl-Ding’s tweets got more readers than those of his critics’. But those credentialed in epidemiology and public health were much more likely to see the criticism as sober and responsible, Feigl-Ding himself as an irresponsible alarmist, and the impulse to raise alarm a deeply reckless one. An Atlantic story about it was headlined “How to Misinform Yourself About the Coronavirus.”

[Aristocrats voice] "The experts!"
Despite this long post, it feels like you do not understand the true reasons behind this.

Congolese people and governments are influenced by large wealthy corporations and governments to turn a blind eye and allow the exploitation, so they get a cut of the blood money. This is the same situation in India, China, and the rest of the developing world.

Please research post/modern colonialism, it’s what enables the life that developed countries lead.
> How exactly do they ‘have this level of power’?

"Behave ethically or we don't work with you" is within Apple's power. Choosing not to exert it is choosing to endorse the alternative.

> Also, are you suggesting that the actual Indian government has no responsibility?

Of...course not?

But Apple wants to be a world-spanning power, they get to be treated like one. If they don't? There's a line once misapplied to government, about being shrunk 'til it can be drowned in the bathtub, that we can apply to all of these somehow-too-big-to-expect-moral-behavior-of corporations.
you're assuming "wider audience" doesn't equate to social media mob, which sadly seems to be the typical progression of such news.
Interesting, are you able to share more? Or if you know where I might be able to read more about this?
I don't know what the right solution is for forcing Apple's hand in treating the workers this far down the line better -- though I firmly believe the richest company in the world owes it to everyone involved with it (i.e. the people making the phones themselves) to ensure they're treated better.

That said, the house/contractor analogy shows more than anything else that while analogies can illuminate the subject matter, they're imperfect: I don't believe there's one meaningful set of laws that can govern the typical homeowner hiring out renovation and the richest company in the world hiring low-paid workers through an intermediary that ostensibly gives it some legal protection and distance.