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> Regarding security, Qubes makes some strange choices such giving the regular VM unix user root privileges accessible via simple passwordless sudo.

See here for details: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vm-sudo/

You can replace passwordless sudo with a secure user prompt: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vm-sudo/#replacing-passwordless...
I'd prefer an indoor 'killer drone'. Something like a little quadcopter, remote controlled in realtime to the target by whichever means, shredding it with one of its rotors.

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What about inequality and various quality-of-life factors?

GDP-per-capita is a mean, it doesn't tell you anything about distribution. Qatar has a higher GDP-per-capita than the United States, but most of that wealth is highly concentrated.

The Republic of Ireland also beats the US. Explain that. Without doing so it's fairly meaningless.
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Why? Because GDP is not everything. Some countries maximize GDP, some countries optimize everything.
You're right. These two might have bumpted into each other while shopping, but for the rest of the time, they barely knew of each other's existence. Now we have social media and 24/7 news channels, so they're constantly in each other's faces. They've always existed, but it's only recently they've both stood in the town square shouting at each other.
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Scrolling is not the smoothest, and that’s on the latest iPhone, but overall pretty good. I can see it working if it becomes as responsive as web / native.
> If the tests are too complex for anyone to change the code, the the code is too complex.

No, more than that, it's a sign that the tests are not just testing for how code behaves, but also its implementation details.

With well-written tests, you can completely re-structure some code and, if it still does the same thing, the tests for that code will still pass.

If the code being changed has several components with their own tests, then either those components have no interface change, in which case the previous paragraph applies to them, or the do, in which case their tests should be easy to adapt.
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There are certainly a lot of factor at play, and business friendliness is probably near the top. Nonetheless, an interesting potential factor is that one of the main US export has been dollars. Global demand for dollars shores up the US living standard by soaking up the supply and dampening the inflationary pressure of monetary expansion.
> you can't actually buy a house and remain anonymous unless you set up some shell company which I assume is expensive

It is not. Under $100/year in most states.

> and probably has tax consequences.

It doesn't. The LLC has no income (assuming you're not renting that "decoy house"), so there's nothing to report to the IRS.

> doesn't even really solve the problem of having to give your address to someone if you want anything delivered.

That's what a PO Box or rental mailbox is for.

Just keep in mind that you won't be able to hide the fact that it isn't your residence from the data brokers or anyone else who demands a "residential" address and is willing to spend a few dollars verifying that.
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Something people rarely mention with tests is that their value has a Pareto distribution. Most of the value of a test suite will be captured by a small number of tests. (And inversely, most of your tests will never discover any bugs).

The upshot of this is that you will get disproportionate value from the first few tests you add to a project. I think its very rare to have a long lived project in which the first 10 tests aren't worth writing. The next 100 tests? That's a much harder question.
GDP is not the only metric that matters when estimating country’s wealth.

For example, good public healthcare and transport can lower the country’s GDP and improve it’s citizens wellbeing at the same time.

I’m not saying that France/Italy have it better for their citizens, but treating GDP as a main metric is terribly flawed.
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No, it's the 10% that kills people. They knew the O-rings were failing because they had analyzed previously discarded rockets. So the engineers said, "We got lucky this time; eventually this is going to kill people." But after launching 4-5 times and having O-ring failures with no problems, management (and probably everyone) started thinking it wasn't really as dangerous as it was.
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> there is no China "invades" Taiwan, it's merely reclaiming it

different words, same meaning... In effect, China sending in military is an invasion... They will likely sell it as 'glorious reunification' 1984 style

While US does not recognize Taiwan it does guarantee it de facto. Not recognizing it is due to cold war politics where US needed China against Russia, that's no longer the case.
US is very much pumped up by their FAANG stocks. It is not very representative of wealth of the country in general. If one were to take other things in into account quality of life, time spent with family/friends, is US really better off?
I've always assumed it is because all of the big tech companies are from the UK and tech companies are the driver of growth long-term.

Additionally, the EU is lightyears ahead of the US wrt decarbonization; if we suddenly priced carbon properly then the US would be a lot less wealth in comparision.
I disagree

>There is good reason why nearly every engineering body out there has something along the lines of "Hold paramount their duty to public welfare" as the first item in the code of conduct. "Move fast and break things" is pretty much incompatible with engineering.

Those aren't mutually excluisive.

Move fast and break things when it comes to crud apps is totally different thing.

You can also use "move fast and break things" in order to achieve "Hold paramount their duty to public welfare"

Move fast and... does not imply unsafe.
> The burka represents a lot of very nasty things, in countries that the overwhelming majority (60%) believe 911 was totally OK and beheading or stoning minorities is OK.

There are countries in Europe that are majority Muslim (Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania) where nobody thinks that, and where any kind of face cover is totally up to the choice. Turkey isn't that extreme either. Neither is Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, etc etc.

Why don't people ever think of those and jump straight to the Middle East? There are just as many Muslims living in India as there are in the Middle East.
Could it be that European countries care less about raising GDP at any cost, and more about making sure that wealth benefits everybody to some degree? The US has far more inequality than Europe.

I think you'd get very different graphs if you compared the incomes of the lower half of the population. Or even the lower 80%.

So to what extent is that high GDP actually benefitting the US as a whole? It's not a game where GDP is your high score.
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I feel like this post is one-sided. It doesn't take into account any other factor except GDP, focuses only on some countries, and makes the EU the bad guy.
“ If Law Enforcement people are after them they wouldn't do this they would simply seize the website and put notification on website's front page so it seems like rival group hacked them or simply whitehat hackers.”

False. These forums are hosted in places that US law enforcement have no power to seize.
Where in Europe does socialism exist?
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Unfortunately address assignment is derived from county building permits except in very special situations.

Technically counties issue "situses" and the USPS adopts those as delivery addresses. Most/all counties won't hand out a situs without a building permit and completed inspection. USPS can create addresses without county situses (for example, military installations or federal hydroelectric projects) but I don't think they will do it in any situation that's applicable here.
After reading this article, I want to stock up on more food for myself and my five dependents. Double our reserves of biscuits, cereals, frozen meat, frozen bread, canned food, preserves, long-life milk, honey, multivitamins, MREs, etc etc.

Is this panic buying? Is it OK? Does it hurt other people? I’d be interested to hear some different points of view.
“too far gone.”

I’m sorry I’m not a model minority in your eyes, but it’s rich you’re telling a black person to spend more time with black people. These aren’t just my lived experiences, it’s subject matter that comes from thousands of hours of talking with the very people you claim I should spend more time with.

You’re so uncomfortable with race and acknowledging racism you’d rather pretend you are the expert. I’m not “too far gone,” I simply live a life you can’t bring yourself to understand.

If it’s such a ridiculous statement then I invite you to provide anything backing up that claim. Because all those resources you claim are available to Black Americans are often the very things lacking in Black communities: https://www.epi.org/blog/the-racial-wealth-gap-how-african-a...

I mean Christ, have you even heard of a food desert?
You don’t have to have microservices in the end result, but you could develop and test them as microservices, then have them automatically rewritten into a monolith, perhaps with a subset of their functionality, if that would fit better.

Similarly, you could do TDD on a high percentage of the code by using injection, then automatically rewrite the code into static methods, as Atwood was saying they needed for performance, if that’s what would help.

Code generation, etc. got a bad name over the years as people tended to use it to balloon the eventual source, like that of many autogenerated config files today, but it can be used to do almost anything.
I am doing this together with my regular job. At the very moment it does cost me about the same as the Netflix account I am paying for my parents. The plan to be profitable is by mass. There was a lot of time and thought spend on making this service really really cheap to serve. Even now with this HN my redis database is two megabytes in size and before this HN post with happy and active users the CPU did not went over 1% usage - on a cheap VPS. So the bottom line is if we can get in only a small fraction of what other services have as a fee I am happy. I think we are talking about less than one cent per user per month. In any case I feel comfortable to get that with Pay as you want and one advertising banner. Don't get me wrong. It is a great product and we do expect users to actually pay for it if they are using it on a commercial project. We just have the luxury to ask for a payment instead of charging it. I also think plausible is a great product. If you are happy with it even better :-)
Depends on jurisdiction. Even if a locale does have rules on the books, enforcement is a major issue.
right on the money. One index that is far from perfect that give an alternative view is https://happyplanetindex.org

I'm not saying it is more accurate than the GDP measure, it just offer a different view.
I don't get how food consumption can increase in a pandemic. Should be constant in or outside a pandemic situation. Possibly somewhere crops are getting rotten because of newly imposed export restrictions, or for some other things.
Scarcity increases value. We often artificially enforce the scarcity of things in order to preserve its value. That's the reason why patents, IP and copyrights exists, for example. "Marriage" and "fidelity" are a means of artificially enforcing scarcity on sex, in order to increase the value and likelihood of partners bonding for life, which in turn improves the child-rearing situation for society, as single parents fare worse in general. "Marriage", according to anthropologists, is a universal human construct found in all human societies, ancient and modern, and many aim for it as the "ideal" or "perfect" human condition especially in old age. Hence "prudeness" is a well-founded desire to continue enforcing the scarcity of sex to increase its value and enjoyment, not to decrease it.
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Hoping one is talking to that terminal and it's not manipulated to show wrong information. (The later is quite unlikely at a larger store as it would lead to too many complaints, but still nothing I can ; even the first one could be noticed by them not receiving money, thus other payment could be noticed and reverted - eventually)
Only thanks to the government making it a requirement. We would still be stuck in the stone age if it was up to the banks to organize this themselves.
Just a pain that due to Apple's policies on keeping a big margin and lack of sharing technology means that the rest of the industry won't benefit from this.

Still very hard to see not getting an M1 as my next laptop, especially if they continue to do sane things line remove the shitty touchbar.
Is there a list anywhere which shows the median disposable income, and savings rate for citizens of a country?

In my mind, these are the metrics that make people feel ‘better off’.
Interesting that he's talking about "Europe", but only actually includes stats for three European countries. Maybe including others (e.g. Germany) wouldn't have served the point he's trying to make?
EU has anemic salaries for my profession (software engineer).

What’s the reason for this deficit? Why aren’t there any Silicon Valleys in the EU?

Salary difference is so large, I would never move. Land is dirt cheap, housing is affordable and private healthcare is fine in the US.

Before we get in a war on HN - I would move instantly if the salary is matched or even better than US since everything else is scarce in EU (housing, land). Yep, here comes the downvotes.
I'd also like to understand how much of GDP would be accounted for by FAANG
One thing that an older retired executed who has worked all around the world said to me is "in US people live to work", and in Europe, "people work to live" Really rings true to me.
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> Could it be that European countries care less about raising GDP at any cost, and more about making sure that wealth benefits everybody to some degree

No european politican in power is that altruistic. Ours are in no way less crazy or corrupt than the US ones.

Political systems are always eventually captured by the powerful and they prevent any real change because they benefit from the status quo. Europe has old corporations and the system is built to benefit them.

We also have very little VC money going around. The EU is technically a single market but in reality there are big barriers. Not anywhere close to what US or China has as a domestic market. Companies have a pretty damn tough time getting out of their country. Mostly because there is so little VC money to help them get out.

The reason for limited VC money is because there are few exit strategies. Going public in the US means getting way more money. The stock market in an EU country is not anywhere near what the US stock market is.

The reason the stock market is not as developed is simple, US dollar is the worlds reserve currency not the Euro.
You have plenty of time, almost 40 is not even close to retirement age, if You retire at 65 thats over 25 years still (Amazon isn't even 25 years old, Facebook and Youtube are even younger.)"*edit Amzn is 26*"

Almost every post secondary institution is currently offering online degrees thanks to the Rona, so IMHO there has never been a better time to go back to school for mature students.

Learn the material, get certified, develop a portfolio and sieze the opportunity.

If you have your heart set on working in a FAANG type company and are worried about ageism, research the methods women and minorities use when submitting an application or resume to get an interview. I am certain the same techniques can combat ageism too.
Like selling your house, living on the street and bragging how rich you now are, a high GDP with crumbling infrastructure really begs the question: Was it really that smart of a decision in the long run?
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Which EU country is socialist?
I can only talk about tech. Unless you work for a FAANG, there's a perpetual feeling that you are a second division player in the software industry. Some big factors are lack of investment and competitiveness. Even if you are a senior developer, if you are not too happy about your current job finding a better position can take you months. There's no such thing as "fuck you experience" here allowing you to switch jobs overnight.
> Isn't it strange how most programmers think that specialist barista work is not demeaning, but would quit on the spot if they were instructed to serve morning coffee to the management?

It's trivial to get that exercise on its' head. If management is ok putting clauses into highly trained workers' contracts about coffee serving, as a highly trained worker, I'd demand they introduce a clause for highly-trained and highly-paid management to clean others' shoes. What's fair is fair, right?

If they can't take the same high, non-elitist ground, well, that's a clear-cut abuse, ain't it?

But to be honest, "elite" jobs classification is present across the population (ask anyone in "low-skilled" job what they think of University professors; now ask us who know how Universities run internally :)).

There is a huge difference if those "non-job" things are "communal" or written-down or coming from authority. I think most people would not have a problem taking the broom and cleaning up after someone else has left a mess at the office ("look at this mess, let me clean it up" — "hey, let me help too"). But having your "boss" order you do it is an altogether different matter.
What's the plan for reducing tensions or resolving the conflict between the United States and China?

I feel like there are deep cultural and political differences.

Things seem to be ramping up. Is the "plan" just to keep going on that trajectory for X more years until China has some viable military or bioweapon or something and then just have millions of caucasians trying to kill millions of asians and millions of asians trying to kill millions of caucasians?

Because how do you know we are not headed to that? Look at what the proxy war between powers has done to Syria.

I just don't think that people should keep fighting like ant colonies. We are not ants. We are better than ants. Aren't we?
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> Judges understand that "speech I hate" isn't the legal standard for hate speech.

They do for now. But if you'd been paying attention lately, you'd know that the dominant ideology among our elite universities and a growing number of our institutions is no longer liberalism, under which free speech is valued. Liberalism has been replaced in the univeristy by critical theory, and its offshoots like critical race theory, under which it is absolutely 100% taught that hate speech is precisely equivalent to "speech I hate", or more accurately, speech the left hates. Argue back and you'll probably get sent that meme about Popper's paradox of tolerance, but it's actually based in the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse's theory of "repressive tolerance", which basically states that far-left radicalism should be tolerated and nothing else.

Critical race theory (which could best be summarised as "anti-scholarship racism masquerading as anti-racist scholarship") was born in law schools and is now being taught as unquestioned fact throughout the education system, to children at an increasingly young age (which is the whole point of cancelling Dr. Seuss - so they can shoehorn in pro-CRT books to children instead.) Lest you think I'm being paranoid, here's none other than the American Bar Assocation propping up CRT: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

Where do you think the next generation of judges is going to come from? Don't say you weren't warned.
A quite good strategy I've found is moving one bounded context (from domain-driven design) into one microservice.

You don't end up with lots of network calls for one use case and still have good maintainability.
Regarding gender, there is another thing that confuses me. I was told all this time that gender is a social construct, a set of behaviors for a particular gender that might differ between different cultures, ie. it's not real. But reading the Wikipedia article on gender dysphoria, it says that it's a mismatch between the biological sex and gender, which was supposed to be a social construct. Are children being diagnosed with gender dysphoria just based on the fact that they don't express themselves in a way that we traditionally associate with either males or females? Do I understand it correctly?
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I have very poor understanding of all of this, but

I think that EU tech hubs focus on some ~~bullshit~~ not shiny industries like banking/financials, insurance and generally those very mature.
Contactless debit cards can be skimmed without being authd too; does that mean we should make the app not bother to get your finger print and just have nfc on all the time?

Obviously not.

They’re different things: approval and notifications seem pretty appropriate for an app.
My apologies and thanks for the clarification. I suppose I could see how you'd want to create a hook to create the unified image, in which case /boot or whatever could simply be a directory that holds the non-unified images.

I guess the point I was trying to make, is whether you call the partition that holds your unified kernel images /boot or /esp or whatever.. it is still a separate unencrypted partition that most people would associate with a boot partition, whether it is mounted at /boot or /esp.
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> Being able to fit all the pieces in your head is a feature, but not so snappy.

How about "architectural sanity is a feature"?

It kind of isn't though. Clients don't care about qualities of your code that they can observe. They notice if your code is fast, but don't care it it's easy or hard to reason about.

If anything, I'd say it's a bit of a meta-feature, because code-quality is directly linked to many other properties that people do care about (speed, new features, quick bugfixes, etc.)
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Well based on my recent discussions with a prospective American employer the main reason they pay their staff more is the yawning disparity in healthcare costs ...