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I mentioned I was talking about local politics. Issues are complex at every level, but I do think people are better equipped to make informed decisions the "closer" they are to an issue.

The EU is an unbelievably abstracted entity, and with trans-national issues in general, I think it would be difficult to find any example of a resolution that makes everyone happy.

Here's a few observations though:

- I'm guessing from your comment you would rather Brexit hadn't passed. Do you think it wouldn't have happened if it had been up to govt. (without referendum)?

- one should also look at things holistically: do you think Brexit would have ever been proposed (in the form that it was) if people were more directly involved in the decision-making that led to its formation as an idea?

- a vote for Brexit was ultimately a vote of dissatisfaction with a large range of other political issues people felt they didn't have enough of a direct say in. If those various areas were more open to public involvement, would we have had the level of discontent that drove the Brexit vote?

> In representative democracy, by way of comparison, such a small margin would [...] (lead) to more reasonable compromise solutions.

Ultimately, I don't buy this. It's not necessarily true at all. But even if it were, the same would be true of a direct-democracy approach because what you're comparing is representative democracy with 1 big binary vote at the end, where in reality greater engagement in the process as a whole would lead to a very different referendum proposal document (if any).
I agree, and I'm interested to watch e.g. whether the WIV continues to publish risky research. My private guess is a paper or two for the sake of appearances, but a much lower volume of sampling and lab manipulation of novel pathogens than before--the CCP doesn't want to lose face, but it doesn't want another pandemic either.

It sure would be nice to know what happened, though, both for the sake of human knowledge and to inform similar research (or agriculture, or whatever else might have caused this) outside China. I don't what it's possible to learn given the delay and CCP's obstruction, but it seems defeatist not to try.
That is absolutely ridiculous. The US state department is on top of things. There is no way they do not have this information if it exists.
Paying lower taxes is nothing like kill or rape. There are lots of internet-only companies for which the government did absolutely nothing.
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Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27136002
Does the US have a civil service that creates the actual laws to go to parliament for debate and voting?
> Anybody wrote a book on trickle-up economy yet?

Yep it's called 'The Communist Manifesto' by Karl Marx. [1]

Further:

'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific' by Friedrich Engels [2]

and

'Wage Labour and Capital' by Karl Marx [3]

[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-m...

[2] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/in...

[3] https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour...
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The laws come from EC and they can keep pushing it until it passes as with many things. There must be a conflict of interest in the EC if they don't do it. Such changes should be a no brainer - the famous levelling of the playing field.
The point is, the cop with the dog stopped a selection of cars. The dog "found" drugs in 93% of cars, but was wrong 40% of the time. Roughly speaking, out of every 2 cars the cop stopped, 1 had drugs in. Unless this was a main gate at Glastonbury, that means the cops is amazingly good at choosing cars likely to be containing drugs.

It does not matter if the dog is any good or not, the cop is.

(plus if you can find out what "tells" the cop is using, you can stop giving off the tells - unless its really dumb like clouds of sweet smelling smoke pouring out of the windows)

Edit: Or do you mean the cops pull over lots of cars, and then only sometimes decide to use the dog? Well, the same applies, only this time its less impressive as the cop gets to lean in the window, look over the occupants etc etc. But still, a 50/50 decision to call in the dog is a very high hit rate.
Don't be too harsh. The experience of living in a high-trust society is becoming more and more rare for future generations, due to certain policy decisions. They will just assume things being broken is the natural order.
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Sounds like "READ RAW". From memory it only works on certain drives - I want to say LiteOn but my memory is hazy.
Bill them the same this month as you billed them last month.

Adjust the bill next month, in the light of figures.
I don't think so Tim.

https://spacenews.com/pentagon-report-china-amassing-arsenal...
I practice what i preach to the users in the company i work for:

Only put in Email what you would also put on a postcard or a piece of paper you leave for someone open on his desk. For everything else: Put it in our Nextcloud, send the receiver the link, CALL the receiver, give him the password (if he don´t have already an account).
Steinhardt's book "The second kind of impossible" describes his involvement with quasi-crystals. It's very worthwhile.
> our current administration's political turmoil will hopefully provide the momentum for actual change - so hopefully things will change.

I don't think any of the four largest parties made a particularly big deal out of this, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
And also like trying to find the subscription and cancel it after you've been billed.
UK is exceptionally well positioned for offshore wind, being surrounded by water. Few countries have that luxury.

I'm all for more offshore wind, but onshore wind will have to play an important role for future energy.
I think they were referring to the fact that the title mentioned "Dutch shell", which is almost the complete name of Shell-the-company.
From my own experience, 320kbps MP3 is enough to handle any music without noticable audio degradation. I have not done double blind tests, and this was in my 20s when my hearing was a lot better, but at 128 kbps I could clearly hear the loss of quality in some spots like cymbal crashes. At 192 kbps I could not tell the difference between the mp3 and lossless, using good over-ear earphones or speakers.

And as I said, the airpods are medium quality earbuds. Not bad, not great. You will NOT hear any loss of audio quality if you play 320 kbps mp3 through them.

I'm sure most people could not hear any quality loss on 128 kbps mp3 (I don't these days), or even 64. But above 320 there is just no way.
Just the anecdote that Ford paid his employees well and they spent more money.
10 years ago we are at PHP 5.2 days. PHP has evolved a lot since then, back then it was cumbersome, but things started to change with PHP 5.6 release and then with the entire PHP 7.x releases (skipped PHP 6) a new standard was set of language improvements, performance improvements and clean up of old bad behavior, impressive work from the core team.

In PHP 5.2 you can't even write inline callback functions, but since then you have closures, type signatures for functions (both for class types and scalar types), namespaces, short array syntax, anonymous classes, generators, null coalesce operator, typed class properties to name a few.

And with PHP 8 new leap forward with things like named arguments, attributes (similar as Java annotations), constructor property promotion, union types, match expressions, nullsafe operator.

Other interesting new stuff is FFI (Foreign Function Interface) so you can all C code directly from PHP.

Performance is also increased a lot, most notably is the array performance much better, opcache built in, but other things like now PHP has a JIT. And GC today is way better than the old days.

PHP community has also changed, lots of good frameworks and libraries and you can use composer (like npm but better IMHO) to use with your project.

You can of course write PHP as the in PHP 5.2 days if you want because new features are optional, so you can take your old code and (almost) run it in PHP 8, but if you adopt modern PHP with strict typing is as good long term as Java, especially if use something like Jetbrains PhpStorm IDE or some of the many static analyzers (psalm, phpstan, phan) that exist today.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration56.new-features.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration70.new-features.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration71.new-features.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration72.new-features.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration73.new-features.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration74.new-features.php

https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.new-features.php
I don't understand why the US just doesn't make these companies pay the tax instead of trying to get some global minimum tax agreement.

If Uber wants to operate in the US. Force them to pay otherwise ban them from operating in the US. Done.
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The west can do it but we're hamstrung by a system of privatized taxes that makes everything cost two to three times more than it should.

Privatized taxes as in when the government needs to buy land for something it has to pay inflated prices inside a ginormous real estate bubble. Labor is expensive because laborers have to pay 50% of their wages as rents.
>> Web3 is coming and these problems are being solved

This has always been the case, and we've been consistently wrong about what "web3" is. IDk if you remember "semantic web," for example.

These aren't easy problems to solve, and at this point, path dependency is a huge factor. The juiciest parts of the software industry are highly, if not totally dependent on proprietary & exclusive data. Even if blockchain-like technology was capable of being an everything data store, why would FB, Google, etc adopt it?
I think mistakes should be paid for by the tax payer, not by the individual who was involved. Everyone makes mistakes, they're unavoidable. But the costs should not unilaterally burden the innocent person involved.
While RabbitMQ is not a “never again” for me, I agree that making it work reliably does involve a few knobs and architectural tricks.
I have been using AMQP/Rabbit/Kafka previously (in that order), and switched to Pulsar where I can since 2017 ( https://stackoverflow.com/a/47477765 ).

It has been great overall.

So good I have recently decided to slow down client work and build a managed SaaS offering for Pulsar: https://turtlequeue.com
It is a work in progress, however it is a bit different from the nascent Pulsar offerings out there.

The main goal are ease of use and being cheap. How do I go about it?

1. Behind the scenes there is only one pulsar cluster. This lowers the costs of hosting dramatically. Even the smallest production pulsar cluster requires:

- ZooKeeper node(s)
- Bookies nodes
- Brokers node(s)
- (optional) Function workers node(s)
- (optional) Proxies node(s)
- Pulsar Manager
- Prometheus
- Grafana

.. typically this runs on top of kubernetes these days, so throw in volume storage and a LoadBalancer. Hosting small setups is costly.
By having a shared cluster I can lower the costs enough to provide a free “try me” service at little to no cost to me. And nobody will suffer from the “noisy neighbour” as Pulsar is designed to be multi-tenant and can enforce limits per tenant.

2. Tq (turtlequeue) users do not have to care about how the cluster operates (typical SaaS). It is also dramatically easier for me to monitor and operate only one cluster.

3. How do I expose this safely and make it easy for users to use Pulsar then? Experienced Pulsar users will notice that this is not easy to do at the moment with pulsar. I am developing a custom proxy! This in turns allows me to collect metrics/enforce finer permissions, present a nicer dashboard.

Where am I now? The custom proxy works, the website/docs/login/dashboard/metrics/pricing need a lot of TLC. So “soon”.
I will be looking for beta testers, if you are interested please email turtle@turtlequeue.com
Feel free to email me too if you just want to be kept in the loop :)
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I agree it could help to look at legal changes, such as 'massive fines'. That's closer to the 'rethink' we need.

In regard to human error, I think we are approaching the point where it is useless to focus on individual hackers, companies, admins or users.

To pick the most famous example of something we should rethink (not that it would address the hack in this news story): users on the web mainly read text, yet our browsers enable Javascript by default.

To me it seems the ways we store and share data in IT are starting to fail. It's at the point where every interaction a regular person engages in (with banking, shopping, healthcare, social life, work, education, etc) has a real chance of becoming public. That's not sustainable.
That may be true for car makers, but in the energy world, other than some battery storage projects, Tesla is really not a major player at all, and there is an endlessly long list of companies that are more meaningful for this market and better able to take advantage of the increased renewables rollout around the world.
I don't know, in most countries judges are appointed by the government after advise from independent advisory boards. Then again, in most countries judges have a lot less power than what it seems like they do in the US and the legal system is not a political battleground.
I would love the concept to have my private data encrypted but still accessible from everywhere....until quantum computing kicks in...NEVER give data in more hands then it needs to be.
Have a look here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/...

Basically Kovid Goyal, the author of kitty, volunteered to write a spec, based on the work he did for kitty, but got fed up with what he perceived as pointless bikeshedding. The authors of other terminals represented in the terminal-wg (e.g. iterm2, mintty and vte -- which powers terminator, gnome-terminal and others) kept going for a bit, but there is no shared spec yet and I haven't checked if anyone else other than Goyal has implemented something at this point (I thought vte had, but I didn't immediately find it when I looked). It also looks like it might take some time till some de-facto standard emerges.
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Imagine a world where medical records are part of a blockchain. They're decentralized, secure, publicly available, encrypted, and only shared with interested parties.

Now imagine someone finds a flaw in the software that a company uses to access the data in the blockchain. The 200K records "United Valor Solutions" has access to are read by an attacker and leaked on to the internet.

How is the Web 3.0 version better? If someone can access the data in the blockchain then an attacker can use that same mechanism and the legitimate access credentials to exfiltrate data if it's not secure. There is no magic solution to this problem.
I think the Fear is that if the loophole is closed, the businesses will move elsewhere, taking an X amount of jobs with them - from which the government earns some income taxes. They take the crumbs instead of nothing, because there's no chance they get the cake.

It may take EU wide legislation to fix, but even that is no guarantee because companies may just opt to not operate in the EU.
If only the world economy ran on tears and sympathy instead of recorded transactions. I should pray that all my utility and food providers function without charging me money... until they go bankrupt and I am left with neither.
Thanks, interesting page!

ZeroSSL seems to have their chained "AAA Certificate Services" in the list for iOS 7 (until 2028)
I guess you're not used to seeing other peoples faces.
Mainstream opinion isn't based in common sense, quite the opposite sometimes.
> For the longest time, I’d told myself that I was open to feedback and hard conversations because I’d repeatedly said to people that I’m always happy to hear it.

I don't know the author, but in my experience, this is usually false. People who tell you to be frank and that they are able and willing to receive any kind of feedback, usually aren't.

It's a power play.

They say this to appear strong, but if you take them up to their word and actually tell them the truth, they either get upset or completely shut you down. I have had many experiences of this, and one again pretty recently.

Some things are best left unsaid. Unthought even, maybe.
Very well said, i could not agree more.
Because companies are run by people? Shell companies don't just spawn on their own...
And when we look at the actual status of the smart contracts, we realize how far actual programming is from their own stated goals... They call the incidents "hacks" although we simply see incomplete contracts being used the way they were written, in some edge case.
It would be business as usual if Apple wasn't hyping privacy and security up so much in their marketing: https://www.apple.com/privacy/

They can do whatever they want in China, but maybe they should update that opening sentence to read "Privacy is a fundamental human right for anyone not residing in the People's Republic of China."
> The article is pretty vague

Yep. I think they are trying to write for too broad of an audience. It is spending a lot of ink trying to get people to care who did not already know a fact like

> The discovery of the Rosetta Stone, which was inscribed with writing in both ancient Egyptian and Greek, allowed linguists to finally crack the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics in the 19th century.

---------

[EDIT]

Actually, a question for those who are better at writing than I:

When imagining the reader for your article, why would you assume it included someone who did not know what the Rosetta Stone did on a basic level?
That one isn’t an American phenomenon, that happens here in Australia too to some extent
Only if you think one-dimensionally.

Consider the ultimate cause and effects and you'll get closer the truth.
Care to explain how increased sampling rate can possibly cause aliasing artifacts of all things?
Is the Netherlands in any way culpable in this - do they go the extra mile to help facilitate the evasion?

My layman understanding of the tax evasion schemes is that there's nothing special about Ireland or the Netherlands. They're chosen due to other factors, like English proficiency, stable and well known legal framework - but the essence of the schemes could be done in nearly any western country.
On the other hand you have countries like Norway, where parts of the profits earned from oil goes into the "Oil Fund" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...), currently the "world’s largest sovereign wealth fund". If Norway had failure like the US, they could easily offset the costs while making things still work as usual for a while, as they are thinking ahead.
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I think the point they’re really trying to make is that gas should be treated like a utility - you shouldn’t provide it solely based on profitability for a corporation. But you are right that the way things are now, it’s quite clear why they shut down, and that outrage at this particular company seems to really be outrage at the system which it operates in.
Really fun, enjoyed it. Hopefully it won't become an inspiration for real evil corps out there.
Maybe apple should also be more inclusive towards people who can provide honest criticism, and different forms of humor...
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Oh yes plenty of rudeness to go around here. And I get what you mean, there's a perfect example in one of the other comments[1] of what can happen when the true intent is unclear.

Although not always easy, not letting yourself feel offended, assuming positive intent, and just walking away with a smile is a guaranteed win under most circumstances.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27190514
I'm pretty sure unaligned stores on ARM can give you a SIGBUS too, so that's another thing you need to keep track of…
You mean all those companies that grew and educated their employees in test tubes on Mars from whence they telecommute using their own inter-planetary network infrastructure?
Seems like more work for humans to go back and fix a haphazardly generated code bases.
> Though lately it feels like I'm getting stuff recommended despite the private browsing measure

Absolutely, some of the recommendations seems to be recommended based on IP. I don't watch anime but I have friends that do, sometimes after they visit my place, I start getting ads for manga and anime for a few days, until they figure out I'm not actually interested in it.

I also browse stuff via Firefox Focus on my phone, and get related content recommended on my desktop just minutes after watching something for the first time on the phone.
The point about escalators in subways being designed for marketing exposure resonates with me. More and more I walk around and see advertisements everywhere; they seem to be becoming inescapable in our modern cities. I block them on my devices, but I can't remove them from my vision.
A company's finances is their own data, so they haven't harmed anyone else by leaking it. A company leaking your finances, is, or perhaps should be a crime by negligence.
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> Do not connect with agent forwarding

This requires an explicit argument, right?
Street View is available in the West Bank area, for example in Ramallah and Jericho
I guess from the downvotes that we really didn't like Trump suggesting HCQ as a cure. You are aware that the study used to discredit it was retracted due to crap data? But by that point the job was done, so one wanted to hear about it.
This isn't fraud, murder, or rape though - it's optimizing tax expenditure to the legal limit, which the government was fine with.

If you want people to pay more taxes, increase the legal amount that they need to pay. This may mean closing loopholes or raising the rate. That's it.

Expecting a company to willingly pay more taxes than they have to, especially when surrounded by a field of competitors who don't, is foolish.
How about providing infrastructure, a stable economy, peaceful society, etc. ?
Healthcare is not "business". Well it shouldn't be anyway. Same goes for other essentials that one cannot do without such as food, water, air, etc. But the current system is insufficient (or unwilling to) to model this reality.
Reddit got the scoop apparently: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/ncc9vc/rid_integrate_...
10% with the current market cap would put him among the top 10 richest people in the world... I highly doubt these numbers are accurate.
Never is a long time (...hopefully)

Not too long ago, I think some people would have said the same about go.
How are you defining intelligence so that that animals are "known" to have it but computers aren't? And what do we know about what animals are actually doing?

I think it's very likely that intuition in animals will have similar mechanisms to the things that produce the same results in computer reasoning, since the problems are the same and so optimisation processes (whether evolutionary or designed) will likely converge on the same solutions.
What about functions ending with "?"? Are they all "predicates"? And what about "if" and "if?"? What's the difference?
I think the point of the game is that it took its cues from real evil corps out there. Of course it's a little bit overblown, but really only a little bit.
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