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To see top comments of the posts in the email would be a good feature
You have it exactly backwards.

McCarthy is not ancient history, and Marxism is still viewed mostly met suspiciousness and ridicule in the us.

No one in the US and in their right mind would claim to be Marxist in order to fit in our due to social pressure. If anything, the exact opposite.
Interesting point. What inspired my initial comment is the fact that I've tried to get writing jobs on these types of sites and I can't compete with people willing to write articles for 5x less than what the market in my own country considers fair. This starts with those who contract out work at such a low price just because they know they can.
Staber has an interesting design. Top-loading horizontal-axis washers. They were featured on "How It's Made" a few years ago. Not cheap, but seems to be made from quality materials (stainless-steel tub and basket).

http://www.staber.com/washingmachines
That link makes 4 good points.

I'll add another observation - library books. They are "shared stuff" by any definition. Libraries will rebind books to make them more durable and sharable. This suggests that a 5th point is to design shared things for higher amounts of abuse.

However, it's much easier to rebind a book than a car.
Additionally being able to add a scale bar would be a tidy feature.
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Thompson, Pressotto, Weinberger, I think (?). Not sure they'd want to work on Infernoogle anyways after so long...
I thought a bit more about the incompatibility, and it's not an all or nothing situation. In the case of HTTPSB (can't speak for other extensions), installing Privacy Badger after will likely break some specific privacy-related features of HTTPSB, but a user might find this acceptable, since Privacy Badger will take over for some of the broken features. I explain in more details where there are conflicts: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Compatibilit...
I think it's a question of information.

People see energy star ratings and Amazon ads, neither of which emphasize lifespan, durability, or repairability. It's like the MHz wars for white goods.

The next level of information is Amazon reviews — generally dominated by people who just bought or don't even own the product... e.g. Nikon and Canon fanboys will go and sabotage the ratings of their arch enemy's products. If you're lucky you sometimes find a review by someone who has owned the product for a whole year.

The ease of price comparison has led to SKU-mutation where the same product is sold in micro variants. This also makes more thoughtful reviews, such as those by Consumer Reports, useless because they can't survey a product field or provide reviews that remain useful for more than a few months (when I subscribed to Consumer Reports I could never find their recommended products on sale -- never).

It's a situation in which rewards two kinds of players — long term brand/relationship builders who try to sell on repeat business based on trust, and short-term commodity-makers who operate on wafer thin margins and think of their product and customer relationship as disposable. Let's say Braun (or one of the other often unaffordably expensive German appliance brands) at one extreme and LG towards the other (there are far worse, LG at least is trying to be a brand).

So it's just like the smartphone wars.
Anarchocapitalism is a proposed system matching the description offered (polycentric law). Of course if you opt out of every law other people might not want anything to do with you (freedom of choice works both ways), and your life might end up pretty bad, but more likely in practice opting out of all the existing laws except the obvious ones most people won't have a problem with.
It's a cheap platform to play with. The hardware is sure to be supported (as you can see from the guide).
> As for why a basic income makes sense

Whether it makes sense for you or not, the discussion around this basic income nonsense regularly neglects the fact that in order for you to get money for not working, it has to be forcibly taken from somebody who actually did work and refuses to voluntarily share with people who dont work. Forced sharing (aka communism) is outright theft, and working people will fight you to stop you from taking the products of their labor.

> it's structural disconnection from labor opportunities.

Being "structurally disconnected" doesnt entitle you to forcibly take stuff from people who are not structurally disconnected. You can of course try, but then you got a war and people will fight you until you stop trying to take their stuff.
The article contends that we'll replace capitalism with a "reputation economy":

> I strongly suspect that any post-capitalist society
> will be built around a technologically sophisticated
> reputation economy, very very loosely a la Cory
> Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

> Obviously we already live in a world full of subtle
> reputation economies — you see one in action any time a
> celebrity gets special treatment. Nowadays, though,
> technology could enable something much more codified and
> quantitative. (Crude hacks like Klout may at least light
> the way, for all their flaws.)

Perhaps I'm being thick, but isn't reputation just a form of capital? Why would it replace capital?
Basically it boils down to (I believe);

everyone wants everything

and also;

nothing is more commonplace as the wish to be remarkable
Personally? I think we can use technology to dig ourselves out of this problem without needing to revert to "1700's level of technology" (which actually obliterated old growth forests/whale populations).

It's not a question of how at this point, it's a question of research and desire to change. We have 4+ TRILLION dollars for wars in the middle east (at least partially driven by a desire for stable oil) but we can't find even 1% of that for nuclear power research/testing? Batteries? Solar? Our priorities as a society are in the wrong place.
If it were to remain unflagged this time around, I think it would show that HN is reaching some kind of social maturity.

Let's just wait and see.
I remember top loaders being the norm - maybe 30 years or so ago but I am very old.
As the article points out, plenty of adults drown every year. Presumably these people thought the same way.
What a pity. The ocean is a wonderful place, being able to swim in it is one of the very best aspects of my life, also having learned to swim while growing up in rural Australia.
It's good that you got someone fired because of who your parents are, top job.
You have to give credit to both MS's board and Steve Ballmer that they clearly held back on announcements until the new guy took over, so he could hit the ground running, but clearly a lot of the things he's been credited with were done under Ballmer (and I am not one to give credit to Ballmer lightly).

Still, he's clearly been a good pick (so far) simply based on perception.
Lawsuits suck, I'm sure sexual ones are the worst.

But if some sleazy fucker knows that the worst consequence of harassment is social disapproval it drastically lowers the stakes for him. You have to count on the harassed person to want to make the harassment very, very public so that the people outside his close also-sleazy social group find out, remember, and hold him accountable.

Beyond losing friends and contacts, any retribution would have to happen in the business world; how do you hold someone accountable inside a system were sociopathical ignorance of the social consequences of your actions (and the actions of other) is rewarded. My entire life has been a series of events crushing the pleasing ideals I was taught as a child regarding morals, they just don't matter in business. Some businesses have them, and it costs them money to exercise them.

Legal recourse is how society turns externalities into internalites.
The "racial slur" issue was getting resolved in the '70s and was pretty much there by the end of it (this viewpoint from the hyper-Red State, culturally Southern part of SW Missouri); for some evidence, look at the dialog in 1971's Dirty Harry where a Hispanic is about to become his next doomed partner:

"Gonzales: There is one question, Inspector Callahan: Why do they call you "Dirty Harry"?

De Georgio: Ah that's one thing about our Harry, doesn't play any favorites! Harry hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it.

Gonzales: How does he feel about Mexicans?

De Georgio: Ask him.

Harry Callahan: Especially Spics."

This wouldn't be funny without the taboo that was strengthening at the time.

No, today's PC has nothing to do with anything "peaceful and cooperative", not when it consigns to perdition all of us white heteronormatives in fly-over country, probably more than half the country. It has no limiting principle, is frankly totalitarian, and the end game is going to be arbitrarily ugly.
I would state it differently. I'd like to protect the price generally paid for certain types of work in my country. Even if that price is low for my country (but higher in others), I'd still hope to be able to compete with others in my country. Privilege doesn't necessarily enter into it.
"It should be something like Java bytecode. Except not actually Java bytecode, because Java bytecode was made specifically for Java."

Don't really see anything wrong with this one.
Although one can't see the context in which this comment was made.
More accurately he wants to leave them "enough that they can do anything they want, but not enough to that they can do nothing".
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If he were to invest his entire net worth on SP500, he would own about 45M shares of MSFT. So, relatively, he still has a lot of MSFT.
Could the opposite happen? What if you have `~~` pointer or `~&~` pointer?
Don't forget the heavy discrimination against women.
If he wipes out or seriously reduces malaria (which is what he's been openly pursuing for ten years or more) then that alone will establish his place in the pantheon of philanthropists.
An Economically Feasible Plan to Convert Need for Excersize into Bitcoin
Exercize Bicycle to squirrel cage motor or whatever to battery banks to optimized bitcoin generator. Offer workout clients as steep of discounts as possible for the bitcoin they generate, Please! If you can come up with more machines with a similar ethos, that May be nice! Be kind please as I'm an idiot.
There's a risk of 'falling into the water involuntarily' in most activities involving small boats: canoeing, kayaking, sailing dinghies, sculling or rowing in a shell.

Not being able to swim precludes you from safely attempting any of these.
You are right - they probably won't work that way. However, that is not necessarily a good thing.
Why bother when they can just put the brakes on? It's not like there's much competition for any given city.
Sounds good. Sounds a lot better than setting up a patent trolling empire or building a company around a half-assed Hypercard clone.
Someone should create a subhacknewsit hn/shithnsays.
Because taking from everybody and building common infrastructure _everybody_ benefits from is different than forcibly taking from one group of people (those who do work) and giving to another group of people who dont _want_ to work.

Like communism, basic income (which is just another word for communism) is outright slavery, where person A is being forced to involuntarily work to feed person B who doesnt want to work.
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Perfect idea, simple and elegant.
Though I wonder if there would not be lock conflicts between the file-syncing dropbox does and the file-reading that stash would need.
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I think it's a mistake to call the ubiquitous emphasis on corporate growth in the US for the last 40 years "capitalism". The argument really breaks down if you try to call this all laissez-faire capitalism. There has been nothing "hands off" about our government's handling of the economic infrastructure. They have walked campaign-contribution-hand in regulation-and-subsidy-hand down the aisle of oligopoly and oligarchy. It's much closer to the mercantilism of Europe out of which the US was created than it is to laissez-faire.

I don't believe in completely unregulated markets, either. But let's not fool ourselves into thinking government will ride in to save the day. They were complicity in creating a system whose soul purpose is to drain 99.9% of people in the country of their money and leave nothing for anyone else. That's not trade, that's not capitalism. That's scorched earth warfare. You won't get reform out of Congress, they have too much skin in the game of the current system.

In a world where corporations can't buy off congresscritters, and congresscritters can't pass laws to give unfair advantage to their cohorts, I don't believe you can have an oligopoly of giganto-corporations. There is such an inefficiency to them that a truly capitalist system would have swarmed, killed, ate them up, and spat them out already.

We need to continue to push the internet to be independent, to grow an economy disconnected from governments, one that can, through mutual benefit of trade (i.e. capitalism) support the individuals within it with understanding and fairness, with no favor provided to any individual just because they won the Ivy League roommate lottery.
> Anarchocapitalism... in practice opting out of all the existing laws except the obvious ones most people won't have a problem with.

This sounds, if anything, less realistic than the OP's proposal.

It's also completely vacuous... which ones are obvious? The process of finding a sufficiently acceptable set is called politics.
omg, I can't believe someone posted something inconsistent with feminism, or your old school software engineering background. What a loser.
Indeed. Most of the usages I've written have been ~[...] or ~str. I think both have drop-in replacements. (And if I had some bloody time, I'd update my code and find out.) This kind of change doesn't affect how you write code the way that the 1:1 thread/M:N model thing does.

Note: I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you.
With the austerity measures in place in the UK in recent years there have been a few cases of despair at councils closing their swimming pools and leisure centres to try to cut costs. This is often despite fewer and fewer people attending them over the years.

Public swimming pools are a rich seam for nostalgia in Britain. Many public swimming pools were originally built in Victorian times and so fall into the "Always There" backdrop of a city, things you never really enthuse about but would miss if they were gone.

http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/news/category/swimming-po...

Lidos, public outdoor pools, make up the other half of Swimming Pool Nostalgia. Most were built in the 1930s. They had already fallen out of fashion, really, when I was a kid -- since holidays abroad had become cheap -- but there was one quite near us, about 30 mins drive away, and going there was a bit of a treat.

There have been a few campaigns in recent years -- some successful -- to restore lidos or at least preserve them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lidos_in_the_United_...
Because the content really is hillarious, breaks the HN bubble a bit and is tightly related to this particular community.

To take that kind of joke badly shows immaturity and potentially some other psychological disorders, if one would try to ascribe them to community as opposed to individual.
I believe the parent is thinking of a hypothetical reality trending toward one where technology is capable of solving nearly any arbitrary problem at no material cost.

Imagine, say, a world where clouds of von Neumann self-replicating builder robots fly around and plant seeds, tend trees, harvest, and deliver food. They also charge and repair and modify themselves, take material from mined asteroids, and are so plentiful that they may respond to every nonviolent human whim.

That world may have problems (which I don't care to discuss, I am just throwing out a possibility), and it's nowhere near reality. Not close. But I think such a pie-in-the-sky scenario is the one under discussion, where assumptions like 'nobody will feed you voluntarily' are not as bedrock as they are for us.
Industrial / Org psychology is a rather new sub discipline. It's still hard to beat a metric like general mental ability in predicting job performance across a variety of jobs.
Throwing a seven-year-old kid into the water because they're having a panic attack is absolutely grounds for firing. It's putting their life in danger. That instructor had no business teaching children how to swim if he doesn't understand basic water safety.

It's unfortunate that not everyone may have been able to rectify the situation the way that etfb could, but it's not like (s)he was abusing that power.
Or never-ending "Hey, ever heard about SSH config files!?". :D
"We can't have a situation in which the corporate duopoly dictates the future of the internet and that's why I'm supporting what is called net neutrality." - Barak Obama, 2006

Apparently Obama has the power to replace Wheeler as chairman and I wish he would.
That doesn't square with http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/ij4/i_attempted_the_ai_... .
You're not being thick. The author conflates currency with capital and corporatism with capitalism. The only question is whether or not the author is making this mistake out of ignorance or malice.
Council pools will still charge membership fees or one off fees for use by non-members. Though these fees are probably somewhat cheaper than they would be if privately provided.
I guess I don't think this is very important. The key is to exercise your heart, and there are plenty of easier ways to do that.

I think people focus too much on running and swimming. Both are difficult; running puts a lot of strain on your body as it counters forces several times its own weight 180 times a second. Good for your bones, if you can handle it. Swimming is less strain, but the equipment is very, very expensive. If you can only do it once a week, you're never going to get good enough to enjoy it.

For that reason, I recommend cycling. It's lower impact than running, and less expensive than swimming. What I like is that you can choose the exact level at which you want to exert yourself. Want to train at 75% max heart rate? Type in the number and pedal less hard if you're over, and pedal harder if you're under. Easy. (Modulo traffic and pedestrians.)

I like running and everything, but I weigh about 15 pounds too much to not hurt myself every time I go out. So cycling it is.
Oh please. You got contacted by a recruiter and NOT given a job.
What a sad joke. Maybe one day the W3C will get a clue and do this: http://gridstylesheets.org/. But I won't be holding my breath.
Perhaps also voluntary crossing of small rivers, small lakes, flooded areas. If you're lost in a mountain and your choice is to cross a river or do a 20km walkaround, being able to swim makes a big difference (chances are you'd avoid going in the mountains altogether, but that missing a lot of fun)

Also adults know how to avoid falling into water, small kids are not so good at this game yet.
Quite frankly if we put in a balance everything good and bad Google has ever done, the positive things they've done outweigh the negative things by a ton. I think that of all the tech companies Google is the most awesome. Seriously I am glad I don't have to pay an Apple tax or a Microsoft tax to develop mobile apps. I am grateful that Android is OSS just for that Google will always have my sympathy.
"both of which are dinosaurs compared to any modern distro."

Without any clue of what constitutes "any modern distro" in your mind, I don't see how this can proceed further. Note that Centos 6.5 and Debian wheezy are the latest from their respective projects. I believe the Debian version will happily install under recent Ubuntu and derivatives.

I'm sorry your preferred distro doesn't have better support.
Reminds me of 4chan's opinion of HN: http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S38087806
Many things have happened since Aug 23rd that could affect the stock price. It's ridiculous to claim that such a change over such a timespan is due to only one event.
It's much easier to make reasonable assumptions about a pattern that is intentional and easily executable upon, such as regularly selling stock one already owns. User acquisition, on the other hand, depends on many variables out of one's control. Also, people use something called critical thinking, e.g. Facebook can't attract more customers than there are humans, something you will find useful as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycentric_law

There is historical precedent. We may be submerged in the fabric of the monolithic state with supreme political power, but it is not the only way. Obvious ones are ones that you personally would feel uncomfortable dealing with someone not bound by. For me those would be assault, murder, theft, fraud, and things of this level.

Do I care if you have a moral objection to compulsorily funding the war machine of the state? Most certainly not. How about if you smoke proscribed plant matter? No problem, once again. The vast majority of laws are useless.

Also, politics has nothing to do with finding an acceptable set of laws. Politics (from Greek: πολιτικός politikos, meaning "of, for, or relating to citizens") is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a civic or individual level. Making laws is one method of exerting influence, but it will do just as well for the state to resort to plain old thuggery. The point is to maintain and increase their power.
Miele is overrated IMO. The brand tries to build some sort of hype around its warranty and higher price, but it fails to produce better results as many independent tests have shown. I own a Miele W2365 washing machine and a Miele T4223C tumble dryer, both sold and installed by a specialist retailer. The washing machine fails to wash properly at lower temperatures (<= 40°C) and the tumble dryer ruins many (suitable for dryers!) clothes because it seems to have no temperature limit and gets far too hot. They still both "work" after 8 years though ...
Heh, I am from Brazil and own lots of eletrolux stuff, and I had been telling people to.not buy eletrolux, their stuff breaks really fast, is badly designed, and their service people are rude and not interested in helping at all.
Whoa. I get Sweden, Scandinavia has been topping mobile penetration for a while, but Jersey... Stunning.
I had the exact same experience while taking swimming lessons as a young child in the west of Ireland. The instructor just chucked me in. She still works there.

I didn't swim for years afterwards but eventually went back to lessons when I was around 12. Strangely enough, I now love the sea. I am an avid surfer and scuba diver.