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I disagree -- OP was just suggesting the person quoted doesn't understand or appreciate the scope of what income taxes (and many of the other 'evils' he espouses against) have provided for him and others. Like the article mentions at the end: even if the eggs are sold for alternative currencies on a State-free griddle, they've still been inspected and checked by the USDA so they're unlikely to have been spoiled. If a violent incident had broken out, how much do you want to bet they would, at some point, have called the State police, or used the State's justice system?

Now, could the OP have derived a lack of perspective or understanding purely from the quote, in isolation? No, maybe the speaker knows very well that he and others are indulging in a something of a group LARP. But I think OP singling out that quote is not really to criticize the speaker, but the attitude of the festival itself: have a great time, but please remember that this is fiction, and you're offering very simple prescriptions for huge, complex problems of governance involving hundreds of millions of people, the vast majority of whom are nothing like you and don't have anything resembling your life experience. To hear simple solutions spouted as 'obvious' gospel doesn't reflect well on your ability to grasp the challenges of governance.

Which is really different, imo, than just criticizing someone for playing into a broken-but-necessary system, which is what you got out of it.
What about the heisenbugs, the ones which disappear as soon as I try to debug them?
Whenever you see more than 4 colors on the screen simultaneously it kind of removes the CGA feel although there were hacks around it.
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Utterly unusable on Android*.

EDIT: Works on iOS.
They can afford it if they can create something of value that you're willing to accept in return. If they can't then that is the real problem. You have to ask why they can't create enough wealth to trade for the things they want / need.
The offense is not about not agreeing with you it seems but about the way you present it. (Disclaimer: not a downvoter, just an observer. )
I've actually been giving that a lot of thought while writing this. It wouldn't be too difficult.

Although as I have learned, verbs are quite a bit more involved than nouns. I think I have something close to a generalized API for verbs at this point. I'll be polishing it up more this weekend.
Right over my head. Woosh... My pleasure.
It has been around for many years. It's called Greasemonkey.
On the spectrum of theories of how the human race might best thrive, libertarianism occupies the extreme right, where the free market and evolution reign completely over community and self-denial for the common good.

While the extreme left theory has been shown in the 20th C to be unachievable, we haven't seen yet an extreme right version in real-life (or if we have, we've forgotten what it looks like). The libertarians want to try it out and I predict a similar disaster.
Great introduction to ML algorithms. I would also like to recommend the Coursera course taught by Andrew Ng for a practical starting up in this powerful field.
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If you're counting the slave holding United States as a 'libertarian' society you're rather stretching the term. Beyond that, there are countless ways in which even white protestant Americans were subject to the state in the US, both locally and federally. I don't think it should count.
Your rant about IE is strange given that IE, a for a long time, was nonstandard. Think about it, you are asking developers to support a non-standard set of browsers to reach a "large" use base. How is that any different from the guys at mailbox supporting a non-standard API to reach a large user base?

The web looks fine in standard supporting browsers, and as of now that is Gecko and Webkit browsers (which by the way make up 99% of OSS browsers, like Midori and IceCat). Most of the other non-Gecko/Webkit browsers are Trident based, closed source, and only support Windows.

Using the web is a bad example for showing that there is a "proprietary mindset", when in fact all the standards about the web are completely open.
It's a weird assumption you seem to be making that businesses (especially small businesses paying minimum wage) are keeping more employees around as they actually need.

Maybe you've never worked for minimum wage. When I was pushing carts around at a grocery store, or delivering pizzas, and later leading shifts, labor costs are the number one concern at all times. If it gets slow and you don't need five drivers, you tell three of them to go home. Period.

They aren't (anywhere I've ever experienced) unnecessarily kept on the clock.

That's the reality of a minimum wage job. Increasing the minimum wage isn't going to free up the shift supervisors to be able to cut back further. They won't have a choice. So instead of a $2,000 nightly close for that pizza joint, it's going to be $1,800. And the franchisee pockets a bit less.

That's all that's going to happen. They'll still attempt to open up as many profitable franchises as they can. Close down the unprofitable ones just as aggressively, and still count every hour spent on labor.
Am I the only one who feels lost without proper navigation options above the fold? The nav menu is right at the bottom. Feels very odd to me.
Well, there are a number of web frameworks being worked on, maybe checking them out and helping out would be a good idea? https://github.com/iron/iron was on HN asking for help the other day.
It's pointless to create more jobs by lowering the minimum wage (or eliminating it) if no one could possibly live off of the wages of the jobs this created. So the answer is to only have jobs that could support someone without government having to feed them (minimum wage), this in my mind eliminates jobs that really shouldn't exist, and stops employers from having government subsidize their workers.
True, but almost to the point of nonsense. Consider, nobody created the job of iPad attachments. Yet, if it didn't exist those jobs wouldn't either.
Thanks for the tip. I'll check that out.
>But in a generator function the iterator is returned immediately, before any of the code in the function runs, so how would it return anything else?

Oh, that's interesting, I didn't know ES6 implemented generators that way. That's really weird.

EDIT: Looks like PHP does the same thing. Hmm, I can see the merits of an asterisk, then.
It happened to me ~10 years ago with another health care startup. The sign up booklet looks good and we switch to it. I was with a big company ( - Nokia )at that time. But when the time comes to pay hospital/doctor bill, it has all kind of reasons not too.

I documented the phone calls with them, put the detail on a yahoo group and make sure the group was opened to everyone who want to join and also invited their company's PR/Marketing to join that group.

The issue was resolved immediately. I don't think that company is alive today. Healthcare insurance start up is not easy. I don't trust them base on that experience.

The main issue with insurance is always how much you can trust them when they need to pay up. In the short term, they can always promise low rate to get your attention. But that only get the young folks to switch. After one been thru the experience I been thru, it is hard to trust that kind of company again.

In today's internet age, it is impossible for any "startup insurance" company to do that kind of "hack" to try keep their cash flow and not immediately to have their reputation out to everyone in the world.
I had MCGA in 1987 on an IBM PS2 and it could do that.
Very few of their arguments seem to relate to OOP. One of the nastiest gotchas there is that importing a library can change how division works - or, in the general case, that which code has run before my code can affect how my code executes.

Plenty of Object-Oriented Languages do not allow you to rewrite existing code in other modules like this. In fact, most of them don't. Encapsulation is a hallmark of OOP, and it's typically non-OOP languages that allow you to do things like this. Just because Ruby says to you "I'm OOP", and you don't like a feature of Ruby, does not mean you do not like OOP!

Rust has a nice solution to this problem: You can modify an existing class, such as integers, but that modification only applies within the scope of code where you apply it. It can't bleed out into all code that runs after the patching.
Sending an email on a Friday isn't inherently terrible.

Sending an email on the Fourth of July holiday is.
> because non-libertarians always bring them up

I usually bring up the question when I meet someone who calls him/herself libertarian and the answer is rarely the same (no true Scotsman, I know). It's a good test of where they stand on the spectrum, as well as how well they've thought about the practicalities of their politics vs. just disliking paying tax.
I'm another Slate user -- looks like Hydra is a spiritual successor... I'll give it a go.
> I find so often that the 2 major parties in the US interfere in how I want to live my life when I'm not hurting anyone.

The sad truth is that most of these laws exist because there exists a minority of people who are not as reasonable as you. We get more and more laws in large part because those people are finding loopholes in current laws and getting away with murder. The unfortunate thing is that our attempts to reign in the minority bone the majority.
Given the increasing complexity of the web plus nostalgia, I'm seriously surprised that there's no actual distributed BBS/Minitel/BTX thing going on.

With API-driven backends (webapps, esp. SPA's, mobile apps), it would probably be easy enough to shoe-horn in some glorious ANSI interface...
They say that called the US Population correct at 395m, when it's 316m. It was 191m in 1964. So instead of over 100% increase it was 65%. Doesn't feel close to me. For something like this, where we have good models (for example Social Security needs to predict US pop correctly) -- need to be a lot closer to call it "Correct".

Looks like they misread the baby boomer trend -- and didn't predict the effect of widespread, effective, legal birth-control, women entering the workplace in larger numbers, etc.
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How well did you know the cofounder beforehand?

This is very much part of my frustration. I put my pseudo-resume on CFL and got blasted with dozens of requests, so many that I had to put assholish "don't contact me unless" prerequisites on my profile. But here's the thing I've realized (and maybe you did, more painfully): I know not to get involved with a stranger or even an acquaintance that I haven't known for years. Finding someone who can produce at an obsessive, passionate level like you (hopefully) will is extremely difficult and riddled with risk. Heck, just finding someone who is a net positive is hard enough.

If you co-found with a non-bestie, not only are you taking all that risk on yourself, but investors are going to look the other way. They know it better than anyone: startup teams are like marriages. It can get ugly really, really quickly, completely obliterating the business in the process.

I have an unhealthy envy of some cofounding teams that just were, no work involved at all. It's like they took the undisputed hardest part of starting a company and just sidestepped it. Digital Ocean is a team of brothers, for example. Many big startups were formed out of happenstance high school or college buddies. But guess what? When you grow up in a tiny town in flyover country where entrepreneurship is unheard of, those people don't exist. I did go to a top-10 university, but it wasn't particularly entrepreneurial like Stanford or Berkeley. Everyone I knew there is now a banker, lawyer, doctor, etc. My only engineering buddy from college has been at Microsoft for 12 years and has two kids, and even still, I've made several unsuccessful runs at him (and others).

I'm allowing myself to be a little whinier than I would under a real account, so sorry if it sounds ultra-negative.

Meh, in for a penny...

Dear God I hate the concept of marriage. It has stolen all my friends and all my potential co-founders. I secretly celebrate divorce.
The purpose of the site is to gratify one's intellectual curiosity. The reward/penalty system is a byproduct of that goal.
It probably is. I used Phoenix (the JS predecessor to Hydra) and that exact functionality is one of my most used hotkeys:

Capslock + E = Swap currently selected window to other desktop, make that window fullscreen and center the mouse cursor on it
That's just in graphics mode though, in text mode CGA had 16 colors I believe.
That is the narrative of anger.

On the other hand, there are 113 million households and 155 million people in the work force, so 2 incomes isn't typical for a household (It's only possible for ...oops). Edit: (This ignores people collecting benefits or retirement payments, but I guess those aren't bleak signals. It makes the statement I had made about 1/3 nonsense though.)

Much of the care that makes medicine expensive simply wasn't available in the 1960s, so is a hard sell as a regression (you know, trauma care, the huge improvements in care for heart disease, the huge improvements in treatment of cancer, the panoply of drugs that treat conditions that may or may not exist, etc).

Real estate is expensive in many cities, but in towns, you can't sell a 2,000 square foot house, never mind selling it at a price resembling expensive. Real estate pricing is a symptom of other things going on in the economy, not a particularly huge problem all on its own.

Mean student debt runs less than $30,000 and activists won't even report the median. Pointing out what is wrong (if anything significant...) with this article might make for some good discussions: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2013/09/2...

None of that means I think that the U.S. system of paying for health care is sensible or that I am opposed to figuring out a better way to make education available or anything like that.
Looks pretty awesome. I'm a little disappointed that the cursor wasn't turned into a block though.
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No... I'm just saying that tax refunds are not really an advantage of a tax system. In a non-tax system, you have that advantage 100% of the time.
I absolutely love BTT. I've setup my mouse buttons and trackpad gestures to do so many different things in my apps that I'd be lost without them.
Unfortunately the 9 dollar price and the lack of assurance that this is not just a toy doesn't make me very compelled to buy it. Would have thought more about it if it were something like $1, though.
I think it's plenty arguable that rich people create jobs.

For example: if rich people don't create jobs, then how can it be their fault that there are not enough jobs? If jobs really come from the middle class, why hasn't the middle class created more of them? It would be in their self-interest to do so.

Arguing that wages for middle class jobs should go up raises the question of where that wage money should come from. The answer is capital, i.e. rich people.

Societies without rich people are also societies that struggle to create well-paying jobs. The USSR and China attempted to eliminate rich people by adopting a communist economy. What happened is that the people in the government were the only ones who got rich, and the government was the only source of jobs. That is not a coincidence.

Since the end of the 20th Century, both Russia and China have relaxed government control of capital, and the result has been an increase in both rich people and well-paying jobs in those countries.

Finally, consider technological innovation; a rich source of job creation. It is created by investment, sometimes seemingly far-fetched or speculative investment. Google and the iPhone are two examples of products that were not guaranteed success, and were even dismissed by some industry experts when released. Each has directly created thousands of jobs and indirectly enabled at least tens of thousands more in supporting or related fields.

But before there was Google or the iPhone, there were rich people writing checks to the people who envisioned them.

BTW this is NOT an argument against a higher minimum wage. In fact I think the questions of "where jobs come from" and "what is the ideal minimum wage" are only very loosely connected.

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Surprisingly full of practical advice. Boils to:

* Be funny and useful.

* Targeted audience instead of general.

* Mention names.
- Specially names with a lot of twitter followers.

* Spam everyone without it looking like spam.

Good job ;)
My point was that old is not a cheap way to boost your argument. TCP is also old. So? A list of reasons why it doesn't work would be more convincing. IMAP works.
If insurers didn't make money, they wouldn't coordinate insurance plans.

They're middlemen, like so many HN readers aspire to be, because there are efficiencies to be found in the middle. Insurance is a way of crowd-funding risk, though we rarely talk about it in those terms.
> But this require some cooperation and motivation from the big guys at silicon valley

Unfortunately, this is key to making strong encryption commonplace. A social graph and real-time communication could be used to make key exchange easy and secure. Open client software is needed to make security verifiable. And the storage and email infrastructure and clients need to make using encryption the default.

All the pieces of a "trust nobody" environment are there, and so are the pieces for making it an easy to use default.

Hopefully, doing this will be required for American service and technology companies to regain trust.
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I would agree with you there. Libertarianism seems to me to be a recipe for a society that collapses into neo-feudalism as an ownership class of corporations and individuals emerge and (without any government controls in place) effectively forms a new aristocracy. One may say we're not too far from that now I suppose, and I have a lot of sympathy for the idea that we're over-taxed, over-ruled, over-governed etc etc. But yeah...
The NSA strategy of spying on everyone only works when most people are not aware of it. The surprise element is now gone. They can undoubtedly already see the effect of the recent scandals in a serious decrease in quality of the information that they collect. The entire internet is now slowly but surely moving to stronger forms of encryption. On the long run, it probably means that the entire internet will go dark for them. In other words, the ones who wanted to see everything will end up seeing nothing at all.
Warning:

The first sentence goes "If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for deep surveillance".

So, if you find this interesting, maybe you shouldn't read it.
For a moment I thought this comment was just really good Markov chaining. What's that "LIPs not logging in" stuff about?
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Consider for a moment that the poor spend every dollar they make(and often every dollar they can borrow as well). If we raise their incomes by N. Some factor of N dollars of demand is created in the economy by this action as they spend their increased income. Depending on the state in the rest of the economy that results in a net shift of the demand curve one way or the other. If that factor is < 1, perhaps layoffs, or increased saving, we have lower demand. But if that factor is > 1; People who spend every dollar they make are suddenly spending a few more dollars at their local WalMart every month, and so they need a few more hours of cashier each month to meet the demand, who probably spends all they make from those extra hours(in addition to the hourly raise for hours they were possibly already working). Then we will find that overall more demand has been created.

Demand side arguments being made today are doing some simple reasoning and realizing that 'job creators' cannot demand labor, unless the products of that labor are demanded. We could raise the demand for the products of labor by making more income available to people who will spend it immediately. What if we raise the minimum wage(where almost all $ is spent immediately) to raise that demand at the lowest level? They're betting that the factor of created demand is near 1, and probably greater than 1.

Is the idea really that complicated?
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In fact, last time I looked into multivitamins, most have "megadoses" of nutrients - doses far in excess of the DRV. Either because it's easier for the manufacturer to produce that way, or because 1000% of something sounds better to a layperson than 100%. The major advertised brands like Centrum are especially guilty of this and the generics copy to look equivalent.

To even get a multivitamin with only 80-100% of DRV max, you have to look for a "mature" multivitamin, usually labeled as age 50+ - 60+.

I don't have a varied or complete diet, so I take a mature multivitamin - Kirkland (Costco house brand) Mature Multi, well reviewed in Consumer Reports and elsewhere when I looked into vitamins. And really cheap, as low as $10 for a 400 count bottle.

If you're really interested in less than 100%, most ought to be easy to split in half with a pill splitter.
> reporting power consumption in mA is used in industry, so it's useful to report.

You are not partially wrong. You are 100% wrong. Learn to accept feedback now or you will learn later when the stakes are higher.

Or, seen from a customer's perspective: If this company is as stubborn and misguided about this, how much more of reality are they unwilling to allow in? Why shouldn't I go with a vendor who faces reality?

AmpHours are not the same thing as reporting milliAmps. And neither one is power consumption. And neither one is useful for estimating power consumption. And don't bother looking for counter examples. That would be like showing me someone who said, "I drove three volts to work this morning."

As far as your second paragraph, it demonstrates an extremely sparse knowledge of electronic engineering. Yes, you kind of have some things kind of right, but not enough to communicate or make important decisions. I would highly advise you to take on a seasoned electrical engineer stat.

For example, you say "it's utter nonsense to think that the only rating you need to know would be Joules," but do you realize by only giving current you're doing the same or worse?

This is all neverminding the entire dimensions of time and the long-term implications of those two things junior electrical engineers always screw up: heat and vibration.
Don't want to pay sales tax? Don't buy food, clothing, shelter, transportation, or medicine!

The SCotUS struck down poll taxes because the exercise of a right--in that case, voting--cannot be taxed. By that reasoning, if you support a tax on something, you must believe that no one has a right to that thing.

Sales taxes and income taxes imply that there is no right to engage in voluntary commerce. You have no right to earn or spend money. Property taxes imply you have no right to own property. Naturally, if this principle were carried out to its logical extreme, the government has a revenue incentive in denying people their rights.

And that leads to the question: so how do people who love their freedoms pay for a government? And there is no single, objectively correct answer to that question.

And there is also no good reason to mock and ridicule either the people that ask it, or the people who answer it differently.