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Your argument may be true but it's semantics. The poster's point was that Confucianism has a hierarchical/obedience type of effect on society, promoting a mindset that fosters an acceptance of totalitarian rule. That's hard to argue against.

The major Confucian-derived modern states are China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, arguably Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Personally, my visit to the headquarters of one of the major Korean major mobile device manufacturer felt like a hideous preview of a dystopian future where the workers are forced in to utter obedience: entering through airport levels of security on a daily basis, living in numbered cells provided by the company, taking company-provided transport from their assigned residence to work. Even smoking was only permitted between certain regulated minutes, at certain areas. Everyone wore a personalized tracking device used in order to move about the campus. It was hard to describe as anything but oppressive, yet the conditions for those workers are reportedly sought after!

(Edit in reply to below: Yes, I'm definitely in the Taoist camp.)
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>First, a minor point: The biggest holders of Greek debt were French banks by far

I was under the impression that the German banks were the biggest holders of Greek debt followed by France and Italy.
Could ipfs.io be used for content storing? Together with filecoin could it be better fit then your proposed solution?
A lot of other languages makes you write a lot more code for some things that js can express very shortly. I usually find that the js version is more readable. The problem, I think, is that most programmers are used to class-based inheritance and not prototypical inheritance.
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France and Germany has no option but to negotiate.

If Greece defaults, most likely they will exit the Eurozone and this will be disastrous for Europe (Italy and Spain will be exposed in particular).

Financially, it will send a ripple effect and the Euro will devalue as those debts can't be collected, i.e. written off. Politically, it will be the beginning of the end of the Eurozone.
Your doctrine would in practice massively disadvantage both women and kids

Your doctrine does in practice massively disadvantage both men and kids! Why do you insist that women need to be better off than men?

The current way of dealing with things is kid-centered.

No, it's not. It is female-centered. What the woman wants is the law. It's easy to see. If in a divorce case, the child wants to stay with dad, that will be ignored, and the child will be given to the mother. Please familiarise yourself with the facts.

Once a kid is there

You keep trying to reframe the discussion so that you don't have to admit to the truth, which is that women have more rights than men. Please stop this! So let's start again:

Once a kid is there

Women should not force, brutalise or rape men into fatherhood. And where they do, the biological father has absolutely no obligation whatsoever to look after the child, and even less to fund the lifestyle of the criminal party. It is shocking, shocking that you defend these sorts of crimes.

conception doesn’t impact bodily autonomy

So what? Stealing your money also doesn't impact bodily autonomy, should it therefore be legal?
so to recap, it's totally true that the first bailout didn't aid Greece but rather bailed out dodgy German, et al, bank loans to Greece by transferring them to the Greek public sector?

I'm not sure why you fervently believe the banks deserve this. No-one held a gun to their head and forced them to make a loan to Greece, and it's not as if the, ah, looseness of Greek gdp calculations was exactly a secret.

Perhaps consider being pissed at the bankers that swindled all the aforementioned taxpayers into buying out their bad loans. A cynic might think this is how European government disguised the rather unpopular act of writing their banks a huge-ass check.
Yes, I know it is a bit of a stretch from the linked article, but the subject of nationalism in Europe was getting some traction in the comments and this matter(the subject of the killed post) seems to me to be tightly connected to rising nationalism in Europe. I've recently looked into this and it is shocking and disheartening, but I want to believe a not intractable problem and I was hoping to have some reasoned discussion about it since, somewhat understandably there seems to be such a tendency to sweep it away as quickly as possible.

If anybody is interested, just look into this[0,] and if you can bear it, consider the pattern of all the similar cases, the utter depravity of it all, how it was allowed to operate for so long, and with those facts considered, god knows how much of it is going on as we speak.

And because these problems and others like them throughout Europe, can be seen as the result of and directly traced to specific policies put in place by European governments, they are in desperate need of discussion. Especially by people who want to make the world a better place.

And now upon further consideration, an increasingly disruptive(not the good kind,) rapidly growing in size immigrant population in Europe does seem rather on topic in any broad discussion about the future of the Eurozone economy, already dealing with employment issues.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...
> He didn't call them terrorists, that was a translation error that inflammatory media outlets didn't bother to correct.

Where do you think the mistranslation happened? Here's the text (in Spanish) from the El Mundo interview. My Spanish isn't great, but it seems quite clear:

(El Mundo) Aunque no haya encuestas, en las calles de Atenas lo que se siente es que la gente cada día que pasa tiene más miedo.

(Varoufakis) Sí, así es. Lo que están haciendo con Grecia tiene un nombre: terrorismo

(El Mundo) ¿De verdad piensa que lo que están haciendo con Grecia es terrorismo?

(Varoufakis) Por supuesto que lo pienso: es terrorismo. ¿Por qué nos han forzado a cerrar los bancos? Para insuflar el miedo en la gente. Y cuando se trata de extender el terror, a ese fenómeno se le llama terrorismo. Pero confío en que el miedo no gane.
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So here's a question on a metaphor that seems closer to the current scenario. Imagine a bank that's promising to deliver a secure service but leaving the safes unlocked and account holders' files lying around. The current issue I discovered actually falls under that with user data being publicly exposed with no extra steps required to get it. No hacks over here. Going back to the metaphor, assume everyone else believes their money is safely locked away and their account information secure. At this point, you tell the bank that they have this problem. Don't you also have a moral obligation to tell the public they are not as safe as they thought they were? Doesn't that moral obligation increase the longer the problem remains unresolved?

I'm really not looking for any thank yous here (and not suggesting that that was insinuated). I just want to help people and I would like to do my part to ensure society is safe. This information being pulled by a more malicious source could be incredibly damaging.

As for the services offering. Wouldn't dream of it. Totally onboard with everyone on that :).
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Their room for manoeuvre is ultimately determined by their voters, most of whom have realized by now what little regard Syriza (and most of Greece) have for them.
Although a classic case of Betteridge's Law, it's a fascinating article.
The actual scenario he presents with the physical boxes is not consistent, as the truth value of the label on the red box cannot be decided. i.e. Its value is the opposite of its value. This is a troll question.
The problem inherently indicated that the labels were untrustworthy. It was impossible for them both to be true, because one explicitly stated that only one was true. I see no reason to trust the red label more than the green label, so at that point, it should be clear that neither can be trusted.

It's interesting in that people seem to trust meta-statements like the red label's more than they trust basic statements like the green label's.
>All businesses suffer along with the rest of the economy

A) The relative position of the owners still improves.

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic620591.files/Indi...

B) Businesses in the rest of the Eurozone can reap the benefits of suppressed Greek wages (in the form of a more cut-throat labor market), without facing the consequences of lower demand themselves.
Was it now?

Googling the actual Greek word he used brings up page after page of arguments that it meant exactly that: terrorism.
What would be preferable is more housing and better infrastructure, because the current living cost is toxic to the economy. The cost of living is still high in the suburbs where support workers (cleaners, plumbers, etc.) can afford to live, but they pushed outer regions y/y while the commuting time and cost is higher. We will end up being uncompetitive just because we have to pay extra for the employees living cost. This can be acceptable for the financial and tech sector, but what will a locksmith or street food owner do? And this happens just because there is no city planning and more housing. These prices are artificially high.
For the near term, you have to use something like babel anyway. Beyond that, generators and promises need to be implemented ahead of async/await as they are prerequisites for it.
Maybe German and French politicians really are sufficiently pissed off not to want to negotiate. The referendum did have one important effect though: it smashed any illusions that Syriza is the problem. Heck, the No vote in the referendum was significantly larger than the vote for Syriza in the elections this year!

The problem is that the creditors insist on "squeezing blood from a stone", unwilling to reach an agreement that actually works, and the people of Greece insist that they won't accept that. Now, it's often said and true that in a democracy, the people of one country cannot be allowed to force their will onto the people of 18 other countries. But the facts are on the table; the Greeks have demonstrated that they won't budge. If the creditors won't budge either, it probably means total default and Grexit, something that ostensibly nobody wanted, but that is inevitable given how nobody was willing to make the necessary concessions to avoid it.

In the medium to long term, the Greeks will probably be better off outside a dysfunctional currency union, and the Euro will either get fixed or dissolved after the next few crises.
For college loans as well?
My grandma has been doing IF (without knowing it's IF) for the last 50 years. She's 94 now and apart from her mind, she's in very good health for her age. I know it's completely anecdotal, but I do believe IF is part of her success.
I think it's brilliant that so many people here take an interest in news beyond the mundane, read what they can and trade opinions in a predominantly reasonable fashion. As someone really late to the party, I appreciate being able to gain snippets of info from my peers plus a few distilled links for when I have time to delve further.
Sorry, but in which way did Greece not get some 300 billion euros? Whether they first borrowed that money from private banks and then the rest of the eurozone paid back the banks for Greece or whether they received the money directly from the other eurozone countries, the end result is still that banks now have roughly as much as before (modulo minor interests etc.), Greece has some 300 billion more and the rest of the eurozone has some 300 billion less.
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You mentioned Changelog. I just wanted to +1 and throw the URL out there: https://changelog.com/
I thought BI was mainly a response to the question "What will we do when most menial jobs are automated with better AI?". Tech that could pick up trash, bake bread, repair your car (If owning a car even makes since at that point in the future).. etc. Honestly its all speculation right now. I think its cool that they are doing this experiment right now, but they may be jumping the gun. However, I also think its jumping the gun to assume it will never work.
I found it odd that the author used the personal pronoun 'I' and felt free to apply her own evaluation of comments as the final word. ICANN is a public trust, not a personal fiefdom.
I hadn't heard about the GPS issue, but found this report about it:

http://www.ciras.org.uk/report-library/train-operations/5213...

I see it's from Jan '14, do you know if any improvements have been made since?
Looks like libtorrent-rasterbar based clients are not able to handle the dump (bencoded item limit).
Transmission is working (slowly).
Possibly. But he worked at Valve as Economist-in-Residence which somewhat makes him, a relevant figure to the HN community.
> Not living in the US presumably subjects you to position bias.

Sure. And I have my own opinion on the matter, but I kept it out of my comment for a reason: my opinion isn't particularly important on this matter. I was merely discussing the article and kromem's call for a different analysis.
"Land is private property in most countries,"

And yet, in most countries the biggest land owner is... the state.
Although I agree with you, the situations are a bit different. In the case of post WWII it was widely recognised that Germany's debt and war reparations were a major cause of WWII and helped with the rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany.

Greece doesn't have a modern history of military aggression. Germany did. What the Allies put in place was in their own interests.

The Allies didn't want to make that mistake twice (one could argue 3rd time). Hence they made sure that Germany [a] had a political system that was extremely balanced and stable (ironically much more than their own).

And [b] (most importantly of all), they made sure that they Germans had hope. Hope to be able to dig themselves out of what must have appeared to be almost a impossible mess at the beginning. Hope is like a virus. It starts small and becomes a self fulfilling cycle upwards (the reverse is also true).

That is what the Greece requires now. It needs to restructure its debt in order to take advantage of the quantitative easing policy of the ECB and low interest rates.

It also needs time to put its house in this order and it needs stability (politically and economically) to build itself back up.

The EU powers that be hates referendums. The people always vote that opposite to what they want. Welcome to democracy.
And yet, it is one of the most common and powerful negotiation strategies, and hence frequently suggested also on this site, to be able to say "sounds interesting, but I need to check that with my spouse/family/boss/prime minister".
As far as I know the most successful attacks on companies were based on very simple techniques like phishing or similar easy techniques like SQL-Injection. When we talk about data breaches of companies, it mostly hasn't something to do with high sophisticated attacks using 0-days I guess. I'm not sure, would you agree?

Of course companies tell you that there were victims of high sophisticated APT attacks, otherwise they would have to admit, they had been compromised by simple script-kiddy attacks.

Of course blaming victims doesn't help anyone. I want to emphasize here, that not only the companies are victims but also the users and customers, who mostly never received compensations after security failures.
Weak currency even with strong export due to sharing it with Portugal, Greece, Spain etc. This is what worked for Germany. If the Euro breaks up Germany is the one in trouble.
Marriott owns ~20 different hotel brands. Some of those brands (e.g. Courtyard) offer free wi-fi, but others do not.

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Interstellar (Nolan) and Fiasco (Lem) - juxtaposition is thought provoking and sad conclusion for me is Lem (and you) might be right.
> Or hell, look at Germany. The biggest bully for austerity politics in the whole EU is also literally it's richest country. And you can damn sure bet they aren't playing the same game at home.

Inform yourself which reforms where enacted in Germany in 2004/2005 which lead to a nearly uninterrupted decade of economic growth and a very practically balanced-out federal budget. Maybe cutting spending and increases taxes actually leads to a sensible economic state and a more-or-less working public sector. Unless, of course, austerity always fails!
I don't have numbers but his point is that a per-dollar amount doesn't show how much a state is contributing at all.

> If i put in 1k in federal taxes and get 800 back, what matter is it what state i'm in? Or are we saying Delaware residents getting 70 cents on the dollar is not as bad as Californians getting 95 cents because there are more people, thus Californians are more important?

Californians aren't more important individually, but California is. Obviously a million people with $5 each is a larger sum than twenty people with $10 each.
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Arguably the best stories from each of the other sites suggested here are posted on HN, so theoretically one only needs to follow HN.
In the EU at least, the distinction between citizens and commercial entities is often blurry, as I'm not sure about other places, but in the EU many countries have this notion of "authorized professional" as a legal commercial entity and many people are taking advantage of it. EU directives are also mostly guidelines (i.e. they specify a desired result, not how that should happen) and yes, disclosure of information about a business should happen, but the channel for that is not specified.

As an example of why your mention of European directives is bullshit, Romania is an EU member, yet the WHOIS information for our .ro TLD is locked behind www.rotld.ro. So in order to find out the WHOIS information about a domain, you have to go to a web interface and then go through a CAPTCHA screen meant to prevent crawlers.

Personally, I have yet to hear about a valid use-case for automated crawling of WHOIS information.

Also, Sitetruth.com is a shady business. I mean, you block ads on search engines you don't own and you do so for commercial purposes. That smells to me like copyright infringement. And seriously, who patents an ad blocker?
> not least, lower primary surpluses and a weak reform effort that will weigh on growth and privatization

Here's a wonderful anecdote about their glacial and incompetent privatization:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/07/03/the-airbu...

Note the marvelous bit about the hundreds of clients the non-selling of 4 Airbus planes provided jobs for.
Ask HN: JavaScript-based analytics pushing to SQL db?
There are lots of analytics platforms (Piwik, MixPanel, keen.io, GA), but they all have their own pre-made reporting, or are restricted in the data you can get out. For a low traffic volume, high visitor value site, we want to be able to query visitor/pageview/events to answer specific questions.

Does anyone know of a platform/library that does this so we don't have to build from scratch? Ideally JS based, as some pages are built using different stacks.
Yeah, either fill it up or buy in the shops after security, which (in my experience) is still cheaper than in the plane.
You're determined to ignore where the money went.

German, Dutch, et al banks -- specifically banks that had unacknowledged bad loans to Greece -- have several hundred billion more than before. Public sector balance sheets have that much less.
What really gets me going is how "we" helped the banks fill their coffers and socialize the losses. Again. Lending Greece money went along with earning (comparably) a lot of interest exactly because of the high (perceived) threat of Greece defaulting. And now that it has (nearly) come to that, all the risk has been moved to the EZB, etc.

I called my local elected representative about it, SPD (social democrat), and "voiced my concern", but only got met with talk about chain reactions and responsibility. Perhaps I shouldn't have shouted.
It's sort of a weak version of a P-zombie. Presumably the lack of conscious awareness would still be observable using a sufficiently detailed brain scan if not anything else, as opposed to a "real" P-zombie where the presence of consciousness is assumed to be completely epiphenomenal.
Yes, maybe my comment wasn't clear. I meant to say add ".bind(this)" as a case that is replaced by => just like "var self = this;" or (...)(); for that matter.
The critique is well put, the author notes the Piketty ignores the workers movements that shaped capital.

The author is obviously of the Marxist left, the same Marx the predicted ever and ever more impoverished workers while today the capitalism Marx so reviled obviously has uplifted so many. This should not take away from this correct analysis of Piketty's ignorance of social movements and change.
> I'm not familiar with anyone who takes bitcoin in exchange for a place to sleep.

From 3 minutes on Google:

http://www.expedia.com/

http://www.cheapair.com/hotels/

https://btctrip.com/

http://www.travelforcoins.com/

https://www.clickjett.com/

http://blog.9flats.com/9flats-accepts-payments-with-bitcoins

I'm not commenting on anything else you've said, but I really do have to question your claim that you're "quite familiar" with the bitcoin market
He has some good economic arguments at best and only if you subscribe to the school of economic thought he adheres to. What I've seen of him, he is what the Germans would call a "Fachidiot" (something like "subject idiot" in English), someone who cannot see further than their own subject matter.
Interestingly, a lot of the bendy buses were sold to Malta (where they were even less suited to the road network).

Three promptly burst into flames: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/bendy-buses-sent-fr...
Ask HN: What YC startups in the past 2 demo days are doing the best?
Just wondering, what YC startups since the past 2 demo days have been making waves for their traction, fundraising, popularity, etc?
Ever since I was a wee kid I wondered what Pluto looked like. When the news came that there were issues with New Horizons just DAYS away from finally coming close to Pluto my heart sank.

It's very good news to hear it's back and will be good for the fly-by. I'm so excited to finally see pictures up close to this planet / dwarf planet!
Thank you!

I realize that you probably imitated GP's short style on purpose, but to elaborate a little bit: It's an accounting tautology that every (monetary) savings must be offset by a debt somewhere. Since private households tend to save (and we should consider that a good thing, given how available savings is an essential part of freedom within a capitalist system), the debts have to be somewhere else. They could be debts of firms (for investment), but the private sector is exposed to (sometimes severe) economic fluctuations. So a buffer is needed somewhere, and the logical place for this buffer is government debt.
Glad you posted this. They mentioned this incident in a segment they did on Last Week Tonight. The police are completely ill-equipped to deal with online harassment, even if they could determine the identity of the attacker, which they likely rarely can.