mamon

I've written this multiple times on HN: democracy is a weird and temporary quirk, the natural state of mankind is totalitarism.

For the short period of time (1.5 century) we were in this state where masses were educated well enough to demand political rights for themselves, and elittes didn't have the means to fully control them, so the compromise called "democracy" was made.

Nowadays, with technical advances in many areas, like online banking, smartphones, social media, AI it again becomes possible for elittes to excercise total control over average citizen, therefore mankind will soon revert to it's natural, totalitarian state.

Adopting Microservices in two steps:

1. Don't do it

2. Don't do it yet

Don't forget Intel's nanometers are smaller than TSMC nanometers. TSMC 12nm is 25% lower transistor density that Intel's 14nm

It's not about finding the vaccine, or virus actually going away. Simply, by Jan 2021 people will be so sick and tired of hearing about COVID that they will say "fuck it" and carry on with their lives as usual. Me personally I'm close to that point already.

Try us-east-1 :)

Yes, but it takes just one person to download github source and build it to verify that a binary available in the play store is safe so that the other 1,999,999,999 Android users don't have to.

Which is riddiculous, because if they can fit good front camera in iPhone they should be able to do that in the much bigger device, like laptop, right?

>> But that's little discomfort compared to getting sick

Depends on how afraid you are of getting sick. Most people that get infected do not develop any symptoms, and of those who do 95% wouldn't be able to tell them aparat from the normal flu. The only real risk group are people over 70, and while those might actually be afraid, the rest of the society is simply getting more and more pissed off with all those restrictions imposed on us.

>> US resumes are ideally 1 page with 2 pages (IMHO) being acceptable if one has enough experience

What if someone has 25 years of experience and held 10 different positions during that time, has a lot of ceritifications and other credentials? How do you fit all that on just two pages?

Inherent property of single-payer system is that medicine professionals salaries are low compared to US, so there's strong incentive for said specialists to emigrate (or for wannabe doctors to pursue other career paths in the first place). Countries with such systems suffer constant shortage of doctors and nurses, further limiting the supply of healthcare services. Truth is, almost all progress in medicine happens in the US, which effectively subsidises healthcare for the rest of the world this way.

Page and Brin are not married to each other, as far as I know (which would make the shares their common property). You can always try to drive a wedge between them, have one of them turn on the other. With Zuckerberg, no, no chance.

It is far from solved in Europe. The problem with single-payer healthcare systems that are common here is that you cannot really bypass the supply-demand law. Since European governments are paying for healthcare for everyone, and effectively are setting the prices of healthcare services, keeping them low, the nature compenstates by limiting supply. So, in general, you can get your surgery for free, but you will have to wait 2 years for the next free time slot to have it. So what you save in money, you lose in the lost time.

>> UBI does not come from an employer and is not tied to an effort

Where do you think government's money come from? Financing UBI will require raising taxes.

We can have cookie and eat it to: stop being angry at those who wronged you, just start plotting your revenge :) Treat revenge as just another item on your todo list, just like shopping or dentist visit. Or maybe even outsource your revenge by hiring a lawyer/PI/hitman to enact it.

>> Apple’s products at a large premium over their competitors

What premium? Right now I'm trying to decide between Dell XPS 9500 and MacBook Pro 16" and with similar spec MacBook is actually the cheaper option.

In the smartphone space top Samsung models are also priced similarily to iPhones

That's a typical fallacy: that governments are always "good guys" and never have any bad intentions. UBI will be a step towards totalitarism, that's a given.

> most countries don't do this kind of double taxation to begin with.

They would if they could, but they don't have ICBMs or aircraft carrier fleet to support their claims.

You are taxed only once: with income tax. Company is also taxed only once: with corporate profit tax. The reason why that makes sense is because corporation is treated a separate legal entity (person), and that's a good thing for you, because you are not responsible for company's mistakes (that's why they are called "limited liability companies". Publicly traded companies also have limited liability).

Also, if, as a majority shareholder you appoint yourself as the CEO and pay yourself a salary, it is tax deductible for your company, so money that goes to your salary is taxed only once.

There is no such thing as "double taxation", because tax rates are not additive, thanks to tax treaties. So, if the tax rate is 30% in US and 20% in EU and you've already paid EU tax, you only owe IRS the difference (10%) not full US rate.

Since, thanks to Trump, US tax rate is now almost equal to European, then you pay almost no additional tax for bringing your profits back to US.

The only remaining issue is additional accounting required, meaning you have to hire accountants both in EU and in States.

Try having "morals put into law" and what you end up with is Sharia law. In democracy you should avoid doing that, because people typically do not agree on what's moral.

Laws should made from purely utilitarian point of view, not the moral one. The reason why, for example, murder is illegal isn't because it's immoral, but because most people do not want to fall victim to such crime so they voted to make it illegal. Same for theft, or even such minor annoyances like fining someone for playing music too loud.

Since H is eighth character in the alphabeth some neo-nazi groups use "88" as a shorthand for "Heil Hitler" - they would even tatoo "88" on their body.

Actually, this system is counterproductive, I think. Starting production of EVs costs you money, but it also takes time, and the penalties for not meeting quotas are something you have to pay right now. So, in the end, the money you spend buying "EV credits" is the money taken away from your R&D budget on EVs.

You might argue that the company receiving money for "EV credits" would invest them in increasing the production, but that's often not the case - since they have already met their quotas and are off the hook, they are free to simply hand this money out to shareholders in form of a dividend.

If Tesla cars were really in high demand, and supply was the problem then I would expect them to raise prices, thus increasing revenue. They haven't done that, which means Tesla's are probably not as sexy cars as they try to paint them.

To know the actual mortality rate you would have to test every single person in a country. Right now is more of the cultural thing: How likely is the person experiencing flu-like symptoms to go and test for coronavirus? Seems that in Italy only seriously sick people would go and take test, that's why you have this shocking 1 in 7 rate - because most of the mild cases go undetected.

Some studies claim that immunity for SARS-CoV-2 only lasts for two weeks, which would make that "herd immunity" strategy completely foolish.

https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-immunity.html

>> Some people are hurt by women's right to abortion. Are you against abortion?

Actually, in some cases you can make the same argument against abortion as already made in this thread against euthanasia for depressed people:

since the pregnant woman is most affected by the unwanted pregnancy, and maybe feeling like her whole life is falling apart because of it, then maybe that woman in her mental state shouldn't be making decision about abortion on her own.

The sad thing is, some western countries try to penalize putting any "pressure" on her, even if the attempt to influence her decision is coming from the child's father, or woman's family members.

Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar, its first president.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_named_after_...

How do I create a mirror of Github?

To be honest, most city-raised humans wouldn't be able to survive on a distant island as well.

My experience is the opposite: in one of my previous jobs, due to some circumstances that I will skip here, I became not only grumpy but outright rude. I would literaly insult people, calling them stupid during daily Scrum meetings, never did anyone any favor before loudly complaining "can't you just do that yourself?" first, and so on, and so on.

Guess what? it actually made my life easier, took some workload off me and earned me some respect (or maybe just fear, but who cares?) among my coworkers. I think it also was a factor for me getting a significant salary raise :)