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The concept behind corporations as "people" is that people don't lose rights just because they are engaging in their right of free association.
The corporate entity only "has rights" because it is a collection of people, and those people have rights.
Ecosystems aren't collections of people.
at best it leads to a big useless unanalyzed database
For me, rigorously tracking my caloric intake by weighting nearly everything I've eaten with a food scale and recording it in the Cronometer smart phone app has led to a 100 pound weight loss over the last year, and normalizing my blood pressure & triglycerides.
But, you know, at best ... just a useless database. Good grief.
'Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”' - SCOTUS opinion for Matal v Tam, June 2017
0.001% of 365 days = 5.26 minutes (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.001%25+of+365+days)
If you use VMware Player (and/or presumably Workstation) in "Unity" mode, you can alt-left drag to move and resize the virtualized-Windows-windows. Sometimes it gets a little wonky, but it works great 95% of the time.
+1 for Virtual Desktops and key mappings for each.
I do 3x3, mapped to <ctr>+<alt>+[1-9] on the keypad.
Would you be saying the same about "it's OK for companies like Google to have the courage to have an opinion" if Google was taking the opposite stand?
I'd prefer mega corporations staying out of social issues. Produce social value by making great products, not political advocacy.
I wondered the same thing. "No, you can't mix data types, that's stupid" leaves it ambiguous.
If you parse the outer array as just "array of arrays" (as each element is an array), you're not "mixing". But if we're supposed to be parsing it as "arrays of arrays of _type_", then we are mixing.
... or the kid's parents believe in creation but don't fit some ignoramus stereotype, and the kid comes to believe that the creation reveals the glory of a Creator (eg. Psalm 19), and accordingly this fosters curiosity about the way things work, and the kid becomes a scientist.
For a probably-different point of view on this -
I'm a person of faith, who takes his faith seriously, and who's faith teaches that homosexual conduct is immoral. I think this puts me in a distinct minority among the HN community, but in a possible-majority among the American population (with the mainstream orthodoxy of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all teaching the same; and ~80+% of the U.S. self identifying as holding one of these faiths).
Given my faith, advocacy like this from Google, Apple, and other prominent tech companies really put me in a bind.
Their products have become such fixtures in my day to day life that I'm not sure how to get by without them, but by using their products and providing these companies with revenue, I feel like I'm contributing to a fund for someone to publicly proclaim: "You're faith is a sham; your God irrelevant; and, by the way, we think you are a vile, hateful, homophobic bigot".
I wish Apple, Google, etc. would all just focus on making insanely great products and not jump into the fray of divisive-by-definition social issues.
And, no, I'm not a "homophobe" or "bigot". I have friends who are gay; I don't hate them. I just think they engage in behavior that's immoral, just like others of my friends who sleep with each other outside of marriage, etc. I recognize my faith condemns such behavior - but I'd equally condemn anyone who insults, harasses, or otherwise harms someone just because that someone is gay.
At the risk of troll feeding, it's inaccurate to say state recognized incestual relationships and state recognized gay relationships are "completely separate issues."
At the heart of the moment for the later is an effort to change what the purpose of marriage is (or, perhaps, recognize a change that has already happened).
Specifically, the move to support gay marriage requires changing the idea of marriage being a relationship primarily concerned with natural procreation into one centered on the expression of romantic "love". You'll note, for instance, that Google is calling its campaign "Legalize Love".
The reason the state has opposed incest is that inbreeding leads to a much higher rate of birth defects.
But if marriage is shifted in focus from being primarily about creating an ideal situation for natural procreation to one based on "love", who is the state to say that two direct relatives are or aren't in "love" with one another?
Counter-point.
Public (gov't) spending "counts" in GDP, not because it's "expansionary", but because it's an expenditure on final goods and services. Even if government spending was contractionary, it would count towards GDP. That's just how GDP works.
Likewise, there are reasonable arguments that government spending is/can-be contractionary. (I won't try to show that such spending _is_ contractionary, just that it may be).
All that needs to happen for it to be contractionary is for each dollar of government spending to reduce (crowd out) private spending and/or investment by more than a dollar. Harvard economist Robert J. Barro has been arguing this is the case.
FWIW, I think the true Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (see other comments on this page) is a much better reference.
Hrm; I read that as "Oh ho - so the TSA strategy comes to light, _molestation_ plans are implemented"
Not how I remember it ... Dodd was intimately involved with the government's actions that contributed to the Housing Crisis and was the top recipient of campaign contributions from Freddie & Fannie.
All of which had the makings for a very difficult election battle in 2010, when Dodd recognized as he opted out of running for re-election in 2010.
FWIW, this page does not render at all on my Galaxy Nexus. Comes up as a black box in a grey box in the corner of the screen.
Does it look OK on other mobile browsers? Seems like mobile browser support would be important for this "template"?
Mentioned at the end of the article: http://sopastrike.com/
It's been supported in Ubuntu since at least 10.10, which isn't ancient, but I'm not sure it counts as a "very recent version".
Inaccurate. Romney opposes SOPA (http://merrimack.patch.com/articles/video-mitt-romney-slams-...). Others may too.
Particularly if you find Eastman's life and accomplishments interesting, I second the article's suggestion that if you're ever in Rochester, NY you should stop by the George Eastman House.
Works fine (I presume slower than on a desktop; but certainly doesn't crash!) on my Galaxy Nexus.
Done: "In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB ≈ 1.074GB"
I'm late to the discussion, but want to add a few things.
First, is there really a large group of people who think that teachers a.) are whom to blame for the state of American education; and b.) are paid too much? The only time I hear about people making such arguments is in op-eds like this one that try to refute them. I think such op-eds are battling straw men.
That said:
1. If you look at total compensation broken down by per-hour-worked (which I think is a fair metric), teachers are paid within the norms for their level of education, etc. There is a reasonable write up on this here: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/hate-the-deception-not-the-te...
2. I think a growing number of people are outraged at Teachers Unions, and Teachers Unions try to associate themselves back to just being "teachers". It's a dirty trick. People don't want employment contracts dictating how their kids are taught. They want teachers to be able to work longer hours if they're inclined to, try creative strategies, etc. They want to attract and keep the best teachers by paying them more than less effective teachers. Many (most?) union contracts dictate terms that disallow this kind of stuff. People are upset at the obstacles the union is putting up, not with the teachers that often are forced to have to join that union.
3. I am upset that we, as a country, continue to spend more and more per-pupil on education and have stagnant-at-best results. Something like only 40 cents per dollar spent on education actually make it into the classroom ("citation needed", I know). I'd like to see education spending done more effectively. If this means moving dollars spent on bureaucratic waste into higher teacher salaries, I'd welcome that change.
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What Services does Pageforest Provide? <snip> Cloud-based Document Storage - Each Pageforest user is given storage for their own document collection in the Cloud. When a user authorizes your application, your App can create and store documents to the user's collection.
What a nonsense article. I expect better from HN, frankly.
It's not as though the wealthy aren't paying their fair share. Breaking down the amount of total federal income taxes by income bracket:
The bottom 40% of tax payers paid less than 5%. The next 40% paid about 25%. The next 9% paid about another 30%. And the top 1% paid the remaining 40%.
Furthermore, returning to 90% tax rates for top earners is going to do a lot more harm to the economy by taking away the wealthy's incentives to work and invest than supposed (and I think dubious) speculation-driven-price-increases.
I stopped reading the article when I hit "Given that Japan's current account surplus (the widest and most meaningful measure of its trade) ...".
A positive current account balance is pretty useless figure for the robustness of a country's trade. A country could have extremely robust foreign trade and have a zero or negative current account balance.
The US, for instance, during our economic boom times often (always?) had a negative current account balance.
And if I were analyzing the Japanese economy, the giant current account surplus would give me pause because it begs the questions:
a.) Why are the Japanese not importing more? b.) Why aren't foreign companies making more capital investments in Japan?
Each of which contribute as much to the enormity of the capital account surplus as their healthy amount of exports.
Aside (but from the article): Were "Java applets" ever actually the "'big thing' on the Internet"? I've been interwebbing since '93 and I can remember Java applets every being prevalent.
Nor did I, and I'm never crazy about political stuff making it's way to HN. :(
Perhaps for access to the large and mature standard Java class library or access to other libraries written for Java?
"Thoughtful, intelligent conservatism".
Please remove you head from the sand.
I'll put up Thomas Sowell, Charles Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg, and George Will up against whoever you want from the Left any day.
Furthermore, I submit that I think the Left often makes the error of mistaking the Right's distaste for having the "intellectual elites" run their lives for a distaste in intelligence informing their lives.