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NASA?
And many people choose to be born into poverty with never a chance to succeed.
Re:Tell Me It’s Going to be OK on Saturday September 29, 2018 @09:26AM (#18100182)
> The question is, do you think US Government on all levels is efficient enough to be trusted with even more jobs/resources to manage? And if it's not, what the people of us should actually do to make it happen?

Instead we're ruled by large, monopolistic corporations that have so much power they can avoid paying taxes, pay off almost any politician and basically set any policy that they want. I'll never understand why people are fine with our current system.

I think your comment is basically neoliberlism in a nutshell. Let the market decide, right?

Re:Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:09PM (#16750995)
But there ARE actions taken to prevent accidents. Anti-texting campaigns, DUI enforcement, street planning efforts, safer cars, signage and reflective material on roads. These things have undoubtedly saved some lives.

But when it comes to guns we just throw up ours hands and say whaddya gonna do.

Re:Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers? on Sunday December 03, 2017 @11:28AM (#15838224)
Right, so then the austerity kicks in. On some level the GOP knows this.
Re:Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers? on Saturday December 02, 2017 @11:07PM (#15835915)
Aligns well with the GOP goal of taking us back to fuedalism
Re:Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers? on Saturday December 02, 2017 @11:05PM (#15835912)
Maybe it's time for us to all start companies that cater to the rich. Get the crumbs wherever we can. /s
Re:Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers? on Saturday December 02, 2017 @11:02PM (#15835892)
Re:Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers? on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:57PM (#15835880)
And it's a race to the bottom. If you aren't rich, eat shit.

For those that complain that high tax rates are holding CA and NY back - how do you explain all of the growth and innovation from these states for decades?

Re:Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Cut plan impact Engineers? on Saturday December 02, 2017 @10:53PM (#15835864)
Boomers may feel some pain though when Medicare and social security are cut next. All signs point to the GOP suddenly crying about the deficit now.
Re:The great thaw of America’s north is coming on Monday October 16, 2017 @11:27PM (#15488443)
Because somehow it always comes back to this
net/http and Gorilla Mux
Re:US Announces Withdrawal from TPP on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:54AM (#13454332)
Well I'm pretty sure that they are against it for different reasons. Government surveillance is something that a paranoid, insecure person like Trump is going to love.
Re:US Announces Withdrawal from TPP on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:51AM (#13454324)
Are you sure that Trump sees any problem at all with the government spying portion of TPP?
Re:US Announces Withdrawal from TPP on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:48AM (#13454310)
To me secrecy sort of makes sense because it's a negotiation.

You don't want to show your cards in a negotiation, right? So how could the President and Congress say to the American people "this is what we're going to offer and accept from China" and pretend that the Chinese aren't going to hear it too?

Secrecy is often a horrible idea but this is a really complicated issue.

Re:Ask HN: Do you believe the Russia hacking story? on Sunday January 08, 2017 @05:03PM (#13352318)
Absolutely this. If he were transparent about his financial dealings we would know how much Russia really means to him.

My guess is Putin has compromised Trump and Trump as POTUS benefits Russia greatly.

While I agree with you and I tend to stay as lean as possible, it always perplexes me why people want a Django/RoR/Phoenix in Go.

These other frameworks are mature and battle tested enough in agreeable enough programming languages, why attempt to reinvent them in Go?

Go's strength and afaik original purpose for Google was for creating smaller services, not a web app monolith.

The answer is to rework city zoning laws to allow for more vertical building and less car parking requirements, but $$$, nimbyism and "I was here first" thinking gets in the way. Way more people want to live in cities than can afford it and it's a shame that cities aren't thinking about this enough.

It's a people problem, not a technology one - the elevator was already invented.

"The Rent Is Too Damn High" is a good, short book on this.

Re:Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016? on Sunday January 01, 2017 @11:11PM (#13298986)
This looks great, thanks. I look forward to the future books that talk about technology from a geopolitical pov.
Re:Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016? on Sunday January 01, 2017 @11:09PM (#13298980)
Seconded
Re:Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016? on Sunday January 01, 2017 @11:07PM (#13298970)
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Incredibly well written, touching and also an insider look at a period of American music that I'm really interested in.

Re:John McAfee on Russian Hack of DNC on Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:07PM (#13291879)
Because they are Republican-dominated and their guy won
Re:Trump Names Elon Musk, Uber CEO to Advisory Team – TheHill on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @12:16PM (#13177626)
Especially since he has time to meet with Kanye West
I deleted my FB account years ago and haven't regretted it.

Its true though that I have less (fake) friends now.

Re:Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:58PM (#12916214)
But emails though
Re:Taking PHP Seriously on Saturday October 22, 2016 @06:47AM (#12768189)
They don't until things break, your app can't handle the amount of requests coming in, can't insert and fetch data in a reasonable amount of time, etc.

It's at this point that shit falls apart and the manager starts to care about these technical choices and all of the time and money that will be needed to be spent to rewrite.

Call it maintenance costs if you want but those costs are directly affected by the technology decisions you make.

Re:Taking PHP Seriously on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:33AM (#12706155)
This. Developer happiness matters.

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