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alistproducer2on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016

Why would you. Everyone is so in the money already, who cares if you get a 10% down day when you're up 100% yoy? Put another way, everyone is playing with the houses money so why not risk it?

alistproducer2on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016

For context, the survey covers 2015-16. The gains are from the last administration.

alistproducer2on Ask HN: Is CoinBase Support Totally MIA?

Yep. they took $400 from me and I couldn't get any help. I blocked them from withdrawing my bank account and closed the account.

alistproducer2on Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate

Anyone with half a brain knows that these purges are designed to advantage a side not protect the system. I read an article the other day that stated that some America's voting system had essentially been compromised on many levels. It made me think about why so many of our polls have, in the last few years, been so off the mark. Now I'm beginning to think it's not because the polling models suddenly don't work. It is quite possibly something more nefarious than that.

alistproducer2on Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016

>"Today's CO2 concentration of around 400 ppm exceeds the natural variability seen over hundreds of thousands of years,"[0]

That's the part that opens and shut's the "debate" surrounding human-cause climate change. When you have that much data, combined with the fact that we build and use machines that spew carbon there can not be any other explanation for the Co2 levels. Case closed.

[0]: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/carbon-dioxide-co2-...

alistproducer2on How the Kodi Box Took Over Piracy

I would totally support micro-payments to content producers as opposed to the status quo. Until then.....Kodi all day baby! Cut the cord and never going back!

I, however, didn't buy one pre-packaged. I did it the "hard" way and installed it on a Rpi3. If only I could play netflix on it, it would be perfect.

alistproducer2on Ask HN: Would people prefer HN articles to open in a new tab? (target=“_blank”)?

I like being able to chose so no.

alistproducer2on Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

https://sendnda.online

e signature site built using WordPress. Uses stripe for payments. Built using mostly plugins. Tried to minimize customization for ease of maintenance.

alistproducer2on Buy a Sofa Online? Wayfair Is Counting on It

Who are these people buying sofas, mattresses, pillows etc online? Bedframes, end tables, storage? Sure. Amazon knows what's up and realizes it has to have some form of brick-and-mortar to sell goods that [normal] humans will never be comfortable buying sight unseen.

alistproducer2on Opaque and sky high bills are breaking Americans, and our health care system

The "free market" is just a terrible solution to providing health care. There are some cases where it can work, but as a general solution it doesn't. Roads are the same way. Does a private, market solution (toll roads) work sometimes? Sure. Could we build our entire network of roads using tolls. Of course not.

In a way this is a bit of a cop out because no one can/will up end the entire system.One thought experiment I like to run is what happens to prices if we use to government to subsidize supply of services? Provide free schooling and other government benefits for people willing to train to become medical workers. Take the rural dentist crisis. IMO the government should be training people who live in those communities to become dentists for free.

We have limited examples in places like Cuba. I'm not saying that full on socialism is a magic bullet, but I think smartly applied it works better for markets like healthcare.

alistproducer2on GM exec calls Elon Musk claim of Level 5 driving without lidar 'not possible'

With the current state of computer vision and AI, I would agree with GM. There's a lot of fast and loose talk about what AI can and can't do, but the reality is we're not even close to having general intelligence which would, at least in a rudimentary form, be necessary to safely navigate a car using only optical recognition.

alistproducer2on Fraud Scandals Sap China’s Dream of Becoming a Science Superpower

My propaganda alarm is going off pretty loudly with this article.

alistproducer2on We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made

Rick was not managed - at all. Rick became a monster because no one at the management layer was doing their job. If you're letting coders write custom tools instead of procuring where possible, that's management's fault. The list of mismanagement goes on and on. Sure Rick was a douchebag. Anyone who has spent any time in a cs program has met a potential Rick. The fact that you fostered one while he almost blew up your project is your failure, not his.

Edit: also if 90% of his code was able to be thrown out, then I don't think Rick was ever the super star that you or he thought he was.

alistproducer2on Ask HN: Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UIs 90% Automated?

Humanity has ever been known for homogeneity. Different people think differently about how to solve problems.

alistproducer2on Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms

Thanks for sharing that. I think using one's job to identify potential markets is a great idea.

alistproducer2on Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms

To the OP: Can I ask what your process was? A project like this obviously takes a lot of time. How certain were you that you had a product people wanted before embarking on the dev?

alistproducer2on Britain announces 15 years in prison for reading banned literature

I'm amazed at how totalitarian the u.k is and, more surprising, how the population provides such little resistance.

alistproducer2on Sell HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Sendnda.online - e signature site built using WordPress. Uses stripe for payments. Built using mostly plugins. Tried to minimize customization for ease of maintenance. Looking for $1500. Contact me Alistproducer2 at Gmail

alistproducer2on PlainJS – Vanilla JavaScript Repository

I went to the site and I'm a little unclear of what its purpose is. Is it supposed to be a way to learn vanilla JS?

alistproducer2on A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy

Why is this article on the front page? This is just troll bait.

alistproducer2on Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?

If you come away with several millions, you could live comfortably just off the interest on a 30 year note. Take the money and start another company with the interest. Don't be greedy. You could easily end up with nothing.

alistproducer2on Ask HN: C# DocGen like Javadoc?

This was the solution I went with. As you mentioned, It is incredibly slow.

alistproducer2on Ask HN: Is it possible to be an amateur freelancer programmer?

Not really. I got freelance jobs when I was at about your level.

alistproducer2on Show HN: A library to record and intercept JavaScript at runtime

The link is completely different than it was when I commented. That doesn't mean the criticism of my comment are invalid, but this is pretty weird.

alistproducer2on Show HN: A library to record and intercept JavaScript at runtime

"Polymorphism" is being used incorrectly here. Please see here [0] for a good explanation.

[0]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/polymorph...

alistproducer2on The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006)

Wow. And I thought things were bad at my fortune 5. That is insane. You should seriously write a blog (or maybe a book?) about that.

alistproducer2on Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years

CP is a wedge tool for politicians. Want to get around the Constitution while having public opinion on your side? Use a pedophile. I don't have a problem sending people to jail who produce the stuff, but the idea that I could put images in someone's computer, call the cops, and get them put away didn't sit right with me.

This case in particular is troublesome. There are lots of bogus claims by the prosecution like being able to confirm the CP via hashes despite the content being encrypted. If they truly had a strong case against this guy, they'd go to trial.

alistproducer2on Consistent Selenium Testing in Python

I've been working with selenium a lot at work recently. There are lots of little nuances to grok if you want your tests to run completely deterministic: especially on a JavaScript-heavy site.

alistproducer2on ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field

I'm in my second year of not watching/supporting the NFL for just this reason. Add the that the treatment of Colin Kaepernick and I'm not sure I'll look back. I'd be lying if I said I won't watch the super bowl, but my days of watching endless hours and going to games are likely over unless and until they make the players take off that ridiculous armor.

alistproducer2on Ask HN: Hiding Bitcoin/blockchain related news from HN?

I wrote a chrome extension for just such a thing.

https://github.com/ShamariFeaster/chrome-extension-hn-filter