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See also: https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...

Can I buy access to the Teleport security line without taking a flight?

They accepted my spelling correction pull request. https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check/pull/3

Hiring should be on merit. Why does it matter where somebody was born?

This was the last talk at FOSDEM, there were over 1,400 people in the audience.

https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/closing_keynote/

Video should be available soon.

"Waze Carpool is available in the US (California, Texas) and Israel."

If you're interested in this topic I recommend you read Nomadland by Jessica Bruder.

It is on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/sfist.com

I think these articles about extreme commutes are interesting. I recommend you read what Mr. Money Mustache has to say on the subject.

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...

Exactly.

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A commute of over two hours is very wrong. These people should find a job within biking distance of where they live.

See http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...

American bioethicist Jacob M. Appel has argued that "treating human beings differently, simply because they were born on the opposite side of a national boundary," is inherently unethical. According to Appel, such "birthrights" are only defensible if they serve "useful and meaningful social purposes" (such as inheritance rights, which encourage mothers and fathers to work and save for their children), but the "birthright of nationality" does not do so. Economist and writer Philippe Legrain argues that the countries of the world need migration to help global trade and reduce the occurrence of regional wars.

Open borders cannot be dismissed as a utopian idea, argues Harald Bauder, because they do not propose an alternative way to organize human society but rather are a critique of closed or controlled borders.

Restrictions on mobility can only be justified if it can be shown that those restrictions prevent significant harm. Since research indicates that open borders will be better for both the natives and the migrants, and at the very least have not been shown to cause major harm, those restrictions are unjustified.

Free migration is the most effective way to reduce world poverty. Migrants from developing countries can earn higher wages after moving to a more developed country, usually lifting them from 'developing world poverty' to 'developed world poverty'. They also send remittances to relatives in their home country, the flow of remittances being estimated to be around three times the global foreign aid spending reported by the OECD.

A literature summary by economist Michael Clemens leads to an estimate that open borders would result in an increase of 67-147% in GWP (gross world product), with a median estimate of a doubling of world GDP.

From a human rights perspective, free migration may be seen to complement Article 13 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Maybe this is the answer to the impending cabin baggage laptop ban.

Carry a keyboard and screen in your hold bag, the phone with your data and applications in your pocket.

I've just added a photo from flickr to the Bob Taylor Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(computer_scient...

(One of my hobbies is contact flickr photographers and asking them if they're interested in having their pictures used on Wikipedia.)

Opposite viewpoint: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

The American author Michael Lewis has criticised the magazine's editorial anonymity, labelling it a means to hide the youth and inexperience of those writing articles. See https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot...

How does Amazon Go handle alcohol sales?

I think old news stories should have a yellow background, like old newspaper. Then it would be more obvious that the story is old.

If it were a real $20 bill, someone would have picked it off the sidewalk already.

FlightCar has ceased trading.

I've been using GitHub code search to let other Python programmers know about the % string formatter.

I search for ".2f}%'.format(100" and then send a push request to simplify the code.

See https://github.com/EdwardBetts?tab=overview&from=2016-04-19

Great example, this road is half a mile from my house. I've been wondering how self driving cars will deal with a street like this.

Thanks.

Please tell me this is satire.

Synopsis:

In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber rides in NYC from April to September 2014 and January to June 2015, we show that the number of Uber rides is significantly correlated with whether it rained. The number of Uber rides per hour is about 25 percent higher when it is raining, suggesting that surge pricing encourages an increase in supply. During the same time period, the number of taxi rides per hour increases by only 4 percent in rainy hours. We then show that the number of taxi rides per hour decreased by approximately 8 percent after Uber entered the New York market in May 2011, confirming that Uber is depressing taxi demand. Last, we test whether the total (Uber plus taxi) number of rides in rainy hours increased since May 2011. Our estimates suggest that the total number of rides increased by approximately 9 percent since Uber entered the market and that it is relatively easier to get a ride in rainy than in non-rainy hours in post-Uber years.

The Linux laptop of choice is the Lenovo ThinkPad X Series.

Why PDF? They should've published it as web pages so we could link to individual sections.

Previous:

Part 1 ikiwiki: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11943765

Part 2 etckeeper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952638

I just read about the Rule of 72 in a book titled The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk by William Bernstein.

It is a good book, I recommend it.