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If we had 20 large banks the size of GS, GS doing stupid shit and tanking wouldn't be an issue.

It was meant to represent the impossible goal of 100% success, not that I actually meant it was achievable. I don't think we can substantially reduce terrorism below current levels.

There is always going to be some group of people who are angry and violent as long as humanity hasn't achieved the Singularity imo.

> 99.8% of the children who go missing do come home.

> Only about 100 children (a fraction of 1%) are kidnapped each year in the stereotypical stranger abductions you hear about in the news.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/in-a-yea...

> In a Year, Child-Protective Services Checked Up on 3.2 Million Children

> 2.5 million of those kids were declared 'non-victims.' Another 686,000 were 'abused' or 'neglected.' And an estimated 1,640 kids died as a result.

To be fair, one of these has a much higher rate of incident than the other.

Personally, I'm more concerned with the quality and accuracy of CPS than I am about child abduction simply because a 10% improvement in CPS would save more lives than a 100% reduction in child abductions.

Then again, I feel that way about medical errors vs. terrorism and the value of spending money to save lives. A 10% reduction of medical errors would save more lies than a 100% reduction in terrorism. :/

How accidental is it really?

All the major search engines and social networks have some sort of "safe search" filter system. The porn sites submit themselves and are listed in parental blocking tools to limit Internet access.

The answer is, honestly, it isn't accidental. People have tools already to handle this situation in a variety of ways and simply choose not to exercise their free will to utilize them.

It is as "accidental" as being offended by walking into an adult toy shop.

> Whilst there are privacy concerns regarding any ID situation, nobody seems to be trying to solve the problem in other ways, short of limiting internet access (which causes other outcries).

Private, cheap solutions exist already. Why is its the government's job to force you to use them? Why don't you use them willingly?

> (For the moment, as a parent, my young daughter doesn't get any unaccompanied internet access - I am thinking of my child)

https://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/23/introducing-familyshield...

https://www.netnanny.com/features/porn-blocking/

https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php?threads/care-to-recomm...

http://pornblocker-app.com/

https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php?threads/good-porn-bloc...

Use a parent control app + family shield DNS.

I'm uncertain why you believe the government would do a better job and honestly, I'm concerned you think that would be the case given the financial incentive in this case clearly works correctly in favor of the porn blocking companies. (i.e. There is no money to be made circumventing them to show porn to people who can't buy adult products. Even the ad revenue is worthless because your advertisers can't sell them anything.)

> Edit: It's interesting to note diminishing points for a post that asks how to solve a problem. Obviously some people feel very strongly that even questioning the situation is wrong.

Honestly, if you are not willing to exercise your own free will to provide safeguards against accidents, why should the government do so?

It isn't like these people are posting public billboards at the side of the road that are impossible to avoid.

> Some have said that YC should terminate its relationship with Peter over this. But as repugnant as Trump is to many of us, we are not going to fire someone over his or her support of a political candidate. As far as we know, that would be unprecedented for supporting a major party nominee, and a dangerous path to start down (of course, if Peter said some of the things Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator).

Employment should not be based on political beliefs.

> Trump shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency, and I fear for national security if he becomes our president.

Similarly, that is a pretty clear statement that Trump isn't a conservative and I'd say that is honestly all YC needed to do.

CyanogenMod still supports the 10/2013 Nexus 4 in 2016.

It discourages the people who need to be stay-at-home grandparents for health reasons from being forced to work. ;)

That is always the dog whistle with US articles.

The people who work more are being 'rewarded' and the people who don't work as hard or want to retire are 'moochers'.

Google falls under the "absurd amount of money" camp.

> Protocol Buffers have performance implications for query processing. First, we always have to fetch entire Protocol Buffer columns from Spanner, even when we are only interested in a small subset of fields.

There are a number of performance costs documented in the paper. Simply because you can solve it via money doesn't mean it works for all situations.

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> It seems reasonable at time when "legislating" means shutting down infrastructure.

I'm curious why you complain about one and not the other? The latter is being used to take away people's access to things like voting, etc. by shutting down polling locations, changing times, etc. to reduce access to people who vote for the "wrong" party.

Yes but it wasn't because of a secret deal (and would likely never be such). SF/SV just leans more liberal and its conservatives are generally libertarians. So, natural biases were likely the only cause and why pay for what you can get for free?

I think every Democrat would agree the GOP being killed off by the Libertarians would be a good thing simply because it narrows the scope to fighting over financial/economic issues and related civil rights issues. Rather than fighting over things like abortion and having the GOP quietly use building codes and other tricks to kill abortion clinics anyway.

What scenarios were you finding you had bad performance?

I was finding I could getting comparable performance to MySQL for straight by key CRUD activity which is all I'd use a document store for (particularly once you take into account MySQL replicating to multiple nodes and the related failover setup).

> This is with about 20 minutes of looking around and just listing a few things. It looks like RethinkDB was written by web devs for web devs and I don't think that can compete in the database world. You might get the web devs onboard, but the database and HPC people at the firm will probably look at it and go "how quaint when can we get Oracle/Postgres/Informix/etc up and running?"

Have you ever tried to fully automate the failover/replication/etc for those? It is a substantial pain point that usually requires an experienced DB person with that database to do it well.

There are plenty of CRUD datasets where RethinkDB would be good enough and wouldn't require the dedicated ops people. That is the pain point I'd say RethinkDB was focused on solving.

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I'd say the real reason of the failure is more the business model end where the intersection of orgs w/o dedicated ops people AND willing to pay for support was simply too small. RethinkDB was built (imo) for small organizations that simply didn't have a dedicated ops team and it was just 5-10 developers + marketing/business.

That could just be how I feel because its the situation I'm in (less than 10 IT supporting 200+ person org and our sysadmins deal almost entirely with end user issues).

Or y'know, you just don't do them correctly and accept a substantial rate of quietly corrupted data.

There isn't really a good option unless you have absurd amounts of money compared to your transaction volume.

Please put RethinkDB under the GPL or an even more liberal license?

Pretty much your only privacy is in your head at that point.

I'm not sure that is a "threshold" of privacy but rather a "I am okay with 24/7 surveillance of all of my activity."

New Regulation -> Future Date -> Ex post facto claims don't happen.

That is the process my original comment intended to imply.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/politics/donald-trump-muslims-...

> Trump doubles down on calls for mosque surveillance

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/26167...

> Trump said Tuesday that he would be "fine" with restoring provisions of the Patriot Act to allow for the bulk data collection, something candidates such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have also called for that was banned with the passage of the USA Freedom Act, which Cruz supported.

Well I don't think I'm going to agree given the only person who made it to the GE is a guy who supports surveillance.

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-ex-cop-keeps-the-coun...

> When Talking Points Memo, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post needed data on how often police officers are charged with on-duty killings, they all turned to the same guy: Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip M. Stinson.

> Stinson, 50, has become an indispensable source for researchers and reporters looking into alleged crimes and acts of violence by police officers because he has built a database tracking thousands of incidents in which officers were arrested since 2005. His data has shown that even the few police officers who are arrested for drunken driving are rarely convicted and that arrests spike for cops who have been on the force 18 years or longer, contrary to prior research showing it was mostly new officers who were acting out.

> The whole data-collecting operation is powered by 48 Google Alerts that Stinson set up in 2005, along with individual Google Alerts for each of nearly 6,000 arrests of officers. He has set up 10 Gmail addresses to collect all the alert emails, which feed articles into a database that also contains court records and videos.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_unrest

> The Ferguson unrest (also referred to just as Ferguson) involves protests and riots that began the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014

The fact no one has done anything major about any of the other surveillance state BS is proof enough of that.

However many people will mindlessly argue that "secure borders" will magically prevent the mass migration of 100+ million people.

We are looking at pretty much everything from Florida to Brazil being rendered unfit for humans.

> What gives? Is USA gearing up the propaganda engine for another cold war?

Market manipulation, hacking US networks, and military posturing towards our allies. (e.g. Japan)

The only power that really matters is economic power and, honestly, military strength doesn't really help with that past the point you are roughly equal to everyone else.

> Most gas tanks are pretty wide and flat and fuel pumps tend to be built "vertically", so 1 gallon fuel left of 14-16 gal will not cover/cool all that much surface area of the fuel pump.

Its intended to operate safely and efficiently at a level equal to or above the fuel reserve.

If it didn't, they would fail frequently in many cars as most people drive it pretty close to E regularly and you'd have in warranty repairs.

> The good news is that the "low fuel" light comes on when there's anywhere from 1 to 2 gallons left, which is plenty to keep the pump safe.

Yeah, but you pretty much have to be under 1 gallon for it to be an issue.

Similarly, for what the OP mentioned:

> But modern fuel pumps have a protective screen or porous sock-like cover that catches any contaminants before they enter the fuel system. And those small bits that might get through would normally be caught by a second filter closer to the engine.

The location requires a filter to avoid that problem, regardless of fuel level. xD

http://kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaid-spending-pe...

That is ~$6k of benefits per person.

So lets say two adults for $26k with $12k in lost benefits is ~$14k.

The poverty line is $16k.