jackmaney

Don't bother sending me more spam. I've already filtered any emails from hn@ycombinator.com to be deleted upon receipt.

If you're going to ban me, just ban me.

Either corporations are people--and will therefore be taxed as such--or they're not--and thus have no rights.

Which is it?

Five months is not "now [sic] time".

Oh, and another thing:

> The only thing I would really need medical insurance for is a rare emergency procedure like an appendectomy.

If you need an appendectomy, then you do not have time to fiddle around and comparison shop for medical insurance. If an appendix needs to come out, then it needs to come out ASAP (otherwise, the appendix could burst, causing sepsis). And there's no insurance provider on the planet that will take on a new customer and cover a procedure done before the customer's policy goes into effect.

Let me guess: you also think car insurance is a sham, and that you shouldn't be required to have it. And if, heaven forfend, you get into a car accident, you can just call up State Farm (or whoever) and get them to retroactively approve a claim for the accident. Am I right?

Sorry, my eyes can only roll so much...

> Re: roads, I agree that not all roads are toll roads. The good news is that roads are relatively inexpensive to build and maintain (for example, the federal transportation budget is only 2.3% of total yearly spending, 28 billion dollars).

Wow, so you have an extra half-billion or so just sitting around? ($28 billion x 0.023 = $460 million) How fortunate for you!

Beggin' your pardon, M'Lord, but the peasantry doesn't consist of multi-millionaires. And they need to use roads to live their lives in a modern, industrialized society.

So, no, you can keep your libertarian dystopia where everyone has to build their own roads, hire their own police forces, etc. Go build your own civilization, away from ours.

And exactly how many people do you think have $1,500 laying around? (Hint: not many)

You must be fortunate not to have any preexisting conditions or to not need any medical procedures that, without insurance, can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.

> Q: What data formats does Amazon Athena support?

> Amazon Athena supports a wide variety of data formats like CSV, TSV, JSON, or Textfiles and also supports open source columnar formats such as Apache ORC and Apache Parquet. Athena also supports compressed data in Snappy, Zlib, and GZIP formats. By compressing, partitioning, and using columnar formats you can improve performance and reduce your costs.

https://aws.amazon.com/athena/faqs/

Not only do I not see a problem with this, but I don't think Twitter went anywhere near far enough. They should have suspended Trump's account well over a year ago.

> Almost all of the informational input to a Dedekind cut for a randomly chosen real couldn't be written, remembered, or specified in any way by a human being.

Well, yes. The reals are uncountable.

Uhhhh...no. Take a look at Dedekind cuts.

How does the periodicity of the sine function depend upon the infinitude of primes?

How am I supposed to show inclusiveness to someone that wants to trample on my civil rights and endanger the lives of my family?

Your President-Elect disagrees with you, and has called for the deportation of all Muslims--full stop.

That's a fair point. I wasn't thinking of contractors when I wrote my reply above. Hmmm, in that case, are there protections other than an NDA that are employed to minimize the risk of exposure of company data to a contractor's personal systems?

They take a cut from your employer. The employer pays the recruiter above and beyond what they are paying you.

No, they still took the cut directly from your pay. Sorry, but you were scammed.

Reputable recruiters charge employers, not candidates. Any so-called "recruiter" who takes their cut directly out of your salary (as opposed to charging the employer a percentage of a candidate's salary in a lump sum payment) is a con artist. Period.

Who the hell works for a company (remotely or not) and uses their own equipment? I'm not a lawyer, of course, but a developer exposing their personal system to company data could be a significant liability risk to the company.

In particular, my last employer gave everyone the option to use an app[1] for easy access to email on their personal phones. I refused to install it, since it gave my (then) employer the ability to remotely wipe my phone at the press of a button.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.good.andro...

Not to mention that knives can stab right through kevlar...

> ...in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore.

Speak for yourself.

No business has a fundamental right to exist. If you hire me for your HVAC business, and I manage to leave, build a competing business, and shut you down, then that isn't my problem. Your business never had a right to be free of competition from me. Period.

The First Amendment of the US Constitution (ie the relevant law at play here) mentions nothing about freedom of consequences from speech. And that is a good thing. The idea that such a freedom should exist is laughable.

> Because when you can deliberately kill a child, you become a superman, beyond morality. Nuclear weapons should be used just because we can, because it's amoral.

Settle down, there, Trump!

:P

Agreed. Every time I write SQL with keywords in all caps, I feel like I'm screaming at the query parser.

git config --global alias.stache stash

Complete FUD. The rest of the world is not forced to use Facebook. Neither is anyone in the US.

There is no such thing as free speech on a social network, nor should there be.

I know that this may come as a shock, but the internet wasn't built entirely for five-year-olds.

People are not "trolling" atom on performance. They are bringing up valid concerns.

Atom runs fast enough on my MBP, but I could never get the packages and plug-ins to consistently play nicely with the corporate proxies and firewalls at my current employer. So, I gave it up in favor of Visual Studio Code. The updates and plug-in installations for Code simply Just Work.