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feklar commented on Why the World Needs WikiLeaks   nytimes.com/2016/11/17/op... · Posted by u/danielam
skywhopper · 9 years ago
Wikileaks has released some important things, but they should be embarrassed that they thought the personal emails of Hillary's campaign staff saying sometimes silly things to each other was at all newsworthy. It was sensational, sure, but it revealed nothing important or even interesting. Anyone who spends a moment considering the question would expect campaign operatives to gripe about their opponents in over the top terms, to use unthoughtful language and spitball dumb ideas to their boss. Turns out the Clinton campaign did these things. The DNC emails showing that they preferred a solid Member of the Democratic Party win the nomination over someone who has not spent decades supporting the party should surprise and upset no one. And without the context of seeing Trump's campaign staff's emails or the RNC's emails in a similar perspective, the release of so much pointless but unflattering material related to Hillary and the Democrats does a major disservice to the public.
feklar · 9 years ago
There was plenty of relevant info in those leaks, such as Obama's 2008 cabinet being chosen by a Citibank executive

https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-r...

feklar commented on Icahn Left Trump Victory Party to Bet $1B on Stocks   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
feklar · 9 years ago
My Filipino friends also all ran to the exchange today to stock up on low PHP since Trump presidency means no pressure on Duterte and rise of their peso.
feklar commented on Shame on Y Combinator   marco.org/2016/10/17/sham... · Posted by u/MattBearman
hueving · 9 years ago
>They compare Donald Trump with a fascist dictator.

A bit childish, considering the slot the candidate is running for is not in a dictatorship. If you think Trump could convert the US to a dictatorship, I would like to see the evidence supporting this.

feklar · 9 years ago
Also odd considering Trump spent the entire nomination campaign shilling his deal making abilities, and how he would lead by consensus instead of executive orders.

I don't see how YC denying Peter Thiel is anything more than political theatre it has no bearing on whether Trump will win or not.

All these distractions when the US has two states CT and IL in near bankruptcy due to pensions being 200%+ over state revenues, and a frightening national debt meaning Feds will likely not be able to bail them out. Wish everybody could panic over that not Thiel being involved with YC.

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feklar commented on PayPal? No way   minifree.org/paypal/... · Posted by u/type0
ctpide · 9 years ago
To be fair - the main reference was inside the EU. And fees for international transfers inside the EU have been subject to regulations are are now generally close to zero. Different story for outside EU, though - absolutely agree!
feklar · 9 years ago
As soon as you start getting x > Sepa transfers banks will drop you quickly, or sooner if anything goes wrong like a fraud xfer comes in, and you aren't a huge account worth the bank's trouble.
feklar commented on Wealthy San Francisco tech investors bankroll bid to ban homeless camps   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/hobolobo
kldaace · 9 years ago
Two big problems with just moving people into shelters:

1. Homeless shelters are horribly funded and have long waiting lists for beds. This proposal provides no additional funding. My guess is most people will be forced to take the bus ticket option.

2. Shelter beds themselves are poorly maintained, unsanitary, and often have bed bugs. It sounds counter-intuitive but a lot of homeless people are _choosing_ the streets over homeless shelters.

To be honest, I think the people bankrolling this bid know that moving people into shelters is unfeasible, and they're cynically hoping to just bus the homeless out of San Francisco.

feklar · 9 years ago
Many shelters also have rules that nobody can adhere to like curfew hours or being forced to stand in line everyday to get a spot first come first served. Often you can't book more than one night at a time so you have to spend a significant part of your day, everyday, securing your temporary bed and storage for that night so if you have a job you can't stay at a shelter.

It's much better to just live out of a tent. Problem is people in squatter tents tend to get ridiculously drunk every night, light their tent on fire accidentally or spend all night screaming and fighting with each other thus police get called and their tent city dismantled.

The Salvation Army from what I've seen has the best system going. You can book 3 months, and they help you with employment. You get your own room and there's not a lot of rules besides no alcohol or drugs allowed in the building. This is where most of the homeless go who fell through the social safety net for whatever reasons, and they can save 3 months of income to get back on their feet whereas the addicts, chronic homeless by choice, and mentally ill are the ones in tent cities.

feklar commented on Ask HN: What makes OCaml so desired for writing compilers?    · Posted by u/hellofunk
feklar · 9 years ago
For all these reasons: http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html

Many school courses use ML/OCaml as well in their classes and as you do the course they explain why OCaml/ML is best suited for what's going on https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15411-f13/schedule.html

feklar commented on Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks   turkeyblocks.org/2016/10/... · Posted by u/purak
80801 · 9 years ago
It seems like the turkish government is trying to create jobs here. Building a "nationalised turkish twitter alternative"? The way things are right now, they need a nationalized turkish github service first.
feklar · 9 years ago
This is what I first think of when a government makes up excuses to block a foreign service, they are just trying to promote their own local services like Baidu/Sina Weibo in China.
feklar commented on Accelerating Innovation with Leadership   gatesnotes.com/About-Bill... · Posted by u/cryptozeus
bobsgame · 9 years ago
I would like to hear a rational discussion that compares how each candidate stands on these issues. I'm not very political and I don't have a good grasp on who has said what.
feklar · 9 years ago
They each have websites with their platform up in full. Most discussion you will find will be each side spinning the other side's platform or outright lying about it. Just read it yourself and decide
feklar commented on Panama: The Hidden Trillions   nybooks.com/articles/2016... · Posted by u/jonathansizz
throwaway1974 · 9 years ago
Maybe Obama should consider a tax amnesty? Get money in from outside the US at a low tax rate (something is better than nothing right) and get it circulating in the US creating jobs and funding startups/ideas

Just today we had news about one in Indonesia http://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-tax-idUSKCN1200R...

feklar · 9 years ago
An amnesty for cash repatriation is what Trump is currently shilling as part of his job creation platform since corps like Apple have billions overseas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/tim-cook-... and are pressured by shareholders to not return it to the US where it will be taxed. Tim Cook will have to pay out 70 billion lump sum to the feds on that overseas pile of money.

Obama was also working on an amnesty for years and it never happened for whatever reasons. Of course this would work once then build up again overseas as they would just wait for another amnesty as explained by other posters.

u/feklar

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