Maybe they didn't know there is a difference? I'm from Europe and I didn't. You register to be able to vote? Why isn't every citizen automatically allowed to vote?
This is how it works in France. You have to let the local authority know you intend to vote and they'll put you on the "electoral list" and tell you where it is you have to go vote. It's usually a school or similar not far from your residence. You can't just randomly show up to a voting place.
You can either go to your local town hall or do it over the internet (tick a few boxes, attach a proof of citizenship and residency in the town / district (for Paris) and they'll send you a confirmation).
Every citizen is automatically allowed to vote. Registering basically tells your local county that ‘I live and vote here’ so they’ll send you ballot information and have your name on the correct checklist at your polling place.
Canada is kind of in a middle ground. You need to register to vote, but when you file your taxes there's a checkbox for "Allow Revenue Canada to share your information with Elections Canada" which basically auto-registers you when you file.
>You register to be able to vote? Why isn't every citizen automatically allowed to vote?
Voting isn't a Constitutionally guaranteed right in the US, it's a privilege. Although the Supreme Court and various Constitutional Amendments greatly restrict the power of states to disenfranchise their citizens, states do have that power (for instance convicted felons often lose the right to vote.)
Also, voter registration laws have traditionally been an effective way of suppressing African American and immigrant voters[0] (who tend to vote Democrat) so red states tend to vigorously support such laws.
> Also, voter registration laws have traditionally been an effective way of suppressing African American and immigrant voters[0] (who tend to vote Democrat) so red states tend to vigorously support such laws.
I've yet to see a single source that can show any significant effect of "voter suppression". One guy in 1836 doesn't count. If you truly think that minorities in America can't figure out how to register, than I would suggest that you check your patronizingly racist view of minorities.
The argument about linking Republican registration policies to Jim Crow etc. is worthless, because those were all Democratic laws that were opposed by Republicans. Stop blaming Republicans for the Democratic Party's legacy of populist racial identity politics.
IKEA, SAP, Beretta, Airbus, Spotify, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, Booking.com just from the top of my head of things that are proof of European innovation and tech sector.
> As for innovation? US isn't even top 10 when it comes to Nobel prize per capita
Your per capita list is an epic compliment to the US.
The fact that the US is #15 per capita is extraordinary, given your list is comparing the US to top ten countries like East Timor, Saint Lucia, Luxembourg and Iceland, where if you get one or two you leap ahead of the entire world.
Among large population nations, only the UK and Germany rank higher, with Germany only slightly ahead. The UK for their part are far beyond everyone else on any reasonable comparison scale.
The US has five times the population of France and exceeds them on Nobels per capita. That is an amazing performance by the US.
The fact that the US is so massive and still ranks ahead of: the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Italy, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc. - is similarly staggering.
The US has over three times the rate of Italy, nearly double the rate of Canada, and over five times the rate of Japan.
The US per capita rate is 46% higher than the EU.
I'm going to drop Saint Lucia, East Timor, Iceland and Luxembourg from the comparison list because it's beyond silly, they all have one Nobel and micro populations. On a more rational list, the US is #11, with an 11.7 rate per 10m people. A nearby comparison is Ireland with a 14.5 rate; Ireland has seven total, the US has 383 and roughly 70 times the population. Like I said, it's an epic compliment for the US to be so highly ranked on a list dominated by small populations. The US is the sole country over 100 million population until you get down to #35 Japan at a 2.2 rate; except for the UK, the top 10 is all under 10 million population.
> extraordinary, given your list is comparing the US to top ten countries like East Timor, Saint Lucia, Luxembourg and Iceland
Compare that with the resources available and it will look much less extraordinary
It is extraordinary that countries with much less resources, much less competition and orders of magnitude smaller pool of talents to chose from (4 orders of magnitude in the case of Iceland, East Timor and Luxembourg), can rival the richest and most powerful country in the World in modern history
But let's look at the US noble prize winners
19 born in Germany
12 born in Canada
11 born in United Kingdom
7 born in Italy
7 born in Russia
6 born in China
6 born in Austria
4 born in India
4 born in Hungary
3 born in South Africa
3 born in France
2 born in Poland
2 born in Netherlands
2 born in Romania
2 born in Japan
2 born in Israel
1 born in Venezuela
1 born in Turkey
1 born in Taiwan
1 born in Switzerland
1 born in Spain
1 born in Norway
1 born in New Zealand
1 born in Mexico
1 born in Korea
1 born in Ireland
1 born in Egypt
1 born in Australia
for a grand total of 103 Nobel prizes won by foreigners
- as Mark Kastner said "these prizes are a lagging indicator. They show us what we were doing right decades ago"
- Much of the research that lead Joachim Frank, a German born chemist, to win the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2017 took place in Europe and it was based on base research that took place outside of the US.
The trio who was appointed was formed by Jacques Dubochet from Switzerland, Richard Henderson from Scotland and Frank from Germany.
Frank was affiliated with US institutions when he was nominated, hence the prize has been claimed by US.
They are basically buying Nobel prize winners post facto.
> Unicorns are concentrated in a few countries/regions: United States (136), China (120), India (26), UK (15), South Korea (11), Israel (7), Indonesia (6), Singapore (4), Switzerland (4), Hong Kong (4), France (3), Portugal (3), Sweden (3), Australia (2), Belgium (2), Canada (2), Germany (2), Luxembourg (2), Spain (2), Ukraine (2) and ten other countries (1 each)
Israel has more than 3x more unicorns than we in Germany that tells one thing or two...
Using unicorns as a proxy for innovation is maybe not a great idea, because it's just looking at a few outliers of heavily concentrated capital. It doesn't tell you anything about the majority of companies that are not unicorns and will never be, but that might nonetheless be highly innovative and profitable.
For example, if you look at foreign direct investment, the Netherlands lead the pack in 2017 with $4.888 trillion invested by residents of other countries. [1] Yet apparently there's only one Dutch unicorn (team.blue). Evidently there's a lot of investment going to other companies instead of betting on a single unicorn.
Interestingly, those tables show the EU, as a whole, being several places behind the US per capita, both overall and in terms of science Nobels specifically. Kind of negates your point.
Per capita statistics are heavily biased towards smaller countries. There are not enough Nobel prize a in history for any large country to have as many Nobel prize as the Faroe islands does.
GDPR is the perfect example for OPs point. The whole thing is just stupid, protects nobody and thought millions of people to just click on Okay on any modal they are presented with.
There is a lot more to GDPR than cookie warnings. It ensures among other things that random companies won't get access to your data because of a purchase you made or a toll bridge you've crossed.
I go to the US every 2 or 3 years for a few days, and that's enough to end up on a bunch of American marketing lists. GDPR is here to prevent things like that.
It also prevents companies from holding my data hostage, and gives me a way to delete it.
There are other privacy-related laws that prevent companies from publishing a mugshot of me and extorting money from me to remove it.
No self-regulation doesn't work, mostly because people do not really care and do not incentivize companies for good behavior.
But the current legislation is spotty as best and doesn't really help, Google and Facebook are still collecting tons of data while SMBs will be the guys who get sued for not complying 100%.
IPV6 commonly does that. Your next hop is installed as a link-local fe80-entry which is derived from the mac address. Not exactly what you're after, but removes the IP numbering need.
That's not the "cattle vs. pet" as I understand it. The servers are identical, i.e. cattle. This is just a case of sticky sessions. It's a common pattern to help latency and keep resource usage down.
Yes, but the programmer knows what they added, and I was asking why they wanted to build again if all they added was a comment? If this was in a CI context then 10 seconds seems unimportant; compile times of 10 seconds are usually only complained about in the context of programmers who've gotten used to tiny edit-compile-test cycles.
The question was posed, "What bad does someone expect to happen as a result of this[?]". So I'm putting on my least-charitable-to-Google hat. I'm not trying to make the most accurate predictions.
> They specifically claim not to though
That additional vector for monetization still exists. I stand by the statement that the ability to make those ad-relevant associations enriches Google. They are not necessarily monetizing that part of their empire right now, but they've pivoted other products in the past from "we're just trying to improve the Internet for it's own sake" to "we use this for advertising".
Privacy policies change all the time, often with little warning. There'll be a post here on HN if it happens and a bunch more techie folks will switch their DNS to 1.1.1.1 or something, but lots of people will just stick with 8.8.8.8, many of them unknowingly. Perhaps unknowingly because the Google address has become so common that FOSS projects are using it as a default.
Yeah, but I got this uneasy feeling about relying too much on google services. Their policy can change in the future, and when it do change, we will scramble trying migrate to something else, only to find that the competitions in the space has been killed. Think about Reader, when they shut it down, there were no good alternatives for users to migrate to. Also google maps api, when they suddenly jack up the price and there were nothing the users could migrate to.
