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by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-03 14:47:10+00:00
I still don't love it. DRM is DRM and I've watched enough heroes fall from grace to know it's onto a matter of when they yank your chain, not if. I will avoid to the best of my ability any attempts to retract back products I purchased myself.

That's why I wanted to stick to consoles and a physical medium. But even those have devolved into what's basically a digital download, now with the disk (or cartridge now, with Switch 2) being the DRM. The Onion couldn't write a more ironic headline.

Now I'm wondering if all that "virtual sharing" stuff for switch 2 cartridges means difficulties with the used market.

>In my opinion he deserves 30%.

Even Gabe doesn't agree, given the cut he gives to AAA publishers. I'm not exactly onboard with the idea that the richest people get the best tax breaks, even in video game world.

A progressive platform cut would be much friendlier to smaller devs and put the biggest burdens on the ones likely using the most amount of bandwidth. That's how the game engines have started to leverage their tooling. And they put a lot more work in than a hosting platform
by moolcool | 2025-04-03 14:47:23+00:00
> Partly because women's rights have become so politicised.

That's a hand-wavy way of saying that a core pillar of one of your parties is to take away the rights of an entire gender.

Imagine describing 1940s Germany and saying "Ethnicity has become so politicized these days. I'm just interested in nationalizing the auto industry"
by MaxHoppersGhost | 2025-04-03 14:47:50+00:00
LLMs are basically just good at sourcing ideas from the internet. Me thinks this just means that this tariff idea exists on the internet, especially since grok, chatgpt, etc all come up with the same idea. We used to not have income taxes and funded the govt with tariffs so this probably isn't a new concept despite media outlets pretending like it is.
by dogleash | 2025-04-03 14:48:08+00:00
>or is people's ambivalence towards elite universities 100% irrational?

am·biv·a·lence /amˈbiv(ə)ləns/ noun the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

Ambivalence seems like a rational take on post-secondary education in the US. I'd say an unwavering opinion (positive or negative) would be irrational. It's such a complex beast that serves so many roles and touches so many lives.

>A lot of Americans support these attacks on universities. Why do people harbour this much animosity towards these institutions?

There are a lot of very real things that are rotten in academia if you exclude the social politics center to this article.

So when people see they're loosing federal funding... yeah, some will think along the lines of "eh, whatever, fuck 'em, maybe they'll figure out how to clean their own house." Especially if the university is also known for both sitting on a large endowment and for prioritizing self-serving administrators over doing academics.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-03 14:48:15+00:00
> You have a price to pay for "not being allowed to do mistakes": Explorative work becomes quite difficult

This is a huge deal for me.

At the beginning of most "what if...?" exercises, I am just trying to get raw tuples of information in and out of some top-level-program logic furnace for the first few [hundred] iterations. I'll likely resort to boxing and extremely long argument lists until what I was aiming for actually takes hold.

I no longer have an urge to define OOP type hierarchies when the underlying domain model is still a vague cloud in my head. When unguided, these abstractions feel like playing Minecraft or Factorio.
by lumb63 | 2025-04-03 14:48:38+00:00
Everyone is quick to deride this move as stupid. I don’t disagree that there are downsides to the approach, but there is a set of very real national problems that this might address.

For instance, globalization and offshoring of production has made goods cheaper for consumers, but what about the former domestic producers who could not compete, and do not have the skills or capital to find a new job which pays as well? Increased foreign competition pulls down domestic wages; telling people that they should shut up and be okay with that because they can get cheaper goods isn’t palatable to a lot of people facing the negatives of globalization. Globalization has played a big role in creating the massive income inequality in our country; it seems like we should fix that.

There really are structural challenges to onshoring production due to strength of the dollar due to its reserve currency status; our society as such is biased heavily toward importing goods rather than exporting goods. This is a real challenge that needs to be addressed as well.

Our national debt is not sustainable either. Either we pay it down some, or we inflate it away; these are the two ways it goes away, ignoring the option of a world-shattering default on the debt. Tariffs accomplish both of those, raising money at the same time as raising cost of goods and weakening the dollar.

So, to anyone who disagrees with these measures, but agrees that these are issues we ought to solve, what would you propose?
by mk89 | 2025-04-03 14:48:53+00:00
I am not an economist but I see two things 1) usa has a huge debt, 2) this feels a lot like VAT applied on a federal level, without calling it VAT. Ok "VAT on imports". Why not.

Obviously this is being sold as a trading surplus BS, etc, but if you look at EU, the surplus is ridiculously low when you consider goods and services (something like 50B).

I don't think it's the worst idea ever, I just dislike the useless hatred that this guy is spreading around and all the idiots believing him. But hey if he hadn't done it, people would have said he is a socialist :)
by pjc50 | 2025-04-03 14:48:57+00:00
Tariffs increase prices. This tends to cause a wage-price spiral, and indeed that's one of the stated objectives (increase US wages by onshoring manufacturing). The increase in prices and wages is inflation. This will cause the Treasury to raise rates to force contraction.

Now, so far rates have indeed spiked downwards, but not a huge amount: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-y...

The next consideration is: what is the budget actually going to look like? Is it going to cut spending and leave taxes where they are, resulting in debt paid down, or is it going to be a huge tax giveaway to the top few % while increasing the deficit? (personally I'd bet on the latter)

Then the consideration: other players also get a move. What do the retaliatory tariffs look like? Does cutting off the ability of other countries to earn dollars negatively impact US exports?

Devaluing the dollar against other currencies will also force up rates by the arbitrage principle.

S&P down 4% so far today. Do we think that indicates the measures are good or bad for US industries?
by tonyarkles | 2025-04-03 14:49:11+00:00
Those are good questions for sure and could lead to some interesting discussions, but (and maybe my generally left-leaning bias is showing by saying this) they're questions that are in many ways self-evident. For example, it's hard to argue that health care should only be affordable for the rich and that everyone else should just die in the streets.

There's other issues that are much less clear and, in my experience, more likely to shift from discussions and debates into strife and arguments:

- Should private citizens be allowed to own firearms? Should they be allowed to carry them on the streets?

- What do we do about meth and opiates on our streets? What do we do about the associated property and violent interpersonal crime?

- Should we start building more nuclear power plants to cut down on our greenhouse gas emissions?

And locally:

- The city is expanding to the west. What should this neighbourhood look like?

These, I believe, are squarely in the realm of "politics" and unless you're having the discussion in an ideological bubble are likely to be much hotter-button issues.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-03 14:49:30+00:00
> Clinton was the last fiscally responsible President, using a strong real economy to pay down some of the debt

The Clinton social program cuts combined with the Bush II tax cuts is what gave us the poor distributional effects of the 2001-2008 expansion, which both set the stage for and magnified the impact on all but the narrow slice at the top of the Great Recession; while they seemed harmless in the unusually strong boom economy they were implemented in, monentary nominal budget balance acheived that way has had massive adverse long term effects.

It also, contrary to your claim, didn't pay down any of the national debt, which increased by at least $100 billion every year of the Clinton presidency.
by _fat_santa | 2025-04-03 14:49:44+00:00
I would say even newer Thinkpads are a great deal. I recently bought a P15 Gen 1 from 2020 for ~$700 and it's been an absolute monster. Core i9, RTX 5000, and 128GB or ram. Through research I learned that brand new this machine would have cost around ~$5,800 but even five years later it's better than most new laptops around the ~$700 price point.

The "hard" thing about thinkpads is you have to find them. I must have searched eBay listing for close to a month before the right thinkpad popped up. Especially with the workstation grade laptops, they were so configurable brand new that there are something like 48 possible variants you can find, and finding one with the exact specs you want can be incredibly difficult.
by ryzvonusef | 2025-04-03 14:50:47+00:00
iirc, they use other people as verification.

When a child is born, the parent has to get them registered at the local council office. And then when my first card was made at 18, my dad went with me as verification, he attested that I was child #X as per the family tree, they confirmed someone with my name was in that family tree in their records, and used that as verification for me.

If parents are not available they can use relatives, as long as there is a family tree link. Not sure how they do it otherwise, but there is some system for refugees etc too.
by tzs | 2025-04-03 14:50:58+00:00
"Free" ID generally means there is no fee paid to the issuer of the ID. It can cost hundreds of dollars to get the documents that you have to present to the issuer to get that "free" ID.

Also many states have accompanied their stricter voter ID requirements with reducing the number of offices that process applications and with reducing the hours they accept applications so that even if you can get a free ride to an office you might have to take an unpaid day off from work to do so. That can be a significant loss for many poor workers.

> Because you have to have an ID to do almost everything else in the country so everybody already has an ID and opposition to voter ID makes no sense.

Yet many millions get by without an ID [1]. A lot of things you probably think cannot be done without an ID actually can.

For example how can you cash a paycheck without an ID? You need an ID to open a bank account. An answer is you can cash checks using a third party endorsement. You don't need a bank for that. You just need a trusted friend who has a bank account. I'd guess that this is what the 6% of Americans without bank accounts do (23% among those making less than $25k/year) [2].

How about getting a job without ID? First, there are a lot of people who don't need jobs (e.g., the stay at home partner in a household where one partner works and the other takes care of the house). Second there are a lot of job that pay cash and are off the record.

Also there are a fair number of people who once had ID but no longer do. It has been a very long time since I've actually needed to show my driver's license to anyone.

My banking is all online, as is my check cashing (my bank has a great "deposit by photo" function).

When I signed up for Medicare, Medigap, and a Part D plan that was all through ssa.gov and medicare.gov, with no need to show ID. That was apparently all covered by when I showed ID years ago when I set up ID.me as a login method for my ssa.gov account. It will likely be the same when I apply for Social Security benefits. Afterwards all my interaction with SS and Medicare should be through ssa.gov and medicare.gov.

If when I'm older I am no longer fit to drive and let my driver's license expire and don't remember to get a state photo ID then there is a good chance I can live the rest of my life comfortably without ever running into anything where that causes problems.

The simplest way, though, to see that it is possible to get by reasonably well without an ID is to note the large number of undocumented workers that the current administration is trying to kick out. They are able to come here, find places to live, and get paying jobs all without a state issued photo ID.

Whatever they are doing citizens can do too.

[1] https://www.voteriders.org/analysis-millions-lack-voter-id/

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/23percent-of-low-income-amer...
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-03 14:51:22+00:00
Sure, but that's the rationalizing of someone who can't get strawberries in winter. Getting food that's not grown locally much less in the current local season is one of the most QoL-improving parts of the modern world.

Kinda sad to go from that back to "well I guess I don't really need these nice things we took for granted. I suppose I can live off jellied eels again."
by cvoss | 2025-04-03 14:51:31+00:00
If you unlawfully or immorally gain access to information, such as my private keys, and then use that information to move money, you have absolutely committed a crime, cheated, and/or stolen from me.

If you deceive me into executing a transaction voluntarily by misrepresenting the destination (which is immoral and often illegal), you have absolutely committed a crime, cheated, and/or stolen from me.
by qudat | 2025-04-03 14:51:37+00:00
Thanks for the comment because I think many -- including myself -- resonate with this sentiment. Our pricing strategy was to be competitive with a user just provisioning their own VPS VM with a cloud provider. Our goal is to be competitive on price with a $5/mo VM.

Further, we are mostly targeting individual/small teams who want to rapidly prototype on the web. We provide enough convenience features (e.g. zero-install, multi-region, site analytics, tunnel connect/disconnect notifications, easy script automation) to entice users to keep their prototypes running in "prod" as long as possible before they feel the need to provision their own VPS.

We could go upstream and try to target larger teams/companies, but honestly, this is just fun for us to do on the side.

We don't make any guarantees about uptime at this point but we take it very seriously (we have alerting and respond quickly) and treat it like our day-jobs (I work at a paas and antonio is a platform engineer wizard).
by yojo | 2025-04-03 14:51:57+00:00
There are ~600k H1B visa holders in the US. the tech sector alone has ~10M workers, and professional workers are ~9x that again. That boogeyman represents < 1% of the relevant workforce.

“White collar” work is the majority of US employment. It’s unclear to me if you’re proposing sacrificing white collar for blue collar jobs, but that’s not a trade our economy overall wants to make.

Relatedly, the unemployment rate for US factory workers is 2.9%. This is a very low unemployment number - 5% is generally considered “full employment,” and anything below that indicates a labor shortage. So your hypothetical factory worker should probably just go get another job.
by raigol | 2025-04-03 14:52:18+00:00
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by Mithriil | 2025-04-03 14:52:20+00:00
It seems to me that receiving a piece of land could be a liability. Some probably likes the freedom to choose where they live. Thus receiving money that one uses to pay rent is better than receiving by lottery a piece of land in the middle of nowhere. Some pieces of land live under municipal/regional rules that forces the user to take care of it in some way (build, prune trees, etc.)

An option to choose UB land or UB income when reaching 18yo might be an interesting compromise.
by eightysixfour | 2025-04-03 14:52:22+00:00
Language can carry tremendous amounts of context. For example:

> I want a modern navigation app for driving which lets me select intersections that I never want to be routed through.

That sentence is low complexity but encodes a massive amount of information. You are probably thinking of a million implementation details that you need to get from that sentence to an actual working app but the opportunity is there, the possibility is there, that that is enough information to get to a working application that solves my need.

And just as importantly, if that is enough to get it built, then “can I get that in cornflower blue instead” is easy and the user can iterate from there.
by vinipolicena | 2025-04-03 14:52:26+00:00
Reminds me of this passage from Nassim Taleb's Skin in the Game:

> The great Karl Popper often started a discussion with an unerring representation of his opponent’s positions, often exhaustive, as if he were marketing them as his own ideas, before proceeding to systematically dismantle them. Also, take Hayek’s diatribes Contra Keynes and Cambridge: it was a “contra,” but not a single line misrepresents Keynes or makes an overt attempt at sensationalizing.
by throw0101c | 2025-04-03 14:52:28+00:00
> Just one example of what I like about systemd, and maybe you can call me new school, but I've really grown to like journald/journalctl.

Except the file format does not seem to be ACID and can get corrupted, so if the system crashes you may lose the reasons for said crash. This is strange since SQLite was available at the time, so I'm not sure why they didn't use a battle-tested, known-good format; Howard Chu (of OpenLDAP, etc):

* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140924071300-170035-why-you...

> To me a way to centralize logs and have a tool like this to query them in a relatively advanced way is a major benefit.

Centralizing logs from my perspective is sending them to a central host, which last time I checked, journald could not do, so I have to run (r)syslogd regardless to do off-host log-shipping.

And it's easy enough to tell (r)syslogd to put everything in one file (which is the default on some distros) and optionally do separate file at times. With the added benefit of not necessarily having all of your eggs in one binary basket. And if you want a query-able logging API, you can do that too:

* https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/configuration/modules/omlibdbi.h...

* https://syslog-ng.github.io/admin-guide/070_Destinations/270...

> I find that the complaints about systemd are mainly about UNIX philosphy and not about the actual functionality and benefits of those design choices.

My complaint about systemd is about tight coupling between components. If someone finds limitations with (e.g.) journald, how do they swap it out or write a replacement? If the systemd folks want to have their own logging system that's fine, but why won't they architect things so it can be swapped out?

> And really it's not like systemd is ripping away your old tools especially in that particular case.

You mean like udev which used to be in a separate repo but the systemd folks took and tightly coupled?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev#History
by Spivak | 2025-04-03 14:52:36+00:00
I think the accusation carries more weight than you're implying because while correct answers are all similar having two students give eerily similar wrong answers is often used as evidence for cheating.

The fact that this announcement is, to put it generously, weird, and not how anyone in the real world actually implements tariffs points to this administration going with the formula from some undergrad econ textbook or econ blog they found and applying it to a spreadsheet. Maybe they got it from an LLM, maybe they didn't, but what matters is the college sophomore level of consideration of the individual tariffs.
by RajT88 | 2025-04-03 14:52:38+00:00
I have purchased a bunch of trackballs, trying to find the best one for me. The Kensington Expert is as you describe, but maybe not quite to my liking. If I did graphic design work, it'd be the one I want for sure - the level of granularity is great.

For my money (clicking with thumb/pinky, using ball and scroll wheel with index and middle fingers) the Kensington Orbit is my daily driver. I even use it for shooter games, since I'm much more accustomed to trackballs these days than mice. As an added bonus, it seems a lot easier on my tendons than a mouse.
by jccalhoun | 2025-04-03 14:52:39+00:00
I recently listened to an episode of the Search Engine podcast where they showed how hard it is to manufacture something completely in the USA: https://www.searchengine.show/listen/search-engine-1/the-puz...

(Spoilers, the problem they had was that even when they found companies to manufacture their bbq scrubber, it was harder to find someone in the USA to make the parts that are used to make the parts.)
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by card_zero | 2025-04-03 14:53:12+00:00
Humans can't share ideas directly, they pass through language. Some idea is created at the other end, nominally the same one, but there's no reason to suppose a universal internal format. Even translating between human languages loses details, where words in one language map imperfectly to words in another. Moving ideas directly from one brain to another probably can't happen. So the statement in language doesn't map very well to the idea (whichever person's version of the idea). And at some point before the idea is formed there has to be some sort of proto-idea or potential, with less definite boundaries. So "there is no proper idea" sounds right to me. There's something idiosyncratic, not the formal idea that's frozen when put into words.