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That viewpoint ignores risk. You pay a small premium to shift a risk onto a different party. Whether it's a net benefit to you depends on both the premium and your valuation of the risk. Self-insuring is often not efficient.

It makes more sense if you think about a group of people. If there is a 1% chance of getting into a car accident that could cost $1 million in medical bills, it is economically inefficient to have 100 people keep $1 million each in liquid funds for such a contingency. Insurance creates value by allowing those funds to be allocated to more efficient purposes. Out of that value, the insurance company takes a cut to compensate it for its risk, and each individual gets some economic benefit for having shifted that risk to the insurance company.

Not saying that's the case here, but in general insurance creates value by eliminating inefficient contingency funds.
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Hey - this is a long shot, but hoping to connect over possibly moving PCB fabrication, assembly, and test over to Asia from the US. Let me know if it'd be Ok to chat. If not, that's cool too.
You can do that, but all of those things are taxable compensation which you will still need to pay taxes on.
As someone not an US citizen, it is because US are running into 2016 election that we have to be constantly reminded by the media there are lots of US companies holding huge amount of cash overseas?

The amount of these article popping up is just getting silly. And yet not a single one has proposed a (fair ) solution to the problem / US Tax Code. Everytime I just end up skip read the article or go straight to HN comment for some of the best thoughts around.
At least you have to give X-Windows credit for preemptively adding lots of crufty bloated code and protocol supporting the 10% of the features you'll never need from day 1 through 10497.

https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/utilities/XRotateBuffers.html

Mechanism, not policy, huh?
From other experiences, what is it that sinks these deals at the last minute? Is there anything that can be done to by the founders to limit this risk?
Or maybe you just don't understand what he believes.
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It would be the same i think; If NoScript pulled the same thing AdBlock Plus did there would be a new app taking its place(like how uBlock Origin did)
But what if black people at any age are more costly investment than white people at any age?
You seem to be suggesting that cost should be a deciding factor in whether to protect creative work.

I suppose I am, but only indirectly.

I view both copyright and patents as economic instruments. To me, the argument for temporarily restricting freedom to replicate others' work is based on the "greater good" that comes from incentivizing the creation of that work in the first place. However, that argument only makes sense where such an incentive is actually necessary, and to the extent that it is necessary.

If something really can be created by someone within a weekend, it is unlikely that the work or insights necessary to create it are particularly unique or valuable. There is little need to incentivize creating or sharing such work with years of exclusive control, because probably many others could (and some will) do the same thing anyway within that time, and granting the exclusivity is just an artificial barrier to any greater progress that any of those creators might then make.

On the other hand, maybe identifying a new antibiotic that will save thousands of people from "superbugs" takes several years of expensive laboratory research and then several more years of expensive trials and regulatory approvals, but once identified the marginal cost of manufacture is relatively low and many organisations have the resources to produce the physical product. It seems quite plausible that the research and trials and approvals won't happen in this case unless there is some extra benefit to whoever actually puts in the time and resources to do that work first. Given the likely benefit to society of having access to new antibiotics, I personally don't have a problem with incentivization in this case. (For the same ethical reasons, I also don't have a problem with revoking any exclusivity if whoever holds the rights isn't taking reasonable steps to use them by producing and selling the drug at a fair price; the goal is to promote discovery and availability of a useful drug to those who have a medical need for it, and anyone who isn't actually contributing to that doesn't need special privileges.)

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I think the cost/benefit should be a deciding factor in which classes of creative work receive these kinds of protections. It's not so much about the absolute cost, but rather whether it's worthwhile for creators to create already, and if not, whether the value to society of having the creation available justifies offering some extra incentive.
Not to mention, they were making equipment that made it easier to know such details.
Since when is what's reasonable the law, or what the law is reasonable?
Why does it help create jobs for Apple to acquire Tesla? I think that's a poor choice for an example.
You can insure for almost everything, but the simple things you insure for with homeowners insurance are more food for the insurance racket than anything, because all those incidental costs are, like the superposter said, better covered with rainy day funds because you will experience several in your lifetime. In that case, better to manage your own money than give it to someone else just to give back to you after taking a cut. You would never have day to day homeowners insurance and not get catastrophic coverage, but you would certainly (and probably should, unless all insurance providers available to you are racketeering on the small stuff for profit) consider the reverse.
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Geez, you can read, can you? It's right there in the title and even in the actual URL:

"Frameworks are Teh Suck, Err".

Let's look at the urban dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teh%20suck

2nd entry:

"The absolute worst thing ever, completely beyond bad, lower than horrible, and more crappy than explosive diarrhoea"

So when I wrote "bullshit", my only crime was that I was being euphemistic. Guilty as charged. And as I wrote, he makes this farcical distinction between Apple and the rest of the world.

So, no, I did not misrepresent Wil's opinion, apart from softening it up. So you should take your words back.
Ok, you're right. Those people should not be considered. Only "normal people" who make $100,000 a year should be.....and the down votes to this post agree!

The real answer to this absurd nonsense is that all this can be done via algorithms to determine who is the biggest liability, which helps these "insurance companies" to choose who to accept and not to accept. This benefits the companies but defeats the purpose of insurance in the first place.
There was never an open source smartphone app-based OS before iOS, and Android has demonstrated an open source alternative that has risen in the wake of the iPhones success to take 80% of the market, which absolutely supports the narrative.

Also, comparing observable industry trends to Marxism is on par with Godwin's law. Obviously you are a communist if you observe natural trends in software towards open interoperability and/or community participation in development of established paradigms?
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMjtmsr3CqA was a series of revelations as to how injection molding works.
That is false. Sidney Blumenthal emailed her signals intelligence (which is top-secret at a minimum) on her unsecure server, after stripping classification markings. This has been covered pretty well, and if you want to see for yourself then you can grab a copy of the Guccifer data dump.
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So why are men more risky than women, over their entire lives?
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Of course my reality is different. I just don't see why a teenager working is somehow abhorrent while an adult working is fine.
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Nobody said it was a good plan.
Parts you can sell for much more than they cost to produce
Correct, it's more like buying Microsoft Flight Simulator and not being able to run it because your monitor is not a genuine Microsoft monitor.

Oculus DRM works by locking the "Oculus exclusive" software to the Oculus hardware. Hackers, of course, have cracked that nut, so the usual arms race against offensive DRM has begun.
I had a Persian rug mouse pad that I really enjoyed and got a lot of nice complements on. Just a dye-sublimation printed imitation, but it still looked and felt luxurious. I wonder if anyone makes real Persian mini-rugs that size, for doll houses perhaps?
I've had a lot of 3's and 4's, and a couple of 5's in the past year. It's been rough. :(
Even at our current scale, we often make large changes throughout our code base, and having a single repository is useful for continuous modernization. Splitting it up would make large, atomic refactorings more difficult.

I read it, but none of those things make me think better of their code.
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Without getting taken for a magic carpet ride? I say, take the ride!
He wrote the Learning OpenCV book but I'm not sure it's accurate to say he created openCV... It was created by intel internally (by a ton of folks like Vadim Pisarevsky) and later open sourced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCV
I feel like the difference between a successful ground-up rewrite and a failed one comes from defining your scope correctly from the outset.

You run into the overflowingly crufty "last 90%" work mainly because your new thing still has to plug into an ecosystem of other components that are, themselves, old and crufty. If, however, you've defined your rewrite-project boundary to contain the entire ecosystem of those components, such that you get to redraw all the component boundaries and protocols with fewer redundancies and smaller surfaces, then you really can keep your 10% code—at the cost of having to write that 10% of the code for at least ~9x the number of codebases you were intending to.

This is what Plan9 managed to do: draw the correct boundary to simplify Unix, by putting all of Unix in scope for rethinking, eschewing the last 10% of the functionality because the other, redefined components now support the same thing in simpler ways. (See, for example, the way the Acme editor does menu commands.)

It's also—whatever you think of it—what systemd is doing, sort of consuming components of the Linux userland and leaving cleaner service boundaries in its wake. The sheer scope of that effort can make the project look bloated—but people forget to compare the codebase with the combined codebases of all the projects it took to have equivalent functionality before.
It's pretty much the same situation that book publishers find themselves in with Amazon. Valve just hasn't shown its scumbag side yet.
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The idea is that you get to choose your immediate neighbors (on any basis other than race, because race is always protected) if they share the same house with you. When you're running a business the tenants aren't your immediate neighbors, so you don't get to choose them based on certain protected criteria. You can only choose them based on their ability to pay, for instance, or any other criteria not deemed to be socially harmful.

> There seems to be some underlying principle that we'll ask you to put your property & other tenants' lives at risk in the service of Ending Discrimination, but not your own

Seriously? If you think that renting to minorities or other protected classes means "putting your property & other tenants' lives at risk," then I just don't know what to tell you here.
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Just wrote my first post on Txti -
http://txti.es/is-txti-the-next-big-thing

This is great. Perfect MVP and yet the features everybody likely thinks is missing are actually there, just not interrupting the interface.

Well done.
"The abstractions are at the wrong places and you can't properly optimize resource usage because the hypervisor has to treat the guest OS as a black box."

If our only concern was to get the most performance out of a single piece of hardware, that would be the end of the discussion. But, that's not the problem this kind of architecture is setting out to solve. We've already reached the point where raw performance on a single box is less important than being able to virtualize. EC2 proved that a decade ago; we're willing to trade raw performance for the flexibility of virtualized infrastructure in some cases. Hell, EC2 is about twice as expensive as similar physical hardware (even today); but subtracting the cost of managing the hardware and adding the ability to spin them up and down makes them more cost-effective for some deployments.

So, sure, people are trying to make it efficient. And virtualized and container based hardware has improved remarkably in that time (virtual disk and network I/O is now very close to bare hardware performance, whereas it was very far from it in the early days). But, even when they fail to achieve near peak performance there's still a compelling benefit for many uses.
For a starters, in any discriminatable situation, I do not show pictures of myself.

That is indeed one reason on a long list, why I only work online. I simply do not accept job offers or service contracts in which I would have to disclose racial information.

Generally, if the counterparty decides to proceed, and then breaks our contract on impermissible grounds, they will obviously be facing a bill for the damage, as specified in the T & C of the marketplace in which we execute the trade. In those cases, we do not discuss. We repossess and confiscate only.

Fundamentally, I believe that anybody has the right to be as racist as he wants and towards any race of his own choosing. That is certainly not the problem.

I only demand that the third party who will be the judge of it, must be color blind, objective, and impartial. That is one reason on the list of so many, why I never agree to any part of any state apparatus to be the judge of such situation.

I am personally not racist. That would be utterly contrary to my fundamental beliefs. In the Farewell Sermon, delivered after the final double recitation, as narrated by Ibn Hanbal, you can find my fundamental belief about racism:

Indeed, there is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, nor of a non-Arab over an Arab, nor of a white over a black, nor a black over a white, except for his greater obedience to the laws of God and his good works.
Er. The OS minus the OS services?

This idea would mean you're not running the OS's kernel, and you are only running the userspace components that were written against Linux emulation, which are often just Linux binaries copied from some Linux distribution.

We have that. It's called Linux.
That kind of dream is called a nightmare.

We block out the Sun. We replace the nice smooth concrete sidewalks with cobblestones... causing more noise from wheels (carts and strollers and bikes too, not just cars) and causing people in high heels to sprain their ankles. Oh, and cobblestone is crazy expensive. I guess we'll be needing mass transit, but we just made the street to narrow for it. We make it really tough to transport a family. We made the area inhospitable for people (often women and elderly) who feel unsafe out of their cars.

I know it's cute. It's not actually livable, unless maybe you are an athletic single male who telecommutes. Oh, and the weather is at least as nice as SF.
a few years ago, i contributed a guest ruby quiz that involved translating the old basic HAMURABI game into ruby. it was a pretty fun exercise - you can see the challenge and a few solutions here: http://rubyquiz.strd6.com/quizzes/223-hamurabi
> Carmarck

Carmack. Only one 'r' in the name.
Some of the work I've done that I like the best have been side musings that wouldn't make the "3 paper" priority cap, but have never the less been useful to me and others.

Also, you'd probably get a surge of shit submissions in November from everyone who didn't get their three in.
If we're advocating for comfort, why stop at collared shirts and jeans? As somebody whose commute includes a mile of walking each way, I appreciate being able to wear shorts and a t shirt when I like.
Are there any non-billionaires on the side of Thiel? Maybe I run in the loser crowd, but it's hard to support billionaires who use the courts and millions of dollars to address their grudges. When is that good for society?

Showing that video was gross. But do we want to live in a world where super rich folks use their wealth to destroy people or groups they don't like? I don't want Donald Trump to wipe out investigative journalism.
What are you proposing to replace cookies with? Auth tokens and XHR? Localstorage? Why?
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I don't see what you gain with either of these that's worth enough to put in that much work and add that much complexity. linuxemu is a better solution for running Linux programs, all of the added unix junk is contained.
Using GCC or clang over kencc could be useful in some cases, but there, too, I don't see what fantastic gains you get. I do see major issues there like shipping GPL code with GCC and adding a massive new codebase to the tree (it wouldn't suprise me if GCC or clang's source trees were larger than 9front's).
All I really see in Harvey is feature creep and trying to make Plan 9 into Linux.
I do love beautiful, high quality Persian Rugs. But, alas, the wool makes me sneeze.
Runtime speed isn't much of an issue for us. There's nothing in the codebase that large or complicated enough to be slow.
Note that the pi is about as fast as a 233 MHz pentium 2.
The NIH mandate for open access after six months has been around for years.
Ever taken a look at the sockets API?
It depends mostly on knot count and condition. Higher knots per inch, the higher the price. Silk (instead of wool) makes the price 3-4x higher.

A fairly low knot count (about 100 kpi) Shiraz rug of about that size would run somewhere between $1300-$5000 most likely. If you hunt around I would expect a "great deal" to be ~$1000.

Here's an example of a Shiraz-style rug with 140kpi. http://esalerugs.com/red-5x8-shiraz-lori-persian-rug-1109053...

Once you get into higher knot counts (300+ kpi) the price increases very quickly as well. But I personally think it's important to see what that knot count difference looks like in person. There's a very big perceptual jump in quality and it's almost like going from 8-bit graphics to modern 4k in terms of how the design looks.

An example:

Here's a 150kpi Kashan rug $3300 http://esalerugs.com/red-10x13-kashan-persian-rug-110909188

and a 400kpi Kashan rug of similar design $13000 http://esalerugs.com/red-10x13-kashan-persian-rug-110906616

It's very hard to tell across the web, but 400kpi compared to 150kpi is night and day.

I've seen high knot count silk rugs that were easily in the six figures.
I see gloves thrown. When does the contest begin?
I am fresh out of college. I work for a very big OEM and make drawings for plastic parts. i have no clue of the tolerances which suppliers are capable of holding. how does one learn that? I usually tolerance based on our objectives and source a supplier who says yes.
As a Christian, I would agree - God's revelation stands in opposition to human rationality. Examples: He demands that we love our enemies. Give away our possessions. Have faith where there is absolutely no hope in anything after our minds disintegrate after death.

The Bible addresses this: "We are fools for Christ [...] We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored!" 1 Corinthians 4:10
I don't get this comparison of Doom to webpages. Doom is a famously well-made classic video game made by an exceptional programmer. John Carmack is not making "the average webpage." Comparing Doom to "the average webpage" makes no sense; they do completely different things. Doom took you 40 minutes to download in 1993, if dial up had been faster, you can bet that Carmack would've shipped a bigger game.

Good video games give you the ability to decrease or increase graphical quality to deliver the best experience on variable hardware. As networks, hardware and browsers improve, so will the demands of "the average web page." You can try to convince people that they don't need the things that they've come to expect from the web, or you can work on finding ways to deliver better progressively enhanced websites.
You are correct and reasonable. Thank you for your follow-up response.

I do think that HN's biggest problem is a pervasive and long-standing culture of "asshole" behavior in comments, so anything you and the HN team can do to fight back against it, to set a better example, is gold.
It is different because it is assembled from manageable pieces and still enjoys the benefits of memory separation.

For example, running a tiny jobs server:

* Scheduler in one process which spawns

* Application code running in many subprocesses

The scheduler might be in Ruby and the jobs might be in Ruby; or the scheduler might be Cron and the jobs in shell. In either case, if a job crashes the other jobs and the scheduler are very likely to carry on their work.

It is also nice that you can bring together tools from different communities into a single application. A "Rails" container might utilize Nginx (C), Rails/Unicorn (Ruby) and Node (JS/C++) together. A single statically linked application would, barring some really amazing innovations in something like Clang modules, have to be in one language therefore from one community.
40 yard old with basically the same story as the guy from `Up`. Can't have children, long term very solid relationship. As much as I cried at the opening to `Up` - and it was a whole lot, `Marley and Me` is just absolutely devastating. Can't even look at the cover to that movie.
Not sure about right or wrong but the potential for abuse is too high, IMO.

There was a history of cab drivers in NYC refusing to pick up black customers - when Uber came to town one of the first questions was "can drivers see my photo", which they can't until they accept the ride IIRC. I don't see this situation as being too different.
Seems simple enough for AirBnb to do. I'd bet a curious Airbnb data scientist has already done it. Do analysis of users' ethnicities/names/profile skin color/gender/ attire etc where booking cancelled for one person but allowed for another in same time period immediately after cancellation. Hosts with many such cancel/book patterns should be penalized. This would have flagged OP's friend doing second booking.
Oh the days when I used to copy code out of books on my TI-99/4A...
Maybe, but currently people outside of universities have a really hard time getting research papers (legally, anyway). So even if the costs stay about the same, a lot more people will have access to the results.