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The problem is, it isn't an insurable problem if housing prices decrease when the new construction goes right. You would just put the insurance company on the opposing side of the development instead of the homeowners.

The source of the problem is that people started buying homes as investments, overpaying for them because there was insufficient supply, and now that they've got a mortgage and they don't want to end up underwater, so they have to make sure everybody else overpays too.

Probably the solution is inflation. Build more housing and at the same time print more money. Then real housing prices go down while nominal housing prices stay the same, so your house doesn't "lose value" compared to your mortgage but housing still becomes more affordable for new buyers. This would also help by devaluing everyone's student loans and other debt. Call it the banks' punishment for 2008.
It wasn't a waste of time in the sense that I wasn't getting anything out of it (while I didn't sense the physical/aesthetic benefit, the psychological benefit was noticeable).

Gym to me was a waste of time in the sense that it was preventing me from doing what I really needed to do (ramp up my technical skills during evenings). If I had a job that was fulfilling enough, paid good and had a reasonable pay/role progression I would definitely go to the gym. Going to the gym for 45 min and unwinding at home afterwards is fantastic.

But I don't have that sort of luxury right now at my place in life. I need to strengthen my portfolio considerably.
I mean exactly what I quoted: gay sex "does seem to impose quite the externality on society".

Why is that inconsistency acceptable to you?

It's not acceptable. I think we should legalize heroin and meth in addition to tobacco. To prevent people who consume these products from imposing harmful externalities on the rest of us, we should ban employer sponsored and state sponsored health insurance.

If (for example) oranges were found to have the same effect as smoking, the sale of them would be banned immediately.

And if oranges were found to have the same effect as gay sex (namely causing 29k HIV infections each year) they would also be banned.

...saying that I seem unprincipled as I don't equate the two things.

And that's the problem. Your stated rationale for opposing tobacco, namely the harm it causes, applies equally well to gay sex. But you've now revealed your real rationale - you dislike "Big Tobacco" and want to harm them. It turns out that protecting people isn't really your goal at all.
No because AAVE came from Standard English
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"Features: Disruption-free Search The video keeps playing even while you are searching"

When I do a search, the audio of the video keeps playing, and there is a working seek bar at the top, but the video itself vanishes. Not sure if this is intentional, but I assume not based on the description (Firefox 47 on OS X).
I believe "expressed" is closer to "there's a concept everybody is familiar with and there's a specific feeling associated with that one word/expression that everyone understands without providing the definition of the word".

Kind of like schadenfreude is now known to English speakers as schadenfreude. You can explain what it means, but there's no direct equivalent that's as easy to bring up.

From my own experience, I found that there's no direct equivalent to "disturbing" in Polish. There are many similar words (equivalents of "shocking" and other), but they just don't have the same feeling associated with them.
This won't happen if one has unchecked the "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates" box, right?
But economic analysis indicates that building even market-rate housing drives down prices for everyone: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-18/want-chea...

For example, the thorough analysis above indicates that increasing San Francisco's housing supply by 30% would cut prices in half.
I see that too. What seems to be happening is that old public sector union employees are given comparable wages to what they got before the crunch.

Then the younger generation of police officers and nurses are receiving almost nothing. They are literally on min wage. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be a police for nine euros an hour.
Do you folks like coffee?
It is also bad PR. And encryption now needs more good PR than ever.
Are a lot of people cursing in their Medium titles, or is it just me?

I don't disagree with the author's statement that the only reliable chance at success is to work hard.

However, I think he's taking down the "keys to success" phrase too easily because he's misinterpreting it. There's an awful lot of mindset chicanery involved in getting yourself into a place where "just do the work" actually rings true and you start living it. In the same way that "just do the work" is true and is the only controllable way to succeed, it's putting in the work on little things and groking that it actually works that's the only controllable way to the epiphany.

The "keys to success" advice is all aimed at getting someone those little successes that convince them they can get bigger successes if they work harder and longer. When a piece of advice works it just kind of clicks, like a key, but here's no telling which piece of advice will work for a person at this moment. So you kind of hand them a keyring and try one key at a time to see if the person is ready for any of them.

People searching through "keys to success" options are hoping they'll stumble into a key that clicks for them because they don't yet grok the hard work thing.
The screenshot their provide clearly shows there's a "Don't remind me again" option in the bottom corner. Put down the pitchforks.
It's not exactly unprecedented from them.
Can anyone explain to me what a "buy first" policy is? Is this the same as no-bid contracts?

If history is any guide, the entrenched players will step up their lobbying efforts and the current system will be preserved. In Washington money comes first, party comes second and the people you are supposed to represent come dead last.
While I get your point, I think that to some extent is a false sense of comfort. If you've gone through a challenging time it's more important, not less, to live a balanced life. Because you probably have a lots of "social debt" (loosing contact with friends, not having many relationships, not having done things you normally do at that age etc.) that you need to compensate for. Otherwise you'll sit there at 40+ wondering what happened when (seemingly) everyone else are with their family skiing for the holidays.
Doesn't really merit the "Meh" unless you think all world governments coordinating their censorship is as likely as Apple rejecting your app.
An idea which creates a new social problem. Welcome to open source!
UKIP only have one MP in the UK Parliament, it would be unlikely they would be part of any Brexit negotiations.

Boris decided not to run as Tory Leader as you need a certain number of MPs to vote for you, and the top two candidates are then voted on by the Conservative Party Membership. I believe that when Gove started his own campaign, he took a lot of Boris's support away and he didn't have the necessary numbers of MPs to stand a chance of success.
Yes. I currently work in b2b tech support (well, its my last week). The job is better and service much different that described in this article -- SLA response times are enforced, but there is expectation that some tickets will take hours over the phone, sometimes over days.

The main issues are retention and hiring people with the right knowledge and/or ability to learn. New hires are often useless for months on the phone, and the most talented people jump ship even after aggressive promotions. Both issues fundamentally come down to pay.
Y'know, it also gets blamed on the rich and corporations which is just as populist.
Sorry, i need to brain dump something.

A: the free travel of workers within EU was basically there since the early coal and steel agreement.

B: said workers still needed to present passports etc when crossing borders.

C: the Schengen agreement removes the passport requirement (UK is not a signatory to it though).

D: EU expands eastwards, leading to an influx of workers that can underbid locals.

E: refugee crisis ends up being the straw that breaks the camels back.
so few people in this world are able to enjoy enough.
Your point about cars is well-made. European cities, by and large, predate the automobile. Most american cities do not. Indeed all the dense cities and parts of cities predate the gasoline engine. Compare Vegas and San Francisco or Brooklyn and Stamford, CT. Very different density since Brooklyn mostly predates cars and Stamford's population exploded in the late 40s to mid-late 70s as a NYC well-to-do white suburb (95% white in 1950.)
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You are aware of the fact, that Einstein's papers are in German, right?

> The vast majority of new scientific papers are written in English and hence every new concept within them can’t be expressed in any other language since there are no corresponding vocabulary to map the new concept onto.

Non sequitur. But how about _you_ provide an example of a non-translatable concept in an English paper. Should not be hard: 'Just pick any scientific paper at random.'
You wouldn't know the background motivating this decision unless you have been a frustrated user of the nearly non-functional software of Bulgarian state institutions.

Ludicrous amounts of money are paid by the government to a selected niche of companies for developing all kinds of useless websites which barely work under load and have abysmal implementations with blatant security holes. This law can act as a safeguard against such "epic failures", so that the taxpayers can be aware of what they are actually paying for. 300k euros for a static website? Let's hope it's over.
Not sure, but I wouldn't count on it based on what I heard so far. I used a third party tool to remove any installers since I am far less confident than Microsoft that Windows 10 will run on my ancient, underpowered netbook.
It's almost satirical, which I'm fine with.
I think the easiest way to talk about this without the racial connotations is to compare it to another language that is often simply considered "non-standard English": Scots. The Scots language is distinct from Scottish English and has actually a larger minority of speakers than AAVE (30% in Scotland according to Wikipedia).

However it's insane to think that this means speaking Scots is sufficient if you want a good job. I don't think anyone attempting to get by in life and pursue a career in business or politics or academia would be taken serious if they only spoke Scots.

Actually Scots probably has the advantage of nostalgia. AAVE on the other hand is (ultimately) an artefact of American slave ownership -- that's something we would much rather undo than remember.

I think there's an argument to be made for the preservation of obscure languages (and a pidgin that is being threatened to be displaced by a dominant language it is partially based on certainly qualifies) but ultimately I agree exactly with what you are saying: reassuring AAVE speakers that it is okay to only speak a minority language when living in a country that is entirely based on a different language is cruel to the speakers.

For comparison (according to Wikipedia's numbers): Irish Gaelic is spoken by 18.3% of people on the Irish island (i.e. both Republic and Northern); Welsh is spoken by 19% of people in Wales.

Again according to Wikipedia's numbers, 12.8% of Americans speak Spanish at home, while 17.4% of Americans identify as Hispanic or Latino. If we assume AAVE is as widespread among black Americans as Spanish is among Hispanic and Latino Americans (because there are no official numbers) that would mean only 9.3% of Americans speak AAVE.

Even assuming every black American is an AAVE speaker (and that seems extremely bold as even linguists admit that "AAVE" is more of a spectrum than a clearly defined language) that would still be only 12.6% of Americans who speak AAVE. In other words: even by the most generous estimate 87.4% of Americans don't speak AAVE -- and likely don't comprehend the more idiosyncratic variants of AAVE.

So, even if AAVE is a "real" language, it's not widely useful outside of the small circles of AAVE speakers. It's just not realistic to expect 87.4% of the population to accommodate the "native language" of the remaining percentage if they already both speak General American English (or some approximation thereof).
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I disagree. Associating cryptography to a criminal term is not wise.
> As far as I know, Pascal does not have closures.

They're called Anonymous Methods in Object Pascal:

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Berlin/en/Anonymous...

Free Pascal doesn't support them yet.
"It's just a word which makes it stand out as a product"

So you think calling a product "nigger" is a good idea? It's just a word and it would certainly stand out.

(Before responding directly to my comment, please consider that I'm criticizing your logic, and don't actually want anyone to create a product with a hateful name)
Apologies for the very basic, stoopid question, but what's up with gyms? People see them as the way to get fit, but running is uncomplicated and free. Aerobics work too. For lower intensity biking or other activities work and require minimal equipment. You don't have weights at home, but is bulking up necessary? Is it just that you can workout more comfortably no matter the weather? Sorry for the basic questions--I really don't know the answers, but assume there are good ones. Thanks.
These tactics kind of remind me of the Uber/Lyft vote in Austin: it reached the point where people didn’t even care what the companies wanted because the way they were over-spamming and aggressively campaigning was leaving a poor taste in everyone’s mouths.

At what point do people start auto-hating solely because of the way Windows 10 is being advertised: not wanting to upgrade, not wanting to learn more but simply wanting to make it all stop?
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Entire buildings are being deleted from China's Street View and no-one knows why
There must be massive opportunities to manage these things in a smarter way as illustrated by the $1.5 trillion a year mentioned in the article. For example in SF they could build aesthetically appealing tall buildings with much of the profits going to the government rather than private developers and use some of that to build better accom for the homeless who clutter the streets. Everyone wins pretty much - you could give a bit of compensation to people next to the new buildings who might be a bit inconvenienced.

Maybe someone could do a startup to sort this stuff. I've been thinking about it but not cracked it.
I'm just now completing a rather large event-driven system in Rust. It's also callback-based and has to interoperate with C.

I do struggle with the ownership rules sometimes but it's pretty much always because I'm clashing with the bad habits I learned coding in C/C++, or I'm shooting my future-self in the foot because my limited cognitive capabilities can't always keep all code paths in memory perfectly all the time.

The borrow checker came with an upfront cognitive cost that ultimately saved me from multithreaded async I/O madness later on. I can sleep at night knowing my multithreaded async system is more sound and easier to safely extend/maintain than it would have been had I created it in C/C++.

I can see why some people might give up on Rust. In C++ you can take the easy way out (use mutable aliasing etc.) and you can quickly get things 'working'. You don't have it so easy in Rust because you have to carefully think about end-end ownership.

Also in Rust I found that when I did make bad design decisions it was sometimes a lot more work (redesigning structs, shifting ownership responsibility) than it would have been in C/C++ (because I probably would have laid land-mines for my future self by mutably aliasing things etc.).
It's not dying but it's a saturated market where almost every problem has been solved in the past 20 years.
People are already changing their skin color intentionally.

They have for 1000's of years but it is getting more techy.

They shouldn't be doing it cause it makes the racial majority feel bad?

Some pretty twisted logic if you sit down and think about it.
Is your sister in the music industry? Because you mentioned her "rapper" friends, and I just want to make it clear to everyone in this thread that not all AAs in NYC are "rappers".
Believe it or not, I was just working on a script this weekend that was becoming a nightmare to debug. And when I realized that I had been lazily using exceptions as control flow, this really hit home.
The telemetry is what gets me about Windows 10... why do they need so damn much of it?

In days gone by it was a purely opt-in process for various applications at install time and their applications seem to have benefited from it (SQL, Visual Studio and so on) so why do they need to monitor the living daylights out of everything now? And why can it not just be opt-in?

I had been using Windows 7/8.1 for several years and decided to try 10... in the whole time I used 7/8.1 on my computer I had no issues at all. No crashes and everything just worked.

I had Windows 10 for 1 month and I had 3 blue screens. This was around Feb this year.

Uninstall!

Back to 8.1 with Stardock and cannot see any reason to upgrade.

I have "fixed" my neighbours's computers and my parents several times now with the Windows 10 stuff.

It's malware/adware plain and simple.
Who bailed out the bankers? Oh, that's right – the institution you describe as the "only thing that truly has any reigns around its neck". I'm not surprised your prediction involves a conspiracy theory.
Self-destruct hyper-file format to share and visualize 3D models
Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?
This weekend I waded through a couple of old projects and I thought about all the stuff I built over the years. I posted a couple of "Show HN" projects a couple of years ago and it was funny reading those posts again.

Basically all of the projects went on 'auto-pilot' right away, meaning that I didn't touch them since I posted them. However, my latest 'Show-HN' turned into a real business and three years later we are a three people remote team and we are growing quite fast (the project is called mailparser.io).

I was wondering what your 'Show HN' turned into? Any stories you want to share?
I'm not sure bout how easy it would be to move to the US, but it's not surprising many of our best software engineers and innovators choose that option. Not wanting to belittle the guys achievements, yet the balance between EU parliament and the commission is still way off, which is one of the only legitimate reasons people have to dislike the EU. i understand that the patent system has downsides and of course 'fewer patents' means 'fewer trolls'. however nothing significant in software (esp. outside of open source) has come out of the EU for a long time. Our innovation model needs to change.
The sexism connection is tenuous. Par for the course.

They're both wrong. Experiences are great and stuff is great if it's building on itself. Both of them are crap if they're just stuffing things into a bloated "misc" pile.

Like the author's example, if you're building a home, then the stuff is good. If you're just destroying money, then the stuff is bad. If you're building a personality by meeting foreign people, then the experiences are good. If you're just avoiding responsibility, then the experiences are bad.
I want the ability to speed up videos like on desktop.
Turbonegro did it in 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtCvz6-7D7g

Carnivore (Pete Steele's band before Type O Negative) also did it in 1987 (although it's probably not going to be classified as a metal song unless your name is Marcel Duchamp or Tracy Enim): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDTrWw_APM
We all go far too easy on companies doing shitty anti-customer things like this!
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It doesn't even sound cool to me. "Felony" is an ugly word, meaning aside.
Teenagers Surrounded by Green Are Less Aggressive
> Last time I've been programming on Pascal was almost 20 years ago

So high time to give it another look. It's changed a lot in 20 years. Check it out:

1. Free Pascal: http://www.freepascal.org/

2. Delphi: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
> Most people "going to the gym" at one point have to come to terms with that it's to some extent a waste of time.

Parent divided people into those that don't do anything alone and those who do. A similar dichotomy is between those who enjoy exercise intrinsically and those who don't (who therefore do it for another reason, such as to be fit).

Telling the first group that they are "wasting their time" makes as much sense (to them) as telling a violin player he is "wasting his time" playing the violin.

People are different. To each his own.
There IS a simple solution, and it's not like they can stop providing updates for the old version anyway: just wait a few years !
My wife has floated the idea of moving somewhere ultracheap for a year to save up money while I work remote. Aside from ant and power issues, how was your experience otherwise?

We probably wouldn't move to Puerto Rico, but likely somewhere cheap on the mainland - maybe Texas, or somewhere in the midwest.
Neither are trustworthy and neither should be trusted implicitly. But to pretend that people can't have any effect on businesses like they can on government is just silly. Businesses can't tax the population. They rely on consumers buying their products and services, and if that doesn't happen they fail. People vote with their dollars all the time and businesses are forced to respond or die. The government has no such constraints and can continue forward with whatever terrible policies they want so long as they spend the majority of their time and effort securing re-election.
I disagree that "America" and "Fourth Amendment" are a good concept, unless you target a very limited subset of humanity.

Patriotism is something I wouldn't like either, I think that's a rather odd concept (and not related to liberty, freedom or security).

Good Citizen sounds like it comes straight from a famous book inventing doublespeak.

Even Free Speech is not a global concept - the way you capitalize it I assume you're after the US version again.

Probably the lesson is (again) that naming things is a hard problem (I agree that Felony might not be a good name too by the way)
Shouldn't be hard to believe. Sure, theirnipen source projects viewed in isolation might give one a certain impression. But, when considering corporations one must consider the whole picture. One must "incorporate" all aspecta of behavior and structure. To this point I would point out their stewardship of Skype. Once a secure platform, no longer secure. Looking forward, consider their motivations for purchasing LinkedIn. Personal information. Direct relationship with the customer. Very much in linenwith their investment in Facebook. To Microsoft, the customer is just as much a resource as any of their employees.
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Yet, you didn't refute him. Your last sentence about code quality etc. is just bullocks.
We don't necessarily need to use words like "hoodlums", but in terms of practical advice, this is as sound for African-American vernacular english as it is for Appalachian vernacular English, for the same reason that people in the business world generally talk in business-specific dialects (synergy! alignment!) rather than using the latest Internet memes. A fruitful approach will respect local vernacular usages while still teaching the generic "polished" English language.