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That would only be the case if this one business were the entire economy of California. The added demand caused by employees with more money to spend will generate more production.
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> Is this really correct? Do you think that a trust fund baby would not become more productive if they lost their trust fund and needed to find a job? Do you really believe that exactly zero rich people choose not to work because they don't have to?

He was arguing under your premise that passive income equalled productivity. If you now suggest that they would be more productive without their money, why should "having money" be rewarded like it is? An automated machine doing a job gives money to the person owning the machine, who does exactly as much work as the unemployed person who lost their job to that machine.
The state isn't subsidizing a penny. The taxpayers are paying directly into the parasites profits. What a crook!
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>Downvoting

Don't discuss downvoting in a response to someone. It doesn't make for good discussions. Especially since you're likely not replying to the person who downvoted.

>My point is that this business is a bad business if it can only exist because the state subsidizes its employees with social programs.

Then why couldn't you articulate that in the first comment? It was just a tirade against the wealthy elite mixed in with unsubstantiated claims of increased demand that fail to take into account that the wage increase isn't global.
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To be honest I haven't had this feeling but maybe it is just because how I am and because
I am 30 minutes away of Cordoba, which is the second bigest city in Argentina and has good nightlife etc. Most of my friends and family live there.

I tweeted few weeks ago that I moved here and found another guy in IT few kms away. Also the first week I invited two neighbours to a bbq (asado!) and turns out one of the guys worked for HP. Not enough for a meetup yet but I am considering havig some beers with them.

My wife didn't want to move out few years ago, two weeks after living here she told me that she was very happy to live here and she suffer every time she had to go to the city.

My 11 daughter has done more friends here in two months than in her entire life living in the city and my son 4yo son is about to learn to ride a bike.

My advice will be at least to try it out, it will change your life for ever.
Looks more like post-MBP
There are several places where I strongly believe that access to the law can meaningfully improve access to justice. And I hope, through our work at Open Law Library, we can show this to be true.

1) Educated lay-people. If you have good reading comprehension, and if your problem is one many other people have faced, there is a chance the law that pertains to your situation is clear and unambiguous. Access to the law in this case means you can resolve your issue.

2) Legal services at the margin. At the high end, where you are paying an attorney hundreds of dollars per hour, that attorney is passing database costs straight through to you, but you can afford it. At the low end, legal aid clinics usually receive free or reduced cost access to the databases. However, at the margin, when you are scraping together the money to pay a $30/hr lawyer to represent you in a civil matter, neither you nor the lawyer can afford to pay. It is in these cases on the margin where access to high quality laws can make a significant difference.

3) Secondary legal sources. Many legal aid clinics put out high quality secondary sources written at a grade school reading level. Where I volunteered, we had around 100. We could have had many, many more. They don't really take that long to write and the number of people helped per hour of writing was quite high. The problem, however, was maintaining them. Each document we added to our library represented a commitment of several hours to a couple days of work quarterly or biannually to review the law and update the document. It was this maintenance commitment that limited our ability to provide understandable legal documents. This time commitment can be cut by an order of magnitude by pushing pertinent changes to the law to legal aid clinics, rather than them having to sort through all laws for pertinent changes.

4) Government opinions. Many governments have legal departments that will provide opinions on the law. These opinions are often (though not always) written with a general audience in mind, and explain a particularly complex or often misunderstood part of the law. Unfortunately, these opinions are not easily discoverable, especially if you don't even know to look for them. Open Law Library works with jurisdictions to help them coordinate publishing, linking, and discoverability across branches and departments.

Into the future, as we build the foundation of computer-readable laws, others will build tools, apps, and bots on top of this foundation that will make the law truly accessible to all.
you can't downvote something you've responded to

I don't believe this is the case. However, you can't downvote a response to your own comment.

Edit to add: To confirm, I still have a downvote arrow available to me on your comment.
I see so few people who understand this. Years ago I applied for a job at Walmart, during the interview I explained that 30 hours a week wasn't enough for me. They printed out a sheet on all the "benefits they offered". It was simply a list of all the programs available for low income individuals, they weren't offering anything. Walmart alone costs the taxpayers 6.2 billion[0] in grants. Increasing the minimum wage only puts those costs on them as opposed to the taxpayer.

[0]http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...
Interesting--here in Houston I stopped using Google Maps long ago when I want to look up a business's hours. In fact, I had already stopped using it when Citysearch was popular, but I don't use that anymore either. Google Maps often has out-of-date data whereas Yelp always feels current.
I think I have narrowed this issue down now. Earlier I had assumed this affects all files of certain size, since when I had run into this I was involved in a project where I had to look at certain textual content (dumped out of DB as JSON). That content was generated by one of the in-house dump tools. I had a closer look at one of the files just now and now have a simple python script which consistently reproduces this issue with ST3. Here's the python script which generates a file which can then be opened in ST3 and timed.

content = 'a'
with open('content.txt', 'w') as f:
for x in range(1, 18888789):
f.write(content)

It took me 39 seconds (consistently) to open it. The generated file size is less than 20MB.

The problem appears to be that ST3 slows down while loading this file which just has 1 huge line. If I tweak that script to change the content from 'a' to 'a\n' to include a new line within the content, the generated file loads relatively quickly and in reasonable time (around 6 seconds for the 37MB odd file).

I admit, this now I think can be considered a corner case but when I ran into this pretty frequently, I just assumed this happens with all files with such sizes. As for why I believed ST2 doesn't have this issue - I'm not sure anymore, because when I try these files now with ST2 it too behaves similarly.

I no longer work on that project which generated these files so had it no been for this thread, I would never have bothered to dig deeper into this and would have just stuck with ST2 :)
What route?

I suspect space is the main factor - I'm usually on LAX or IAH to AKl and it's almost always full.
It was never survival of the fittest individual - it is survival of the fittest group, family, village and nation. So it implies caring or altruism.
Sorry if that wasn't clear. I'm asking why don't they switch to the hybrid sort similar to Boost's, since it's known to be faster for most cases?
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Normally I defend Sublime Text, but I think this is the ideal use case for Atom/VSCode. It has great defaults and is easy to get started with without plugins.

Sublime is still easier than VIM/Emacs for beginners but it does require some effort to get up to full awesomeness.
good call, thanks for clarifying the librarian was suspended, not fired.

But you create a false dichotomy between books no one checks ou' and books with useful and relevant information. if a book doesn't get checked out for, say, a year, is that an indication that it contains no useful information? on what basis?

i'd go further and say this is not a case of flawed metrics but flawed ideology. i don't want my tax dollars to fund the book-equivalent of redbox. i want my tax dollars to fund the preservation and archiving and availability of knowledge, regardless of how 'popular' an algorithm says it is.

granted, a library cannot hold infinite books. but i'd take the curation of a librarian over an algorithm any day of the week.
Agreed. By the state, I meant the public. Tax money supports his paying people low wages and everyone is supposed to act like he's a captain of industry.

Notice that he didn't talk about his profit margins either. He'll be losing 200K out of what exactly?
Going one step further on your proposal leads to well off people doing nothing (leisure) and earning passive income on automation, and poor people doing made up serf jobs for scraps. I'm unsure how you don't see that end result.
That's almost another one right there :)
No, they don't have to, if cheaper labor is available. And it is available.

And no, other businesses won't replace them in CA, because their production costs are higher the moment they start the production. It's basic economics.

And then there are robots.
I've never worked for a company without this kind of policy. I have worked for companies with strict travel restrictions.
I agree. It's crazy. Walmart more than makes enough money to shoulder that cost themselves. The business in the article does the same thing, but to a smaller degree.
Opening hours are on the main search results now, aren't they?
"domestically manufactured clothing is more expensive, but retail and wholesale customers who care about quality and working conditions have historically been willing to pay for it"

.. so pass the price rise on to customers? After all, sewing industry is normally one of the first things that gets offshored. But here they're already willing to pay better prices for "ethically" manufactured goods.
>California's minimum wage law leaves businesses no choice

Strange how all kinds of business have been able to prosper in places with the same or much higher minimum wage laws...
Minimum wage is one of those ideas that is evaluated more for its intentions than for its results.
We are only employed as long as we can generate sufficient profit for the company, if salaries are artificially raised you only made some people unemployable.
I guess that won't really scale if a popular federated server (easy to create fresh accounts) starts attracting spammers?
Neat algorithm, but it is largely comparing apples to oranges. std::sort is universal, ska_sort is not:

> Another problem is that I’m not sure what to do for data that I can’t sort. For example this algorithm can not sort a vector of std::sets

> Another problem is that right now there can only be one sorting behavior per type. You have to provide me with a sort key, and if you provide me with an integer, I will sort your data in increasing order. If you wanted it in decreasing order, there is currently no easy interface to do that.

Useful algorithm, but we already knew there are faster algorithms if we introduce additional requirements!
> A patent is supposed to represent actual existing technology, right?

But they don't imply any kind of pragmatic or cost-effective use of such outside the confines of a lab or test bed, do they?
There is
http://law.stackexchange.com/

But I think it is not as active as others stackexchanges.
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Hi HN,
I wanted to read PG's essays but for such long content, I prefer audio. So I made a podcast out of his essays.

I generated the audio automatically with Amazon Polly, AWS's lifelike text-to-speech offering. It reads impressively well like a human. I thought you'd find it useful. It's available on iTunes as well (you'll find the link on the website)

It was not all straightforward though. For example, there is currently a limit of 1500 characters to be translated per request. I also have to merge all of the audio parts in order.

I'd like to invite you to check it out. If you have any advice on how to improve this, do let me know.

Jeshan.
Just not too ethically. Only the minimum level of ethics.
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It can in extreme cases, but based on totally unscientific observations, the number of flights delayed significantly because people spend too long time stowing their carry on is tiny. Even just looking a boarding related delays, I'd say people simply not showing up at the gate on time is a much bigger problem.
>welfare queen small business owners left, tax rates could drop quite a bit. Life would, frankly, improve for everyone except the parasites

Inflammatory comments like these are anti-intellectual and don't belong here. It's the same thing as referring to people on unemployment as welfare queens.
>The problem with word choices like that is the implication the human beings working for him are not living, and further, that's OK.

They are barely living hand-to-mouth or need to have 2 jobs to make even that.
How can a business fail if by definition its sitting on piles of cash? We live in a centrally controlled command economy and all the politicians in charge of selecting winners and losers (except one widely hated guy at the top) were purchased by those very same businesses, so why are you proposing that mutually beneficial system break down?

What would work would be a nice infusion of inflation. You can spend $X today on Y of labor or Z of capex, or hoard it until next year when the same $X will only buy (0.95)Y of labor or (0.95)Y of capex "stuff", your choice how much "stuff" you want to get for your $X
Lenovo's new VR headset is coming, and it'll cost less than $400
Steam has other advantages:

- first mover

- absolutely terrible UX of the other stores with game-integrated features (Origin; original GFWL). Steam's not great, but it's acceptable for most people most of the time.

- non-punitive DRM: can move install freely without worrying about loss of media

- very generous frequent discounts

The last two help against the real competitor, piracy.
Sure, but they'll only put it in the hold for free if it's a single bag small enough for them to class it as "hand luggage", and it's to improve their boardig efficiency, not to do you a favour.
If you don't realize that the "state subsidizing" == "taxpayers paying" isn't the same thing at the state level in the US, I have some bad news for you...
If you're sure about this, what's the point at which raising the minimum wage would be a net loss for aggregate demand?
I did want to express the part that you call a tirade. Wealthy people need to understand that the parts of their revenue that correspond to taxes that subsidize their employment practices are going to need to be paid as wages. Its at the root of the unfair practices that have created inequality, and it's corrosive to democracy.

I think that the idea that paying people more, who spend more of their income proportionally, increases demand isn't really unsubstantiated. Maybe I didn't substantiate it, but only because I thought it was well known. Apologies for that.
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When you have 17 employees and your all business model still revolves around paying them the minimum wage, then you are not really making profit from selling a product/service, your all profit comes from exploring people (your employees) that are in dire need of food/proper shelter.

Your business is not adding anything positive to the economy so you should actually close the doors and go work for that minimum wage you think it's so great.

The only exception here is if you are just starting and you have very few employees (less than 5). In that case it is acceptable that you can only afford low wages, but that can be remedied with tax cuts for the first few years of a company with no need to still keep the minimum wage so low.
You can get that pay with enough experience. Obviously nowhere near as common though. I think your pay:cost of life ratio will win in Chicago. One of the best setups in the country.

Climate matters a ton for me. I live by Chicago but am considering taking an effective pay cut to get the bay weather. Running is my hobby, and running in blizzards is getting old.
Raising minimum wage will do nothing to fix that. The state will still be subsidizing the same things it was before.
Please. Apple not catering to power users is not in any significant way what ails Apple today.

And Apple catering to what you describe as the lowest common denominator is what made them the largest company in the world. If that is a sickness, I wish I could be afflicted by it.

What changed was not so much the world (although it did), but Apple itself. Apple is now a huge company, but it still run as a small one, because that is what allowed them to different and let them to success. But there are reasons why no other large company is run like that, and the bigger Apple gets, the more those reasons begin to compound.
It's for the wow-factor. It will stay impressive until everybody starts doing that and people start to correlate those animations with bad UI.

And, it's likely that an impressive site increase sales, so it will likely spread a lot yet.
The flip-side is with baggage fees, passengers have incentive to sneak bulky baggage into the cabin, or carry the absolute maximum allowed amount of carry-on. This ends up forcing people to gate-check their luggage, because the cabin runs out of space. This costs time and annoyance.

I assume the airlines have done the math and the time cost is less than the increase in revenue.

All that said, I almost always fly carry-on only, for my own convenience (no waiting at baggage claim, no lost/damaged luggage, etc). I often wonder what on earth some people are taking with them on vacation - I can do a two week vacation with carry-ons (1 luggage, 1 small backpack), and that includes a bicycle kit (helmet, shorts/jersey, shoes, and pedals) on top of normal clothing.
This makes me think of a sort of pendulum. Maybe what Apple needs now is to just be boring for a decade.
You don't have to pity him or judge him to understand this article.

He is just saying that this will be a common occurrence.

Discussions like this should always goes back to first principles - you can't force people to pay a certain wage, no matter how good your intentions.
Fucked up that they've classified it. I expect they give clearance to enough doctors so it won't be a problem in practice, but it still sucks.
Interesting and useful idea. How have you handled licensing? I don't see any mention of it on your site (though I may have missed it), and I see that paulgraham.com carries a copyright mark.
Except that overseas labor isn't going to be dirt-cheap forever. We can keep shifting manufacturing around to different developing countries but it's just kicking the can down the road and saying we'll deal with it later. Eventually Chinese workers and Malaysian workers and all the rest are going to start demanding real wages, and I don't think it's too far away now either. Maybe 20 more years we can keep playing this game but it's going to get harder and harder.

Add to it we're running out of busywork to have people doing, costs of automation are plummeting, jobs that were initially thought by the majority of people to be safe from the robots are turning out to be not-so-safe, and the elite continue to live under the delusion that they can continue stockpiling wealth while the rest of us scrape by.

There are a lot more poor people than rich people, and your money isn't going to help much when they're breaking down your door with torches and pitchforks.
They probably should. After all Boost is often a staging area for C++ standard library.
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When someone says a business is operating at a 200k loss, that means it's not making any profits and it's losing money. It's a standard way to talk about a business.
Its going to suck when virtually every single restaurant and grocery store shuts it's doors in California as the supply side economists have predicted.
That's one way to look at it. There are examples, though, of states with higher minimum wages out performing neighboring states with lower wages.

Businesses like this can only operate because taxes are used to subsidize their employee's lack of a living wage.
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I'm a touch typist, and there's no way I'm going to use touch bar. I've tested it in the local Apple store, and it just doesn't work for me, nor do their new keyboards.

I appreciated Apple's innovations in the past, but imho Apple shows little understanding of their remaining users in the "pro" market, or rather unwillingness to cater for them. Pro users want predictable work horses and a roadmap for their software purchases, not the new shiny and Apple doing away with basic functionalities of a computer system such as standard keyboards and ports.

Why didn't Apple make touch bar optional on the higher end Macbook Pros?
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For one, because I'm not restricted in my argumentation to what the GP compared.

But, more precisely, because I found the kind GP's lamentations over the top when speaking of modern air travel, and think that it would only be justified if GP was indeed speaking about pre-airplane travel.
does everything have to have a purpose, i.e function. maybe not anymore.
Possible security problems:

- It may be possible to use timing to determine if a file already exists. So it could be possible for an attacker to determine for someone if some other mail.ru user received a file with some given contents.

- They rely on no-one being able to construct a collision of (SHA1, CRC32, size)
I believe SHA1 collisions are at least possible.
If it was possible to construct such a collision you could change someone else's files by sending an email earlier with the collision.
Thanks for the comments people, I'll pass it on to our HR :)
I'm not an economist, so consider me soundly put in my place.
I work in tech in SF, but the reason I stay is because of all of the other features of living in a first-tier city with all of the natural features of the Bay area: world-class museums, galleries, and performing arts; the quick drive to wine country; walking almost everywhere; fascinating people; friends & family who always want to visit.