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> I'm not against mild zoning codes that merely slow down rather than block change.

I was thinking along similar lines, yet I suspect that this won't happen for various reasons even if NIMBYism is discounted. The layout of many suburban communities is less than ideal for commercial development, even something as innocent as a convenience store, since they are low density and unwalkable for community members while the roads are ill suited for traffic from outside of the community. Talking about gradually increasing height or unit restrictions sounds nice, yet I suspect that land and construction costs have been driven so high by existing zoning regulations that developers find smaller projects uneconomical.
In this industry, $250M/year isn't enough
The very best at what, though? If they have a family, perhaps they're a dad. If they're the best at social media, they're not the best at being a dad. In fact, they probably suck at being a dad. I think that to be the best, you have to choose one thing, and be okay with being shitty at all the other things you didn't choose. A lot of people who I respect decided that they wanted to be just be pretty good at everything.
Azure offers $500k for YC startups and $360k for "lesser" accelerators. It's by far the most generous offer out there.
> Perhaps if everyone started from the same point this would be true. However, not only has everyone not started from the same point

By deciding to have children or not (and if yes: how many?), parents vote about the distribution of the startup positions for the next generation.

EDIT: In other words: Poor people should rather be angry about their parents than about the system.
> More than half of all the businesses have no employees

That sounds very interesting. What do you mean by "the businesses"? Where are these stats from?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13611350
I'm a good software engineer and I do make (approx.) $250k, at a company that hires lots of people on H1B visas.
Interesting article. I think, however, if we are doing to do anything effective about the problem, it will happen only if we examine in detail those countries that don't have the same problems.

For instance, many Western European countries have very good health care for far less expense, and besides that the doctors enjoy their work. What we need to do is compare in detail how those health care systems work differently such that there are such good results, and then figure out how to make something similar in this country.

Ditto for the other areas. I can think of no sensible reason for not doing such studies. Of course, various groups wouldn't want this because it would run counter to their ideology or financial interests, but this is the right way to go about it.
Some rules are stupid, some ideas are stupid. In the original link they want to restrict how far people can travel. Well duh, Bikes and Electric cars already do this.

But then what if the person is a travelling salesman? Has the $1m prize for this problem been solved and awarded yet? Not that I know of.

On your point about limiting how much a vacuum cleaner can use, try this simple test, pick up some dirt, put on the palm of your hand and blow it. You don't need much blow to get it off your hand. Now try the same but in reverse ie suck the dirt. Did you breath it all in? I'd say no and this is why rules restricting how powerful the vacuum cleaner can be is stupid. Its the same as using eco friendly light bulbs if working from home during the winter months. These contribute to depression & SAD, so get yourself a brighter light that's still a CFL but gives you more light (lux) for the same wattage as the old style incandescent. Technology is designed to make life better for us, not to go backwards because some politician said so.

If politicians were really bothered about the planet, your health etc, they would not spends millions on defence, they would invest massively in research whilst also spending more on education to further drive the research. The fact they don't just confirms to me, they are there for big business only.

The West's population would be in decline and has been in decline since the 70's if it wasn't for immigration. Immigration is needed because we have a messed up financial system which needs constant growth to keep driving inflation. If we didn't have inflation, very quickly you would see the financial system is just a generational Ponzi scheme as the baby boomers who stole your future have demonstrated. If you wont have to work for longer before you get your pension then the boomers have not stolen your future.
Subsidize what you want and tax what you don't is 101 level economics. Distort the market to match what neighborhood wants. There are other approaches, but macro is pretty well understood.
So true. And I hope that comes to pass.
Now assume Uber et al own fleets of self-driving 9-passenger minivans. During peak commuting hours they're completely full because they pick up different passengers who have the same commute, and that way you eliminate the parking space both at home and at work.

The rest of the day they don't actually park anywhere, they just stay on the road operating by carry one or two passengers at a time instead of eight or nine. Or half them stay on the road operating and the other half go off and park in some huge lot out where land is cheaper until demand picks up again.

Then instead of 3.3 spaces per car you can have <1, and most of them can be in low land cost areas.

It's actually kind of like dynamically allocated mass transit.
According to this article:

> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/14/gitlab_to_dump_clou...

...they were moving away from the cloud, to their own servers.
This is really cool. Did anyone else try to drag the "Drag Me!" bubble for 10 seconds, though? Instead of the line itself, I mean.
No, not at all. I think people might be surprised at just how basic the structures that he uses his evidence are.

The Piraha study was a study with poor research practices (subsequent researches have found conflicting findings from Everett's), and always ignored one massive problem, as told by a joke:

"Professor Chomsky! There's a language in Brazil that doesn't seem to have recursion or large numerals!"

Chomsky doesn't turn around.

"Can they learn Portuguese?"

"... Yes."

That's a lot of what his theories are-- that for a set of features in human language including types of structure like recursion, every homos sapiens has the ability to use them in language.
> I'd suggest living in southeast / east Asia for a while if you think anarchical development is a good idea. It all falls apart when you need to build, maintain and provide basic services (electricity, water, sewage.)

"It all falls apart"? I beg to differ. It is a continuum of cities being differently developed, yes. But many cities (Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei) are not all that far from many European cities, and they are often far more vibrant (think Manhattan or Paris).

In fact, it is more of an uneven development, where things like subways, street food and internet might be much better, but sewage and smog is worse. It is mostly just different and depends on what you focus your attention on, seeing the bad things that are different or the good things.
Yes, I recall seeing a ticket that referenced Gitlab using Azure because it was heavily subsidized. My company uses Azure for much the same reason, and my experience has been largely positive.
The DOM syntax makes perfect sense, but you have to realise it's not a 'transformation' in the sense of taking a stream of text and converting it into a stream of HTML for the browser. It's just Elm code that returns DOM nodes.

The HTML functions in Elm tend to take two parameters: a list of attribute values and a list of child DOM nodes. Again, this is all code. The list values you specify are again just functions that get evaluated.

It's a little less obvious because of the syntax style of Elm, but it does let you write the function calls out in such a way that they express that tree structure.

It bears repeating: your Elm div example, at the top level, is a single function call with the first parameter '[]' being an empty list (because you aren't assigning the node any attributes like a DOM id or CSS class) and the second parameter being a list that'll be made up of the DOM nodes that result from each of the function calls within it.

This was one of the biggest mental roadblocks I had to get past when learning Elm. Just forget the idea of HTML and think instead of DOM tree-of-nodes and a lot falls into place. The 'view' function you write will return a DOM tree data structure which is then taken and applied to the browser document. You pass in your model as a parameter to that function and then other functions you call within this DOM-generating code you've written will use that data to return different DOM contents depending on it.
San Francisco zoning laws actually just flat out discourage development. This is because San Francisco property owners like that their properties are becoming worth more so they vote that way.
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We changed our minds. We're working on a post in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/... but we wanted to post this first.
It was through a contact I had at a previous company.
They have a billion files in their repo, 9 million are source files.

What the heck is the other 991000000?

I skimmed this. Mostly just stuff any competent company would/should be doing. it's google though, so they act like it's super awesome.
It isn't literally the last mile, in practice it's really the last five or ten miles. And if you have to go 4.5 out of 5 miles, it isn't worth not going the whole way.
RDS can restore a point-in-time snapshot in a couple of hours on databases over 1TB (speaking from experience)
> the fact that people value something does not necessarily make it important.

I think that is precisely what makes it important. As long as as individuals in a society have freedom of choice, the only way to approximate some objective measure of importance is by looking what they value in aggregate.

The things I think are important and the things you think are important are probably different. So who's right?
From a practical standpoint, what makes a difference is what people think is important. As the other commenter mentioned, in capitalist society people clearly demonstrate what they think is important by spending their money.

If people chose to spend their money getting their nails done, then they do think that it's important. If enough people think it's important then it becomes so, and no-one can really tell them otherwise. This is the case as long as people have freedom to chose how they make money and how they spend it.
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>basically an A-10 that can also do some air-to-air in a pinch

With four seconds of bullets? https://defensetech.org/2015/01/02/a-tale-of-two-gatling-gun...
I mash the wrong one probably 25% of the time. And then I just feel awful.
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I suppose that is OK if you already know in what direction your preferred answer lies, but it does not seem to be in the spirit of self-referential skepticism.
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Could you make your point more clearly? I agree that an exposed conspiracy is no longer an ongoing conspiracy, but I don't think that is necessary for a conspiracy theory.
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tl;dr "I let my weight affect my self-esteem, so I avoid the scale. Ignorance is relative bliss."

Bad idea. Weight is a metric for your health. The raw number means little on its own, but it gives you an objective measurement of a key health metric.

A lot of my patients can trace their weight getting out of control back to scale avoidance. Ignorance is not bliss.

Weight (mass) is just one number, but it's the easiest to measure. Get a good impedance scale for estimating lean mass vs bodyfat, so you know what you gain and lose. An unexplained loss of lean mass can be indicative of several serious (and urgent) medical issues.

Measure. Record. Watch for trends. Numbers don't judge. Your scale is not your judge or jury; it's a friend who won't lie to you.
I honestly don't even know what to say...

1. "Parents vote about the distribution of the startup positions for the next generation." What?

2. "Poor people should rather be angry about their parents than about the system." Are you serious? What good is that going to do?

Sorry, but you must be living quite a privileged, or sheltered life if you believe these things.
Human brains also perceive speech or writing or what have you using grammar-like structures. In the sense brought up by the article, a grammar is just a structured logical representation of some physical phenomenon, like sound or imagery.

In other words, grammar is how we perceive things, and it makes sense that it can be generalized instead of only being applicable to a specific sensory input.

The specific point about parsing visual input is much more obvious when looking at things like graphical charts, user interfaces, etc.; there's clearly a grammar of some form involved in, say, determining which button to press on my phone's on-screen keyboard to create the letter 'b', and further involved when determining what a "button" is or what a "keyboard" is or what a "letter" is. Hell, that seems like the same process that lets me figure out what a "screen" is and what a "phone" is. Eventually we go from "type the letter 'b'" to "move your right thumbtip to this position" (and even that can be broken down further).
1) In Mice by a small percentage.

2) "This research was supported in part by the California Walnut Commission (CWC)"

:)
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I'm 35 and sold my house in the Bay Area because of a 1.2 hour commute. Its likely the only house I will ever be able to afford, so I'm not just an idealistic kid. I did the math and was scared that 20 days per year was spent in traffic.

It scared me to death.
The cancel button is already "unvote" vs "undown".

Not that we mightn't want to improve the UI.
> you have to be a millionaire to buy

You don't have to buy property somewhere to live there and most people throughout history have not done so, and as far as I'm aware most continue not to do so now in places like NYC, Paris, Tokyo, etc.
We are the privileged few. Most people are in dire straights. So yes, I'm thankful to have that option.
They will continue to buy out competitors.

Note that event sales is just part of their business. They do season ticket account management for a majority of major league sports teams in the USA.
> What the heck is the other 991000000?

Says right in the article: various config and dependency files, presumably both as caches (where everyone would generate the same product) or as a record of where things stood on at time t.

For example:

> In some cases, notably Go programs, build files can be generated (and updated) automatically, since the dependency information in the BUILD files is (often) an abstraction of the dependency information in the source files. But they are nevertheless checked in to the repository.
> You normally have a bunch of .par2 files

vol003+04.par2 and vol031+32.par2 is missing please reupload!!!

Before any flippancy haters downvote, this is exactly what happened on Usenet. Shitty servers are shitty, whatever the file type.
This seems to only be for 2.5D integration, not 3D stacking that TSVs are capable of, right?
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This thread was about social media, but can apply to many things. The point of contention I have is the original assumption of why a product is near worthless because it doesn't matter to the best people in the field which the product is marketed towards.

Not sure how you're interpreting my comment. It isn't to knock people with other priorities like a family. In fact that's perfectly fine and expected. I used it as an example of why people might not be the best in their field. Your description of the trade off supports that claim, and it's a fine trade off to make as work isn't and arguably shouldn't be the center of ones life.

So I don't think we disagree on anything.
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I started reading the article specifically because I thought it was going to cover the capacity market structure.

My home province (Alberta) has recently announced it is moving from energy-only market to a capacity market. https://www.aeso.ca/market/capacity-market-transition/
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As far as leverage goes, my present employer relies entirely on there being little alternative to what he offers. If I had a UBI, that would remove his leverage and I could leave - and I would, in a heartbeat.

Why work for almost no money every week, why work extra hours for free just to satisfy an incompetent's power lust if you don't have to?
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I've got a similar-ish theory. "Smart" people get rewarded as a child or adolescent for doing "smart" behavior, which teaches them to interact with deeper and richer observations and insights. If you don't get trained as a "smart" person, you get better responses to surface appearances.

The slowness comes out of this natively - "smart" children are taught to do more complicated things with social data, and brains need more time to get the sensory data necessary for more complicated behaviors. It takes a tenth of a second for the Patellar reflex, about a second to recognize a friend and wave hello, and a conversation to get someone on board with your project.

No magic required, just training the same sort of behaviors normal people have in the same sort of way. The most difficult part is un-learning "impress people with how clever you are" behaviors.
This could also be true of less intelligent people, and not true of more intelligent people.

Edit: typo
Baumol's cost disease predicts growth in prices above inflation. After all, inflation is overall growth in prices, and consists of things that suffer from cost disease as well as things that actually get cheaper (TVs, etc).
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Yes but in even the most developed countries, nutrition isn't an issue but sufficiently good educational environments aren't.

We're still barely tapping into people's potential, but people still act form arguments on the assumption that we are.
It would be great for all of us if you provided your reasoning: to cloud, or not to cloud :) Thanks
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There is a nice documentary about the search for Liquid Helium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzYdo1xEbQo
Reproduction has a very well-earned taboo thanks to the terrible eugenics trends of the early 20th century. But, this taboo prevents us from seeing some things clearly. One of those things we tend to avoid thinking about as a society is the who/when/why of parenting, and the long-term effects of those decisions (or lack thereof).

The movie Idiocracy satirized one aspect of this, but it still doesn't get much discussion in terms of family planning on a societal scale -- whether to encourage or discourage childbearing, whether some groups should be encouraged more than others and the moral questions thereby raised, etc.

So, acting shocked and invoking "privilege" doesn't move the conversation forward, when there is ample underexplored territory in which to do so.
Those walnut folks stay busy - a few months ago it was walnuts improving mood(1).

Though I have picked up a couple of bags as portable snacks.

(1) http://www.medicalnewsobserver.com/2016/11/walnuts-better-mo...
This is usually true, except when it's not :

I have personally experienced a near-catastrophic situation 3 years ago, where 13 out of 15 days' worth of nightly RDS MySQL snapshots were corrupt and would not restore properly.

The root cause was a silent EBS data corruption bug (RDS is EBS-based), that Amazon support eventually admitted to us had slipped through and affected a "small" number of customers. Unlucky us.

We were given exceptional support including rare access to AWS engineers working on the issue, but at the end of the day, there was no other solution than to attempt restoring each nightly snapshot one after the other, until we hopefully found one that was free of table corruption. The lack of flexibility to do any "creative" problem-solving operations within RDS certainly bogged us down.

With a multi-hundred gigabyte database, the process was nerve-wracking as each restore attempt took hours to perform, and each failure meant saying goodbye to another day's worth of user data, with the looming armageddon scenario that eventually we would reach the end of our snapshots without having found a good one.

Finally, after a couple of days of complete downtime, the second to last snapshot worked (IIRC) and we went back online with almost two weeks of data loss, on a mostly user-generated content site.

We got a shitload of AWS credits for our trouble, but the company obviously went through a very near-death experience, and to this day I still don't 100% trust cloud backups unless we also have a local copy created regularly.
> Mark my words, the board members from the VC firms will be removed by the VC partners

I have never, ever, seen this. Every firm has its own internal politics [1] but rarely if ever would they do this. They are more likely to just ignore it.

There is a belief that it takes a decade to tell if a VC is any good or not, and that includes "learning experiences" (all on the LP's dime of course).

> Then VC firms will put an experienced CEO and CTO in place

Now this I have seen. It even works sometimes (e.g. Eric Schmidt/Google).

[1] I have had a firm invest in which all decisions were made by a single partner. I also had a firm invest (a sizable sum!) in which other senior partners never met me and only learned what my company even did when I gave a presentation at one of their LP meetings. Also some very large funds allow senior partners to make small seed investments ("science projects") without formal approval from the partnership.
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> I like alternative solutions to this problem, but I don't think yours solves all cases of the problem.

If I cared enough about solving "all cases of the problem" I'd probably not post my solution here but patent it and live off royalty fees for the remainder of my life ;)

Honestly, my solution collides with the aim of any game provider: I want recommendations based on trust, games providers want to sell games. If steam implemented my solution, it might work out, but it also might lead to a decline in sales (because I suspect most people to buy stuff based on some arbitrary "rating").

> Which app store 'gets it right' and how close to do you feel it's use case is to Steam's?

None, because the store's and my goals are mutually exclusive (at least as far as "app stores" work for now): I want stuff I like, the store wants my money. There is no incentive to implement my solution because, as of now, there is no evidence that the store makes more money by not pushing unwanted apps into my face.

PS: Thanks for your feedback, it forced me to reflect upon and spell out things I usually take for granted because I live in my own filter bubble.