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That's a given. Google also needs to control the hw platform to be successful. Open platform equals shoddy service/product because it would require adding a Microsoft-sized operation.
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> We should think about what that means

Free market economy doesn't think ahead, that's both it's strength and weakness. Government tries to think ahead. A taxation on robots might be a way to ease the road to the future _if_ the market doesn't invent jobs in the rate robots/automation in general takes them away. If you are a person with faith in the market the argument is easy, it's non-marketist to think ahead and the market will invent jobs because supply/demand.

My take on this that for the market to be able to invent those jobs the economy has to become virtual. So the solution from the Government should be heavy subsidies to VR equipment, give the extremely poor extremely powerful gaming rigs and install tubes with free food(ish) to everyone. Then the market will survive, matrix style.
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As others have said, driving really isn't a choice in much of the US, but rather an artifact of finding a residence with desirable attributes (price, size, form-factor, noise level, green space, school zone) in the same metro as one's workplace. Just as the article notes that framing driving with moralistic terms is a recipe for ruin, so is framing it as a conscious choice on parts of perfectly average people who "decide" to drive to work that day. So quit focusing on driving -- driving isn't the problem, despite the pollution deaths, despite car crashes, despite whatever evil cars and trucks bring upon the world -- they're tools, like just like fossil fuel power plants and oil refineries and other terribly unpleasant things that enable a modern, globalized, distributed, and hyper-specialized society.

As this and other articles find, driving is a symptom of land use, but car-centric suburbia was not build because of cars, but merely enabled by them. Greenfield land has many perks, not the least the lack of pre-existing baggage like badly configured buildings, under-sized streets, and aging underground infrastructure. In the US, this wave was helped by white flight and the increased demand after WWII, but demographically homogeneous countries in Central and Eastern Europe are going through a wave of suburbanization right now, driven solely by income inequality. I've said it before [1], as car suburbs are aging themselves, they're becoming worse places to live, which makes it harder to pay for their upkeep, and those who can afford to move move either further out to brand new exurbs that have a better balance of commercial vs. residential, or back to revitalizing urban cores, leaving only those who can't afford to leave.

Capitalism works within the same metro too; local governments compete against each other for businesses and residents. The low-populated outskirts are often at risk for annexation by a nearby town, so they can instead incorporate themselves to capture local tax base and keep it from paying for "somebody else". There is no free lunch and income is redistributed either way: either the city annexes a far-flung reach of greenfield land to build some high-profit industrial park to help pay for the city's aging infrastructure or its attempts to gentrify, or the local residents organize into smaller and smaller independent municipalities that focus on fostering the character of the particular neighborhood while keeping the tax income closer to the site, but fragmenting the metro into entities that compete for the same dollars. This is fundamentally an economic problem, one that's not driven by regulation and NIMBY, but mostly by average people looking to maximize their self-interest for 5-to-15-years at a time, but much longer if they're unlucky.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880084#11880937
Roads are required for the 'last mile' delivery of food and other goods to shops. There is a clear benefit to the smooth running of society if government subsidises roads.
This is an excellent point.

>People imagine their current way of life, but without a car

We imagine it because that's what's being proposed: public policy changes to discourage driving, without the attendant changes to remove our desire to drive.

San Francisco homeowners can easily get behind a proposal to make their streets safer, quieter, and prettier by removing all those South/East Bay outsiders and their cars.

They won't get behind a proposal to make their streets louder, in shadow, and full of undesirables by building high- or even mid-rise housing to let the commuters move in.

The movement to shut down driving has legs. The movement to densify doesn't. That's what scares me.

College towns are a great model. One interesting feature of many college towns is the preponderance of scooters and small motorcycles. I suspect these will be crucial (even if only as a transitional step) in densifying. Amazon Prime and the panoply of food delivery apps are also quite popular among students, helping to eliminate the shopping/errands use case for cars.
Being able to access SF Mono outside of terminal is really nice
SQL cannot be trivially composed. If you want to dynamically build a query you're better off using a query builder to generate that SQL than trying to play around with strings.

SQL lacks support for some pretty basic things like query aliases. Try writing 5 nested queries vs using variables to store the different criteria.

SQL has unnecessary grammar restrictions. Where you're putting your ORDER BY should be irrevant. Join syntax is frankly horrendous. It's difficult to autocomplete.

Embedding SQL in your code is a recipe for disaster. Your compiler does not understand it, therefore refactoring means going over every query you have and manually looking to see what changes to do. It cannot be validated in compile time. SQL strings have no knowledge of the backing domain until they're actually run.

And finally, 99% of the time you really do want to fetch and object with relations from the DB, not simple maps of field names. Aliasing field names in SQL from joins is a waste of my time. Making the returned data map to whatever object actually contains the business logic I'm interested in gets old, fast.
> big TBMs are heavily bespoke systems specifically built for their planned route, and it's not unusual to just scrap them after the job is done.

Would you say, they are expensive powerful machines built for a single use to be thrown away? Where much of the expense is due to the lack of re-usability?

I wonder if Elon Musk has any experience with anything like that.
It's also about a choice and personal freedom.You might lean to communist like state where the government is telling you what to do, say, hear and think.
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Leipzig was heavily bombed in the war so I guess that helped with rebuilding the infrastructure to make room for alternative transportation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Leipzig_in_World_Wa...
Exactly... I had the opportunity to meet an almost Billion dollar company founder. I went in feeling awkward but he was very nice, treated me with dignity and respect and never once did I feel uncomfortable. Within minutes, I felt like I was conversing with any one of my other colleagues or friends.
I think it's good that the times is printing this, but I also think that it is good that the bureaucracy is resisting Trump. Flynn was a bit of a nut job, so this seems like a good place to resist. While there's a lot of anger, it seems that in general people are resisting things that seem atrociously stupid.
And the prices will go up.
The article says they can supply 1900 watts. All modern VR headsets consume a fraction of that.
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The ridiculous prices in many urban cores is driven by the same supply constraints that cause urban sprawl.

When the only place where zoning and planning boards allow density is a relatively tiny downtown, surrounded by low density development, it's no surprise prices shoot through the roof.
> If at all possible, you should choose one DBMS and stick with it.

Yeah, sure, go tell that to your manager who promised multi vendor compat to your clients.

Problems with the ORM nowadays always stem from developers who are ignorant of SQL. Those people should not be working for you anyway.
Leipzig is a small city, especially metro area wise compared to the US's large cities.

As far as density, people per square kilometer.

10,831 NYC

5,344 Boston

4,447 Chicago

3,198 LA

1,985 Detroit

1,900 Leipzig

1,414 Houston
Why?

In the long-term disruptions and changes in jobs are part of the changes in the world. These people are unemployed temporarily and will lose some wages in the short-term but in the long term they will benefit from technological changes.

Taxing innovation is bad. If you want to achieve social welfare goals why not use NIT (negative income tax) or less preferably, UBI (universal basic income)?

Why should people using robots pay for it rather than everybody? After all, many people (in the long-term, everybody) indirectly benefit from the usage of robots. It's a net economic win.
It was not an ad hominem attack. He criticized you willfully not learning about the area you say you specialize in. It is completely valid criticism as your reasons for doing it are ridiculous and what you said looks very unprofessional.
Let's remove ourself from government dependence first please.
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> Travel monitoring firm Inrix reported that in 2008, the 3 percent decline in vehicle miles traveled led to a 30 percent decline in traffic congestion.

Does that also mean that increasing street capacity by 3% would lead to a 30% reduction in congestion? That would sound like a worthwhile investment to me.
The way forward for the midwest is clear, then.
You cannot look at the code, and cannot monitor the infrastructure. The only thing left is trust.

Trust in the belief that Microsoft will act in your best interest regarding the privacy of your data.

But, isn't reasonable then to ask if Microsoft is actually trustworthy? PRISM, NSAKEY, Flame malware propagating via Windows Update, their 0day policy... I don't think Microsoft is trustworthy.
The electric field is contained by using capacitors in the pole in the middle of the room. The magnetic field is what propagates around the room to power devices.

But I suppose you'll say we are magnetic beings or something?
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I think this is indeed the solution, and European cities figured it out a long time ago.

However, there is a usability problem on the municipal level: if you're starting from scratch, which aspects of the European city do you build first, in what order, so as to build utility slowly without causing planning problems and without spending a bajillion dollars up front?
Came here to say this! It's a very small but nice touch to the OS.
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> Sprawl exists because people want to be connected to cities without paying downtown luxury condo rents, and it's the only viable option (considering public school quality, neighborhood safety, etc.) we're being given.

That's a very America centric view.
PLBs/ELTs are much more scalable, at present. Someday, maybe AI will "watch" every m^3.

Just don't voice any "treasonous" opinions verbally, in the future, because Palantir Panopticon Next will bring SWATings, tax audits and extra pat-downs to whomever is labelled a foe. Gosh, there might even be a viable, non-tinfoil, future business model for rental of soundproof/TEMPEST meeting rooms in large cities (LOL, I hope not.) Total, real-time monitoring would be a massively-sharp, double-edged sword that has the potential to invade privacy like never before... and I fear people won't fight or even question it.
Well, it really comes down to what you do "so you don't have to" do another thing. That's somehow something that is often ignored.

"Use Hibernate", for example, equates to "let third party software I don't understand fiddle around with my bytecode after compilation". That not only crosses the "Nope-line" for me, that even runs past the horizon behind it.

Ignoring that, if a tool like Hibernate requires you to write your business data definitions (i.e. classes) in their specific way, I'd say something's fishy. You'll never be able to untangle the two. Note that, for all their repetitiveness, that's something SQL-based DB interaction approaches would never do.

Edit: It's perhaps noteworthy to mention Uncle Bob's talk about the "Clean Architecture". I think his arguments on how to structure a Codebase based on what is actually important have much much merit to them.
In case my story helps:

Below are the results. The road was hard.

I experienced a similar bump when transitioning from high school to university and then right before my bachelor's degree.

I was looking for something. Had no idea what it was. Everyone else seemed to be doing fine. It was very frustrating and demotivational.

I cleared the first bump by meeting a great group that accepted me and challenged my wit every waking minute with them. It helped me turn my brain on not only for school, but I also started working.

Even though I still had no sense of direction and constantly training my brain on the world around brought about a period of numbness and depression, I was very focused on any task I either had to do or wanted to learn.

The second bump was university where I was already working/studying 50/50. Had to choose work or school and I chose both. It worked out.

Put aside the fact it was the wrong masters or even the wrong university, I pulled it off just to prove a point to myself.

I've started aiming very high in math, optimization, complexity. I was bad at all of them, but my reasoning behind that was "master this and you will be beyond fabulous".

Studying on my own helped a ton. The books that don't make sense in course start making sense, because there is no one else but you to interpret them.

Now at 33 I am finally getting constant influx of challenges and new problems to play with. And I am ready, because I chose not to shut my brain off earlier.

I may not be the "happy" type, but as long as I can use my mind and get constantly challenged, I don't feel the desperation I used to.

One last thing. I had abysmally low self-esteem. I still struggle, because I have a lot of more intelligent and/or accomplished people around me.

Though that's better than the other way around, because it keeps you on your toes and eventually you can learn how not to underestimate and degrade yourself. I learned that I cannot compare to everyone, but I can try to get as close as possible by working hard.

Advice to my past self:
1 constantly think about everything
2 try to get to the bottom of it
3 study on your own
4 if your spec sucks, switch masters early
5 try lots of different courses
6 aim higher, even if you cannot make it
7 be skeptical, but learn to assess your value better
8 don't think small, e. g. only in terms of your country
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Many startups haven't figured out monetization at the beginning, that's why they search for Product Market Fit. If you do MVPs properly, you won't have burned much money on the way.
> No ASLR or other hardening flags because FreeBSD

I hope I am not going too far here, but ASLR might be an obsolete feature soon.

http://www.cs.vu.nl//~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pd...
I shouldn't speak for the OP, but I think they are referring to the fact that the factory pattern very naturally shows up when you also have the bridge pattern. You have 2 (or more) parallel class hierarchies and you need a way to construct the objects from the correct hierarchy.

You are also correct that it happens in other places too. Some people overuse it, though. They abstract out the construction of their objects for no reason at all. You already have a constructor -- usually there no need to have an object that contains all the constructors.
"Somewhat hyperbolic" and "the complete opposite of truth" are not the same thing.

There are no such things as "perfectly rational humans" and if there were they would be rational and would not experience discomfort because of a name because that's irrational. A rational human would see the name as clefer if anything since cockroaches are quite enduring.
Shipper should have used Registered Mail. Anything over $2500 needs to be sent Registered.

USPS has a Registered Mail tracking program with Germany:

http://faq.usps.com/?articleId=1437076354655
I do service on my bike and car myself. It's not as difficult as most people think. Not only it's cheaper but also more reliable. I've seen too many times how workers at the dealer forget to tighten some nut, or forget to put some cover back after maintenance, or change the brake pads but don't change or grease other brake parts, etc. They are not interested in doing quality work.
Tokyo is the only city I've ever lived in where I didn't have to own a car, so I didn't. Everywhere else I've lived, I have had to own a car to get to work. Even in New York, I had to own a car to get to work. I hate everything about driving—other drivers, cops, accidents, detours, traffic, etc. I would never own a car if I could get away with it. Unfortunately, I've only been able to do that for about three years of my life.
> I've asked this before on similar articles, but I just can't wrap my head around why suburbs are intrinsically cheaper than cities.

You can't understand it because you have it backward.

If land is cheap you have urban areas.

If land is expensive you have dense cities (since a small apartment is all you can afford).

Once you realize that cause and effect are the reverse of what you think, it will make more sense.

When land prices go up, lots get rapidly subdivided with more houses, and then apartments (as prices go up higher).

When land prices go down, buildings get torn down, and the (now vacant) adjacent yards get added to existing homes.
> creators are going to create even if they're not permitted to reap outsized rewards from their creations.

Limiting the returns means limiting the risks people are willing to take.
No, don't use Hibernate if your solution to ignoring your tools is writing your own half-assed workarounds rather than take the time to read documentation and ask the right questions.

People do this with SQL all the time; they see queries that aren't "fast enough" and they add indexes everywhere, or they "nudge" the query planner the wrong way, or anything else than to accept that maybe their data was wrongly modeled in the first place, or maybe they need to remove indexes, or actually, you know tune the DB.
In Germany we have a saying, "Was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht". Most people just don't care about operating systems, and hence they do not see the point in trying another system when the one they know works well enough for them.

A couple of years back, I set up my parents' notebook to dual boot either Windows 7 or Ubuntu 12.04. Despite the fact that both their printer and their (ancient) scanner worked out of the box (which did not work on Windows 7 at all), they have never used it.
I have seen some meats with a "best after" date as well as the regular date markings. Makes sense.
This is a really stupid idea, here's why (and this is not my opinion, this is how GAAP accounting works):

1. businesses already pay tax on their profits (if robots increase profits, that's increased taxes paid), and

2. owners of businesses pay income tax again (at a higher rate than workers, but deferred) on those same profits when they are extracted from the business (as higher salaries, dividends, capital gains, etc.)

3. if a business hires a worker and pays the worker, that money gets subtracted from the profit because it is a cost, a business expense so that subtracts from the tax the business pays and it subtracts from the income the owner of the business pays tax on.

4. instead, that labor money has taxes extracted from it when it is paid to the worker.

See? Taxing robots is nonsense.

So, you could make an argument that tax rates should go up or down, be progressive, flat, capital gains, etc. etc., but ... but ... what do you all think Congress does all the time anyway? This is the fiscal side of the Red State Blue State tug of war. What that tug of war does not need is more ill informed ideas.

(It's OK you don't know this, PP, I didn't know it before I learned it, but BG does not get a free pass...)

Bill Gates is pretty much retarded: kids, he didn't graduate from college and it shows; stay in school. I'll give $100 to anybody who can send me a link to something smart and non obvious that Bill Gates has ever said.
The one thing that is mildly disturbing about DuckDuckGo is its founder did not have privacy in mind while building. In one interview about a couple of years ago he told explicitly that DuckDuckGo became privacy focused because of the market for privacy and not because of his personal belief in privacy.
Yes. MSN was intended to compete with Compuserve. Neither could compete with the www.
The instant gratification nature of a large portion of our society drives them to recklessly undertake high interest loans on depreciating assets like cars and furniture from places such as Rent A Center, pay day loans, etc. Seems there are quite a few ways to keep the poor, poor.
with great power/money comes great responsibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ben
Have you looked at a map of Boston? How could you not have horrible traffic?
Hasn't tokuMX already put a 'proper' solid DB behind the mongo API?
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Not "belts" but timing belt. Check if your car has interference or non-interference engine. The replacement interval is often at 120K miles, after which it becomes a gamble, but may last 200K.
This is interesting. I wonder if the tolerance of the mouth to heat (relative to other areas with a thin epidermis) is also related to cooking.
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Many more HN comments are critical of VCs than defensive of them. I think you might be off by an order of magnitude there.

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VCs invest in people they know and people who know people they know. Need-ta fix that first, but those peeps might not be the type of peeps you wanna know.

"The game is the game."
I've played on Europe Server 1 and 3 and on both I've seen normal cars available (although from what I've seen ES1 kicks people back into singleplayer, if they attempt to use a car in multiplayer); ES3 supposedly allows to drive cars in multiplayer as well.
That sounds nice, but you will not get that movement going unless there is a reason for people to give up their car.

The obvious suggestion would be to gradually make it more expensive to drive, and then gradually improve transportation and housing to deal with less cars pr household.

/Edit: I meant to say you do both simultaneously. LEaving the original text up because the replies were made in that context.
And "patent holding company" is not what their investors spent over a billion dollars on.