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>>Why do you care what the profit margin is?

Because not knowing it creates an information asymmetry and makes it more difficult to make a rational decision about whether to pay for the product or service, or look/wait for alternatives.

It's not just about what the product or service is worth to me. It's also about a sense of fairness. I'm OK with a 20% markup on bottles of water at ball games. I'm not OK with a 200% markup, because even if I'm really thirsty, on principle I don't want to pay several times more for it than I otherwise would. So if I knew the exact margin, I can make an intelligent decision between paying for it then, or waiting X hours for the game to end so I can drink the water I have in the car.
It's comforting to think that, but human nature is what it is. The typical woman would not immediately hire a divorce lawyer if her husband lost his job, but after a year or two she'd definitely be thinking she could do better (regardless of "fault").
Fun fact, my dad installed this.
Small town in rural area seems could enable more construction so that people could live in new houses. Don't forget second homes pay taxes.
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Exactly, it would be unnecessary

The student could just coast through a course.. they would have to sit through all lectures and would be assigned problems and reading but only one course would track their retention

I feel this is basically already what is happening in education with the prevalence of students' creative ways of undermining the current grading paradigm

But with the ancillary benefit that a student would be freed to actually do the work to foster an interest in at least one subject

Also, the student could be free to explore other subjects in ways outside of the means of tracking retention

I was pushing my math research since I was a child but instead was forced to abandon it and had calculus forcibly replaced as 'how I should think about mathematics' even though I fundamentally disagreed with its concepts

If I was free from the stress of doing poorly from the standpoint of grades I could have focused my interest on my own mathematical insight and simply allowed my education to expose me to calculus

wherein I would have retained an appreciation for mathematics and developed one for the practicality of calculus practices
Let's not forget other more recent stuff that still happened before AtomOS, like Redox. I seem to recall seeing a couple others recently as well, but for some reason I'm drawing a blank now. I think the big deal about this is mostly just that it's an effort outside of Microsoft to do this, and compile it to machine code rather than just use some kind of "higher order" OS that needs to run on top of something else -- and even there it's not unique, even if it looks more interesting than FlingOS (which is evidently just a new take on the "toy kernel/OS for teaching" idea).
The means of systematizing, expressing, reasoning about, computing with, and teaching about pi are human inventions. Does pi amount to more than the sum of its human parts? You can say "hogwash," but that's not contributing much to a question that requires a careful answer
It's like saying "every line of code has been tested, we don't think the UI is broken"...
Yes, but the house won't be just so if I rent it for a day or two.

We ended up buying a house so that we can use it for eight weeks every year when we're back in the US so that we can feel like we're in a home for the duration of our stay and not interloping on someone else's home. From our point of view, it's a valid use case.
Why is Korean horrible?
At this point you're trolling. Please stop.
The evolutionary strategies are different between the genders, mostly because the biologically expensive act of growing a child for months and raising it for years means women need to be more selective towards their mates.
It depends a lot on how many online orders you are filling.

In a lot of areas there wouldn't be the population density to support a pickup only location, but it's easy for an existing store to implement pickup and delivery services. A locally owned store here has done it using Rosie: https://www.rosieapp.com/
"China and India, where many consumer products are manufactured, are the worst offenders."

So instead of merely blaming and regulating, it is ultimately upon all of us to change consumption behavior.
Yes, this, a thousand times this.

People look at stuff like alimony or whatever and think "oh women just get all the breaks". When really, stuff like that exists because women were expected to forego career for marriage, etc., essentially shackled to a man for life.

Women being independent, expecting a guy to have his shit together? I think that's great. I say bring it on. Independent women are far more interesting to talk to, and if I have to have a good job lined up, well, that's how you play the game.

Now...if society is breaking in a way that it's tough for men to get good jobs, then let's look at that. Women aren't to blame for that, though. Let's look at what's really going on.
I've heard that first paragraph -- not from Monzo, I'm not their customer -- so many times that it really doesn't mean shit anymore, even if 100% sincere.

It's right up there with all the companies that stress how "your security is our highest priority", right after they get compromised.
It's true of any idea, not just mathematics. Ideas are discoveries, not inventions. This philosophy goes all the way back to Plato.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms
It's interesting how there is likely more people reading this from hackernews than the 217 people surveyed in the study.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents. It makes discussion less interesting because there are fewer interesting things you can say about them. Then people compensate for that by flame-throwing, and down we all go.

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It would be nice if our politicians had the best interests of the people in mind when making decisions. Obviously there are good politicians and it's a complicated subject, but I think most informed people would agree that the current cabinet in the US is only interested in serving itself. I truly, honestly, would love to hear evidence that they are making laws or acting in such a way as to help the people where there is no obvious benefit to themselves (usually money).
"We also spent millennia believing the earth is flat"

How does that even translate into more or less births?

Yet, avoiding putting women in risky jobs (e.g., hunting) does translate into lower mortality rates for fertile women and, thus, allows more babies to be born.
> There's a reason they never use actual data and measurements to prove their points

Artists use the most advanced measurement devices in the world: a binaural listening device connected to the world's most advanced neural net. The neural net is the best part.

Sorry. There is much more to sound than frequency response, dynamic range, phase shift, and total harmonic distortion -- and moreover, the "optimum" amount of each of these is not fixed, but depends entirely on the material and the taste of the engineer & producer.

You can get great sound "in the box," don't get me wrong, but ultimately there is, as yet, no substitute for the real thing. A saturation plugin is nowhere close.

To accurately simulate this device, you would have to practically simulate at the molecular level.
Schools bought them because that was what schools bought in the late 70's and it did carry over even into the IBM era (1981+). To Apple's credit, they did get how to do educational sales.

I didn't know anyone who owned one personally, but that was probably an income-based observation.
I keep wondering about this. It's so obvious that trade schools are a good thing. I have nothing against code academies, but where is the similar kind of shiny kind of
get people employed for the sake of society and do social good" for trade schools? Combine that with an income based repayment for tuition and you're cooking with gas.
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Nope. I'm implying that trying to suggest an assertion that affects political discourse and thus real people's lives is "just a scientific hypothesis" is not on.
Most languages because they are evolved, not designed.
> American men are declining in quality.

Please don't make inflammatory grandiose claims on HN. It's a form of trolling, even if you don't mean it that way.

There's a way of using the energy behind a comment like for worthwhile discussion, and that is to post from relevant personal experience. As long as you can do that without going on tilt, it makes the discussion more interesting. When we hide behind inflated generality or (worse) ideology, real conversation gets lost.

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I went out this morning with only my Monzo card because I've gone and lost the card for my actual bank account. Glad the first thing I did was get cash for the bus otherwise I'd have had real problems, as it was I just had to cut things short and come home. I had a very upset three year old as I discovered this when I went to pay for a Happy Meal, but otherwise no harm done (and he got one for dinner instead!)
> However there is a technical reason why these devices do sound different, and that is that they all impart euphonic distortion. Bass sounds "bigger." Treble sounds "clearer." Mixed tracks "glue together." Vocals "pop out." A sense of "depth of field" may be imparted.

Digital advocates are quick to point out that all of those phenomena can be perfectly modelled in the box. We have convolution reverbs and tube amp models and emulation that can be scientifically proven to match the analog gear.

By point is, you _can_ do all that, but will you? You have a world of possibilities, and so the likelihood when working with a digital / software workflow is that you'll stick to the relative strengths of that setup.

Another thing to note about the hardware console interface is the nature of a classic design. Consoles like the Neve or SSL are familiar to engineers, they are instruments with a hand feel. A recording or mixing engineer can go into a studio and get similar results from similar gear. The listeners ear can pick up a je ne cest pas familiarity from it, what you call "good sound" in another comment, without quote knowing what they're hearing. The same way the Telecaster just "sounds good". It's not better, it's just familiar. Digital workstations are all different and don't achieve the same familiar sound.
Ask HN: Who is firing? (March 2017)
Monthly listing of companies where people are being laid of.
Can you elaborate on this fun fact? This sounds pretty cool.
Rural Arizonan here. One wealthy Californian bought the three houses adjacent to my home ~8 years ago. All have been vacant since purchase. The guy drops by on his brand new Harley once a year, at most. Bare minimum upkeep of property: weeds, flaking paint, unpainted siding, etc. Owner does occasionally show up at city council meetings to protest tax increases, however.

Fairly common to encounter the above in small town historic districts across the nation. Perhaps it's inevitable when housing is viewed as a "holding" rather than a home.
I'm surprised that the author combines "the C languages" saying that most adverts that mention any of C/C++/C# mention all three. In my experience there is a large difference between companies searching for C# developers and those searching for C/C++. After blurring this distinction he concludes that R and Python are "very different languages" while I consider them to be largely overlapping.
Fitting that nobody is commenting here
Does this mean DUI checkpoints are unlawful?
I'm super excited about the idea of removing the artificial boundaries between kernel and userspace. Equally, static and dynamic compilation.

Are there any technical or practical reasons why systems like Symbolics Genera are inferior to todays mainstream operating systems? Or do you think it's only social / economic processes that they weren't adopted?
I know plenty.
> Also, once they own such property, they could rent it for the time when they are away.

being a landlord is a pain in the ass, even if you hire a property management company.
I have no idea how you think "15%+" is misleading. You can't simply ignore the + sign to make your case. That says the markup STARTS AT 15% and goes up from there. Also, the markup on store items wasn't 63%. That was after additional fees, tax, tip, etc. The markup was 42.8%.
I think they must be using the same processor (or some other mutual bottleneck upstream) as Revolut is still experiencing "payment declined" issues as of some minutes ago.
but shipping is an additional charge - YOU are paying to have it shipped to your door, not amazon.
Can you provide anymore details about this? This doesn't seem like it would take 2-3 hours.

I'm going to have to assess come applicants soon and have been trying to come up with something appropriate, which is why I'm interested.
If you are making more money than you could spend then a lot of people would consider you to be rich. If you want more 'fairness', why not lead by example and donate all of your extra money to housing oriented charities?
I wonder how transparent they have to be legally, and who decides that. Saying your fees are 10%+ and having it be 60% seems highly misleading. Then again I saw a TV commercial that advertised free shipping and handling for a fee. I guess if no one notices and no one can force them to be reasonable, you can do just about anything.
For goodness sakes, stop with the sexism.

Neither gender is more important or less important than another. To try to compare 20 yo m/f value is very naive.

Modern society also is currently not feudal.
> it may actually be cheaper for you to hire someone for 8 hours a day to do your chores.

Whatever math calculation one does, it has to factor in the hassle of becoming an "employer" which is a complication that most consumers don't want. E.g. If you pay someone more than $36 a week[1], a law-abiding tax payer would have to file a W2 to the IRS reporting the income. (Yes yes, most parents don't actually file W2 for their neighborhood babysitter but that's technically "tax evasion".)

You can legally circumvent the W2/employer relationship by using an agency and that staffing firm becomes the "employer of record." However, there's no such thing as a free lunch and that agency has its own 50% to 100% markup on the personal assistant's hourly rate. This gets right back into Instacart pricing territory or even exceeds it.

Without any survey data, I'm guessing that there's a huge market of customers willing to pay Instacart profit margins instead of becoming an "a W2 employer" or paying 3rd-party agency.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/04/...
Suggesting that an entire block of the population doing poorly is simply because they are lazy is definitely a stretch. Everyone wants to feel like they are valued and are accomplishing something. Maybe they behave this way because the opportunities for the uneducated have been eradicated due to globalization and illegal immigration lowering the value of their work.
Another way to look at it is that it is $150 of groceries.

I'm sure not going to be using a service with such a high mark up, but I can see how someone with a high income might be willing to spend extra for the convenience.
None of the actual banks I use are having any issues. One of the most important things a bank can do is give you the ability to make payments.
In this case, the fact that a 3rd party going down will stop this core functionality is horrifying.
It is discussed in this article:

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/our-miserable-21...
Some APs let's you lower transmit power, which will help in isolating them
On other side tax code, divorce laws are well know to 'penalize' men. Also Eric vs Lola case in Quebec and then federal.
> In 10-20 years time, we'll be able to stream games running directly on publisher's server farm somewhere.

Nvidia has a game streaming service that does this already. I've only tried it briefly but it worked great.

http://www.geforce.com/geforce-now
I hate these sort of comparisons. You've got R, Python, SAS... okay, those are sort of similar. Then you've got Java and "C, C++ or C#," and man, including C# with C/C++ is... fraught. Then you've got Hadoop, Spark, Hive... okay, those are all kind of different from what we've had so far. Now you've got Tableu and RapidMiner. Uh. In the second chart, "Microsoft" is included as a keyword. Okay. It's just... comparing apples, oranges, bananas, grapes and pears. What's it supposed to tell us?
It's a matter of opinion, but if you want to make excuses for these guys be my guest. America affords men with plenty of opportunities. If you choose to squander them, it's your own damn fault. There are still men who leave their families to come here illegally and work for pennies on the dollar. There's no shortage of opportunities. Yeah, you might not want to pick the oranges, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't even find a job to pick up trash or paint houses for min. wage. Maybe it's not your dream job, but it's a lot more respectable than not working.
Turns out the "burnt alive" part is unsubstantiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dawson_Dewhirst

Still a terrible story, though.
Nice. My old boss Mike Grimwood worked for Neve in the 60's and 70's and told us loads of tales about making bespoke desks for the likes of Led Zeppelin etc. Would have loved to have been around then, but I suppose they say the same about the digital era.
You've only worked 2 years after college and you already "needed a break"? The entrepreneurial journey is x10000 harder my friend :) There is a universe in between an idea and your dream.
I find that attitude a bit strange. Carried to its logical conclusion, you wouldn't want to buy a used car from someone if they received it for free, regardless of how much they're charging vs. market rates.

It makes sense to compare a product offering with other offerings on the market, but it doesn't make sense to me to care about the profit margin. What if one firm can offer a product cheaper than all equivalent competing products, but with a much higher profit margin?
They are a tech company first, financial one second. They made a decision very early on to build everything from scratch in the "right" way, pretty much no matter how long it would take or how much effort would be involved.

Their systems are incredibly stable. In fact, I don't think I can recall a single bit of downtime which was actually down to their system since November 2015 when I joined.

In the case which happened here, some kind of unexpected migration gone wrong - Monzo's systems are highly decoupled and separated. So any given database issue will only affect that given service. As each service is so simple and contains relatively little code, working towards a resolution can be achieved significantly faster. The smaller scope of responsibility also means that a mistake is less likely to happen in the first place.
My crystal bubble says it's gonna be a fun time when they'll roll the current accounts and be the payment processor.

It seems that currently they are (mostly) stateless and build around statelessness. i.e. get clients orders and pass it back to the payment providers.

Once they have current accounts, they'll have to hold serious funds and will be held to a much higher standard, which is a whole level of new difficulty to achieve. (unless they find a 3rd party service to outsource all of that :D).

Source: Switching from running market-makers to financial exchanges. Same stuff behind the hood, one is 10 times harder than the other one.
I think technology can help.

Your point about people being emotionally invested and biased is a valid one. There are a lot of smart people on both sides of the political spectrum, so, a while ago I decided to venture into the other side. I listened to all the popular talking heads and read what they read and spoke to many of them to find out what they believe and why.

I found it hard to believe that so many people are suffering from mass delusion, so, I asked friends and family what they believed. I tried, the best I could, to put myself in their shoes and remove my own biases.

In my very unscientific little, flawed study with a far too small sampling of people I found out a few things that everyone probably already knows:

1. Confirmation bias is real.
Yes of course people tend to read the news they agree with, but, they also live and work around people who they mostly agree with. You are the average of the 5 people you associate with most.

2. Social Proof is a big factor.
Is EXTREMELY difficult to change your viewpoint because you are fighting against social proof. Have you ever noticed that young people tend to dress the same as their friends. You'll see two young people walking along and wearing just a slight variation of the exact same outfit. Two 16 year old boys both wearing striped shirt, hat on backwards, ripped jeans and untied basketball shoes. That is social proof.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Social_proof

Now imagine coming into your job where you are among your peers saying the opposite of what all of us believed yesterday: you'd be rejected even if it was based on evidence.

Don Draper knew it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9rrhKgusYs

3. They simply focus on different subject matter.
Not "alternative facts" different things all together; "Spin". "Yes my politician did do the horrible thing you are saying, BUT, look at THIS great honest thing he did."

4. Its exhausting.
You are attempting to fight against the belief system that you've trusted and your peers support possibly your whole life. You are hearing and reading things that you have a negative visceral reaction to and it's very, VERY hard to keep listening to or reading it.

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The idea that an average person can spend the time to find out what is actually, objectively, completely true is unrealistic.

In my opinion a great first step is to give everyone a quick, free, way that simply points to the source of each story. That eliminates the echo chamber and cuts through a lot of bullshit.

At that point we can at least think about some sort of truth level indicator.
Nature is irrelevant in moral discussions, as are all variables that exist beyond the agent's control. Blame and approbation come from choice made by the agent, not for the agent.

Nature is useful for understanding why something amoral is the case (like sexual dimorphism), but does not and should not inform our understanding of what ought to be the case.
I just used Amazon Prime Now for the first time. As a long time Instacart user in the main target demographic, I just don't see how they can compete. The delivery fees are already rolled into my existing Prime account. On top of that most prices are actually lower than the stores, rather than marked up.

The issue all comes down to scale. Automated robot warehouses and delivery vans are far more efficient than individual drivers searching through grocery stores.
Worth noting you can't evict people in Paris if they are not paying rent. Some - actually most - ends up paying their renters to make them move out. Maybe these regulations are more the issue than the assumed laziness of landlords.
This post should get a reward for how relevant it is to HN.

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I really liked the "Introduction to Public Speaking" course at Coursera : https://www.coursera.org/learn/public-speaking