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Well, there's always Minetest. http://www.minetest.net/

edit: It even has nuclear reactors! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBwygvEJNA
I think you missed a critical part of my comment - I see eliminating IP laws as critical to reducing the cost of living to zero. In this zero cost of living world, no one needs to pay rent.

In reality I believe zero is a worthy target but difficult to achieve, so I really expect us to hit "very low". In that world, the cost of living is so low that we can voluntarily support others at very little cost to ourselves, and with a minimum of Love for our fellow humans, those with income can support those without. In that world, authors are more free than ever to write what they truly believe. They have no publishers to please nor masses to target, and can write what they deem most valuable to write.
With the Creators update, Windows now includes a blue light filter too.
On United you can get bumped from Economy if there's a high status flyer who needs your seat. I think United takes the crown with being shitty to general passengers.
They should have dealt with it earlier if possible. (I assume operations told them they needed to transport a flight crew after the airline was already boarded.) Given that they didn't, someone should have had the authority to offer enough compensation to get someone to voluntarily deplane. I have trouble believing that if they offered $3K or whatever, they wouldn't have been able to find another volunteer or two.

That said, refusing to follow the instructions of a flight crew and creating a scene is not going to end well for you however convinced you are in the righteousness of your position. (I have been bumped off a flight after I was onboard and sitting down. It was years ago and I don't remember what the exact circumstances were if I ever knew.)
This is the problem here. If they would have offered $5000 they would have had four seats immediately. They're going to pay a lot more than $20,000 for this disaster.
(1) Rolle's theorem says that if f(x) if differentiable in the interval (a,b) and f(a)=f(b), there must be a point c such that f'(c) = 0.

Proving this one uses maths that, although simple, more analysis-like than calculus-like, but it should be intuitive if you try to draw a function with f(a)=f(b). It has to come up and down so it has a point where it has a horizontal tangent.

(2) The Mean Value Theorem is like Rolle's theorem, but "tilting" or "rotating" your function, so that if f(b) = r(f(b)-f(a)) then there's a point c with f'(c) = r. And this is already an order 1 Taylor series! It gives

f(b) = f(a) + (b-a) f'(c) for some c

(3) Now what remains is just induction. For an order-2 series, write the order-1 series for f'(c) as a function of f'(b). You'll start to see the pattern. If you really want to put a bow on it, you can assume the order (n-1) series exists with the known formula and prove the order (n) series works out.
The main difference between VAT and sales tax is that VAT is paid by each stage in the supply chain (every time someone "adds value"), and reclaimed by charging it to the next stage up in the chain. Sales tax is charged only once, at the final point of sale to the consumer.

The end effect is the same: the consumer ends up paying whatever % the tax is. The difference is in how it's collected. Sales tax is easier to evade because business-to-business sales usually don't charge sales tax. So you could wink at your customer and say they're a business and not charge them sales tax. With VAT everyone is supposed to pay it, so it's harder to evade (and consequently more expensive for governments to collect).
Sky marshal? Doubt some random just decided to drag someone off a plane.
I think physical violence is qualitatively different.

Consider: suppose a kid lays across your driveway and refuses to budge. Are you allowed to drive over the kid? After all, if everyone starts doing this, you will lose your job and can't feed your own family, right?

Well, no. You have to figure out a way. Take a deep breath and call their parents, get an Uber or whatever it takes.

The situation would be different if a random person was just asking you not to go. In that case, you could ignore them.

Because physical violence is different.
If I'm reading this right, it seems that the results are from a survey of the Laptop Mag editorial staff, which is a little disappointing. I'm much more interested in seeing some third-party consumer data – very curious to hear how Joe Public's opinion of the current lineup compares to the tech industry's.
This shines a light on what is, most likely, a policy that is not in the interest of passengers.

In my experience, the airlines offer a decent incentive for taking a bump and they do this before boarding. I know delays have been crazy the past few days, so maybe people who were already delayed didn't want to wait any longer?

I wonder what kind of incentives were offered? You'd hope United would offer enough to get someone to volunteer, especially in cases like this that are so late into the boarding process. Why not just get a United official on the plane to start raising incentives until the $ amount makes someone bite.

Terms and conditions of the contract may be legal but it could very well result in incidents like this.
Reverse proxying to Apache is still how I run my Perl CGI scripts. I'm not sure of a better way to do it that supports running multiple scripts.
> So can this be extended to movie-plot-like memories be wiped, or false memories implanted? How did they identify the memories to be targeted and where they were stored?

The same group has done all that stuff with optogenetics and molecular techniques:

http://tonegawalab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/296_Li...

http://tonegawalab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/297_Ra...

http://tonegawalab.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/289_li...
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Hi guys, I'm a pathological hoarder. Be it karma points to books, I have a serious issue where if I'm not allowed to hoard digitally, it makes me uneasy.

However, the bigger problem is trying to consume what I've hoarded. I know there are urgent topics that I discovered on HN that I've raised multiple flags for me to spend time reading (because of it's potential ROI) but failed to because

If it doesn't seem like work it seems like a waste of time and if it seems like work it seems like I should be resting.

Meaning, there is a real anxiety around doing anything but work. When I try to get into a good book or an article, the panic starts to set in and I get an overwhelming urge to stop and do something that I perceive to be work related.
The idea that the difference between people with capital and without is one of preference seems rather bizarre.
What really gets me is the PR flack smirking and waving his middle finger:

> [Charlie] Hobart said in the statement. "We apologize for the overbook situation."

In other words, "sorry about selling more seats than there were on the plane, but yeah, we had that guy beaten and dragged off. Deal with it."
I have been keeping tabs on reMarkable, it almost addresses all of my needs. I wish it could run OneNote as that is my go-to note taking software. My biggest concern with niche e-ink products is that the parent company will not be around long enough to maintain its software services. I am highly tempted to preorder reMarkable solely on the premise of supporting the startup.
A Computer randomly selected 4 passengers for removal.
It is wholly unsurprising to me that people are willing to be apologists for this. It's always "outrage culture", it's always clickbait, it can't ever be that these people really are pieces of shit. But still disappointing.
They made offers -

1) $400

2) $800

3 and final) Leave the airplane or we'll beat the shit out of you.

Glad I made the decision to not fly United 4 years ago.
I don't think the passenger acted unreasonably. It's human nature to tell someone to "fuck off" when treated unethically, and it's fine to do so.
Obviously United was in the wrong here, but you might be going a little far. The main purpose of the stretcher might have been for restraining the man.

It's wise to avoid making such inflammatory statements until we know more.
Exactly. The National Bureau of Economic Research just did a paper on this:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w23296

and found twice the supplier surplus compared to more inflexible working arrangements. They estimate that if drivers had to work at the same rates, but for inflexible hours, they'd reduce their hours worked by 2/3s.
No-shows. If you book at 100% you fly < 100% and that costs money.
Credit unions have a decent handle on customers-as-owners, so it's not completely without precedent from a business standpoint.

My biggest issue is your last point, where owning an account would likely involve "Know Your Customer" levels of identity proving. It would likely require a new class of shares or going private, rather than buying a share on an exchange. Similarly, you'd likely only get one share no matter the number of accounts (using KYC information to de-dup, or having two notions a "member" who can have multiple "personas").

I don't know that it's a good idea for Twitter, but it's at least a (sort of) legally workable idea for an authenticated messaging platform in the abstract.

If I were starting a new Twitter, I'd consider it.
Depends on how much the overlayed LCD screen would impact legibility. I'm not sure. Transparent OLED might work [1]. The backlit would basically be for evenings, where the ambient light might not be enough.
I just love the readability and aesthetics of eInk. Practically, it's probably worse at everything...so I can understand the limited uptake.

[1] http://www.mmt.io/transparent-oled-touch-screen-display/
Maybe the excess boarding arose from some kind of unanticipated situation or oversight, a "mistake" if you will.
> if they have to do it

They wanted to get an airline crew to another city. Sounds like United fucked up, overbooked a flight, and didn't want to :

1. escalate compensation for passengers to get off the plane
2. arrange alternate transportation for their crew

This was a business decision. They didn't "have to" do shit, and certainly didn't "have to" call in the bouncers to forcibly eject a paying customer who was already in their seat.
Simple. They overbook on purpose. There is usually a percentage of people that miss a flight, so airlines overbook to account for this trying to get every seat filled.
I think Luck is something people who've stopped struggling against mediocrity lean on so they don't have to feel bad. You have a huge degree of control over your life. I started in just about the worst position possible in this game, and now I make my own rules.

I lived in a tent and got food stamps so I could afford to attend a community college. I studied whatever interested me, and I didn't decide on a specific track until I was about 120 units deep. I nearly lived in the library because I couldn't afford to buy textbooks. That isn't luck, that's determination.

After college, I took several positions that paid shit, on the condition that they gave me a lot of free time, exposure to interesting new science and technology, and latitude in how I did my work. I used that free time to read scientific journal articles and practice my programming. That wasn't luck, it was an investment.

Now I'm in the position of having almost total control over my work. I choose what I work on, how I contribute, and my work schedule. Beyond that, I'm nearly debt free - I had to take a 10 year mortgage to finance my house, but I'm going to pay that off several years early.
"An unjust law is no law at all"
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> The airlines have run the numbers, and it is clearly more profitable to sell (for example) 105% of the plane, and then if more than 100% show up, pay people off to take a different flight.

I guess the op's question is, why was it not done here?

(Sadly) Everyone has a price for everything. Obviously that guy's price was not met. As you say, the airline has done the math... does their math include the cost of dragging a passenger bruised and bleeding off of their plane? Probably... Does it include the cost of cameras capturing the whole thing? Probably not.
It is not possible to know the full body of law and read every ToS for every interaction. That is a terribly cynical attitude.
Sometimes this is true. But there are large external factors that determine this other than how hard a person works. The dot-com crash and the recent financial crisis for example.
A pair of discussions about reMarkable last month / 4 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865108

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113819
How does Kobo do it? I was under the impression that the lighting there isn't edge-lit, but rather backlit?
You can put all sorts of restrictions on selling shares so long as you're not a public company, though. I own some shares which I can only sell to other people who already hold shares, and then only when the company allows me to, for example.
It comes down to the balance I guess. We can kick four people off and offer them each shitty compensation (usually a first class ticket for the next flight and worthless $200 vouchers for the same shitty airline that expire in less than 6 months) or cancel the flight this crew is for and lose an entire plane load worth of income.

I understand the economics, but it's still bullshit. Those customers want to get home and they're boarded. I think everyone should do what this guy did in this situation. He paid for a flight. He didn't read through the 10 pages of bullshit EULA (no one does) and then they assaulted him to remove him from a flight. The whole plane looked angry. Now United has a PR nightmare .. that will last 3 days before everyone forgets. People keep flying United and nothing really happens.
The misrepresentation in your calculation is that with VAT you really sell a widget for £12; if you're selling to businesses, they recoup those £2 so they don't care, and if you're selling to consumers all your competitors also factor in the same tax in their prices so again nobody cares.

At that point, 5000 widgets at 10 net = 50000 - 8000 net costs = 42000 -> as a business, if your costs include VAT, you're actually better off by opting in. Sure, you feel the pain when you first transition (which is why you should have started with it right away), the first couple of years the taxman will be greedy, and vatmoss is a clusterfuck in its own right, but vat as a concept is actually extremely business-friendly. (I say that as someone who hates it for the regressive flat-tax on the poor that it actually is; I'd be happy to lose it tomorrow in exchange for higher corporation tax, but that won't make you any happier...)
> You can't just refuse to leave an aircraft when instructed to do so by the crew.

As I read the article, the police showed up, and he still refused to leave the aircraft. You can't just refuse when the cops tell you to leave. There are going to be physical consequences for that.

> It may be considered excessive force however

Yes, it may.
The problem is that's not what happened. They kicked this man off to prioritize their own employees. An overbooked flight would never be boarded before.
What is the difference between eating the meat of a factory-raised chicken and making stock from a factory-raised chicken?
This shell script:

#!/bin/sh
while true; do
$EDITOR $NOTESDIR"$(ls -t $NOTESDIR | selecta --scrolloff --passthrough)"
done

It replicates the core interaction model of Notational Velocity: type to fuzzy-filter the list of notes (sorted by MRU) by filename, enter to edit the notes, and quit the editor to end up back in the list of notes.

I forked selecta to add those flags - --passthrough means that the text typed in to filter is emitted on stdout if it doesn't match anything. This way you create a note if it doesn't exist.

https://github.com/stijlist/bin/blob/master/nv
Yes, that's normal life.

You have to be very clear and ready to tell people that they have to give that up if they want to survive.

Because in the end that's what people want. A normal life.

Not everyone is passionate. Or driven, or interested in those things that can pay well.

Which means that those hours must be stolen from a whole constellation of distractions (which get better at keeping you engaged) and interactions with other people.

So people have to be made aware that they are going to be more unhappy not doing the work, than if they did do it.

Most people aren't going to think like that.
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If there's equipment waiting in Louisville, and another entire plane isn't going anywhere without them, that's how its justifiable. IDB means you can (legally) be physically removed from a flight.

With that said, don't drag people off your flights. No matter what it costs you to get staff where they need to be when you make this mistake, it'll be cheaper than the negative publicity of a physical altercation removing a passenger (even if you need to retask a commuter aircraft just to relocate the crew, or ask another carrier to get them there).
but still, in the face of a passenger trespassing, you call cops and have it removed, not a burly man and have him beaten.
Or not, because the economy for the lower and middle classes is garbage and most people doing these jobs are doing them out of necessity.
> As long as people are free to buy and sell capital, it will always end up in the hands of those who like to hoard it.

As long as people are free to buy and sell access to healthcare, healthcare will always end up in the hands of those who like to hoard it.

You can advocate for or against capitalism but this framing is dishonest, and even the capitalists would think it's unfair.
I think the best reaction should come from consumers to boycott United airlines for a while and this will teach it a good lesson in customer service and behaviour.
Did they actually offer that to the passengers? I didn't see any mention of this in the article.

Some comments here talk about $800. I don't think that's equivalent to a 1st ticket, but I may be wrong.

In any case, they may have the law, but I still think it was very poorly handled.

I'm also curious to know what was their random process to select the 4 passengers.
None of those things seem that outrageous to me, personally, but I also understand why calling something weird is good click-bait. It just looks like a company trying out a bunch of products. Is that really weird? I guess its subjective, so no point arguing about it. Its slightly annoying that tech journalism seems to engender a bunch of tech-splainers who seem to always know exactly why a product worked and why a product failed.
In my lifetime I've seen linearity of the link between 'hard work' and capital formation drastically distorted. Lots of different causes, but the one that strikes me most is also the most recent. Zero interest rate policy. Historically it has taken discipline (hard work?) to build capital to take business risks. While there has always been an unequal distribution of capital and idiot heirs to spend it, currently however, there is a fairly large group of people who has first dibs on nearly free capital that they had little to do with generating. This decouples or reduces the link between capital formation and the type of people who have the work ethic traditionally required to perform this activity. This is a disconnect that I find a fairly radical departure, at least in scale, from the past. I think the effect of this is that the pool of people with the required work ethic, dedication, luck and capacity to out compete incumbents is smaller. I think people are correctly assessing that their chances have been reduced.
I've work hard for employees for a long time and it has paid off handsomely. I just didn't expect an employer to pay my rapidly increasing market value (software developer/architect) and I changed jobs frequently. From looking at the market and seeing that I have no desire to go into management - I think my days of outsized increases in salary are about over.
It's not that easy if more and jobs are like that. It's pretty condescending to tell somebody who doesn't have much choice that he should do something else if he doesn't like it.
It's not ideal certainly, most such cases would be either a variation of an existing application or something that isn't business facing such as a compliance or operational metrics report.

The key thing is that the testing, release and deployment tooling were not a significant bottleneck. You could develop the code, perform testing in a production like environment and sign it off with a minimum of down time in between waiting for compilation, package building, etc. So a lot of that was down to Python being interpreted.
Ethics have always started and ended at the individual level. Even in societies dominated by communal thinking/living.
I think that has more to do with the huge lifestyle sacrifices necessary to work on an oil rig.
The real thing to fear here is the normalization of violence.

Good perspective in the WP comments:

"The truly shocking thing here is that violence - with the real possibility of serious injury - was viewed as appropriate in a situation that was purely logistical. The airline wanted seats for its own employees. This was not an emergency - such as a terrorist attack or a drunk passenger endangering people. The lack of judgment is stunning. There is no way that violence was justified."
Funny coincidence, I'm developing okreader (https://github.com/lgeek/okreader), which is a package of u-boot, deblobbified downstream kernel images, Debian and KOReader (https://github.com/koreader/koreader) for a range of Kobo devices. I've been working with upstream KOReader developers to get the features required to use KOReader without the Kobo firmware. okreader replaces the whole software stack on the device.
I started needing to configure web stuff about 6 or 7 years ago. At the time, I could use nginx or Apache. I spent a bit of time (maybe 20 minutes) with Apache since I'd heard of it, thought "Ugh this is a pain and I just want to move on to the fun parts of this project and not banal config details", and then tried nginx. It was much easier, and I've never bothered to learn Apache. To be honest I've kind of assumed it wasn't worth learning since it seems to be in slow, but persistent, decline, and I've never needed to learn it for a particular project.

I wonder if anyone else had a similar experience. If the first 20 minutes are nicer with one tool over the other, I suspect most people will stick with that tool until it starts limiting them.

I don't think any of the stuff you mention is related to that.
Some people prefer cash to share holdings. It is, by all means, a preference.
At which point MS gets a nice visit from the Feds like Linden Lab did (see wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Policy_Regarding_Wagering_in_Second_Life for the resulting policies).
Sadly, you're probably right. One suspects there have been several memos from corporate directing gate agents to reduce voucher spending by any means necessary. It isn't shocking that the obvious solution to this gate agent was to beat up a random Chinese guy.