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Actually it is, if someone is bumped from a flight the most they can legally ask for (anyone is free to give anyone money if they wish) is $1400 (I believe) or 4X the value of the ticket whatever is less. Delta offered this maximum, and was declined by all passengers.

Then Delta called government law enforcement offers to enforce existing regulation and remove the passenger.

Without this regulation there would have been no maximum for damages in violation of their contract, thus the passenger could of sued for a potentially unlimited amount. Thus Delta might of been inclined to offer more as their losses would possibly be higher than the maximum in the regulation. Having a maximum, and having government law enforcement enforce said maximum certainly contributed to this issue.

Now due to the losses in stock price Delta has reevaluated it's risk/reward on terms of bumping passengers and decided its more cost effective to offer more. This is a perfect example of how the free market can correct these sort of things without the government getting involved at all.
Car safety isn't just about the people driving them. Many car safety features like anti-lock breaks, traction control, and backup cameras are just as helpful for everyone outside of the car as they are for people inside the card.

Forcing unsafe cars out of the market through attrition has benefits for everyone else.
> You're right, people would never accept a regime where humans were drained of some of their blood in order to give other humans medical treatment with that blood.

Yes, that'd be due to the fact that we see humans as equals, and the same is not true for humans and horseshoe crabs.
This is a dumbfuck ethical theory.
"is standard in the industry."

Airbnb doesn't seem to follow the industry so it sounds to me like there is a deeper reasoning
I agree with most of your points, and I agree that end-to-end integrity is important where information is critical. But my first assertion is not wrong. You are assuming that the flip of a single bit from a photo or video is catastrophic, both in the rendering of the file, as well as the resulting harm done to the user/individual. The reality is that most people don't value >99.999999% accuracy, and are fine with the current state of data storage. Out of 1,000,000 photos, will the user notice/care if 1 jpeg has a 16x16 block that is a different colour?
> A lot of the regulation then is designed to protect the market as an entity, rather than the consumers.

What you're describing isn't regulation; you're describing the results of regulatory capture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
> Unfortunately that will never be remedied

Not with that attitude :-P

Actually, climate change action does have support on the Right, e.g., in the Republican Climate Resolution. I don't believe we're at the political tipping point, but getting there is possible, the same way we did with tobacco and chemical pollutants. Who can say what is needed to get there: unfortunately misinformation campaigns are better funded than pro climate action campaigns.
> Yet to find such country. We re not talking about bookish knowledge. World witnessed what's been happening with Blacks in US and Muslims in India.

You know about these events because something resembling an independent and strong media exists in both of those countries. The lack of which is also the reason you hardly ever hear about the persecution of non-Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Erdogan has already cleansed the media off his opponents. That pillar of democracy is already down.
The US wants Erdogan in power. It gives us another convenient target later on whereas before we had no major reason to bother with Turkey. Turkey is rife with resources, from oil to gems. I say this as I look at a slab of agate cut from a $6K chunk of Turkish tube agate - http://i.imgur.com/dYyaTkL.jpg
How about stopping the revolving door between those who are regulated and those is the agencies doing the regulation?

Conflict of interest appointments result in probably the vast majority of anti-market, cartel-style behavior.
No one reads the warnings on Wikipedia pages. Having pages that aren't considered officially maintained is messy and would probably lead to people seeing Wikipedia as having lower-quality articles overall.
one of the particularly valid points is that airlines shouldn't be allowed to overbook. By offsetting this with no-refund policies, it seems like a win-win negotiation

Nearly every industry overbooks (airlines, hotels, even restaurants) and it saves consumers money in the long run. The problem is that when it happens, the airline shouldn't be allowed to involuntarily deny boarding to anyone, they should be required to offer a high enough reward that someone takes it voluntarily.
This chart in the article makes me suspicious:

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i_t8UFPOJVk...

The nurses who took 6 hour workdays took roughly the same number of sick days two years later as they did at the start. Technically they took 5% fewer days, and perhaps that's statistically significant, but it's not (for lack of a better word) interesting.

The control group is interesting! Why did a group of nurses taking a normal schedule suddenly have such a huge increase in sick days? I get the feeling that something else affected these results that we're not seeing here. I'm skeptical that the 6-hour workday explains this. Can anyone with more experience in the medical industry chime in to say if it's normal for the number of sick days a nurse takes to increase that much over 2 years (for an 8-hour workday)?

People on hackernews are always skeptical and I usually hate that. I'd like to start a trend of being appreciative. This study took two years to complete! It's hard to foresee things happening that could make the data look strange like this. Maybe they should have taken more information, so they could see which trait in the control group had the highest correlation with increased sick days. But I can't say with certainty that I would have thought to do that. Interesting study, at the very least it's an indicator that there's something interesting going on here worth investigating :).
Checks and balances? 1982 constitution was a horrid piece of work and it took decades to patch it up to a miserable kinda working state.

Indeed it is a pity that this vote was not to completely destroy that junta crap and install a new modern constitution.
And here I thought this was a prime example of it 'happening'.
Perhaps XXX001, XXX002, XXX003 and so on?
You are engaged in the political process aside from once-every-few-years voting, right? That's how "we as a society" decided it.

If all you do is punch a ballot, yeah, that's lazy, and yeah, you're basically letting other people decide these things for you.
> TaraElla is a singer-songwriter, author and blogger

For the moment she doesn't have a page on Wikipedia.
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I prefer living in a district with lax zoning laws. They're always much more enjoyable.
While the exact language in the quote is perhaps implying something, it only directly says the that the cause is warming during the industrial era. It doesn't provide any direct information about causal factors.
If you're not traveling with a family, I've found hostels to be by far the best experience. They tend to be cheaper than both hotels and AirBNB, and have a very social atmosphere that's great for meeting other travelers and finding interesting off-the-beaten-path places to go.
I'm going to get one because ever since my kids have discovered the old Super Mario Brothers Super Show on Netflix they've been completely hooked on all things Mario. Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U was such a great family game that we've been playing it for close to 3 years now.

It had such a good cooperative experience that we could even play with my 4 year old pretty quickly. We even had a big night out for dinner after we finally beat the crown world. :-)
This is incorrect.

I imagine this seems like it makes sense because it happens to fit into the Republican view of regulation = bad, deregulation = good.

The regulation applies to passengers denied boarding involuntarily (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.5). There is no mention of a maximum amount of money that can be offered to individuals volunteering not to board an overbooked flight (see https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.2b).

Indeed, it was reported that United never even approached the $1,350 mark, though I can't find these references at the moment.
Globalisation and immigration have weakened the relative wealth of the working classes.

The left refuses to acknowledge the problem while the right (and far right) does, so guess where that leads?
The same constraints you cite here applied to "peer review" articles. The academics doing the peer reviewing are also "busy with work" and want to do their own thing, and especially in cases where reviewers are anonymous, the incentives facing the academics charged with the review are absolutely horrendous.

My point with the part about the bot that checks errors is that, if we are being honest, in far too many cases that "peer review" is less than ironclad, to put it mildly. In that scenario, the journals actually do us a disservice because they attempt to signal that the content you are reading went through a strict bit of scrutiny before it reached your eyeballs. That is a dangerous assumption to believe in if it turns out that it really wasn't.
> Everything that you believe to be needless, may actually serve a very specific and important purpose.

It may or may not, and it may have served a purpose once upon a time but not anymore because the context has changed or because it's been superseded, it may have failed to achieve its goals or led to undesirable outcomes (either aside from its success or making the situation worse), it may have had a (now considered) horrendous purpose, …

That one must be careful with regulations and understand why they exist is more or less GP's entire point:

> deregulation is a difficult thing that must be done carefully

I like this old quip/aphorism that you shouldn't be able to ask for a law's removal if you don't know why it exists, though I'm not sure it's always feasible, especially for the older texts.

And of course the recorded purpose may not have been honest in the first place (see: many voting regulations in the US).
> Mario Cart

I'm imaging Mario & Co racing around in shopping carts, grabbing and tossing bananas etc..
When was the last time Pakistan elected an Islamist government? The last PPP government was pretty secular and the current one is also in the middle if not purely secular. The only time a truly Islamist government was formed in Pakistan was when US puppet dictator Zia ul Haq took over to fight the commies in Afghanistan. Pakistan has many different Islamist parties but they struggle to get even a handful of seats.
I have seen several successful implementations in the 18 months I've been working with OpenStack. There are definitely gotchas and low level (driver, hardware)issues you have to deal with. I never thought I would be so familiar with IPMI.

That said, OpenStack is an ambitious product. It essentially seeks to give you a lot of the functionality of AWS, except with on-premise infrastructure. That is a tall order. AWS is a multi-billion dollar effort that I assume has has far more engineers than the OpenStack project.

OpenStack is a complex solution to a very complex problem. Having worked with other commercial IaaS solutions, I will say I hands down prefer OpenStack to the others I've worked with.

If there is a private cloud solution that delivers the same/similar functionality of OpenStack with less admin overhead and more simplicity, then I want to hear about it.
One writer describes 15km as immense and suddenly all Guardian readers are idiots?

For reference, the Thames is 350km long.
Absolutely - but the lack of societal memory and cohesion wiped out all the progress.

Ultimately there is a lack of a unified societal contract, ironic in a country so focused on its constitution. What is the purpose of government, rules and society?

A lot of the issues in the US stem from this lack of common ground. And I believe, at the root is poor education and a sense of me vs. the newly arrived. A constant struggle to keep your spoils and not wanting to share with new people who haven't contributed yet.

The US is not a coherent country and society (yet). Still confused as to its purpose.

And yes, Trump is a great symptom of this.

The UK has this personality crisis right now, the empire is gone and a lot of newcomers have shaken up society. Brexit is a similar outcome. It needs to find its core, but as a conglomerate it is hard. Common traditions should help - but when the Queen dies, it will shake them up even more.
What was unclear in the previous model? Sounds like there is less granularity now on testing the different branches. This could have he effect of bugs being caught later in the development cycle.
Compare Sequel to EasyDB then: https://github.com/paragonie/easydb
I've just recently installed macOS Sierra on my ASUS laptop thanks to ReHabMans tutorials, some things took me days to fix like the audio, but you always end up finding the solution in a thread made by that talented guy. The only problem I had was high RAM usage and some other things that need tweaking.
edit: mic and cam don't work, this way nobody can spy on me ;)
That's how a lot of historical events happen. They loom, they threaten, they simmer, and then they happen.

Sure, the writing on the wall is just words, but sometimes it's still worth a read.
Rivers re-route themselves frequently, the difference is cause (sediment for the Yellow River, melting glacier for the Slims).
He's not technically wrong, he's just....basically wrong.
Weapons and shields wear out. But I always have at least 5 on my and you can usually pick up the enemy you just killed's weapon. I've never been short on weapons.

It's a little sad to see that awesome sword you kinda got attached to break, but....there's always something new to try. Two-handed spears, giant hammers - adds nice variety.

I'm yet to farm anything.
To be fair, the Wii U had these — arguably better versions of all the sports — and that wasn't a large draw for that.
I for one am not terribly upset that the Intel hegemony's time has run out
Almost all Wii U games don't have a release date for the Switch yet. If they can get the entire Wii U back catalogue released by Christmas 2017 that would definitely help, but that's a big "if" and Nintendo hasn't claimed that they're trying to.
Never said they had to own the smart driving car. Lots of people riding public transit out there.
Europe and America caused this problem.

Europe and America invaded iraq.

Europe killed Gaddafi and then abandoned Libya to the vacuum.

On Syria, i guess Europe and america and share blame with their middle eastern allies.
But again Europe was willing and eager participant.

Its called blowback. You reap what you sow.
It's not even zero profits. It's zero economic profits, meaning that your accounting profit can be positive, without considering the opportunity cost of not investing in other businesses. You make money, just not more money than skipping the hard work part and investing everything you have in a robot-managed index fund.

In theory, commoditized industries are ruled by entry and exit of firms, based on how the capital costs and economies of scale affect marginal cost of production.

When the political process creates friction for the entry and exit of those firms, you get problems in the commodity markets. You have to allow big companies to fail, and have smaller firms take their place then merge-and-acquire or otherwise destroy each other until the magic optimal size for that industry is reached.

I'd probably have all airports auction off 5-year leases for 20% of their terminal gates every year, and base the number of takeoff and landing slots an airline can use per day on the number of gates it currently leases.
I had question about the following statement:

>"With the hub-and-spoke system used to defend airlines’ pricing power, there are fewer nonstops"

I hadn't considered the hub and spoke system as a means of defending pricing power before. Is the idea that since there are more flights by that airline into its hub region they can offer better fares to passengers? Is that right? But don't passengers generally try to avoid flights with lay overs? The logic is escaping me.
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>Really free markets would have solved this.

How do you figure that? Wouldn't a free market solution require United to honor its contracts and the legal system in the first place? Which they provably already ignored when they removed ALREADY BOARDED AND SEATED passengers?

This didn't fall into "involuntary denied boarding" situation so United was free to offer whatever they wanted to. Which they chose not to do. Essentially, they had the situation you think would have solved the problem, but did not solve the problem.
Groundbreaking. Do good regulations but not the pointless ones. I'll be sure to inform my Congress representative.
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We barely know anything about it at this point. Unless you've got an uncle at Nintendo, your assertion that it's an "expansion" is unfounded.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm very optimistic, and have already bought/pre-ordered it (it's a gray area which to call it, because it unlocks some things immediately, but the bulk of it isn't available for a few months), but my optimism is mainly based on the Mario Kart 8 DLC, not what they've announced about the BotW DLC itself.
To give you an idea, last year you had talks about anything from silicon photonics, memory validation or Thunderbolt, all the way to indie games.
Or I suppose fettuccine Alfredo :P
I'd be amazed if they were violating no laws. Surely the law would help the neighbors regardless of whether or not the party host was an AirBnB.
Ha ha --- I should have thought to search for that!

It seems to be a bit light on advice in places. e.g. the section on comparison operators lightly mentions the difference between == and === but doesn't say anything about when they should be used. As that's one of the traditional PHP gotchas I would have expected more there.

Anyway, thanks; I'll check it out.
> Nobody that I know of complains about about the agricultural system here (granted, I live in a farming community :-) ).

I did (granted, I have a background in Economics).

Tell a Japanese how much a tin of tomatoes costs in Japan compared to the US or the EU, or a mango, or even a packet of generic acetaminophen (paracetamol) for that matter.

Now ask them why. Nine times out of ten, they’ll say something about the Japanese culture of quality and attention to detail. To be fair, Japan often does demand higher standards, but that’s not nearly enough to explain the full price discrepancy.

They don‘t complain because they don‘t know what’s going on.
Well, it's OK if it's voluntary. But that gets murky for prisoners, who arguably can't freely decline.
Thanks, that's the rudest thing ever said to me on this website :) had to happen eventually
> Why is it wrong?

https://xkcd.com/882/

If you look at 200 rivers, it would not be surprising to find something that naturally occurs 0.5% of the time. It is not correct to say that there is a 99.5% chance that this is due to non-natural causes.
Just a note that for this study, the government ultimately pays the salaries and for the sick leave - so reducing the sick leave would reduce cost.

[ed: additionally the the government also pays unemployment benefits, so if there was a surplus of nurses, that might activate some people that were unemployed as well]
How was a man sleeping across their seats during boarding? I have a hard time imagining a person doing this and not being told not to be a flight attendant. They make multiple passes up and down the cabin telling people to sit up with their bags properly away.
Are you using TripleO/Red Hat Platform Director? Can you share the size of your OpenStack environment?

When you say VMware 6.5, are you referring to ESXi aka vSphere Hypervisor? That is not a 1 for 1 replacement of OpenStack.
As usual, people don't know their own desires.

Ask people what makes them choose an airline and they'll probably tell you a tale about reputation, service, legroom, amenities, what have you.

Now stick them in front of a computer and tell them to buy a ticket with their own money and watch them pick the cheapest option regardless of the rest.

It's a race to the bottom because that's what people really want. When the rubber meets the road, most people want a horrible, cheap experience.

Why do airlines overbook flights? Because people would rather save $5 with a chance of being bumped than pay a little extra.

Obviously, we'd all love direct flights with sixteen feet of legroom, a hundred free checked bags, gourmet meals, free access to a library of every movie and TV show ever made, and for a price of $3.50. But that's not going to happen, because amenities cost money. When we're faced with the tradeoff, we favor low prices.

Once I truly realized this, I became a lot less annoyed with many airline shenanigans. Yeah, it's pretty annoying that as a tall guy I barely fit into the seat. But it's what I paid for. If it was that important to me, I could pay extra for more space. I don't, because, like most people, I prefer cheapness above all else.

You can get a much nicer experience if you pay for it. If you don't feel like paying for it, then what are you complaining about?

Not particularly related, but this line from the article caught my eye:

"It makes no sense to allow airlines to charge an astronomical fare just because a flight is nearly full, and a dirt-cheap fare for an advance booking."

What planet is this guy from? Of course it makes sense to charge high fares for a scarce product in high demand, and low fares for an abundant product in low demand.
Your analysis implies far right fractions had a big role in this referendum, which to be honest does not ring correct, on the contrary, even though leader of MHP asked to support yes vote, they overwhelmingly voted no, something effectively destroying his leader position, and perhaps his party.
The cap is the legally required compensation limit, airlines are free to exceed it. But in the David Dao case, United didn't even reach that cap, offering $800 (as reported by witnesses, or $1,000 as reported by United).

So it's not clear how this particular regulation brought us this mess when the airlines didn't even follow the regulation that required them to tell the passenger in writing what his rights (and compensation amount) were.
If you are interested in the history of the airline industry up through the 90s, you should read Hard Landing. It's an excellent overview of how we got to where we are in the United States, and the meat of the book is about deregulation.

Note that "deregulation" in the airline industry (primarily) means the government no longer controlled which airlines flew which routes. Before deregulation, route ownership was decided by an oligopoly that would and could set high-margin prices on routes since the control of those routes was a) assured by the government and b) agreed on by all the major carriers.

After deregulation, airlines competed primarily on price. While this lead to the hub-and-spoke system and the low-fare carriers we see today, it also meant that almost anyone could fly anywhere in the US and abroad for (relatively) little money and a high amount of safety.

As an aside, airline reservations technology benefited immensely from deregulation, and the carriers that controlled the reservations systems ended up killing of the carriers that didn't (see, for example, Eastern Airlines). If you're interested in the tech of the airline industry, I recently gave a talk about this at Systems We Love: https://systemswe.love/archive/san-francisco-2016/life-of-an...