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The problem with monopoly is that it's zero-sum.

Capitalism is not zero-sum.
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A smooth star cluster can be plotted by giving stars a normally distributed variate for each dimension.
Normal distribution is the only kind which will result in a radially even cluster - any other distribution results in visible deformation over the dimensions axis. This geometric property of normal distribution is true for any number of dimensions.
(Disclaimer: UK perspective) I think it's partly because the "cool kids" today have had to pay out hugely for their education, to find a non-existent job market on the other side, tremendous pressure on the housing market meaning it's completely unaffordable to live anywhere half-decent even if you do have a job. The generations above us benefitted hugely from a great wave of socialism following World War II - with the creation of the NHS, completely free university education, the ability to buy a house right out of university etc. There's a feeling (accurate or not) that this older generation, having benefitted hugely from socialist measures, are now 'pulling the ladder up behind them', entrenching their position of privilege while denying the same opportunities to younger people. It's not that capitalism is bad - it's probably one of the least bad economic systems - but that the swing away from socialism towards capitalism (it's not black and white - it's a smoothish gradient from one to the other) is exacerbating this situation. There is some evidence behind this - a report published recently showed that since tuition fees were introduced for universities, more children of wealthy people are attending and fewer from poorer backgrounds.
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U.S. realtors and agents often include bathrooms, hallways, awkward nooks, etc. in their numbers as well.
EditorConfig's not about that kind of whitespace though. That's a language-specific thing, best solved with an autoformatting tool like the utterly magnificent one that comes with Go.

I don't much care for Go the language, but shipping a formatter with the compiler is an utterly genius move.
He showed that the Trump government is moving people to unrealted jobs and wasting tax payer in an under handed way to cut government jobs. So that is sort of whiskey blowing
It's a great idea, but as other have noted, the landing page definitely needs either a lot more information or at least a couple examples of what kind of service you're actually providing.

Are you actually hosting the API I'd be building? Or just generating boilerplate code for it? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding :)
I'd assume it'd be unethical to move trained scientists to accountant jobs at tax-payer expense, no?
I'm having the same experience. I have been working on my thesis for the last year. My university is in a different city, and everyone working on something related is in another country. This made it hard for me to make progress and this has had the effect of me isolating myself even more (I haven't made enough progress to have a beer with friends and not feel bad about myself).

Although I have never been sick for the last year, I recognize all the other symptoms to some degree. For an assessment, I took an IQ test a while ago. I used to be really good at number sequences, acing them or at least getting 95% right. I think I got about half of them this time, which was quite shocking.

Once I finish this thesis (my supervisor keeps trying to convince me to postpone my graduation - a student working on a very similar problem has spent more than 2.5 years now, and has not graduated yet) I want to spend more time on my social life again.
I do not think it's really that clear.

Sometimes the state apparatus is precisely the one committing the most heinous crimes. (with impunity!)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...

> http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html
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Why don't you try joining a monopoly game in the middle of the game and see how much you still like capitalism?

That's what people born today face.
>I'll stick to real money, thanks.

By "real" money, you mean more established and widely used, correct?
The fact that the Trending chart lists COBOL at all, let alone as high as 30th place, seems very peculiar.
He's not revealing anything new. Trump is pretty open about his hatred of climate scientists and his efforts to stop them from doing their work.

However, it's definitely unethical and I'm surprised there isn't more outcry about it.
I moved here to get out of my comfort zone
This is a great article. I agree with the comments here that says working at home can really squish your mood. It makes me wonder about social security. I remember some comments here about if they got rid of it, grandma would have to move in. Well, according to this article, that might be the best thing for grandma! I work from home but have been staying with my in laws since we had a baby. It has been great for my mental health.
Again, the question is who you trust, and that remains a moral choice, not an objective, empirical choice.

Oh come on. It absolutely is an empirical choice. Crypto-currencies have a very short history and that history is CHOCK FULL of people losing their money due to various forms of incompetence and graft.

Storing your money in a bank in a western democracy has centuries of history with extremely rare losses.

Please.
I've only just started following Ethereum in light of this incident and the other recent one I saw on HN yesterday. That said, if I understand it, the "attacker" was just the first person to truly understand the contract and exploit that understanding, no? If what happened isn't what the creators of the contract intended, then that's the fault of the creators, not the "attacker". Lastly, if they'll fork for one bad contract, why not fork for all bad contracts?
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This is why my kids will only have PowerGrid, Ticket to Ride, and Settlers.
I am not 100% certain that the hacker did anything illegal. As I understand it he exploited a loophole in the contract, that has been going on since contracts have existed and is not illegal in itself.
Perhaps a few ideas, hopefully something is helpful.

1. It would be nice if you could setup an alert when your project is done building (audio or visual) so you can get back to it right away.

2. When I used to work on a similar scale project, I put in a lot of effort to improve build time (initially on Windows I worked on keeping the computer defragged, and other tricks to improve build time, eventually switching to Linux).

3. It's nice to use the time doing something that is relevant to the job, like reading more and understanding the technology stack better. Reading through tutorials on new subjects, etc.

While 30 minutes is certainly a long time, hopefully the time can be used productively, it will certainly help you more in the long run!

Good luck!
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Note that FSF copyright assignment is opt-in for GNU projects. There are many projects that do not use copyright assignment. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't.
Better is not necessarily good enough. Why would people not want a system which furthers their quality of life even more? It's not at all convincing to suggest that you shouldn't complain since things have improved somewhat under capitalism.
A meta sentiment analysis of HN comments about <subject> would be fascinating to me. Quantify the opinion of the "hivemind".
EVs are fine for DC-NYC. The higher-end Teslas can do the trip in one shot. My S85 could too, if I were willing to arrive running on the electrical equivalent of fumes, but I'd probably take 15 minutes to stop in Delaware to top up the car and driver. With charging, my total trip time would be about four hours, which compares pretty favorably with making the trip by air.
Capitalism benefits a few at the cost of many and it's designed too. Can any supporter articulate a scenario where capitalism enables prosperity for the majority without immediately resorting to bottom barrel comparisons to feudalism? The reality is we need to imagine a more evolved society without pandering to the greed and self interest of a few. This of course appears to be our eternal struggle.

The bigger problem with capitalism is it is designed to perpetuate entrenched interests and status quo. It origins from a time when few had capital or property, only the nobility did, convenient, and was obviously designed to perpetuate feudalism by proxy as they could direct economies and systems with their resources, and continue to.

A few examples of those who sacrifice their entire life to gain more capital offers eternal hope to the masses to hop on to the gravy train some already are on by birth, and those who sacrifice their life to accomplish this are obviously going to be overzealous supporters of 'the system', their entire identity and self worth riding on this achievement.

We need to find a way to detach progress from capitalism. Human progress cannot depend on greed which is basically what capitalism boils down to, rewarding and perpetuating the base traits of humanity and leaving a soulless society unable to rise above basic greed in its wake.
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I was about to post that in my opinion base-12 is superior to base-10. But someone beat me to it. In a six-fi novel I'm writing, an advanced alien civilisation uses base-12.

As to your question specifically regarding base-16 instead of base-12, it depends.

Decimal itself is just a bizarre choice, most likely due to humans having literally ten digits. In decimal we can represent exact fractions of 1/2, 1/5, and 1/10 (without repeated decimals like 0.33333 for 1/3). Counting by fives (and twos) is very easy.

But choosing prime factors of 2 and 5 is a strange choice in itself. Why skip 3? Why is it more useful to easily represent fraction 1/5th as 0.2 instead of 1/3rd? How often do we use fifths?

Hexadecimal in one sense is easier, all prime factors are two. So we can represent 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 exactly.

Duodecimal (Base 12) is very convenient for having a high proportion of exact fractions. Eg - 1/12, 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2 can all be represented exactly. I'd argue in everyday use we're more likely to consider 1/3rd of something than 1/5th. Counting by twos, threes, fours, and sixes is easy. Watch, let's count to 20 (24 in decimal) by 3's : 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 19, 20. In 4's : 4, 8, 10, 14, 18, 20. By 6 : 6, 10, 16, 20.

Base-12 offers four handy subdivisions (excluding 1) instead of two for decimal or three for hexadecimal. That beats hexadecimal using fewer unique digits. It beats decimal by two using only two extra unique digits.

And I think it's these reasons it was chosen for various historical subdivisional units (inches per foot, pence per shilling).

The other item to consider is the relative number of unique values per digit. I'm not sure of the utility of having 10, 12, or 16 here.

At one extreme, while binary is useful for discretising signals in digital logic, using only zeroes and ones becomes cumbersome for daily use at higher numbers.

Once we're at base 10 and higher, I'm not sure how much here extra digits help or hurt.
I think the appeal is more how it streamlines workflow, not how newbie-friendly it is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819432
i assume you're being sarcastic, but of course the hard fork succeeded: the vast majority of users switched to the hard fork. that doesn't mean classic would've failed without the fork.
It's actually pretty common notation in a lot of fields, and mathematicians frequently switch between whichever of these notations is most convenient for a particular problem. Your point of course still stands for why isn't it the main one used in Calculus 1 courses, but it's common in differential equations courses in my experience (and PDE's often simplifies it further to just have D_x f as f_x). And many times where the "derivative" is not necessarily the "calc 1" derivative, you use notation similar to that, for example the covariant derivative [1] is sometimes written like that but with a 'nabla' instead of a 'D'. Some authors even use 'D' for covariant derivative along a path.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariant_derivative
Most people aren't very good at nuanced appraisals of things.

While capitalism does have its weaknesses, it also seems to be one of the driving forces behind modernity, which I think most of us can agree is a supremely good thing.

We've tried tearing down the system before. Communism failed, not because of failed implementation, but because the concept itself is a bad one. This is not to say that we should close ourselves off from thinking of new ways to organize our societies, but it seems that capitalism and all that it encourages is responsible for the 'rising tide' of global human civilization we've witnessed over the course of the industrial revolution to now. Sure there is inequality, but as they say, a rising tide lifts all boats. Would you want to be the average middle class or poor person 300 years ago, or today?

As innovation continues to change the material conditions of the world, our economic systems will evolve in response, probably for the better. Capitalism will not look the same in 100 years or 1000 years as it does today. But over time gradual development will improve the system, not some grand scheme that calls for tearing down capitalism and replacing it with something else.
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You're missing my point. Does Linux have fewer games? Yes. But Linux is absolutely a viable gaming platform and the other benefits to using Linux over Windows are extremely compelling.
They were such advanced capitalists that they drank their copper because they had so much money.
I absolutely LOVE that you've defined "win" here as associating with the person you as an individual desire to associate with. I wonder if we could devise some sort of mechanism by which each individual person could be free to choose this on their own, then everyone could win.
Things have improved immensely, more than any other time in history under capitalism. And we've watched other systems crash and burn. We don't need to experience it for ourselves, thanks.
If that's the case, then you can't even count on the ownership of your cryptocurrency, no? Your assets are subject to the whim of the majority. Decentralized tyranny of the majority?

The "attacker" is seen as the "bad guy" so everyone decides to screw him?
The name Arduino refers to a platform. This platform has its own programming language. The platform is actually a fork of Wiring[1]. It seems there is really no better name for the language other than "the Arduino language."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiring_(development_platform)
I think it's funny how this little trivia about Monopoly gets brought up constantly, I think just to spark a debate about economics. Is this really not common knowledge already?
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Maybe 'cos it's getting a bit too meme-y, but I was honestly surprised that (or some variation of) wasn't the title of the article.
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In the last six months I've moved to a new apartment in another part of town, I changed jobs, and I graduated from grad school. My social life has been severely disrupted! The change in work was maybe the most dramatic since I moved from a highly social environment to being isolated in an office by myself (and on a floor with taciturn colleagues). It's only been a few months, but I already see some mild forms of the symptoms described in the parent comment.

Now, being in grad school, working full time and having a toddler did a lot of the work in atrophying my social connections over the last three years, but this spring delivered a knock-out blow. Luckily, I'm attentive to my mental health and generally a proactive person, so I've outlined steps to try and at least get into another job (Cracking the Coding Interview... groan). I've also started scouring the internet looking for ideas to start developing my community ties:

- Our local YMCA has programs for families that we'll be taking advantage of, including free babysitting once a month(!!!)
- There's a local collective of volunteer "civic hackers" that I'll start hanging out with after summer's over.
- I just saw, somewhere above in this comment thread, a mention of meetup.com. It's now open in another tab.
- I'm even leaving comments on the internet, such as this!

Anyway, just wanted to share (edit: formatting).
There was a thread about boardgames here on HN two days ago and someone commented that Monopoly wasn't just a bad game, but a game created with that purpose (so that being "bad" was an intended feature).

The comment sparked a lot of discussion and most people didn't know about that original goal of Monopoly.

Now this article appear on a major magazine. It's very suspicious. Unless this is a huge coincidence, these writers must think again about their intellectual honesty.
I don't understand why HTML is in there? I can obviously understand the scripting languages you can embed in HTML being there, but they're listed separately anyway.
> You know whats really cool? Inventing stuff. Using the power of your mind to form matter into a new thing that the universe has never seen before. Whats really cool is starting a business that adds enough value to the world to hire people. Feeding them with the power of your mind and a little bit of shared elbow grease.

Not one of these points is limited to capitalism. Markets are a necessary but not a sufficient condition of capitalism. People's urge to create wonderful things did exist in the millenia before 1750, they did exist in the eastern bloc, and every day today multiple great things people do in their free time, making no economic sense at all, pop up on HN.

Even in capitalist societies many if not most of the groundbreaking inventions and discoveries were and are state-funded.
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They're almost single, yes, but they are not almost single parents. There is a big difference.

The money the other parent brings home they would still need to earn it if they were single parents.
Perhaps your circle of experience isn't representative of the wider community? Personally, I don't find the ranking of PHP surprising. One word, WordPress. Plus, there are probably bespoke PHP applications running in countless companies.
I'm willing to cut people working themselves to death at 2-3 jobs to make ends meet a little slack on the depth of their economic theories.
Ah yes, that holy grail of humanity: starting a business.

Thank heavens that the czars of capitalism have given us such a generous outlet for all that latent human potential—unlike say, starting a family, starting a full-time art project, starting a humanities Ph.D without crippling debt, starting a round of chemo while unemployed, or starting our dinners at 6pm like our ancestors managed to do for ~200,000 years.
If anyone is convinced of that solely by a video of a wooden computer, perhaps you've found a person who never became conscious in the first place.
That's not how it has happened throughout human history.
> And then the baby boomers came along.

To be fair to Boomers and contrary to the popular current Boomers.v. Millenials (with Gen X occasionally acknowledged) narrative, the effects you describe began under the social, economic, and political dominance of the “Greatest” Generation, not the boomers.

Further, it's not really a generational thing, it's about shifting distribution of power among economic classes over time; which generation is ascendant at the time isn't the controlling factor, and generation v. generation narrative obstructs the kind of coalition building that could work to reverse the problem.
Ask HN: Did you feel knowledgable enough to work after education?
I have just graduated and started applying for jobs, but i feel like i'm not smart enough.
This is a common complaint. It's not mentioned in the interactive chart, but the print article explains their reasoning.
Maybe we shouldn't consider Monopoly a game of 'capitalism'.

Although, it probably in some respects does represent the popular idea of capitalism and the reality of our current regulated economic system.

The game monopoly better represents a non free market economy. The players are constrained within the limited confines of the game. As players accrue money and resources they can't invest that into new businesses. The is no representation in the game of other economic pressures of supply and demand of human resources. All these limits are more analogous to a heavily regulated economy. And of course, part of the game is based simply on chance. Players aren't complete free to engage in free trade as they would see fit.
>What if the future the FSF (RMS is not eternal) changes its policy to turn to something completely crazy with your code ?

The FSF's copyright assignment contract has clauses that prevent them from doing such things. It's really a very fair contract.
What's really cool is the majority of people having a pleasant and comfortable life and a bright future for their kids. Maximizing the prosperity of the majority is the purpose of a democratic society.

People are ragging on capitalism because they're looking over the pond to countries that see capitalism as a tool to serve democratic interests rather than as moral worldview, and they kind of like that idea. Interestingly, those countries aren't really less capitalistic (the Heritage Foundation puts the U.S. in the same bucket on their Economic Freedom index as Sweden and Germany), but their culture is less centered around glorifying the capitalist.
The US has $60k in debt per citizen and $377k in unfunded liabilities per person. Your retirement is already gone. Money is fungible though, so they'll just keep taking more of your money out of your left pocket to put it back into your right pocket, with a little shaved off the top of course.

Of course that really only works out for you if you happen to be a relatively wealthy white person. You see, the poor tend not to go to college so they pay into SS for longer. They also tend to die earlier so they don't collect for as many years. So the poor black person who dies in their early 60s gets a -100% return on their investment. But an upper middle class white person who lives to be 90 will do alright. Oh, and of course the poor black person was robbed of their potential to create generational wealth, further exacerbating that issue.
The labor issue isn't a clear cut ethical no-no. Working to a productive end is one of the few rehabilitative avenues available. I'm pretty sure these type of jobs are seen as sought after privileges.

Private prisons are most often jails (ie. short term, not places that do this) and do not represent the majority of prisoners.

Sometimes advocates publish misleading figures about this by focusing on prisoners staying in contracted out facilities. The majority of those are prison beds in county jails. These are used to relieve over crowding, house prisoners closer to trial location or otherwise reduce transport. In some places, counties run these as a revenue generator.