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> Did individual businesses really pay their workers more because they thought it would prevent the country from becoming communist?

No, that didn't happen. Wages climbed rapidly over a century due to extraordinary productivity gains. Each worker could produce far more real dollar value output and their worth climbed accordingly.

The reason Henry Ford could pay his workers $5 per day, was thanks to the very aggressive, spectacular productivity gains that his company's automation efforts delivered. The Ford Motor Company could produce more and more vehicles per worker, drive the price per Model-T down dramatically, and ramp the production scale into the millions, while yielding stellar profits thanks to the output gains and efficiency. Without the productivity gains in question, that wage jump (and it was quite the jump at the time) would have been impossible. Fear of Communism taking over had nothing to do with it. Ford's reasoning for going along with the big pay hike (it wasn't his idea) is public knowledge, you can read his thoughts on the matter, none of it had to do with Communism.
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Not based on how much money they're losing. It's not a viable business yet, and it probably never will be.
> Wait. What? In 2017? There are instructions and I have to report broken equipment? I have to figure out instructions on payment system?! There's no button to handle it all on my phone?

lol nice bit

wait are you serious
I'd like to focus on fewer things but I still feel that 50hrs are ok. We are awake about 16 hours each day. If less than 7 are spent working, there are still 9 hours each day for other stuff.
Seems reasonable!
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Anecdata, but I always ask if I really need them, and 100% of the cases the doc says: we can probably wait a few days.
In my life of 30years, never had to take antibiotics...not even once! My case might be special, but at least shows that most of the time (in our times at least) we can easily do without them.
On NPR this morning they mentioned the appeal may take up to 18 months. No idea how accurate that is however.
Growing consensus among economists is that productivity slowdown is key to understanding stagnation. The top commenter almost put his finger on it when he said that workers aren't paid more because they aren't worth more, before attributing it to the "monopoly of capitalism". In reality if the machines we rely on to be productive aren't improving much themselves, then our productivity is capped.

Technological innovation has slowed down a lot over the past 20-30 years, and is now diffusing throughout the world rather than being pushed forward by the large industrial conglomerates, pharmaceuticals, chipmakers, OEMs, etc.
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Go happens to be a pretty nice replacement for Java in some targeted circumstances, but that is not why Go exists. Go's charter was to address deficiencies of Google's C++ programming environment, not its Java programming environment.

As it happens, outside of (perhaps) Google, C++ serverside development is so rare that Go's strengths aren't very compelling to C++ developers. That Go didn't evolve in the direction its founders expected does not mean that its founders are lying when they explain, clearly and repeatedly, what the original point of the language was.
Depends on what you’re willing to call the Bay Area. Head east and you get to spots like that within thirty minutes, as long as it’s not commute time. If you decided to BART from Pittsburgh/Bay Point or Dublin/Pleasanton you could probably have a twenty minute commute from a cheap RV community and then take the train into the city easily enough. It’s much harder if you want to work on the peninsula, although maybe there are easy public transit options from down near Gilroy that I’m unaware of.

Honestly better would be to get a boat. Cheap slips exist all over the place.
Well, it's $43.73 for one SIP on DigiKey, yet I can buy the PocketBeagle for $25? For comparison the CHIP-Pro embeddable module is $16 (and does lots more).
I agree!

Going by the Bruce Lee quote "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times". Only in this case kick = photography. There is definitely value in practicing a singular art with focus.
Workers design and build the robots.

Why wouldn't those workers capture the benefits of the robots in the same ratio that workers capture the benefits of other things they produce?
When I was younger and played games, popping out the windows key was typical. At best triggering windows menu meant lost round, but more typically a crashed game or even crashed Windows.

Even today I'm wary of task switching from a game, as it still doesn't seem to be entirely robust
> In the entire history of the hackney carriage (black cab) license - going back to 1662 - I know of only one case of a driver having been prosecuted for rape, about 5 years ago.

Pardon?

John Warboys - a registered black cab driver - was convicted of 12 rapes in 2009, and was thought to have carried out over 100. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys

David perry - a registered black cab driver - was convicted of 2 rapes in 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-32118391

Edward Chapman - a registered black cab driver - was convicted of rape in 2012. http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/crime-court/black-cabb...

Musie Asgodom - a registered black cab driver in Sheffield (not all black cabs are in London) - was convicted of 2 rapes in 2012 and failed to overturn his conviction. http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/rapist-sheffield-cab-driver-fa...

I could go on but those were the first 3 or 4 links I found, and even those are in the past 5-8 years.

I dont see how some background checks are going to prevent people from raping someone if the opportunity presents itself. Rapists are rapists regardless of what license they have been given by filling in some forms.
You could setup an AutoHotkey to "silence" it

https://superuser.com/questions/291018/consume-keystroke-in-...
Where signal strength is low (in the mountains or a building).

When moving slowly (walking).

When precise coordinates are needed (self driving vehicles).

When precise altitude is needed (airplanes and drones).

When tracking smallish things on a person (head tracking for augmented reality).

When performing certain scientific measurements (continental drift).

Finally, so that when I'm sitting at a stop light my navigation doesn't freak out and suddenly think I'm moving in the opposite direction.

I'm sure there are tons more.
Haha not a problem at all.
I always access HN by hckrnews.com . It's much easier to look at the top posts for the day. And since it also has the top posts from previous days, I don't feel the need to check the front page as often.
I don't want to see any of my favorite software go public. It creates incentives that don't do me any good, like marketing instead of improving the product.
The issue with the volume is one of your desktop environment, not of PulseAudio.
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I live here, on a pretty much average London income, from zones 1 to 3 and have for ten years. I cycle so I don't have a travel card. The general point of the post above was that London doesn't want/need Uber, which just isn't true. The point about us having a great public transport system also isn't true, Londoners infamously hate the tube. It didn't get to support 40k drivers from novelty value.

Basically I _am_ your average Londoner, by income etc, and Uber has made my life better. And it's not because I'm rich or stupid. The post I replied to was just too heavily biased against Uber to see the obvious utility for a lot of Londoners.
Presumably a background check might catch priors?
Simply put, it can never be implemented because perfect Communism would mean absolute genocide for the nation that manages to pull it off. All variations of Socialism function by extreme, persistent violence, to enforce the state's control over most aspects of a person's life including particularly economically (and everything else as a consequence).

The closer you get to implementing this fantasy Communism, the closer you get to death. That's why nobody can do it, it's why nobody ever has, it's why nobody ever will. It requires a staggering amount of aggression and violence to even attempt Communism, much less these idealized versions (which require 24/7 perfect violence to be applied to disallow even the slightest step outside the framework by the population).
RVs are not houses. Look at the target market, look at who actually drives these things. They are mobile bathrooms. "See the stars while never being more than ten feet from your own private bathroom."
Am I the only one trying to do less?
'Reducing the speed' Is this being measured or just an assumption?

Because resistance shows up extremely quickly with short dosage. But, it seems like a dangerous experiment.
Like MMAudio, DirectSound, Kernel Streaming, WASAPI?

AudioTrack, OpenSL, whatever-the-Android-8-thing-is-called?
It's a very clean and easy to read site. The navigation is logical and visible and the text is easy to read. I'm very happy that is hasn't followed the current horrendous trend of large text, infinite scrolling, and no logical structure. I really dislike the current trend and find it a big leap backwards in usability.
Fair point -- if cabs are in high demand / short supply (and/or you're in a hurry) my strategy might not be ideal.
Yes, I still read the local news once a week and the biggest events pass my filters anyway.

Intentionally following the popular news also steals your attention from the small tragedies that are never picked up by the big media.
If I could make 1 frivolous lawsuit at 500,000 a year I guess I would be reasonably happy.

And why exactly is it that the size of the lawsuit is a strong indicator of frivolity? I would expect the oppsosite, as a frivolous lawsuit business I believe my interests would lie in doing 100 lawsuits at 10,000 a year rather than one at a 1,000,000.
Looks cool, but I feel like this is not very affordable.
Came here to say this myself. This could have huge implications for AR tech.
so - he was a state senator for less than 4 years (Less than one full term) before being elected president. I would say that's "overnight" as far as politics go - considering the others who make it their entire careers and never reach the pinnacle.
I and a lot of my friends use Revolut and it's excellent. They're a very well funded FinTech startup and have been around for a few years.
> I think you're oversimplifying again. Many workers who vote "no" and reject union representation believe that unions create problems for workers including the problem of jobs being moved elsewhere.

You're somehow assuming that forming a union involves forcing everyone to join an organization whose membership is purely voluntary.

> Also, does "no impact" include workers paying extra ~$1000/year in union dues

That's an imaginary number that you made up yourself, and it represents only your own imagination.

> Your comment ignores the other things that workers consider besides wages -- e.g. no jobs.

That's your strawman. You somehow made up this argument that having someone at your side helping you out on your negotiation will somehow force a company to stop hire people to fill the positions they've just opened. Meanwhile, agents are a thing, and having third-party help in your negotiations didn't brought the end to western civilization.
Addison Lee are some of the craziest drivers in London.
From the comments: "This VW was loaded with 1 ton of concrete - then driven into a barrier at 100Km/h. It was a crash barrier test...﻿"
Maybe.

I'm personally trying to have "what I actually do" be closer to "what I want to be doing", and if I decide to do something, I want to always be doing it at peak performance.
Internet shills definitely exist.

On the other hand, I've been accused of it three or four times, and, no, nobody's ever paid me for posting things on the internet. So it's also definitely an accusation flung around in cases where it is not justified.
Because they live in a society with unreliable tap water, but would like to pretend they don’t, since they realize that tap water could be made dependable (as it is in many places), and by pushing for tap water to be seen as normally dependable, they can generate more complaints from people where it isn’t dependable, which, finally, should make tap water more dependable in the long run.
I think your comment downplays the importance of Stallman's work. Just because the vast majority of people do not use what he advocates, it doesn't mean he isn't having a significant impact on what they do use, indirectly. I think this is one example of a change that will affect people that happened probably in part because of people valuing rights that Stallman champions. It may not be him that directly influenced Apple, but he is a big part of influencing the bulk of opinion that did, so he has indirectly. It is not a case of one or the other.

It is like high art. Lots of people rarely look at modern art, but it doesn't mean it doesn't influence the design and pop-art they do see regularly, indirectly.

You are wrong to present behaving like Stallman and what Apple is doing as things that are competing alternatives, with things being in one camp or the other. Stallman's work influences the mainstream, so mainstream, less extreme, changes and what he does are not unconnected.
Anything like this good for Windows?
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Every BigQuery query, actually loads all the data (for that query) in-memory until it finishes.
If you want a more nuanced research on the history on deep learning in neural networks, here is an excellent historical survey paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7828
> Of course you can take your water bottles on the plane

In terms of energy, that plane flight likely used 1000s to millions of times more energy than that used to create a bottle of water. Running the numbers from [1] and [2], I came up with about 200 bottles of water per mile of air travel.

Was that trip necessary? What do we think of people who take an "unnecessary" flight (or perhaps a cheaper one because it takes a longer, less desirable route)? Do we consider them to be in "mental decline" or "apathetic" as other commenter have suggested.

In comparison to the flight, the bottle of water seems quite insubstantial. So if they found the water bottle more convenient in this scenario, I can't see a major objection.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2009-03-energy-bottle.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
Social life is overrated anyway.

I used to be "late to rise, late to bed, fuck parties, let me live in peace when everyone else sleeps and doesn't distract me with nonsense", but recently my SO beat some sense into me, and I'm slowly joining the "early to rise" crowd now.
Blockchain.

While it may not fit some people's definition of emerging I think we will see implementations outside of cryptocurrency. I know some clearing companies (related to the stock/futures/etc markets) are interested in it and so are banks. I can see them having something implemented in the next 3 years, even if it is just something that does a very small share of their business. I'm very excited to see applications of blockchain outside of cryptocurrency!
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It use to be terrible. Steam games would generate static, you'd occasionally get video/audio lag, etc.

I started really using it when I started using Linux laptops, just because it's way easier to connect bluetooth audio, ship audio over HDMI, etc.

It actually works pretty well now and I like it. Still hate and refuse to use systemd though. :-P
I see two basic paths, Corporate/Enterprise or Startup. One requires insane amounts of ladder climbing and political posturing but may have better(more stable) base pay. The startup path may be a bit more risky but could get you there faster. You can start a company that you believe has a good chance of being acquired (I suggest something that falls in the 500k-5 million range) That could drastically reduce the timeline. I think you would learn more about the actual job vs getting caught up in all the politics associated with mid to large sized companies as you move towards your goal.
Why can't people be included in the mix (Human in the Loop/Interactive Machine Learning)? Is there no way for AI to aid people in art and consumption?
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There's a financial modeling in Excel competition held each year that awards a golden keyboard without an F1 key to the winner.
IANAL and haven't explored the feasibility of this, but the CRA firms got your data via your banks because in the fine print when you opened an account there's a phrase about "We will share your data with our trusted third parties".

Well, the third parties haven't proven to be all that trustworthy, so suing your bank & credit-card firm(s) for releasing your information might be an interesting approach to take. If the CRAs have the source of their data cut to a trickle, they might start taking this seriously.
Sure. I guess my point is that worrying about which side of the gas chamber walls you end up on is a morally feeble position. The goal must be to not have gas chambers.
Breaking news, water is wet :P
>Good luck with that. Perhaps by adding side value it'll work.

The issue is why do I get to sell someone else's work? And even if we did allow it, this would quickly lead to content producers not being able to continue to produce.

Imagine for a second if Steam could just take any video games and sell them keeping 100% of the profit. How would that impact production of video games?

>See World of Warcraft. Pay to play.

So create a market where only always online games are ever made? That doesn't seem a step backwards?
Same reason they get the same amount of police and firefighters for free as you do I would think. The shifting from one norm to the other is the entire point of the argument.
it will remember volume levels for various configurations. I stand by best of the worst.
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Buffalo I guess, but this is not what Go was build for. This is like asking for a c++ web framework. Yeah, there are some, but generally speaking you don't see people using c++ for building a web app. Components of the app or the inrastructure - yes.
These countries will just block Medium, Snap, etc, if they don't comply. I don't see how fighting them on this is actually any better except that you get to pat yourself on the back.

To me, the more worrying cases are when governments demand removal of content worldwide, and that's being done by Western governments in the EU and Canada. Why is the EFF not demanding companies pull out of those countries?
It may have been nice to build it on GCC instead of LLVM. First, the existing Rust compiler uses LLVM so this won't be a fully independent implementation. Second, it would provide GCC with a Rust front end.
I think you need to work on some real systems using MongoDB. Your statement is incredibly naïve, implying that there's little complexity in using MongoDB.
Kudos for getting it out there - I haven't tried the plugin as such but I find it to be very expensive for what it is.

Interestingly, there's also https://backupsheep.com/#pricing who provide a freeish service along with storage and a UI. I haven't tried them either but just wanted to throw it out there!
Last time I travelled from the UK I was allowed to take empty bottles with me, but there's no "of course" about it. For example you can take a full 50ml bottle, but not a 500ml bottle with 50ml of water in it.

It's best just to check in advance.
"Some people report success with Pomodoro, but I find it too short to make a deep dive into work."

Pomodoro technique has been working for me very well. I started with 25 minute Pomodoros, gradually increased the duration to now 50 minutes per Pomodoro. I am able to do deep work (per my needs) consistently for about 4 Pomodoros per day.
I am aware of this, which is why I said it could protect you from surface burns. The parent didn't just say "incinerated" - it said "completely incinerated". I don't think there's any scenario involving "complete incineration" where a blanket will help.
This is the one I'm using on mobile. Yes the caching version acts a bit like read mode in Firefox, sometimes it fails though.

Also you can't comment with it, which is both frustrating and somehow ... useful.

The real problem to using a third party site is that it defeats the noprocrast setting ;)
The problem, really, is this thing called “disruption”
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Everything should have automatic payments, and if they don't then they don't deserve to get paid. That said I use Prisim to take care of the rest that don't.
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"That said, there's basically no mechanism by which GMOs would be dangerous to human health if the final product does not contain anything unexpected under test."

There's a handful of times where my opinion on something has been flipped by a single argument that fits into a single paragraph or even sentence, and my opinion on GMOs is one of them. Nassim Taleb argues that while any given GMO product may be in fact entirely safe, that as you consider the whole line of GMOs that will be created over the next decades at an accelerating pace, the odds that at least one of them turn out to be catastrophically bad enough to entirely erase the benefits of everything else done with them goes up quite distressingly.

This makes sense of the idea that A: all current GMO foods are actually quite safe but B: it may still be a bad idea in the long run. Given that things will be GMO'd on an increasing curve as it becomes easier and easier, we've seen only a very small fraction of what will ultimately be done with the technology.
Thank you. We set this price because it's not a subscription and you don't need to pay for upgrades.

It's not a lucrative pricing model compared to $70-150/yr competitors and going lower in a niche market would be too uncomfortable.
I have never heard of someone getting a cup of tea at spoons ;)

Ok, but I still think restaurant = tip expected. But hey, you are free to tip/not tip as you see fit.
I'm not sure Game Maker is - historically - a good example for this. (Not talking about current GMS 2 though, from what I've read it seems to be hugely improved in that regard!)
Its workflow is impressive, but epecially with the popular games it became apparent that lots of small annoyances people complained about/design decisions the developers were forced to make were tied to limitations of the engine (with a big one e.g. being a rather tight coupling of central game parameters like game speed, fps, internal resolution etc.).
Thankfully someone's done it [1]

[1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/11492
Surely when a car arrives with a different licence plate and a different driver, you don't get in? Moreover, you report the driver?

I'm not strictly pro-Uber but in any system there will be people who try to break the rules.

I would gladly wait another 20 minutes, and warn the driver of calling the police (were they to harass me) to get another Uber. Even fronting the £7 cancellation or w/e is worth it to me for the peace of mind to not have to deal with something shady like that.